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Teaching Business Sustinability
The Work That Reconnects, including its "spiral" pattern, is presented here in systems theoretical terms for a business readership.
Teaching Sustainability: Whole Systems Learning
Chapter by Molly Brown, M.A. and Joanna Macy, Ph.D. in Teaching Business Sustainability, Greenleaf (2004)
Teaching sustainability to business people, or anyone else for that matter, requires more than additional data, more than a list of rules. It requires a fundamental shift in attitude, in the way people think and feel. We must address the root causes of our unsustainable practices, which lie deeply in our assumptions about the relationship of humans to the natural world, and in our relative ignorance of the functioning of living systems, including human systems.
Many business people are coming to recognize the obvious: the goal of maximizing profit must necessarily come second to the welfare of the living world, its human and non-human beings, and its cycles of air, water, and carbon that support life on earth. They are coming to recognize that we must include all the costs of production--including the ecological and human costs--in our business accounting and responsibility. Externalizing these costs, as we have been doing, wreaks havoc on our economy, our social fabric, and our life support system. (See Paul Hawken's The Ecology of Commerce, 1995, for a fuller explanation of "externalizing costs.")
Sustainability requires whole systems learning, in order to see the wider context in which we function, and the web of relationships upon which all life depends.
The Work That Reconnects
This chapter presents an approach to whole systems learning that is helping citizens around the world find clarity, purpose, and creativity in meeting the challenges of our time. More fully explicated in our book Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (Macy & Brown, New Society, 1998), it is called the "Work That Reconnects," and is entirely appropriate to business settings. Grounded in general systems theory, the Work That Reconnects helps people experience their innate connections with the self-correcting, self-organizing powers of all living systems. This empowers people to seek out, create, and apply sustainable business practices within the work place and the larger world. The methods used are highly interactive, experiential, and enjoyable; we describe a few examples at the end of this chapter.
The following goals serve the central purpose of the Work That Reconnects:
- To help people explore the effects of externalizing ecological and human costs of production, so they personal register these effects as real, immediate, and directly affecting their own lives.
- To provide people the opportunity to share with others their inner responses to present conditions as experienced in their own lives and work.
- To reframe their distress about their lives and the world as evidence of their interconnectedness in the web of life, and hence of their power to take an active part in its healthy functioning.
- To provide people with concepts from systems science that illumine this power, along with exercises which reveal its play in their own lives.
- To provide methods by which people can experience their responsibility to past and future human generations and other life-forms, as well as the inspiration they can draw from those sources.
- To enable people to support each other in clarifying their intentions, and affirming their commitment to the health of the world.
Understanding Systems
Most of the socially and environmentally unsustainable business practices of today come out of ignorance of the way living systems function. In fact, from the perspective of many systems thinkers, they seem based on the premise that human beings can exist apart from nature itself. The notion of unlimited economic growth is one example of this premise. H. Thomas Johnson and Anders Br�ms in their fine book, Profit Beyond Measure (2000), note that nothing in the universe grows endlessly without limits. "The issue we face in the business world is to transform our obsession with quantitative growth in size into a delight with qualitative growth in diversity, until that delight becomes the energizing force in our lives" (p. 200).
In our experience, general systems theory (GST), or systems thinking (Bateson, 1972; Berman, 1984;.Buckley, 1968; Capra, 1996; Laszlo, 1972, 1972; Macy, 1991; Olds, 1992; Sahtouris, 1989; von Bertalanffy, 1968; Wheatley, 1992), seems basic to understanding sustainability and implementing sustainable policies and practices. It reveals the general principles at work in all open systems, be they biological, ecological, or organizational. Instead of examining phenomena by breaking things down into component parts, GST views them as self-organizing patterns woven and sustained by flows of matter, energy, and information. Focus shifts from separate and static entities to the dynamic relationships from which they arise.
These life-sustaining flows are multidirectional. There is no single power source; no single authority rules from above; instead, the collective membership of a system governs the whole through an intricate web of interrelationships and information exchange: self-organization.
Open systems are self-correcting, self-governing. Thanks to flow-through of matter, energy, and information, they can both self-stabilize and evolve in response to changing conditions. As they weave larger patterns of collaborative behavior creating larger systems, new capacities emerge. In adaptive systems, these emergent properties are synergistic, allowing greater flexibility and variety of form.
