Beauty Engine article for Plenum Magazine

this is a piece written for the Japanese publication-PLENUM
to be published and translated soon-it is written for a community of future thinkers and community builders that our friend and colleague has built.
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Beauty Engine: The Evolution of Social Design

In April of 2006 we were honored to host Mayumi Jingu, editor of Plenum Magazine and our Co-creator and friend. We shared practical wisdom and heart-felt visions towards assisting with the emergence of a peaceful and playful culture. We would like to share those visions with the readers of Plenum Magazine.

You have probably heard of the term cocreation. Although it is being discussed extensively, there are few people who can explain clearly what it is. We have found that the only way to really understand the value of cocreation is to experience it. In response to this challenge, we have designed a simple and playful methodology that gives people direct experience of its benefits.

Tapping Into Your Genius

We believe that Co-creation is the most effective way for people to communicate and collaborate.
The methodology we have created represents a body of wisdom we have cultivated from immersing ourselves in communities and seeing how they really succeed. That wisdom has been distilled into a simple social design which can be activated in any community to help them reach their true potential.

We have experienced the value of this wisdom by embracing it ourselves, and we continue to learn and grow through application of its principles.

The Beauty Engine is a pilot project which uses an established social design, or toolkit, to convene community innovators for the purpose of sharing and documenting wisdom. When Mayumi first came in contact with the Beauty Engine seven years ago it was clear that we shared a passion for play, evolution and peace, and we immediately connected as global cocreators. We are grateful for her continued support, inspiration and vision and would like to acknowledge her work as an integral guiding light to the development of the Beauty Engine.

Experiencing Our Social Design

When Mayumi came to visit us in San Francisco, we hosted a gathering in her honor and to introduce her to the core of our social design. We invited some of our favorite people over, and experienced an inspiring evening of poetry, spoken word, artistic visions, short presentations on projects and communities as well as some great food and an especially delicious Key lime pie.

First, we cocreated a mandala of meaningful objects, lotuses and candles. Growing from our experience of making the mandala, we cocreated a two-dimensional artifact representing the world tree. The world tree had roots, a trunk and branches—and upon each natural form we documented key phrases and concepts everyone felt were important to bringing about a peaceful and playful culture. We then distilled the essence of the mandala and the world tree into twelve lessons: ecstasy, respect, vision, spectacle, flow, make, bliss, impermanence, truth, 000, being and space or potential. These twelve lessons which we then inscribed on a sculptural object, a twelve-sided die. What 12 lessons might your community inscribe on your sculpture?

An Invitation to Cocreate

Cocreation is on the rise, and the invitation to come together to share our collective beauty is here. In San Francisco we are currently witnessing many advances in the fields of art, science and spirit. It has become increasingly clear that social transformation is occurring—on both a large scale and on a very personal level. We feel a synchronicity of transformation in San Francisco, and want to reach out to you.

We want to hear: What is beautiful, abundant, vibrant and inspiring in your communities? What are the visions, talents, stories and passions you carry within you? We wish to connect in our desire to experience ourselves as players in the global play and understand our place in the Beauty Engine of Creation. Now is the time for us to come together and to share all the collective, creative genius we have within us!

Social Design

..can't this phrase out of my head.
I keep thinking, what would i call what it is that i am truly passionate about,
how would i describe it?

Social Design.

I have a passion and talent for what i call 'scripting experiences'

Superstar Avatar, Beauty Engine...
Social Design Tool kits

I'll admit to having a not-so-secret desire to be a Top Social Design Artist.

..guess we'll have to create the genre first.

Time to go build my "experience decks" with The Superstar Nation card generator.

The Beauty Engine Manifesto

You are a Beauty Engine.
Yes, you.

You feel it, rising, pulling yourself into the light,
a longing for air, a yearning for freedom too powerful to ignore.
You feel the impulse of evolutions promise rising within you.

Relax, let go and embody your truth
and you will feel the HEART of you begin to hum,
ready to connect you…To The Heart of It All

Be revealed for what you are;
A Steward of The New
Come, come out and play,
share those dazzling blueprints in your cells-
We await your divine genius.

Delight us with the workings that just may bring this world back to its original Wonder,
for haven’t you heard?
There are whispers of cracking open the Heart of A Collective Good , once and for all.

We have come to achieve a miracle
and Synergy, Synchronicity and Abundance of Spirit herald its arrival.

