Category: Chronological History

Summer 1977 Global Servant Force (GSF) Expansion Research Assembly • The Global Servant Force (GSF) expanded. • Town Meeting county coverage continued. • Experimented with having an order couple, volunteers from the United States and villagers as staff of projects in Chile, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru,...

Summer 1976 Research Assembly • Launched Global Social Demonstration Projects (GSD), “The Band of Twenty-four” • Created the Consult Handbook • Considered and planned for replication of demonstration projects • Created a Town Meeting area strategy and Town Meeting materials • Created the Human Development...

Summer 1975 Global Research Assembly • Created the Town Meeting ’76 (TM) program with the goal of doing 5,000 town meetings during the U.S. Bicentennial. • The Town Meeting Song, Story, and Symbol Workshop was adapted from the Local Church Experiment (LCX). • Launched eight...

Summer 1974 Global Research Assembly • Dark Night/Long March Spins • “WAVE” conversations • Corporate study of Carlos Castenada’s Journey to Ixtlan • Held “Hunter Warrior” conversations • Created the Comprehensiveness Screen • Experimented with the Ignatian Retreat • The Ignatian Retreat was modeled and...

Summer 1973 Global Research Assembly • Participants created the form, frame, tactics, and logistics of the Guild. • The Uptown Lab did research in the Chicago Uptown neighborhood and launched the Uptown Project. A corner “postage stamp” park—with a billboard that read “Uptown is a...

Global Research Assembly (GRA) 1,000 people participated in the research assembly. Corporate participation in Other World Treks and Other World Visits, and in creating Other World songs. The Watch, the Fast, the Great Ball, and The Waltz were all a part of the summer mythology.*...

Summer 71 The Summer Research Program “1000 people. 1000s of pages of documents. 1 million pages of documents printed overnight” (Brian Stanfield, 1993). “Assembly participants met in three places: two were in Fifth City at the old campus seminary and the Program House on Fifth...

Sixth Summer Research Program “An experiment with a massive problem-solving dynamic which created a form for data gathering, consensus decision-making, and model building” (Council V Policy Statement, August 1970). 500 participants helped create a Tactical System for the Local Church—a comprehensive set of tasks for...

Summer 1969 Fifth Summer Research Program The Academy was held simultaneously in five locations, including the Chicago campus. Joseph Hsu from Taiwan was the first international intern. He stayed a full year and participated in the Academy fall, 1969, and lived on the Westside (Basil...

Summer 1968 The New Religious Mode Fourth Summer Research Program Piloted the curriculum that would become the Academy Pulled together the research from the year and created the New Religious Mode (NRM).*   This was when we got up early—3 or 4 a.m.—in order to...