The Abbey North Gathering Reports * Day One July 16, 2007 This gathering at Abbey North in northern Ontario marks the eighth in a series of such formal dialog...
Springboard: Abbey North Order Gathering, 15 18 July 2007 Sample Audio, Video and Photos From the Event For a quick and dirty video of us gathered: http://wiki...
Adding Data There are three basic ways you can add text or a document to the Repository. * Write a Message * Copy and Paste a Message * Upload a File ...
From the Alton Photo Collection This is about 1980, with Joe Slicker and the Kenya Replication Scheme, in which ICA Kenya involved 1,500 villages in doi...
Audrey Ayers Audrey Ayres Memorial June 21, 2008 Remarks by Carol Pierce Audrey Ayres met the Ecumenical Institute in 1967, taking a weeknight course in relig...
Bayad El Arab, a small Egyptian village on the east side of the Nile, was an unforgettable place to work and live. Susan and I were there between 1978 and 1982, f...
So, Who's Behind This Really? It's a Triad, to be sure, just not one from Hong Kong or Shanghai! The three primary perpetrators, who have had substantial help f...
Our Legacy Context: A Brainstorm of Components We seem to be currently engaged in a number of conversations about the legacy of our community. One that some of ...
The "Bug Model" The diagram we used to illustrate the basic dynamics of the church was a diamond or an oval with four "legs" hence the nickname, the "bug model." ...
The Calendar / Expanded Participation This is team report from our group at Springboard. I think this could be a good resource for opportunities to be related w...
What You Can Do With / On The Repository * Browse Around. See what's here from our past. Kinda amazing already, and we've just started. Bring up some of our...
Caring For Those Who Care J W Mathews originally drew this image in 1977 to illustrate the task of the #8220;Third Campaign #8221; (the first two being our work ...
The Catalog Listing of Talks and Songs Paul Evans Tape Archive: (Walt Epley s boxes as of 10/28/09) Summer 72 Other World Trek LecturesCassette 1: 3 Jul 72Sing...
Charles Moore Charles Moore died June 23, 2014 at the age of 79. Memorial Service The Service was held at 2:00 PM at the Faith Presbyterian Church, 1314 E Oltorf...
ICA Chronological History Note: Beret asked me to post this for her, until she can get back from her travels and add her own note here. This is an amazing p...
Community: An Order Legacy Fred Lanphear Our family interned in the Indianapolis House in 1971. We were committed to the mission of the Ecumenical Institute and i...
Competencies and Stories STORIES AND COMPETENCIES GROUP REPORT: David Dunn, Sarah Miller, Leroy Philbrook (via SKYPE), Jim Wiegel. SURPRISE ! SURPRISE ! Our...
Completions This page is dedicated to celebrating the completed lives of our colleagues who have died on the march. Please add your photos, stories, memories and...
#8220;Springboard Venture #8221; web site mind map #8212; concept, content, creation, maintenance David Dunn presented a concept of what a new Springboard websit...
The Consensus Process Within the Order One of the long running discussions within our community has been around what we really meant by "consensus" and the degree...
A Compilation on Consensus Jeanette Stanfield was kind enough to pull together here a number of colleagues' comments about the nature of consensus and experiences...
Kenya Aha, is it true no one has written about Kenya yet...at least not in the 'places' link. So..we (Altons) spent 6 years there, 1980 late 86.... and I am ...
Creating Community by George West This book is dedicated to the two thousand souls who participated in the research and demonstration of community development ...
The Daily Office The Order understood how critical it was to dramatize on a daily basis its understanding of who it was, what it was called to do and indeed, its...
* Vacationing in Florida with wife, Pat Webb, at her mom's condo, Feb 2006: My Links * BeginnersStartHere view a short introductory presentation on F...
The Participant List SPRINGBOARD GATHERING IV March 28 30, 2008 Denver Colorado David Dunn 740 S Alton Way, 9B Denver CO 80247 Home 720 221 4661 Cell 720 31...
Executive Summary Denver March 28 30, 2008 The fourth Springboard Gathering was held in Denver this weekend and was attended by seventeen colleagues (see the Part...
