Solving the 'Me'lennial Challenge
Host: ORMP
Strong Silent Types
Host: TBD
Common Sense Self Defense
/Bully Proof Tactics
Host: ORMP / Various
How Art Now?
Host: ORMP / Artist Michael Wayne Phillips
This series seeks to present, explore and discuss issues which
empower the greatest good; '...the individual', thus empowering society as a whole through enhanced vision of the self
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Some years ago, the communications psychologist John Marshall Roberts said at a talk I attended that there are three ways of converting people to a cause: by threat of force, by intellectual argument, and by inspiration.
The most effective of these methods, Roberts said, is aligning communication about your cause with the most deeply-held values and aspirations of your friends, relatives, neighbors, and fellow citizens. To get people’s total, lasting, and unwavering support, in other words, we should try neither to cajole them judgmentally nor convince them forcefully. We should inspire them toward a vision that they—not we—can really care about.
Which points to the potential problem of blindly using facts and science—be it climate science or demographic science—to “prove” the righteousness of our causes. Research shows that people tend to embrace data that support their life views and reject data that refute them. Whether we like this or not, it is a truth about how humans evaluate and make decisions. Having the “facts on our side” to make an argument more forcefully may not help if those facts and arguments refute someone’s view of life and the values that are precious to them.
The communication challenge, then, is to use our facts and science to skillfully and compellingly connect our causes not to what we think our friends, relatives, and fellow citizens should care about, but what they already do care about
from:
https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/science/what-it-takes-to-change-hearts-and-minds-20170223
Solving the 'Me'lennial Challenge
Hosted by One Road Many Paths
Solving the 'Me'llenial Challenge
Life is but a Song
A performance discussion addressing the problems of the millenial mind and it's impact on legacy and the self.
Strong Silent Types
Hosted by TBD
Domestic violence; how to prevent it, and what to do should this happen to you or someone you know.
Common Sense Self Defense
/Bully Proof Tactics
Hosted by One Road Many Paths - Spirited by White Tiger Kenpo
Developed through previous efforts, This series will show techniques in Common Sense Self Defense as well as ways to Bully Proof yourself. Tom Saviano of White Tiger Kenpo & Bully Proof Defense shares his thoughts on a Bully of any size. He also clearly points out that while Bully Proof self defense is one thing, there are also Moral, Ethical and Legal ramifications of defense against the Bully. There really is such a thing as Bully Proof Defense.
How Art Now?
With Artist Michael Wayne Phillips
Michaels art is a volcanic explosion of vibrant colors. He started at a young age influenced by a 20th century master named Marc Chagall . He first saw his works at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois. It was history from that moment on he knew what he wanted to do. He studied fine art as well as advertising and design in college and worked as an art restorer for many companies in Illinois. From there he became a Gallery Director selling art work from around the world while maintaining his painting, which was inspired by the artists that he met. Michael has also sold his sculptures and paintings for more than a decade. His clients enjoy his use of bright, vivid colors which create non discriminating images of people, still life's and landscapes. These pieces have touched their hearts in a unique, warm fashion.
He was later excepted into The Art institute Of Chicago,Illinois by three professors, for his art and design as well as a detailed diary kept of all his subjects he studied and the lives they lead. Michael stated that every one is very important in life, and they remain that way for ever in his heart.
Artists statement " In the eyes of the beholder an artist will remain immortal through his or her work, forever.
Michael is always seeing his world evolving around him! He loves to share this with everyone that has an open mind. Follow him at his site to see him transform his original works to limited editions on linen signed and numbered by the artist, as well as embellished by hand. Each one will be original in their own way. When the embellishments are placed on the surface of the linen, they will all have a unique look that will not be duplicated on the next executed print. And as the availability of each print shrinks the price will increase. For further information please contact the artist at his website.
Winning hearts and minds is a concept occasionally expressed in the resolution of war, insurgency, and other conflicts, in which one side seeks to prevail not by the use of superior force, but by making emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side.
The use of the term "hearts and minds" to reference a method of bringing a subjugated population on side, was first used by Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (a French General and colonial administrator) as part of his strategy to counter the Black Flags rebellion along the Indochina-Chinese border in 1895.[1]
More famously, it was used during the Malayan Emergency by the British who employed practices to keep the Malayans' trust and reduce a tendency to side with ethnic Chinese communists, in this case, by giving medical and food aid to the Malays and indigenous tribes. A British report of the time stated:
One impressive result of this campaign has been the extent to which Malay women are now taking part in political and social affairs — something still very uncommon among a Moslem people. So much for official measures to encourage racial unity. But both General Templer and his successor, Sir Donald MacGillivray, have insisted time after time that Malayan patriotism cannot be imposed from without or from above; it must develop in the hearts and minds of the Malayans themselves.[2]
A criticism at the time was that "[t]here is much talk of fighting for "the hearts and minds" of Malayans, but only blind obedience is demanded of them".[3]
During the 1960s, the United States engaged in a "Hearts and Minds" campaign in Vietnam. A similar "Hearts and Minds" campaign in Iraqwas carried out during the 2003 invasion and occupation of that country. The program was inspired by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. He used some version of the phrase "hearts and minds" a total of 28 times. In ten of these instances, Johnson inverted the words and used the phrase "minds and hearts." The first time he used the phrase in his presidency was on 16 January 1964, and the last time was 19 August 1968. In his usage he addressed very different audiences, including heads of state, congressmen, and the American people. Also, Johnson referred to the "hearts and minds" of disparate groups, including the above-mentioned audiences and even humanity as a whole. His use of the phrase is most commonly taken from the speech "Remarks at a Dinner Meeting of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, Inc." on 4 May 1965. On that evening he said, "So we must be ready to fight in Viet-Nam, but the ultimate victory will depend upon the hearts and the minds of the people who actually live out there. By helping to bring them hope and electricity you are also striking a very important blow for the cause of freedom throughout the world."
Johnson's use of the phrase is most likely based on a quote of John Adams, the American Revolutionary War patriot and second president of the United States, who wrote in a letter dated 13 February 1818: "The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations…. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution".[4] The phrase, "hearts and minds" is also found in a biblical quotation, in Philippians 4:7, although that passage does not address the "winning" of hearts and minds as a tactic.
The phrase "winning hearts and minds" has come to be used, often in a derisory sense, to refer to any endeavor by the United States to influence public opinion in foreign countries.
from: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winning_hearts_and_minds