Hmmn, more food for the barracudas? If someone wishes to type out the lot, please post. I made some notes here.
Its targeted as "overseas team" and not Indian and so I wonder what service India gets? (
... second class or cattle truck, madam?)
Gayatri Naraine, the Brahma Kumaris’ representative to the United Nations, Oxford Leadership Academy alumni Ken O'Donnell and Judy Rodgers, the Case Western Reserve University - The Appreciative Inquiry Commons - Visions of a Better World Foundation - Images and Voices of Hope - Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit - Weatherhead School of Management - Communication Architecture Group - and sometimes BKUN Representative (
... file under "overachiever").
They mention the "
Divine Constitution and other foundation documents". We have not see any of those yet.
center-in-charges are "encouraged" to limit Regular students input to contribute to only three of the seven topics mention at the
beginning of this topic, the rest being done behind closed doors. We seem to be missing one, there are only 6 topics mentioned above. But those three are;
a) Upholding our spiritual principles (Topic One)
b) Caring for our (the BK) family (Topic Two)
c) Providing mechanism for Reconciliation (Topic Four)
I understand the last one to mean lessen the changes of negative impact through public disclosures such as this, is that fair to say?
BKWSU wrote:NOTE: NO PERMANENT CHANGES CAN BE MADE UNTIL YOU HAVE THE SUPPORT AND CONSENT OF YOUR REGIONAL COORDINATOR AND YOUR NATIONAL COORDINATOR.
On Page 5 they want to make sure conversation stays on constructive note ... not problems of the past. It is kind of hard to discuss issues without discussing issues, is not it? Does that mean any past "crimes" or indiscretions are just going to be waived?
page 19 "Can and should we say more about our core understanding regarding how the drama is drawing to a close, and God's act of re-creation?
So the Brahma-kumaris question whether to drop the bomb on non-BKs re "Destruction". Remember just a few months ago where Global Media Chief Karuna Shetty denied Destruction to the reporter from Pravda saying that it had been removed out of the teachings?
Judy Rodgers, I mentioned before.
Education/Professional Experience:
Judy Rodgers is a consultant and communication strategist who has worked extensively with thought leaders to produce transformation and to support social innovation. The emphasis in her work is on the power of narrative for individual, community-wide and system-wide change.
For the past twenty years she has worked with thought leaders such as Tom Peters, Peter Senge, and Walter Cronkite, as well as with organizations and networks as various as Appreciative Inquiry Consulting, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and a grass-roots citizens group in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
For over 15 years she developed and executive produced educational programming for the broadcast and corporate non-broadcast television markets. During the 1980's she worked at Twentieth Century Fox Video and at CBS/Fox Video. During her tenure with CBS/Fox she produced a number of award-winning programs, most with best selling authors. She also was a stockholder and executive vice president of
Video Publishing House, Inc., where she developed many programs such as the seminal "
The Massey Triad' and others with Tom Peters, some of which aired on PBS. Subsequently in the 1990's she joined New World Knowledge, as executive vice president. New World Knowledge was a division of New World Entertainment.
She produced and shared a writing credit on Presentation Excellence with Walter Cronkite which won a Grand Award at the International Film and Television Festival of New York as well as a Golden Eagle Award at the CINE competition. Other producer credits while at CBS/Fox include: “What They Don't Teach You at Harvard Business School” with Mark McCormack; “Megatrends” with John Naisbitt and “The One Minute Manager” series with Ken Blanchard.
In 1997 she founded the Communication Architecture Group as a vehicle for a range of related work: organizational consulting, conversational design and facilitation, management of communication projects, coaching, and editorial consulting. She currently serves as director for Images and Voices of Hope, an international conversation initiative with the media that seeks to strengthen the ways that media can be an agent of benefit to society. She is a founding co-owner in Appreciative Inquiry Consulting.
Interesting to watch the "value programming" and
what was happening in the 80s,
2 and
3 and where the influences into the BKWSU are coming from and ask how much further forward we are now? This guy makes me smile. He may not be god or a BK Brahmin but he is not wrong either.