The Possible Society in Motion

Anastasia and Sue are "attempting" to introduce listeners to the Bus Ride Story Adventure and their  practical application approach to it, The teaching tale, written by Murat Yagan, former Community Development Mentor, now deceased, of the program's two entwined nonprofit organizations. represents one of the two pillars of their innovative DIY approach to mental health and community development.

Anastasia and Sue introduce listeners to their practical application approach of the Bus Ride Story Adventure, written by Murat Yagan, former Community Development Mentor, now deceased, of the New Horizons - Small Zones of Peace, sponsors of the Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village Project. Sue, our project's Experiential Education Guide, reads the tale, enhanced by lively discussion following the reading. Discussion features storytelling and conversation on this new, unfolding series, "Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village" -- a project that  evolved - out of a shared striving to navigate and survive the pandemic.

Anastasia Rosen-Jones, Executive Director and founder of the two entwined nonprofits: New Horizons Support Network and Small "Zones of Peace,” and Sue deVeer, fellow co-founder of the latter, also sponsors of this program, introduce in this segment the foundational principles upon which Black Bear Mountain Village builds its model small "zone of peace." Sue leads into the program discussion with a reading of Murat Yagan's Bus Ride Story Adventure. Murat, who died in 2013 at age 98, was known to be the last living Elder of the Abkhazians, an ancient tribal people from the Steppes of the Caucasus Mountains. Through Murat’s teachings, guidance and support the innovative mainstream therapeutic community, New Horizons Support Network, established originally by Anastasia, has now become a more readily accessible community development experiential education and training curriculum and living adventure. We dedicate today's program to the loving memory of Murat Yagan and the many gifts he left behind.

In this new series, Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village, Anastasia is joined by Sue deVeer, her co-founder of the Small "Zones of Peace" nonprofit.  Read about this initiative and others on our website at smallzonesofpeace.org.  Visit us there to find out all kinds of theings to help you, your family, friends and community members.  And be sure to push our PayPal button to make a donation to support our efforts.

Podcast #2 -of the series - On "Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village and the Ms Study Group That Saved Lives During The Pandemic. Topic: We've Got A Mental Crisis -- And We've got a mental health solution .We begin by telling our  stories. The show is hosted by Anastasia Rosen-Jones, Executive Director and Founder of the New Horizons Support Network and the Small “Zones of Peace” Project, two entwined non-profit organizations sponsoring this program, about to merge shortly into the Black Bear Mountain Project. Anastasia is a retired psychotherapist and a community development and violence prevention consultant with fifty years of experience in the mental health field -- this year -- with an area of specialization in transforming the dark side of individuals and organizations.  Check out Anastasia's two personal blog sites: Anastasia The Storyteller and Exploring Your Dark Side: The Adventure of A Lifetime for interesting reads on the perspectives underlying the work of the Black Bear Mountain Village Project. Anastasia is joined by New Horizons Board Member, Sue deVeer, Curriculum Development Chairperson.

Podcast #1/:  Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village, a transforming journey through the pandemic, then to now, shared through our stories -- yours, mine -- ours. Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village: Radical Truth-telling, Part 1 Join us for -- Conversation, call in discussions -- coming soon on this new podcast series -- Becoming Black Bear Mountain Village Unfolding -- developing -- ongoing -- storytelling and more. Look for details. Sponsored by the New Horizons Support Network, Small "Zones of Peace" Initiative.

Anastasia was certain she wanted to assist others in reaching the transcendent heights she had, personally, attained, with truth seeking as one of its essentials.  Just when she thought she had reached the pinnacle, personally, of what she believed her adventure would bring, her friend, Lynn, showed her she had another thought coming! In the podcast "Is Truth-Telling Dangerous Or Liberating? Exploring The Extremes," Anastasia and Lynn build on the discussions of two previous programs on Anastasia The Storyteller, explore how discussing their extremely different views on truth-telling has opened both of their eyes to new vistas: Lynn staunchly believing that truth-telling is dangerous while Anastasia is certain that truth-telling is the pathway to a sane, healthy life, liberation and transformation. From their polar opposite views on the importance of truth-telling, or not truth-telling, an energetic discussion emerges. If truth telling or not truth telling, in politics, your workplace, friendships or family, has been affecting your life, personally or professionally, as it has done in the lives of Anastasia and Lynn, the lively discussion this program promises to offer can help "set you free," or not.

Due to flood disaster recovery in the area of this show's studio, the topic to be presented next, here, has been rescheduled multipe times. Now with their broadcast studio relocated, Anastasia and co-host, Steve, return to their Beyond Gender Tyranny: The Online Course series, for tips on moving yourself, male or female, out of #MeToo traps. Listeners are encouraged to explore the New Horizons Beyond Gender Tyranny Curriculum which will suggest that you take our Compassionate Warrior Quiz, as instructed in "Lesson One," to begin your adventure on a guaranteed path out of gender tyranny! Then explore our catalogue of Survival Driven Behaviors and match up your answers on the Compassionate Warrior Quiz to the Survival Driven Behaviors listed, coordinating with attitudes, underlying emotions and behaviors for your highest scores on the quiz. NOW you are off and running in the right direction to move yourself and your relationships Beyond Gender Tyranny!

(Note:  Sound quality is uneven, probably do to flood and weather conditions in our area.The substance is worth the effort, nonetheless. However, don't expect to easily comprehend all that is discussed with just one listen.) Building on the Anastasia The Storyteller Radio #MeToo series, show focuses on assisting listeners in moving through the #Metoo era, with this instructional series, offering discussion, support and specific personal tools for growth. Visit the following sites for more stories and details to get on board with Beyond Gender Tyranny, sponsored by the New Horizons "Zones Of Peace' Project,  with New Horizons' Executive Director, Anastasia Rosen-Jones. Also visit Anastasia The Storyteller blog site, with a special emphasis on her "Beyond Gender Tyranny" series.

