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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

Resilience and Play—The “Good Karma” Reflex Resilience Ball

The Resilience Ball is a form of Taoist practice where we can enter an ageless state of childlike innocence, play, fun, and exploration. In neurological terms the practice is a form of “cross crawling”. It builds hemispheric coherence. When we play with the ball in a park, it has the odd quality of attracting kind-hearted curious people who want to join the game.

Psychologists have identified some of the ‘internal’ factors that make a person resilient:

  • A positive attitude
  • Optimism
  • Ability to regulate emotions
  • The ability to use failure as useful feedback
  • Problem solving abilities.

Childhood provides a unique opportunity for developing resilience. One study notes the child’s brain has the potential to develop at an astounding pace, never repeated (700 neuronal connections per second). As Professor Angie Hart continues:

  • “Taking a resilience perspective involves finding ways to beat the odds for individual children and also to change those odds for disadvantaged children more generally. Play therapists have an important role to play in supporting children to imagine, process and practice “resilient moves” they can make for themselves. As part of their wider professional responsibilities and networking, play therapists can advocate for change on behalf of disadvantaged children in general.”

On the premise it is never too late, even in advanced age, to have a happy childhood, we are launching the “Good Karma” Reflex Resilience Ball. The Resilience Ball is a form of Taoist practice whose goal is no goal in particular other than to play, have fun, learn, explore, and discover. As each time I practice I make new discoveries, I have come to view the Reflex Ball as a master teacher, as it itself embodies resilience. It is somewhat startling when we realize the Reflex Ball, you or I are one, because after all, it is attached to our heads.

One key principle in playing with the Resilience Ball is to relax, or being loose. As qigong grandmaster Li Junfeng advises, “no bones, like a snake.” No matter how hard the ball comes back, if you can remain loose, you can adapt quickly and move with the ball. This is also the beginning of flow. When my wife plays with the Resilience Ball, she tell me she feels, “ageless.”

The Resilience Ball has the added quixotic quality of being a social magnet. When you play in the park, curious people will come to you and ask how you are able to connect to the ball when it appears to levitate in thin air.

Notes:

There is some interesting research suggesting that boxing with a bag may improve outcomes with Parkinson’s patients. The Reflex Ball may offer an alternative.

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