Anastasia Discusses Discovering A New Freedom Earned By Telling Her Truth

Hear the broadcast on this topic, "How Truth-Telling Sets Us Free"

Saturday, April 27. Details below.
(Please note this date has been changed, numerous times, from an earlier one due to a severe injury of our radio show studio manager and New Horizons Board Member, Lynn Cullather-Popkin. Lynn is now healing well and we hope she will be back with us soon.)

Anastasia, New Horizons Executive Director and Founder, discusses discovering a new freedom, beyond "Breaking The (#MeToo) Silence And The Price It Exacts," earned by telling her truth in spite of the relentless dismissal of it by others.

This is the kind of role modeling the New Horizons Board Of Directors is urging and, personally, modeling through the skill development and support of our "new" Truth Or Dare GAME.

Out of a horrendous #MeToo-based experience, in 2018, involving the Ethics Committee of the International Transactional Analysis Association, ANASTASIA CAME OUT A WINNER, WHICH IS WHAT SHE WAS ALWAYS AFTER MOST, in spite of the obstructions encountered!!.

Never doubt that "truth-telling"
is anything but  heavy lifting.

With a very specific INTENTIONAL approach that Anastasia, ME, teaches through her Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure Of A Lifetime methodology, applied to herself, entailing confronting the Dark Side of oneself as well as its presence in others, to see her through the obstacles she encountered, Anastasia came through them greatly changed in ways she is still attempting to put into words. 

(Nancy Pelosi is INTENTIONAL. She demonstrates the benefits of this in her adeptness and in her steadfastness in confronting the Dark Side in Donald Trump. 

The key, as I see it, is in her knowing how to be systematic and diplomatic in her dealings with Trump's Dark Side, without being either overly aggressive or, conversely, too passive. 

From my perspective this comes of Pelosi knowing where she is going in these deailings because she knows how the Dark Side operates in self and others, a true gift. You, too, can learn to be effective in this way, if it appeals to you. If it does, I, Anastasia, am here to teach, guide and support your endeavors.)

Hear her going through the challenge of trying to convey the results to date, to her personally, on "Breaking The Silence And The Price It Exacts."

Anastasia made a fully legitimate, well-documented Ethics Complaint for sexual harassment and abuse of power by her psychiatrist mentor, Martin G. Groder, M.D. The price exacted of her in breaking a #MeToo-related silence, pitted her against the manipulations and power abuses of the Ethics Committee of the International Transactional Analysis Association.

Beginning, informally, in December, 2017, continuing up until almost one year later, after enduring continuous dismissals from that organization, a mental health-oriented organization in which her membership dated back to 1973, Anastasia came to realize that there had been an enormous price paid for breaking the silence of a #MeToo-type series of encounters she had buried for more than twenty-five years.  

However, with Anastasia’s determination to see her Ethics Complaint appropriately resolved, she found herself willing to pay the price, discovering in the process, even more importantly, how “Truth-Telling Sets Us Free.”

This is role modeling to which it is worthwhile paying attention.

"How Truth-Telling Sets Us Free"

Sunday, March 17  11:30 a.m.
(Please note this date was changed from an earlier one due to a severe injury of our radio show studio manager, Lynn Cullather-Popkin. Lynn is now healing well and we hope she will be back with us soon.)

Reflections On Truth Telling

Links to be added soon.

An open letter from New Horizons Founder and Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones

Dear Readers,

This is a critical time for American citizens and those, beyond our shores, who are impacted by us. 

So here I am this morning, wanting from the deepest place inside of me to tell whomever will listen that, as a survivor of the Watergate era, one of the most important things I learned, as one of my many lessons from Watergate, is that now, more than ever -- 

“American citizens must turn to their neighbors and co-workers, family and friends with the intention of building bridges to overcome whatever separates.

At times like this we desperately need one another and the unity among citizens, especially in times of turmoil, for which our country has generally stood.”

Richard Nixon, as our president, did not drive a wedge, between neighbors, friends or family, or at least not a very big one. And not for very long. It was a different time and different game rules seem to have interrupted his time of coercion. 

Yet, as American citizens, those of us who lived through Watergate became increasingly aware, through the ordeal of it, how lying and corruption can harm our country. Among other things, lying and corruption can separate us. And, both independently and together, they interfere with necessary problem solving on many fronts.

