"The more you work with these kids, look in their faces, and they talk to you, you see they have dreams, aspirations just like any other kids. They're smart, but they haven't had exposure."
-- Gloria Dickerson, 3P Trainer
Gloria Dickerson is bringing 3 Principles training to 90 youth in Mississippi's Sunflower County through a unique series of all-day Saturday sessions. Never one to think small, Gloria plans to wrap up the sessions with a bang -- a field trip to Walt Disney World.
Why Disney World? So the participants can experience for themselves the connections between learning and enjoyment of life. During the day in Orlando, they will attend classes, and in the evening they will relax at the world-famous theme park that most never expected to see.
Gloria with her Mississippi students
These young folks come from a background of economic hardship, where they often are told they'll never succeed in life.
Gloria tells of one boy who wants to play piano and have a career in music. But his mother told him, "You're black. You have to remember that" -- a message he interpreted as a limit on his hopes and dreams ...
"In reality, there is no such thing as a universal mind and a personal mind. It's just two ways of using the same mind."
-- Sydney Banks
CSC is offering a NEW class, "Foundations in the Principles," every Sunday morning from March 4 to April 15, 2012.
This is an unprecedented online series bringing together the wisdom and experience of the CSC training team: Ami Chen Mills-Naim, Gabriela Maldonado-Montano and Elese Coit.
The six-week live training will be offered by interactive live video and by phone. It is aimed at both those who would like a basic introduction to the principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought, and to those who would like to deepen their understanding while exploring the real-life significance of these principles, first articulated by Sydney Banks.
"I understood that the community was an organic reality, and that I needed to back up and let things happen ... appreciate the strengths within, understand the richness of the folks that live here, and trust them and their wisdom, rather than try to convince them of what needed to be done. Then things really started to happen."
-- Dave Nichols
Dave Nichols has been instrumental in helping the crime-ridden, inner-city neighborhood of Lakewood, in Charlotte, N.C. to transform into an environment where residents feel comfortable at community barbecues and police feel comfortable patrolling on bicycles.
CSC is pleased to announce that Dave has accepted a new role with us -- as Co-director of the National Community Resiliency Project (NCRP).
For the past four years, Dave has been an exemplary NCRP project partner in Charlotte, as Executive Director of the Lakewood Community Development Corporation. (He is also a former local director for Habitat for Humanity.) Dave will share responsibilities for the national project with NCRP Co-director Ami Chen Mills-Naim. Welcome to the CSC team, Dave!
"Just like the seasons change and the sun rises and sets in a kind of perfect harmony, when you find your place in life, which is to be life, to allow life to be you, then there is no need to struggle."
-- Ami Chen
Join Ami Chen Mills-Naim on her new live radio show, On the Front Porch with Ami Chen: Spiritual Dialogues for the 21st Century, Fridays at 10 am PST on Seattle's Contact Talk Radio. The talk show launches tomorrow, Feb. 10, and runs the 2nd and 4th Fridays of every month, alternating with CSC's own radio show, A New Way to Handle Absolutely Everything.
Listeners are warmly invited to call in to On the Front Porch with Ami Chen, and talk live with Ami! To bookmark the show for Internet listening, click here.
Ami reminds us of the freedom and pure potential of who we really are, before any form of religion or spirituality ever appeared ...
Here is how to tune in and listen to CSC's own radio show, A New Way to Handle Absolutely Everything, now moving to a bi-monthly schedule, every 1st and 3rd Friday at 10 am Pacific Time, hosted by Elese Coit.
Did you know you can get the show sent to you by email? A short mail gives you the link, and you just click and play. It makes it easy to share a show you like with others!
Elese Coit (CSC Media Director) has released her new book, based on her life and observations over the period of roughly one year, and originally published as 101 short essays: 101 New Pairs of Glasses.
Here is what Ami has to say about this book:
"Elese Coit is totally unique. She emerges from a vast and deep background working with spiritual leaders and self-actualization teachers from all traditions, and from across the globe. Over the last few years, however, the simplicity of her message has become pointed and refined, as she has immersed in 3 Principles work.
"This book is a charming, thoughtful and often very funny reflection of these two worlds -- that covers everything from decision making to multi-tasking to commitment and relationships. Elese helps us see that mundane concerns, like 'focus,' become pointers to the great wisdom within us all, and that, as she says: 'Seeing is everything.'"
Download your free e-version of 101 New Pairs of Glasses
The book is free to members of Elese's mailing list, but you do not have to sign up. Just use the password "Community" to enter the Member Area and download.
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Sunday March 4, 2012 at 9:30 AM PST -to- Sunday April 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM PDT
This class serves as both an introduction to the Principles and a deepening of understanding of the Principles through continued dialogue on how the Principles unfold in our day-to-day lives. This class will take place in six consecutive weekly sessions, with a short Easter break.
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Special thanks to all who donated to CSC's fall funding appeal. Thank you letters will be sent out next week.
Your patience is greatly appreciated as we go through several staff transitions.
