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<br />jayghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154797122140112262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422463797657712940.post-43813428715625656902017-12-18T21:43:00.001-08:002018-01-01T22:09:01.448-08:00Friday 1-12-18 | Patterns of a Flourishing Society: The Utah Citizen Summit and Beyond | John Kesler<h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">John T. Kesler is an attorney, facilitator, consultant and lecturer residing in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is the founder and president, Salt Lake Civil Network</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">The culture wars in the US have brought people together to protest against racial </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">and ethnic violence, xenophobic policies, violence against women, and LGBTQ rights. </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Perpetually lost in the battle for human rights are people who live with disabilities. Disability is </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">almost universally seen as a tragedy or affliction. Hitler’s mass extermination of disabled </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">Germans was labeled tough minded mercy, at Nuremberg. Today, prominent ethicist Peter </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Singer and others argue that it is morally justifiable to euthanize disabled infants. Social policies </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">often prohibit disabled people from working. People with mental health disabilities such as </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">depression are viewed with pity or as morally deficient. Yet, drawing strength from the civil </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">rights and women’s rights movement, disabled people are rejecting society’s perpetual </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">ableism, and fighting for equal rights. This discussion will illuminate how disabled people and </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">disability culture are part of the diverse tapestry of society, not in spite of our disabilities but </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;">because of our disabilities. We will also address commonalties in combatting benevolent </span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">ableism, with fighting against heterosexism, sexism, and ethnocentrism. Moving past the silos </span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">of individual identity group advocacy, we will explore a disability rooted approach of universal </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">access, combined with critical diversity theory and intesectionality. </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></span></div>
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jayghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154797122140112262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422463797657712940.post-38919058375395290892017-06-07T06:25:00.000-07:002017-06-13T21:18:23.621-07:00 Thurs 6-15-17 | The Anarchist within Us | Travis Marker<h3 style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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Travis Marker is the CEO and founder of Scrivener’s Quill: A Center for Lawyers and Literature. Mr. Marker graduated with a double major in English and History from Weber State University and received his law degree and certificate in dispute resolution from Willamette University College of law. Travis <span style="font-size: 13.2px;">then earned a Master of Laws in dispute resolution from Bond University in</span> Australia Mr. Marker is the most active scholar presenting CLE (Continuing Legal Education) on literature's application to the practice of law. He has presented to hundreds of attorneys throughout the United States on the subject.</div>
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Dr. Parker’s life's work is dedicated to creating and sustaining inclusive environments, which led him to create the Center for Creating Community. He has worked with organizations such as schools and universities, law enforcement, domestic violence centers, juvenile justice centers, government agencies, and community groups focused on social justice across the country, Canada, and Portugal. Dr. Parker has served as the chairperson of the Citizens Advisory Board and as the Senior Advisor to the Chief of Police of the Salt Lake City Police Department. This experience deepened his lifelong respect and admiration for the men and women who choose law enforcement for their career. His doctoral degree is from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh in Educational Leadership with a focus on cultural transformation.</div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">We live in the an age in which humans have become the single biggest force for change throughout Earth’s biosphere. The <span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana"; font-size: 12px;">Anthropocene</span> is a time of planetary climate disruption and the Sixth Great Extinction. Across oceans, atmosphere and land; water, life and ice humanity is engaged in a wholesale dismantling of our life support system.</span></span><br />
