New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME: It's Background And History

Find out some of the basic philosophies that make New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME an activity to invest your time and energies in. New details posted, here, today!

With an awe-inspiring agenda, New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME, formerly known as the Discount Derby, in its earlier incarnation, 1976 -- 2003, became known, throughout the Washington, D.C. area, as the therapeutic group strategy that "could cure 'em (meaning any thing dark in the human repertoire), or nobody could."

Now, in its new incarnation, the Truth Or Dare GAME, this lively, personal and collective transformation process is making its way back into being an interactive activity of which to take note, if: 

1. Building and sustaining "zones of peace" is on your agenda;
2. Divisiveness, polarization, lying and corruption in society and politics go against your core values.

Find out how you can qualify to play New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME

by contacting Anastasia at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Then Along Came Evidence, Supporting Some Of The Reasons New Horizons "Expanded" Pro-Truth Pledge ...

...  incorporates the points, identified below -- and -- more, as added justification for signing our "expanded" Pro-Truth Pledge, or the "original," at: ProTruthPledge.org, if you prefer.

(As if current social and political circustances aren't enough!)

I Honor Truth because --

• Abiding by truth is ethical and moral. This is a universal law of human dynamics;
• Trust and cooperation require truth-telling;
• Authentic communication requires truth;
• Human dignity and respect require truth telling;
• Truth and truth-telling bring order out of chaos to human affairs.

Read...

Breaking News: Anastasia Followed The Lies Watergate Taught Her And More …

….. about how darkness works in systems.  And what to do about it.

And...

On The Sky-High Path To Awesome Transforming, 

Some Things Are So Huge….

… they defy attempts to speak of them.

Read these articles -- and -- start considering why you should, personally, get on board with a Super Sleuth'd Coaching And Consulting Session with Anastasia -- as a fundraiser for New Horizons projects. 

Your opportunity to transform the Dark in your life into the Light, in the very special way that is unique to Anastasia.

Coming soon through the storefront Super Sleuth'd Coaching and Consulting Service on ebay.

Rearranging Priorities Is No Small Or Easy Task

Another open letter from New Horizons Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones 
Updating what’s happening now, behind the scenes at New Horizons

Look for links to be added soon.

If you’ve been a longtime reader of this blog site, you may recall that the New Horizons Small “Zones of Peace” Project has built its various projects and programs, since its inception, circa 2006, on holding dreams and potentialities at the forefront of our mission and our motivations.

Overcoming Polarization, Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny and Making Violence Obsolete, even subtle violence, are among the initiatives we have taken up, suggesting the kind of intentions we have, typically, invested ourselves in, always aiming for the raising up of human capacities, rather than falling into the latest sink hole of the moment.

Nonetheless, staying true to this focus of continuously evolving in the direction of the best of ourselves and uplifting the people and various cultures surrounding us has been particularly challenging the past few years, our ideals more and more difficult to attain.

In the current climate, replete with dark and cloudy skies, hovering over our daily lives in the form of relentless social and political upsets, we have felt almost prompted to keep ourselves in a state of emergency preparedness, due to constant treacherous, stormy-  weather and forecasts ahead without promise.

New Horizons, as a non-profit entity, is not one to easily give in to negativity. However, it has been challenging to keep our heads above water, as we plodded on, searching, always, for the sunshine we believed only to be hiding, at the darkest moments, when grey skies looked to be everywhere. 

Keep your eyes on those whom you would
emulate, not those who are,
deservedly, disparaged.

Endeavoring, in this manner, to find new inroads for reaching our ideals, we continued on, ever the optimists, adding new structures and strategies to already established foundations for creating personal and community health and well-being, taking on new social challenges, as they arose,  weaving them in to our former methods for surmounting obstacles, never deterred for long.

For example, our response to the #MeToo movement, with our Beyond Gender Tyranny programs, has encouraged storytelling, one of our longest-held community development strategies, as a male-female problem-solving game plan. In the earlier stages of that upheaval, we had even expanded on our storytelling gateway by partnering with StoryCorps, with the intention of bridging gender disharmony through storytelling and story-listening. 

Disappointingly, we have underutilized this resource in our seeking to resolve our larger dilemma, succinctly articulated as ….

“How is an organization, such as ours, intent on building and sustaining small “zones of peace” to contribute to personal and social advancement in a society -- and -- among people who seem to be more invested in maintaining, even promoting polarization, rather than moving beyond it?”

This perspective has been our single, biggest challenge these past few years.

Thus, when we, not too long ago, discovered the Pro-Truth Pledge Movement, we were elated!

Like-minded others, we thought at last!

Believing that in all the world we had discovered in this project a critical missing piece for our overarching mission, in the Pro-Truth Pledge, that could enable us, on a grander scale than previously anticipated, to honor that which we stand for most – building and sustaining “zones of peace” in this challenging world where, in Gandhi’s words –

“…violence and deceit won’t be used.”

As we, presently, begin our collaboration with the Pro-Truth Pledge Project, we are enjoying the experience of weaving elements of New Horizons together with it, imagining ourselves as being, once again, whole and healthy in ways we have been in the past.

