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Creating and sustaining the Positive Future you desire may well begin right here... I
have created the Positive Futures Guide to assist you in creating
& sustaining a positive future for yourself, your family,
organization, community, or the issue that fires your passion. The
practical "how to" tools and examples of how these tools,
processes and methods have worked
for others are all free for individual use. If you need, or want
help, for-fee services are readily available here too. Please see the articles matrix below to begin your journey. Visions of Positive Futures: Articles/proposals for positive futures An interactive and participative search for a positive future. Your predictions of things to come and the futures you'd like to see. Input your prediction above and then, I will spell check them and post them. Red
Sun Morning -- Take Warning! Red
Sky Night -- Well, All Right! To see results, select below: Red Sun Morning Predictions [Updated 01.02.2006] The Coming Flu Pandemic -- Updated Red Sun Night Dreams, Desired Futures, and New Beginnings [Updated 12.26.2005 with the Mac Maya Project Report Music for a Positive Future? Sure -- Why Not?Here are two pieces which I especially like. Enjoy.
God Is Alive/Magic Is Afoot! -- Buffy St. Marie. It was written in response to Time Magazine headline in late 1960's "God Is Dead" (.mov) Treaty Now! (Dance Remix Version) Yothu Yindi; an Australian First People (Yolngu) Tribal-rock band from the Northern Territory of Australia. This selection is in support of a treaty to settle rights of tribal people in Australia.
These are from CDs available for purchase at my Positive Futures Bookstore through my Amazon. com store. These, along with other recommended CDs help me "see" a Positive Future through music. I will upload different music from time to time - Ned |
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basic value to your efforts of these articles and I have worked with many of the very best of those who have done good work at helping others or their organization create positive futures that work. (Look here and see if you wish). My criteria has always been to find people and processes for creating positive futures that work well, last, and are based on humane ethics and principles. These are early days for this site and it will be updated fairly often over the next several months. The index of material available now, as well as information about me appears below. Note: Some of the articles here are presented in Acrobat Reader format -- pdf.(Get Acrobat Reader for a free download at www.adobe.com) Who
Is Ned Hamson? That's me! Ned's 45,000 Miles from Home and Still Walking BLOG
Just in case you need one just now - a page of smiling people. The Positive Futures Guide Bookstore Books that Work (I have read them and know that the methods and processes each contains actually works.) And some music that inspires and supports me in working on Positive Futures.
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Special article: Navigating the rough winds of restructuring by moving into...The Eye of the Storm (pdf) - Lyn Stabler (about author)After more than a week of scanning my e-mail for a hoped for message, I finally saw "I'm alive" Lyn Stabler. What a sweet message. After a week of worrying about a 20-year friend and colleague from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (recently wiped out by Katrina) I got the news that she, her family and cat were OK, home was flooded and that they'd be living up near Jackson, MS for the time being.
In my message back to her, I remembered that the last article she had written for me was about how people dealt with drastic change and she's used the metaphor of moving into the eye of the storm, since work change often hit people or felt like being in a hurricane. And the more I though about it, what she had found out working with people through restructuring, downsizing (including her own) was what many city, state and federal managers needed to know for managing their relationships with victims of Katrina. It is not surprising that Lyn is better able to handle her current situation because of her previous experience of helping people live through hurricanes at work. I highly recommend it to you. Ned Hamson |
| Knowledge/Skill Levels, Examples/Case Histories, and Thought starting and insightful essays and fiction. (right) | Introductory or General Understanding of Terms and Concepts | Learning "How To's" and Applying to Creating a Positive Future | Examples and Case Histories (Stories) | Essays, Poems, Fiction, & Quotes |
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| Baseline or "Seeing" clearly your current and past habits, patterns, and processes. |
Living a Creative and Open Life This is where many begin understanding what the possibilities are for their life. Hamson The Perfection Trap Understanding and getting out of the "I can't do it unless it's perfect" trap. Hamson Why Innovation Doesn't Work and What To Do About It Solutions based on Aikido principles. Hamson Requisite for Future Success: Discontinuous Improvement pdf Hamson and Holder A "Feast" of Social Artistry (pdf) Jean Houston Seeking the new global paradigm for excellence... Questing for Quality (pdf) Bob Holder Serendipity, the art of discontinuous improvement and staying alive Wasn't that new just yesterday? (pdf) Bob Holder Competitive globalization, labor shortages and innovation pressures: they all require... Leadership from depth (pdf) Bob Holder Uncluttering Our Thinking (pdf)-- Ned Hamson A high-performance team is not a multi-part machine (PDF)- Charlie Ehin
