January 6, 2023 -- NH/ZOP 'MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!

Look for details!

Coming soon!!  

Also see --

• Radical Truth-Telling To Be Focus of New Podcast Series
• Preparing For The Adventure
• Possible Human Possible Society

Anastasia Sez -- "I'm sooo excited about our....

,,..unfolding plans, emerging out of our managing the pandemic as best we could.

Now we are getting ready to tell stories again. And, after awhile we'll invite you to story-tell with us.

Sue and I will begin sharing our adventure from there -- Fall, 2019 -- as we lived it to here. 

And what lies ahead as our prime attentions are directed on: 1. Anastasia's (Me) work in progress, Camelot Disrupted and 2. New Horizons Harpers Ferry Retreat Center "becoming Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV)."

All this we will share and more on our new Possible Human, Possible Society radio series on Blog Talk Radio -- radical truth-telling to be focus.

P.S. Expect delays! All kinds of obstacles are arising for us on the way to our first broadcast -- from tech problems, to writing team emergency illnesses to internal organizational problems, for starters!

But...we are on our way!

Radical Truth Telling To Be Focus Of New Podcast Series

Updated 12.21.2022

Also read Anastasia commenting on contrasting "gaslighting and radical truth-telling

Radical truth-telling is the key that unlocks the door to the profound and powerful practical application strategies (For example -- here is one of our most basic), theories and support practices emerging through our evolving efforts to bring "old" New Horizons into the 21st century through our Black Bear Mountain Village Project.

And -- interestingly -- News Flash!

Radical truth-telling turns out to be the absolute most powerful antidote to what Merriam Webster has just announced to be the word of the year -- GASLIGHTING! Hmm.

The selection is described as follows, apropos of everything WE STAND FOR AND REPRESENT! 

Zowee!  More to come!!

..." which it defines as "the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one's own advantage," as its top word of 2022 because it has become the "favored word for the perception of deception."

Discover the many facets of our project and how you can personally and collectively utilize them to grow yourself and our nation into the best possible. 

New Podcast Series: Radical Truth-Telling Comes To Black Bear Mountain Village 

Launching date -- January 6, 2023!!

Live broadcast: 10:30 a.m.'

On Anastasia's Possible Society In Motion Radio Show 

Look for details.

 

Coming Soon! Flash Mob Truth Or Dare GAME/Fire Circle Celebrating the Fall Equinox

Also coming soon:

• How can a Fall Equinox celebrating the summer harvest and the changing of the seasons fit in with a Truth or Dare GAME? Discussion and storytelling led by Anastasia to be recorded.
• How does a Flash Mob Truth Or Dare GAME serve the celebration?
• What is a Flash Mob Truth or Dare GAME anyway?
  
• How can I/we also learn to play?
• And what difference does it make?

Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV) ain't easy! As I said before!

Open only to on-site Black Bear Mountain Village  (BBMV) Community Members - in good standing.

Date: Friday evening, September 23

Look for details.

7:00 - Fire lighting by Board Member Sue deVeer, followed by drumming circle.

7:20 -- Discussion and storytelling led by Anastasia 

Announcing -- Anastasia's Book Nook And Gift Shop!

 Lookee here!

Under construction

Specially designed, crafted and built for Anastasia by Barry Teter

Pandemic Survivors Support Group To Be Replaced By All New Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV) Support Group

Starts today!

And - there is so much more on the way: 

• Support Groups -- Designed for zoom, phone in and in person attendance. (Local, Regional and National (Find out how you can start one yourself -- based on our more than forty years!! experience), 
• Ms. Class-Study Group, 
• Monthly Fire Circles and Storytelling Gatherings, 
• Onsite Seminars and Training Days Featuring "How To Build Your Own "Small Zones of Peace" -- 
  
  
  
• Bottom Line -- No Lies, No Abuse healing strategies for your optimum personal, relationship and community well-being are built into the all new Black Bear Mountain Village Project.

Long time coming!

Find out how you can join with us for this richly woven, long in the creating and developing full-scale approach to building a better America in your own backyard -- if that's where you wish it to be.

Our BBMV Project has everything in it you will need to begin and continue to rebuild your life and that of those that matter most to you for living in America's "new normal" forward.

Details on the way.

If You Are Planning to Attend ,,,

Anastasia's Return Of The Goddess Birthday Celebratiin (any of the scheduled events) -- details coming soon.