Our Truth Or Dare GAME, now being revitalized and employed, first, to help transform the lives of our New Horizons Board Members, personally and as working associates (next to be a available to select, prepared others), and our Truth Or Dare Movement, slowly developing into a viable working fabric that can carry the weight of changes we anticipate for our emerging future, are fitting together nicely with the Pro-Truth Pledge Project. 

Yeah!!

Some of the selected lyrics from John Lennon’s “Imagine” hold the image, closest to our hearts, with these words... “Imagine all the people living life in peace.”

At such moments, still we are reminded that rearranging priorities is no small or easy task.

So, we ask of you, please bear with us, at New Horizons, as we put old pieces and new -- and -- anticipated ones, still to come, into our next forms, being created now. We are definitely a work in progress, a work in which we hope you will join us.

For details and information, contact Anastasia at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com.

Moving Into Action: Truth-Telling And Truth-Listening In Motion

Links coming soon.

This is an exciting time at New Horizons. For most of the past month, we've been gearing up to roll out a pathway for ourselves that promises to enable us, optimally, to continue our local and regional Small “Zones of Peace” building efforts – and – yet allows us to, immediately, join with like-minded others in a global collaborative undertaking.

How inspiring is that?!!

Enter the Pro-Truth Pledge Movement. We are so glad we found you!

With our commitment to New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME as our centerfold project, merging perfectly with its outgrowth, our still-on-the-drawing board Truth Or Dare Movement, now incorporating our involvement with the “original” Pro-Truth Pledge and our New Horizons “expanded” version of it, to round out our emerging blueprint, we are beginning, as May comes to its end, to see a shape forming from three main strands: 

1. New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME; 

2. Our own Truth Or Dare Movement; and 

3. Interweaving #1 and #2 with the Pro-Truth Pledge, “original” global movement with our “expanded”  -- and more personal and local version, rising to the top as priorities.

These pieces, coming together and starting to flow forward, smoothly, are a rather challenging endeavor for us, in terms of doing it all with ease, especially in the short span of time we have been working with these three as interlocking elements. 

For example, back in January we were already talking lots about our Truth Or Dare GAME. 

That was a relatively easy undertaking for us to move with as our present Truth Or Dare GAME is a new incarnation of our earlier signature program, the Discount Derby, circa 1976!

Additionally, the vision we were in the process of developing, at that point, had no far-reaching goal beyond Capitol Hill. 

Well, of course, even considering Capitol Hill as a destination is a bit grand!

Still it is, location-wise, in our neighborhood, more or less And home base, in an earlier era, for our Executive Director, Me, Anastasia.

Now, however, we are tapping into, through signing on with the Pro-Truth Pledge Movement, an opportunity to imagine taking even our very own Truth or Dare GAME worldwide. 

Why not?  If that's what we want, though I doubt that it is!

We are pretty much "Think global, act local" folks.

With all these happenings in motion, along with a few upsets along the way, the past few months, such as my March auto accident that totaled a rental car and a few minor injuries for me, we are rising to the occasion, nonetheless. And we want to keep you updated as much as we can.

The way we see our priorities unfolding, between now and our annual board meeting, scheduled for mid-July, as usual, is this….

New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME – will continue on, as has become our practice, playing a short-version GAME, monthly, by phone, for now, with periodic support groups, also by phone.

We have been delightfully surprised how well this is working out. 

Who would've thought it?

As we expand our newly, revitalized GAME, we will, again, be planning for weekend retreat programs. 

How will we expand and incorporate both phone and face time participants? We don’t yet know. But we do trust we will make it happen.

Truth Or Dare GAME Objectives: 

Refine and support truth-telling, truth-listening as leadership skills for New Horizons Board Members, as well as for new, invited players beyond our present board of six members.

Utilize our Truth Or Dare GAME playing to aid each participants decluttering of dark areas in themselves, their lives and relationships so that each is functioning at optimum levels, personally and professionally.

Develop and enhance our individual and collective GAME playing skills so as to be exceptional truth-telling, truth-listening role models.

New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement Objectives

For the time being, our objectives here are intended to be limited to –

Conversing with anyone and everyone we can about the importance of truth-telling and truth-listening as an every day, personal practice;

Developing and presenting Truth Or Dare GAME training seminars.

The Pro-Truth Pledge, “original” and “expanded”

Doing our best to obtain the one-thousand signatures we have committed ourselves to for the Pro-Truth Pledge, “original” or “expanded.

Educating others on how the Pro-Truth Pledge can help each of us, as concerned citizens to better our selves, our families, our neighborhoods, our communities, our states and our nation.

Readers, this update is only the tip of the iceberg as to what is unfolding these days at New Horizons. So keep checking in here for updates.  

And, contacting, me, Anastasia, to get yourself, personally, on board on what’s happening now!

I can be reached at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Next We Joined The Pro-Truth Pledge "Global" Movement!

YOU CAN TOO!

