Post-Election Storytelling Event

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Reserve Early!!  

Space will be very limited!

Join Anastasia The Storyteller for a 

Post Election Storytelling 

Event

Hear The Stories Of Others And Share Your Own: 

The Ones You Will Keep With You For A Lifetime on

Election 2020!!

 Saturday, November 7 

Begins 6:00 p.m. till ???

EST is our time zone, please be sure to adjust for your own.

Via conference call. For reservations, contact Anastasia at: 

MountainWomanRJ@aol.com 

Look for a "Confirming Your Reservation" update, specially for this event here.

• With "Election Reaction" calming and healing activities and rituals at our Fire Circle in our Forest Bathing Sanctuary.
• Having raised the Great Pumpkin, let us all  NOW come together to help elevate the higher consciousness of election-weary voters in the service of overcoming polarization and building -- and -- learning to sustain --
• Small "Zones Of Peace" everywhere.. 

Possible Human, Possible Society Study Reboot Launches This Week With A Preliminary Survey

Update: September 10, 2023

Under construction

There is soooo very much to say. Lots of stories to exchange. I write this now with much disappointment that my words have.been so sparse and irregular throughout the pandemic because -- well -- it was the pandemic and everything was irregular -- with the hope I can begin to do better now.

Irregular and sparse blogs do not mean we weren't busy at our mission -- guiding the challenging effort two be "best possible humans" whatever we are up against.

And I say with gratitude -- having done so -- we are coming through with gifts of wisdom and guidance you almost wouldn't believe.

More to cone as we begin -- 

"G-d willing and the creek don't rise"-- to open up and share the bounty the pandemic brought us, along with the hardship."

Update: March 6, 2023

How very naive was I -- as was almost everyone else -- when I wrote this post. How strange it is to me -- intriguing too -- that this post, time and time again, is one of my most read.

Why is it?

I am realizing that just now. And contemplating it. As I begin reflecting on this, deep sorrow surfaces somewhere between my heart and throat. Unshed tears I guess it is.

My personal mental health crisis at this time. Shared by everyone else in the WORLD!! across the entire planet.

I take a deep breath and let it come -- the grief.

.......

February, 2023

My oh my! And, goodness me!

There’s so much chaos and upheaval in this country of ours these days, we are way too early to get right back into the update of our Possible Human, Possible Society Study directly.

What with the aborted impeachment trials of Donald Trump, the presidential election campaigns heating up and Harvey Weinstein found guilty of something, at last, though not as much as some wanted to see -- 

and the coronavirus, bordering on a threatened pandemic -- 

and Kobe Bryant and his young daughter, Gianna, killed in a helicopter crash along with a handful of others who are now gone too soon, who can begin to imagine a new world view, even a morning after the next election?

After our organization tried out a few interviews for our updated study back in the spring, last year we got waylaid, once again, in our search to find discernable pathways to stabilizing our country, let alone a sampling of people inclined in that direction, other than ourselves, who would be up for exploring the “possible?” 

Contact Anastasia at
MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Of course, we did bring in the Pro-Truth Pledge, our Truth Or Dare GAME and our Truth Or Dare Movement. 
But they haven’t been enough yet to help us get out of the quicksand we, at New Horizons/Small “Zones of Peace,” – and – possibly yourself, along with us, have been stuck in since the morning after "Election 2016."

On top of the detours brought about by my eye crises which are now stabilized, we, at New Horizons/Small “Zones Of Peace,” have decided that the sane path for us is to take up the work of some of our long overdue remodeling projects to upgrade the “zone of peace” we hold at our Harpers Ferry Retreat Center and also to now start to develop a forest bathing sanctuary, finding our own peace as we do it.

More on that topic later.

Today’s news, however, is that we "believe" we have now found a reasonable path forward, regarding our study, by easing into it with a preliminary survey that will help us gather the data we need for visioning life in these United States after November – and/or the January, 2021 inauguration.

But who knows for sure, right? 

Still we will give it our usual best.

