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Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger
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April 2005 (Best viewed with
fixed-width font)
IN THIS ISSUE:
* Quote of the
Month
* Announcements,
News Items
* Events,
workshops
* FEATURE ARTICLE:
To Tutor Your
Classmates, by Win Wenger
* Comments,
Feedback
A New Service
Comparing Schools - Win Wenger
Easy Genius -
Steve Wallis
Solving
Problems Together - Stephen Hinton
* Organizational
Notes
* Links
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"None of the world's problems will have a solution
until the
world's individuals become thoroughly
self-educated."
== R.
Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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WELCOME to all new members who have joined us this month.
We hope to
hear from you and to give you much food for thought. Back
issues are
available upon request. Just add the month to the subject
line:
mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues
Or see the online archives: http://www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm
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Our publication schedule is a bit out of sync. The
January, February and
March issues will be mailed retroactively.
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Win Wenger was interviewed on the Genius Catalyst Radio Show
with Michael
Neill on March 21, 2005. Subject: The Einstein Factor.
You can listen to
a recording of the program online here:
http://www.geniuscatalyst.com/public/radioguests/WinWenger.php
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FLORIDA MEMBERS' GROUP - We've had several inquiries
about forming a
group of interested individuals in the Florida area for
get-togethers
and discussions of topics related to Project Renaissance
techniques. If
you live in Florida and would like to participate, and
have us put you
in touch with other interested members, please email your
name, email
address and subject/topic to:
mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=FloridaInterestGroups
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Ralph Cerchione has founded a blog site - "Future
Imperative" - whose
purpose is to explore developing one's abilities from
every angle. It
will contain links, reviews, articles, opinions, and
reports on a vast
range of subjects, including accelerated learning,
bio-tech, creative
problem-solving, exercise, cybernetics, humor, longevity,
mindtech,
mystic/esoteric, nanotech, self-enhancement, skeptic's
perspective,
social issues, superheroes, technology, and more. Check
it out here,
and participate:
www.futureimperative.blogspot.com
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SIDEBANDS EXPERIMENT - After a recent thinktank's very nice
work with
the latest experiment in using Sidebands phenomena as a
problem-solving
method, I'm ready to email descriptions and instructions
for much of our
new Sidebands work and experimenting done to date, but
only to those who
request it. If you'd like a set of this information sent
to you, please
email me. I think you'll find some pretty interesting
stuff in what we're
ready to send you. Just click on this link:
- Win Wenger (
mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=Sidebands )
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EVENTS
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Beyond-Einstein/Socratic Training (B.E.S.T.)
www.winwenger.com/may05best.htm
The full, basic-skills workshop
May 20-22, 2005
Pasadena, Maryland, U.S.A.
Tuition: $495, including all 3 days
About Beyond-Einstein/Socratic Training 2005 - click
here:
www.winwenger.com/may05best.htm
Registration Form (printable) -
www.winwenger.com/may05reg.htm
Online Registration -
www.winwenger.com/may05best.htm#Register
Travel Directions and Lodging -
www.winwenger.com/travel.htm
Register online or use the printable Registration Form to
send $495 by
check or credit card number to Project Renaissance, P.O.
Box 332,
Gaithersburg, MD 20884-0332 USA.
You may inquire to Win Wenger by phone (301-948-1122) or
email
( wwenger101@aol.com?subject=MayDiscount ) about
discounts for spouse,
teachers, students, and corporate associate(s).
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Next High Thinktank Session - Thursday, May 19, 2005 -
7:30 pm
Quince Orchard Public Library, Room "A"
15831 Quince Orchard Rd.
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878
(240-777-0200)
Directions:
From Route 270, take Quince Orchard Road to just beyond
the intersection with Route 28, about four miles or so.
Or take Route 28
West about five miles, just barely to Quince Orchard Road
left. Either
way, the Library is on your left. Just feet beyond the
intersection, look
for the nameless little spur of a road off Quince Orchard
which leads
into the Library parking lot. Or go to www.MapQuest.com ,
type in your
own address including zip code, and type in the Quince
Orchard Library's
address, and get directions (and map) from there.
For anyone who has any experience in some of our
techniques, this
"further reaches" session is a must to attend.
