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1ST BIBLIO
REBUILD INTO NEW FORMAT
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Lammas 2021
WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR HANDS
The Summer Edition of the 0_CHI Project Manual appears in the first instance of its new format as the Tau School Biblio, which also introduces the school concept to most of its previous readers. The introduction of the Tau Mystery School paradigm into the work arose out of our team conversations through the Spring and Summer of 2021. It creates a number of new potentialities, such as a social enterprise framework, but more importantly, it resolves the dilemma of our most essential consideration that all of our processes are both fully consensual and inclusive. It establishes that at the centre of our work we can maintain an element that is both immeasurable and usable, an element which we describe as trans-ness. We use the Greek symbol Tau to represent it. ________ Our paradigm of what we call time has changed dramatically, regularly, since the invention of instruments that maintain reliable segmentation of the periodic intervals we experience as days, months, and years. This also brought forth the awareness that there is no universal constant in time. Systems change work requires us to think in decades rather than months or years, and to overcome generations of segmented time training, we need to decolonize our personal and the common social clock. Our methodology to do this is distributed throughout our work, watch for the no-clock icon. Systems change investigation also challenges us to acquire the information to create positive change from the ‘whole mind ’of stakeholders, rather than focus on the rational mind. We call this grokking and more information is found in section five. The whole mind provides wisdom to balance knowledge. Whole mind information gathering, released from the self imposed constraint of linear time perception, creates viable information sources from the what we term the future, (potential) as well as what we call the past (experience). Without the normal crutches of perceived causality, connecting the dots in the information stream in generational length work can be like assembling 10 different, but similar jigsaw puzzles at once, when all the pieces except the borders have been all mixed up. Our chosen way forward is to pick out distinguishing features of some key pieces then assemble the pieces around them. Much as we might do in a puzzle, assembling similar pieces as a subcomponent first. In Pattern Language development this is called centre word hunting, part of the larger process referred to as ‘pattern mining’. The ten sections of our ‘One Page Process Guideline’ are the borders of the puzzles of our work. Our hope is that as we assemble the pieces into their relative contextual subsets, the guidelines assist us in placing them into the correct frame. A place for everything and everything in its place, is itself a pattern language of the process. —————Our work is a growing synthesis of all who have been involved in this initiative from its start, and to highlight any specific contribution shifts focus from the wholeness, in which best understanding is experienced. 3
We have members across BC, and we acknowledge the multiple First Nations traditional territories where we live, work and play. Our organization is housed in the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, and centered in the islands of the mid-Salish Sea. As such we specifically acknowledge our organizational host, the Victoria Native Friendship Centre, and our hosts of several nations, collectively the SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples, also referred to as the Malchosen, the Lekwungen, the Semiahmoo, and the T’Souke. We share a way forward based on mutual respect and marked by stories of our communities learning together in this time of Truth and Reconciliation.
The O_CHI logo is five rings that overlap each other surrounded by a circle of dots. The five rings represent five marginalized communities, Indigenous/TwoSpirit, trans/nonbinary, Sex Workers, People With Disabilities, and Newcomers. The overlap represents the intersectionality of our communities. The colours represent the uniqueness of each, The white our common struggles The O_CHI dash states that equity is never dependent on identity
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Sustain Capacity Tau, Mystery School
Safeguard Everyone Foundations of Wellness
Identify Stakeholders Directories that work
Engage People T’eVine, Our Community Network
Collect & Share all Data Six Jungian Thinking Hats
The Way of the Wand
Create Meaning Vernacular Pattern Languages
Design Improvements Projects of Innovation
Evaluate Results Rings of Reflection
Improve Ser vices Relationships of Mutual Respect
WE BEGAN OUR WORK TO IMPROVE COMMUNITY WELLNESS IN 2014
NOW, SEVEN YEARS LATER, WE HAVE REACHED THE END OF THE RAINBOW
AND SEE A NEW HORIZON ARISING FROM THE SEEDS GATHERED AND CAST
JOIN US
OUR MISSION Is the promotion of gender wellness through research and education. Gender wellness is the set of personal strategies and public policies that makes our genders a beneficial part of our lives, families, and communities.