Facing such a highly charged, unknown future, with the high stakes and everyday drama involved in determining how our country is to be run for, at least, the coming four years is, without doubt stressful. 

Behind that, of course, are several main questions that our “Preliminary Survey” will concern itself with, such as --

• What will our society be facing, if Donald Trump wins the election? 
• What will the U.S.A. be adjusting to, if a Democratic candidate (or an Independent or write-in) wins?

Regardless of who wins in 2020, our country will be polarized in 2021! 

This we know.

• What does this mean to you?
• Is there anything/something you’d like to do about the situation, as it stands now?

These are some of the questions we want input on from our “Preliminary Survey.”

Our main vehicle for obtaining answers will be focused on, not only getting responses to our questions, but especially wanting to draw out the personal stories behind these – and – also finding out how people are managing the chaos and stress all this upheaval is bringing into their lives.

So here we go on our next steps forward!

We hope you will want to join us and participate in our “Preliminary Survey,”  beginning today!

If you would like to contribute to our survey data collecting – and – possibly in the larger study when we get back to it, please contact me at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com.

Our original Possible Human, Possible Society Study had the interviewing of 400 participants as our intention. We interrupted the process at around 250 interviewees, give or take, due to the chaos of the 2016 presidential campaign cycle. 

The outcome of that election was a doozie, dontcha think? 

And the aftermath of the election hardly brought any calm that would lend itself to imagining a desirable future, especially one in which an average voting citizen might have any say. Thus we are, at least, 150 shy of our original goal, planning to reach that mark, even possibly go beyond it as we take up this next phase. So your participation would be most welcome.

We are thinking and hoping that our “Preliminary Survey” can help us aid ordinary folks in taking back our days and nights, if we do a bit of advance planning for a future in this U.S.A. that just might hold some of what we’d like it to be.  

At New Horizons/Small “Zones of Peace” some of the things we’d like to be doing are:

• Coffee House Conversations – with people of diversity who would prefer to build bridges rather than divide;
• Encouraging storytelling as a way for people to get to know one another and other cultures;
• Overcoming Polarization, in general, in our local area, our region and our country;
• Aiding relationships, personal and in the workplace to move “Beyond Gender Tyranny;”
• Teaching people the art of “Climbing The Mountain Of Awe” and how to "Dialogue rather than Debate” and bunches of other things that bring people together rather than dividing them.

On and on for the good stuff that has for most of the years of my life represented the American Dream, with anything other than politics dominating our lives!

Isn't that why we vote and DELEGATE the running of our government to officials we'd like to be able to count on to manage things satisfactorily, while we give our attentions to bettering the quality of life closer in to our day-to-day responsibilities?

That's how I remember the old balancing of powers and would hope to see it again.

Gender Tyranny Meets Political Corruption: What Can We Learn?

Curious as to why New Horizons/Small "Zones of Peace" is so very invested in truth?

Here is a worthwhile listen for its lively exchanges, after you get past the first five minutes, on the importance of truth in one's value system and the challenges of living life as a truth-seeker. Sound quality a bit distracting at times due to tech difficulties. 

Enjoy! And let us know your comments at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

This week on Anastasia The Storyteller Radio, Anastasia returns with New Horizons Board Member, Terry, to continue exploring the topic, "What does "Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny" mean and "how do you do it."

The theme, introduced in the first program of this embryonic series on the topic of “moving beyond gender tyranny,” has been discussed numerous times in earlier articles on this site, beginning in October, 2017, just after the Harvey Weinstein scandals became public.

Still seeking to clarify "what is gender tyranny," for the listening audience (and for Terry, Anastasia's "student" for thirty years), and "how do you move beyond it,"Anastasia and Terry take up the subject from the angle of exploring the intersect between gender tyranny and political corruption.

"What do these two culture-wide areas of dysfunction, gender tyranny and political corruption, hold in common," each of the co-hosts has been asking themselves this past week, as the Senate trial on the impeachment of Donald Trump takes its next dramatic steps forward.

Join us for this lively broadcast discussion! Or, listen in after on podcast.