We are emerging from histories’ cocoon
like the opening of a mighty oven,
a pastry baked to golden perfection.

We beat our wings together,
Experiencing ourselves as a dynamic mandala of fluid connection
Joined by a simple fact-
A true voice cannot help but harmonize.

The Beauty Engine is a miracle of Cocreation,
its body- our passions, our visions, our intent
and its heart….a humbling and awesome revelation,
openly available to all.

The Future of Culture is here and now, so let the party begin-
they’re playing our song.

Beauty Engine, we welcome your core truth-
give us the chance to shine and we will.

Our organizations 'Dynamics'

I'm reposting this from Polly...
these are our Dynamics currently inuse and ones that we have agreed to use to operate as a cocreative collective.
They work a charm....and they keep evolving!

Our Dynamics

These are the dynamics that we agree to use to smoooth out our process here at Mission Control. They are constantly fluid and changable- please feel free to edit/ give feedback at any time. This will be an evolving document reflecting our wisdom, as we gain it through direct experience of working together.

“Table that”
When we want to save a discussion for another time.

“Expert”
Recognizing when someone has more experience or has done specific research on a subject. Always take the expert’s advice over simple ‘opinion’

“What’s Real”
Take a moment to check in and find out how people are feeling. How is their energy, how is their personal life. Lets be there for eachother!

“Solutio”
Understand the value of hottubs, sunshine, parks, pot and cocktails. Sometimes thats the best way to brainstorm new ideas and think outside the box.

“Compassion”
A reminder, when we are under attack or being upset by other people, to always treat them with compassion, even if they are really pissing us off.

“Wobble”
Acknowledging if someone is having their shadow/ wounds activated and is totally freaking out

“Weakness”
Reveal our weaknesses to eachother, so that we are more aware of where we can help eachother, and what to look out for.

“Sparkle Pony”
When somebody uses a term which is unneccessarily flowery or self referential

The Heart of Being Social

. from my last post:

"Hey- community leaders, tool builders, social networkers, 'experts' and innovators!
Have you built in feedback mechanisms, structures and agreements for supporting an ongoing evolutionary feedback process to inform your efforts? "

Support for Feedback Mechanisms in Community
What a huge issue.
For our own community this has been an incredibly interesting and tricky point to navigate, as we are currently seeking new ways to make it safe and acceptable for everyone to engage in various means of feedback for one another.
I see this point as an invitation on the table for us all, actually, because through our observations the most rewarding and amazing experiences can only occur when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable to one another.
...when we are permeable enough to allow the beauty and power of our community mates to reach The Heart of us.

So here are some of the major 'obstacles' to take into account.

THE 'NO DIRECT COMMUNICATION RULE'
For the most part, ours is not a society that takes things on face to face. We are not taught to be direct and truthful, we are not taught to express ourselves truthfully. Many of us are taught that agression is the way to get what we want, either through direct application or passively.
Also, it is not OK to say what you really feel or think to another, especially if it something potentially unpleasant or difficult.
A polite society is a disfunctional society.
How we do turn this around, how do we make it safe to speak our truth, how do we teach ourselves to be gracious and compassionate when giving mirrors/ feedback to others?
Did we adopt this manner of being polite in person then spitting venom behind peoples backs from our English ancestors?
We are all party to this vice, my friends.....and even we allow this 'infection' of the tongue and weakness of the heart to flourish in our social networks.
Say with me: FLAMING STOPS WITH ME

THE MYTH OF SCARCITY REACHES DEEP
We are surrounded by myths, stories, images and icons of scarcity everyday.
A testimony to the lingering death clench of Patriarchal, Institutional and Corporate Consciousness still at work. These stories of scarcity were perpetrated and perpetuated by this consciousness to ensure their existence. College talk really: a self-empowered, self suffienct and mutually supportive consumer/follower/ disciple does not need its symbient host, therefore-the institution must keep feeding the body cues to keep them under the impression that they cannot survive without them.
Most corporate institutions, religions, and social structures are thus designed to thrive on disempowered participants
Consumer culture is based on this premise.
Religion is primarily based on this premise.
Corporate culture is based on this and the premise of non-accountablility.

Heal a crippled person and they will not need the crutches any longer.
The Church knew this long ago and continues to embrace MYTH that keeps people from inheriting ther TRUE POWER.
Things are about to change folks, big time.

