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Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger
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November 2005 (Best viewed with
fixed-width font)
IN THIS ISSUE:
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Quote of the Month
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Announcements, News Items
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Events, Workshops
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FEATURE ARTICLE:
Sing-Song Technique for Learning Foreign Languages
- Mastaky
Salim
*
Comments, Feedback
Tom Kuby on
growth tools
Rich Watson
on when images don't make sense
Win Wenger
replies to Rich Watson's question
*
Questionnaire - "Which book title?"
*
Organizational Notes
*
Links
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH
From our Infamous Last Words collection:
"Everything
that can be invented has been invented."
-- Charles H.
Duell, Commissioner,
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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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IMAGE-STREAMERS' BUDDY SYSTEM - hosted
by Brian Theado. Participants
pair up and email each other
about once a week on their respective
progress and experiences,
encouraging each other and keeping each other
on target toward their
development goals. If you'd like to participate
and find a "buddy",
email your interest to:
- Brian_Theado ( brian.theado@gmail.com
)
Win Wenger says: I
most profoundly encourage you to become part of the
Image-Streamers' Buddy System.
You will expand your gains tenfold, in
some instances a hundred-fold.
Such an easy way to win so much effect,
and your doing so also helps
another to do so. Go for it.
...Win (wwenger101@aol.com )
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NEEDED: EXPERIMENTERS
FOR PROJECT RENAISSANCE RESEARCH
We're looking for a core group
of 30-40 committed participants to
explore and experiment with new
mind-development techniques. This team
would be the only ones privy to
the various synergistic experiments
offered and would be eligible to
learn the results at the conclusion of
the program. They'd
get to see the scripted instructions for various
experiments, in return for
committing to perform 2-3 of them and then
detailing to us their
observations and reactions. Be on the cutting edge
of the creativity and
brain-building field. No previous experience is
required. To sign up for this
team, email your name, address, goal and
interest to: Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com )
~~~
Jacob Morrow ( emorelease@cashette.com
) is interested in people who
currently have or would like to
start an Image-Streaming group in the
~~~
Sean Collins offers Win Wenger's Beyond OK as a 6-week home-study
course, sections delivered once
each week. Available as basic text only,
or a complete text plus audio
(mp3 or wma format) downloadable program.
See details on Sean's website,
http://www.pavlovpublishing.com/beyondok .
This package makes a great holiday gift, too.
~~~
Steve Hinton ( stephen.hinton@tele2.se
) publishes a blog, "Inventing for
the sustainable planet" (
http://porena.blogspot.com/2002/09/start-here-i-go-
through-looking-glass.html
), including transcripts of Image-Streaming
and the Beachhead process
(recently renamed Base Camp) for finding
solutions and inventions. Also visit Steve's website: "A Very Beautiful
Place" at www.avbp.net.
~~~
Ralph Cerchione ( figment@boone.net
) has a blog, "Future Imperative",
With a broad look at human
enhancement, from gene therapy to accelerated
learning, from neural implants
to smart drugs, from posthuman evolution
to the wildest flights of human
imagination. Check it out here:
http://futureimperative.blogspot.com
~~~
A thriving high thinktank group meets once a month in
mastery of the Project
Renaissance techniques and then apply these
skills to individual, community
and larger issues. Meeting dates:
24 November, 2005
15 December, 2005
For more information:
Rod Sherwin ( htt@modelthinking.com )
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EVENTS
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MONTHLY HIGH THINKTANK MEETINGS, 2005-2006
Thursday, 7:30 pm, December 8
Thursday, 7:30 pm, January 5
Thursday, 7:30 pm, February 9
Thursday, 7:30 pm, March 9
Thursday, 7:30 pm, April 13
Thursday, 7:30 pm, May 4
Thursday, 7:30 pm, June 1
Quince Orchard Public Library, Room "A"
(240-777-0200)
Directions:
From Route 270, take
the intersection with Route 28,
about four miles or so. Or take Route 28
West about five miles, just barely to
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.