Gender Tyranny Meets Political Corruption: 

What Can We Learn?

Friday, January 24 11:30 a.m.

on

Anastasia The Storyteller Radio

Wish to be on the air with us?

Contact Anastasia at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Commentary By Anastasia: On Blindness And Politics

Blindness And Politics: Body, Mind And Spirit

Why Truth Matters: A Discussion Forum

Sponsored by The Hood College Democrat Club and the New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement, an initiative of the New Horizons non-profit organization

Q: Wondering where we've been for the past month or so?
A: "Trying" to launch our Truth Or Dare Movement at Hood College and finding it very trying, indeed.

But tomorrow as we present "Why Truth Matters: A Discussion Forum" we are going to do our best to break through some barriers and expect to have some stories to tell on why this phase has been so godawfully dispiriting and what we can learn from the experience.

Why Truth Matters: A Discussion Forum
Sponsored by The Hood College Democrat Club and the New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement, an initiative of the New Horizons non-profit organization

• Is post-truth society and politics getting you down?
  
• Do you feel called to speak truth to power? 
• Are you up for learning new groundbreaking ways that can free you from the chaos of our presently corrupt society and politics

If yes is your answer to these questions, join us for this discussion forum that promises to open the doors of your mind and where you will have opportunity to put your best intentions together with other solution seekers.

Date: Friday, November 8, 2019 
Time: 2 p.m.to 5 p.m.
Location: Whittaker, Room ….

For Details and Reservations, 
Contact: Isabel Malizia                 Email: …..

From the New York Times Truth Campaign

“The truth is hard, Truth is hidden. Truth must be pursued, Truth is hard to hear,…is rarely simple,…isn’t so obvious, Truth is necessary,…can’t be glossed over,…has no agenda,…can’t be manufactured,…doesn’t take sides,…isn’t red or blue, Truth is hard to accept, Truth pulls no punches, Truth is powerful, Truth is under attack,…is worth defending, Truth requires taking a stand…

"The truth Is important now more than ever.”

With guest speaker, anti-corruption expert, 
Anastasia Rosen-Jones
Executive Director, New Horizons Support Network, Inc.

The Launching: New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement Goes Public

Hood College Community Volunteer And Internships Fair
Frederick Maryland 
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Press Release (Draft)

New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement Goes Public

After weeks of planning and anticipation, New Horizons Support Network, Inc’s Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones, and long-time Board Member, Sue deVeer found themselves, on Thursday, September 12, at the display table they had been carefully preparing for weeks, set up and ready to welcome potentially interested students attending the Hood College Community Volunteer And Internship Fair.

The fair, specially designed to match students and local non-profit organizations for cooperative service activities, would enable them on this day, to carry out dual intentions: to publicly convey the message of their Truth Or Dare Movement to what they hoped would be enthusiastic attendees of the fair while more privately celebrating what their combined visionary perspectives had been conjuring up for the past six months or so.

Depicting the message they most wanted to convey that something big and bold was happening at New Horizons and all were invited, a display board surrounded by information handouts aided Anastasia and Sue in being able to summarily describe and tell the story of what New Horizons Truth or Dare Movement: Destination Capitol Hill intends and has in store for participants.

First they wanted to invite people to sign their “expanded” Pro-Truth Pledge that would officially engage willing signees to assert a steadfast commitment to making truth-telling an essential part of daily living while concurrently insisting that others do the same or face consequences, especially those in elected leadership positions. 

Next they wanted to announce plans, already in motion, to carry their message by 2021 to Capitol Hill along with a variety of educational seminars focused on exploring questions New Horizons has identified as pertinent such as: Why tell the truth?, When do you tell the truth?, How do you tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?, When is it ok to not tell the truth?.

Finally New Horizons aspires to teach others the art of truth-telling and truth-listening in their signature interactive, personal and community development program, the Truth Or Dare GAME, originally established by New Horizons in Montgomery County in 1976!

