DECADES OF GLORY

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In the 50's

1952

Campus Study Group: Austin, Texas?

1953

Visits to Iona Community and Taize Community (France)

1954

Study Community of University Students?

1955

Researching dynamics of culture and mission?

Researching models of community?

1956

Development of community rituals, using contemporary poetry (T.S. Eliot, e. e. cummings) ?

1957

Researching existential philosophy and theology?

Development of religious studies curriculum?

1958

Researching community discipline, practice, and operating structures?

Further research into theology and mission?

1959

16 theological studies combined into the Religious Studies 1 course?

Experiments with focusing mission outside the community?

In the 60's

1960

Created image of three tasks: 1. Contextual Re-Education 2. Structural Reformulation 3. Spirit Remotivation?

Basic images of model building formed from Dietrich Bonhoeffer and C. Wright Mills?

RS-1 taught on a regular basis?

1961

The 20th Century Cultural Revolution (CS-1) course created & taught?

Development of the corporate study method?

Creating the charting method?

1962

Joseph Wesley Mathews called to be Dean of the Evanston Institute for Ecumenical Studies?

Seven families move from Austin study group to accept directorship of the Institute?

Time article on the roots of the Ecumenical Institute in Texas

1963

Decision to move to the West Side of Chicago: seven families buy Bethany Seminary and move in?

Launching of the Fifth City community development project?

Secular ritual experimentation

Trips to Europe and Africa for geo-social analysis?

1964

Fifth City grid created of 16 square blocks with 5000 people divided in stakes to handle neighbourhood issues?

Formation of The Institute of Cultural Affairs as a program division of the Ecumenical Institute?

1965

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Summer '65 for training and research?

Creation of community reformulation methods and presuppositions

Creation of the global grid?

Nation & World course?

Order Ecumenical created?

1966

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Fifth City Preschool curriculum created?

5th City Preschool opens to deal with the victim image?

Metro Meetings in North America?

Fifth City Jets program?

Summer Teacher Training Institute?

1967

Research assembly on training the Spirit Movement?

World Religions course Ur Images created?

First use of Order (Congolese) Cross

First Fifth City festivals?

North America grid created?

Trips to Latin America, Middle East and South East Asia.?

Researching the New Religious Mode?

1968

Summer research assembly on the New Religious Mode?

The Declaration of the Spirit Movement written?

Offices opened in Boston, Atlanta, South Chicago and Kuala Lumpur?

Launched Urban Academy for ghetto leadership?

Established the Global Academy: 8-week training program?

1969

Global Academy in five locations?

Development of the Odyssey?

First Children's Summer Program?

Study of John of the Cross?

First evening study groups?

Seven more offices established overseas,?

75 courses taught across Australia?

First ITI?

In the 70's

1970

Summer research: a tactical system for local renewal

Researching the secular-religious?

Intensified training and core curriculum teaching?

Global Academy and Urban Academy taught each quarter?

Reading and Research Project?

First offices in Canada at Montreal and Winnipeg?

1971

Summer research assembly on the social process?

Vision creation, contradictions analysis and 77 proposals for the whole society?

Social Process Triangles created out of corporate research?

Facilitated planning process created?

ITIs in India and Hong Kong

Welcome to the United States of America

Eight buildings rehabbed in 5th City?

Kemper Insurance Gifts ICA in the US with its Former Head Office Building?

1972

Massive Move of US Staff From 5th City to Kemper Building?

Summer research assembly on the New Social Vehicle, the Pressure Points and Whistle Points

The Other World in the Midst of This World : phenomenology and exercises?

Development of more rituals: The Grand Ball, The Fast, the Watch.?

The Turn Symbol is created?

Working on the globe through 54 areas?

1973

Summer Research Assembly on the form and tactics of the guild?

The Uptown Project in Chicago?

Development of the Cabaret as a community tool?

ICA incorporated as a separate entity in USA?

Fifth City celebrates "A Decade of Miracles"?

Offices in all major urban centres in North America?

1974

Summer research assembly on mass awakenment and local development?

Study of The Dark Night of the Soul?

Casteneda: The Hunter Warrior mythology?

The Man of La Mancha movie?

Development of Global Language School?

Local Community Convocations?

1975

First Town Meeting '76

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Research into multiple community development projects?

Training, Inc. is launched as business training school?

Global Women's Forum?

The Maliwada Consult

1976

Research assembly launches Band of 24 Human Development Projects

Community Forum strategy created?

Study of Sun Tzu and Musashi?

Secular ritual creation?

Global Community Forums, Women's Forums and Youth Forums held around the world?

ITIs expand?

The Band of 24 launched

Town Meeting strategy,?

The Human Development Training School

Tagore Ritual?

Global Community Forums, Town Meeting Global Women Forums?

ITIs in Caracas, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Zambia and Kenya?

1977

GRA focus on Global Servant Force?

Development of the Maneuver Method?

The Gospel According to St Mathew (movie);?

Qualities of Profound Humanness

ICAI founded?

Band of 24 Completed?

The McDonald's Project

Order Polity Document?

The first Journal?

Death of JWM October 17?

1978

GRA: The Seven Revolutions, the Framing Method,?

Primal Community?

The New Reality.?

Our Town.?

Commissioning of Global Panchayat?

The Economic Community Forum?

Community Forum campaigns in 32 nations?

Launch of +26 new HDPs?

LENS with Fortune 500?

Global Priors Council

1979

The Global Symposium,?

HDTIs in Kenya Philippines, Indonesia, Korea?

4130 Town Meetings held in 1979?

Replication in 232 Maharashtran villages.?

ICA has 107 offices in 40 nations.?

Cluster village Consults held.?

Kenya replication?

LENS International formed?