For example, how can we truly solve our immigration problems, without being reliably fact-based?

Yet, can there be times when, at least the lying part of this pair, might be the better way?

We will look at the many facets of this issue in the future. Scholars have been debating the question for ages. But for now, let us simply stick to the social and political aspects, as we are living them out now, in our country.

I don't necessarily believe that our current president is the reason for the rampant alienation, from one another, running, presently, throughout our country. 

However lies, the obstructing of truth being uncovered and reality dealt with, no matter who interferes with it, whatever it is, do keep us apart. 

So here it is!  

The United States of America is possibly less united now than at any other time since the Civil War of the 1850s.  

In fact, in some ways we are in the midst of a civil war right now!

This is why, at this time, it is imperative that we take the initiative to put the lessons to good use that have been learned from the Watergate era, especially the cost to us all of lying and corruption in government.  

Among these lessons is that while lying and corruption do not work well in relationships, as a rule, they can wreak total and complete havoc on an entire country, such as is happening now, when embedded in the very nature of an administration.

Carl Bernstein, the seasoned journalist, who was one of the team of Woodward and Bernstein, uncovering the sordid details of Watergate, tells us to "follow the money" to get to the core of the crises we are facing, now, under the current administration.

Instinctively, many of today’s journalists, being of the media field and having been schooled by Woodward and Bernstein, directly or otherwise, also know to look for the lies and relentlessly keep exposing them. 

This is what journalists -- and -- investigators such as Robert Mueller can and are doing.

What needs to be done, now, however, is not something we should solely rely on these people to shoulder. 

You, too, can help the effort to re-stabilize our country by taking up the task of “being” – and – therefore, also role modeling, and doing everything you can to bring truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth into your daily lives, beginning right now! 

If this is already an active, day-by-day conscious principle of yours, do it even more than before by looking for additional opportunities to bring honest dialogue into your life in areas where you might not have done so previously.

This is something you can do, with no outlay of money that, in the long run, will help us all.  All you need to accomplish this is just, simply, yourself -- and -- your own best intentions to be the peace you desire.

This will help you begin to offset the craziness enveloping the American people, the "hysteria" Bob Woodward has been speaking of, the hysteria gripping many in this chaotic, frightening era we are now living through. 

(If how great results can come of this simple, direct effort, truth telling, is not yet clear to you and it may not be, I will bring you more and more details to make my point in days to come.)

For example, after the presidential election of 2016, I began making a deliberate effort to reach out to people who I thought might have voted differently from myself, an Independent, and inquire of them how they decided on their voting choices.

At first some people seemed to resist my query, being a bit defensive. But after I persisted and showed sincerity and good faith in trying to learn what was important to them, it was amazing how many people opened up and shared things with me they acknowledged having been fearful to share before.

This is not quite the same as breaking through the barriers created by out and out deceptions. However it does illustrate what bridge building looks like which is an important part of what we need to be after establishing.

Consider, again, the messages of Gandhi and Ben Franklin and Jesus I recently reminded readers about several days ago. Then, reflect on where you think lying and truthfulness fit into their words of wisdom, if they are not yet self-evident.

Gandhi stated -- 

“We do best to begin by carving out territories or zones of peace in our personal relations where violence and deceit won’t be used.”

Benjamin Franklin stressed -- 

"We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately"?

And in the Bible, in the Gospel of Mark 3:25, Jesus states --

"And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand." 

These values, incorporating integrity and truth telling, are ideals that people everywhere generally strive to uphold, as they are fundamental aspects of community, unity and peace.

Why not now?

Have you ever heard the philosophy that “The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth will set you free?”  

Does this not make sense to you, even moderately?

Learn to live this TRUTH, with increasing commitment and involvement, every day, in both small and large ways. 

Truth, deepest truths, spoken to others open up dialogue and conversations that help YOU build resilience in yourself and strengthens bonds with others, a crucial element for getting through these tough times. 

I am doing more of my own truth-telling, in refined ways, since I began, in September, to revitalize New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME. When I took up that project, in September, I was incredibly stressed.

I had found myself feeling inordinately mistreated by the lack of truthfulness and accountability I had experienced from some of the members of the ITAA (International Transactional Analysis Association), especially their Ethics Committee (EC), in their handling of the Ethics Complaint I had made.