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Dr. Robert Davies is a physicist and public interest communicator whose work focuses on synthesizing a broad range of sustainable systems science―including climate, energy, food, and economics. He is also co-creator of The Crossroads Project, a performance art and communication project weaving together information, imagery and music to effect more visceral communication of the challenges ahead. Dr. Davies is adjunct professor in Utah State University’ Department of Plants, Soils and Climate and a past Associate of the Utah Climate Center. He has taught on the faculty of three universities; worked as project scientist for Utah State University’s Space Dynamics Laboratory; as technical liaison for NASA’s International Space Station project; and served as an officer and meteorologist in the United States Air Force.<br />
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<a href="https://theanthropocene.org/#chapter-0" target="_blank">The Anthropocene</a> ― a website that’s part of a new film project from Edward Burtynsky. The assignment is to spend 20 minutes exploring the website.<br />
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Robert Davies is a primary architect of this very illuminating and high quality artistic endeavor: <a href="http://www.thecrossroadsproject.org/" target="_blank">The Crossroads Project</a>. Besides the videos and NPR piece, take time to explore the submenus. Lot's of valuable information.<br />
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Whether your attention is drawn to the toxic climate of U.S. politics, or your sights are set closer to home on the significant social issues facing Mormonism, never before have there been so many strident and differing viewpoints competing in the same space. </div>
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Join us for a walk on the contemplative side at our March Think Again. Lifelong meditator and facilitator, Thomas McConkie, will guide a process to help bring greater clarity to your convictions as well as a deeper humility to allow others to do the same.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's one thing to talk about refugees and what is best for them—or for what is best for host countries taking them in. It's another thing to actually talk to refugees and hear their stories and ask them questions. Especially refugees affected by President Trump's recent executive order. That's what we will do at this next Think Again thanks to Tiffany Ivins suggestion and her creation of a panel of refugees that she will moderate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Tiffany and her husband Mitchell originated our Think Again group. They both have vast experience seeking to improve educational opportunities among women and children in far away places. Tiffany has a doctorate in </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">instructional psychology and technology and is an International development consultant with experience in Asia, Africa & Latin America. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Nour Eddin arrived in Utah in March of 2015 with his wife and family of five children. They fled Damascus, Syria, in 2011 and spent time living in Libya and Egypt. Nour is a chef who owned a restaurant and catering business in Syria, Libya, and Egypt. With help from the Spice Kitchen Incubator in Salt Lake County, Nour Eddin is working to grow his catering business with the hopes of opening a restaurant.</span></div>
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">Because of his love and concern for refugee families of all national origins, Nour Eddin organized the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/utahjasmine/" target="_blank">Jasmine Community of Utah</a> in November of 2016. This non-profit organization receives donations and provides resources to local refugee families throughout the Salt Lake City area.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u><a href="http://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/future-balance-how-conflict-syria-impacting-needs-concerns-and" target="_blank">A Future in the Balance: How the conflict in Syria is impacting on the needs, concerns and aspirations of young people across the Middle East</a></u></span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simple idea: Breathing clean air makes for better health and a better quality of life. Dirty air creates all kinds of health problems especially effecting children, seniors, and those with asthma and allergies. Studies have also shown a correlation with slower brain function, ADHD and Autism. All this without even touching the effects of greenhouse gasses and climate change. </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What can be done? Actually a lot, as demonstrated by Jared Campbell. Jared will share what he has personally done—like building a modest, cost-effective net-positive passive solar home as well as other lifestyle choices, as well as making a very public plea through his annual "Running Up For Air" endurance mountain challenge that he created to raise money in support of the fight for improved air quality for those who live along the Wasatch Front. Jared will lead a discussion in what is being done and what we can do to have cleaner air and better health for all. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>About Jared:</b><br />Jared is a modest family man who is warm, intelligent, and generous but also remarkable in ways few know because of that modesty. Jared has shared how to improve air quality through various methods in many venues, including <i><a href="https://thinkagainslc.blogspot.com/2015/04/april-16-energy-consumption-production.html" target="_blank">at a prior Think Again</a>.</i> </span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jared is the Chief Engineer of the Advanced RF and Mechanical Design Group at L-3 Communications in Salt Lake City. With over 10 years of experience at L-3, Jared has acted as a design engineer, team-lead, project lead, Systems Engineer, and Chief Technologist. In 2012, Jared was recognized as an L-3 Corporate-level "Engineer of the Year." Prior to working in industry, Jared attended the University of Utah in the engineering program and working as a research assistant in the computational and physical fluid dynamics laboratories. As avid rock climbers and trail runners, Jared and his wife have traveled the country and world in search of beautiful places, wonderful people, and unique culture. In 2011 they completed their goal of building a net-positive home in Sugarhouse, which has exceeded their performance expectations, producing all of the home's heat, hot water, electricity, and energy for their electric vehicles using basic passive solar design principles and a PhotoVoltaic Array. Jared also serves on the Board of Directors for Reach Out and Learn, a Utah-based nonprofit group that works to improve the lifestyle of individuals, families, and communities in need.</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jared is also highlighted in the documentary covering the secretive and notorious Barkley Marathons. Here's how his main adventure buddy, Buzz, describes him:</span></span><br />
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Jared is indeed the best athlete many people have never heard of. He’s not on Facebook, but has heli-kayaked in New Zealand, climbed over 50 5.13 routes, biked, climbed, run, and canyoneered all over, and dragged my sorry *ss through the scratchiest bushes you’ve ever seen. Instead of quitting school and asking outdoor companies to sponsor him, he’s the Lead Engineer at a high-profile firm; instead of talking about himself on social media he spends quality time with his family, and rather than thinking it’s cool to live out the back of truck, he designed, built, and lives in a Net-Positive House: it produces more energy than it uses for all its heating, lighting, and even transportation requirements."</span></span></div>
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jayghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154797122140112262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422463797657712940.post-3944028919347204822016-11-09T20:36:00.001-08:002016-11-10T21:27:42.164-08:00Thursday, November 17 | Exploring Our Political Opponents<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Simple idea: Spend some time seeking to understand and empathize with your political opposite. This evening will be most successful if we come prepared with some ground-work laid as well as an open mind and heart. Then come ready to enjoy a facilitated discussion regarding what we discovered and how we might help our community and nation following the election come together in policies and actions that will create a better tomorrow. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Think Again has become a beloved community of mostly progressives and liberals. I would love to see us, especially following this election, seek greater understanding and reconciliation with those different than us. Even better, I'd love those same people we see at times as the "crazy other" to be a part of our community and help us be better at "thinking again." </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Will you please take the time to participate in the exercises below and come prepared to share next Thursday your thoughts? The only way I see forward is through individuals and communities taking the time to see each other as fellow flawed human beings needing greater understanding, respect, and compassion for one another. This won't result in us agreeing on some of the most divisive issues (nor should it) but it will mean we can find ways to balance each other's views and beliefs in healthy and more productive ways.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1"><b>Jacob Hess</b> is the author of 13 peer reviewed articles exploring contrasting narratives of mental health and sociopolitical issues. He currently directs the <a href="http://alloflife.org/"><span class="s2">non-profit, </span><span class="s3">All of Life</span></a> which offers free online classes exploring applications of mindfulness for those facing mental health challenges. Jacob has (co)authored three books: <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/478/red-state-blue-state?act=1"><span class="s3">You’re Not as Crazy as I Thought, But You’re Still Wrong</span></a>, <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B606EMrTXlqRWWdENkZ2bHY5QUE"><span class="s3">Once Upon a Time…He Wasn’t Feeling It Anymore</span></a> and <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B606EMrTXlqRWGF3S2lSTmwtc3M/view?usp=sharing"><span class="s3">A Third Space: Proposing Another Way Forward in the LGBT/Religious Conservative Impasse (Disagreement Practice, Treasonous Friendship & Trustworthy Rivalry in