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

Integral Resilience: How Attorneys Can Turn Adversity to Advantage

On Aug. 14, 2017 a coalition of groups, including the American Bar Association Commission on Lawyer Assistance Programs, released a comprehensive report, The Path to Lawyer Well-Being: Practical Recommendations for Positive Change. The Report sought to address the problem of substance use and mental health disorders of attorneys. Other groups involved in the drafting of the task force report were the National Organization of Bar Counsel, the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, and the National Conference of Bar Examiners. The Report did not come to grips with other maladies that are now pandemic, specifically alcoholism, depression, burnout, and suicide among attorneys, a trend that far exceeds the rates of the general population, and begins in law school. Moreover, the Report does not even scratch the surface of the compelling evidence that these largely behavioral challenges closely correlate, in medical terms have co-morbidity with, hypertension, cardiac illnesses, some forms of cancer, and various neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s.

A part of the problem is an inability of  attorneys to manage extreme stress effectively, which drives the sympathetic nervous system (responsible for fight or flight) into overdrive, and suppresses the parasympathetic nervous system which is responsible for rebalancing and tuning immune competency, and reducing inflammation. But the problem is not only about stress. It goes far deeper and touches the values and practices, indeed the very integrity of the legal system and law practice in the U.S. and around the world.

The costs of this “imbalance” to civil society are extraordinary. Forbes estimate that the annual costs of burnout to all employers in all industries and professions in the U.S. is between $ 150-$ 300 billion. As the practice of law is one of the professions at highest risk for burnout, we can conservatively estimate the annual costs of burnout out alone, not mentioning all the other healthcare challenges facing the legal profession, is in the hundreds of $ millions. 

What if there is an antidote? And what if the exploring the antidote is enjoyable, life-affirming, affordable, and time sensitive? What if it begins with happiness?

We now have compelling scientific evidence that:

  • Happiness is less a result and more a cause of human wellbeing.
  • Kindness, generosity, and acts of “paying forward,” in other words, selfless giving, are actually immune-supportive and correlate strongly with longevity.
  • Positive behavioral changes involving the above and other actions to fortify integral resilience and cultivate character have immediate and sustainable biochemical consequences in our bodies.

But what is most stunning, although not surprising, is the strong evidence that happy attorneys and their law firms are also among the most successful, in the sense that their practices serve their clients and society well, and are very profitable. 

The Resilient Negotiator course and the accompanying webinar series are designed to set you on this path and to support your systematic development of these core life skills, as directly applied in specific areas of legal practice. We are also launching a Global Online Dojo, where you can train with attorneys,   and other  professionals, business leaders, and advocates in many fields.

We welcome you to join us on this fascinating new frontier!