The Art Of Flipping The Dark Side

Posted originally to Anastasia's Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure Of A Lifetime

Think of it this way -- 

Have you ever wished you could help influence -- in a healthy way, of course -- the discounting, denial and lying you see in some around you?

I know how -- as part of a team -- a WE!

We'll show you how.

We've got the method -- success guaranteed if -- you do your part.

Just in time for Election 2024!

We'll show you how -- to come out a winner! It begins -- on our end -- with your participation in our Ms Class: Season Two, facilitated by Anastasia, its follow-up online Study Group, led by Board Member Jill Catlett

Vetting has now begun.

Contact Jill @

We, Like Yourselves, Are "Those Organisms" That...

..have been overloaded, -- many times since the pandemic began...

And we have come apart -- fragmented, individually and together, again and again. And we have also reorganized ourselves, again and again and are reorganizing still, at a higher level. Just as the man, Ilya Prigogine, said.

We feel frequently exhausted, emotionally and physically -- burned out. Give it a name -- "Pandemic Burnout."

Getting through the ordeal that actually has no end in sight is hard work, every day. Yet celebrating that we are still alive -- and healthy is not far behind in our minds and our hearts though with a touch of survivor's guilt.

All in all, I celebrate those of us now birthing Black Bear Mountain Village out of the pandemic, like a newborn. A+ for how we've come through our labors -- so far.

I say this with pride -- and -- hope because together we did this! And what we achieved made our offerings to others ever more powerful and profound and that's saying a lot cause we were quite something before. Through tough times, we came through with our dedication to navigating the needs of running our organization, the New Horizons-Small "Zones of Peace Project, now becoming BBMV-- while doing our best to survive Covid and all the many hardships it brought, complicating our lives' complications that were already complicated -- 

Coming out the other end of countless obstacles -- everyday we see the truth of Prigogine's theory in our personal and shares lives. Transforming the lead of ourselves and our lives into gold, Murat would call it.

Transformation! A far cry from mental illness. Yet i credibly demanding, nonetheless -- a choice to be brsve in tough times and come through ever more gentle and certainly more conscious, more aware.

This is Black Bear Mountain Village becoming, a small "zone of peace."

Our gifts that now comes out of our having mental health crises during the pandemic and now -- "We have a mental health solution" to pass on to you.

Everything we are and have is now becoming --

A mental health solution, uniquely born and bred of the Covid Pandemic -- beautifully merged and refining all we had before and more.

Join us! Find out more.

Ms Class: Season Two applications now being accepted.

Contact Jill @ Black Bear Mountain Village

"Overload An Organism With Stimuli And It Will Fragmentm

Originally posted to: Anastasia  The Storyteller

 ...and reorganize at a higher level," stated Ilya Prigogine, winner of the 19..Nobel Prize for biology, summarizing his discoveries in creating his "Theory of Dissipative Structures that had won him the prize.

Look at yourself, your friends and family, your co-workers, the members of your community. Aren't you and all those around not living this phenomenon right now -- greatly the product of our pandemic.

Prigogines theory illuminates the process of human evolution under stress. And yet we still have choices: personal and collective transformation is one way. Mental illness, suicide and other forms of violence are others.

It is a choice.

Exploring Notions of Altruism Vs Polarization

Under Construction

The "United" States of America were founded on the premise of unity. Altruism -- "One for all and all for one."

Has this ideal worked so far? If not, why not? And -- how can we reestablish this unity of our Founding Father's? This belief in respond-ability to one another rather than the divisiveness we see all around us today? The harm -- and outright violence and destruction?

My friend, Mike Corrigan, sparked my thinking on the subject more than a decade and a half ago, writing and speaking out as he had on "America's "Secret" Civil War" which demonstratably is no secret anymore.

What to do? What to do?

After fifty years!! of research and the development of innivative "counterculture" strategies, I have concluded that the guidance Mahatma Gandhi urged for building world peace --

"We do best to carve out territories or zones of peace where violence and deceit won't be used" makes the most sense to me. The Black Bear Mountain Village Project is an experiment in such a way of being and living that will teach you how.