Here is how you can join New Horizons Small "Zones Of Peace" Project (details here), thinking globally and acting locally, with truthfulness and integrity as your baseline, if you care ---

New Horizons big pledge to the "original" Pro-Truth Pledge Project is to add 1,000 signatures to the pledge by one year from now!!

Help us do it by signing up with us!!

1. Take the expanded Pro-Truth Pledge through us. This signs you up for both the "original" and "expanded" versions;
2. Learn the skills -- and -- the art of playing New Horizons"Truth Or Dare GAME, the interactive group process that gets you to the highest truths you can discover -- and the awe of it -- through online courses, face time seminars, internships, personal coaching and consulting with Anastasia, 
3. BEST OF ALL -- play the Truth Or Dare GAME!

Be a serious truth-teller!

Help put an end to the craziness and corruption of our world run amuck!

Start off with these four things:  

1. Read and sign the New Horizons expanded version of the the "original" Pro-Truth Pledge by filling out and mailing in the form at this link; 

2. Contact Anastasia, New Horizons Executive Director and Founder (at MountainWomanRJ@aol.com) on how you can best find your rightful place in our Truth Or Dare Movement, incorporating the "original" Pro-Truth Pledge; and

4. Sign The New Horizons expanded Pro-Truth Pledge here, along with making your donation to our developing Truth Or Dare Movement, including training and supervision in the "art" of learning how to speak truth to power, in every area of your life.

This last item above, includes learning how to move Beyond Gender Tyranny with personal coaching and consulting with Anastasia.

The "Expanded" Pro-Truth Pledge
(The New Horizons Small “Zones Of Peace” Project version is below.)

To sign the “original” Pro-Truth Pledge and join the global movement behind it, please visit ProTruthPledge.org 

The Pro-Truth Pledge is a project of Intentional Insights, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

I Pledge My Earnest Efforts To The Following Principles And Practices: 

I Honor Truth because --
 Abiding by truth is ethical and moral. This is a universal law of human dynamics;
 Trust and cooperation require truth-telling;
 Authentic communication requires truth;
 Human dignity and respect require truth telling;
 Truth and truth-telling bring order out of chaos to human affairs,

I Show Honor to Truth by --
○ Acknowledging: When others share true information, even when we disagree otherwise; 
○ Reevaluating: If my information is challenged, retracting it if I cannot verify it;
○ Defending: When others come under attack for sharing true information, even when we disagree otherwise; 
○ Aligning: Aligning my opinions and my actions with true information. 

I Share Truth by honoring these –
 Holding an intent to keep talking, rather than casting others aside, seeking the fullest truths we can cooperatively discover;
 Dialoguing with others while avoiding debate;
 Leaning in to the truths of others with an open mind and respectful listening;
 Exploring the basis, in facts, for differences.

I Share Truth through these –
○ Verifying: Fact-checking information to confirm truth before accepting and sharing it;
○ Balancing: Sharing the whole truth, even if some aspects do not support my opinion; 
○ Citing: Sharing my sources and resources so that others can verify my information; 
○ Clarifying: Distinguishing between my opinions, biases or judgments and facts. 

I Encourage Truth by –
 Role modeling authenticity, non-defensiveness, compassionate listening, maintaining an openness to learning and by being as pro-active as possible in resolving conflicts.

○ Fixing: Asking people to retract information that reliable sources have disproved even if they are my allies 
○ Educating: Compassionately informing those around me to stop using unreliable data and sources even if these sources support my opinion 
○ Deferring: Recognizing and respecting the opinions of experts as more likely to be accurate when the facts are disputed 
○ Celebrating: Celebrating those who retract incorrect statements and update their beliefs toward the truth.

Think Global! Act Local! 

Join New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement!

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Telling The Truth: An Essay

Today on... 

Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure Of A Lifetime 

by New Horizons Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones (formerly Marcia E. Rosen)

New Horizons, circa 1986

Telling The Truth: An Essay

Excerpted (and edited) from …

The Voice Of New Horizons Center
© Marcia E. Rosen, 1985

Come along for the adventure!

We have just begun!

Today We Took The Pro-Truth Pledge

... and signed on to support the Pro-Truth Pledge effort as a way of expanding our own Truth Or Dare Movement and its various agendas, primarily New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME.

Take the pledge!
Live by it!

We don't know much about the Pro-Truth Pledge project yet, but it sounds right for us, at New Horizons.

You can check out the information we have found so far, as we make our way forward to, hopefully, align with growing numbers of others who are like-minded with us on taking up the "dare" that infuses truth-telling with magic as well as challenges.

• What do you think about joining us?

• Seems to me as if our Pro-Truth Pledge activities might include our getting YOUR signature as a pledge-maker too!

Contact me, Anastasia, for details on how you can join New Horizons and myself in contributing to this ambitious endeavor, the Pro-Truth Pledge project.

MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Also, check out Anastasia The Super Sleuth Coaching and Consulting for personal, relationship, business and organizational guidance, specializing in transforming the Dark Side!

All fees, less appropriate expenses, presently being donated to the New Horizons Small "Zones of Peace" Project and its various initiatives.

More to come.

Sponsored by New Horizons Small "Zones Of Peace" Project