the Face of Irreconcilable Difference</span></a>). Two other projects – <a href="http://redbluedictionary.org/"><span class="s4">Red Blue Dictionary</span></a> and My Science Can Beat Up Your Science, will be released this fall. His work with Phil Neisser at State University of New York has been featured on <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/478/red-state-blue-state?act=1"><span class="s3">This American Life</span></a> and was <a href="http://readme.readmedia.com/SUNY-Potsdam-Associate-Dean-Philip-Neisser-Honored-with-Founders-Award-from-Public-Conversations-Project/11983176"><span class="s2">recently honored by </span><span class="s3">Public Conversations Project</span></a>. As a proud partner of <a href="http://livingroomconversations.org/"><span class="s3">Living Room Conversations</span></a></span><span class="s5">, <a href="http://villagesquareutah.org/"><span class="s6">the Village Square</span></a></span><span class="s1"> and a long-term member of the <a href="http://ncdd.org/"><span class="s3">National Coalition of Dialogue & Deliberatio</span><span class="s2">n</span></a>, Jacob’s life work is dedicated to making space for thoughtful, good-hearted people to find understanding (and affection) while exploring together the deepest of disagreements.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Shelly Jenson</b> stems from a lineage of highly analytical and intelligent people who thought they could think their way out of the chaos-of-daily-living. Shelly gave it her best shot but failed, only to find that she valued the mind less than the sharing of hearts. And so, Shelly now spends her free-time cultivating a lifestyle in which connection, sincerity and empathy are the foundation. Shelly’s passions include silence, mediation, contemplating the infinite capacity of the human heart and discovering deep connections with the Spirit of Life in it’s many form. Above all else, Shelly adores the gift she has been given to raise two tremendously rare beings, Hannah and Nicholas, who are her greatest joy and most powerful teachers. Shelly also wonders why she needs to write her bio from the perspective of the third person: a wink and a nod to the oddities of life!</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Shelly is a student of the Buddhist meditation called <a href="https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/index"><span class="s2">Vipassana</span></a>. She volunteers with a local non-profit environmental group called <a href="http://wildutahproject.org/"><span class="s2">Wild Utah Project</span></a> studying sage grouse habitat and the effects of longterm cattle ranching. Shelly is a <a href="https://energyhealingslc.com/2016/06/15/jin_shin_jyutsu_slc/"><span class="s2">practitioner of Jin Shin Jyutsu which is the ancient Japanese art of harmonizing the life-force energy of an individual, which is derived from the natural wisdom within each of us.</span></a> Her business is called <a href="https://energyhealingslc.com/2016/06/15/energy_healing_slc_me/"><span class="s2">Effortless Harmony</span></a> and is located in Sugarhouse. Shelly also studies ancient, indigenous ways of living at the non-traditional school called <a href="http://www.floweringmountain.com/"><span class="s2">Flowering Mountain</span></a>, located in New Mexico.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Consider that in very real ways, perceptions become realities. Information and experience inform our perceptions and therefore shape our reality. It follows then that we change reality by changing our perceptions through new information and experience.</span></span></div>
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<li class="li1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What are three goals your political opposition wants to accomplish that you can also get behind and help advance?</span></span></li>
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<li class="li1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Invite three people whom you believe to be politically different than you to come to this evening’s Think Again. </span></span></li>
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<li class="li1"><span class="s1"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Come this Saturday to some part (if not all) of the <a href="http://www.saltlakecivilnetwork.org/utah-citizen-summit/"><span class="s7">Utah Citizen Summit</span></a></b></span></span></li>
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While much progress has ben made in recent years regarding brain science and its application, myth and misunderstanding too often get in the way of truth. In this discussion we will learn what has been discovered, why and how we can use neuroscience to increase understanding of ourselves and others, and other brain basics which can help maximize learning and retention.</div>
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Topics for discussion include brain biology, diet, “tricks” for remembering things, keeping the brain active, and general brain health. </div>
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<span class="s1"><b>About Kellie:</b></span></div>