The relationships forming an open system are both external and internal. By virtue of the dynamic interdependence of its parts, a system is a self-organizing whole in its own right. By virtue of its dependence on energy and information from its surrounding world, it is also a subsystem of larger systems, be they social, economic or ecological. In other words, each system is a "holon," meaning it is both a whole and a part of a larger whole.
The essential feature, which permits open systems to both maintain their form over time (homeostasis), and adapt to challenges by changing (evolution), is feedback. Alert to signals both from within and without, open systems monitor their own performance by matching it to their existing goals or values (acquired through previous learning). When a mismatch persists, the healthy systems adapts by reorganizing its internal structure and goals.
Information flow is of paramount importance, therefore, to the health of any living system--or enterprise. Feedback from its component parts, and from the larger systems in which it operates, is essential to its long-term survival. When feedback is blocked or discounted, the system cannot meet its own changing needs or respond to a changing environment. One of the problems with top-down decision making, for example, is that valuable information from "lower down" in the organization is often suppressed or ignored.
Feedback from the biosphere--climatic disruptions and loss of forests, fisheries, and topsoil--is revealing that our present economy is unsustainable. It indicates an urgent need to change the goals our system pursues and the values by which it measures its success. Many systems thinkers and ecologists perceive that the maximization of corporate profits as our economy's highest priority is progressively destroying the interwoven fabric on which all life depends. When we block this feedback, our corporate economy, being geared to a dysfunctional goal, spins out of control. In systems terms, it is on "runaway." Lacking vital information about the effects of its behavior, it is caught in a vicious self-amplifying cycle, causing "overshoot" in one area after another.
Because it runs counter to basic assumptions of the industrial growth society--especially assumptions about endless economic growth, and inexhaustible resources and sinks for our waste--this feedback is hard to countenance. In business settings, our awareness of this feedback can be hard to express, but it lurks in the soul, surfaces in dreams, feeds into free-floating anxieties. Yet, to acknowledge it together opens the way to great adventure: the use of our business experience and skills in creating a new, sustainable economy. This is both possible and necessary--and it is happening.
Unblocking Feedback
Today we are assaulted with information from all sides about what is happening to people and other living beings around the planet, but we often block it because it is anomalous to our prevailing ways of thinking, to the assumptions that support our accustomed modes of functioning in the world. Moreover, this information may arouse feelings of fear, anger, grief, and a sense of helplessness. These emotions are actually healthy: they inform us that something is amiss and changes are needed. Denial of anomalous information and uncomfortable feelings blocks our ability to think clearly and responsibly. Instead of responding to issues and dangers in a timely fashion, we seek reassurance that everything is really okay and we can continue with business as usual. We fall into apathy.
To understand apathy, it is helpful to recall that the word derives from the Greek apatheia, meaning non-suffering. Given its etymology, apathy is the inability or refusal to acknowledge suffering. It is widespread today, because to acknowledge the suffering we experience--or cause--could mean re-evaluating some of our most basic assumptions and goals; it could mean changing the way we do things and reducing our profit margin. Yet the very feedback that is blocked by apathy provides information essential to the sustainability of our enterprises and our economy.
The Work That Reconnects is designed precisely to overcome these blocks, so that we and our enterprises, as open systems, can self-correct. It provides structures for spontaneous expression, which help us tell the truth about what we know, see, and feel is happening to our lives and our world. It helps us realize that our felt responses arise not from some personal pathology, but from our essential interconnectedness as living systems.
Workshop participants report a profound shift occuring in both perspective and attitude: they see themselves as interlinked and mutually supported within the web of life; their energies are freed up for creative and collaborative action.. The mind retrieves its natural clarity. Concepts, which bring relatedness into focus, become vivid. Significant learning occurs, for the individual system (be it an individual person or an organization) is reorganizing and reorienting, grounding itself in wider reaches of "enlightened self-interest." Because the approach is participative, people arrive at new perspectives out of their own experience.