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UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS - Capitol Creativity Network
The Capitol Creativity Network
(www.capitolcreativitynetwork.com ) meets
on the second Thursday of every month. Time: 7:00-9:30pm.
Fee: $10 at the
door. Location: Social Room of Van Ness East apartment
complex; 2939 Van
Ness St., NW; Washington, DC.
We explore and experience different facets of creativity
- from corporate
to expressive to scientific, etc. Each meeting is interactive, and
designed to have the participants experience their own
creativity in real
time. CCN's got a
little something for every kind of Creator in 2005:
~ May 12:
"Embracing the Dark: Violence, Creativity, and Compassion in
America" by Dr. Juliet Bruce, Founder and Director
of the Institute for
Transformation through the Arts
~ June 9:
"Creativity in Business: Techniques for thinking 'outside the
box' to bring new creative energy to your business
endeavors" by Joey
Coleman, Creative Principal of Blue J Marketing &
Design.
~ July 14:
"Empathic Nature Writing: The Power of Empathic Connections"
by Karen Rugg, President of Karlynne Communications
~ August 11:
"Creating Ourselves by Performing Who We are Not" by Joe
Mancini, Jr., Ph.D., Gestalt Therapist, Hypnotherapist
and Creator of
RoundTable Theatre and Liz Birney, Ph.D., business
consultant and co-
facilitator of RoundTable Theatre.
~ September 8:
"Creative Thinking Techniques"
by Dr. Win Wenger,
Founder and Director of Project Renaissance; author
"The Einstein
Factor" and over 40 other books.
~ October 13:
"New Working Models: Using storytelling, improv and visual
techniques to extract relevant data and design functional
working models"
by Michelle James, Principal of The Center for Creative
Emergence;
business creativity catalyst.
~ November 10:
"Visual Mapping" by Nusa Maal, President of SenseSmart.
~ December 8:
"The Courage of Your Yearning: Using the principles of
creativity to create a life lived from your deepest
gladness" by Juanita
Weaver, creativity consultant.
Michelle James
The Center for Creative Emergence,
www.creativeemergence.com
Consciously Creating What's Next
McLean, VA USA
703.760.9009
michelle@creativeemergence.com
mjames7770@aol.com
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Upcoming CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS in Europe
Creativity Workshop Studios
245 East 40th St. 25th floor
New York, New York 10016
Tel: (212) 922-1555
Contact: Vivian
Glusman
Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel, directors
Early Registration Promotion: With just a $50 deposit you can get $100
off on Summer Creativity Workshops in Europe. Offer
expires: January 15,
2005. See their informational website, Road to Creation.
Join Creativity Workshops this summer in Europe in their
12th year of
workshops! A wonderful way to learn and travel. Choose
one of their
workshops (from June through August 2005) in Crete,
Florence, Provence,
Barcelona, Prague, or Dublin.
SUMMER 2005
Island of Crete — June 19-28, 2005
From $1,750 including tuition and accommodations.
Provence — June 29-July 8, 2005
From $2,150 including tuition and accommodations.
Florence — July 9-18, 2005
From $1,750 including tuition and accommodations.
Barcelona — July 19-28, 2005
From $2,300 including tuition and accommodations.
Prague — July 28-August 6, 2005
From $2,300 including tuition and accommodations.
Dublin — August 6-15, 2005
From $1,850 including tuition and accommodations.
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More details on their website,
http://www.creativityworkshop.com .
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Feature Article:
TO TUTOR YOUR CLASSMATES
Not for test-taking or memorization,
rather for true and deep understanding
by Win Wenger
From time to time, Project Renaissance gets inquiries
from students about
using our methods to help their fellow students with
their studies, for
enhanced and accelerated learning and better
understanding of any subject.
At this time we do not yet have official tutors and
programs on any
university campus or in any senior high school. The field is wide open.
You are welcome to use our published procedures as much -
or as little -
as you please, within some conditions cited below. Here
is a reference
list of the most-recommended procedures, freely given on
our website in
easy-to-learn, step-by-step formats. You have an entire
curriculum at
your fingertips. And teaching them to others is the
surest way to master
them yourself.
