VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

1. TRADITIONAL WISDOM & MODERN KNOWLEDGE: REAFFIRMING THEWISDOM OF OUR PACIFIC ANCESTORSPACIFIC RISK MANAGEMENT OHANAMARCH 17, 2010WAIKIKI BEACH MARRIOTTPresentor: Papalii Dr. Tusi Avegalio UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIICOLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

2. VISIONS OF THE FUTURE

3. TO UNDERSTAND A CULTURE ONE MUST UNDERSTAND ITS BASIC BELIEFS, VALUES,CREATIVE POWERS, SPIRITUAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE UNIVERSE AND ITS SYMBOLIC FORMS THEY ARE THE SOURCE OF MEANING and the BASIS FOR SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

4. CHANGING BELIEFS OF WESTERN SCIENCEFROM THE 17th CENTURY TO THE 21ST CENTURY Albert Einstein Quantum Mechanics Isaac Newton Mechanical Universe

5. Isaac Newton Likened the universe to a sealed clock work, giving birth to the Machine Metaphor

6. NEWTON CONCLUDED THAT THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE WAS • A GIANT CLOCKWORK OPERATING WITH • MECHANICAL REGULARITY • LIKE MECHANICAL PARTS OF A MACHINE, EVERYTHING IS • SEPARATE FROM EVERYTHING ELSE • THIS BELIEF IMPACTED WESTERN THINKING FOR • THE NEXT FIVE HUNDERED YEARS. • IT BECAME THE PHILOSOPHICAL BASIS FOR ORGANIZATION • AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE • WESTERN EXPLORERS DURING THE HEIGHT OF THIS ERA • MADE FIRST CONTACT WITH PACIFIC PEOPLE B

7. WESTERN SOCIETY BECAME MESMERIZED BY THE MACHINE • LA METTRIE A FRENCH PHYSICIAN AND PHILOSOPHER DECLARED MAN HIMSELF TO BE A MACHINE IN 1748 • THOMAS JEFFERSON AND BEN FRANKLIN WERE SCIENTISTS AND INVENTORS AS WELL AS POLITICAL REVOLUTIONARIES • MARTIN VAN BUREN INVENTED THE “POLITICAL MACHINE” • TROTSKY SPOKE OF THE WHEELS AND SCREWS OF THE BOURGEOIS MECHANISM • WE GO TO THE DR. TO CHECK WHICH “PART” OF US IS AILING AND IF THE DR. CAN “FIX’ IT. • FOCUS ON LEARNING WAS REDUCTION AND ANALYSIS

8. The scientific view of the universe as a machine not only affected the way we understood NATURE • But the relationships between people and nature. • And how we design our organizations, programs and activities. • We divide work into separate tasks, work stations are designed for the individual. • Differences emphasized, separation and isolation considered natural. • People like parts are replaced or discarded when no longer needed. • We manage our larger social systems such as the economy, Education, etc. in the same manner

9. Three Major North American Paradigm Shifts Agricultural Revolution (1776-1890) Importance of traditional religion, family ties, self sufficiency, folk medicine Industrial Revolution (1890-1963) Beginning decline of formal religion, move to cities, emphasis on mass production/materialism, rise of consumerism, scientific method/management, machine bureaucracy, ‘modern’ medicine Post-Industrial Revolution (1963-?) Belief in spiritual values, rise in ecological consciousness, alternative medicine, holistic movement

10. In contrast to the machine metaphor of Isaac Newton,

11. The traditional pacific conceptualization of the universe is that……IT is alive…

12. That nature---the universe itself—is not a passive rock or lifeless machine

13. That the entire cosmos throbs with the creative energy of self organization

14. CONSTANTLY EVOLVING

15. with periodic bursts of explosive innovation

16. The view of the universe as a machine is changing rapidly • The mechanical worldview is giving way to the more organic worldview • Energy not matter is the most fundamental material in the universe. • Static environments becoming increasingly dynamic • Rigid organizational structures giving way to more flexible, net-worked, smaller and more responsive ones. • Sapiential Authority: Information and expertise leadership is replacing position authority

17. The dominant metaphor of the machine with its characteristics of… • Control, analysis, prediction, linearity, repetition, separate parts, and closed rigid structures ARE BEING REPLACED BY THE ORGANIC METAPHOR WITH ITS CHARACTERISTICS OF…. • Spirituality, Insight, Vision, Intuition, Judgement, Wisdom, Synthesis, Emergence, Self organization, Unpredictability, Non-linearity, Flexible and Adaptive structures. • We are moving from ‘linear operating’ to ‘holistic navigating’

18. AUTOPOIESISTwo South American biologists, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela • Defined life using a term autopoiesis. • Autopoiesis is Greek for “Self creation” • A living thing is any entity that constantly creates itself. Basis for self-referencing • This distinguishes it from a mechanism, because a machine cannot create itself. • If a machine changes itself at all it’s probably broken… • While a living thing is always changing or its “dead”.

19. ANCIENT WISDOMIN PACIFIC CULTURESHold that all Things are Connected and Related the people of Oceania see the universe as living kin and patterned their cultures to fit that view

20. Albert Einstein Reaffirmed ancient wisdom of connections when he ushered in the era of particle quantum physics, that emphasized the innate connectedness of all things

21. Quantum Mechanics Assumptions • Nothing is separate from anything else, despite • appearances. • Everything (including us) is part of one large, • seamless whole, and everything is connected to • and influenced by everything else. • There are no independent entities anywhere • at the quantum level. It’s all relationships. • s

22. Quantum physics is not so much a ‘discovery’ as it is an ‘affirmation’

23. AWARENESS AND DISCERNMENT OF THESE SUBTLE “QUANTUM” CONNECTIVITY’S IS THE BASIS OF ANCIENT TRADITIONAL WISDOM passed down through master navigators, voyaging canoe builders, wood carvers, navigators, traditional healers, priests and leaders.

