Out Of The Chaos -- 2019

Hear Anastasia and New Horizons Board Member, Steve, online, as they struggle, on air, with facing into the chaos of bringing order to the current organizational tsunami at New Horizons, emerging out of our confusion, after the 2016 presidential election, when overcoming polarization, as a realistic occupation, fell by the wayside  –

Leaning In And The Art Of Filling Up

Having now acknowledged how very challenged we are, these days, on the radio show noted above, we, the New Horizons Board Of Directors, along with our growing Truth Squad GAME players, come to light a new, saner way.

While we sort out and work to update enhanced pathways for ourselves that we have successfully managed in the past, we draw upon our best, tried and true resources, not only for ourselves, but also for our loyal followers.

This endeavor takes us into reviewing and drawing from all we have done and been before, seeking to move beyond the epidemic of toxicity, infecting our nation and some of our most important relationships, yearning to move beyond divisiveness, out of polarization.

We offer, from our wisdom and experience, an emerging pathway to healing and unity and the skills and means to build small "zones of peace." 

Our philosophy, as well as our methodology, derives from,our exceptional community approach. If you value the principles of unity, cooperation, personal dignity and respect, where we are heading might just be a new, hopeful way for you, too.

But what we are after and how we will go about it, won't be easy. However, we've been to awe before, as a community. So we trust we can find our way back again, even during these difficult times.

Our pledge is that we are here to help, to lead the way.

We are already beginning to recognize progress, in our limited fashion through our new revitalized Truth Or Dare GAME.

That’s why we, the Board Members of the New Horizons Support Network, have been putting our dedicated time and commitment into now rebuilding our Truth Or Dare Community Support Network.

Our top of the line, signature program, circa 1976!

With monthly Truth Or Dare GAMES, soon to be open to the public, upon eligibility approval, and bi-weekly support groups, via Conference Call, along with face time at our New Horizons Harpers Ferry Retreat Center, as well as other locations, to be announced. 

Follow our lead with -- 

• Truth Or Dare GAMES and support groups – Absolutely, it’s true -- the truth will set us/you free!

• The Exceptional Community way

• The Reaching For Awe Way

• With individual, couples and group and organization coaching and consulting by Anastasia The Super Sleuth. 

All current fees from Anastasia The Super Sleuth are donated to New Horizons Small “Zones Of Peace” Project.

Super Sleuth'd Coaching And Consulting, Specializing In #MeToo Guidance and Support!

Count on Anastasia to find the way out of the Dark into the Light.

Storytelling, in a variety of formats, will also play an increasingly important role, in 2019, in keeping with our New Horizons Small "Zones of Peace" mission.

For starters we will continue to invite storytelling participation on our sponsored Anastasia The Storyteller Radio Show, focusing, in the near future, on stories from Anastasia, one of New Horizons #MeToo Poster People, about her recent, personal #MeToo Ethics Complaint ordeal.  Read about how that situation is progressing for Anastasia here.

We hope Anastasia's courageous sharing will invite others to risk similarly. Or, she will, at least, inspire meaningful dialogue,with guests and listeners, that can aid our much needed conversing to help progress the momentum of our moving beyond gender tyranny.

Also, look for ways you can support our mission through Anastasia's Coaching and Consulting fundraising projects, coming soon through Ebay.

Out of chaos! Here we go!

New Horizons is here to lead the way!

Wishing you a Happy New Year, 2019!

New Horizons Small "Zones Of Peace" Project: Looks Ahead -- 2019

Look for details coming soon!

Have you ever wondered exactly how our New Horizons Small "Zones Of Peace" Project is organized?  What are our agendas and priorities?

Take a look here for how we are laying out our new, updated hierarchy of priorities for our organizational structure --

Volunteer Opportunity: Online Radio Show Auditors Needed

New Horizons is seeking 2 females and 1 male to audit Anastasia The Storyteller Radio programs, focused on our #MeToo-oriented series and the Possible Society In Motion Radio Show Beyond Gender Tyranny Online Course.

Earn credits toward #MeToo-focused personal coaching and consulting time with Anastasia, The Super Sleuth.

In return for your time spent auditing our radio shows and submitting a one-page written assessment, each auditor will receive one free private hour with Anastasia in return for 3 radio show audits. (Assessment based on questions that are provided plus your own creative comments and insights.)

Check out Anastasia’s bio for her fascinating professional background and her fee schedule to find out more about the dollar value of this incentive for volunteers. 

One hour of Anastasia’s coaching and consulting time = $200

Not a bad exchange rate!! 

Plus you --

Gain eligibility to be a radio show guest and express your views on live broadcasts (then on podcast that can be shared with your friends and family).

Have access to direct personal contact with Anastasia by cell phone or email.