Plan to make your reservation soon for in person and virtual attendance

Space very limited due to Covid, on site and.

All guests must be vetted.

Return of the Goddess Weekend Celebration Announced

Under construction

The Board Members of the New Horizons - Small "Zones of Peace entwined organizations are setting up a full weekend of celebratory events to honor –

Executive Director Anastasia 

Rosen-Jones’

82nd birthday

When: Friday evening, July 15 – Sunday, July 17

Where: Black Bear Mountain Village

What: ---

Friday evening July 15 -- Storytelling and drumming
at the Black Bear Mountain Village Fire Circle

Saturday developing program to include:

• Pandemic Victims Memorial Tree - Healing Prayers and Meditation Circle
• Cairn Dedication to Board Member Lisa Boyer (March 14, 1965 - March 11, 2021)
• Potluck Dinner
• Drumming
• Storytelling
• Healing rituals 
• Fire Circle gathering to include:

Official send off for Anastasia's Prophecy Journey --  Celebrating Anastasia as she -- at long last - takes her first steps on the journey of her "return to the nation's capital" as foretold by her prophecy, August,,1974

Anastasia = Our Returning Goddess Of The Day!

With her and behind her -- We are the Truth Squad!

Sunday: Annual Board Meeting and brunch

Look for emerging details as plans for gathering develop.

Our Summer Solstice "Gathering" Was Purr-fection Under The Starry Sky Above

One version -- Note to Irene, our board development consultant who was uninvited at the last minute.

To Irene 

Irene,

Thank you for not coming to our Solstice.

It turned out to be -' just right -- a "gathering" -- not an event.

Board Member Sue posts first
Pandemic Victims Memorial
Tree Remembrance Plaque

With my board members and my "little sister" Daphne, Walton, Sue and I -- Terry long distance in California sitting all in a circle in our fire pit cause our fire was tiny due to high wind and we were drawn together for warmth.

Purrr fect!!

Love Anastasia 😊😘💜

🧞🧞‍♂️🧞‍♀️ 

Genie Coming Out Of Her Bottle 

Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village just got way easier!

Flash Mob Truth Or Dare GAME Comes To Black Bear Mountain Village.

From Anastasia 

I had already, back a day or two ago, stated that "Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV) Ain't Easy" when happenstance, the other evening, brought the collective of our Property Management Team to an after day's work is done time of hangin' out.

Then one thing led to another.  After it was over I thought to myself we had just created what seemed to naturally be named a Flash Mob Truth Or Dare GAME. 

Whatever could that mean?

By way of explaining, let's first get our terms clear.

So here goes. Webstee's Dictionary defines a flash mob as follows 

: a group of people summoned (as by email or text message) to a designated location at a specified time to perform an indicated action before dispersing.

Ok. So to explain us at BBMV as creating a "flash mob" does demand a bit of stretching the definition a bit. But you'll get the idea as I go on.

Here lies our claim.

Yes we were -- A group of people; Summoned by: text, phone and prior agreement; To a designated spot -- BBMV; Performing an indicated action -- i.e. property management and development; Before dispersing to go home.

Standing in the rain under our patio roof, meaning our top deck floor above us, having been working together now, just hangin' out.

Knowing ahead of that time, the rules of our community, our Truth or Dare GAME just popped out into being like any other flash mob activity!

Will all that truth telling make "becoming BBMV" easier?

Maybe yes. Maybe no.

At any rate life and work at BBMV just got more interesting! That's for sure!

Take it from there -- Flash Mob Truth or Dare GAME has come to BBMV.

You could potentially learn how to create your own Flash Mob Truth or Dare GAME -- no drugs, no alcohol. We'll show you how -- through our experiential learning programs.

Maybe even our politicians could learn! LOL.

More to come.

NH/ZOP To Dedicate Pandemic Victims Memorial Tree At Summer Solstice Storytelling Event

 Coming soon.

Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village Ain't Easy!

Join me, Anastasis, former NH/ZOP Executive Director and founder at our Summer Solstice Storytelling Event, Saturday, June 18, when our organization and myself begin to come together to create one year ahead of sharing our experiences of grief, growth and the celebration of surviving Covid, at least so far, through community-building via "breaking bread" together, storytelling.and the simple pleasures of casual hangin' out together.