FROM WHENCE, THE ORIGINS OF THE SCARCITY MYTH?
So how did we come to allow for these myths and stories of disempowerment to exist in the first place? Good question, eh?
If i knew the answer to that question i'd be on Mount Olympus right now drinking Nectar and spanking Hera on the ass.
How can we have allowed for these panaceas, these snake oils (Institution, Myths, etc) to keep us from our true power?
Well, simply, we have been maturing, have been growing up, these past centuries.
We have been coming into our true power as a people, as a planet of many races, as individuals...over these many lifetimes.
And i think more imporantly, we have been learning to embody the True Genuis of Our Hearts, all this time. These models, uninspiring though they may be, served their purpose at the time but are fast loosing their value now.
Fact here people, we are attempting to birth a New World with social tools built on OLD WORLD PRINCIPLES!!!!!!!!!!

Now here, i may loose some of you and thats ok. but this is the point i have observed that it all comes down to.....it is the power of the Human Heart that will bring about our collective victory!

YOU ARE WORTHY OF CHANGE!
If you do not feel worthy to change, you will not change.
If you cannot feel your own worth, have not found your own worth...truly, you will have no reason to support the worth of others when the going gets tough.
You will resort to the familiar defense tactics of MIND and EGO when things get heated.
If you have not come into a certain place of Self-Love and acceptance of yourself, whether its because your heart carries pain or fear or just because you never ventured there....
you will be able to truly accept the mirror of others.
Its basic, scientific logic folks-if you don't do the work of loving yourself first, forget it, you're going to run in circles your whole life.
Thats a fact.
To this day, i still see many good-meaning but proud community leaders and innovators that think they can do the work for others and not face it themselves.

FACT.
We're all amazing and we're all wounded.
Lets acknowledge our BEAUTY and from that place, find the strength to accept where we may be operating in ways that no longer serve us.
Let us see our culture, our communties and ourselves as 'ever on the path to wholeness"
- wonderful in so many ways, but let us ALWAYS be open.
Let us approach the work of creating and honoring collective agreements in a spirit of light-heartedness and compassion.
Let us support communities, social tools and new stories that sing the praises of being
FLUID-OPEN-DYNAMIC !
Evolution is a dynamic constant so let us constantly be perfected!

FINDING YOUR OWN BEAUTY IS AS EASY AS 1-2-3
Friends, If you have not learned to see your own Inner Beauty and Radiance...you will not see the value of compassion, forgiveness, humility and grace; those qualities being the core currency of what i would consider a True Community Participant.
I have seen many amazing people come and go from my community due to an inadequacy in this department.
They came in search of participating in something wonderful, something collaboratively inspired...but fled when their shortcomings or wounds were illuminated.
I acknowledge my part in this...could i have offered the tools to assist with this learning curve, to support them in their work?
I've seen whole communities fall due to this very point.

THE HEART AND PRIDE
I will not ask you to look at where you may be operating in PRIDE.
Its not my job to point that out but rest assurred, its there.
Pride was the root of all the other 6 sins for a reason.
As pride prevents us from recieving truth from within ourselves, from others and from THE SOURCE (if you believe in that sort of thing)...
So how can we be nimble, apt participants in community if we are unable to accept and receive the gifts others may wish to offer us, if we are too proud to accept them?

I don't attack Pride at the source, no, i've always been a pacifist
....i say...Find Beauty where it really lives, IN YOUR HEART... find your voice, your truth....and on that foundation you will discover the value of staying open!

THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA IS A WOUNDED HEALER
You will never heal yourself by healing others first.
you will never heal the world by setting out to heal others.
If you do not seek that place of Beauty and Compassion within yourself, no amount of technology or structural theory will do the work for you.
The same goes for all communities as they are a sort of COLLECTIVE AVATAR with a Heart as well, beating at their center.
I guess the same could go for the entire Earth, eh?
Many propose that there is a Collective Heart of Humanity, beating solidly to anyone that chooses to listen to it.
I've heard that heart beating, friends and it sounds like a fantastic, many petaled flower blossoming...too amazing to describe in words.