At the worst points in this ordeal, I was actually hungering, almost to the point of feeling as if I were starving, to be back in a space, with people I knew I could count on to hold similar values and corresponding practices, regarding truthfulness, as myself.

New Horizons Truth Squad was it!

I believed I was strong in the area of being consciously truthful before, but I am even more so now. 

I pride myself on my transparency, but there is always room to improve! 

Now, because I am getting regular practice, as I had been doing at an earlier time (1976 -- 2oo2), in doing this with others, New Horizons Truth Squad Members, who are similarly committed to absolute truth telling in compassionate, diplomatic ways, I am speaking with more specifics than I might be otherwise.

I am slowing down with my communicating, too. And, in ways that are feeling particularly good, I am sharing extra bits and pieces of information about me, these days. I had been holding back things, for no particular reason. Now I am more forthcoming. 

If you read my Anastasia The Storyteller blogs you might even notice subtle differences in my blog writings since the New Year. That is when I began to notice the changes in me. Now, in retrospect I can see the beginnings of this change, going back to September when we played New Horizons first “new” Truth Or Dare GAME. 

Write me, if you notice, care to comment on how you see me changing, or would like to share your experiences with me. My email is --

MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Even the best of us can get a bit sloppy, these days, with our truth-telling of the whole truth and nothing but the truth communications. Especially when so many demands pull at us, prompt us to shortcut what we say, sometimes we can cross a line in to non-truths.

Remember the time you told a co-worker or friend, “I was just going to return your call,” when in actuality you had forgotten all about that call from him/her?

Did you realize, then, that you were actually telling a lie?

A vision of mine that I have been speaking of more and more, recently, is my prophecy, however it can be accounted for. 

It has guided my life to this moment where I am energetically, along with the New Horizons Board Of Directors, intent on creating an active Truth-telling Movement. So here I am now, coming forth from something that is a dream of mine. 

You, too, possibly have dreams of improving the world in which you live. Truth and integrity are likely a part of those dreams.

Anne Frank spoke of that yearning when she stated – 

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait another moment before starting to improve the world

Truth-telling, enhanced in small and large ways can help raise your daily living up a notch to better help the world improve. It is truly doing that to my life. 

I’ve been at it, consciously, as well as making a point to teach it, in refined ways, for over forty-five years. Thus I know, for sure, that I need this as a part of my best living! 

You need truth telling, too, as a part of your regular diet, so as not to allow the craziness enveloping us to pull you down into its SWAMP. The SWAMP is dirty and crazy making.

Truth and clarity, conversely, ground us in reality, the place from which we are most likely to create and sustain healthy living.

Need to enhance your truth-telling skill development? 

New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME is the place to learn, grow and transform the darkness of non-truth-telling into light! 

Find out how you can play. You can do this by writing me at the address above.

Also, I, Anastasia, The Super Sleuth, am available to personally guide you, your group or organization in reaching your next highest attainment level in this area, on the way to awe, the best possible destination for a human.

Check us out!

How New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME Helps Us Offset Chaos And Strengthens Our Small "Zone Of Peace"

Wondering how New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME helps us, at New Horizons, to offset chaos and strengthens our model small "zone of peace?"

I'm about to take you, with a series of several articles to describe it, into the secret/sacred portals of our last Truth Or Dare GAME, GAME #5, with a tour of my day in that GAME.

Saturday, January 19, 10 a.m., Truth Or Dare GAME #5, 1:00 p.m.

I wake up this morning as bereft as I've ever been. 

My Beloved cat, Cassandra, has been put to sleep and I am in the throes of trauma and grief. 

Cassandra: In Loving Memory

Still, it is only hours before New Horizons’ fifth monthly Truth Or Dare GAME is scheduled to begin.  

And, no matter what, I am going to not only show-up for the GAME but conduct it from start to finish. 

As it stands, my healing and emotional well-being are tied to being in that process, with my other devoted board members, especially today.

Furthermore, I am the only one that can take on the "Conductor’s role," formerly titled GAME Master in the old days of Marty Groder being the ultimate conductor.

To add to the misery I am feeling, the weather outside is bitter cold and we are soon to be heading into a predicted ice storm with temperatures in the single digits for days ahead. 

Today I feel almost nothing but cold, in and around me.

I am bone tired from relentlessly holding Cassandra in my arms for the past several days,  knowing, painfully, that soon I must let her go. I had clutched her as close to my heart as I could, as she lay dying throughout the just passed days and nights. 