To achieve this, the work proceeds sequentially in four stages, each unfolding from the previous, corresponding to the way healthy systems function: 1) recognizing our mutuality; 2) integrating painful information (feedback); 3) expanding our perceptual horizons; 4) finding creative responses.
First Stage: Recognizing Our Mutuality
As we have said, whole systems operate through mutual give and take, in reciprocal relationships. Their viability depends on their capacity to provide and receive support, even more than on their ability to "compete" (in the old, narrow sense of the word). Whole systems learning involves our perceiving this fundamental mutuality in our own lives and organizations, so the essential relationships of part to whole are more clearly seen and understood. We see that because no system can operate in isolation, neither can a business operate in isolation from the community and the natural world. Its adaptive self-organization requires an appreciative awareness of its dependence on these larger systems, as well as on the unconstricted, mutually supportive interplay of its component parts (employees, customers, etc.).
Gratitude plays a key role in heightening our awareness of systemic mutuality. It helps ground people in an appreciative, felt sense of how they are embraced and sustained by the larger natural and social systems in which they live. Gratitude also builds a sense of confidence and expanded capacity in preparation for the next stage. We begin the work, therefore, with exercises designed to evoke the expression of the gratitude that we all carry, often just below the surface of our immediate awareness. A sample "gratitude exercise" is described in the appendix.
Second Stage: Integrating Painful Information
All living systems adapt and evolve in response to feedback. However, in human systems at least, the very feedback the system most needs to receive may be filtered or screened out altogether because it conflicts with habitual assumptions. These include assumptions about the goals and values of an enterprise, as well as about the difficulty of changing them--i.e. what a lone individual or small group can do. Such feedback may be experienced as pain, and suppressed for that reason. Pain is a essential form of feedback, designed to warn us, as living systems, of impending or immediate threats to survival and well-being, of the limits we may be up against. Ignoring it is folly.
Because we are used to censoring certain feedback, the Work That Reconnects does not deliver information about world or business conditions so much as it encourages people to articulate it themselves, out of their own experience. As they speak about their experience, they find that the knowing and the feelings they were holding close to their chests are actually widely shared. Released from the illusion of separation, and the unconscious need to repress this vital information, people can receive and utilize more feedback. Their energy is freed up, and they find a strong sense of connection with others, and with the larger world.
See the sample exercise for this stage, "Open Sentences," in the appendix.
Third Stage: Expanding Our Perceptual Horizons
To incorporate feedback, systems must adapt their "codes"--their values and goals--to include heretofore anomalous information. Their perceptual horizons expand. The industrial society habitually ignores our embeddedness in the economy of the natural world, within which all enterprises function and upon which they rely. Ingrained cultural assumptions of "us versus them," based on exaggerated individualism, have contracted our perceptual horizons. In order to maximize monetary profits and market share, we externalize environmental and social costs of production, blinding ourselves to the deleterious effects of our enterprises on other stakeholders in the larger household. Our measurements of performance (such as quarterly reports and stock value) have too short a time frame for much relevant feedback to occur, hindering the self-correcting capacities of the system. We cannot perceive or respond to the unfolding consequences of our actions.
This stage of the Work That Reconnects gives us fresh conceptual and attitudinal tools for achieving sustainability, helping us understand the systemic, interactive, reciprocal nature of power, helping us to see our lives and work within larger contexts of space and time.
Three sample exercises for this stage of the work are described in the appendix. "Widening Circles" helps people consider important issues from perspectives other than their own. The "Systems Game" demonstrates systems principles through a lively physical game. "Seventh Generation" facilitates the apprehension of our current situation and actions through the eyes of future beings.
Fourth Stage: Creative Responses
In the last stage, we explore the synergistic power available to us as open systems (individuals and organizations) as we move toward sustainability in our lives and enterprises. The experiences of the preceding stages--the recognition of our mutuality; the freeing up of energy as we integrate previously repressed feedback; the widening of our perceptual horizons--now provide a strong basis for our undertakings. In this final stage, we harness our understanding and imagination to envision a viable future; we assess our inner and outer resources; we practice planning appropriate actions in collaboration with others.
As we bring our hearts and minds together in this way-- forming new systems--new possibilities and properties emerge. Hope arises as we develop visions and plans that will help each participant take concrete steps appropriate to his or her situation.