Vetting for participation in our Ms Class: Season Two that will teach you how to create and sustain your own small "zone of peace" begins November 1.

Discussiton in progress.

We Here, At Black Bear Mountain Village, Are Having Mental Health Crises

.. and we are succeeding at resolving them. So we say with pride -- We've also got a mental health solution -- the Black Bear Mountain Village Project, based on more than six decades of experience designing and applying strategies to help heal and transform the lives of individuals, relationships and communities.

"Dedicated to building -- and-- sustaining small "zones of peace"

Low cost -- relatively

Durable mental health strategies and solutions 

Replicatable -- share what we offer and pass it on to your friends and family.

Vetting to become a participatant/fellow traveler -- a.k.a. an off site Auditor -- meaning participate by phone or on zoom -- begins November 1st.

Look for details

Altruism Moves Onto Center Stage As: Our Traveling Together Takes Shape

When at last I (Anastasia, driver/guide) had determined a route for our Ms Class: Season Two by establishing a Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV) Bus Ride journey as our initial curriculum agenda, I offered my fellow travelers an activity for our group as we go -- destination AWE. My intentions, on a personal level, being the realization of my lifelong desire for people around me to be as community to one another. I grew up this way the first eight years of my life and I know what community can mean for MENTAL HEALTH,  spiritual growth and overall commynity well-being.

As driver/guide on this bus I am following the lead of "the community educator" in the original story. Well -- maybe yes, maybe no. The creation of a small "zone of peace" community is, on my part, quite intentional when I'm in the driver’s seat as I am in the present scenario, but not exactly that teacher's goal, rather a byproduct of happenstance in his particular scenario.

intentional community building is excellent (And we're going to be more and more available to help you do that if you wish, as in learning "How to revitalize your play group "Pandemic Pod".)

Nontheless, in a manner similar to how that story goes, I invited everyone in our Ms Class, after their having heard the Bus Ride Story read by Board Member Sue, to do the Spectrum Of Love Inventory, specificallty applying attributes and concepts to our ways of treating ourselves personally. (Read Murat’s Bus Ride Story Adventure

 See archival link -- "Bus Ride.").

Having done so, I turned my focus back onto Sue, my one remaining student from "Season One," the others present, apart from myself, presently being auditors, onsite and dial in.

Two attributes, "altruism" and "compassion," stood out to Sue as "weakest" toward herself. 

"Interesting," I .mused." Now what, I wondered, realizing I was a bit adrift as to what to do next, having not ever before been in the position in which I now find myself, having stepped out of my role as D.C. area psychotherapist leading groups and seminars into the position of heading an onsite, daily living-together- in one form or another community, rather than a once a month intense "Discount Derby" weekend as before. (See Truth or Dare GAME).

At our next Tuesday afternoon class, we took up the subject of altruism as a community learning project. I am going to be writing about that project here as our Adventure progresses.

Look for more stories of our BBMV Bus Ride Story Adventure as it progresses -- with our coming Ms Classes exploring (as per Murat) the connections between: altruism, MENTAL HEALTH, ISOLATION and a concept he defined as "Ecological body consciousness."

More to come.

Our Adventure Has Begun

Our destination is AWE l! And it's unbridled potential is gorgeous!

We have now had two official Ms Classes: Season Two and two follow-up "informal discussions with a purpose" that we call Sohbets taking from Murat’s teachings and traditions.

We are on our way -- our nearly fearless leader for the adventure -- Me/Anastasia -- having, after several unsatisfactory start up sessions -- according to my aspirations -- gotten our travel plans in order and focused, for the most part. It's good for a driver to know where she's heading, especially when others are relying on her. And now, our carefully selected, starting-out-traveling- companions, Troy and Jill, having appropriately coalesced with us -- off we go -destination AWE!

