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Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger
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December 2004 (Best viewed with
fixed-width font)
IN THIS ISSUE:
* Quote of the
Month
* Announcements
* Events/News
Items
* FEATURE ARTICLE:
"Tending
Toward the Arts - a Nine-Day Renaissance"
- a proposal
by Win Wenger
* Comments,
Feedback
Improve Your
Test Performance - Win Wenger
Helping Each
Other Move Forward? - Win Wenger
* Organizational
Notes
* Links
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
-
Jonathan Swift
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Merry Christmas, everyone! And may your Happy New Year
bring you health,
growth, wisdom, and good solutions and resolutions.
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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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** LATEST NEWS **
It has come to our attention that Project Renaissance
email addresses, thestream@winwenger.com and even wwenger101@aol.com, are being
stolen
and used for sending spurious email and spam, with
possibly virus-ridden
attachments. Please do not open such attachments! Such
mail is not from
us. It's regrettable that malicious mischief intrudes in
a medium of
communication that should be based on trust.
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For some great GIFT IDEAS, visit the book section,
http://www.winwenger.com/books.htm
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EVENTS
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Next High Thinktank Session - Monday, December 20, 2004 -
7:30 pm
Quince Orchard Public Library, Room "A"
15831 Quince Orchard Library
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.
Date/Time:
Monday, December 20, 7:30 pm. Try to get there 5-10 minutes
early, to ensure being there on time in finding your way
to a new location,
and because this time we will be running some key,
important, stuff near
the very beginning of the session. Most months we will be
meeting on
Thursday nights instead, but this first session, December
20, will be a
Monday evening.
Session and Topic:
The new meeting season starts with a bang — "A Third, Major New Avenue
to Your Greater, Beyond-Conscious Mind, Its Insights and
Resources." Most of the present methods of Project
Renaissance revolve
around either Socratic Method, or Einsteinian Method, or
combinations of
both. We now have a third major avenue to work with,
possibly as significant
and productive as the first two have been. Be a guinea
pig and explore with
us a really hot new method or so. This will be in a
problem-solving mode,
so bring with you two or more questions you'd really like
to solve or an
area or topic in which you'd really like to figure
something out or to
deepen your understanding in. Hot stuff on a cold night —
enjoy!
Snow is forecast from Sunday into Monday morning, but
roads should be
well clear by time of our session Monday night. Keep an eye on things
- the Montgomery County Library system closes if weather
conditions are
at all questionable. Phone (240-777-0200) if conditions
are in doubt. By
current forecasts, there should be no problem and I look
forward to
working with you in new realms of exploration.
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IAL CONFERENCE CALL SERIES
The International Alliance for Learning will host a
series of conference
calls with leaders in the field of Accelerated Learning,
Accelerative
Learning and other areas of human development - leading
up to the 2005
IAL International Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, January
13-16, 2005.
Further information is available from Chuck Bubar:
mailto:CBubar@aol.com
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Win Wenger is delivering a further UNIQUE TRAINER
TRAINING in London, UK
Due to the incredible success of the first-ever Project
Renaissance
Trainer Training in London, UK, we are offering a further
opportunity
for trainers to attend Module 1 and 2 of Win's unique
programme.
Module 1: February 24-26, 2005
Module 2: February 28-March 1, 2005
Venue - The October Gallery, Hoborn, London, UK
Places are very limited and special discounted rates are
available until
December 31, 2004. Contact Cora Robinson for further
information and
testimonials: mailto:cora@createexpress.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
Karen Bell, Administrative Associate
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.road-to-creation.com .
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Feature Article:
TENDING TOWARD THE ARTS
Win Wenger's proposal for
a Nine-Day Renaissance
Some of us have seen Win's poem in Beyond Teaching And
Learning, "Pier,"
cited as a protest at the human condition. Few of us have seen this
poem of his, however, which he thought might make an
appropriate seasonal item:
~~~
December Sun
Sleepy trees in
December sun,
Luminous
porcelain blue behind -
I hear you
settling in.....
Did I only
dream you bore
fluttering
green,
Gold and green
softly sighing?
The taste of
sun in the air?
Wet bank, wet
mud, wet leaves
Fill the air
without ever leaving the ground.
Close in, I see
your tops fall away to the sky
Only
suntastedreams left behind.
- Win Wenger
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A few of us know of Win's involvement with music - some
have tuned in
to the excerpt online at http://www.winwenger.com from
one of his Improvitaped pieces. Fewer of
us know, however, of Win's favorite
Project Renaissance workshop to teach: the Nine-Day Renaissance, about
which he writes:
* * *
"The Nine-Day Renaissance, in either art or music,
is my very favorite
to teach because it produces such beautiful work. Fun
also - some very
beautiful stuff is going on there besides the artwork.