Two exercises in the appendix provide a taste for this stage: "Goals and Resources," and "Planning Actions."
Countless groups of people all over the world--business people, professionals, artists, workers, college students, young and old--have engaged in the Work That Reconnects over the last 25 years and have been inspired to work together for a more sustainable world. Many report experiencing a visceral understanding of the interrelatedness of all life as a result of a workshop, an understanding that informs choices they make as individuals and within their various enterprises. We hope that sharing this work with business educators will enrich their efforts to teach sustainability. We hope that, whatever educational methods are employed, more attention is paid to the mental barriers we have erected to avoid painful feedback from the larger world, and to the very real emotions that arise in response to our global crises. We want to honor the deep caring and the desire to serve that lie within every human heart. For this, whole systems learning is needed. The heart and mind together hold the key to a more sustainable way of life for us all.
Appendix: Sample Exercises
A few of the exercises from Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (Macy & Brown, 1998), are briefly described here to give a taste of the work. Business educators interested in incorporating such exercises into their programs are urged to acquire the book. It offers a thorough explication of the theory, guidelines for facilitation, and step-by-step instructions for forty-six exercises, most of which can easily be adapted to business setting.
I. Gratitude exercise (first stage)
In pairs, small groups, or moving around the circle of the whole group, people are invited to describe four specific things in turn: 1)something they love about their work; 2) a place they remember as magical to them as children; 3) someone who helped them believe in themselves; 4) some things they appreciate about themselves. People are urged to avoid generalizations and speak of particulars, because there is more vitality when they do. Participants often discover a great commonality in what they appreciate in their lives and work, evidence of our essential interconnectedness. They perceive how deeply they are supported and nourished by the larger social and natural world around them.
II. Open Sentences (second stage)
This exercise invites people to voice their responses to the condition of our world, as experienced in their own lives and work. Its structure helps people both to listen with total receptivity and to express thoughts and feelings that are usually censored for fear of comment or adverse reaction.
People sit face to face in pairs, close enough to focus on one another. Each partner in turn responds to an "open sentence" spoken by the guide, completing the sentence and continuing on spontaneously for the time allotted. The sentences address what inspires people in their work, what they find difficult, their concerns about the larger world today, and the thoughts and feelings that arise from all this. After both partners have responded to all the sentences, the whole group can explore common themes that emerged, and how they may relate to more global concerns. Difficulties at work that people often mention include: time pressures (deadlines increasingly short), problems from the chain of command (inadequate information given to perform their jobs), and competitiveness. These pressures can be seen as the result of dysfunction in the larger system; individual inadequacy is seldom to blame. Systems thinking tells us that workers at all levels of unsustainable organizations suffer at the hands of the same assumptions and practices that are tearing apart the social fabric and destroying the environment. Recognizing this relationship removes the self-blame that many people feel, freeing them to look more closely at the dysfunctionality of the whole system to discover how it can be changed.
III. Widening Circles (third stage)
Widening Circles helps people to consider an issue or situation of great concern to them from four different perspectives. Thus they widen the circle of their perception and understanding, bringing wisdom, compassion, flexibility, and perseverance. The name of the exercise is taken from a poem by Rainer Marie Rilke, "I live my life in widening circles/ that reach out across the world" (Macy & Barrows, p. 48).
Participants sit in groups of four. Each person chooses a particular issue or situation of concern, at work or in the larger world. Then in turn, each person describes the issue from four perspectives, using first person (I think, I feel, etc) in each case: (1) his or her own experience and point of view; (2) a person whose views are very different and even adversarial on the issue; 3) a nonhuman being (animal, plant, river, mountain, etc.) that is involved in or affected by situation; and (4) a future human whose life is affected by choices being made now on this issue.
To speak on behalf of another, and identify even briefly with that being's experience and perspective, is an act of moral imagination. It is not difficult to do: as children we knew how to "play-act." People are not asked to "channel" or be omniscient, but simply to imagine another point of view. They are asked to treat each perspective with respect, avoiding caricatures or satire. This process can truly expand one's perceptual horizons, even beyond the specific issue addressed.