Hood College has been identified as the location for New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement pilot program, intended to be the testing and developing site for a project that plans to expand next year to other campus communities. As New Horizons’ Truth Or Dare Movement gathers student momentum throughout the Washington, D.C. region, organizers are preparing for an advancement on Capitol Hill after next year’s presidential election campaigns have been put to bed with a newly elected or reelected inhabitant of 1700 Pennsylvania Avenue installed.

As it turned out the display board and handouts did what they were intended to do, serving as a mini-presentation for the main aspects of New Horizons ambitious Truth Or Dare Movement. 

Explaining their timely topic, truth telling, became a hot item for discussions by Anastasia and Sue with the fair’s student attendees keeping them on their toes throughout the event as students asked questions and replied with enthusiastic comments of their own thinking. Even students who were not interested in volunteering or interning seemed eager to know more about the scope of the Pro-Truth Pledge and the Movement itself.

An added highlight of the day was the networking that also arose for Anastasia and Sue with representatives of other non-profit organizations, some of whom signed the pledge. And, of course, the hoped for outcome of the Truth Or Dare Movement project was realized for that day attracting some very talented student volunteers and interns who in the week following the fair are already beginning to join with New Horizons to begin creating an on-campus Pro-Truth Pledge signing campaign and a variety of events and seminars now being scheduled for the Fall and Spring semesters.

Mission accomplished! 

The first step of New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement plan, Hood College as the initial pilot project, has now been launched!

For details and information, contact Anastasia at: cell -- 240.409.5347, email: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com.

Rebooting The Possible Society In Motion Radio Show

More from behind the scenes of the New Horizons Small “Zones Of Peace” Project,  moving forward with our new Truth Or Dare Movement plans, projects and programs.

The "rebooted" Possible Society In Motion Radio Show will launch a new online series, aligning itself with the other activities of New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement -- 

To Lie Or Not To Lie: That Is The Question

Sunday, September 8   4 p.m. EDT

Background: Listen to the podcast of this new series to hear how we came create it and what our plans are for moving forward.

The story of the original Possible Society In Motion Radio Show program goes like this --

The original Possible Society In Motion Radio Show began to fade, with Anastasia The Storyteller Radio moving to the fore when my/Anastasia's Beloved co-host, Jack Slattery, left the show for other priorities at the end of June, 2016.

Other program formats were experimented with, such as Beyond Gender Tyranny: The Online Course initiative for a time. However Jack's departure was a huge loss to the  momentum of the original form with his input and co-hosting of central importance.

Additionally, by the time Jack departed the unfolding presidential compaigning was already taking a toll on the small "zones of peace" mission of New Horizons to provide programs and training that can help individuals and communities overcome social and political polarization, among other things. Then with the November, 2016 election surprise of Donald Trump upsetting the Clinton campaign, we experienced an added challenge, non-partisan as we must remain as a non-profit, and simply did not know yet how best to proceed through the chaos now at hand. 

Given that New Horizons agenda, since its "new" formatting began in 2006 has always held the "overcoming of polarization" as a central objective -- and -- almost everyone we could identify was far more invested in divisiveness, after the 2016 election than otherwise, we began seeking other alternatives for utilizing our gifts, talents and overarching mission -- building and sustaining small "zones of peace."

You can see what and how our evolving process has been, up to now, to be able now to believe, at least, that we have found a clarified form for our mission, with our revitalizing New Horizons'' signature program -- the Truth Or Dare GAME, as of last September, and our recent collaboration with the Pro-Truth Pledge Movement, beginning in late April.

With all that said and done, we are now in a position to reboot our Possible Society In Motion Radio Show with a new series, To Lie Or Not To Lie. Enter New Horizons next major agenda, the Truth Or Dare Movement, with this series fully in alignment with it.

We hope the series will boost your present and future journeys through the hurtles now facing all of us as American citizens. 

Where Is Your Dark Side Hiding?
In half-truths, lies or other covert maneuvers?

You can help our country heal by transforming your Dark into Light 
and/or encouraging and supporting others to do the same.

This new radio show program, with Anastasia's expertise to the fore will help guide you on your way!

This is what New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME accomplishes. 
So be sure to find out how you, too, can be a player in it.

