#MeToo Is Not A Faceless Movement At New Horizons!

Making sure people know and honor this fact is what is on our agenda now!

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We know that #MeToo is not a faceless movement at New Horizons Support Network Inc. because we have seen the many faces of victimization, including our own when our New Horizons Board of Directors looks in the mirror!

We know the myriad dilemmas to be surmounted by the #MeToo Movement, from -- 

• Overcoming the denial and discounting of experiences;
• Overcoming the fear and shame of speaking out, truth to power;
• Learning to speak truth to power, effectively;
• Learning how to minimize backlash and carry your message, if you wish to create impact;
• Learning to sustain oneself, friends and families as each goes through the demanding transitions of giving up the secrets and living a new liberated way;
• Dealing with the resistances and rejections of others as one seeks liberation from a life built on hiding;
• The need for almost ceaseless support;
• And – much more!

Thus we are uniquely equipped to guide participants in navigating the turbulent waters of the stormy sea upon which we are currently sailing! 

We have been addressing the manifestations of #MeToo problems for more than forty-five years! 

Our Executive Director and Founder, Anastasia Rosen-Jones, has been researching the problems, living it and challenging it, even longer. Check out her story here, in her bio, and throughout the many stories on her Anastasia The Storyteller blog site.

At New Horizons we call our focused effort in its present incarnation, geared toward transforming the problems highlighted by the #MeToo movement --- 

Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny

Our mission is to assist individuals and intimate partnerships, including families, as well as groups and organizations, small and large, such as in academia, the church or synagogue or workplace. Our endeavor is not only local, but intended to educate and guide people to move through the maze of present #MeToo dilemmas, throughout the world, through our online radio shows and associated courses and blogs. 

Our mission is to be, not only change agents for the dysfunctional and toxic systems that enable women (and men) to be harmed in environments that foster sexual harassment, abuse and power-over domination, but to also bring the countless faces of the faceless victims of this tyranny out of the shadows into the Light where truth, healing and reconciliation can take place.

Here is how you can help, as we think global and act local (and regional), and take up our mission.

We need volunteers for these tasks (and more):

Networkers, communicators and program planners to help us bring our tried and true Beyond Gender Tyranny Coffee House Conversations/Storytelling/Support Group events to colleges and universities in  areas within the 100 mile radius of the Washington, D.C. White House..

Interested? 

Got talent and time? 

Help us bring our talents to your locale. 
(Limited, presently, to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and surrounding counties.)

Contact New Horizons Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones at:
Harpers’FerryNH@aol.com or cell: 240.409.5347 for your volunteer interview

We’ve done it before – created an area-wide support network throughout the Washington,D.C. area and beyond! 

We are intent on doing it again, now! 

The #MeToo Movement deserves our experience and expertise!

Look for coming details.

Also listen to Anastasia The Storyteller at: 

• Anastasia The Storyteller Radio for Anastasia’s #MeToo healing adventures and read her stories at: AnastasiaStoryteller.blog.spot.com plus

• And, listen to New Horizons’ Beyond Gender Tyranny Online Course series on the Possible Society In Motion Radio and blog articles at zonesofpeacenh.blogspot.com

New Horizons is a 501 C (3) non-profit educational and charity organization. 

No one is ever excluded from our programs and events for fee limitations. Just ask and receive.

Wonder Where I/We Have Been For More Than A Month?

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Sorry it’s been so long. But here I am now!

A handful of distracting situations kept me/us away.

All of them, almost monstrously BIG!

Here are some of them; an accounting now that we seem to be clearing the way to get back to normal, or some new normal still developing.

Number One: Recall we had a flood disaster up in our neck of the woods, including roads closed – and cell towers disabled. 

Both of these, general flood disaster and cell tower problems, plus the flood damage to our physical property, were enough to make life really difficult for close to two months or so.’’ Once the roads opened things starting improving.