The Denver Gathering Overall Reflections on the Meeting Dear Colleagues, Since the Scotts and the Gilles #8217;s instigated the Springboard Gathering in Denver a...
The March 2008 Gathering in Denver Executive Summary The Participant List Spins and Models Poetry and Spirit Life The Working Groups Photos and Videos Main.Gord...
Poetry From the Event A SLEEP OF PRISONERS Dark and cold we may be, but this Is no winter now. The frozen misery Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move; The ...
Overall Reflections on the Meeting Dear Colleagues, (Due to jet lag and a lot of catch up work here in India this is past due, my apology #8211; Jack) Since the ...
Walt Epley's Catalog Dear Colleagues: You may have heard that David Dunn and I (Walt Epley) (both here in Denver, Colorado) have been cataloging and digitizing th...
A Page With Possibly Helpful Examples This is what happens to a file that you upload to the site. Visitors to the page see the file name and the link to it. To ...
Executive Summary Springboard Gathering #3 #8211; Junaluska North Carolina #8211; November 30 December 2 The third Springboard Gathering of the Order was the la...
The Extended Order The cassette recording of mine from which this is taken is dated 1973. It appears to have been made shortly after an important gathering of co...
Facilitating Project Excellence (FPE) ICA USA's latest course in the ToP series. This is a place for sharing work in progress, where the Core Team developing and...
FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF CAIRO Gordon Harper September, 1996 John Burbidge and I arrive Saturday evening at the Cairo airport, after a thirty six hour journey from S...
Our Legacy In Search of a Gestalt Looking for an intuitive gestalt some of us taking a shot at saying now what the three, four or six major aspects of our legac...
The Global Citizen: A Love Story: Rob Work This month a new Chicken Soup for the Soul book was published Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live by Jennife...
Global Women #8217;s Forum #8211; 1977 by Ellen Rebstock In 1976 the UN expanded the Year of the Woman to the Decade of the Woman moving beyond the anger of #8...
The Golden Pathways CD From the Introduction: Let me introduce myself. I am Lyn Mathews Edwards. Forty years have gone by since the beginning in 1956 at the Univ...
Gordon Harper Dear family, friends and colleagues, It is with heavy heart that I write you of Gordon's death yesterday, February 8 (2016), around 6:30 PM. His le...
Products of the Working Groups Notes on the Saturday Session Personal Pages Study and Research What It Means to be Part of the Springboard Venture Springboard Web...
The Curriculum of the Human Development Training Institute (HDTI) The HDTI design and curriculum components were developed in India, in the field, as they were ab...
The Harper Family Preamble and Meeting Design When Roxana and I joined the Symbolic Order in 1971, we had already been married for eleven years and had three chil...
The Help Page This is the place to find answers to questions about how to use this site or how to get something done. Write your question here just below the li...
Offices List, 1988 No emails as yet. Still the telex era. And as the second page indicates, the point person on changes is someone named Len Hockley! Main.Ro...
The Geneva Offices These were very familiar to anyone around during the 60s and 70s. While the longer Daily Office marked the beginning of our day, these would o...
The Fifth City Presuppositions Working to demonstrate how a severely distressed neighborhood could be transformed, the Institute staff in the early 60s came up wi...
From what I remember the whistle points and the pressure points were created the fall following the Research Assembly on the Social Process. They were follow up ...
LACEY:theFirstTownMeeting History of the Seattle Region An Anecdote #8220;In the Beginning There Was Lacey #8220; If history proves anything, and it proves m...
House Church in the Great Hall I originally took these pictures as color slides. They are either from the Global Research Assembly in the summer of 1976 or, more...
The Band of 24 This was the most ambitious development project the Institute had ever undertaken. "Every Hour on the Hour" was the motivating image, dramatizin...
The Human Development Training School The 1976 Summer Research Assembly in Chicago marked another turning point in the life of the Institute and in the life of my...
The McDonald's Project At least after our Turn to the World in 1972 if not before I recall many lively (sometimes heated) conversations about where our methods f...
Global Priors Council 1978: What Do We Think Will Happen in the Coming Twenty Years? I recently came across this document in my files, dated July 1978, from the G...
