Technopenuriaphobia

The word 'penuria' comes from the Latin and means 'scarcity', or 'deficiency'.

It is interesting to note that the word 'technophobia,' which means 'the fear of technology and its effects', first appeared around 1964. Here it is forty years later and we now have 'technopenuriaphobia'. the fear of a lack of technology! We have grown so dependent on modern technology in this past generation that we can no longer live on our own planet without it.

An ideal environment for beginning technopenuria healing Experiments is in the arena of healing yourself, your relationship, and your family of this disease of contemporary life.

In our modern culture we are born high up on a technological ladder. Hanging out before us in the sky, bright as a Las Vegas casino sign, is the vision of the fabled good life that we are encouraged to strive for. We think we can achieve the good life only if we surround ourselves with enough labor saving, comfort providing, or entertainment devices. Even without trying to we are completely buffered from life on planet earth with scores of modern conveniences.

We learned that if you want food, all you have to do is go to the cupboard, the refrigerator or the freezer and open up boxes, cans, plastic bags, or cartons and there is an abundance of food. If the food starts to get low at home, go to the supermarket and there you will find food in such quantity and variety as to shame any king, all ready for the taking. Load up your basket and haul it home to eat. Food comes from the grocery store.

If you need money, for example, to buy the food, just give the people a little plastic card and type in a code number or write your name and the food is instantly paid for. If you want cash, use the same card and go to a cash machine or a bank teller. The money comes pouring out by the handfuls.

You want light? Flip a switch. Water? Turn a handle. New clothes? Use that plastic card again. Want to talk to somebody? Autodial their number wherever you are from your cell phone. Need to go somewhere? Don’t walk; use a machine: bicycle, car, bus, train, boat or plane. Machines take you rapidly and comfortably anywhere in the world.

1. Play baseball all on one team
2. Practice Intuition – build your intuition muscles, face and remove your blocks
3. Mini vision quest in the woods.
4. Journey Into The Mountain.
5. Make short 3 minute film interviews with each person about the purpose of their life. Review them with feedback and coaching.
6. Build with leather and cord a sling (like David and Goliath) and practice using it to accurately throw stones.
7. Carve your own wooden spear and practice spear throwing.
8. Do stagework – create scenes of low drama to high drama, healing, realization and transformation.
9. Telling stories about your family's heroes. If certain of your ancestors did not do what they did you would not have been born. Tell what these heroes did. Tell what you have done as a hero for future generations.
10. Use soft foam balls to do the Problems process (ask Nicola Nagel).
11. Do the Stellating Gremlin initiation.
12. Creating new centering exercises in small groups and teach them to the other small groups.
13. Practice new meeting technologies, such as: The Problem Is The Solution, Frying Pan, Phoenix Process, M.E.S.S. (Mayan Extraordinary Synergy System), Open Space (from Harrison Owen www.openspaceworld.org ), Wisdom Council (from Jim Rough www.dynamicfacilitation.com), etc.
14. Create exercises for practicing the 7 Core Skills of Possibility Management: contact, centering, being unhookable, holding and navigating space, going stellar with feelings, creating possibility, self-marketing.
15. Practice applying various Possibility Manager Tool Belt tools in stagework situations: disk of nothing, wand of declaration, bag of things, is-glue and dissolver, possibility stone, sword of clarity, voice blaster, clicker for going nonlinear, etc.
16. Doing self-surgeries, such as Trust Replacement Surgery, Sewing Up Brain Splits from childhood, Rewiring Fear so that fear equals fear, Bypassing Mind Machines (identifying the 5 kinds of Mind Machines as various survival strategies).
17. Practice making the bubble and the grounding cord, various ways to cleanse the bubble.
18. Practice holding personal bubble space and work space at the same time.
19. Practice splitting your Point of Origin, so that you put one part on the person or people you are serving, and one part on the source of a thoughtmap or distinction, so that you newly originate what you communicate specifically for that person or group and the information is coming directly from the source through you to them and not coming from your mind.
20. Practice using the Box as a one centimeter cube for farfetching.
21. Practicing The Box is Optional exercise.
22. Practice using the Feelings Orchestra to complete real incomplete emotions, such as if someone close dies (e.g. Nelson Mandela, who was close to all of us), someone loses a baby, or ends a relationship, if there is a natural disaster (e.g. hurricane in Philippines) to consciously connect in and grieve and rage and be afraid with the people.
23. Practice men's and women's culture circles.
24. Bring in guest trainers for a day or half-day or evening to deliver a specific extra-special process or experience for participants