Best done at a "forest bathing sanctuary" such as our very own Black Bear Mountain Village, a "newly" established work in progress.

Especially with Covid in the background, it ain't easy!!

Hear our stories. Share your own around the warmth of our Beloved Fire Circle that has often brought us together, over the past almost thirty!! years.

Vetted guests may participate by remote.

Look for details forthcoming.

Summer Solstice Storytelling Event Plans Announced

 Saturday June 18

4 p.m. until ??

Dinner plans pending: Catered barbecue meal -- $25? Or potluck.

Donations invited

By invitation only. Spaces are extremely limited due to covid.

Details to come.

Registration: 

Contact New Horizons/Small "Zones of Peace" at:

MountainWomanRJ@aol.com 

Update from Anastasia

Update: April 29, 2022

I erred. I was wrong. Trying to share with you how incredibly profound is the process of our now, at NH ZOP transitioning away from our being a training and retreat center to becoming Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV) cannot be readily conveyed to you via my quoting a text to Walton (see below).

That expressing is "merely" a helicopter view and not earth plane activities explained adequately so you can follow our lead to awe at such time as you might choose.

One key insight that has been being played out here at BBMV over the past year in our current and communally shared -- pandemic generated "new normal" is how vivid it has become the deadly price lies, denial and psychological discounting exact from the individual, those who are close to us, our communities and workplaces.

A firm commitment to put TRUTH, CONSCIOUSNESS, PERSONAL INTEGRITY AND ACCOUNTABITY as top priorities in one's life over the long haul is ESSENTIAL.  A life lived alternaty is, in its underbelly, a loser's life.

It's always up to the indi individual.

Your choice.

More on this in the days ahead.

April 26, 2022

We're really in it now!!

Deep into the book writing -- my writing team and me.

Wow! What a trip!

My text to Walton below will explain some -- still only tip of the iceberg.

To Walton, my new writing assistant, 20+ years friend --

Tonight I feel the Oneness of the Universe in my body. And in my heart!

Murat's map got me here.

Marty's brought me to (on Murat's Chart of Ascension) yearning for an unknown something better.

Almost oobe.

Almost like tripping without the psychedelics 

🌈🦄🌤🎇

Experiential Education --- Workday For Volunteers

Coming soon!

To Black Bear Mountain Village.

If you live within the 50 -- 75 mile radius of the Washington  metropolitan area, especially Frederick, Washington or Jefferson counties, events and workdays at Black Bear Mountain Village in the coming warmer months might be just the "getaway from town" adventure for you.

Details on the way.

Next planned project: Readying our Forest Bathing Sanctuary for spring and doing it the small "zones of peace" way.

To make application, contact Anastasia @MountainWomanRJ@aol.com 

Lost Hope Regained

Join the conversation on how Anastasia's anticipated series of four historically-based fantasy novels, titled Lost Hope Regained, beginning with Book One - Camelot Disrupted, intend to address today's social and poltical challenges from a uniquely New Horizons/Small "Zones of Peace" perspective.

Introducing the discussion on unfolding plans --

Lost Hope Regained 

(Program deleted due to technical difficulties)

Friday, March 18 11:30 a.m.

on Blog Talk Radio

"Around the base of a mountain, two rivers rushed toward one another seeking passage to the sea. Nestled into the mountain’s steep side was a secluded, magical spot called Black Bear Mountain Village." (Quote excerpted from first draft - Camelot Disrupted - Book One, Lost Hope Regained)

It is up against this fictionalized mountainside as a backdrop that a correspondingly real life equivalent also exists, with BIG happenings now underway.

The fantasized version, now in progress, is being written by me, Anastasia (ARJ), Sue deVeer, my BFF, business partner and NH/ZOP Board Member, and my team of Manhattan-based, award-winning writers. Due out in 2023.

A book writing project such as this is no small endeavor. Nor had we expected it to be.

What we had not anticipated, however, is that alongside the writing of our imaginary tale set on fictionalized Black Bear Mountain, we would also undertake a full-scale remodeling and property development project that, as circumstances have unfolded are leading to our creating a living version of Black Bear Mountain Village.  As it is now being written in fiction, so it is also coming to be in real time, with real earth, wind, fire and water. And real live people!