FYI: The coalescing came of our having merged our working intentions into the shared vision that is now "becoming Black Bear Mountain Village,"  It has been a labor of love and sometimes pain and heartache, over the past year, that now brings us into a communal like-mindedness around certain values and principles of living. Our efforts were DIFFICULT but our hard won progress has been worth the effort. 

Like mindedness is one of three essentials that Murat stressed for being a community, at least in the exceptional manner we encourage and teach. We are grateful for our successes and are now ready to work together to achieve other community essentials. The other two main ones are Synergy and a Vibration of Love among members.

Having thus set our intentions -- body, mind and spirit -- to traveling together, our first stopping and exploring spot, particularly important for our newcomers, was to introduce them to Murat’s Bus Ride Story Adventure (Read it if you haven't so you can follow along with us as we travel.) so we can use it to help guide us as we build our small "zone of peace" at Black Bear Mountain Village -- our every intention.

So it began -- with everyone present doing the Spectrum of Love Inventory, tallying up our strengths and weaknesses to give each of us personal guideposts of what we need most to develop in ourselves as we travel.

You can do that inventory too and grow alongside of us as we travel.

More to come.

Bus Ride Story Adventure and Spectrum Of Love To Take Center Stage In Ms Class: Season Two

 Well now -- I think we've at last begun to travel on our BBMV "adventure to awe."

Find out how you can join in on the journey upon which we are now embarking.

Look for details on how you can begin your travels with us

 Vetting begins November 1.

GGet on board to become an "Official" BBMV Small "Zones of Peace" Builder.

Vetting For Ms Class Eligibility Begins November 1st

 We've (Meaning All Of Us Worldwide) Are Having Mental Health Challenges -- If Not Actual Crises

New Horizons Support Network and the Small "Zones of Peace" Project...Becoming the Black Bear Mountain Village Project have a mental health solution.

Its called building small "zones of peace" wherever you are -- or go. In other words "community." But not "ordinary" community. We mean "exceptional" community." The kind Mahatma Gandhi meant when he stated that the way to a world of peace was "..to begin by carving out terrorities or zones of peace where violence and deceit won’t be used."

With fifty plus years behind us of doing just that, we are eager to share what we know, what we've learned and how we've learned it.

Come -- build with us

Do you how to do this?

Interested in trying on our method?

Vetting for participation begins November 1, 2023.

Step #1 -- An "Evaluation Session" with Anastasia is the door opener.

Cost -- beyond your budget limitations? 

Find out how you how you can qualify for a scholarship opportunity.

Contact: Jill at Black Bear Mountain Village -- New email and cell number to be announced.

Anastasia's Ms Class: Season Two To Take An Interesting Turn

Under Construction

Updated: October 1

Among the coming changes --

●Group discussions will follow class presentation with Anastasia, Sue -- the only remaining student of the original, Season One Class -- and on-site at Black Bear Mountain Village Auditors. Dial-in auditors will also be offered discussion opportunities tba

● Monthly Fire Circle Storytelling participation will be open to Auditors.

Read on to hear of our fascinating journey, from "there" to here -- now trying to rebuild our lives, post- pandemic and our present "Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village" experiences as we go forward on our "adventure of a lifetime."

Also, find out how to just hang out with us.

From fancy hotel workshop accommodations ro what used to be only a kitchen door back driveway to now becoming "Anastasia's Courtyard" -- under construction, the times are a changing at the New Horizons Harper's Ferry Retreat Center becoming Black Bear Mountain Village.

Last Thursday as Board Members and Provisional Board Membrrs sat down for our first official Ms Class -- Study Groip: Season Two, I found myself stumbling a bit to find my way.

Everything was dramatically different from the beginnings of even Ms Class--Study Group: Season One with its first class -- and its original agenda launched February 28, 2019 -- pre-pandemic shutdowns.

Most dramatically, "Season One" was not intended to be a "Season" though it lasted close to two years -- a very long season if you want to call it that at all.