The Myth of Scarcity, the final hurtles of self-love and acceptance we're all wrestling with, the thousand programs of inadequacy and smallness gathered over our journeys...as individuals, collectives and cultures....
hold no sway, lose their grip ....in the presence of this flower blooming in The Heart
Experience it once, and you'll always want it!
See that garden blooming in yourself and you'llnot only see it in others but WANT to see it bloom in others!

LETS ENVISION THIS TOGETHER, its fun!
At the Heart of Everyone, a flower blooming,
At the Heart of every community- a rose garden,
The Earth, a garden of gardens, a New Eden,
a dynamic collective of celebration
Cultures blooming - illuminated by a dedication to ecstatic evolution
Our destiny revealed ...
At The Heart of everything...A Beauty Engine

The Key to Social Evolution

O.K.
The future of Social Evolution is here and now, people.
So listen up, peeps, its real simple.
We here at Mission Control have seen it working, and i'm not just talking about our little part of the New Social Frontier...i'm talking about all around us in many different communities.

Here are some of the distinguishing factors we've not only identified but successfully embraced-
.....and lets keep the dialogue hot!

FACT:
First, give people amazing, fantastic, lovely, meaningful, fun, sexy and rewarding experiences and they'll want more...give 'em a taste of paradise and they'll never want to leave.
Give them the chance to get involved and help maintain these amazing experiences and they will...
Give them a chance to have real ownership in the community well-being and they will step up in inspiring ways as Stewards...
Show them through DIRECT EXPERIENCE that taking an active part in your own evolution and being acountable to others and yourself is not only worthy of commitment, but in fact, a pleasureable, collaborative goal!

Simply put, give people the chance to shine and they will.

Give anyone and everyone the chance to be creative and they'll take it.
Creativity is not just for some of us, its innate to every human being, some folks just need a bit more encouragement.
Give people the means to share their wisdom, stories and value and they will jump on the chance.
We have found that everyone has an incredible wealth of talent and wisdom within them waiting to be shared.
No matter how much you may not be able to connect with someone at first, sit down, share your stories and pretty soon you will start to see just how much you have in common.

FACT:
People don't need to be saved.
Communties don't need to be saved.
Society does not need to be saved.
Everyone is looking for the chance, the support, the tools and the space to lift themselves up-
to find their own unique Power and thus save themselves!

TOTALY FUN AND REWARDING IS THE NEW SUSTAINABILITY!
INSPIRATION AND INVITATION!

There are so many thriving dynamically cool social models and communities around today...ones that display abundant patterns of social behaviour.

So why do we SOCIAL TOOL BUILDERS AND NETWORKERS think we need to re-invent anything? If we are not getting dirty playing in the rich soil of others communities, how can we even call ourselves SOCIAL tool builders?

Lets humble ourselves just a TINY BIT and be open to receiving the genuis of others.
(reminder to self!)
We will not lose our own in the process, promise.

Lets create more empty space in our tools and our networks to allow for the wisdom of our fellow innovators to co-mingle with our own.

Lets collaborate with others, foster working dialogues and cocreative relationships with other organizations by creating open and inviting tools and networks that reflect this.

and one last observation and Fact:
The healthy evolution of any system or organism relies on a continuous dynamic process of feedback influencing its development.
This includes people and communities.

Hey- community leaders, tool builders, social networkers, 'experts' and innovators!
Have you built in feedback mechanisms, structures and agreements for supporting an ongoing evolutionary feedback process to inform your efforts?
(more on this point later)

So, what are the results of applying these observations of abundant social behaviour?

STATEMENT:
The result of spreading tools which support fantastically self-empowered individuals and communities, who have learned through direct experience their own innate value and the value of honoring others....will be a Society thats more of a mind-blowing, mutually harmonious, energy radiating, radically collaborative art project than the frightened, addictive, disfunctional fragmented creature it is today.

Lets harness the infrastructure and desires of consumer culture for our own, selfishly altruistic means and show them where true value is born, in the individual!

And we pray:
May ALL our social tools and networks embrace a dynamic proces of cocreation for every individual and community and functionally encourage synergy, friendly interconnecteness and inspiration for collaboration.
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All these previous statements, observations and functionally applicable truths form the foundation upon which the DESIGN and STRATEGIES of The Beauty Engine and Superstar Avatar been crafted.

Build your tools so that you communicate clearly to the users that they come first and their input, their ideas, their enthusiasm and effort is an inherently valued part of the network.