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Kellie learned to break the rules of learning first in kindergarten. As an otherwise exceptionally bright 5 year old she struggled to pass the reading assessment. Her hangup was following the rules the teacher had taught, sounding out every letter. This made her appear “slow” and resulted in having to re-read the same books over and over, despite desperately wanting to read new books. Privately she was reading whole words or even groups of words but she feared breaking the teacher’s rules out loud. One day she messed up and broke the rule, she just said the word, and was warmly congratulated- never realizing previously that was the whole point. </div>
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Kellie's is a admitted introvert, who’s love of learning shines in her eyes as she exudes a passion for learning that is infectious to her audience. For the past decade the passion of her life is helping others discover and develop the skills to learn.</div>
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Kellie has an exceptionally fine tuned ear, and was on a musicians path in high school excelling as a cellist and singer. In college she gave up her Music Major after needing surgery on her arms. She made up the coursework and graduated in four years with a degree in Technology and Industrial Education. </div>
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Still a rule follower at heart, Kellie has become an expert in helping others learn. Kellie can be found presenting and meeting with Utah teachers, administrators and policy makers as she presents at conferences around the state, consults with legislators, and sits on government and nonprofit boards.</div>
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Kellie is a Trainer in the intersection of Neuroscience and Education being certified by Pat Wolfe, internationally recognized neuroscience and education researcher. Kellie is currently employed as the STEM Liaison and Outreach Specialist for the State of Utah at the STEM Action Center where she oversees Professional Development and STEM School Designation. She LOVES animals, is witty, a cellist & music teacher, a retired record setting sudoku player, a certified Genius, can hear people’s eyelids blink, and an avid reader who read over 600 books last year according to her kindle- which doesn't count the paperbacks.</div>
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jayghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154797122140112262noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422463797657712940.post-82584490795013843992016-06-22T05:45:00.005-07:002016-08-14T10:35:20.007-07:00August 18 | Living and Dying in the Modern Age: Living Wills, Control, and Mortality<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">The ICU is a new world, one in which once-fatal diseases can be cured and medical treatments greatly enhance our chances of full recovery. But, paradoxically, these places of physical healing can exact a terrible toll, and by focusing on technology rather than humanity, they too often rob the dying of their dignity. By some accounts, the expensive medical treatments provided in ICUs also threaten to bankrupt the nation.</span><br />
<br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">In an attempt to give patients a voice in the ICU when they might not otherwise have one, the living will was introduced in 1969, in response to several notorious cases. These documents were meant to keep physicians from ignoring patients’ and families’ wishes in stressful situations. Unfortunately, despite their aspirations, living wills contain static statements about hypothetical preferences that rarely apply in practice. And they created a process that isn’t faithful to who we are as human beings. Further confusing difficult and painful situations, living wills leave patients with the impression that actual communication with their physicians has taken place, when in fact their deepest desires and values remain unaddressed.</span><br />
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<br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;" /><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: normal;">Arguing that any solution to the problems of the inhumanity of intensive care must take advantage of new research on the ways human beings process information and make choices, Brown imagines a truly humane ICU. His manifesto for reform advocates wholeness and healing for people facing life-threatening illness.</span><br />
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jayghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154797122140112262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422463797657712940.post-68480948665277265962016-06-22T05:45:00.002-07:002016-06-22T06:13:14.256-07:00June 30 | How Crazies in the Past Might Have Described Our Present and How You Might Predict the Future<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 20.5333px;">Imagine yourself living a century ago, making predictions about coming events. Who would have foreseen the Great Depression, hyperinflation, World War II, the nuclear era, the Cold War, the Civil Rights movement, the collapse of colonial empires, today's technological marvels, or the massive social upheaval which attended these? We invite you to read one author's descriptions (attributed to people associated with the Dada movement and Zürich, Switzerland in 1916) and share your observations about our wildly improbable present. We would also like your predictions about what significant events or trends will occur in the coming decades.