Anastasia shares some of the highlights of her personal story, as they have unfolded, that have brought about a new movement, the "Making Violence Obsolete" initiative of the New Horizons Small "Zones of Peace" Project, sponsoring organization of this program. After efforting to share some of the key experiences that have allowed Anastasia and her colloborator, Sue deVeer to birth their new project, Anastasia realized it was time to get herself back on the air to augment her disclosure as the written word on her blog site just couldn't capture the essence of what she wanted to say. Listen in for Anastasia's new "solo" series of shows on the Possible Society In Motion Radio Show, getting ready to be regular again after a rather lengthy hiatis.

Anastasia offers a personal story of her earliest experiences with quality leadership. Jack assists their joint effort, then, to make this story relevant to the focus the show has had throughout the month on leadership, particularly drawing on the work of Anastasia's notable friend, Rabbi Edwin Friedman, now deceased, and his groundbraking work on leadership in family and organizational systems.

Anastasia and Jack explore successful leadership values and styles, using them as a basis for discussing current events in "Leadership In A Sea Of Controversy." Our present presidential race, the Black Lives Matter movement and other topical issues come into the discussion as does our personal responsiblities as adults and parents in a time of great upheaval.

Anastasia and Jack introduce themes from Anastasia's new book in progress, "The Middle East Crisis In My Backyard" with an emphasis on leadership styles and priority values in present day American culture. The "Three Pronged Formula For Exceptional Leadership," originating with Rabbi Edwin Freidman in his groundbreaking books, Generation To Generation and A Failure of Nerve: Leadership In The Age of The Quick Fix is hgihtlighted in the show.

Jack draws Anastasia out to report on a New Horizons' sponsored local Citizen-Police Conversation, held last Saturday. And, the promising outcome from the event that has the local community talking, optimistic and energized.

Exploring the essentials of "Dialogue versus Debate" in building a successful conversations forum to discuss a variety of topics, some of them hot button, others cutting edge personal and colllective growth and transformation subjects, Anastasia and Jack share their views on getting derailed, heading for a collision course and then got back on.

Kids and Kops In Conversation, the final event of the first New Horizons' Coffee House Conversation On Race Relations Series, has placed the organization Anastasia heads in a unique position. A murder last Saturday afternoon in the local community within which these programs have been being held, the Kids and Kops program following on it this Saturday, June 20, means that this community has moved itself onto a profound healing platform. (This program was rescheduled from May 16 in order for New Horizons to support and participate in a local Stop The Violence March.) Already in Frederick County, Maryland, the local community has shown itself incredibly able to move beyond the polarization of "kids and kops" to reach new levels of caring, compassion, healing and hope. Listen in to tonight's show and give yourself an uplifting opportunity as Anastasia and Jack explore the possiblities beyond one of America's most disturbing problems of our time; relationships between kids and kops, especially when kids are of color. Then join Anastasia and Jack as they invite listeners to take this topic to a deeper, more profound and personal level in the Conference Call discussion immediately following the broadcast portion at: 712.432.0600, access code 640883 (also recorded).

Anastasia and Jack explore the impact of storytelling as a bridge building vehicle for an evolving society and as a viable tool for conflict resolution and reconciliation..

Special guest, Herman King, joins Anastasia and Jack as they introduce a new track for their Possible Society In Motion Radio Show with this program; a format with special guests, designed to help bring the embryonic success of the New Horizons' Coffee House Conversations On Race Relations in Frederick, to this online radio show. Featuring guests who are already becoming actively involved participants and supporters of the Coffee House Conversations on Race Relations series in Frederick, Maryland, this program addition will take the local conversation beyond that geographical confine with the hope that the renewed vitality of community involvement and unity developing there can spread to other communities.  Special programs will feature guests who will bring distinctive commentary from their unique perspectives and experiences in moving beyond local polarization within a community that is beginning to shift out of stagnation and into "motion" to heal the wounds of stereotyping, racism and police brutality.  Join Anastasia and Jack as they set this new track in motion with special guest, Herman King. To introduce this new format, Anastasia, Jack and Herman discuss the "how" and "how not" of conversations on race relations.

Anastasia and Jack reflect on the gains and insights accrued by the recently New Horizons sponsored Coffee House Conversations On Race Relations in Frederick County, Maryland. The coverage of the event by the Frederick News Post can be viewed here. Anastasia offers that the gains she has experienced as the coordinator of the project have opened her eyes to the movement spreading throughout our country. She see growing numbers of citizens yearning to find ways to solve serious community problems by talking their way through them.  Jack offers a more conservative, less optimistic view, challenging efforts such as these as possibly being more of the same; talk but no significant action or change in sight. Again, listeners are encouraged to join Anastasia and Jack for the informal discussion forum following the on-air broadcast at: Conference Call in: 712.432.0600, access code 640883.

Anastasia and co-host, Jack Slattery, begin an intense discussion with this show. The topic centers around a forthcoming Coffee House Conversation Series on Race Relations, sponsored by New Horizons Support Network, Inc., underwriters of this show. Introducing the nationally explosive issues of both police and race relations, Anastasia and Jack each offer their different positions on whether or not such issues as these can even hope to come moderately close to anything ressembling meaningful, creative problem solving on these issues. Tune in for an intense and lively, not always harmonious discussion on this program. And, find out a bit more for yourself as to whether or not civilized people can remain civilized in this particular arena.