Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Mental Health Allliance, Hating, Turq, and Belief in God is a form of mental illness
On 10/29/2014 9:46 AM, Michael Jackson mjackso...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: So who is Tom Allen and what did they do to him??? > /What on earth are you talking about - there's no "Tom Allen" mentioned in this message. ///Go figure. /P.S. This whole thread has got to be one of the most trashed threads in the history of FFL. Have any of you guys ever considered taking a course in writing or composition? You are making Barry the Turq's messaging look like the work of a genius./ > *From:* "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" *To:* FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com *Sent:* Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:12 AM *Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Mental Health Allliance, Hating, Turq, and Belief in God is a form of mental illness FF Mental Health Alliance Tuesday, 10/28/14 Working Session: Agenda: Yes, let’s use Tuesday’s meeting to identify our specific points of focus: * We will be primarily focused on following-up on the great work that Ken did last week on culture and this community. * We will be checking in with everyone if there are other announcements or issues that need to be addressed. * We will also look at some of the website updates, as well as other projects that need to be addressed. * * _Other past areas that we will also address, as time permits:_ * Updates and recommendations/action steps from the groups? * Fairfield Mental Help website — content gathering and assembling? * Ideas for follow-up community meetings? * Progress from Mental Health First Aid meeting? * Any residual dissuasion from last Sundays big meeting on campus that needs to be addressed? * What do we create now from this work? * Next event on, or off, campus? * Check in on how we’re doing on the whole. Are we headed in the right direction? Any course corrections needed? Any further suggestions? * Hear from each of the small groups on their progress. * See if we have enough people to form the Resources group we planned on, and enough professionals to form the Professionals group. * Meet again in small groups — since this is where the action is at this point. * Individually check in as to what you are up to in creating a difference our community, and if you need any support from the rest of the group, or find out if you have suggestions and ideas for the rest of the group. "Let’s do think of the most interesting, useful, practical, informative, behavior-and-attitude-changing topics we can." Craig Let me know if there are any agenda items that you personally have that you want to develop at this meeting, please let me know. If you are not on Atrium, or have not been on there since last week, please log on and contribute your thoughts. We want to hear what you are thinking. Looking forward to seeing all of you again. The Fairfield Mental Health Alliance October 5^th Meeting Notes You asked: What did you think about (the Oct 5 meeting) last night? Look this has been about creating change and that meeting was a timely showing of some progress of change. The meeting was not the conclusive meeting but it does show the movement has changed some and all the people on stage help show the integration this is taking. On the left hand of the stage as the audience viewed it were all these different practicing clinical professionals who also have integrated alternative modalities in to their practices as they are useful and have basis, and then Pat on the right side clarifying and holding up the movement's franchise. Pat did quite a deft job clarifying on behalf of the movement and Maharishi. Afterall, it was a movement community meeting. Pat is really quite controlled smart, homey, funny, and theatrical all at once. I enjoyed watching him. It was really quite brilliant. This is the second meeting where he has spoken for our collective practical concern as to compassion and our working to help people solve mental health issues being essentially compassionate.. [very buddhistic? ] It will be very interesting to hear when that language of compassion gets picked up, adopted and used by spokespersons up the chain of TM command. That actually is extremely interesting that he is changing the inside by leading with that idea. It has always been said that TM is without heart, well then if it is not a trick then we see this movement of the movement from the upper level around this whole mental health thing is showing some heart, even though it took boxing them in to a corner to help them show it. This is quite a change. Question of course now is the carry-through. There is more work to do to figure out the practical delivery of policy. The clinic, type of credentialed staffing, and how they are going to administrate those trip-wire questions on their forms. That MUM student who spoke in the Q and A was very effective at holding their fee
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Mental Health Allliance, Hating, Turq, and Belief in God is a form of mental illness
So who is Tom Allen and what did they do to him??? From: "dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 10:12 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Mental Health Allliance, Hating, Turq, and Belief in God is a form of mental illness FF Mental Health Alliance Tuesday, 10/28/14 Working Session: Agenda: Yes, let’s use Tuesday’s meeting to identify our specific points of focus: * We will be primarily focused on following-up on the great work that Ken did last week on culture and this community. * We will be checking in with everyone if there are other announcements or issues that need to be addressed. * We will also look at some of the website updates, as well as other projects that need to be addressed. * * Other past areas that we will also address, as time permits: * Updates and recommendations/action steps from the groups? * Fairfield Mental Help website — content gathering and assembling? * Ideas for follow-up community meetings? * Progress from Mental Health First Aid meeting? * Any residual dissuasion from last Sundays big meeting on campus that needs to be addressed? * What do we create now from this work? * Next event on, or off, campus? * Check in on how we’re doing on the whole. Are we headed in the right direction? Any course corrections needed? Any further suggestions? * Hear from each of the small groups on their progress. * See if we have enough people to form the Resources group we planned on, and enough professionals to form the Professionals group. * Meet again in small groups — since this is where the action is at this point. * Individually check in as to what you are up to in creating a difference our community, and if you need any support from the rest of the group, or find out if you have suggestions and ideas for the rest of the group. "Let’s do think of the most interesting, useful, practical, informative, behavior-and-attitude-changing topics we can." Craig Let me know if there are any agenda items that you personally have that you want to develop at this meeting, please let me know. If you are not on Atrium, or have not been on there since last week, please log on and contribute your thoughts. We want to hear what you are thinking. Looking forward to seeing all of you again. The Fairfield