Hear fresh insights from Anastasia before they become public.

Help shape the direction of our radio shows, including our Beyond Gender Tyranny Online Course.

Help grow our Beyond Gender Tyranny Movement by contributing your ideas and insights.

Why audit?

Auditing can benefit you in helping you develop more ease and understanding to move beyond gender tyranny through giving you a ring side seat, as well as New Horizons; inner circle access, for our two New Horizons-sponsored, #MeToo-oriented radio shows and other of our programs and projects.

Who audits? A person who audits a course, or in this case an online radio show, focused on helping listeners/participants to make necessary cultural shifts in the area of gender relations, does so for the purposes of self-enrichment, personal support, networking contacts, intellectual exploration and socio-political betterment.

Where do you audit this project? Through your computer and/or your Smartphone

Qualifications: You are --

Emotionally impacted by the #Metoo and #TimesUp movements, based on your experience as a sexual harassment/abuse survivor or a friend or family member of a survivor.

Typically non-reactive.

Invested in solutions for male-female healing of gender tyranny divisiveness.

For a taste of how our radio show broadcasts might appeal to you, or not, listen to our podcast on Exploring Empty And Full On The Way To Freedom From Gender Tyranny, where Anastasia (Me) and co-host, Steve, begin weaving together the essential elements that have the potential for helping both men and women move Beyond Gender Tyranny: storytelling, story listening, interactive storytelling through dialogue.

For details and additional information, contact:
Anastasia Rosen-Jones
New Horizons Executive Director and Founder

MountainWomanRJ@aol.com, or Cell: 240.409.5347

Storytelling And The Making Of Lemonade Out Of Lemons

Read Anastasia's commentary on "Storytelling And The Making Of Lemonade Out Of Lemons" here.

And listen to the podcast on Exploring Empty And Full On The Way To Freedom From Gender Tyranny, where Anastasia and co-host, Steve, begin weaving together the essential elements that have the potential for helping both men and women move Beyond Gender Tyranny: storytelling, story listening, interactive storytelling through dialogue.

A most gratifying discussion. Don't miss it!More on this on our next broadcast

“Empty” And “Full:” Continuing The Exploration 

On The Way To Freedom From Gender Tyranny 

Saturday, December 8     11:30 a.m.

Look for details

Full on what, I'm asking.
Me, or something else?

Talking About “Full” And "Empty"

Now, exactly how did the idea of contrasting “full” and “empty,” beyond Thanksgiving dinner take hold?

So much so that Steve and Anastasia did an entire radio show broadcast on the subject, with more to come in the weeks ahead!

The main thrust of this opening discussion on the topic, intended to come more and more into focus in terms of its relevance to “Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny” and other initiatives of the New Horizons Small "Zones of Peace" Project, can be listened to, now, on podcast.

Check it out on --

Exploring “Empty” And “Full” On The Way To Freedom From Gender Tyranny

With happy Thanksgiving wishes from the New Horizons Board of Directors: Anastasia, Lisa, Sue, Terry, Lynn and Steve!

Coming Up Next: Exploring “Empty” And “Full”

A most appropriate Thanksgiving topic

Popular lore has it that it is the Thanksgiving turkey that sates us into drowsiness. However, scientists, last time I checked, are not so willing to accept this common belief.

For myself, today, two days before Thanksgiving, I am more into the spirit of the holiday season being ushered in than into delving too deeply into opinions, one way or the other.

There are far too many viewpoints around, anyway, to suit my taste these days– and -- likely, for you, too, as so many of them, as was revealed last Thanksgiving, are enough to give a person indigestion.

This year, rather than blaming the turkey for my sense of satiated well-being, following the Thanksgiving feast, I’ve decided to give my attention to exploring “emptiness" and "fullness" in broader terms, particularly what those two words, “empty” and “full" and their derivatives mean to me, as well as what I view of their significance for others, in terms of day-to-day living, health and well-being.

Are you full on me, or not?

So, over the upcoming days, I am going to be exploring “empty” and “full” here on this site, also addressing them on Steve’s and my radio show broadcast this coming Saturday.  

Please join us and plan to put in your two cents, too, on what we will offer up for New Horizon’s version of Thanksgiving desert.

Exploring “Empty” And “Full” On The Way To Connectivity:

Beyond Gender Tyranny

Saturday, November 24  11:30 a.m.

I Came Out Full, Not Empty When …

New Horizons Board of Directors played it’s  third “new” Truth Or Dare GAME on Saturday.
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“On the path to our Higher Selves through community support and engagement.”

Saturday, I ended up on Full, not empty at all, after a truly tumultuous day, due to connection difficulties, on one hand, yet managing to do my part in leading New Horizons Board Members through the steps of our "new," monthly Truth or Dare GAME.