Beauty Engine Invocation

Heres is a piece i wrote for The last Beauty Engine gathering we hosted in honor of Mayumi Jingu's (more on her in this blog soon- an amazing education innovator and colleague visiting from Japan)...a group of around 13 amazing, intelligent, heart felt beings came together in the spirit of collaboration, exporation and service towards Social Evolution.
We also had some great Key Lime pie made by Buttercup.
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Invocation to The Beauty Engine-

We are in a time of rich and abundant potential

Now more than ever, we are being offered the chance to participate in the unfolding of a Great Mystery well beyond even OUR wildest dreams…

Indeed, these many years have been assisting with the emergence of a thoroughly practical, totally pleasureable, completely ridiculous and Divinely Intelligent whole scale, cultural transmutation…

All of us, present here, tonight,
have been tracking, if not actually laying down… the path to this riotously beautiful and wondrously heartfelt culture we hear , in our very bones-
Harmonious in tone,
fluid in aspect,
radiant in bearing,
compassionate in intention….

Here on the banquet table amongst us….A wealth of Beauty in many forms!
Let us give thanks for the many sumptious dishes before us on our banquet table- our selves, bodies, our intentions, our creative capacities, our field tested wisdoms, our boundless visions and our increasing capacities for compassion..
These many treasures, showing up so genuinely and in the spirit of true service,

are revealing to us an inspiringly inclusive, insanely inviting, holistically holonomic and magnificently thorough model for Global Culture.
Our starry destinies as Magickal Beings are fast rising to meet us friends
Time’s tail is in the mouth of Timelessness
The beating of wings in synch with our pulse
The Gold rises in our blood
And our hearts fill with nectar

We, Beings dedicated to serving the Ecstatic Liberation of all,
we, the forerunners, the embodiments of This New Way, The Beauty Way

Shake, sigh, moan, fumble, strain and doubt
but still do not alter course….

And to that unswerving committment,
that pointedness to certain glory and

In the name Love Triumphant in the heart of every being
I offer praise to the perfection of this merry communion
and acknowledge the vibration of this exquisite mandala we collectively represent
in dedication to the following:

May every being know the song of their true self, that music which makes them utterly precious and unique
May every being have access to the tools, wisdom, communities and experiences to discover and hone this song
and may we,The Pied Pipers of Beauty,
ever strive to serve, through the harmonious application of our personal melodies
to bring the day to fruition when LotuslightShip Earth and all its inhabitants may join together in one triumphant , harmonious song…

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Team Superstar RULES!!!

To quote the immortal words of Superstar Avatar, Triclops...
"Its a ship made out of people..."

Yes, the ultimate resource, friends...
So I just want to take a moment to sing praises to the folks in my life right now working/playing towards making SuperStar Avatar, The Beauty Engine and The Moral Minority network a reality....they are a true inspiration and joy to be on the path with.
I am ever grateful for them showing up in my life!
Together i am confident that we will bring The Vision into Reality!

First off, let me sing Eternal Golden Praise to Polly Superstar, the first Superstar Avatar i ever met.
Pure inspiration, compassion and courage incarnate.
I would have long since tossed in the towel if it wasn't for her...
What a lion-hearted human, what a roar, what a purr....
such a joy to be on The Path with her!

Rachel Weidinger- aka Buttercup WingDinger
what an amazingly lovely and super humble force of nature.
Her talents for connecting the dots blows me away.
A Consultant par excellance
and makes a mean Key Lime Pie.
Fact.

Jason Hassan- aka the Source
this guy just sort of came out of nowhere and diligently went to work keeping
the physicality& energy of Mission Control together...electrical, fix-it stuff, cleaning, assisting with odd jobs at events....The Ultimate HandyMan from The 9th Dimension
...and you oughta see this guy dance!