Some really
incredible stuff was captured on video during our last
such workshop,
in 1984 in Philadelphia - the loss of that video, before
we could copy
it or use it, was one of several discouragements, the
other being the
sheer logistics of providing for such an experience in the
arts for a
group of people over nine days, back when we had no
material resources
to speak of, which led to our not conducting that
workshop experience
again.
" - But we would very much like to lead such a
workshop again! With
multiple videos, CDs, DVDs, etc. We need for this to be sponsored, by
and in the set-up of either a school or department of art
or of music.
This workshop would be for training in either music or
art, but not
both simultaneously.
"In such a training, we want a broad admixture of
participants, including
skilled and creative artists (or musicians), ten-thumbed
klutzes and tin
ears, and the variety of levels of skills and backgrounds
in-between. And
in any case we want there to be enough interest in music
or art to be
motivating.
For the already-skilled, the emphasis in the training
will be mostly on
enhancing creativity. For the initially unskilled
majority of us, some
emphasis on skills and techniques will be added, though
most such
techniques will be learned directly from the higher-brain
beyond-
conscious resources of each participant, rather than
formally taught.
"Such an adventure, in either art or music, belongs
right alongside our
work in improving intellectual and human abilities and
understandings
and, of course, qualities of experience. We see more and
more evidence
going by that the arts improve the development of the
intellect, and of
intelligence itself. Many of us also know personally that
the numinous
and affective qualities of a great piece of music or art
are the same
as the numinous and affective qualities which accompany
experience of a
great idea or understanding. Modern research is showing
that the brain
is physically changed by the experience of great music
(and likely also
by great art); that change is seen notably in those areas
of the physical
brain most identified with intellectual experience and
ability; and that
change is profoundly for the better.
"Action requested: everyone reading this, please
contact the music club,
art club, school of music or of art, university
department of music or of
art, or conservatory, nearest you on behalf of the
possibility of getting
that institution to experimentally host a new version of
our "Nine-Day
Renaissance," whether in art or in music. If your connection-making
does
result in such an event, you will have re-balanced a huge
part of our
effort and thrust toward a more fully human future. (You
will also receive
a tuition-free admission for two to this training.) Thank you.
- Win Wenger"
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COMMENTS and FEEDBACK
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Improve Your Test Performance, Especially on Standardized
Exams
- Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com )
Whether you are in college (GRE's) or in high school
(SAT's et al.),
whether you are the student, or someone else is whom you
care about -
I hope you will have time to take advantage of these few
simple methods,
especially since for several of them you need several
months' head start
before your tests. Please see the latest
"Winsights" article, posted at
http://www.winwenger.com/part79.htm .
Most of these procedures are not test-taking techniques -
you may need
other sources for that - but help you improve the very
qualities and
skills most such tests are supposed to be testing for.
Several of them
help you keep your cool DURING the test.
Hoping for your elevated success... - Win Wenger
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Helping Each Other Move Forward? - Win Wenger
(wwenger101@aol.com)
We have briefly used a buddy system twice, with good
results, when some
members of our workshops wanted to pursue some
developmental goals.
People paired with each other by email, announcing their
own schedule by which they would be practicing problem-solving by some method
or other,
then daily or once per week reporting to their partner
what their results were. Some of our members were able to meet high goals this
way, using
each other as leverage, where it is unlikely they could
have achieved
those goals working alone.
New Year's Resolution time is only a couple of weeks
away.
We've a good many tools lying around which could be made
the means of one
form or another of significantly positive personal
development.
We have not yet formalized a buddy system to facilitate
that in a highly
agreeable and efficient way, and one that would be
self-motivating. Has
anyone reading this experienced any kind of mutual
mentoring or buddy
system in other contexts? Does anyone reading this have
ideas for the
highly effective design of such a system?
Does anyone reading this have goals he or she would like
to achieve for
which practice of one or more of the Project Renaissance
methods would
be helpful?
Please reply to me at (
mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=BuddyGoals ),
under the easily spotted heading of "Buddy
Goals." Thank you.
- Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com )
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A RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, member writes:
I am interested in receiving your handbook of resources
and
suggestions/instructions for forming a local thinktank. I
am a partner
in a Metaphysical and Spiritual Center (EnerPeace) in Richmond,
Virginia.
Our mission is to provide services, spiritual counseling,
healing touch,
and classes. I have been planning to start a class on the
topics I study,
so I thought your resources might be beneficial. I
learned of you a year
and a half ago from one of my partners, who speaks very
highly of Image-
Streaming and your work.
- Ralph Poupore ( rpoupore@yahoo.com )
[Editor's Note:
Project Renaissance members in the Richmond area might
like to contact Ralph at his email address to explore
setting up a local
thinktank in that area, and adding Project Renaissance
techniques to the
group's studies.]
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