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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;
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:
- December 8, 2005: "The Courage of Your Yearning: Using the
principles of creativity to
create a life lived from your deepest
gladness" by Juanita
Weaver, creativity consultant.
***
The Center for Creative Emergence
Programs:
- Tuesday, December 20, 2005: "The Power of Being
Present"
9:30am-5:00pm. Harrison Snow and Michelle James. Workshop
for leaders,
facilitators, team members.
Details:
www.creativeemergence.com/page17.html
- Now booking - Improviganza!
improvisational fun and games!
Details: www.creativeemergence.com
- Saturday, January 14, 2006 - 4:00-5:30pm - IAL
Conference:
"Improvisation for Dynamic Learning and
Creativity"
Details: www.ialearn.org
CCN Founder and Coordinator: Michelle James
CEO, The Center for Creative
Emergence & Quantum Leap Business Improv
Creativity Cultivating, Consulting and Coaching
www.creativeemergence.com
michelle@creativeemergence.com
703-760-9009
~~~
Upcoming CREATIVITY WORKSHOPS in
Creativity Workshop Studios
Tel: (212) 922-1555
Contact: Vivian
Glusman
Shelley Berc and Alejandro Fogel, directors
Join Creativity Workshops in 2006 for workshops in
way to learn and travel, and
they earn 3 university credits. Choose one
of their workshops (from June
through August 2006) in Crete,
are held in
March 24 - 27
April 21 - 24
May 19 - 22
Tuition: $650
SUMMER CALENDAR 2006
From $1,650 including tuition and
9-night accommodations.
More details on their website, http://www.creativityworkshop.com .
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METAFORUM INTERNATIONAL
Academy for Integrative Communication
Bernd Isert, President (
team@metaforum.com )
*
13th World Campus in
Personal and professional development, with professional
coaching,
NLP from practitioner to trainer, systemic structural
constellation
work, hypnotherapy, mediation,
and much more. Our approach is systemic,
neuro-linguistic and
integrative. Here learning, experiencing, joie de
vivre and international
encounters all belong to a greater whole.
Visit our English website here:
http://www.metaforum.com/english.html
And see photo galleries of last
year's events in
http://www.metaforum.com/english/soca04-gallery/index.html
http://www.metaforum.com/metaforum/winter2005_galerie/index.html
~~~
A WILD AND WOOLLY WEEKEND INVENTING
March 31-April 2 weekend, 2006. Beginning
9:00 a.m. Friday, March 31.
Where:
Tuition: Only $395 for this initial
offering, less various discounts.
Inquire to wwenger101@aol.com
Condensed into an impactful Friday, Saturday and Sunday
An Adventure in Inventing....more
details coming to the website.
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Feature Article:
SING-SONG TECHNIQUE FOR LEARNING
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
by
Mastaky Salim
In the field of human and personal growth, say
accelerative learning,
there are so many techniques on
the market, and people spend so much
money purchasing them. Others don’t even dare to buy them - although
they sense that something must
be done to improve their life - and get
discouraged because they think
the technique won’t work for them or
wait until it works for someone
else before taking the right steps.
We seem to forget that
definitely and individually
commit ourselves in putting the techniques
we learn into practice.
"Let go of the opinions and use what works for
you"!
Weeks ago, Dr. Win Wenger suggested a technique called Sing-Song for
learning foreign languages.
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Dr. Wenger:
"In talking about pole-bridging, I've often used as one
example conversational
sing-song. One converses normally except that he
sings what he says, operetta
style like the Mighty Mouse cartoon. Now
I'm intuiting - don't have my formal reasons for it fully
lined up yet -
that if one were to do this for
the language he is trying to learn, he
would learn it much faster and
perhaps better. A beginner could sing-song
written dialogues such as are
used in Suggestopedia. More advanced
students could carry on
sing-song conversations directly. Each should
alternate, or be followed by,
conversations in the same material
conducted in normal
conversational tones, more accurately reflecting
the actual patterns of the
language being learned. What I have on my
intuition thus far is that the
sing-song would engage many more areas
of the brain in the learning. Also, the different scansion and
other
effects would act as so many
different "handles" by means of which to
consciously hold onto the
language content involved, compared with much
fewer "hooks" or
handles or associations via conventional ways of learning
that content. Note, this is not
the same thing as singing scored or formal
music in a foreign language.