It is not necessary for you to be expert in the subjects
your classmates
are working on for these techniques to be highly
effective. The real
pay-off comes when students develop their own insight
instead of
accepting someone else's; and when it's a subject
familiar to you, it's
a real temptation to put your own stuff in there as the
solution.
Your tutoring other students through various of these
procedures, in
various subjects, can only benefit your own powers of
understanding in
your own studies as well.
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Here are some good starter-up techniques that people find
easy to accept:
(1) The various Hot Tips techniques cited at
http://www.winwenger.com/ebooks/btal1.htm#FrameOne
(2) "Windtunnel," as in the version at
Winsights No. 72
(
www.winwenger.com/part72.htm ). Instead of a formal problem or
question, turn
the lead into a question about the main key to the
lesson
concerned and proceed from there.
(3) Stress reduction, as in the "Calm-Breathing
Patterns" of Winsights
Nos. 28 and 29
(www.winwenger.com/part28.htm and
www.winwenger.com/part29.htm ). See also below for "Removing
Blocks."
Even simple
"Relief Breathing" is a good easy quick-starter for felt
effects which
will invite your students to explore further with you.
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Main procedures:
(4) Image-Streaming, to build general capability and
insightfulness, and
because
specific questions can also be answered by one's own Image-
Stream. See http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm for
individuals and
http://www.winwenger.com/is-group.htm
for groups. The links inside
these articles
to other articles will, taken together, give you an
entire curriculum in a tremendously
significant subject.
(a) A higher
than average incidence of students, among those needing
tutoring,
are likely to have initial problems visualizing. Make
yourself
familiar with the back-up procedures in
http://www.winwenger.com/isbackup.htm
(b) Two
applications of very special interest in a tutoring context:
"Build
Your Ability to Understand Everything!" in Winsights No. 44
(
http://www.winwenger.com/part44.htm ) and "Predictive Images"
(
http://www.winwenger.com/predict.htm ).
(5) Freenoting ( http://www.winwenger.com/freenote.htm ),
is really an
extension of
"Windtunnel," for at least those of your classmates who
don't have deep
problems with writing.
(6) Socratic method, found in these articles:
(a) Winsights
No. 33, "Add Depth and Richness to Every Facet of Our
Mutual
Lives" ( http://www.winwenger.com/part33.htm )
(b)
"Feeding the Loop" ( http://www.winwenger.com/feed1.htm )
(c) Winsights
Nos. 52, 55, 56, 57, 63, 72. Also,
regarding other
aspects of
remediation, Winsights Nos. 71, 73 and 77.)
http://www.winwenger.com/part52.htm
http://www.winwenger.com/part55.htm
http://www.winwenger.com/part56.htm
http://www.winwenger.com/part57.htm
http://www.winwenger.com/part63.htm
http://www.winwenger.com/part72.htm
http://www.winwenger.com/part71.htm
http://www.winwenger.com/part73.htm
http://www.winwenger.com/part77.htm
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Removing Blocks:
Some of your classmates will complain about being
"blocked" in math or
history or whatever. Once the "Calm-Breathing
Patterns" (above) and, in
particular, the pattern called "Noise-Removal
Breathing," have been well
learned and practiced:
* Have the
students visualize the "blocked" subject in an open-close form
such as the textbook which can open and close, or the
classroom door, or
the instrument case, etc. Have them see it as closed.
* Have them stare
at that object and let themselves feel all the negative
feelings associated with it. As the breathing takes hold,
let them have
themselves feel those feelings fully and even exaggerate
them to expose
them fully to each "noise-removing" breath,
using those feelings up as
rapidly as their breath can carry them away.
* Only when all
those feelings are converted (see the original Noise-
Removing exercise) will the image open. Only let it open
spontaneously in
the vision, don't make it open.
* Once it is open,
the student is to "go in and play."
* Once it is
remaining open, and the student is amidst play therein,
have them also breathe for several minutes in the
deliciousness or
satisfaction patterns, awareness still fully on the
stimulus, to complete
the job of reconditioning what had once been a blocked
subject.
