The question is:
“How do you ensure that ##MeToo is not a faceless movement?”
The answer is:
“You just keep talking.”
We've been doing a lot of talking behind the scenes this month, at New Horizons, on the chaos present in our own lives, the business of New Horizons and in the lives of others around us and the world, especially of the #Me-Too variety.
Who can escape it, when the subject gets involved all the way to the dealings of the Supreme Court?
In the midst of the chaos, with most, but not all of it, #MeToo-related, the Board Members of our organization and myself have been taking a good, long hard look at where we’ve been recently.
Chaos abounds!
What are we to do with it all?
Last month at this time we were preparing for a Volunteer Fair at nearby Hood College, well-aware that college student volunteers could be essential to helping us significantly move our Beyond Gender Tyranny mission forward, as stated below –
New Horizons Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny Mission
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.
In the midst of good intentions and viable plans --
Chaos: The Volunteer Fair had very few attendees. So other than connecting with a few of the exhibitors, we walked away almost empty handed, except for a handful of pens from the display tables of those others, also sitting idly, as were we.
Searching For Solutions: We will, as soon as our other areas of upheaval settle down, look into alternative resources for student volunteers to assist with our presently identified needs. If you are interested in volunteering, look for announcements on how you can get involved on this site and also on our posts to the site of the Peace And Collaborative Development Network.
Putting that disappointment aside, we turned our attentions back to our Beyond Gender Tyranny Radio Series, set up for shows with two distinct angles –
Anastasia The Storyteller Radio -- for #MeToo-focused discussions on #MeToo issues and problem solving perspectives, interwoven with #MeToo-slanted current events;
The Possible Society In Motion Radio – Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny: The Online Course for – specific steps to take to move beyond gender tyranny traps, into the transforming of #MeToo problems to the good places between men and women for which most of us yearn.
Chaos: Our flood disaster of May has so severely disabled our connections to the internet we have needed to cancel one radio show after another, as our present internet connections will just simply not allow us to broadcast.
Searching For Solutions: To find our way out of this disruption, we are working with our new cell provider, Verizons, almost daily, with hopes that by next week we will once again be able to broadcast, if only by relocating our studio.
Look for details as they are available.
Behind The Scenes At New Horizons
Every day, now, we are reviewing the pledge we made last year, shortly after the Harvey Weinstein/Hollywood scandals became big news – and -- after we had had enough time to catch a breath with all that was happening.
Read our press release announcing this pledge.
Most importantly, at New Horizons, we are talking among ourselves about how #MeToo issues have affected us or people close to us. Out of this we have become aware that that which we have the expertise and experience to provide for others is, now, also needed for ourselves.
We have been addressing the manifestations of #MeToo problems for more than forty-five years!
Yet today, we are painfully aware that the insidiousness of #MeToo has infected each and every one of us on our board, either directly, as victims, or indirectly, as family members, friends or business associates of people who have been victimized.
Thus it came to be that our long-in-the-planning stages Truth or Dare GAME, formerly the Discount Derby, New Horizons signature program, got off the ground, finally, last Saturday, with a focus, for now, on guiding New Horizons Board Members in Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny, as we have known it, personally.
Our Truth Or Dare GAME event for New Horizons Board Members was an oasis in a sea of chaos, last Saturday.
Today, technology allowing, we will take another step of living out that charity begins at home, by having our first Truth or Dare GAME Support Group by conference call.
We intend to repeat the event on Saturday, October 27, limited, presently, only to New Horizons Board Members. But working toward opening our Truth Or Dare GAME doors to others, once we are able to get our own house cleaning done.
Read current details on –
- The launching of our new New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME here;
- Anastasia’s #MeToo challenges here – and – here;
- Board Member Steve’s here and by listening to one of our Blog Talk Radio Shows, on this topic, here.
Surprise! Surprise!
Chaos theory tells us that there are discernable patterns of order in chaos.
We are seeking our own and strengthening ourselves to guide you through this rocky terrain too, soon, very soon.
We might even be able to carry out our next planned radio broadcast –
Scheduled for Saturday, October 6, 11:30 a.m.
Maybe, maybe???