Spirit at Work (pdf)- Jean Houston |
Starting Your Journey to a Positive Future - The 39th Step Big steps, little steps, stretch goals; a very practical view that's worked for me. Hamson Re-Scripting the Film "My Life" Change your self and how others "see" you. Hamson It's About Time Time never changes but we can change how we use it and experience it -- we can even learn how to "flow" with it. Hamson What have we done to innovation and how can we change? Uncaging Innovation and Scouting (pdf) Bob Holder Developing scouting systems... Creating new games through scouting (pdf) Bob Holder Creating a learning room that works Space and learning (pdf) Bob Holder The day the taxman (and woman) joined the Magic Circle. Peter Wiegold Danjin on Deming - Danjin |
The World of Patch Adams and Geshundheit! (pdf) Ned Hamson interview Patch Adams (himself) (pdf) Before You Go: A Conversation with Anishinaabe Firekeeper Bruce Hardwick on Leadership Ned Hamson Who Will Make Their Tea? Peter Wiegold, Symphonic Composer Spirit at Work: An Interview with Peter Wiegold (pdf) Ned Hamson The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World Vaclav Havel Well Done from Ground Zero John Cimino |
A look at Real Teamwork (pdf) Hamson Working for No Thing Prince Hui's Cook Chuang Tzu The Mountain Whippoorwill (Or, How Hill-Billy Jim Won the Great Fiddlers' Prize) Stephen Vincent Benet Whom do you invite first? Given to us by Jayadeva DeSilva |
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Creating/Discovering Alternative Futures to Pursue Strategies and Processes for Making a Positive Future Strategies and Processes for Staying the Course |
The Search for Effective Strategic Planning Is Over pdf Fred and Merrelyn Emery, and S. Cabana The Power of Community Search Conferences (pdf) Merrelyn Emery Clues for experiencing a world when there is no path Corporate Change and the Hero's Quest (pdf) Bob Holder Let's Be Creative! (pdf)-- Ned Hamson |
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Search Conference: a Compact and Robust Method for Getting Out of
the Box Hamson
Making Things Run Well (pdf) Dick Danjin Visioning: an energizing tool (pdf) Bob Holder Excellence in Communication -- Basic and Advanced (pdf) Ned Hamson Originality in Management -- Hidaki Yoshihara (pdf) This is the base article on Discontinuous Innovation; innovation that creates a new market! |
Community Planning in the Torres Straits pdf Merrelyn Emery and John Paton Searching for a Quality Environment in Vail, CO (pdf) Renewing a Community (pdf) Frank Heckman Hospitality Industry The power of music and participation as learning tools in China and Vietnam (pdf)- Gloria Martillano The visioning process and its impact in a service setting (pdf)- Gloria Martillano Labor-Management Relations Navigating the Emerging Decision Making Paradigm (pdf)- Steve Barber
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How Duane Saved the World (pdf) Hamson AHASAK ILY - A Christmas Tale about the first and always gift of Christmas. Carmen's Fourth Christmas (1912) A tale of a Mother's Christmas vow kept by the daughter. Frederick Douglass' Escape from Slavery Leading Anti-Slavery Leader tell us in his own words of his escape from slavery near Baltimore, Maryland to New York City and on to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1838 America |
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Related Links New Renaissance Magazine highlights the writings of people with a positive approach towards contemporary problems. New Civilization Network: Connecting People Who change the World Bob Holder Discontinuous Innovation & Scouting Joel A. Barker, "The Paradigm Man" Independent Scholar & Futurist The Global Compact The principles for conducting sustainable and global organizations. Jean Houston creates multiple methods of increasing physical and mental skills, learning and creativity. If you can ever attend one of her events -- GO! Peter Wiegold, Conductor and leadership counselor See his interview and articles above, as well. Edward de Bono The creator of Lateral Thinking Creative Leaps John Cimino's web site for musicians and artists who are also adept as innovation facilitators. The Paradigm Pilgrim - Steve Barber is a very gifted innovator at getting labor and management on the same page and working together. Charlie Ehin also learned a few things by walking -- he and his father walked out of Hitler's grasp during WWII and he has walked with Bill Gore of WL Gore and learned much about "Un-Management from him. Society's Breakthrough -- Jim Rough's web space for his Wisdom Council process. Race Matters -- Carl House's excellent index and archive of articles and resources which deal with creating a positive future in American society -- one that has overcome its historical exploitation and marginalization of Black-Americans and First Nation people. Copyright Ned Hamson 2005 |
More Links TetraMap International is a New Zealand consulting group lead by Yoshimi and Jon Brett. Their TetraMap offers a natural window into a positive future. See the book shop for their TetraMap book -- which is great! |