But what else might we call it?

The original- Class-Study Group had been organized in mid-December, 2019, specifically to support a single board member that we call Tonya, publicly, to preserve her privacy. Tonya had just recently lost her home and all her belongings to one of Northern California's wildfires - and her husband to another woman aong with it.  

To compound her distress, her lurking tendency to emotionally swim and drown herself in the depths of suicidal ideation had taken hold of her to such an extent that I was seriously concerned for her.

So I had prodded her to once again do an "Evaluation Session" with me as a prerequisite. Her earlier one had been almost thirty years ago.  And I would reward her discipline in doing that by doing a five or six week class/study group for all interested NH/ZOP Board Members? focusing on her special needs as the centerfold. 

We had had six Board members at our last annual board meeting in July. However, we began what I now want ro call "Season One

To be continued"

The Ms Class That Saved (Mental Health) Lives During The Pandemic Returns For Its Second Season

 Find out how you can qualify to participate.

On-site at Black Bear Mountain Village or by zoom.

Applications being taken after November 1, 2023.

Details coming soon.

New Student Internship Opportunity (or For Qualified Volunteer)

As of Spring, 2024 -- We will be looking for a live-in female student intern.

Situation:

Live in efficiency apartment. Rent = 10 - 15 hours (to be negotiated) per week, work exchange.

Tasks: Help with cleaning and cooking and general upkeep along with our Property Management and Development Team, headed by Sue deVeer.

Benefits: Life in the mountains, being a part of building our small "zone of peace" -- Black Bear Mountain Village Community

Ideal: For students interested in writing, marketing and social activism. Must be an INTROVERT to match Anastasia who would be your main connection.

Please note, New Horizons’ Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones who has extensive experience in advertising, marketing and public relations, will supervise internships.

Find out how you can be a part of our team!

Cell for Anastasia: 240.409.5347

email: zonesofpeacenh@aol.com

From Anastasia: Notes For Our Readers On Our Unfolding Journey

 Under construction

Dear Readers,

In the past month the two main blog sites I write for, New Horizons/Small "zones of peace" and my own Anastasia The Storyteller, shot up from 1000 or under visitors during the height of the pandemic to almost OVERNIGHT this month attracting close to 100,000!

What gives, I asked myself, feeling greatly overwhelmed and intimidated as I watched the numbers grow. I was, of course, preparing my organization and myself for creating impact. But not today!

 Later -- next year when Camelot Disrupted would be finished. That was my plan.

What next? On MY end? On.   our "Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village" end?

For starters I decided to take note of the selections being read. And the pattern that emerged is that y'all seem to be seeking Practical Applications -- the way we interpreted it -- for your own small "zones of peace" building. That's how we read the articles you were selecting -- so for our next steps on this blog we will be seeking ways to accommodate that.

Up dates coming soon.

Monthy Fire Circle Storytelling Gatherings To Be Held at BBMV

Collective healing is our goal.

Tentative plan: 

Fire Circle Storytelling - monthly

Topic: From There (March16, 2020 to Here

P.S. Wonder why we"ve had so many aborted plans in our recent past?

Answer: 

1. We've got a mental crisis, actually quite a few of our own. And we draw from the ancient wisdom of physicians -- "physician heal thyself" and also the wisdom of -- "Charity begins at home."

2. Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village ain't been easy.

Join us for Fire Circle Storytelling. We'll share ours. You share back -- kinda like call and response.

On BEING First -- Ahead Of DOING

From Executive Director Anastasia, A Personal Comtemplation and Sharing

I spent most of the first few months after March 16, 2020 just sitting on my living room couch staring out the windows, gazing at the trees -- marvelous, gorgeous tall old Oaks mostly.

Stunned! In shock! Nowhere to go anyway.

Almost immediately I heard/felt the trees talking back to me. And so it was that I was NEVER alone and discovered that the spirit guides of "all my relations" were with me -- all the time, provided I opened my heart and mind to them.

