SAFE G: Empowering Resilient Communities


Mission. To empower local communities to design immediate and effective SAFE G solutions that implement optical fiber wired to the home and office. Local taxpayers and ratepayers are entitled to this alternative to wireless, because they have already paid for it. Please see: Irregulators v. FCC.

5G/AI/Internet of Things Juggernaut presents an imminent threat. The harms to our community’s physical and mental health, the local environment, violations of citizen’s rights to due process, property, and personal privacy are foreseeable and preventable. The threat is especially dangerous to our children, elderly people, those with special sensitivities, disabled persons with chronic illnesses, caregivers, and our economically disadvantaged and minority communities that have no escape in their homes or workplaces.

Remedy: Community Empowerment: An effective remedy begins with widespread education and training in a proven system of wise leadership, community organization, team building, and negotiation. With this purpose we have created a 5G Dojo to support local communities around the world that are facing similar challenges. The key is to share negotiation successes and practical experience, so these lessons can be immediately deployed within the network. Equally essential is to fortify community-wide resilience rapidly and effectively. (See: 5 Minutes toResilience)

Our Funding Goal: $ 100,000

Donations: Please make your check or money order payable to National Institute for Science, Law, and Public Policy, designated for "SAFE G/Community Empowerment Initiative". You can contribute in two ways.

o   Simple donation with full tax deduction.

o   Partial tax deduction (at cost) with benefits. Please see benefit levels below.

Sponsors: Please contact us to discuss any questions or concerns and customized donation options.

Springs of Amethysts - $100

  • Public Recognition as a Community Health Charter Sponsor
  • Signed copy of Julian Gresser, Piloting through Chaos—Wise Leadership/Effective Negotiation for the 21st Century (1995)
  • Free gift of the 5 Minutes to Resilience web app


Rivulets of Moonstones - $500

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • 5 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 5 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Sparkles of Opal - $1K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • Public Lecture in Your Honor
  • 10 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 10 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Fountains of Pearls - $5K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • ½ day workshop training and consultation with any organization or company


Jade Eddies - $10K

  • All of the above awards (except memberships) plus:
  • Two ½ day workshop, training and consultation with any organization or company of your choice
  • 20 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 20 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Sapphire Brooks of Laughing Hearts - $25K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • 1 day of professional consultation and meetings


Ruby Streams of Laughing Hearts - $35K

  • All of the above awards (except memberships) plus:
  • One full day training program with materials for organization of choice to you.
  • 50 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 50 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Emerald Rivers of Laughing Hearts - $50K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • Two full day training programs with materials for organizations of your choice
  • 100 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 100 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses


Diamond Rivers of Laughing Hearts - $100K

  • All of the above awards plus:
  • Four full day training programs with materials for organizations of your choice.
  • 200 Free Copies of 5 Minutes to Resilience App
  • 200 Free Copies of My Personal Resilience Journey/The Resilient Negotiator/Realizing Your Passion/Advancing Your Cause online courses

Preamble

Integral resilience is one of those domains of consciousness wherein vast aquifers of knowledge connect and open new frontiers for exploration. In this place we can find inspiration to join together in beneficial actions that reduce misery and redeem our common humanity.

Our purpose is to catalyze a new field of inquiry and practice to help individuals, organizations, and communities adapt creatively and positively to trauma and adversity. Our first step was review the main studies, articles, and commentaries on resilience; my second to offer a fresh perspective on how communities can cultivate resilience and thrive. “Resilience” is generally understood in the large majority of studies we cite as an ability to bounce back to an original state of equilibrium or homeostasis. But here we are more interested to understand how systems (biological, technological, and societal) dynamically learn to bounce forward toward something even finer, to turn adversities to advantage. We introduce a new conception of “integral resilience,” as a core life competency that can build upon and enhance the existing literature on resilience. And in an age fascinated by breakthroughs in positive psychology, mindfulness, and brain science, we highlight in contrast humanity of heart.

We are explorers of systems on the great Serengeti of integral resilience inquiring what causes them to be viable and what not. But we are not only rapporteurs. Embedded in the design of this work are two ideas that may be useful to readers on this journey. The first is a “Knowledge Multiplier”. The concept of integral resilience is so basic it can become a springboard for virtually any domain of inquiry that interests you. In other words, it is a magnet that attracts knowledge from many fields and disciplines to it. You might conceive of integral resilience as a great tree with a glorious upper story and a profound root system that extends for miles. All you need do is climb onto any branch, look out, and be curious. The tree can take you wherever you want to go, and we can all have a hand in planting it.

The second idea is “intertidal thinking.” When we spend a pleasant day on the seashore and walk along the beach, we might notice the most biologically fertile area is the “intertidal zone.” Here sea life and terrestrial life live in balance, continuously bathed by the tides, nourished by the sun and moon. It is the same with intertidal thinking. All we need do is ask whatever questions however improbable strike our fancy, and let our minds wash over them. (No one is judging here. It’s all in the spirit of play.) For example, what is the connection of metallic resilience to earthquake prediction? Or what insights can we gain from bacterial and viral resilience in the design of new interventions for chronic diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and diabetes? What might we learn from the resilience of cultures to prepare coastal communities for the impacts of climate change? The Text is designed to be a living resource, organically growing, enriched by many; increasingly interactive, intelligent, and intertidal. For in this fertile earth I believe we will discover a treasure of knowledge and wisdom that can help us to meet the battalions of problems that now beset us.

Santa Barbara is our first pilot. It is a poignant choice because Santa Barbara is still struggling to recover from the Thomas fire which cost $ billions in property damage and the subsequent devastating mudslides that killed 23 people. Also, Santa Barbara like thousands of other communities across the U.S. and around the world is totally unprepared for the imminent medical, social, and economic catastrophe of chronic illnesses like Alzheimer’s. For a relatively small city like Santa Barbara the mounting costs of Alzheimer’s, already in the hundreds of $ millions, can become devastating. My hope is to create a model that is inclusive, collaborative, and compassionate, and that Santa Barbara’s experience will help other communities to pilot better with the calamities of a turbulent world.

I am indebted to my colleague Bill Moulton for bringing to my attention the rich range of challenges to resilience and concepts closely allied to resilience that are often used interchangeably. As a systems cyberneticist he notes there is a wide number of interrelated concepts and keywords that are employed in different disciplines and taxonomies that speak to fairly common conceptions of systemic resiliency.

Julian Gresser, Santa Barbara, September 2018


 

Book of Serenity, Case 94 – DONGSHAN IS WELL

Dongshan was ill. A student asked, “You’re unwell. Is there someone, after all, who isn’t sick?”
Dongshan said, “There is.”
“Does the one who isn’t sick take care of you?”
“I’m actually taking care of that one.”
“What’s it like when you take care of that one?”
“Then I don’t see that there is illness.”

 

The archetypal symbol of Resilience is the Phoenix rising majestically from the ashes of its own destruction. As part of Nature we humans have an incomparable ability to update ourselves into much stronger, braver, and brighter beings. Since ancient times in cultures around the world people report that Phoenix’s tears have healing properties, that it is endowed with extreme physical toughness, can control fire, and possesses infinite wisdom.  The Myth of the Phoenix: Our Amazing Power of Resilience

Next:  A Visitors Guide to the Integral Resilience Collaborative

 

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