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From Bill and Marianna Bailey

To All: When anyone or group begins to think, imagine, and plan for the future they also need to rehearse and remember the wisdom gained from the past. As JWM would say “What has God Wrought”. The reward in doing this is to recall the context and continuity that has brought us to this point. Having reflected on the wisdom gained now becomes “seeds for the future” even if it is time for change and discontinuity.

As for Marianna and I we are still a part of the vision and methods of the OE/ICA/EI only now we are self-assigned. Marianna has been self-assigned for the past six years working within the context of “information access” which was one of the “pressure points” of the Social Process Triangle. She has done this in order to create and implement a public access TV station which began telecasting in 2006.

Together we have worked

  • With both the City of Asheville and the Asheville Coalition of Neighborhoods (CAN) to re-empower neighborhood participation in the future of Western North Carolina.
  • We have worked with the City and CAN for the past two years on a day long  “Neighborhood Congress” using our workshop methods and imagional education.
  • We have facilitated the TOP program 6 times.
  • We helped ICA of Greensboro, NC to facilitate the Eastern Division of the AIA in a conference on sustainable development. (1997)
  • We have designed and implimented several adult nurture courses at Jubilee. (the place we go on Sunday Morning to “Celebrate Life.”) At present we are involved with 15 families of the Jubilee Community in designing and creating an intentional community where we are using our spirit, social, and community methods as a guide. (see www.jubileecommunity.org.

As for myself, I have worked as volunteer for the past five years as the minister of pastoral care at Jubilee. This position  has given me a vast experience an opportunity to work with individuals as their “spiritual guide”. It has also given me the opportunity to work with future families in designing their wedding vows and ritural.

I could go on with this, but I hope this will be a beginning dialogue for all of us to participate in.

One more thought. In our OE/ICA/EI experiences we created and articulated a spiritualty and active community that was based on a cultural centered world-view. The decision to end the historical structures of OE/ICA/EI seems to me was based on a economic world view (that without which we cannot exist). Today, as I read it, OE/ICA/EI  may not have an economic structure, but does exisit in spirit.

Bill & Marianna Bailey


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