IV. The Systems Game (third stage)
This lively, engrossing process provides a direct experience of the dynamic nature of open systems, especially: 1) that life is composed not of separate entities so much as of the relations between them, and 2) that these relations are continually self-organizing.
People begin in a large circle. Each participant mentally selects two other people in the group (without indicating whom is chosen) and then moves so as to keep an equal distance between him or her and each of these two people. People begin to circulate to achieve this objective, each movement triggering many others in an active, interdependent fashion. Participants find they are, by necessity, maintaining wide-angle vision and constant alacrity of response. The process is purposeful, suspenseful, laced with laughter. It speeds up for a while, then may abate, accelerate, and again slow down toward equilibrium, but it rarely comes to stasis. It continues for four or five minutes; then, as activity lessens, the guide invites people to pause where they are and reflect.
Participants' reflections usually bring out some key features of self-regulating systems, such as the interdependence of all parts, and their continual activity in seeking and maintaining balance. Feedback is noted as necessary to fulfill the task, especially visual perceptions. It also becomes obvious that no one from above or from outside could direct the complexity of movements necessary to keep this system in balance.
People also often articulate perceptual and psychological shifts they experienced, including a radically widened sense of context. A temporary eclipse of self-consciousness may be noted, as one's perceptions focus not on one's own actions so much as on others'--that is, not on separate entities so much as on relations among them.
V. The Seventh Generation (third stage)
This process expands people's sense of time, bringing them into imagined contact with human beings of the seventh generation from now. This helps them see and respect their current efforts from that future perspective.
Sitting in two concentric circles, people face each other in pairs, close enough to listen to each other without distraction. Those in the outer circle (facing in) speak for themselves, out of their own experience in the present time; they stay seated in the same place. Those in the inner circle (facing out) are people of the seventh generation (roughly two hundred years from now). After each encounter, they move one place to the right, so that the inner circle moves slowly clockwise while the outer circle is stationary.
For each of the three encounters, the guide speaks for the future ones , asking a question of the people of the present. Each present-day person responds by speaking to the future one directly in front of him/her. The three questions, which the guide speaks on behalf of the future ones, inquire of the present day people: 1) Was it really true what we hear about the wars and hunger and poverty at the beginning of the 21st century--and if so, what was that like for you? 2) What first steps did you and your colleagues take to transform the society to a life sustaining one? 3) Where did you find the strength to continue your efforts, despite all the obstacles and discouragement? As the present day people respond, they may describe feelings they didn't know they felt, or contributions they didn't realize they were making towards a sustainable world. They see more clearly the effects of their actions beyond their own time.
After the three questions, the people of the future have a chance to speak, expressing their thoughts and feelings about what they have just heard. The responses of the future ones are powerful in helping people to see their present lives and work from the standpoint of the future. Respect and appreciation arise. In addition to expanding their time frame, the exercise helps people imagine how they can make a difference, how they may already be contributing to a "great turning" toward a more sustainable world.
VI. Goals and Resources (fourth stage)
This practice helps people to clarify their vision of their part in creating sustainable businesses, and to bring into focus a specific path or project to pursue (or continue pursuing). It helps them recognize the many, and often unsuspected, resources available to them, and identify immediate steps to take.
People work in pairs. Each partner responds to all the questions put by the guide, while the other records the responses on paper. Then the speaker and scribe switch roles. People are asked to think about a change they want to help bring about in their organization, work place, or community, and what they might accomplish towards that vision in the coming year. They are asked to consider the inner and outer resources they now have that will help, and those they need to acquire. They are asked how they might stop themselves, and how they can overcome these blocks. And finally, they choose a first step to take in the next few days.
When both partners have scribed the other's responses, the two take turns reporting back to each other from the notes they have taken, using the second-person pronoun: "you want to..., you have..., one way you might stop yourself..." The other listens as if hearing, at long last, his or her orders from the universe.
VII. Planning Actions (fourth stage)
This exercise reveals how a group can work together, and empower its members, as it moves from a general or abstract goal to steps for immediate and concrete actions. The process unfolds in two stages: progressive brainstorming and role-playing.