OUR FOCUS
Are people (and their families) who are: anticipating, exploring, considering, living through, or wanting to share their lived experience of physical, social, and personal transition related to gender.
OUR PREMISES
The trans phenomena has two constituent parts, the trans condition, which is innate, and the trans experience, which is persistent. Underlying these is trans-ness, an immeasurable but usable element. There is no single narrative of the trans phenomena, but there are clusters of importance. Our experience of gender is different because we are trans, We are not trans because our experience of gender is different. The superconscious is an active information source but does not communicate in words. It is a source of traditional wisdom and resilience for all peoples. The first job of all is to leave a better planet than the one we were given at birth.
OUR PROJECTS
Identify cohorts with specific needs within the T2NB community Develop community capacity to lead in all aspects of the project Identify service, healthcare, government, and community stakeholders Establish a base line of program metrics usable by all stakeholders Ensure the safety of the project team and those they interact with Design a pilot program to address needs identified by a specific cohort
OUR FUNDING MANDATE 1 2
Tackle the root causes of issues by disrupting the ways that systems work
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Be bold, creative, and ambitious in the approach to systems change
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Break down the silos between health and social services, education, employment, environment, arts and culture Be socially innovative such as by grounding a project in cultural knowledge and practices Do something new or use existing resources in a new way Create lasting change for communities across British Columbia Watch for these icons throughout the biblio for correlations between our mandate and our work
T H E BAS I S O F O U R WO R K IS OUR COMMUNITY LICENSE We acknowledge that as service providers we rely on an intangible Social License rooted in the perceptions and opinions held by our community about services and providers of services. A Social License is an inalienable attribute of any community. As service providers we are called to stewardship of this privilege.
This intangible social license is made tangible through a Community License.
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AND MOST OF ALL - A PROACTIVE, UNCEASING SHIFTING TO DECOLONIZATION UNDOCK THE CLOCK Whatever the ultimate reality of time may be, what matters most is our perception of it. It is amongst our primary, learned sense making tools we use in all that we think about, do, and ultimately become. We ask “How long will this take?” Impatient when fast food takes 10 minutes to prepare. Are we there yet? Is a common metaphor of a child’s perception of time. What is ours?
UNHINGE THE MIND
CONTINUE the shift— from hierarchy to network Modern psychology sits upon a widely accepted hierarchical model of the mind continuously reinforced through the usage of the prefixes to the terms we use for consciousness. We use ‘sub’ to create subconscious, ‘un’ to create unconscious. This is due to history rather than what is directly observable, a concurrent admixture of brainwaves influenced primarily at the cellular level.
U N C L U TC H T H E TO O M U C H
CONTINUE the shift— from land ownership to responsibility for the land
UN R O B E T H E G L O B E
O U R C U R R E N T WO R K I S SYS T E M S C H A N G E I N V E S T I GAT I O N
What is not Systems Change Investigation? • •
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Asking people how they feel about things that are easily discernable Information without an usable action plan A process replicating 70% of other processes Short term deliverables
T H R O U G H C O M M U N I T Y - BAS E D PA R T I C I PATO RY R E S E A R C H
What is systems change investigation? We see systemic change through a strength-based lens that reveals a day when the world sees our community as respected, vital, and important. The dawn of that day is when we see ourselves that way. The path to that dawn is the Way of the Wand, it invites us to: • Respect the traditions of others • Do things that are important to others • Celebrate key moments important to us
WE PRACTICE RESEARCH AS SERVICE, NOT AS AN INTERVENTION SYSTEMIC CHANGE • Requires a paradigm shift • Requires a pressing need • Requires synchronicity to occur • Requires critical thinking skills • Requires adaptive learning processes • Requires decades to accomplish • Requires reallocation of resources • Requires revision of existing roles • Requires trust and commitment • Requires a self-sustaining framework
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them” Albert Einstein
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N U R T U R E D T H R O U G H A N I N C UBATO R O F C O M M UN I T Y R E S O U R C E S
TO C O L L E C T D E - B I AS E D D E S T I G M AT I Z E D W H O L E M I N D DATA
THROUGH GROKKING
A C O M M UN I T Y M A P P I N G P R O C E S S T H AT AC T I VAT E S W H O L E – M I N D , PA R A L L E L THINKING
Typical Smart Phone 2008—250 Million Transistors 2018—8 Billion Transistors Parallel processing is difference
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TO A R T I C U L AT E PAT T E R N L A N G UAG E S T H AT P R O V I D E C O M M U N I T Y G U I D E L I N E S