Delegates in Session It had not been easy getting the Taiwan delegation permission to participate in this event. India had not wished for any trouble with its ne...
Main.LenHockley 24 Jul 2006 This was a happening in my life for many more reasons than I could have imagined on arriving at the airport not so near Vale. The pl...
From the ICA USA website (http://www.ica usa.org/resrc/initpgs/initvo20/ehoude.html): Meet Elizabeth Houde ICA appoints new Chief Executive Officer July 4, 200...
Individual Writings We began the Junaluska Gathering with introductions, opening words and drawings. We read out the greetings we got from Joe Slicker. Then Geo...
Is This Joe's Most Widely Read Talk? This short talk on Integrity may well be JWM's most widely disseminated, read and discussed lecture. And yet, when we looked...
JWM: Our Crutches and the Word This clip comes from the end of a class lecture on Kierkegaard while Joe was still in Texas and part of the Faith and Life Communit...
John Rupert Barnes Mutiso wa Kali The blessed life of Mutiso John Rupert has come to that special place of discontinuity. The memory of his gentleness...
Preparatory Materials Contextual Recommendations (Joseph Slicker) You have me extremely excited about the upcoming Junaluska conference: the fresh visions of po...
The Lake Junaluska Gathering (30 November 2 December, 2007) Preparatory Materials Materials from this event have now by and large passed through their final e...
Larry Henschen Memorial Service May 5th, 2007 Posted on Order Ecumenical Mailing list: Shirley Henschen and her family wanted to invite you to Larry Henschen's...
The Maliwada Consult I wasn't at this one, just heard stories about it, so someone else should talk about it. I do have this picture taken during it in my collec...
Marriage and Family Covenants Whatever one says about the Order's relationship to marriage and families (and much has and can be said on this topic), I think ther...
The Order: Declaration and Formation REPORT OF THE ORDER WORKING GROUP Springboard Gathering, Lake Junaluska, NC November 30 December 2, 2007 1.How to be availabl...
Springboard: The Denver Event Documents from the Springboard Gathering in Denver, March 30 #8211;April 1, '07 and the follow up meeting at Abbey North in Haliburt...
The Order and ICA Songs From Around the World This collection was assembled by L.E. and Marge Philbrook. Posted courtesy of Larry Philbrook. Click on the link ...
The Participants Jack Gilles, George Walters, Jim Wiegel, Gordon Harper, Bill Nan Grow, Judy Gilles, Marianna and Bill Bailey, Marie Sharp, Byrne and Carole Joh...
Personal Pages The idea for these came from the second Springboard gathering. We were looking for a way to share our personal data in such a way that we could e...
Personal Pages This working group entered the categories we will want in our Personal Pages database into an Excel spreadsheet and used Oliveann Slotta as an illu...
Photos, Video and Audio Recordings Short Video of the Gathered Group We opened the Junaluska Gathering on Friday afternoon, November 30th, with twenty five of us ...
Poetry and Spirit Life We shared poetry throughout our time together in Denver. Some people had brought, some came to us from colleagues by email. We started on ...
WayneMarshallJones 30 Aug 2007 In RS I four classic papers are taught, along with a movie and art form conversation: Session One: Existence in Depth Rudol...
Reflective Writings This is the place for thoughtful reflections. These may not fit neatly into one of the Subject categories or the Years or Places sections of t...
The Responsibility Chart This is a shot at a table of the milestones and responsibilities we created at the June SFO meeting of the Core Team. I basically took M...
ICA As Management System This is a brief excerpt from one page of a remarkable 886 page book by Richard Greene, a member of the Order during the years in which he...
Notes From the San Francisco Core Team Meeting, 26 28 June 2006 These are the key products of our time together. Mike's and Marieann's items spell out the milest...
Notes From Saturday's Session Prepared by Eric Smith Springboard Initiative Gathering Host: Institute for Consensus Action Denver, Colorado Saturday March 29, 20...
Sir James Lindsay The life story of Sir James Lindsay He was born in 1915 in London and became the oldest of four brothers. He was educated at Highgate...