All of the above brings us to our forthcoming discussion topic, Lost Hope Regained, designed  for us to begin exploring answers to the blog topic I introduced earlier on the New Horizons Small “Zones Of Peace” Project blog site – “Why & How Is This Going To Be Important For YOU?  -- "Official Now! NH/ZOP Harpers Ferry Retreat Center To Be Renamed -- Black Bear Mountain Village.”

We know ourselves to be well-equipped for the forthcoming adventure which might be summarized as learning how to climb the Mountain of Awe or, minimally, preparing for the adventure. Prepared to us means we have: knowledge, experience, expertise, wisdom, determination and dedication. However, these might all add up to nothing much but the musings of visionaries -- without the collaboration of those who might travel with us, like yourself.

We are after the building of small "zones of peace," a collaborative effort to endeavor if there ever was one.

Please join us for our forthcoming online broadcast for what is intended to be only the first of many discussions on how we can collaborate to make real the promises of Black Bear Mountain Village, a model in fiction and real time for building and sustaining small "zones of peace" in a troubled world.

Experiencing Black Bear Mountain Village

A summer internship.

Watch for details

Open to six -- very select young adults. Ages 18 -- 30.

With sponsors.

Details developing.

Why & How Is This Going To Be Important For YOU? -- "Official Now! NH/ZOP Harpers Ferry Retreat Center To Be Renamed -- Black Bear Mountain Village

 March 8, 2022

Anastasia (ARJ)

Our transitioning from the NH/ZOP Harpers Ferry Retreat Center to becoming Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV) in reality, as fictionalized in my forthcoming "Camelot Disrupted," is an unfolding adventure in living as in writing.

A work in progress. A journey being lived in real time as well as documented as we live it.

The design is set and well established. The mechanisms of the design in motion are well-honed. But...only people working collaboratively together can turn the potential into a living success, a genuine exceptional community in action, a true small "zone of peace."

My committee, my having recently resigned as Board Chairperson and now Chairing Community Outreach Committee, met for the first time on Sunday to begin developing our personal responses to the title question.

Very quickly we saw where we wanted to head with our plan:  Think global. Act local." 

And very quickly we also began to recognize the multi-level complexity of our endeavor.

Here's what we have so far.

Think global:

The internet and most specifically our three New Horizons sponsored blog sites and our ebay store and our classes, available from almost anywhere and my (ARJ) coaching and consulting will help us deliver our message, present the principles of our model and the applications of its teachings worldwide.

Act local:

BBMV is of course most vitally alive on the mountainside where we reside -- moment by moment, living out the challenges of dialogue versus debate, being an exceptional community, healing and reconciliation, as an intrinsic aspect of daily living among people of diverse natures And from there reaching out again in some modified pre-pandemic form into our surrounding local towns.

With what?

Doing what?

And how?

Follow along as our plans unfold as I/we head for book publication -- 2023 -- when you will get to read how we put it all together -- building small "zones of peace" wherever we BE.

Soon we will want your thoughts and ideas in the mix too.

This is a BIG DEAL!!

Stay updated as our journey continues.

More to come.

It's Official Now! NH/ZOP Harpers Ferry Retreat Center To Be..

Also see: 

It's Official: Anastasia- -- "She who rises again" Is Ascending Once More

It's Official: Groder - Rosen Addiction Development" Theory's Intriguing and Empowering Backstory To Be Told

...fictionalized in Anastasia's (Me) forthcoming "Camelot Disrupted," fantasy, historical fiction
novel.

Details begin emerging soon, as we come out of our hibernation.

Best of all: YOU will be able to visit -- if you qualify to be our guest when our newly remodeled sacred spaces are opened to the public. And even hangout a bit at Anastasia's Book Nook and Gift Shop.

Wow!! Isn't this something else?

"But what else?" Might be the words of my long ago grade schooler son, Eric.

High Leadership People (HLP) and convicts share the same basic personality structure,: said Groder

Full post moved to Exploring Your Dark Side; The Adventure Of A Lifetime 

See developing discussion on that site.

The year was 1980 as I sat attentively listening to Dr. Martin Groder lecture at a two-day pre-conference workshop on survivor-type personalities and their addictions -- natural, organic defense strategies living in "civilized" cultures such as those modern humankind has evolved into.

My life was about to change!

More to come, as Anastasia now approaches her first book writing milestone for "Camelot Disrupted:  Book One - Lost Hope Regained."

Follow Anastasia's "adventure of a lifetime" as it unfolds.