Also, for personal, one-on-one guidance, check out Anastasia's
Super Sleuth'd Coaching and Consulting.

All fees presently donated to initiatives of
New Horizons Small "Zones Of Peace" Projects 

Rearranging Priorities Is No Small Or Easy Task

Another open letter from New Horizons Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones 
Updating what’s happening now, behind the scenes at New Horizons

Look for links to be added soon.

If you’ve been a longtime reader of this blog site, you may recall that the New Horizons Small “Zones of Peace” Project has built its various projects and programs, since its inception, circa 2006, on holding dreams and potentialities at the forefront of our mission and our motivations.

Overcoming Polarization, Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny and Making Violence Obsolete, even subtle violence, are among the initiatives we have taken up, suggesting the kind of intentions we have, typically, invested ourselves in, always aiming for the raising up of human capacities, rather than falling into the latest sink hole of the moment.

Nonetheless, staying true to this focus of continuously evolving in the direction of the best of ourselves and uplifting the people and various cultures surrounding us has been particularly challenging the past few years, our ideals more and more difficult to attain.

In the current climate, replete with dark and cloudy skies, hovering over our daily lives in the form of relentless social and political upsets, we have felt almost prompted to keep ourselves in a state of emergency preparedness, due to constant treacherous, stormy-  weather and forecasts ahead without promise.

New Horizons, as a non-profit entity, is not one to easily give in to negativity. However, it has been challenging to keep our heads above water, as we plodded on, searching, always, for the sunshine we believed only to be hiding, at the darkest moments, when grey skies looked to be everywhere. 

Keep your eyes on those whom you would
emulate, not those who are,
deservedly, disparaged.

Endeavoring, in this manner, to find new inroads for reaching our ideals, we continued on, ever the optimists, adding new structures and strategies to already established foundations for creating personal and community health and well-being, taking on new social challenges, as they arose,  weaving them in to our former methods for surmounting obstacles, never deterred for long.

For example, our response to the #MeToo movement, with our Beyond Gender Tyranny programs, has encouraged storytelling, one of our longest-held community development strategies, as a male-female problem-solving game plan. In the earlier stages of that upheaval, we had even expanded on our storytelling gateway by partnering with StoryCorps, with the intention of bridging gender disharmony through storytelling and story-listening. 

Disappointingly, we have underutilized this resource in our seeking to resolve our larger dilemma, succinctly articulated as ….

“How is an organization, such as ours, intent on building and sustaining small “zones of peace” to contribute to personal and social advancement in a society -- and -- among people who seem to be more invested in maintaining, even promoting polarization, rather than moving beyond it?”

This perspective has been our single, biggest challenge these past few years.

Thus, when we, not too long ago, discovered the Pro-Truth Pledge Movement, we were elated!

Like-minded others, we thought at last!

Believing that in all the world we had discovered in this project a critical missing piece for our overarching mission, in the Pro-Truth Pledge, that could enable us, on a grander scale than previously anticipated, to honor that which we stand for most – building and sustaining “zones of peace” in this challenging world where, in Gandhi’s words –

“…violence and deceit won’t be used.”

As we, presently, begin our collaboration with the Pro-Truth Pledge Project, we are enjoying the experience of weaving elements of New Horizons together with it, imagining ourselves as being, once again, whole and healthy in ways we have been in the past.

Our Truth Or Dare GAME, now being revitalized and employed, first, to help transform the lives of our New Horizons Board Members, personally and as working associates (next to be a available to select, prepared others), and our Truth Or Dare Movement, slowly developing into a viable working fabric that can carry the weight of changes we anticipate for our emerging future, are fitting together nicely with the Pro-Truth Pledge Project. 

Yeah!!

Some of the selected lyrics from John Lennon’s “Imagine” hold the image, closest to our hearts, with these words... “Imagine all the people living life in peace.”

At such moments, still we are reminded that rearranging priorities is no small or easy task.