The Concept of the Repository OK, here #8217;s the terse, perhaps slightly flippant, one sentence statement: The Repository is a variegated virtual library of i...
Things to Make Your Heart Soar Like a Hawk! Or at least make you smile! Just for starters, and until you get the hang of checking the Recent Changes page wheneve...
The Daily Office of the Solitaries This is a particular form of what we called the Solitary Office that I encountered in Chicago around 1966. Since I was part of...
What It Means To Be Part of the Springboard Venture 1. Sign the Declaration 2. Complete personal profile/data base page, including spiritual practice and opportun...
The Springboard Venture Original Context People are welcomed and encouraged to be part of the Springboard Gathering event, either in person or online. Invitation...
What Springboarding Looks Like Diagram With Description Following The Creative Dialogue Model It may be helpful to start with a word about some broodi...
Stan Crow * Autumn Sonnets May Sarton If I can let you go as trees let go Their leaves, so casually, one by one; If I can come to know what they do know, T...
But How Do I Get Started? Several possibilities. * You can use the Go Straight to the Latest Treasures link (SoarHawk) to go quickly to some of the latest th...
Greetings, Colleagues! This is a Step By Step page for getting started using the Repository. Here we'll walk through the steps for you to take a look at what's up...
Study and Research Common Reading Model Context: Our mission of enabling the emergence of a new earth, a new human and a new society by caring for those who care...
The Sudtonggan Song Had my trusty tape recorder along when we did this one, and praise be! the cassette still works. The words were created (to the tune of Silay...
The Singing of Summer 72 John Tresise found this remarkable cassette tape and converted it to digital audio. Its sound quality is first rate and includes not onl...
What Can Happen When You Come Into the World With a Tag On Your Toe Dorothea Jewell, November 2013 (This snippet of history was written at the urging of Beret Gr...
Task Force Materials The Guild The Order: Declaration and Formation The Calendar / Expanded Participation Trends, Vision and Contradictions Personal Pages Study R...
Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson This was a poem that I recall we distributed in the early 80s, as we phased out of the Band of 24 and looked toward the future. ...
The Cryin' From the LP titled, The Fifth Voice: Music From the 5th City Festival, the earliest public recording of our songs that I am aware of. Much of the power...
The Guild REPORT OF THE GUILD FORMATION GROUP SPRINGBOARD GATHERING, LAKE JUNALUSKA, NC November 30 #8211; December 2, 2007 SATURDAY, MORNING AND AFTERNOON, DEC....
The Technology of Participation (ToP) The registered name for the group participation methods, tools and processes of the Institute of Cultural Affairs Main.Gor...
ToP Phenomenology Introduction 1 An Overview of Phenomenology as a Discipline While phenomenology has roots in the work of Kant, Hegel and Brentano, the disc...
LENS and the Technology of Participation (ToP) THE REST OF THE STORY Lee Early I am quite sure there are other perspectives on these events but, this is my s...
Trends, Vision and Contradictions Dear colleagues, This report from the trends and contradictions consolidation workgroup is to introduce this first draft attach...
The Vision Task Force Report One of the questions posed in the online conversation for the Springboard Gathering was what are the global contradictions / key is...
George Walters Collegium on The Diaspora To hear this talk, click on this link and download the audio file. Then double click the saved file to hear it. You can...
Waves That Built the Order by Joe Slicker 1. Beginning Parts. The Stream that fed the building of the Order. Introduction: This is presented by using...
The Web Community Task Force Report This task force was formed to explore and develop more effective ways to #8220;web #8221; us together electronically as we co...
A Note From John Burbidge It is the 4th of July, 2006, America's Independence Day. I have now lived in this country almost as long as I lived in Australia, where ...
What Are We Becoming? I am a latecomer to ICA, yet in less than a year of joining the Board of Directors in the summer of 2003 I became Board President. The aoo...
OE/EI/ICA? For those who may visit this site and find these names and abbreviations unfamiliar, a brief word of explanation: The Ecumenical Institute (EI) was fou...
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The Workshop Method This is the description of the Workshop Method as it appeared in the Methods Manual, a handy compendium of ICA methods published sometime arou...
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