After a good few months more of this, having since moved myself out of doors onto my favorite warm westher relaxation and tree gazing spot, my old oak rimmed deck outside my living room, situated like a perch high above the mountain road, just right for me to see the occasional car or truck go by below without them seeing me. In this way I began to come to terms with the multilayered crises we were all facing.

Not long after I accepted the state of affairs, I donated my car to charity. Certain I would not be leaving the ten mountainside acres I live on, backed up against 4,000 belonging to the National Park Service -- maybe for forever.

That it has now how it has become. Others would come in and out - board members, contractors, community members and soon a resident intern to live on site with me. And, treasure of all treasures, in 2021 we adopted our family "fur-baby," Charlie B -- an eight week old Chesapeake Bay Retriever, official state dog of Maryland where we are situated.

That is how Black Bear Mountain Village started to become -- born out of the pandemic.

The most important lesson so far - I call it my homegrown Yoda-ism -- is this ...

"BE first. DO after BE"

It is a magical guidepost for me now and it has helped me time and time again these past, going on four years, of unimaginable pressures.

More storytelling from me on the way -- as NH/ZOP becomes Black Bear Mountain Village and I, Anastasia, complete writing Camelot Disrupted -- due out in 2024.

The ride is already becoming a wild one!! My Yodaism keeps me sane and healthy -- happy and grateful

Black Bear Mountain Village Project To Offer Model For Building Small "Zones Of Peace"

Press Release

With their master plan focused on an initial outreach into Frederick County, Maryland, their nearest town, as the starting point for what is intended to be a DMV regional project, Anastasia Rosen-Jones, Executive Director and Founder of the New Horizons/Small "Zones of Peace" Project, and long-time collaborator, Sue deVeer, have named their new non-profit, Black Bear Mountain Village, Inc.  in recognition of their beautiful mountainside location, the site of their community development project, Black Bear Mountain Village (BBMV). And indeed, black bears do live here.

Situated on ten acres just above Harper's Ferry on the Maryland side of the national park, the headquarters of the project has been -- and -- continues to be -- undergoing a major remodeling effort begun not long after the pandemic took hold in mid-2020. New outdoor seating and meeting settings in their wooded glen and new trails up the mountainside are part of the long-range vision, now layng out its foundations, preparing for an almost outrageously huge, long-term endeavor, already set in motion. The purpose of the current remodeling and development project is the reopening of what was originally the New Horizons Retreat Center to now be an experiential training location for the new Black Bear Mountain Village Inc.non-profit.

Significantly -- the entirety of the design they are working from actually dates back fifty years, celebrated this year, an adventurous tale worth knowing, soon to be published in fantasy, historical fiction form, intended to be a Black Bear Mountain Village playbook for social activists. Camelot Disrupted is due out in 2024.

The new entity, evolving out of the organization's former non-profit, New Horizons Support Network Inc, was initially based in Montgomery County and focused on treating the dysfunctional dynamics between codependents and power addicts. The new non-profit is the latest iteration of the original entity and its various projects.

Drawing on community organizing principles such as "it takes a village," the BBMV Project sets out, in particular, to embody the words of Mahatma Gandhi speaking to what is needed fundamentally to build a world peace -- "begin by carving out territories or zones of peace where violence and deceit won’t be used.” 

"The BBMV philosophy augments those words, adding that a “small zone of peace” can be anywhere, even your own backyard,” states Anastasia. "And we are aiming to -- using experiential education as our model -- train people in doing this -- starting off in OUR backyard."

Interested individuals, groups and organizations can keep in touch through our blogs and podcasts to find out how our tale unfolds and how they can be part of this innovative solution to our current mental health crisises -- personal isolation and nationwide polarization. Of particular concern is the disconnect between people highlighted by the pandemic era. Building "zones of peace" community structures -- is our solution.  We are seeking volunteers, interns and new members to add to  our Board of Directors. We invite you to build community with us.