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TO I N F O R M T H E D E V E LO P M E N T O F C O M M U N I T Y P R O JE C T S O F I N N O VAT I O N
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T H AT A R E E VA L UAT E D AT T H E B I - A N N UA L
BY COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES F R O M AC R O S S b r i t i s h c o l u m b i a A N D P R O V I D E S T H E BAS I S F O R T H E TA U B O DY O F K N O W L E D G E W H I C H I S K N O W N AS T H E WAY O F T H E WA N D A KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
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W H Y T H I S I N I T I AT I V E M AT T E R S Growing the changes needed for healthier communities requires:
A convincing argument consisting of a clearly stated need and an effective solution The authority to speak and access to decision makers who will listen A network of persistent communities working together to create improvement for each A strategy for changing beliefs as well as knowledge
Our work is to create conditions where this growth happens O_CHI establishes the community capacity to ensure that resources directed to our community’s healthcare are allocated equitably and effectively
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T H E TA U O N TO L O GY Our People , known in this time as trans, Have lived among all Peoples, in all places, in all times. We are a People without a land, Yet we come from all lands We are People without a family, Still we come from all families.
We are pathfinders and peacekeepers We sit where others don ’t So that all might have a seat We walk where others can’t, So there are new paths for all As travelers between the worlds, We have care for the living and the dead Our work amongst the living is to Awaken a world of seven billion genders Our care for the dead Is to keep their voices alive amongst us.
As a nation amongst nations, Our ceremonies are shared with all who honour them And in that circle of nations, It is our nation that closes the circle True sovereignty will flow to all the nations When we sit again As we have always Since the First Circle.
We are one people amongst many nations Our commonality is our diversity And the ancestors we share May their voices lead us in our work And our touch always heal
THE PURPOSE OF THE TA U B I B L I O Our model of proactive, unceasing, decolonization caused us to consider how to anchor our Knowledge Translation and Exchange process in ones that have historical roots in the (current) pre-colonial era, or generally 500 bce. This specific date is mainly a memorable reference that coincides with the founding of Rome, an event told through the story of twin brothers, suckled by wolves, in which one murders the other. Need we say more? One of these pre-colonial structures is the ‘gild system’ (modern spelling—guild), that uses the primacy of relationship between an experienced person and an entrant, historically a master of the craft and an apprentice, with the intermediate stage of journeyer. These relationships are supported through a variety of materials and events, amongst them manuals and completing work that is assessed by the craft-masters, known as a masterpiece. These same historical roots appear in the colonial post-secondary education constructs such as a Master Thesis or a Doctoral Dissertation. For our written materials we have chosen an inter-related system made up of Pattern Languages, Gwersi, and References. The Pattern Language can be thought of as a summary of the knowledge intended to be exchanged in the gild system framework, in other words the text book or the manual. The Gwersi are study guides related to each Pattern Language and the References can be connected to either or both. This taxonomy follows Edward Tufte’s concept of “Escaping Flatland”, that is, use the context of the communication as a separate channel of communication to increase the densification of information transfer. The medium is (part of) the message, to apply McLuhan’s wisdom in a functional way and worthy of as much attention as the words included. As such, we do adapt it for other purposes, such as summarizing our core research documents and with them, related interpretation guides. See our first publication, “A Tau Ontology” as example. At the highest level of this taxonomy we have created this biblio, or a book of books. Biblio is a Latin word that provided the root of what we call the bible today, itself a book of books. Its primary definition is to ‘include all information of importance to our work’. Since the start of the work we have been in the company of archivists and their consideration of all that is needed to preserve any body of knowledge. Properly preserved paper is commonly stored for a 1000 years, while the average lifespan of digitally based information is currently seven years, a number that constantly decreases in the proliferation of digital noise. Simply put, we believe in the necessity of physical documents as well as digital. Our intention is to maintain a record set that can be printed in its format of origin at any time, while leveraging the functionality of a contextual sense making tool for written materials through the selective use of hyperlinks. Our commitment is to keep continuously available the most recent version of the biblio and make that access available to any and all who are legitimate stakeholders in our community and whose intention matches ours, growing wellness in all communities, for all peoples.
