These are here as an opportunity to reflect on images and identity.
Please comment on your associations with the various images.
Friday, December 30, 2005
Once and possibly future logos
These are here as an opportunity to reflect on images and identity.
Please comment on your associations with the various images.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
The Future
One of two models is likely to shape the next phase of the Guardians of Peace.
A) Nick and Brandon take time together to clarify a vision and directions to immediately enter the world with offerings - at the same time as we begin training regularly together as a larger group.
B) There are two fundamental groups orbiting the Guardians idea (peace is conflict done well). One that is immediately active, works in the world, and engages in strenuous physical training. Another that includes those not able to engage in physical training and focussing primarily on the ideas and words associated with engaging layers of intangible friction between people and cultural systems. These groups would then engage each other in challenging dialogue to develop the movement of the whole.
Please suggest your preferences and ideas.
And to clarify...
No one has to practice Aikido to be included. There is a clear desire for professional Guardians to be able to deal directly with physical conflict in such a way that no one ends up permanently hurt or deceased. Though Aikido was designed from the beginning with that in mind there are other ways to approach this goal and we honor each path. Finding our methods and context-real levels of functioning under conflict circumstances will be a regular part of our work together.
Brandon
A) Nick and Brandon take time together to clarify a vision and directions to immediately enter the world with offerings - at the same time as we begin training regularly together as a larger group.
B) There are two fundamental groups orbiting the Guardians idea (peace is conflict done well). One that is immediately active, works in the world, and engages in strenuous physical training. Another that includes those not able to engage in physical training and focussing primarily on the ideas and words associated with engaging layers of intangible friction between people and cultural systems. These groups would then engage each other in challenging dialogue to develop the movement of the whole.
Please suggest your preferences and ideas.
And to clarify...
No one has to practice Aikido to be included. There is a clear desire for professional Guardians to be able to deal directly with physical conflict in such a way that no one ends up permanently hurt or deceased. Though Aikido was designed from the beginning with that in mind there are other ways to approach this goal and we honor each path. Finding our methods and context-real levels of functioning under conflict circumstances will be a regular part of our work together.
Brandon
Sunday, August 07, 2005
Reading and Listening List in progress
By Guardians of Peace:
Groping in the Face of Danger by Brandon D. WilliamsCraig
An Aikido Manifesto by Nick Walker
Ai Nidan Essay by Brandon D. WilliamsCraig (Aikido of Berekeley)
By Area of Approach:
more Aikido:
NVC : "Non-violent Communication" references
- At Bookshelved.org - radio (KPFA) segments showing NVC in action
Negotiation/Mediation: Getting To Yes - Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In Please suggest more...
Friday, August 05, 2005
How Jedi?
Profoundly missing the point.
Or are they? What do peace and kicking ass have in common?
Seems the point should be less about being able to kick ass and more about being able to shift into a spot wherein whatever ass kicking was about to happen becomes inexplicably more sustainable for everybody involved.
how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen
At the cinema level, the Lucas films certainly became almost entirely about arses and the kicking thereof. What about the ongoing life of the image, however? How many living people are working the consequences of the idea into real life in a provacative way?
Opinions? Reflections?
Or are they? What do peace and kicking ass have in common?
Seems the point should be less about being able to kick ass and more about being able to shift into a spot wherein whatever ass kicking was about to happen becomes inexplicably more sustainable for everybody involved.
how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen
At the cinema level, the Lucas films certainly became almost entirely about arses and the kicking thereof. What about the ongoing life of the image, however? How many living people are working the consequences of the idea into real life in a provacative way?
Opinions? Reflections?
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Guardians of Peace 20050312 P.R.
Saturday, March 12, 2005
Who do you know who…
Is strangely drawn to or energized by conflict, and seems able to engage friction creatively?
Has begun a path towards both compassionate action and humility and is determined to be of service to other human beings?
Wants to learn or is now facilitating conflictual interactions at a professional level?
and would like to learn more about Guardians of Peace?
Days after the attacks on the
1) train together and build community on purpose to create a container for shared understanding of profound conflict
2) nurture that relationship through diverse Councils, sustained internationally and across generations
3) make the fruits of this practice available to those in need of compassionate intervention, facilitation, and cultivated investment in shared dilemmas
4) work in the public sector toward playfully capturing a part of the contemporary imagination, such that the Process Arts™ (practices which cultivate complex relational understanding) become an expectation as universal as the use of technology.
The seeds were planted in a non-profit incubator called Association Building Community and are now flowering into a first training fellowship.
Nick Walker of Aikido Shusekai, and
Kayla Feder and 
Brandon WilliamsCraig of Aikido of Berkeley are inviting those interested to speak and be heard in the co-creation of this move nearer the active making of Peace.
Our first gathering will be March 12th, at Aikido of Berkeley reflecting Feder Sensei’s desire to see the dojo become central in peacemaking. Please go to www.aikidoofberkeley.com for directions and reply to this email for additional information. If these options are not convenient, please call ABC’s toll free number (866.236.0346) and leave a voice mail with good times for a phone appointment.
The gathering will follow a Friendship Seminar. This Aikido seminar will run for 3 hours, from 10:30 am until 1:30 pm (Kayla Sensei will teach from 10:30 to 11:55; Nick Sensei will teach from 12:05 to 1:30). Please arrive by 10:00 am, so that everyone can get registered, changed, introduced, and warmed up before the first class starts. The cost for the Seminar is $20. If a sliding scale is needed, please respond to this email with that request. Anyone not inclined to practice Aikido is more than welcome to come and observe a powerful physical metaphor for blending with conflict in action!
Those interested in co-creating the Guardians of Peace fellowship will gather at a local restaurant from
2-3:30pm to meet and discuss the ideas involved, then at
4-5:30 return for our own training at Aikido of Berkeley.
At 5:30 we will begin a potluck nosh (please bring something to share) and deepen into sharing stories.
At 6:30 we will move into a space facilitated by Leon Regelson - from silent meditation into communication and investigate co-creative possibilities in which leadership is shared by every member of our group, ending with a final process time and a check-out.
Please consider coming even if you are uncertain of your response at this time. If you know someone who might want to find out more or join in, please let them know and invite them to come. If you do not wish to train but would like to participate in the discussion you are more than welcome to do so. Martial arts experience is not a pre-requisite – only the conviction that conflict can and must be done well and the desire to participate in discovery.
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