In the 80's

1980

GRA: Symposium on Human Development in the 80s.?

14 HDTIs held?

Regional Consults held in India, the UK, Peru, Zambia, US and Indonesia?

Project Documentation Labs in 43 HDPs?

The New Paradigm?

Lens Seminars in 93 locations?

2261 Community Forums?

1981

Training Inc. starts in Indianapolis?

Publication of The Image?

Regional consults in 62?

Formation Fortnight In Brussels?

Block consults in Maharashtra?

Flowering of the New Village Movement in Kenya?

European volunteer movement?

1982

GRAs in multiple Locations?

Global Thinktanks?

Brussels Service Ventures Business.?

Testing IERD and building steering committees?

Global Advisory Board?

Lamego Project in Portugal?

GRA on the Role of Technology?

1983

Launch of 16-month Year of the Global Order Council?

Employment Taskforce i?

Project Documentation Labs?

1984

IERD Plenary in Delhi

Order Council In Jaipur, India?

Films: The Courage to Care, The Global Brain

The Pilgrimage?

200Kenyan villages?

1985

The Planetary Connection" explores a new kit bag of spirit tools and myths?

The rise of staff-operated businesses in ICA?

The transition from pedagogues to facilitators?

The creation of Facilitation Skills and Facilitated Planning seminars?

Phase III of IERD: Sharing Approaches That Work?

ICA's Consultative Status with UN?

1986

The Planetary Vision Quest" Marilyn Ferguson, Fritjof Capra and Jean Houston?

"The Hero's Journey"?

Training, Inc. opens in New Jersey?

Council In Bilbao, Spain?

Maliwada Documentation Team Visit

The Breakthrough Teams?

Skunkworks I and II with Marty Seldman?

Facilitation programs take off?

1987

Attendance at Jean Houston's Mystery School and Human Capacities School?

New Horizons in Learning in Guatemala for 400 educators?

Training, Inc. receives award for "best social invention"?

THE NODE: newsletter initiated in Toronto?

1988

Research Colloquy in Swartswood, NJ with Jean Houston, Willis Harman, Dee Dickinson et al.?

Edges Magazine launched in Toronto?

Training, Inc. Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C. open?

Conference in Oaxtepec Nov. 1998: phases out assignment and OE structures; market place on new possibilities?

Education Reformulation begins in Panvel?

ERD series of books published?

1989

Offices in SE Asia occasion deep structural changes in corporations?

Publication of "Winning Through Participation"?

APC electronic network links many ICA offices?

ICAI Directory published?

ICA Appreciative Inquiry

Development of professional and facilitation services as income ventures?

Network meetings begin in Dallas and Pittsburgh?

In the 90's

1990

ICA receives consultative status with various UN bodies?

Southern Africa Grassroots Training Program:ICA Zambia?

Development education programs, e.g.?

The Machakos Game?

Rite of Passage for 6th Graders?

Global Conference in Taipei?

Community development work continues in 18 nations?

1991

31 independent ICA affiliates operate in North and South America, Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific?

Training, Inc. New Orleans opens?

Several new experiments in imaginal education in Denver, Chicago, Toronto?

"SAVE" Program initiated in Zambia to promote sustainable agricultural development (funded by CIDA)?

Organization development programs?

1992

45 ICA locations linked by Econet?

Manual developed for FS-1 and FS-2?

"Leadership Options" program in Chicago for educators?

Rite of Passage journeys continue?

ICA International General Assembly in Prague?

Facilitation training courses take off?

Development of Lifestyle Simplification Lab?

1993

Publication of Participation Works (James Troxel ed.)?

Organizational Transformation Network (Asia) continues to meet?

Memorial for Joe Pierce?

Programs initiated in Russia from the US?

ToP Trainers Network gathers strength?

1994

ICA Croatia initiated?

IAF launched ?

Spanish translation of Winning through Participation?

ICA: Colquitt Swamp Gravy Institute?

Community Programs in East Asia?

ICA international meeting Lonavala, India?

ICA Egypts Ru'Ya magazine?

ICA Canada 8217 training courses?

1995

1995 First IAF Conference in Denver?

1995 Publication of Government Works (James Troxel ed.)JamesTroxeled?/)?topicparent=Main.YearIndex" rel="nofollow" title="Create this topic">?

1995 Initiatives published as national newsletter of ICA: USA?

1996

Taiwan creates Imaginal Learning Lab?

"Golden Pathways" CD-ROM created from Chicago archives.?

ICA International Conference in Cairo

First facilitation training course in UK?

ICA US launches Adult Wilderness Quest"?

ICA USA launches international facilitation training (ITopToT)?

1997

Publication of Beyond Prince and Merchant (John Burbidge ed.)?

Publication of The Art of Focused Conversation (Brian Stanfield ed.)?

North American, Japan, and ICAI Web sites launched?

1998

Opening of :ICA offices in Ghana,Tanzania, Uganda, Nepal, Sri Lanka ?

ICAI General Assembly?

1998 ICA Canada creates eight courses, two intensives and an Advanced Facilitation Program?

ICA Japan hosts multinational program ?

UK Programme Development Team formed?

Completed life of Lyn Edwards Mathews?

1999

Publication of The Life of Liza Todd (John Burbidge)?

ICA Canada creates for-profit ICA Associates Inc.?

In The First Decade of 2000

2000

New ICA offices in Cameroon, Colombia and Ecuador?

he Courage to Lead (Brian Stanfield)?

The Circle of Life (B. Pesek, D. Dunn, E. Elizondo)?

ICA Taiwan Open Space Technology Series?

ICAI Conference: Denver?

Order Reunion in Vail, Colorado

ICA:UK incorporated?

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

Elizabeth Houde Becomes First ICA US Chief Executive

2006