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It has taken me a good bit of soul searching, along with countless hours of research and staying current with what the #Metoo era is bringing into our lives, to be able to figure out, with the aid of my board members, how for New Horizons to next, best serve in these turbulent times.
The HUGE package New Horizons offers of specialized business, organization and personal consulting, guidance, support, tools, skills and seasoned philosophies that make up our HUGE treasure chest of select contributions for moving through the #Metoo era, is perfectly designed to help you navigate the choppy waters of today’s turbulence, especially in the area of gender dissonance.
But how we were to help you our loyal followers and supporters access and utilize these resources has not been easy. We are barely even one step off the drawing board of creating relevant projects and programs, since Harvey Weinstein and the Hollywood scandals unleashed a spewing volcanic eruption in this area.
Making things more than interesting ??? and certainly much more complicated is that back in December, while working on my almost ceaseless project of decluttering the accumulated debris of a lifetime in my home and office, I came across a file drawer filled with documents that showed me, most shockingly, that long ago I, too, experienced a serious episode of sexual harassment and power-over abuse by a male superior.
The situation was not a workplace state of affairs. Rather I would place it as more in the way of an academic set up, having specifically to do with an advanced degree, specialized training and credentialing involvement of the highest level in my career track of psychology.
If you are, then, interested in the details of this, which, I might add, has for the past months strongly influenced the program and project planning endeavors of New Horizons, check out my stories on “Beyond Gender Tyranny” on my Anastasia The Storyteller blog site.
If you are intrigued by the saga and/or wondering how this unfolding drama of mine is developing and affecting New Horizons and myself, keep reading about this personal/professional most taxing situation of mine as it plays out to whatever conclusion it may bring.
Simultaneously, while I was uncovering and dealing with that personal/professional #Metoo issue, New Horizons, also, was beginning, its Beyond Gender Tyranny project by launching its newest study, a study of male attitudes and needs to help us all move through the challenges of the #Metoo era.
To hear more about this, check out my Anastasia The Storyteller Radio Show for programs beginning with my new series, specially focused on “How We Are Going To Move Ourselves Through The #MeToo Era”–
A radio show series focusing on
challenges of moving through the #Metoo era
Then continue to listen in to my radio show broadcasts or podcasts (and read my blog posts too) to see what we, at New Horizons, are figuring out. Many shows are in the works on this subject for broadcasts and podcasts ahead.
As we continue to develop that on air track, today we offer you this –
Question: Where do we begin to move “Beyond Gender Tyranny?
Answer: I think we begin with whomever and whatever is closest to us – personally and professionally. This means we take stock of all of our most important relationships and start cleaning up whatever is in our own backyard, gender-related or otherwise. (After all conflict and polarization are what they are, regardless of the topic) –
- In our most intimate relationships;
- Our families, close in and extended;
- Our workplaces;
- Our churches and synagogues;
- Our neighborhoods and communities.
Inviting others to tell you their personal stories, while you listen attentively, is an almost surefire "lean in" way to take this step.
Question: How do we begin to move “Beyond Gender Tyranny?
Answer: I think the how is that we next commit ourselves to building small “zones of peace” in each of these areas, to the highest, most refined level possible.
Again, story listening is a great way to move forward with this step.
This is the New Horizons Small “Zones of Peace” Project call to action for everyone!
New Horizons made itself a training center of acclaim for decades, until I lost my eyesight in 1998, by establishing a small “zone of peace” we called a therapeutic community; a counterculture model program that focused on teaching people “what not to do” and “what to do.”
In the coming days, weeks, months etc,, we will be sharing some of the principles that made this program of ours so powerfully transformative in ways that are still carried forth today.
Principle #1: What not to do in the #Metoo era:
For men: Deny or resist looking at whatever contributions you are making to the #Metoo problem. Here are two articles, surrounded by a collection of many more on my Exploring Your Dark Side blog site, to get you started;
For women: Explore how to take back your power, without being power hungry, in any area where you think/feel you have lost or forfeited it.
Much more coming on this last item, for women.
For a next discussion, incorporating more from New Horizons' special package of conflict resolution and healing guidance --
Tune in to my next Anastasia The Storyteller Radio Show program –
Saturda, May 19, 2018, 11:30 a.m.
We will continue on track with #Metoo related issues for anyone who is invested in conscientious advancement, of the highest regard, moving through the #Metoo era.
Also listen to the last podcast of this new Anastasia The Storyteller Radio Show series titled –
Much more to come.
