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Quenching the Organizational Pants on Fire: Double Loop Learning and What it Means for You Working in a high paced, dynamic environment is fun but it can also be exhausting, especially when you see the same crises recurring over and over again. Like that friend who keeps repeating their unconscious... Read more
Prout Strategic Planning Seminar II Report Asheville, NC, Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2017 By Mirra Price, Howard Nemon, and Dada Maheshvarananda From September 29 to October 1, 2017, thirty Proutists from New York Sector gathered at Ananda Girisuta Master Unit in Asheville, North Carolina, to participate in a... Read more
Dr. Diane Moan is a Naturopathic Doctor, who graduated from Bastyr University in Kenmore, Washington, an accredited naturopathic medical school. Licensed in the state of Washington, she practices in Seattle at Dahlia Natural Health Clinic. Achoo! Cold and flu season is upon us. The best way to avoid... Read more
Vegan Gumbo Perfect for cold nights. Here’s a delicious vegan version of Gumbo. Read more
Report by Kate Donnelly-Anderson The topic of the annual 2017 Prout Convention was “Global Threats and Progressive Responses: Coordinated Cooperation in the Fight Against Inequality, Misinformation and Exclusion”. A Sisters’ Retreat and debrief/action plan Prout meetings were also... Read more
by Nydia Barone-Labensart The dusky sky is heavy this evening and the humidity is almost as high as the temperature; it’s July in the Midwest. As the hornets buzzed nearby I thought, “What if I get stung and my throat closes up?” But I knew I wasn’t allergic. Sure, I got stung occasionally over the... Read more
by Anna Girresch After being at the PROUT Institute in Venezuela in the summer and fall of 2013, I moved to Atlanta, Georgia. I was in love with the power of workers coming together to organize unions and cooperatives. My own co-workers and I had successfully organized a union in my time as a studen... Read more
by Ellen Landau’s Sign This is a brief account of my trip north to Washington, DC, and how I ended up a day later, part of a memorial heap in front of the Trump International Hotel in Washington’s old Post Office Building. My journey began with my creation at an Office Depot store in Greensboro, [... Read more
An Introduction to the Alliance for Economic Democracy By Shri Verrill and Alex Jackimovicz In Madison, Wisconsin a range of grassroots activists, intellectuals, and leaders in various movements for political, social and economic change came together to convene at the 2012 Economic Democracy Confere... Read more
By Mirra Price I first encountered cooperative games when I was a theatre student at Indiana University in the 60s. Some of my drama instructors used exercises from Improvisations for the Theatre by Viola Spolin, who is often called the “Grandmother of Theatre Games”. I remember playing The Machine,... Read more
by Debra Wirth I know that everyone is familiar with the Second Amendment, which gives us the right to bear arms for hunting, sport and defense. However, the weapons of today are greatly more powerful and easier to use than the heavy, difficult to load muskets of the 1700s. Over the years we have w... Read more
Veggie Tofu Pancit This is my version of the Filipino rice noodle dish, Pancit, with stir fried with veggies and tofu. Ingredients: One 8 oz. pack rice or bean noodles One 12 oz. package of tofu 1 tsp chili pepper 1 Tbs. ginger ¼ cabbage, sliced into strips 1 large carrot, sliced into strips ¾ [... Read more
Neohumanist Leadership: A Regular Column by Satya Tanner Why Leaders Need to Have a Basic Understanding of Systems and Social Science In the wake of the London Bridge attack, I have been disturbed by the number of ‘leaders’ within my network who have been quick to jump to short term solutions, such... Read more