A group chooses a sustainability goal it wishes to focus on, which is posted at the top of a large sheet of newsprint. For five minutes or so, the group brainstorms on what conditions this goal would necessitate. Then the group chooses one of the ideas which has arisen, and brainstorms the conditions this more specific goal would necessitate. This process continues in five minute rounds until the goals are quite specific, so that each person could conceivably do something about one of them in the next 24 hours. From the distant goal, the group has moved to specific and immediate steps.
Now that the group has an immediate (though still hypothetical) action to undertake, people role-play the encounters this action might require, e.g. requests that might be made, permissions that might be sought, support that might be elicited. Role-playing such encounters helps move people beyond the blocks they often feel at this juncture, which keep some of the finest ideas trapped in the world of dreams. As the role-play proceeds, participants are asked to switch roles and continue the conversation, so they experience the encounter from both points of view.
The exercise is as instructive as it is entertaining. It forces people to discover how well they can think on their feet, what they need to know and say in order to be convincing. Moreover, reversing roles in mid-conversation gives insight into the thoughts and feelings of the people one is trying to enlist. It breaks participants out of polarized "we-they" thinking, helps them to identify with others, and enhances their confidence and effectiveness.
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Berman, M.. (1984). The Reenchantment of the World. (New York: Bantam).
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The Richmond Times Dispatch editorial board attacked progressive groups for appearing hypocritical in their defense of the Affordable Care Act birth control mandate while decrying Virginia's sodomy law. However, this represents a faulty comparison as birth control is legal and has definitive medical purposes while the state's sodomy law has been found unconstitutional and provides no medical benefit.
In the August 15 editorial, the Times Dispatch discussed recent activities by NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia and ProgressVA criticizing comments made by Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli that allies should be willing to "go to jail" to fight against the federal mandate for contraception. The Times also noted ProgressVA's criticism of Cuccinelli's continued defense of the state's anti-sodomy law. The editorial goes on to accuse the progressive groups of hypocrisy, saying they want to "keep government in the bedroom" by supporting a law subsidizing birth control but "out of the bedroom" by not supporting the sodomy law:
So the AG is supposed to help keep government in the bedroom by supporting a law subsidizing birth control, but keep government out of the bedroom by not supporting the sodomy law. All clear?
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First, birth control has many purposes that have nothing to do with the "bedroom." A study by the Guttmacher Institute found in 2011 that 1.5 million women use oral contraceptives solely for noncontraceptive purposes. In fact, many of these women use oral contraceptives to treat issues such as migraines and acne or to reduce cramps and menstrual pain:
The study--based on U.S government data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)--revealed that after pregnancy prevention (86%), the most common reasons women use the pill include reducing cramps or menstrual pain (31%); menstrual regulation, which for some women may help prevent migraines and other painful "side effects" of menstruation (28%); treatment of acne (14%); and treatment of endometriosis (4%). Additionally, it found that some 762,000 women who have never had sex use the pill, and they do so almost exclusively (99%) for noncontraceptive reasons.
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Anyway, if you can, take a look at some pics of Bella. They told me she was a GSD, but the way her tail curls up, she has some Akita in her.
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|My male GSD was real dog reactive when I got him. First I got him evaluated by a trainer. I worked with him for about a month, then attempted a class with barricades and that was not good. So I took the next two months to train him on my own. I started using a prong which helped a lot. Then I spent hours at parks and at the entrances of the pet store, never pushing him past his threshold. After a couple months of that I had evaluated again, that time he ripped open the trainers arm trying to get to another dog. She recommended personal training and I refused. He needed to be in a class setting to learn. The next day I went to the GSD club where he was evaluated again. He was allowed in the class and has not reacted since. Within a month after he started training he got his CGC and became a certified therapy dog. It took several months and several different training methods but we did it. You have to have an open mind to training , use different methods and figure out how to combine them. We did the prong and positive training.
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I have never heard of this....is this a common practice?
|I think I should mention that Delgado did get bored often in class, I brought a small blanket and taught him that I expected him to stay on the blanket quietly while we weren't actively doing something. If I saw him get fidgety I'd quietly work on puppy pushups (sit, down, sit, etc) or anything else to keep his mind occupied (gotta love that puppy brain lol) I also brought a tug so we could quietly play while the teacher was speaking. He realized that I had treats and the toy and was much more exciting then the other dogs sitting in class and I rewarded eye contact and quiet so he learned that was what I wanted.