It felt soooo good to be back in this reaching for awe experience again! 

Snowy mountain roads did not keep us apart!

Not at all like the norm, these days, of what is going on around us in mainstream society and politics. 

That’s what exceptional community engagement is like and supposed to be like!

Yeow! We are on our way, at New Horizons, to strengthening our own small “zone of peace.” 

Everyone attending must have felt it, as I sure did! 

The hunger for authentic, cooperative, compassionate human contact assuaged was so palatable we ended up adding a bi-weekly GAME follow-up support group to our menu of delights, beginning next week.

Saturday's GAME, with the inordinate maneuvering we did to make way through a multitude of chaotic moments  ended up with our having established our intent to support one another in building, rebuilding, expanding and flourishing, an evolving community development agenda, grounded in our Truth Or Dare GAME, that may have no end, “G-d willing and the creek don’t rise” (again).

Getting curious and wanting to join in the adventure?

Look for information, after the first of the year, about how you might be able to qualify when we begin taking in new players, one-by-one, and by invitation only (or application) and meeting our criteria for participation.

We will let you know when. 

In the meantime, if you wish additional information, contact us at: mountainwomanrj@aol.com

Saturday’s GAME was our third. And with it came a solidifying of individual and collective commitments to our powerful, beyond societal and political polarization, making violence obsolete, possible human, possible society, gender transforming process!

All rolled into one.

And, catch this -- we did the whole thing by conference call!

An 8-10 inch snow storm, days before our GAME, made travel up to our mountainside retreat center totally unrealistic. Next time, on Saturday, December 8, hopefully, more people will be able to show up in person. 

However the "chaos" we went through taught us that our “new” GAME must now  take in the options afforded us by the high tech era we live in. Thus allowing GAME players to participate from as far away as one board member who lives in Northern California, if need be.

Via conference call it was a bit weird. But we, overall, accomplished our aims-- and in great measure!

Yeow!

The high point of the GAME, from my perspective, might have been when Steve our single male board member,  demonstrated his heroism, getting some heat, likely for all males, as he took his first "formal" steps in the direction of learning to recognize his subtle and not so subtle male-type put downs, i.e. discounts.

Of course, this was one of those times when “you just had to be there.”

It looks like Steve and I will be back on the air with an Anastasia The Storyteller Radio Show broadcast this next Saturday. 

Maybe, by then, the dust will have settled enough for New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME players so that we can get Steve to share what he experienced.  

And, my two cents on what I saw happening for him with the others.

In the meantime, here’s a peek at how our GAME proceeded last Saturday.

New Horizons Support Network, Inc. presents

The Third “new” Mini-Truth Or Dare GAME

Saturday, November 17, 2018 1:00 – 4 p.m.

Agenda

Step One: Establishing working goals for the GAME. 

Setting our intentions to learning to work with other New Horizons Board Members to step out of the boxes we create in our minds, and consequently in our lives, by not having full access to and embracing the most complete truths and realities available to us.

Step Two: Playing the GAME. 

Discovering through dialogue how confronting discounts in one another can help us achieve our intentions to strengthen ourselves, personally, along with the small “zone of peace” base, upon upon which our board operates. 

This is Truth Or Dare at its most elegant!

For a discussion on the Transactional Analysis (TA) healing strategy of confronting discounts, check out the Cathexis Reader by Jacqui Shiff, one, among many, of New Horizons basic resources for our Truth Or Dare GAME, an interactive, educational process, based on community dialogue principles and practices. 

One comment on the Cathexis Reader by “Fishface” on Goodreads described this text, making a good case for it, as a profound  resource, on how critically important confronting discounts is, their presence and purpose in a person's life.  

The comment I appreciated is as follows –

This book was my introduction to Transactional Analysis. Absolutely intriguing, empowerment-based ... with roots that reach clear down to Carl Jung. It was a bit mystifying to a reader who did not yet know the basics so I went ahead and read up on it some more.

I will introduce readers to other resources on the psychological phenomenon called "discounting" over time so you can begin to make sense of it for yourself. 

Confronting discounts is a fascinating and central aspect of playing the Truth Or Dare GAME, as the active presence of discounts, minimized or ignored, is central to recognizing untruth and thus bringing ourselves and others into a fuller, authentic reality. 

Simply addressing discounts, in safe and non-defensive ways, is sometimes all it takes to get to awe. 

Try it! 

You might get to love it, as do the many thousands of people who have learned to honor this path. 

Step Three: Wrapping up the GAME

Noticing what and how we gained from playing our GAME, clearing away resentments, giving praise and acknowledgements.

Yum, yum – full, not empty. 

What made the difference, do you think?

Your comments are welcomed. Please post them here or send them to us at:
mountainwomanrj@aol.com.