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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

Resilient Organizations

The general topic field of resilience in employee fitness and corporate wellness is well documented. Integral resilience advances this body of work by highlighting specific ways in which corporate cultures based on Big Heart Intelligence can enhance  performance across a broad spectrum of corporate functions.

The general topic field of resilience in employee fitness and corporate wellness is well explored. One company, BSI, based in the UK has indexed and benchmarked best practices tracking the relationship of resilience to a broad range of corporate functions. BSI has produced a BSI Resilience Standard based on interviews with over 1,200 senior executives. BSI makes an important contribution by linking the development of organizational resilience with the Japanese concept of kaizen, or continuous enhanced performance.

The dominant global player in the corporate fitness and wellness space is Cerner Corporation which offers a diverse and rich portfolio of products, services backed by strong research capabilities. Many other companies seek to differentiate their services by specializing on specific challenges such as stress reduction. There is a whole subgroup of consultants focusing on disaster relief and emergency management with sophisticated tools to measure resilience under these extreme conditions (62) Others highlight the importance of new modalities such as mindfulness and emotional intelligence.

Gamification of fitness programs is an important new trend. A survey by the National Business Group on Health and Towers Watson found that 45 percent of companies surveyed used competitions as a key part of their wellness initiatives, with an additional 15 percent of companies planning to add competitions in 2013.  There was a similar increase in the percentage of companies planning to incorporate social media tools into their wellness programs: up from 12 percent in 2011 to 19 percent in 2012, with another 17 percent reporting that they are ready to add social media tools this year.

Almost all commentators view resilience as a core competency that they urge should be instilled within an organization’s basic cultural DNA.

Several firms have developed metrics for organizational resilience. One example is Life Speak which in addition to tracking objective outcomes such as employee absenteeism attempts to evaluate enhanced employee resilience based on gains in energy, productivity, engagement, creativity, and collaboration. Various consulting firms attest to the real cost savings resulting from enhanced organizational resilience. One example:

  • Employees lowered glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels.
  • Avoidable ER visits decreased.
  • The average waist circumference of the workforce was reduced.
  • For every dollar spent, the employer enjoyed $1.15-2.57 in benefits, as a result of improving the health of their employees.
  • A large manufacturer in the region provided access to care for 1,264 employees through on-site health clinics, along with medical screenings and chronic care management.
  • Medical claims were reduced by 17%.
  • Key health markers, such as HgA1c, cholesterol and blood pressure all dropped.
  • The company saved $1.8 million annually.

Critique. There has been some recent push back that the claims are overblown and unsubstantiated by basic protocols of social science. One writer expressed these concerns regarding the beneficial effects of mindfulness. The critique may be more generally relevant and raises the bar for Integral Resilience.

“Mindfulness is the height of fashion in leadership development circles. At a recent conference in the field, we saw a missionary-type fervor among some trainers who claimed that mindfulness could fix every ill in the organizational world. But hopes like these are justified more by wishing than by any reliable evidence. There is in fact very little data in relation to the impact of mindfulness training on leadership development. Despite plenty of anecdotal support from leaders who have tried mindfulness, the current enthusiasm for it derives mainly from research conducted in clinical contexts that have little applicability to modern organizations (sic)”.

From the perspective of leadership development, there are three urgent questions that need to be answered if the enthusiasm (and the usefulness of mindfulness in a leadership context) isn’t to dissipate.

We need to know:

  • Does mindfulness training actually “develop” leadership?
  • If it does, how does it do so? What are the mechanisms that make it effective?
  • And how do we design interventions that actually work?” (68)

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