Realizing I was helpless to do anything more for her than had already been done, now, with her gone, I can barely think straight, my heart breaking for my dear kitty who had, in the past year, become the light of my life.

Of one thing I am certain, though, having safely delivered her to face her final moments the day prior, New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME is now but hours away. And, without doubt, I will show up for it and take my place as GAME Conductor, no matter the emotional upheaval I am undergoing and the ordeal having just passed.

Truth and truth-telling matter that much to me! 

And embracing truth, as a shared value with like-minded others who are willing to place anything and everything of themselves on the line to uphold it, spoken with respect and compassion, matters even more!

Even more so, these days, immersed as our nation has become in chaos and lies

Carrying the sounds of Celine Dion singing “My Heart Will Go On,” with me, every step forward, as a reliable way to unleash my grief, connecting it to hers in losing her beloved husband, I make my way down to my wood burning stove, stoking its embers into the blazing fire I need, now, to warm my household. 

Then I make a cup of steamy chai tea and try to prepare for what lies ahead.

By GAME time, I have managed to, barely, direct myself to the business of it looming ahead.

Yet I have written up our GAME agenda, stoked the fire enough so it will last the duration and put a bowl of cereal next to my cup of hot chai tea, by my side, for the GAME’s length which will only be a mere three hours.

This makes GAME #5 actually a mini-GAME.  Traditional GAMES run the course of an entire weekend – Friday evening to Sunday midday at our retreat center. 

We, the New Horizons Board of Directors and myself, the present elite team of Truth Or Dare players, and myself are on our way to that beauty but still must hold this off for a time, as we refine our GAME playing skills and prepare our Harpers Ferry Retreat Center to re-open for guests. 

So, dialing into New Horizons’ conference call set up, for this GAME event, I am ready to begin on my end.

It is 1:00 p.m.:

Our designated starting time has come and we are all set to go – in this new way we’ve devised, via conference call, allowing us to play our game, in good or bad weather, in health or in sickness and coast-to-coast, as we will be doing on this particular day.

Our first step, after being assured all who will be present are accounted for, is a brief check-in by individual Truth Squad members, some who have been playing New Horizons GAME for close to thirty years already. 

Of course, the passing of kitty is uppermost in my heart and mind.

OMG, I've  made it!

I, too, am fully present, in spite of everything, and we are set to go forward into this sanest, in my experience, of community-development processes – New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME! 

Apparently, as I have, over the past few days, been keeping the Truth Squad Community informed of the life-death challenges being faced at my house – and – earlier, on this particular day, letting them know Cassandra is gone, my loyal and loving community members have the compassion and kindness to avoid pressing me for details.

Now I am setting GAME #5 into motion! 

1:15: Following a few preliminary housekeeping announcements for the day.

Now I'm asking for a round of personal goal setting for this GAME, from each person present, again my Truth Squad Members are lovingly giving me space to share what I might, when I am ready, allowing me, also, to regain my emotional strength by doing what I believe I do best – 

-- conduct New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME, that which I hungered most to do, other than write and publish while I was blind.

Taking a few minutes for myself, after the others check-in and identify personal goals for today's GAME, I acknowledge my distress about my kitty, book-ending that sharing with other items on my mind for GAME community discussion, including plans to begin bringing in new Truth Squad Members, beginning next month.

Also I am intent on my setting the stage to guide the Truth Squad in taking up the necessary processes of a not-yet-resolved community incident, from GAME #4.  Once we are able to totally immerse ourselves in this endeavor, the power and profound structures and skill development that will be employed in this will become a genuine turning point in our newly revitalized GAME Community.

What we will deal with, when the time is right, is that a Truth Squad member abruptly left GAME #4 in a volatile, abusive, Trump-like temper tantrum manner, after it being brought to his attention that he had handled himself most inappropriately for a whole series of rule breaking and earlier abusiveness, prior to this GAME. 

In our efforts to manage this contentious situation, well, when we are ready to tackle it, the words of Gandhi that serve as the mantra of our Small "Zones of Peace" initiative will come alive with meaning,  more so than at any other time --

We do best to begin by carving out territories or zones of peace in our personal relations where violence and deceit won't be used."

1:45: The GAME is on!

Thankfully, as our GAME now progresses , no one presses me for more about Cassandra, for which I am grateful.