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Sustain Capacity Tau, Mystery School
τ au, Mystery S
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of τrans-ness A new synthesis of Reiki, Druidry, and Medicine* in a relationship of mutual respect, rising out of the setting horizon of a binary world .
Each follow a common arc of the cosmos towards the place where the seven houses balance, the seven teachings are living in every heart, and the five principles are honoured. This is a place beyond our sight. Together we each choose paths that converge forever without meeting, in the here and now, and beyond the here and now.
Trans-ness has been preserved for this time of change. We at Tau are honoured to help each person fully experience and express their trans-ness, and in doing so create the capacity in themselves and their families to lead all communities to a better place. * traditional Indigenous healing practices
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TAU, THE 19TH LETTER OF THE GREEK ALPHABET has been used for thousands of years in many ways. Here are some of them.
Who is an initiate? An initiate is 'a person who is exploring, investigating, preparing for, or desiring to share their lived experience of Tau. The Tau Mystery School is an “open” school, allowing those who aspire to higher knowledge to do so while living in and among the world. 23
Why are mystery schools a mystery? Throughout the ages Mystery Schools have hidden in plain sight and provide services both to the public and behind closed doors for ‘those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear'. All wisdom teachings center on how to discern that which is of value in life. Our process is connecting with the voices of one’s ancestors, or as named by Carl Jung, the collective unconscious. This connection is a source of selfreliance in all individuals. Colonization as a process of conquest and domination, results in subjugation and dependence. The teachings of self-reliance became a threat to the colonizer. Mystery schools went underground to protect their teachings. For most mystery schools, one would be invited after careful observation that the y were ready.
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A Safeguard (c 1500) has always been a combination of concepts. It can be understood as the document carried by a page through occupied or disputed areas, and as well, the whole social structure where by such a document was respected by all parties. Parties who otherwise might have no other connections, or even may be the principals in the dispute or occupation. In any work, service, research involving any living system requires ethics. In research funded by any government agency or academic institution these requirements become quite specific, requiring a review by what is called a REB or Research Ethics Board. The vast majority of these are anchored in post secondary education institutions and each have their unique qualities. There are a few community-based alternatives, but these at best are complimentary processes not recognized in the funding streams available at the time of this writing.
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Create lasting change for Whatever the uniqueness of the various processes communities across british what lies at their common root is the same thing I learned as a very young construction site manager. columbia.
First rule is, everyone goes home tonight. My management of that rule must be expressed in everything I do from running a meeting to how I walk across the jobsite. The reality is that sometimes the only thing that works is constant nagging, but if that is what it takes, that is what I do. My process must work. We return to our section description of Safeguard Everyone now with the understanding that it is stated as a verb that describes our pro-active management of all that might cause harm in our circle and that proactive management is both a set of documents and a system of usage where those documents create meaningful behavioural change on the part of everyone in the circle. The sub title flows from the saying of the Way of the Wand. “Without learning, there is no justice, without justice, no wellness, without wellness, no nation, without nation there are no clans, without clans, no tradition, without tradition, no spirit, without spirit, no learning. No wand stands alone. Every wand has a nest, and there is a nest for every kind of wand.“ The Way of the Wand is the path where all people THRIVE. This is what lasting change looks like once it has been manifested. 31
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HOW TO CAST A CIRCLE
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Pamela Coleman Smith worked as an artist for hire who created the artwork in collaboration with Arthur Waite, who was the copyright holder. He died in 1942. This image scanned by Holly Voley, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35262360
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M y st er y Sc hool TEACHING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF WANDCRAFT