24. Embedded in Pacific and many cultures is the ancient wisdom of connectivity

25. ALL MATTER EMANATES ENERGY AND RHYTHMS • WHICH CAN BE DETECTED ‘IKE’ WITH TRAINING AND PRACTICE UNDER THE SKILLFULL MENTORING OF • MASTER NAVIGATORS, CARVERS, BUILDERS, AND HEALERS

26. THE VIBRATORY RHYTHM OF LIFE EMANATES FROM ALL THINGS • CANOE BUILDERS CHANT TO THE TREES TO DETERMINE SUITABILITY

27. TRADITIONAL PACIFIC CULTURES THINK IN METAPHORS AND LEARN THROUGH STORIES; AWARENESS OF THE QUANTUM CONNECTIVITY IS EXPRESSED THROUGH METAPHORBY THE KUMULIPO OF HAWAII

28. WAKEATAGAROA LAGI POLYNESIAN GOD OF THE HEAVENS

29. PAPA POLYNESIAN EARTH GODDESS

30. TAGAROA LAGI AND PAPABECOME FATHER AND MOTHERTO ALL THINGS

31. IF WAKEA/TAGAROA LAGI (HEAVEN) AND PAPA (EARTH) ARE • THE FATHER AND MOTHER FOR ALL THINGS • INCLUDING MAN: • THEN MAN IS CONNECTED TO THE EARTH, ALL • LIFE ON EARTH, AND TO THE STARS AND UNIVERSE • THE EARTH MUST BE TREATED WITH THE RESPECT • AND LOVE DESERVED BY A MOTHER • THE HEAVENS MUST ALSO BE REVERED AND • RESPECTED AS THE GUIDING FATHERLY SAGE • FOR SURVIVAL AND ENTRY INTO THE FUTURE. ‘ALL THINGS ARE SEAMLESSLY CONNECTED’

32. IF THIS CONCEPT WE GET FROM OUR CULTURES, AND REAFFIRMED BY SCIENCE IS ASSIMILATED INTO OUR INTELLECT, AND EMBRACED WITH OUR HEART… THE SYNTHESIS OF TRADITIONAL WISDOM AND MONDERN SCIENCE WILL CHANGE HOW WE RELATE TO EACH OTHER, OUR ENVIRONMENT AND ASSURE MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, OUR SURVIVAL AS A SPECIES

33. OUR SEPARATION FROM EACH OTHER AND FROM NATURE… “IS AT THE ROOT… OF MANY OF OUR PROBLEMS. OVERCOMING THEM CALLS FOR A RECOVERY OF OUR NEGLECTED BUT NEVER ENTIRELY FORGOTTEN BONDS AND CONNECTIONS”

34. TRADITIONAL RITUALS, CEREMONIES AND SYMBOLS OF PACIFIC CULTURES SUCH AS THE KAVA AND TATTOO CEREMONIES, CANOE BUILDING, TRADITIONAL DANCING, AND BLESSINGS; ONLY HAVE MEANING WHEN ONE UNDERSTANDS THEM AS ACTS OF CONNECTION TO SOMETHING GREATER THEN SELF IT CONNECTS ONE WITH LIFE AND THE UNIVERSE THROUGH BALANCE, HARMONY AND MUTUAL SUSTAINABILITY

35. THE FUTURE IS POSSIBLE ONLY THROUGH THE SPIRIT OF OUR CHILDREN

36. AND THE PRESERVATION, PROTECTION AND CONTINUATION OF VALUES, RITUALS AND CEREMONIES THAT REMIND AND REAFFIRM OUR SACRED TIES TO OUR PLANET, TO EACH OTHER AND TO OUR UNIVERSE

39. We are like islands in the sea -separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

40. THE BRIDGE THAT BINDS TRADITIONAL WISDOM WITH MODERN KNOWLEDGE IS EDUCATION ROOTED IN BALANCE, HARMONY AND MUTUAL SUSTAINABILITY WHERE ONE GIVES IN FULL MEASURE WHAT ONE TAKES.

42. Designing Strategies Based on Functional RedundancyPrimary responder vs. First responder1. Cultural social organization must be core to intervention strategy development, designs and planning. (Collective vs. Individualistic)2. Hierachical family and leadership structures must be considered as central to preparedness and disaster relief (Ascribed status vs. Achievement)3. Collective intervention, recovery and relief designs encouraged to be socio-culturally congruant as possible. (Specific vs. Diffuse)4.Cultural and traditional wisdoms must be considered as parallel methodologies with modern telecommunications, preparedness and interventions. 5.Faith based organizations utilized as key preparedness points.6.Training designs must be holistic and seamless 7. Social cultural protocols of food, drink and socialization essential to effectiveness 8.Institutionalize modern/traditional disaster preparedness, training, education in schools from K to 12.

43. MAUMAU MATAGI LELEIMOE LA MAHAEHAE “Wasted are the fair winds when the mainsail is torn” (Tongan sailing metaphor urges one to always be prepared, or opportunities will be missed)

44. ARE YOUR SAILS PREPARED FOR The Winds of Change?

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