6. “FIRST World Problems”
• Pollution
• Limited Resources
• Global Warming
• Rising Population
• Water Crisis
• Peak Oil
• Economic Crisis Human
• World Wide Catastrophe Guilt
7. Constructivist Principle
see the world as I am
• I Pollute
• I use Limited Resources
• I make the world warmer
• I add to a Rising Population
• I contribute to the Water Crisis
• I encourage Peak Oil
• I made Economic Crisis
• I create World Wide Catastrophe
8. Poetic Principle
what we focus on grows
• That Laundry list of problems
• Doom and Gloom media attitude
• Negative Gravity
• Celebrity Solutions
• Overnight Success
• BIG!
• Armchair visionaries
• Fear based Inaction
• This assignment!
9. The Poetic Principle
focusing on what we want to grow
• Happiness
• Baby Steps
• Positive Reinforcement
• Small Solutions
• Practice
• Ongoing success
• Celebrations
• Everyday people
• Encouraged Experimentation
10. Simultaneity Principle
inquire & change are simultaneous
• We are already changing
• Change in-flight
• No beginning, no end
• Unusual thinking
• Take responsibility for creating the problems -
What are they really?
• This presentation!
11. Anticipatory Principle
what we believe, we conceive
• Pure, Fresh, Clean, Re-Newed World
• Abundant Resources
• Plentiful diverse economic exchanges
• Supporting Self-Actualized Population
• Comfortable Climate for Life
• Curious Excitement
• Positive Pioneering New Set of Problems
• Ongoing Practice and Exploration
12. Positive Principle
identify and leverage strengths
• Communities
• Science and Discovery
• Open Communication, Sharing
• Increasing Stability, Certainty
• Transformation of raw to refined
• All those good human emotions
– Joy, Love, Compassion, Inspiration, Cooperation
• Tenacious
13. Discover
• What characteristics supported human
success?
• What is the positive core of the human being?
• How has the human positively impacted the
earth, world, the solar system, etc?
14. Dream
• What is our purpose as humans?
• What is the (our) vision?
– Individual Perspective
– Community/collective perspective
– Species perspective
– Objective perspective
– External perspective