Bus Ride Story Adventure: Preparing Now For Departure

How can a Sohbet/study group be like a Bus Ride Adventure?

It’s all about –

•  Metaphor -- as in a small “zone of peace” can be anywhere;
• Synergy – as in, if your intent is to “lean in” rather than distance, again a small “zone of peace” can be anywhere;
• Intent to transform lead into gold, personally and collectively – here’s the “awe” for which we come together.

Now Sohbet/study group #5 sets out to take a gathering of carefully chosen, like-minded individuals, who would rather build bridges than destroy them, to new heights.

Sohbet/study group

 A tribute to Murat Yagan, 1916 -- 2014

In celebration of a well-lived life

Thursday evenings, alternating with the Possible Society In Motion Radio Show

Next meeting date: Thursday, March 27  6:30 p.m.

Open only to Possible Human, Possible Society Study Participants.

Details and reservations, contact Anastasia

Cell: 240.409.5347    email: zonesofpeacenh@aol.com

Student internship (or qualified volunteers) opportunity

Assist us in -- 

(Especially looking for Communications Majors and/or experienced professionals.)
(Must be able to participate in conference call meetings via our conference call host.)

• Developing strategies to support general awareness of study findings from our Possible Human, PossibleSociety Study (January 1, 2012 – December 31, 2015);
•       Developing strategies to utilize study finding for impact on the 2016 presidential election.
  
  
  New Horizons is seeking student interns (or qualified volunteers) who –

          ·         Are invested in peace action and community development;

  ·         Like people;
  ·         Enjoy data analysis and strategic marketing development planning;
  ·         Enjoy creative, big picture design mind thinking;
  ·         Have competence in concrete action planning.

  We hope to provide --

  ·        A great internship experience;
  ·       An expansion of social action viewpoints;
  ·       Professional develo.pment in marketing, branding, advertising and public          relations;* 

  ·      Personal transformation where appropriate.

  
  Resource links –

  ·        The Possible Society In Motion Radio Show

  http://www.blogtalkradio.com/smallzonesofpeace

  
  

  ·     New Horizons Small “Zones of Peace” Project

         http://zonesofpeacenh.blogspot.com/

  
  

  ·     Possible Human, Possible SocietyStudy

  
  
  ·  Please note, New Horizons’ Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones who has extensive experience in advertising, marketing and public relations, will supervise internships.

  Find out how you can be a part of our team!

  Cell for Anastasia: 240.409.5347

  email: zonesofpeacenh@aol.com

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Report Cards In The Mail

For Possible Human, Possible Society Study Participants

Report cards now being processed and mailed throughout 2014!

Report Cards In
The Mail!

How did you rate? In terms of the following three assessment indicators we are presently employing?

• Press release, October, 2013
• Are you someone?
• Peace Buddy or Pretender Peace Buddy?

 (Check out these assessment indicators to see how your own evaluation corresponds with ours when your personalized “report card” arrives.)

About Possible Human, Possible Society Study Report Cards.

New Horizons has now begun a lengthy and involved process that will enable us to provide personalized feedback to participants to indicate how the individuals’ responses correspond to our collective data, thus far.

Our Interpretation Method uses a one to ten scoring process, applied to a, somewhat, tongue-in-cheek report card, scoring system.  If you are already a participant, we hope you will find your individualized “report card” of value.

Should you wish to participate in the study, but have not yet, please contact me, Anastasia at: zonesofpeacenh@aol.com or by cell: 240.409.5347. To participate, you must meet the eligibility requirement of living within the one-hundred mile radius of the Washington, D.C. White House.

Look for your report card via snail mail. Given the demands necessitated  by as major an endeavor as this; personalized “report cards” for over one hundred people, now participating in our study, expect to wait as long as until the end of 2014 to receive yours.

Should you wish us to expedite our feedback report to you, please contact me, Anastasia at: zonesofpeacenh@aol.com or by cell: 240.409.5347 to request your “report card” and assist our updating of data as it relates to you.

This will definitely give your personalized “report card” a priority position in our assessment process.

We look forward to providing this interpretation from the information you so generously provided us. And, offering you the opportunity to examine our estimation of your study responses, up against the whole of the data we have collected to date.

Introducing The “Lean In” Legacy Template

Anastasia and Jack introduce Anastasia’s recipe/formula* for “Leaning In” as an antidote to the poison of polarization!

*The "Lean In" Legacy Template

Thursday evening, March 6, 2014

6:30 p.m.

The Possible Society In Motion RadioShow

Listen in, 6:30 p.m..

Join in for conference call discussion forum, 7:00 pm till ??????

Conference call discussion details (access numbers, etc.)

Lead into gold?

Turning Lead Into Gold: Principles and Practices

Sohbet/study group #3 is on its way!

(See general sohbet/study group overview at this link.)

