Please Note:  This is a very old page which we are keeping primarily for archival, historical purposes!

We come together through our shared endeavors.  I have organized them below with links to the letters that help define them.  Sign up for our groups.  An asterisk * indicates the working group where I imagine they ultimately fit best.  Andrius Kulikauskas, Director, ms@ms.lt

Start a Heart-to-Heart Support Network Minciu_Sodas_EN, Embracing Others*

• Natalie d'Arbeloff, April 11:  Wants to hear people's experiences instead of opinions.  Will investigate her own insights into three words, Love Truth God, as if she'd never heard them before.
• Andrius Kulikauskas, October 18:  Writes about David Ellison-Bey, describes need for a Heart-to-Heart Support Network to bring together people who would like to influence others for the better, and learn how to speak heart-to-heart with each other, so that we gain energy from our mutual support.  We also want to go out as individuals to influence others for the better, and learn how to speak heart-to-heart even with those who don't want to, at the expense of our own energy.

• Natalie d'Arbeloff, March 26:  What questions do each of us want to explore within Minciu Sodas?  Natalie's interests.
• Natalie d'Arbeloff, March 26:  Being challenged vs. being coached.   What is proper to do for pay?
• Marjorie Rosenfeld, March 25:  Doubts about coaching.  The desire to work directly, the help of friends, self-teaching.
• Natalie d'Arbeloff, March 25:  Examples of stimulating creativity through challenges.
• Annette Robinson, March 25:  Have workshops to work on ideas.  Also, use ideas that transform our thinking to get back to the Module.
• Andrius Kulikauskas, March 24:  What favorite ways of thinking do we offer?  Questionnaire regarding your creativity.
• Shannon Clark, March 24:  Ideas for funding.  What area does Minciu Sodas exist to study?  Should generate public works, public writings.
• John Leppik, March 23:  Ideas on coaching each other.  The best form of education. Not coach your coach.  Coaching is private.
• Andrius Kulikauskas, March 23:  What is the value of public research?  Areas where private and public coexist in life.
• Andrius Kulikauskas, March 21: We can't think for others.  Instead, we can provide a workspace for them to re-care and re-think.  What kind of coaching services could we provide?  What kind of infrastructure?
• Natalie d'Arbeloff, March 10:  Only need to separate away discussions that are technical, and that are about God.
• Schuy, February 25:  Monastic quadrangle as model for Minciu Sodas.
• Andrius Kulikauskas, February 22:  Reorganizing the website.
• Natalie d'Arbeloff, February 19:  Let's brainstorm, what physical space might house Minciu Sodas.  A virtual plan will evolve for the website.
• Natalie d'Arbeloff, February 4:  Why don't we imagine and design a building or setting in which all the Minciu Sodas activities/interests could be carried out and inter-connected?
• Flemming Funch, February 4:  Wants map so can move from room to room effortlessly.
• Natalie d'Arbeloff, February 4:  Rebellion against compartmentalization of discussion.

• Andrius Kulikauskas, March 22: Starts to formulate an investigation: What do you need in order to think independently?

• Andrius Kulikauskas, March 14:  Love more than we can think.  The only way I can do this is if God loves through me.
• John Leppik, January 17:  If we're going to care about thinking, we should have a definition, of what do we mean by thinking.
• Andrius Kulikauskas, January 13:  Wants to make all truth available.

• David Ellison-Bey, March 13:  For some people, the only way into the system is through its bottom side.  They are victim to all who are programmed by our society to isolate and alienate them.  Can we consciously change, can we follow Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, Confucius?

• Cass McNutt, March 12:  Wants to design a tool for thinking.  He describes modes that he would like to oscillate between: Creative, Reflection, Refinement, Elaboration, Conveyance, Editor.
• Kernan Manion, March 9:  Wants to meet where we could show what our favorite tools can do.  Also, Minciu Sodas could earn commisions distributing demo CDs and web sales commissions.
• Dan Weinstein, March 6:  Wants a hybrid of Literary Machine and Story View so that he could write academic articles in outline form, and then add structural variety.
• Andrius Kulikauskas, February 25:  Draws a picture to clarify the Mindset modeling language for tools for thinking.
• Andrius Kulikauskas, February 22: Wants to find a business model based on assembly from public domain components.
• Shannon Clark, February 22:  Suggests that we collaborate to collect links regarding tools for thinking.
• John Leppik, February 22:  Wants the ability to work with 200 thoughts from his personal database with either an outliner or concept mapper.  Thank you to our members for responding with valuable examples and experiences.  (See our results:  Tools for Thinking.)

• Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld, March 12:  Motion can start the flow of mental processes.  So can adhering to form.
• Annette Robinson, March 11:  Exploring how to evoke "that quick idea that changes everything."
• Annette Robinson, March 8:  Thinking about "brainstorming."

• Dan Weinstein, March 11:  Happy to discuss structures that help people appreciate an experience of thinking.

• Zigmas Bigelis, March 11:  Wants to discuss books.  We want to be successful, and have fun as we do so.  R Sternberg had success even with low IQ.
• Steve Raiff, January 3:  Has reorganized the Harmony of Motivation website.  His plan is to survey people's motivational structures, build models of how they relate - how to switch from one to the other, support projects that further the use of these structures.

• Andrius Kulikauskas, March 9: Wants to grow to love God, through prayer in twos or threes.

• Natalie d'Arbeloff, February 27:  Insights into thinking and emotion can be obtained almost without any words or analysis.  Found this MindLog useful activity for sharpening awareness, could be realistic and intutive way for changing one's mind, making it more open, sensitive and creative.
• Natalie d'Arbeloff, February 15:  Six modes to record: Idle, Engaged, Habit, Communicating, Receptive, Questioning.
• Natalie d'Arbeloff, February 15:  Investigate this from the inside, do journal of emotions.
• Natalie d'Arbeloff, February 14: What is the underlying emotion?  That's the 'driver' that either powers or blocks our actions.

• Annette Robinson, February 24:  How do we combine abstract and concrete?  thought and action?