For information on participating in this profound project, contact us at: Mountainwomanrj@aol.com 

It's Official...

Black Bear Mountain Village Inc. has been formed to soon replace New Horizons/Small "Zones of Peace.

Press Release announcement coming. Big changes on the way.

Black Bear Mountain Village.. is now a registered non-profit organuzation in the State of Maryland. 501 C 3 pending education and charity process begins.

Corraled horses are we breaking out of the gate heading onto a winning track. Outta -- our gate at Black Bear Mountain Village!! Intent on making a difference in our community and yours.

Adventures for becoming our best for you -- on the way.

Cryptic indeed! 

Too big to know of, how to speak of, understand! Take it all in -- in bits and pieces.

Fifty years on the drawing board. Whoopee!

Details coming.

The Ms Study Group/Class That Saved (and continues to save!) Lives Is Back!

The Ms Study Group/Class that saved (mental health) lives and continues to save lives is back!

It seems that it all began -- this returning to what has been most impactful and profound throughout the close to fifty years!!! of New Horizons existence -- the GAME-- originally known as the New Horizons Discount Derby programs -- and -- the community that grew out of these.

It's a long story -- high on the side of awesome and heartwarming especially when its impact is juxtaposed up against the world we live in today. Maybe now as we make our way back to that which has had the greatest impact, ir is  time to tell the stories of what once was -- as hope, inspiration and opportunity -- a guiding light for finding our way back from what has been -- the era of the pandemic.

We're on our way. Taking more time than we like to wtite a book in progress, Camelot Disrupted, that will not only tell our backstory tale, fictionalized, but that will also serve as a players handbook if you study it carefully. And then follow our guidelines for success.

Find out how you can participate.

Meets -- currently -- Tuesdays, 5 to 6 p.m. Soon to be on podcast.

Flash Mob Truth Or Dare On The Ascent

Under construction

Replacing Elite Truth Or Dare (Board Members Only)

OMG!! SO BIG! It's hard to explain as the INNER process, -- dramatic as it is, is difficult to articulate.

What you could see outwardly is simply a small group of people in intense dialogue -- an informal discussion with a purpose -- being their best, doing their best to address a perplexing people pro,blem in their midst.

A kind of pow wow, you might call it.

Quote Margaret Mead

Like I've said before -- "We've got a mental health crisis -- and we've got a mental health solution."

It is now vividly in motion -- that's Flash Mob Truth Or Dare!

OMG! It feels like we are on the cusp of what I was born into this life of mine to do!

And the height of it all is when you can get to awe!

How to speak of this -- other than cryptically?

Our Fire Circle holds it all I'm the deepest way.

I think your reading Camelot Disrupted, my book in progress will help explain all this BIGNESs going on behind the scenes as we all -- here on our land become Black Bear Mountain Village.

One more big step today as our board members meet at our Fire Circle and plot out next steps.

Oh the stories our fire circle could tell, if only it could speak.

More to come!

Elite Truth Or Dare: Our Next Step

Board members only.

Where the rubber meets the road..  Or, as my dad might have said, male or female it'll put hair on your chest."

Look for details.

Ummm -- Wondering how YOU might get involved? Consider joining up with our Truth Squad, about to take on the challenge of a healthier election in 2024. And a healthier nation, beginning to now recover from the pandemic -- step by step.

BIG PROJECT!!

Been on the drawing board a long, long time.

Look for unfolding details. Lots going on behind the scenes. Not the least of which is Camelot Disrupted, in progress now. Due out in 2024.

NH/ZOP Truth or Dare Game To Be Introduced At Summer Solstice Fire Circle

Radical Truth-telling is our GAME - with caring and compassion, rules and agreements heading for win-win!

What to know about our GAME.  

Objective:

Vacuuming up or clearing away all known discounts in our shared space.

What is a discount?

In Transactional Analysis (our basic set of principles since 1973 are grounded in Transactional Analysis {TA} since 1973  That's 50 years this year!!) discounting is defined as unawarely minimising, maximising, ignoring or distorting information relevant to the solution of a problem.