Open to all qualified Possible Human, Possible Society Study participants

•  “A sohbet is an informal discussion with a purpose.” (Murat Yagan);

  

  Lead into gold?

•  New Horizons’ sohbet is a learning laboratory for personal and collective growth and development -- an advanced Coffee House Conversation for those with the highest of aspiractions for personal and collective transformation;

• New Horizons sohbet is an informal discussion with a purpose, designed especially for our study participants;
•  New Horizons sohbet  is one, exemplary, way to contribute to making a better world.

Date: Thursday, February 27. Time: 6:30 pm.

Location: Your telephone to our conference call-in forum. (Details.)

Would you like to, purposefully, turn lead into gold,

personally and collectively?

Sohbet Study Group #3 leads off with the following ---

Quote from Murat, Ahmsta Kebzeh: The Science of Universal Awe, Volume II, page 5.

"Alchemists worked throughout history to obtain what they called the philosopher’s stone, the elixir, the universal panacea, working successfully to transmute various metals in the complicated laboratories that they built. However, according to Ahmsta Kebzeh the true laboratory of the universal open for the sublime work is in the nervous system of Human and it is therefore at the disposal of all humanity."

Details and reservations:

Anastasia at: zonesofpeacenh@aol.com

Presented as a Tribute to Murat Yagan (1915 – 2013)

In celebration of a well-lived life

and

New Horizons’ hopes and dreams to learn and pass on what we learn.

A snowy night, indoors and --

--   an unexpected “Lead into Gold Study Group” for those with the highest of aspirations for personal and collective transformation.

What are the options for a cozy evening when a massive snow storm hits, consigning almost everyone to stay indoors; travel perilous?

How about an (almost) coffee house conversation from your living room to mine, without anyone leaving the house?

That’s just what a small group of Possible Human, Possible Society Study participants created last Thursday evening when the whole of the Eastern seaboard, coming up from the South, was paralyzed by snow.

Mother Nature gave our “new” New Horizons’ changing "lead into gold-themed study group" an unexpected, early second gathering. Our physical mobility might have been limited but not that of our minds. Thus we came together for our second sohbet/study group via conference call.  Out and about in that venue while still warm, safe and cozy in our own homes. 

Oh, the wonders of modern technology.

(Jack and I rescheduled the February 13 Possible Society In Motion Radio Show for next Thursday, February 20. The notion occurred to us that a more informal hangin’ out with folks might be more in the way of a community-building service for that night than any topic we might choose. Given the frustrations, limitations – and – benefits of our severe weather, so it seemed to turn out.)

The idea that “a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world,” (Margaret Mead) is the rationale behind this study group.

For discussion material we are drawing from the accumulated works of Murat Yagan, New Horizons’ community development mentor (recently deceased) to open these conversations. Then encouraging the group to go anywhere and everywhere our “informal discussion with a purpose” (called “sohbet” in Murat’s native language) leads us.

Exploring our individual viewpoints on the term “alchemy” was the point of discussion for this snow-bound, Thursday evening conversation. It must have been worthy for participants, as our energetic conversation lasted for better than one and one-half hours.

Drawing from Murat’s writings, we will, for a time, follow the line of thought quoted, here, from Murat’s native ancient traditions of the Caucasus Mountains (where Sochi, the current site of the Winter Olympics, is located) –

 "Alchemists worked throughout history to obtain what they called the philosopher’s stone, the elixir, the universal panacea, working successfully to transmute various metals in the complicated laboratories that they built. However, according to Ahmsta Kebzeh the true laboratory of …”

…humanity is within the Self and our relationships to one another, as well as to our environment.

With this as a starting point, the fun of this next program, especially designed for Possible Human, Possible Society Study participants, is really about to begin!

New Horizons, Jack and myself thank all of you who have already joined us to participate with this new sohbet/study group expansion. Having amply explored, stretched etc. etc. the definition of "alchemy," we think we are on our way, now. This added endeavor takes us one step closer, small though it may be, to being the best possible humans we can be, individually and collectively, building our possible society.

If you are a participant in our Possible Human, Possible Society Study, you are welcome to join us!

Details and Information

Anastasia at:

zonesofpeacenh@aol.com or cell: 240.409.5347

Study participants, please contact Anastasia for next study group date and conference call-in number and access code. Study groups are audio recorded so you can, also, catch up with us through these, if you choose.

Turning lead into gold to be theme of new study group

New Program Announcement!

A new, ongoing study group, facilitated by Anastasia, exclusively for Possible Human, Possible Society Study participants, commenced last Thursday evening.

Presented as a Tribute to Murat Yagan (1916 – 2014)

In celebration of a well-lived life

Details and Information

Anastasia at:

zonesofpeacenh@aol.com or cell: 240.409.5347

Study participants, please contact Anastasia for next study group date and call-in number and access code.

Murat Yagan, 1915 -- 2013
and Anastasia