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First off, since I am new, I have no idea how to put a picture up next to my name. So I did post some pictures if you go to my account.
I am lucky to be able to work remotely. So I get to take her out on walk twice a day with a doggy back pack (for which I got the idea on the forums here) We have a back yard where we throw the ball around. I only have time to do weekend runs with her.
My guess is that whoever had her when she was young didn't socialize her well or maybe she got bit on a leash. They also didn't feed her well either because she was really scrawny .
I live in the San Francisco Bay area. I found a trainer on Yelp and he'll be coming over in a few weeks. He has 68 reviews, all 5 stars. All of the dogs he trained seemed to have issues like mine, so i am very excited that an experienced trainer will be taking care of us.
I am just put off at the trainer from the store. She is the professional and should know better. She met my dog and saw how she reacted to other dogs in the store. That should have indicated that humm.....maybe Bella would not be a good fit for her class. I was nervous about going to class and should have just trusted my gut. But nope, the trainer assured me that it would be fine.
Anyway, if you can, take a look at some pics of Bella. They told me she was a GSD, but the way her tail curls up, she has some Akita in her.
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My personal experience with a difficult dog is to find the best trainer you can (my preference is that he or she has protection breeds as their own dogs) and pay for private lessons. I had nightmare experiences in group classes. Now I can walk my dog in town and constantly get praised by strangers about how well trained he is. Now mind you we are not perfect but out of the group classes I got next to nothing. My trainer now is awesome, can read my Dutch Shep amazingly well and can tailor classes to what we need and what we want to accomplish.
Good luck, it is worth the investment. Sometimes you can find good trainers by contacting Schutzhund clubs or even law enforcement K9 units.
|Hi Calli - I am not a trainer, but I had an Akita for 10yrs (RIP). She was very calm and sweet. As a pup, she was much like your mix. I began walking her first with very little distraction and building up to walking with noise and distractions near by. It helped to acclimate her to busy surroundings and other pets. Can't wait to see pictures of your rescue!
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if you have a barker in class, and the trainer does not know what to do, buy a spray bottle of "bitter apple", when your pup starts barking, open her mouth and give a little squirt, she'll stop after a few or sooner
Akitas and German Shepherds are both big powerful breeds, and both can be reactive to other dogs. I have no idea what Akitas are like as puppies, but with the behavior you are describing, I think that while it is not caused by the dog park, it can be making it a lot more difficult for you to manage him away from that setting.
Your puppy wants to run and play with other dogs, but the leash is giving him mixed signals. He may feel like he has to guard what he is connected to. He may feel some anxiety because he is smart enough that he knows he cannot run if a dog does challenge him. Usually he has two choices, fight or flight. And, when they know that flight is no longer an option, the only thing left is fight, so they tend to react before they figure out whether or not the other dog is a threat.
Also, he is feeling your anxiety -- how is he going to act, will I be able to hold him, is he going to try and attack those other dogs, what will they think about him, why is he making so much noise, and is this going to get even worse? This is all being transmitted down the lead. And when you tighten the lead and hold him in a death grip, he feels that much more anxious.
At this point your dog isn't a candidate for puppy classes. If he needs to go to any classes, he would be ready for basic obedience or basic household manners. Puppy classes are for dogs that are between 10 weeks and 5 months -- usually starting before the dog dog is five months old. Of course other puppy owners are concerned when a dog that looks grown and is big and is acting like a nut is in the class with their puppies, because a bad experience your dog can be really bad for their puppies.
On the other hand, I agree that your dog is probably just a large, over-grown puppy, that needs boot camp.
I think that your puppy will improve if you do a few things:
Management: If you are having trouble controlling his size, then muzzle him in public and use a prong collar so that he does not drag you into other dogs.
Leadership: Look up NILIF (Nothing In Life Is Free). Read through it, and change your leadership style so that he is VERY clear that you are a strong leader and can protect him, give him directions, and that he can look to you when he is unsure.
Exercise: Right now he is full of energy. Before training get him out and throw that ball for 20-25 minutes, then go for a walk. Several times a day tire his butt out. Then do five minutes of training. Exercise his mind and body. A tired puppy is a good puppy. If you need a muzzle and prong collar to walk the dog, it is far better for him to get the exercise. Use a basket muzzle if necessary so he can pant, etc.