* In real-time, as
soon as possible, have the student into the subject
in actuality, enjoying it. The whole process may take 15
minutes, or it
may take several hour-long sessions, or something
in-between. Don't be
too surprised if the student turns out to have a gifted
knack in the
subject that had been "blocked." We don't
experience "blocks" in subjects
for which we have no aptitude - we usually don't involve
with those
subjects enough to be blocked. We get blocks in performance areas where
we had a strong need or a strong aptitude or a strong
interest and then
had gotten frustrated.
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Minimum Intervention:
While sometimes it's needful to take a strong, definite
hand, like that
to ride a horse: most of the time it's better, especially
in building a
Socratic relationship, to cultivate the art and the
science of making the
minimum intervention that gets the job done. I would like to encourage
you to do this. I
would like you to keep this minimum-intervention
principle in the back of your mind while familiarizing
yourself with some
of our articles related to modern Socratic Method.
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Acknowledging the source:
We will appreciate your letting people know where these
techniques come
from and how to contact their source, Project
Renaissance. We would even
be interested in developing and advancing your status
toward possibly
becoming one of our official trainers or representatives,
and possibly
heading up a program and team on your campus. Until you
have earned such
a status from us formally, however, please do not
represent yourself as
one of our trainers or as representing our program on
campus: only that
you are using our methods. Our conditions for becoming an
official
trainer are listed here:
http://www.winwenger.com/trainer.htm .
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COMMENTS and FEEDBACK
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A New Service Comparing Schools - by Win Wenger (
wwenger101@aol.com )
Standard & Poor's has developed a new and totally
accessible-to-parents
service comparing all schools, from county to county in
every state, in
much the same level of detail as it has long been
providing to investors
about Fortune 500 companies.
Yes, this throws yet a little more weight onto the
standardized tests
that educators rightfully complain not only tell a
somewhat misleading
story but damage education by inducing schools and
teachers to "teach to
the tests" instead of building skills and
understanding. However, a lot
of the data looks useful to parents (and to realtors) in
making choices
where best to send their child. You might want to take a good look at,
and even bookmark, this service, at
http://www.schoolmatters.com , to
learn more about educational conditions immediately
around you than you
might have thought you had known.
- Win Wenger (
wwenger101@aol.com )
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EASY GENIUS: Awakening Your Whole Brain to Build a More
Powerful Memory
(
http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=18398 )
by Chance Massaro and Steve Wallis is as innovative as it
is accessible,
using color screens to distinguish different sections on
a page so
readers can easily jump to the most useful and
interesting parts. The
authors have used the principles of Neuro-Linguistic
Programming (NLP)
and developed a process to make books more readable. It’s
kind of a
“book for people who don’t like to read books.” Despite
the huge content,
this book has only 80 pages. The Easy Genius layout
(Patent Pending)
represents a revolutionary improvement in readability.
Going beyond the five senses, Easy Genius gently analyzes
five cognitive
styles, many motivational types, and ten intelligences
that incorporate
many other learning techniques: musical, visual-spatial,
mathematical,
linguistic, and interpersonal, to name a few.
This book will benefit thinkers who want to be more
creative, managers
who want to absorb more, students who want to study less,
and the elderly
who want to enhance mental vigor. Finally, this book will
help everyone
learn more about themselves and one another. Read Easy
Genius to build
brilliance, memory, and motivation; save time, and have
fun! More
information on their website, http://www.easygenius.net
- Steve Wallis ( steve@easygenius.net )
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SOLVING PROBLEMS TOGETHER - Steve Hinton (
stephen.hinton@tele2.se )
Has anyone else experienced this - Applying
Image-Streaming tools (Over
the Wall, etc.) to problems like "How can I earn
more money" yields far
less rich, appealing results than questions about
"growing food in the
desert"? In fact, the majority of insights gained
around that kind of
question show solutions where people work together. I
would venture that
we evolved as tribal or group beings and our orientation
is towards
solving problems together.
A documentation of my own image-streaming sessions on
this theme can be
found at Inventing for the Sustainable Planet (
www.porena.blogspot.com ).
Click on "The point of this blog" or go
straight to here:
http://porena.blogspot.com/2004/09/read-this-if-you-are-new-to-blog.html
- Steve Hinton ( stephen.hinton@tele2.se )
Also visit the website: "A Very Beautiful
Place" (www.avbp.net )
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