So, we ask of you, please bear with us, at New Horizons, as we put old pieces and new -- and -- anticipated ones, still to come, into our next forms, being created now. We are definitely a work in progress, a work in which we hope you will join us.

For details and information, contact Anastasia at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com.

Moving Into Action: Truth-Telling And Truth-Listening In Motion

Links coming soon.

This is an exciting time at New Horizons. For most of the past month, we've been gearing up to roll out a pathway for ourselves that promises to enable us, optimally, to continue our local and regional Small “Zones of Peace” building efforts – and – yet allows us to, immediately, join with like-minded others in a global collaborative undertaking.

How inspiring is that?!!

Enter the Pro-Truth Pledge Movement. We are so glad we found you!

With our commitment to New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME as our centerfold project, merging perfectly with its outgrowth, our still-on-the-drawing board Truth Or Dare Movement, now incorporating our involvement with the “original” Pro-Truth Pledge and our New Horizons “expanded” version of it, to round out our emerging blueprint, we are beginning, as May comes to its end, to see a shape forming from three main strands: 

1. New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME; 

2. Our own Truth Or Dare Movement; and 

3. Interweaving #1 and #2 with the Pro-Truth Pledge, “original” global movement with our “expanded”  -- and more personal and local version, rising to the top as priorities.

These pieces, coming together and starting to flow forward, smoothly, are a rather challenging endeavor for us, in terms of doing it all with ease, especially in the short span of time we have been working with these three as interlocking elements. 

For example, back in January we were already talking lots about our Truth Or Dare GAME. 

That was a relatively easy undertaking for us to move with as our present Truth Or Dare GAME is a new incarnation of our earlier signature program, the Discount Derby, circa 1976!

Additionally, the vision we were in the process of developing, at that point, had no far-reaching goal beyond Capitol Hill. 

Well, of course, even considering Capitol Hill as a destination is a bit grand!

Still it is, location-wise, in our neighborhood, more or less And home base, in an earlier era, for our Executive Director, Me, Anastasia.

Now, however, we are tapping into, through signing on with the Pro-Truth Pledge Movement, an opportunity to imagine taking even our very own Truth or Dare GAME worldwide. 

Why not?  If that's what we want, though I doubt that it is!

We are pretty much "Think global, act local" folks.

With all these happenings in motion, along with a few upsets along the way, the past few months, such as my March auto accident that totaled a rental car and a few minor injuries for me, we are rising to the occasion, nonetheless. And we want to keep you updated as much as we can.

The way we see our priorities unfolding, between now and our annual board meeting, scheduled for mid-July, as usual, is this….

New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME – will continue on, as has become our practice, playing a short-version GAME, monthly, by phone, for now, with periodic support groups, also by phone.

We have been delightfully surprised how well this is working out. 

Who would've thought it?

As we expand our newly, revitalized GAME, we will, again, be planning for weekend retreat programs. 

How will we expand and incorporate both phone and face time participants? We don’t yet know. But we do trust we will make it happen.

Truth Or Dare GAME Objectives: 

Refine and support truth-telling, truth-listening as leadership skills for New Horizons Board Members, as well as for new, invited players beyond our present board of six members.

Utilize our Truth Or Dare GAME playing to aid each participants decluttering of dark areas in themselves, their lives and relationships so that each is functioning at optimum levels, personally and professionally.

Develop and enhance our individual and collective GAME playing skills so as to be exceptional truth-telling, truth-listening role models.

New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement Objectives

For the time being, our objectives here are intended to be limited to –

Conversing with anyone and everyone we can about the importance of truth-telling and truth-listening as an every day, personal practice;

Developing and presenting Truth Or Dare GAME training seminars.

The Pro-Truth Pledge, “original” and “expanded”

Doing our best to obtain the one-thousand signatures we have committed ourselves to for the Pro-Truth Pledge, “original” or “expanded.

Educating others on how the Pro-Truth Pledge can help each of us, as concerned citizens to better our selves, our families, our neighborhoods, our communities, our states and our nation.

Readers, this update is only the tip of the iceberg as to what is unfolding these days at New Horizons. So keep checking in here for updates.  