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 20.5333px;">San Francisco native. Father, a veteran of the Big Red One and school teacher, had pioneer ancestry on maternal line (Parkers, Knowltons, Corays, Dusenberrys). Mother, a social worker and musician, had pioneer ancestry on paternal line (Walls, Josephsons, Hendriksensd from Sweden and Denmark). Grew up in San Jose, California. 5th of 6 children. We drove parents to early graves. Main family misfit (only registered Democrat, only divorced sibling). Professional student for many years, until death and incapacity of parents prompted pursuit of employment and marriage. Finally ended up with B.A. in German, M.L.S (Masters in Library Science), and M.A. in Comparative Literature (all from BYU). I sired three bright, aspiring children, and have grandchildren. Worked for many years for FamilySearch.org, Salt Lake City and County Library systems. Aspiring writer, researcher, and Weltverbesserer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 20.5333px;"><i>Kristen Rogers Iversen</i> is a writer who wrote a fairly influential article about Mormons and the environment for Earth Day way back in 1990. An award winning but mostly unpublished fiction writer, she has a mild obsession with juniper trees (enough to spend years researching and writing a book) and is currently investigating the Divine Feminine and Nature. She's a therapeutic musician bringing music care to the ill and dying, and is on the board of Gandhi Alliance for Peace. In her checkered past, she has been on a city council, planning commission, various boards, editor and manager at the Utah State Historical Society, and a bunch of other things.</span></span></div>
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<li><a href="http://storyofstuff.org/" target="_blank">The Story of Stuff </a><br />Watch “The Story of Stuff” video if you haven't seen it, then explore solutions in other videos—like “The Story of Change”and in their podcasts. Also see their resources on how to be an agent for change.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN1eSMXI_6Y" target="_blank">Call to Earth</a><br />See beautiful images of the earth from space and hear perspectives of astronauts on the need to protect the earth. This video was made for delegates at the climate change talks in December 2015.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.treepeople.org/resources/tree-benefits?gclid=CjwKEAjw_oK4BRDym-SDq-aczicSJAC7UVRtKzqdkGGspxlbzQfxzppWY0pkg3LOSMZeG0JuOV6ZpRoCvKLw_wcB" target="_blank">Top 22 Benefits of Trees</a><br />Since we're involving a tree in our discussion, you might want to look at some beautiful ways that trees help us. (We also might want to return the favor!)</li>
<li><a href="http://peacemusic.net/">Peacemusic.net</a><br />Some excellent writings on stewardship by Kristen</li>
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<li><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u>"American Buddhism" by Gyomay M. Kubose (http://amzn.to/1QLhOw4)</u></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><u>"Buddhism Without Beliefs” by Stephen Batchelor (http://amzn.to/1LiY5kV) </u></span></span></li>
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jayghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154797122140112262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422463797657712940.post-3790175829978708492016-02-10T19:35:00.000-08:002016-06-22T05:53:41.728-07:00February 18 | Liberation and Development<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;">
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<li><a href="http://overcomingapartheid.msu.edu/multimedia.php?id=65-259-11" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">http://overcomingapartheid.<wbr></wbr>msu.edu/multimedia.php?id=65-<wbr></wbr>259-11</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span></li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 20.5333px;">Dave Shuler is an anthropologist, believer, teacher, farmer, every-day-philosopher and friend. His academic and professional studies have been centered mostly on international development, world cultures and religion, which naturally guided him to take up the academic study of happiness. Dave genuinely loves the mountains, good conversation, and difficult questions. He is delighted by his grandchildren, his own stupid-humor, silly or incredibly sad movies and ice cream. </span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Tal Ben Shahar (Harvard professor of
positive psychology): </span><a href="https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=happiness+101+with+tal+ben-shahar&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-003" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=happiness+101+with+tal+ben-shahar&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-003</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Dan Gilbert (Professor at University of
Texas and Harvard in Social Psychology) :</span><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy?language=en" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_gilbert_asks_why_are_we_happy?language=en</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Brenna Brown (Research professor at