Mental Health Alliance October 5th Meeting Notes You asked: What did you think about (the Oct 5 meeting) last night? Look this has been about creating change and that meeting was a timely showing of some progress of change. The meeting was not the conclusive meeting but it does show the movement has changed some and all the people on stage help show the integration this is taking. On the left hand of the stage as the audience viewed it were all these different practicing clinical professionals who also have integrated alternative modalities in to their practices as they are useful and have basis, and then Pat on the right side clarifying and holding up the movement's franchise. Pat did quite a deft job clarifying on behalf of the movement and Maharishi. Afterall, it was a movement community meeting. Pat is really quite controlled smart, homey, funny, and theatrical all at once. I enjoyed watching him. It was really quite brilliant. This is the second meeting where he has spoken for our collective practical concern as to compassion and our working to help people solve mental health issues being essentially compassionate.. [very buddhistic? ] It will be very interesting to hear when that language of compassion gets picked up, adopted and used by spokespersons up the chain of TM command. That actually is extremely interesting that he is changing the inside by leading with that idea. It has always been said that TM is without heart, well then if it is not a trick then we see this movement of the movement from the upper level around this whole mental health thing is showing some heart, even though it took boxing them in to a corner to help them show it. This is quite a change. Question of course now is the carry-through. There is more work to do to figure out the practical delivery of policy. The clinic, type of credentialed staffing, and how they are going to administrate those trip-wire questions on their forms. That MUM student who spoke in the Q and A was very effective at holding their feet to the fire once again in public. They got to come up with more compassion to show on that one for people to believe them. It is about showing change on their part. Compassion? Their administrative banishing of Tom Allen was not the timely example of any change there. Opps. An long-time old meditator and yes with criticisms of the organization which they were soliciting to hear, but an apostate? No, not then. Hurt now? yes. N
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FF Mental Health Allliance, Hating, Turq, and Belief in God is a form of mental illness
/Will you please stop changing the subject line and just start a new thread, Buck? Most of the time, supplying a simple URL is all that is needed with a few comments - you don't need to copy and paste the entire article. Thanks for the information./ > On 10/29/2014 9:12 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote: FF Mental Health Alliance Tuesday, 10/28/14 Working Session: Agenda: Yes, let’s use Tuesday’s meeting to identify our specific points of focus: * We will be primarily focused on following-up on the great work that Ken did last week on culture and this community. * We will be checking in with everyone if there are other announcements or issues that need to be addressed. * We will also look at some of the website updates, as well as other projects that need to be addressed. * * _Other past areas that we will also address, as time permits:_ * Updates and recommendations/action steps from the groups? * Fairfield Mental Help website — content gathering and assembling? * Ideas for follow-up community meetings? * Progress from Mental Health First Aid meeting? * Any residual dissuasion from last Sundays big meeting on campus that needs to be addressed? * What do we create now from this work? * Next event on, or off, campus? * Check in on how we’re doing on the whole. Are we headed in the right direction? Any course corrections needed? Any further suggestions? * Hear from each of the small groups on their progress. * See if we have enough people to form the Resources group we planned on, and enough professionals to form the Professionals group. * Meet again in small groups — since this is where the action is at this point. * Individually check in as to what you are up to in creating a difference our community, and if you need any support from the rest of the group, or find out if you have suggestions and ideas for the rest of the group. "Let’s do think of the most interesting, useful, practical, informative, behavior-and-attitude-changing topics we can." Craig Let me know if there are any agenda items that you personally have that you want to develop at this meeting, please let me know. If you are not on Atrium, or have not been on there since last week, please log on and contribute your thoughts. We want to hear what you are thinking. Looking forward to seeing all of you again. The Fairfield Mental Health Alliance October 5^th Meeting Notes You asked: What did you think about (the Oct 5 meeting) last night? Look this has been about creating change and that meeting was a timely showing of some progress of change. The meeting was not the conclusive meeting but it does show the movement has changed some and all the people on stage help show the integration this is taking. On the left hand of the stage as the audience viewed it were all these different practicing clinical professionals who also have integrated alternative modalities in to their practices as they are useful and have basis, and then Pat on the right side clarifying and holding up the movement's franchise. Pat did quite a deft job clarifying on behalf of the movement and Maharishi. Afterall, it was a movement community meeting. Pat is really quite controlled smart, homey, funny, and theatrical all at once. I enjoyed watching him. It was really quite brilliant. This is the second meeting where he has spoken for our collective practical concern as to compassion and our working to help people solve mental health issues being essentially compassionate.. [very buddhistic? ] It will be very interesting to hear when that language of compassion gets picked up, adopted and used by spokespersons up the chain of TM command. That actually is extremely interesting that he is changing the inside by leading with that idea. It has always been said that TM is without heart, well then if it is not a trick then we see this movement of the movement from the upper level around this whole mental health thing is showing some heart, even though it took boxing them in to a corner to help them show it. This is quite a change. Question of course now is the carry-through. There is more work to do to figure out the practical delivery of policy. The clinic, type of credentialed staffing, and how they are going to administrate those trip-wire questions on their forms. That MUM student who spoke in the Q and A was very effective at holding their feet to the fire once again in public. They got to come up with more compassion to show on that one for people to believe them. It is about showing change on their part. Compassion? Their administrative banishing of Tom Allen was not the timely example of any change there. Opps. An long-time old meditator and yes with criticisms of the organization which they were soliciting to hear, but an apostate? No, not then. Hurt now? yes. Not great timing for the handling of one of th