Wednesday, May 29, 2019

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

Saturday, May 11, 2019

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!



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Monday, May 6, 2019

Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Today We Took The Pro-Truth Pledge


... and signed on to support the Pro-Truth Pledge effort as a way of expanding our own Truth Or Dare Movement and its various agendas, primarily New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME.
Take the pledge!
Live by it!


We don't know much about the Pro-Truth Pledge project yet, but it sounds right for us, at New Horizons.

You can check out the information we have found so far, as we make our way forward to, hopefully, align with growing numbers of others who are like-minded with us on taking up the "dare" that infuses truth-telling with magic as well as challenges.
  • What do you think about joining us?
  • Seems to me as if our Pro-Truth Pledge activities might include our getting YOUR signature as a pledge-maker too!
Contact me, Anastasia, for details on how you can join New Horizons and myself in contributing to this ambitious endeavor, the Pro-Truth Pledge project.

MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Also, check out Anastasia The Super Sleuth Coaching and Consulting for personal, relationship, business and organizational guidance, specializing in transforming the Dark Side!

All fees, less appropriate expenses, presently being donated to the New Horizons Small "Zones of Peace" Project and its various initiatives.

More to come.
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Monday, April 15, 2019

Breaking News: New Horizons To Redefine Priorities

Effective immediately!!

Tuesday, April 30, 2019 -- We added one new item to our Truth Or Dare Movement agenda. Check it out: The Pro-Truth Pledge.

in the service of supporting , Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones, with her expanding publishing efforts on Medium and through a variety of other outlets, both online and in print, all New Horizons projects and programs are to now be put on hold, with the exception of New Horizons Truth Or Dare GAME and Truth or Dare GAME support groups. 

(Also see: Anastasia The Storyteller article, "Another New Book Into Progress Popped Up In Me Today.")

All current programs, projects and initiatives created, post Trump's presidential election, will be affected. 

This will include, but is not limited to...
Look for these to resume or take on new forms as Anastasia’s publishing projects move to the fore. 

As I start on this next chapter of my writing life, the cumulative effect of the programs and projects New Horizons has been doing since the early eighties -- when we formally inaugurated the Asklepeion prison rehabilitation counter-culture community approach*, developed by my former psychiatrist mentor, Martin G. Groder, M.D.,  into what had merely been a private counseling center, remodeling it for application to a co-dependency/power addiction recovery, counter-culture treatment program -- will now become more accessible through my writings, lectures and public speaking presentations.

* Scroll down on this wikipedia article to the section on "therapeutic communities -- U.S.". New Horizons "exceptional community" model is an expansion of Groder's Asklepeion model, beyond prison rehabilitation, where it began, into the mainstream, combined with the ancient teachings and present-day mentoring of the Kebzeh community approach through Murat Yagan.

What we have accomplished over many decades, based on Groder's and Murat's mentoring, guidance and support, has been meritorious. And, we have been continuously evolving better and better strategies for directing what we have back into the mainstream.

Now, with our focus, once again, on our signature program, the Truth or Dare GAME, we will further this shaping process, while I, personally, set out to carry the message of the enormous successes we've had to an expanding readership audience through my articles, online, and sometime in the future in print form.

What has been difficult for us -- in near-recent years, especially as New Horizons has struggled to proceed with its main initiative, building and sustaining Small "Zones of Peace," and its mission to overcome all forms of polarization, from the simplest one-on-one relating to the local, the national and the global, in a nation, post Trump -- is that we are now, as a citizenship, more invested in divisiveness than unity.

How can we reverse this?

We can only hope to do our best and contribute what we have and can with hopes for a better future.

I will have much to write on this also.

Anastasia (I) have struggled too, alongside my organization, especially concerned about where could I/she lead my/her truth squad, if truth had taken such a back seat in our society as to be almost an anathema!

Please do wish us luck!

This may be the most challenging step we have ever taken, to date.

We thank you for your kind and continued support.

Note:

Anastasia’s Super Sleuth’d Coaching And Consulting will continue on, unimpeded, both as a service to readers and a source of fundraising for New Horizons Small “Zones Of Peace” Project.

Find out how you can contribute through these services of Anastasia, a truly awesome, win-win opportunity, as a support for your personal agendas, as well as boosting those of New Horizons.