Jessica Berlin- aka Achtung The Clown
The pushy prussian with a heart of gold...just now coming on board Mission Control to help with Promotions and Operations Management
shes passionate, sharp, witty and stylish!
we're so grateful to have her efforts on board!!!

shouts out to:
Neal Gorenflo-aka White Arrow, our conversations about new models for Society always inspire me!
Marty- aka Phanfasm #1, fellow Magician, tireless supporter, Play technician and friend...you've got the piece that'll pipe us into millions of living rooms....
Stasha- thanks for all the enthusiasm, kindness and generosity in this tough time!

and to my two brothers 'DOING THE WORK':
Russel- aka Sensei- 'my brother from another mother', this guy has a passion for evolution and authentic expression in the written/spoken word
Cameron- aka Triclops The Bootysatva, showed up from the same dimension as Jason The Source, your dedication inspires me

The Goddess Teachers in my life-
Ariel Spilsbury- colleague, cocreator and mentor on Evolution and Play
www.holographicgoddess.com
and
Mayumi Jingu- Japanese colleague, supporter and Cocreator in Beauty Engine-LailaStar and Plenum Activation Federation
Ambe Ray- Nectarian Priestess of The Overflowing Grail and Dakini Bambini
Lauren Pomerantz- Musical Muse and loving friend

and hey...J-RADICAL, you ridiculous man....
i think its laughter that holds it all together..
thanks for that and the LIGHT!!!
Lets take Broadway!

Play often!

a chapter from my Pocket Guidebook on Personal Evolution...

Play often

Don’t worry friends,

I promise I won’t mention the dreaded phrase (Inner Child) once. Oops.

Enter The Fool, my Patron Saint of Play. Way cooler.

Upon my first weeks to San Francisco in 1990, I happened across a part time job at The Black Point Forest Renaissance Faire.

Some call it A Living Historical Theatrical Re-enactment, some call it an outdoor theme mall but after my first few days, I called it my home.

In the dust and hay and merriment of my first Faire, I lost myself and was found by The Fool. In this playful environment, supported by an elaborate subculture of various communities and accompanied by a merry troupe of fellow fools …I discovered the real power of Play.

For two days a week for two months, I donned the fool’s cap and bells, rolled in the dirt and generally made an ass out of myself to amuse paid guests.

It was glorious.

What looked to the guests like some poor underpaid actor embarrassing himself for a drink of warm beer was in actuality, me, finding my own liberation. I had found something I thought I had long lost.

Play, pure and simple.

The two words of wisdom that my father always offered me as a kid, “Have Fun”, certainly applied here.

Playing The Fool granted me the freedom to be silly, to prance and laugh and scamper and skip.

Play allowed the grip my intellectual mind had over me to relax, drift, free associate and most importantly, to operate in new ways.

Just allowing myself the luxury to NOT CARE what others thought about me and be ridiculously without concern for my appearance was like a drug!

Here, where All The World Truly Was A Stage, my talent for improv was received and through play, my hunger for direct experience fed beyond my wildest dreams.

After those first two months at faire my passion for play was clearly revealed.

Determined to keep playing after all my fellows went back to their real jobs, I set immediately out to create a puppet stage, a set of puppets and a fool’s outfit, marched straight out to Union Square and played to anyone that would watch.

Completely untrained but fueled by a newfound passion for play, i was soon ‘discovered’ by several local talent agencies and for the next 15 years found myself getting paid to play.

The Power of Play infused my entire life with vitality, fun, light-heartedness and fresh perspective. Every year that has passed I have grown younger.

Be playful and laugh at yourself often, friends.

Life is too serious to take seriously.

Culitvate genuine interest in the other

I wanted to post this to remind myself...
(borrowed from a thread on Omidyar.net)

"I had the privilege of having a brilliant mentor for several years who happened to be world-reknown in our field. She had more people approach her to hire her consulting advice than she could ever handle. In addition to being reknown as an expert in her field, she was widely regarded as a marketing genius because she had so much business. Here is the secret she shared with me upon which all of her fabulous success was based: whenever she met someone, anyone, she was always genuinely and deeply interested in the other person. She said she had thought a lot about what contributed to her success because so many people sought her advice and she said her success was, in fact, that simple: genuine interest in the other. She said that if you listen long enough, with genuine interest, the other person becomes inescapably interested in you because they genuine believe you care about them. They want to invite you to work with them because you care."

my blueprint for personal growth

Professor Violet’s Pocket Guide to Personal Evolution

(chapter headings from the forthcoming guide)

Direct Experience is King

Be Greedy

Play often

Act on Your Passions

Imagination is your muse

Know your Allies, Seek your Guides

Keep good mirrors

Develop an ‘Inner Witness’

Cultivate Beauty

Cultivate Gratitude

See the Gift of Challenge

True Genius Resides in The Heart

You are a Beauty Engine

The Professor in his 'Jules Verne' drag...