University of Houston) </span><a href="https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=brenna+brown+vulnerability&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=brenna+brown+vulnerability&ei=UTF-8&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004</a><br /><a href="http://brenebrown.com/videos/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://brenebrown.com/videos/</a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">Mattias Ricard (Tibetan Buddhist monk
and PhD in Molecular Genetics): </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p_GKCr8rq8&list=PLRHqAp0F1xeks5-1pf5hqaBII-bL9xe7d" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p_GKCr8rq8&list=PLRHqAp0F1xeks5-1pf5hqaBII-bL9xe7d</a></li>
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(audio): </span><a href="https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVihTnplW_FgA_SwnnIlQ;_ylc=X1MDMTM1MTE5NTY4NwRfcgMyBGZyA3locy1tb3ppbGxhLTAwNARncHJpZAN2bnpWZXRFclFQcVpTUklUZ3oudVZBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwM0BG9yaWdpbgNzZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tBHBvcwMwBHBxc3RyAwRwcXN0cmwDBHFzdHJsAzUz" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-indent: -0.25in;">https://search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=A0LEVihTnplW_FgA_SwnnIlQ;_ylc=X1MDMTM1MTE5NTY4NwRfcgMyBGZyA3locy1tb3ppbGxhLTAwNARncHJpZAN2bnpWZXRFclFQcVpTUklUZ3oudVZBBG5fcnNsdAMwBG5fc3VnZwM0BG9yaWdpbgNzZWFyY2gueWFob28uY29tBHBvcwMwBHBxc3RyAwRwcXN0cmwDBHFzdHJsAzUzBHF1ZXJ5A0V1ZGFpbW9uaWEgYW5kIGdyZWVrIHBoaWxvc29waGVycywgaGFwcGluZXNzLCB5b3V0dWJlBHRfc3RtcAMxNDUyOTA4NDY1?p=Eudaimonia+and+greek+philosophers%2C+happiness%2C+youtube&fr2=sb-top-search&hspart=mozilla&hsimp=yhs-004</a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></li>
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good audio/video (mostly on Youtube) which are good: Just type into Youtube any
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<span class="s1">Formerly a university administrator, teacher educator, and adjunct professor at Utah Valley University, Karen Wilson Pool is an author and motivational speaker. She teaches a Life Creation Process that encourages individuals to invent their lives by creating a flexible 5-year plan. She’s the author of Transformational Thinking, Celebrating Women’s Voices, Designing Your Life Vision, and The Golden Thread. She is currently working on a book about midlife and a children's story.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.5333px;">Rod Miller’s first collection of poetry, Things a Cowboy Sees and Other Poems, won the Westerners International award for poetry and was named Best Poetry Book by the Academy of Western Artists. “Tabula Rasa,” a poem from the collection, won the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Poem. A poem from his latest collection, Goodnight Goes Riding and Other Poems, “Song of the Stampede,” was a Finalist for the WWA Spur Award. His poems have appeared in several periodicals and anthologies, including New Plains Review, New Poets of the American West and the award-winning Brushstrokes and Balladeers. In addition to poetry, Miller writes for several magazines and is author of five novels, numerous anthologized short stories, four history books, and a movie for children. </span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">National Cowboy Poetry Gathering: The Anthology</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, Foreword by Baxter Black</span></li>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.1999998092651px; line-height: 20.533332824707px;">She began her doctoral studies at the University of Utah, defending a dissertation on contemporary art and education practices in museums in 2004. She was Senior Educator at BYU’s Museum of Art where she taught and authored works for the museum; the Director of the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah; and finally, before her retirement, the Curator of the Utah State Capital during a four-year renovation project. She authored a book on the project. </span></span></div>
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jayghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154797122140112262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422463797657712940.post-11104452299061441632015-07-12T15:29:00.002-07:002019-11-03T08:06:54.418-08:00July 16: Stolen Innocence: India’s Untold Story of Human Trafficking<h2>
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<span class="s1">India is the epicenter of human trafficking – Every 4 minutes, an innocent girl is kidnapped, bound, stripped of her virginity and forced into a life of prostitution. The United Nations has deemed India the most dangerous place in the world to be a girl. With 150,000 children per year sold into slavery, India now has 2-3 million prostitutes. Without a voice, without a choice, these girls are violently trafficked into the worlds largest sex ring. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Photographer and adventurer Lindsay Daniels was born in Los Angeles County, California, before moving with her family to live her formidable years under the shadows of the Wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah. She grew up with an insatiable appetite for exploring different peoples, cultures and lands, leading her to take degrees in Sociology and International Studies, respectively, as well as acquiring a minor in Arabic. During her time at University she had the opportunity to travel through most of Central Europe, as well as the Middle East, spending the majority of her time in Amman, Jordan. After concluding her studies, she went on to explore various parts of Asia, including Vietnam and Cambodia. This drive to explore the world is what sparked Lindsay’s passion for photography and story telling. Her most recent project took her all across the country of India and Nepal, joining forces with Effect International and the crew of Stolen Innocence to film a documentary on the ever-growing issue of sex trafficking. </span></div>