Anastasia can be reached at: MountainWomanRJ@aol.com

Friday, April 5, 2019

The Subtle – And – Not So Subtle Ways Truth-Telling Helps People Move Beyond Gender Tyranny, If, In Fact, It Does


Coming soon --


"The Subtle – And – Not So Subtle Ways Truth-Telling Helps People Move Beyond Gender Tyranny, 
If, In Fact, It Does"



... on Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure Of A Lifetime

Commentary by Anastasia, New Horizons Small “Zones of Peace” Executive Director and Founder

Also, hear Anastasia discuss Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny on Anastasia The Storyteller Radio with --- 



Wednesday, April 10 
Rescheduled to Sunday, December 22

Also contact Anastasia, The Super Sleuth for personal coaching and consulting, specializing in #MeToo-related issues.

All fees donated to New Horizons Small "Zones of Peace" Beyond Gender Tyranny and Truth Or Dare Initiatives.


AnastasiaThe Super Sleuth

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny: What Does It Mean And How Do You Do It?

For your personal answers, ask Anastasia, The Super Sleuth Coaching and Consulting.

What does "Moving Beyond Gender Tyranny" mean and how do you do it?

Do we see gender tryanny alive and active in the Biden-Flores drama?

If so, who is it coming from? Joe Biden, the identified culprit?

Or Lucy Flores and the other women who have come forward with complaints of their personal boundaries distressingly being compromised? 

Yet revealing these at the possible expense of Joe Biden's bid for the presidency?

Are they the tyrants in so forcefully making their case against Biden?

Who has the right of way here to be most upset with this situation, especially in this era of #MeToo and "TimesUp?

These are complicated issues. The questions evoked have no easy answers.

At New Horizons we've had situations of this nature under the radar for decades, with tried and true strategies for problem solving, dating back as far as 1976!

We are eager to offer our expertise and support as solutions of great magnitude are explored -- and remedies applied.

To start off our contribution we will be offering what we can to bring forward motion through the clutter!

First off, to our way of thinking, we need to understand what “gender tyranny” means, by definition and in action. Next, we need to accept that gender tyranny is a two way street, if we truly want to put an end to it.

With male and female lanes going both ways. 

Then we need to figure out how best to keep the traffic moving forward, avoid jams and accidents along the highway.

Join me for my next online Anastasia The Storyteller Radio Show where I will take up the theme ...



Rescheduled to Sunday, December 22


.... beginning with the defining of "gender tyranny."

Please join me for the discussion, with my guest co-host and New Horizons Board Member, Terry. If you miss the show, hear it on podcast.

This is a critical discussion for us to have!! I am making it a top priority!

If, as I, perhaps, might have inferred (at least I intended to) in "Joe Biden-Lucy Flores Drama Brings New Horizons Infamous "No Abuse" Rule To The Fore," Biden did not break any rules,  He is, therefore, technically not guilty of a criminal act or even a civil breach,

But, ah, the court of public opinion! 

So what does his situation offer us about gender tyranny being a two-way street, especially when he speaks up to take responsibility, as New Horizons "no abuse" demands?

And, offers to listen, respectfully?

Is this genuinely enough? 

Not at all, his critics argue!

What does this mean about things big and small, like Biden, the politician seeking a presidential bid?  About Joe Biden the private citizen, husband and father?

Big questions! 

I am standing back, again, looking at this drama, with my curious eye, trying to take in what it means for me, especially as a woman, having made one personal, sexual harassment ethics complaint and toying, presently, with how to best handle another.

What to do? What to do?

No easy answers!

If I come forward on this next one will a scandal erupt? If this is not what I want -- and -- the individual offender, though deceased, is a prominent man, what then?

If I continue to keep quiet as I have, what price will I pay?

Actually this may be the easiest of my personal questions to answer. 

I will not stay silent. The cost is too great! The liberation great for letting go of secrets long held.

One article, addressing the broader scope, published in Slate particularly caught my attention, addressing the many complexities of what we have in this new drama.


Joe Biden Is Not What Matters Here expands the issue. And, clearly, to my way thinking, fleshes out essential details for the conversation, at hand.


So, what do we have here, in terms of what may be one of the most defining issues of the Twenty-first Century, how men treat women?

Look for my further, ongoing commentaries on this issue, coming soon.

With articles by Anastasia (Me) on all three of her/my New Horizons sponsored blog sites.

Keep up to date, as my tale unfolds!