How to cast a circle

Volume III The Tau Axiology

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Lammas 2021 WHAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR HANDS

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/Two-Spirit, 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 The Silver center represents our common goal of improving wellness The circle of dots represents our ongoing welcome to all to join us.

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If you have any questions regarding this document – do not hesitate to contact us.

Phone – (888) 241-9992 Fax – (888) 623-3481 Email – info@rainbowhealth.coop

Our Co-op members, who work together to get better together, the work and effort of all O_CHI participants / community members who are generous in sharing their experiences, and the O_CHI Project Leads, Coordinators and Researchers who go above and beyond in our common effort to grow wellness in our communities. Thank You.

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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

UNROBE THE GLOBE

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”

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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 COMMUNITY MAPPING 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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τ au, Mystery S

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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.

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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.

What are Pattern Languages?

A stitch in time, saves nine is an example of the pattern languages we use daily.

It describes patterns for managing object creation, composing objects into larger structures, and coordinating control flow between objects. The book provides numerous examples where using composition rather than inheritance can improve the reusability and flexibility of code. It’s not a tutorial but a catalog of object-oriented design pattern. .

Vernacular Pattern Languages Vernacular Pattern Languages are the addition of the conscious use of the collective unconscious (intuition) and parallel thinking to experience multiple perspectives in the process of creating a pattern language.

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House

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Defense Against the Dark Arts

Family

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Energies of the Runes

Wellness

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Reiki Symbols

Community

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Plants, Animals, Mountains, Streams

Knowledge

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Casting A Circle

Justice

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Four Medicines

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Fifth Medicine

Tradition

Design Improvements

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Projects of Innovation

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THE SECOND CIRCLE OUR GROUP NOT ALL THAT BELONGS TO OUR GROUP BELONGS TO YOU

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