But, guess what!!! The cell tower got redirected, leaving those of us in this very lightly populated, mountain area where we reside with almost no cell tower service, at all!

They can do that, you know!  And, too bad for you, if you are affected. Scary, too, like the time we were without electricity for eighteen hours and I had almost no phone service at all and the little I had was diminishing fast!

Few phone calls and no radio shows.  We could not get into our broadcast studio!

Very few blog postings (Take a quick look at how many for August, to date.) -- and a whole slew of other inconveniences that modern day people rely on, like sending and receiving emails so you can continue necessary contacts to make things, of one sort and another, move along fairly easily.

Now after almost four months of dealing with this interruption, I seem, as of last week, to be making some headway on cellular service, with Verizons, now, instead of A T and T who most uncaringly reduced my cell service, without an eye blink, of course!

Number Two: For me, personally, there has, also been, the getting used to cutting back my New Horizons hours, by fifty percent – and – refocusing my time management to allow for all my Ethics Complaint process has been and will continue to take from me on a daily basis, possibly for a year or more, it seems.

That whole deal is turning my life upside down. If I am able to even begin getting caught up on my minimum of four posts per month for this blog site, I may have more to say on the subject, soon, on my Anastasia The Storyteller blog site. 

In the meantime, suffice it to say my "World (has been) Turned Upside Down In The Process Of Making It Right Side Up!"

Number Three: If you have had opportunity to listen to the few radio shows we have been able to do (us, now being Steve, my new co-host and myself) you will know already that not only am I, now, dealing with a most unexpected #MeToo-type problem but so is Steve.

You can hear a bit of Steve's drama, as a “MALE” #MeToo victim on ---

(Details forthcoming.)

Number Four: OMG!! In the time I/we have been away, two other board members besides Steve and myself, also broke out with #MeToo-type problems.  

OMG!!!  This stuff is contagious! It now has hit four of our board members out of six!

Add that to the fact that one of our board members also lost her home to the California Carr Fire !!

OMG some more!!!

Of course, as a zones of peace-building organization, we’ve got to keep doing our charity at home, first, by taking care of one another through our trials and tribulations.

Believe me, all these happenings have been taking their toll in time, energy and sometimes emergency resources.  And this is only a brief summary of where we've been since our annual board meeting last month. Just imagine the details of living this stuff!

However, we are grateful for how our New Horizons Community Support Network (circa 1980) is pulling together and helping one another care for each other, these days.

We’ve had this bounty of community support for decades. However, our Beloved Community Development Mentor, Murat Yagan, strengthened our knowing that of all the essentials necessary for healthy growth, healing and transformation, a community of like-minded others is NUMBER ONE!  

Like-minded about what, you might ask? I’d say like-minded about whatever it is that allows people to work together for the good of the whole. Read through the postings on this site and you will find innumerable philosophical perspectives and applications for the like-mindedness shared by the New Horizons Support Network Board of Directors and our many followers of decades.

Number Five: Labor Day is on the horizon, signaling the beginning of our busy activities season through to next June.

So, we’ve been putting some of our “spare” time into Fall planning which is something I am looking forward to telling you about next. 

Our Fall plans begin at our baseline, our Beyond Gender Tyranny Movement, Project and Programs. For this relatively new initiative, we are wanting to broadcast how well equipped we are to educate and guide our listeners, readers and program participants in “Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny.”

Since I’m, now, giving you a brief summary of where I/we have been, look forward to my next postings when I announce plans for where we are heading.

Whew!! I’m sure glad I was able to get this update posted for you. 

I’ve been missing writing my posts, so much, for old faithful readers and new ones. But all that has been happening seemed totally daunting to even begin telling.

Nonetheless, here it is, in brief. I did it! 

And I’m now glad to be back, with hopes I will be able to be regular from here on out. 

But who can tell, from day to day, what will happen next. 

My Ethics Complaint, all of its own, with its many highs and lows, keeps my life and me upside down!!