Different mechanisms, different parts of the
brain, and a much narrower
engagement."
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Being myself an avid language learner, I was the first to
take the
challenge and took it up with my
Spanish. I invested 8 entire days to
test whether what Dr. Wenger
intuited would work for me. Some reality:
Below you will see my different scores on my Spanish
exercises, which
included conversations and short
texts. These are my scores prior to the
experiment:
11/20; 11/17; 8/16; 8/16; 14/14(!);
10/18; 13/20; 2.5/7.
During the experiment, using the Sing-Song-technique, and
for newly made
exercises, my scores were as
followed:
16/18; 13/21; 17.5/19; 15/22; 18.5/20;
17/21; 16/18; 17/20!
In the week before the experiment, as you can see it, my
scores averaged
60.6%. During the experiment the
average is 81%, a difference of full
20%!! In terms of learning, this
is phenomenal!
Sometimes I could hear my melodies (in Spanish!) coming
back into my head
spontaneously at a time I wasn't
even exercising! Note that the 13/21
(lowest score) is explained by
the fact that I sing-sang after I made my
translations, whereas in the
other cases I did it prior to making the
translations...
It works!!
Mastaky Salim ( smastaky@hotmail.com
)
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smastaky@hotmail.com?subject=Sing-Song
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COMMENTS and FEEDBACK
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Tom Kuby [ kuby@lightstream.net
] writes, about "A Growth Tool for You
for Here and Now" (Project
Renaissance News Bulletin - November 4, 2005 )
You're always on the cutting
edge, dear Win. Helping people of all ages
see more than they can see;
enriching their lives. I applaud you!! I will
be speaking to people in a
community on aging - people contemplating
"What's Next!" in
their lives. I will pass on the information that you
furnished in "A Growth Tool
for You for Here and Now". The present is all
we have, isn't it? Best wishes,
-- Tom Kuby ( kuby@lightstream.net
)
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Rick Watson (
richardwwatson@yahoo.co.uk ) writes:
I have a little doubt - sometimes I feel things during
Image-Streaming
that do not make sense at all.
For example, in my last session I saw a
girl playing baseball, and I
felt that I was using her clothes without
using them; I felt the tight and
warm hat at my head, but I was not using
a hat, but I described the
sense. This happens to me a lot.
Another example is when I´m about 10 meters of distance
to a tree, but I
feel the smell and the texture
of the tree without putting my hand on it.
Is this normal? Should I
describe these things anyway?
-- Rick
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Win Wenger ( wwenger101@aol.com
) replies:
Yes, do describe. It's good that
you are noticing these - many people
don't notice because it doesn't
"fit the story," and their development is
correspondingly less rapid. The
key is noticing more - describing more -
noticing more - describing more,
until you have much more on your plate
from which to make sense of
things.
In ImageStreaming, you are consulting the 60-90% of your
brain whose
working language is that of
sensory images. To this part of the brain it
is natural, when looking at a
tree, to be reminded of its feel and smell
as well as its look, as part of
the sea of associations which well up for
you when you encounter even just
the distant visual experience of "a
tree."
One additional thing might be the bleed-through from
several parallel
simultaneous streams going on, out
of the actual hundreds we appear to
have at any given time.
"Conventional" ImageStreaming has made allowance
only for one stream at a time,
lest we further confuse people more than
we already have on such matters.
Again, do describe. Also, strengthen the
intention that the images carry
answer to a question or carry a special
message for you, so that
meanings don't scatter.
You are doing the right things, or you wouldn't
be picking up on such
phenomena - which are there, but
which haven't been described in the
literature.
It's an endlessly rich and
fascinating field of phenomena, and I'm so
very glad you are here sharing
in it for real.
-- Win ( wwenger101@aol.com )
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