Dealing with our renegade Truth Squad member situation and whatever will come next as GAME #5 progresses is easy next to this!!

Look for Parts II and III, "How New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME Helps Us Offset Chaos And  Strengthens Our Small "Zone Of Peace" coming soon.

Moving Into Action, Out Of The Chaos

New Horizons Board Of Directors with its newly revitalized “Truth Squad,” (Truth Or Dare GAME Community Members), originally established, circa 1985, is taking the lead in, first,  being role models on moving into action. 

Second in being supporters and guides on trekking the pathway of ---

“Leaning In, Telling The Truth Or Taking The Dare,” a cornerstone of our small “zones of peace” building efforts.  (Taking the "dare," at New Horizons could mean inviting back whatever consequences come of not telling the truth in our GAME. The term is also used to simply mean "taking the dare" to tell the truth and/or hear the truth of others.)

In other words follow our lead, if getting out of chaos is something you want! And have the courage and determination to go after.

Based on Mahtma Gandhi’s words of wisdom –

“We do best to begin carving out territories or zones of peace in our personal relations where violence and deceit won’t be used.”

How does one manage such an ambitious task?

At New Horizons, we are taking our next steps with our Truth Or Dare GAME, now being played monthly, with bi-weekly GAME Support Groups, intent on telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth to one another in the service of clearing away the chaos and clutter in our minds, our actions and in our lives, in general, as one BIG step forward to obtaining what we are after.

“Telling the truth about what,” you ask?

Answer: Anything and everything that is outside of peace, unity and beauty, believing that speaking truth to power and truth, in general, is a vital life pathway.  

For example – Anastasia noticed during our individual support group check-ins, having known Board Member A for close to thirty years, that Board Member A, who is inclined to slip into “victim thinking” and convince herself of her absolute rightness, was in IT again.

In this mode, Board Member A, in the past, has used her victim thinking to do emotional violence to others while justifying her bouts of acting out that have driven family members from her, repeatedly, pushing Anastasia away, too, on occasion. 

Anastasia, by agreement with the group and according to our methodology, confronted Board Member A on this chaos-creating of hers. 

Our Truth Squad process was now in action, in a dialogue, not a debate.

(How good that is; non-defensive communication, at its best!)

Candid discussion with Board Member A, listening, non-defensively (OMG! How great!), quickly led to Board Member A to recognizing how she needed, seriously, to give up her victim position in the situation she had been speaking of and just as rapidly moving her to report a new way she thought she could approach the incident. 

Of course, be aware, Board Member A has been playing the New Horizons GAME, now, for close to forty years. That's how she could move so rapidly with the process!

By Support Group wrap-up time, Board Member A was the recipient of piled on heaps of praise for the new mental clarity she had demonstrated and appreciation for her “open-to-learning” engagement with the group,. She had also garnered a collective show of support for her courage in facing challenges.

Imagine an episode in Congress turning out this way!

Notice in this scenario --- the leaning in, the truth-telling and the facing of the “dare” that went with Board Member A needing to see somethings that had escaped her conscious mind, on its own.

Yesterday, today and likely tomorrow Board Member A seems, now, to be in a position to parent her adolescent children a bit more effectively. She also is taking next steps in beginning to role model healthier social conduct ways for them than formerly that serve, not only her family, but the community around them.

(Letters are used here to identify Truth Squad/Board Members to preserve anonymity.)

Board Member B, known for consistently taking on an active leadership role in our organization, without asking much for herself, made several requests for support she is presently needing, revealing, truthfully, parts of her inner self, not generally exposed. 

One of her immediate rewards was the acknowledgement, by others, of how graciously she was able to demonstrate strength while also being vulnerable.

Board Member C, a recently widowed mother of four adult children, found herself delving into problems she is presently addressing with their treating her disrespectfully since her husband passed away. 

Out of her discussions with our Truth Squad, she came to realize, happily, that she is now the one in the family to be exhibiting a strong "Rebellious Child," going on strike and refusing to be around them, in response to their abusive behaviors.

“No way, said Board Member C, am I going to be around them if they mistreat me and do not quickly get on board with apologizing and making amends.

As a New Horizons Board Member I am pledged to allow no subtle, or not subtle abuse in my life!

Period!"

We, the other members of New Horizons Truth Squad, said --

“Right on, Grandma. Rebelliousness has its time and place!”

