News & Events

Let's Talk - A Community Building Experience and Program
A feedback communications systems for students with their political leaders using the State of the Union, their peers creating their own topic such as Internet Safety, and important documents like the Earth Charter with 16 universal principles. The purpose of "Let's Talk" is to use dialogue, deliberation and discernment to provide opportunities for our youth to build citizenship skills, understanding of different points of view, a sense of connection with youth and their leaders and community locally and globally, a sense of their own empowerment and the opportunity to participate in creating the world they want while increasing community mental health.

Easy Citizen Involvement Initiative 919

This initiative concerns a process to provide citizens' opinions to their governments. This measure would establish a network of citizen councilors, coordinated by the state auditor's office, where volunteers would meet in small groups and share their opinions on topics of public interest for tabulation communication system with their leaders for the State of WA. This initiative Founder, President and Sponsor Dick Spady is endorsed by the Washington Association of Churches, is a self-funded citizenship education program and requires no tax support.

Just as machines have a feedback system, people need a feedback system. I-919 will be the first in America to create this for the all citizens in Washington State with their elected leaders, when this initiative is passed. This initiative is a self-funded citizenship education program and requires no tax support. It will enable all citizens, young and old, to exercise their constitutional rights of freedom of speech, the press, assembly, petition, and to be heard in symbolic dialogues by the Governor, the Legislature, the State Auditor and others. The purpose is to celebrate, evaluate, and enhance the educational, political, and economic climates and social capital in our state through routine publication of social resonance audits of our intangible human assets and opinions.

Jan 17, 2006, Orlando, FL

Civic Education Conference Presentation of "Let's Talk" Program to educators for use with their students age 12 to 21 using cutting edge technology for the Fast Forum

Jan 18 - 21, 2006, Seattle, WA

Martin Luther King Keynote Speaker for North Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA

Dreaming the Impossible Dream:
Human Flourishing emphasizing the tools of Global Education, Greatness and each ones uniqueness, Wholeness -5 bodies of Mind, Body, Spirit, Emotions and Environment, Primacy of Creativity, Universal Citizens, Oneness - the interconnectedness of all life, Educating for the heart

Jan to May 2006, Seattle, WA

Wallingford Boys and Girls Club teens create their own "Let's Talk" Program focusing on Internet Safety with their own video, research and Opinionnaire®

March 11 - 12, 2006, Ocean Shores, WA

WALA -Washington Alternative Learning Association, Presentation with President Ari Cowan for Edvita Education for Living and their first challenge the pandemic of violence and its precursors fear, ignorance, and superstition. Edvita's Core Purpose: to be a living model and instrument awakening and unleashing a revolutionary shift in the human experience. (http://www.edvita.net)

March 15 to July 7th 2006, State of Washington

Launching of Initiative 919 for the people of Washington State. (http://www.easycitizeninvolvement.com)

March 30, 2006, Bainbridge Island, WA

The Earth Charter Local and Global Connections for Earth Day

Keynote speaker Dr. Richard Gammon, Co-Director program on the Environment and Professor of Chemistry and Oceanography, U of WA

Presentation of Earth Charter Opinionnaire® for schools and organization to use with students and citizen groups

April 6-9, 2006, Seattle, WA

Citizenship, Moral Education and Civilization Building Conference
Sponsored by Seattle Pacific University and the Forum Foundation
Leaders from China, Russia, England and Nigeria

Conference Theme:
Human Flourishing Presentations on "Let's Talk" and Easy Citizen Involvement

April 26 -27, Seattle, WA

"Let's Talk" Program at the Wallingford Boys and Girls Club, Seattle, WA This event will provide the opportunity for dialogue with deliberation and discernment between the teens and senior citizens. (http://www.positveplace.org)

May 6, 2006, Boston MA

National Boys and Girls Club give Program Excellence Award for Wallingford "Let's Talk" many-to-many communications program. Dr. Dick Spady with Barbara Gilles will receive A National Boys and Girls Club Award for Program Excellence for "Let's Talk".

May 29 to June 2, Corpus Christi, TX

The 2nd International Conference on Youth and Education in the 2lst Century. Barbara Gilles will be one of the keynote speakers presenting on "Educating with a New Way of Thinking: A Moral Imperative for 20/20". They are expected to offer more than 140 different workshops.

June 25-30, 2006, Chicago, IL

Creative Problem Solving Institute and Creative Education Foundation at http://www.cpsiconference.com. A 5 day immersion team with Tom McMullen, Barbara Gilles, Efiong Etuk, and Larry Ostuni will focus on "Engaging the Creative Many for Individual and World Transformation".  Modules will include the 1)Primacy 2) Inherency and 3) Necessity of Creativity for community mental health and self actualization - an intrinsic motivation in an extrinsically motivated society.

July 28- 31, Toronto, Canada

World Future Society Theme is "Creating Global Strategies for Humanity's Future".
Barbara will be co-facilitating two workshops. One on the future of education with Jens Jerndal, President of Life Expansion University, Buenos Aires, Argentina and a second on a revolutionary feedback communicationships system with John Spady showcasing their new generic possibilities.