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<li><a href="http://www.stolendocumentary.com/">http://www.stolendocumentary.com</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.freetheslaves.net/">http://www.freetheslaves.net</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.halftheskymovement.org/">http://www.halftheskymovement.org</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/sunitha_krishnan_tedindia?language=en" target="_blank">Sunitha Krishnan: The fight against sex slavery TEDtalk</a> </li>
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jayghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17154797122140112262noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3422463797657712940.post-69870146134377327572015-05-14T22:18:00.001-07:002015-05-28T08:16:26.854-07:00June 5: Multi-generational trauma as a precursor to addiction in communities <h3>
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The LDS Church has a history of trauma and transitions that has become part of it’s culture and identity as a whole. We will look at the historical and cultural perspectives and use on mood-altering substances, and it’s connection to trauma and transition. For Faith Again two weeks later, we will explore the impact a strong spiritual community and family have in the role of healing from trauma and addiction. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> </span></div>
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James Ott is Founder, Executive Director, and a therapist at Red Willow Counseling and Recovery, a mental health and addiction clinic in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. He is a Certified Intervention Professional (CIP) and a Certified ARISE Interventionist (CAI) and part of the core ARISE clinical team. His outpatient practice helps people with general mental health difficulties, relationship challenges, and life transitions, and specializes in substance abuse and it’s impact on families. As an interventionist, he provides a family centered invitational intervention to promote whole family healing. </div>
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This discussion will begin with an overview of Jared's home project and a look at the results and costs after 4 years of operation. The goal is to equip the audience with what is possible and what is not, at the residential level on a reasonable budget. The discussion will then broaden to the net impact of this project and the future of energy in our lives. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"> </span><br />
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<span class="s1">Jared is a father, husband, trail runner, and lifetime resident of Utah. He attended the University of Utah’s engineering program where he studied fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and robotics. Jared is currently the Chief Technologist at a local engineering company where he has worked for 13 years. In his spare time, he is passionate about applying science and engineering principles towards solutions related to energy self-sufficiency and in 2011 he and his wife completed their goal of building a net-positive home in Sugarhouse, which has exceeded their expectations, producing all of the energy required for home heating, hot water, electricity, and “fuel” for their electric vehicles using basic passive solar design principles, thermally efficient building practices, and a PhotoVoltaic solar array for energy harvesting. Jared has given numerous public presentations about his home project and finds great joy in motivating others to think about change. Jared is also a board member of <a href="http://www.breatheutah.org/" target="_blank">Breathe Utah</a></span></div>
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<li class="li1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://cityhomecollective.com/campbells-net-home/"><span class="s2">http://cityhomecollective.com/campbells-net-home/</span></a></span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/smaller-faster-lighter-denser-cheaper"><span class="s2">http://radiowest.kuer.org/post/smaller-faster-lighter-denser-cheaper</span></a></span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.johnsavesenergy.com/"><span class="s2">http://www.johnsavesenergy.com/</span></a></span></li>
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<li class="li1"><span class="s1"></span><span class="s2">How do you feel about the what energy costs today? Too little, just right, too much?</span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s2">What will the future look like in terms of how you get energy and/or produce it?</span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s2">What should be done, if anything, about energy consumption and production at the citizen or residential level?</span></li>
<li class="li1"><span class="s2">What role should regulations play, if any, in the production and consumption of energy?</span></li>
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