Lying. denying and defending, not factually based. are examples of discounting.

Seen any of that lately? Want to know what to do about it, if it's not to your liking?

We've got a solution! 

"It works if you work it!"

OfficIal Third Annual Summer Solstice Fire Circle Event

Details coming soon

Fire Circle Conversation:  Recovering From The Pandemic, From There -- March 16, 2020 to Here

Date: Friday evening, June 30

Time: 7 p.m.

Location: Black Bear Mountain Village 

Forest Bathing Sanctuary-- Goddess Glade

Update: The Ms Study Group - Class That Saved Lives During The Pandemic

Also posted to Anastasia The Storyteller

The most amazing part of the whole -- our whole adventure from THERE -- March 16, 2020 to HERE that has now led us -- NH/ZOP to soon be updated into the new Black Bear Mountain Village Project-- to me, Anastasia, is that, to date, the most dramatic life-saving to come out of our Ms Study Group/Class was the "life-saving" (still actively in progress) of the one board member in our midst who entered our shared pandemic survival programs: the Ms Study Group/Class and our Pandemic Survivor's Support Group coming from the most intact and stable growing up family environment of any of us.

"Could it be, I ask myself, that the other three of us, all board members, having SURVIVED-- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) had built up more resilience to make it through the forces of the pandemic up against the political and social unrest we presently live-in.

Fyi -- SHE is now recovering beautifully.

We'll be telling you all about this "adventure of a lufetime" we've been living and the fruits of which are now preparing ourselves to pass on to YOU -- in the service of enhanced personal and community pandemic mental health recovery.

Look for broadcast derails-- coming soon. Good mental health permitting.

....

Indeed ...

The "Ms Class That Saved Lives" made a wonderful start!

Under construction...

Update: New Broadcast Series

Under construcrion 

Podcast Series: We"ve Got A Mental Health Crisis -- And We've Got A Mental Solitiom

Q --What's happening with this series?

A1-- The Mental Health of our board members is our gold standard for mental health. In other words we are the role models for our product. In other words if "we ain't able to do good for ourselves, how can we pass on our tried and true mental health solution to you?

A2 -- where have we/it been -- DAMN! -- working on our own mental health.

Q2 ould you have it any other way for us?

A2 Sampler of NH/ZOP mental health challenges since series announced.

Director Anastasia has been in Dand out of blindness episodes

Secretary Treasurer Sue has been dealing with pandemic-- related PTSD and, as of today, her husband has likely been diagnosed with spinal cord injury from a serious fall last week

Chairperson of Budget And Finance Committee Jill has been dealing with daughter with BPD mental health isaues and a fentanyl addict boyfriend.

And -- we are deeply involved in writing a book Camelot Disrupted-- completion due date December 31 with deadlines almost every week.

Bottom Line: When you see and understand how our Black Bear Mountain Village Project works you'll see -- our system works -- "If you work it!"

We are the evidence!

More to come

UPCOMING BROADCAST- March 30, 2023

We've Got A Mental Health Crisis -- And A Mental Health Solution

Rescheduled to Friday, April 21, 2023 10:30 a.m.

Podcast #2 -- O7n "Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village (and the Ms Study Group That Saved Lives During The Pandemic}. 

We've Got A Mental Crisis -- And We've got a mental health solution We'll pass on what we know to you-- lessons learned, personally and professionally, over close to 50 years. We'll help you master the steps to
take to learn how to do it yourself --- if you are a WE doing it yourself -- together with like-minded others.. 

We begin by telling our stories. 

Broadcast Announced -- We"ve Got A Mental Health Crisis

 Rescheduled to Friday, April 7, 2023 10:30 a.m.

-- And We've Got A Mental Health Solution.

 

Broadcast: Thursday, March 30

            10:30 a.m. 