And, contacting, me, Anastasia, to get yourself, personally, on board on what’s happening now!

I can be reached at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Next We Joined The Pro-Truth Pledge "Global" Movement!

YOU CAN TOO!

Here is how you can join New Horizons Small "Zones Of Peace" Project (details here), thinking globally and acting locally, with truthfulness and integrity as your baseline, if you care ---

New Horizons big pledge to the "original" Pro-Truth Pledge Project is to add 1,000 signatures to the pledge by one year from now!!

Help us do it by signing up with us!!

1. Take the expanded Pro-Truth Pledge through us. This signs you up for both the "original" and "expanded" versions;
2. Learn the skills -- and -- the art of playing New Horizons"Truth Or Dare GAME, the interactive group process that gets you to the highest truths you can discover -- and the awe of it -- through online courses, face time seminars, internships, personal coaching and consulting with Anastasia, 
3. BEST OF ALL -- play the Truth Or Dare GAME!

Be a serious truth-teller!

Help put an end to the craziness and corruption of our world run amuck!

Start off with these four things:  

1. Read and sign the New Horizons expanded version of the the "original" Pro-Truth Pledge by filling out and mailing in the form at this link; 

2. Contact Anastasia, New Horizons Executive Director and Founder (at MountainWomanRJ@aol.com) on how you can best find your rightful place in our Truth Or Dare Movement, incorporating the "original" Pro-Truth Pledge; and

4. Sign The New Horizons expanded Pro-Truth Pledge here, along with making your donation to our developing Truth Or Dare Movement, including training and supervision in the "art" of learning how to speak truth to power, in every area of your life.

This last item above, includes learning how to move Beyond Gender Tyranny with personal coaching and consulting with Anastasia.

The "Expanded" Pro-Truth Pledge
(The New Horizons Small “Zones Of Peace” Project version is below.)

To sign the “original” Pro-Truth Pledge and join the global movement behind it, please visit ProTruthPledge.org 

The Pro-Truth Pledge is a project of Intentional Insights, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

I Pledge My Earnest Efforts To The Following Principles And Practices: 

I Honor Truth because --
 Abiding by truth is ethical and moral. This is a universal law of human dynamics;
 Trust and cooperation require truth-telling;
 Authentic communication requires truth;
 Human dignity and respect require truth telling;
 Truth and truth-telling bring order out of chaos to human affairs,

I Show Honor to Truth by --
○ Acknowledging: When others share true information, even when we disagree otherwise; 
○ Reevaluating: If my information is challenged, retracting it if I cannot verify it;
○ Defending: When others come under attack for sharing true information, even when we disagree otherwise; 
○ Aligning: Aligning my opinions and my actions with true information. 

I Share Truth by honoring these –
 Holding an intent to keep talking, rather than casting others aside, seeking the fullest truths we can cooperatively discover;
 Dialoguing with others while avoiding debate;
 Leaning in to the truths of others with an open mind and respectful listening;
 Exploring the basis, in facts, for differences.

I Share Truth through these –
○ Verifying: Fact-checking information to confirm truth before accepting and sharing it;
○ Balancing: Sharing the whole truth, even if some aspects do not support my opinion; 
○ Citing: Sharing my sources and resources so that others can verify my information; 
○ Clarifying: Distinguishing between my opinions, biases or judgments and facts. 

I Encourage Truth by –
 Role modeling authenticity, non-defensiveness, compassionate listening, maintaining an openness to learning and by being as pro-active as possible in resolving conflicts.

○ Fixing: Asking people to retract information that reliable sources have disproved even if they are my allies 
○ Educating: Compassionately informing those around me to stop using unreliable data and sources even if these sources support my opinion 
○ Deferring: Recognizing and respecting the opinions of experts as more likely to be accurate when the facts are disputed 
○ Celebrating: Celebrating those who retract incorrect statements and update their beliefs toward the truth.

Think Global! Act Local! 

Join New Horizons Truth Or Dare Movement!

Sponsored by New Horizons Small "Zones of Peace" Project