She is the grandma of eight!  

Grandma is now turning the table on her disrespectful grown kids, most appropriately for the circumstance!

What fine role modeling by Grandma, a way to take action and move out of chaos.

Do you recognize the building blocks of exceptional community here and its effectiveness in aiding the individual and the group to move out of chaos?

Check out our Spectrum Of Love Attributes inventory link and check off the many ways our Truth Squad is bringing them alive.

Leaning in and truth telling are at the top of our list!

These examples might seem like small potatoes to you. 

But, ask yourself, how often do you and the others in your life address troublesome issues as readily and successfully as the New Horizons Truth Squad has done?

Some of us have been doing this level of support and personal respond-ability and growth together for close to thirty years!

What we have helped one another do, over these many years, is the antithesis of the old saying –

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men (and women) to do nothing.” Unknown

We do not do nothing, at New Horizons!  

We do not enable evil/Dark to succeed! 

We do have a well-developed methodology for transforming it, instead!

(Visit Anastasia's Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure Of A Lifetime blog site to help you with this challenging of Dark/evil, take a tour of it, find a starting place to dig in and expect to succeed, if you are willing, determined and courage enough to take up the tasks suggested.)

For more than forty years, programs such as our Truth Or Dare GAME, have helped participants separate Dark/evil from Light and learn how to put the good ahead of the not good, even saving a few lives, along the way. 

We are proud and grateful for this acclaim!

Now we at New Horizons are so happy that, for the first time in more than a decade and one-half, we are starting off the year, energetically, involved in playing our Truth Or Dare GAME, once more!

What this means for us, on the personal level is …..

Yes, of course, we each have a deep level of personal motivation for investigating places in our lives that are cluttered with misunderstandings, lack of ease and obstructions to our being and living at our highest capacities.

Yes, once again, as our Game, formerly the Discount Derby, is revitalized, we are turning to one another in our "New Horizons Support Network" to help each other clear away areas where our not seeing or minimizing what we have either not been looking at or not giving ample due is interfering with more appropriate efforts, to the good, in ourselves, in our families and other close relationships.

(Discount means – to minimize or ignore aspects of self, others and solving problems. 

The concept derives, psychologically, from the theories and clinical treatment strategies of Transactional Analysis (TA)).

New Horizons Executive Director and Founder, Anastasia Rosen-Jones is a Certified Transactional Analyst, circa 1981.)

Each of us, of necessity, is our own starting place, taking next steps out of the chaos in our personal lives that has often, or occasionally, submerged the joy and well-being of past years, especially as we have experienced it in our national chaos.

On the collective level -- We are taking a fresh look at that which surrounds us, in upheaval and chaos, including look at the impact the present proliferation of lies is having on us, personally and collectively.

How can we help alter this – the evil we see around us that left undealt with continues to fester?

Every day we are seeking answers and solutions.

We want out of the chaos!

And we are intent on doing whatever we can to abate it!

Leaning in, telling the truth or daring to, somehow, to employ whatever will effectively go against this darkness is what we are after!  

We hope you will join us! 

This, leaning in, telling the truth and taking dares, when needed, is what it means, to us, to build small “zones of peace.”

Again, we wish you a Happy New Year, 2019!

Wouldn’t It Be Nice –

Links to be added soon.

...To dump chaos in to some kind of trash removal container and send it off somewhere far, maybe outer space?

Maybe turn it in for a walk in the woods, replete with the fragrance of damp earth, the beauty of green trees and the refreshing feeling of a gentle breeze? 

Bye, bye chaos -- trash
for 2019. Hello serenity.

(Actually you will soon be able to do this kind of exploring when, once again, we open the gates to our New Horizons Harpers Ferry Retreat Center.)

That's what we, at New Horizons, think would be a fitting way to go through 2019, out of chaos!

So getting ourselves, and anyone who wants to follow our lead out of the chaos/trash, even the trash can, which is one step removed from carrying it inside ourselves, is where we are heading.

Check out "Out Of The Chaos” for our "menu of (interactive) options" to find a few of the possibilities for joining us.

And, don't forget, taking on our most recent volunteer opportunity,  “#MeTo Online Radio Show Auditing,” is one new way we are suggesting to get yourself involved, with New Horizons, in building a small "zone of peace" around yourself -- out of the chaos.

For A Happy New Year, 2019!

The skies the limit!