           Look for details

Reflections On Returning To A Worklife

 See "update" -- March 6, 2023

Possible Human, Possible Society Reboot Launches...

Also see ...

Anastasia's Prophesized Return To Capitol Hill Has Now Begun

We've Got A Mental Health Crisis

We've got a mental health crisis -- and we've got a (tried and true) mental health solution.

Details coming soon on our new podcast series -- Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village.

Hear NH/ZOP (Soon to become Black Bear Mountain Village -- our new non-profit} Executive Director --) (Me} Anastasia Rosen-Jones and Board Member Sue deVeer begin to lay down the foundations for this new series on our "rehearsal" show Radical Truth-Telling At Black Bear Mountain Village on podcast.

Best of all -- we're gonna help you learn how to replicate our success in "becoming Black Bear Mountain Village" by developing the principles, practices, skills and support for creating and sustaining your own "small zone of peace" as we are also doing -- just chapters ahead of you.

• Low cost -- DIY
  
• Relatively easy to set up
• Duplicatable
• Capable of widespread impact IF......?

Conversation, call in discussions -- coming soon on our new podcast series -- Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village

Unfolding -- developing -- ongoing -- storytelling and more.

Look for details.

The Ms Class That Saved Lives ...

 Updated: June 19, 2023

The most amazing part of the whole -- our whole adventure from THERE -- March 16, 2020 to HERE that has now led us -- NH/ZOP about to soon be updated into the new Black Bear Mountain Village Project-- to me, Anastasia, is that, to date, the most dramatic life-saving to come out of our Ms Study Group/Class was the "life-saving" of the one board member in our midst who entered our shared pandemic survival programs: the Ms Study Group/Class and our Pandemic Survivor's Support Group coming from the most intact and stable growing up family environment of any of us.

"Could it be, I ask myself, that the other three of us, all board members, having SURVIVED-- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) had built up more resilience to make it through the forces of the pandemic up against the political and social unrest we presently live-in.

Fyi -- SHE is now recovering beautifully.

We'll be telling you all about this "adventure of a lufetime" we've been living and the fruits of which are now preparing ourselves to pass on to YOU -- in the service of enhanced personal and community pandemic mental health recovery.

Look for broadcast derails-- coming soon. Good mental health permitting.

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Indeed ...

The "Ms Class That Saved Lives" made a wonderful start!

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The Manuscript Study Group/Class That Faced Life And Death Challenges (Non-Covid) During The Pandemic Is Set To Return This Coming Friday

Updated: January 16, 2023

Part II (To be known as -- )

Moving Forward In Our New Normal -- Optimally Healthfully 

Details. Developing

It Was The Rite Of Passage -- As It Turned Out -- That Mattered Most

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It was definitely not great theater!

But in the whole scheme of things that -- as a bottom line -- "the not "doing" is so much far-passed by the importance -- the joy -- the celebration that was the launching today of our new online radio show.

The BEING of it!

I will say more when words come to me. For now -- suffice it to say -- hear Sue and I present my 'Major Announcement' and other wanderings through the format of our new series -- Radical Truth-telling At Black Bear Mountain Village.

Find out if you can hear intimations that we -- Sue and I are off on "another" adventure. We sure have had some -- getting from there -- March 16, 2020 to here -- January 6, 2023 -- second anniversary of the Januaty 6 Insurrection.

We are getting ready to turn our journey from there to here; what we've experienced, what we've learned and what we want to pass on to you --

Coming Through Covid-19 A Winner Survivor!! Me - a Compassionate Warrior Woman!

Oh my! We have tales to tell.

What "All This" Means To Me

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Wednesday, January 4

It's "All" so very BIG!

I barely know how to think of it -- wrap my mind around "IT ALl."

Imagine this -- you have a prophecy when you are barely into your thirties -- a single visitation, almost only one time in your life.

Now I call it my Oversoul.

And that one foretelling has -- miracle of miracles -- directed your life and brought you to BEAUTIFUL but oftentimes very hard -- NOW!

How would you be?