Training: You need to do regular training with this dog all the time. Lots of praise, lots of treats. Everything he gets, he should do something for it. Make him SIT before opening the door to go out. Make him lie down before you give him his bowl of food. Train him to WATCH you and give him treats for doing so. Train him at home with no distractions. Get good at the basics. Build the bond. Add in distractions slowly. Start with walks in low traffic areas. Then increase it. Start with the distance between what he reacts to as pretty far away, then reduce it. Try to stay under his threshold if at all possible. Call in a professional trainer to work with you and him alone, and possibly with a dog that he brings. Then after he is showing good progress, a group class would be beneficial.
I got kicked out of puppy class as well. Fortunately the trainer was willing to let me take private classes and that worked a lot better. Word of warning....you will have to keep up with her training even once you leave classes or it does you no good. Meanwhile, don't be too embarrassed about having an obedience school drop out. It happens. Some dogs just need a bit more structure than others. If you'd like I'll send you links about my travails with Lycan.
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Finally saw a game for the first time in a week. Looked like the same team in the first quarter and a team on a mission in the second......In fact both teams had a mission in the second half.....the Bobcats looked like a team fighting for the 8th pick with the Clippers and Bucks and trying their best to appear that they weren't tanking in the first and then let the Pistons have their way with them in the second half. How else can you explain 6 losses in a row?? Pistons bench outscored the BC bench 68-17??? Stuckey seems a natural off the bench next season as long as we have PG starting who can average 15-7, and Stuck still gets 30 mins.
Come on terrico white step into the starting role
How come he was "close" to ready 3 1/2 weeks ago, but we still haven't seen him?
Joe/Q figured, they may as well hold him out so that he is eligble for ROY next season...
I know, it may be that we have a ginormous overload at the 1/2 position and they are gonna wait and get rid of a bunch and let him come in fresh next year
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Senior Emily Elek posted a match-high 13 kills and eight blocks as Canisius had 12.5 team blocks on the day. Sophomore Lauren Siebert had nine kills and four blocks while freshman Katlyn Tyler had nine kills and 14 digs. Setters Sydney Palka and Grace Streicher combined for 38 assists while junior Emily Litwin had 19 digs.
"It feels great to get back in the win column after a tough weekend and do it against our rival makes it feel a little bit better," Canisius coach Cathy Hummel said. "Our block really picked up in the last two sets as we started to serve tougher. Our senior class picked our team up early and fought us through the first-set adversity to take the early lead."
Canisius jumped out to a 15-6 lead, winning six straight points on the Streicher's serve. Niagara battled back but a block from senior Roxanne Hernandez and freshman Jacklyn Malusa made it 24-22. Niagara fought off two set points but a kill from Elek made it 25-24. After Niagara made it 25-25, an attack error followed by a service ace from senior Jessica Warner gave Canisius the first set.
Canisius went up 17-12 in the second set on a kill from Elek, who had six kills in the set. Niagara got within two at 21-19, but Canisius would go up 24-20 on a kill from Hernandez. The Griffs, who hit .308 in the second set, took the set on their third opportunity on a kill from Warner.
The Griffs won the first two points of the third set and eventually used an 8-1 run to go up 10-3 on a block from Siebert and Warner. Niagara never seriously threatened in the set as Warner clinched the set again for the Griffs with a kill on the final point.
Melissa McGwin had 11 kills on 22 attack attempts for Niagara (1-15, 0-5 MAAC). Logan Rae had 18 digs while Amanda Sedore and Allison Ries each had 16 digs.
Canisius (5-11, 3-2 MAAC) continues its five-match homestand against Iona on Saturday, with match time in the KAC set for 1 p.m.
Notes: The Griffs defeated Niagara for the first time since Nov. 15, 2008… The win gives Canisius an early 1-0 lead in the Battle of the Bridge competition between the schools… Siebert had three or more blocks for the sixth time this season… Elek posted double-digit kills for the seventh time in 2013 and also had eight blocks for the second consecutive match… Hernandez is averaging 1.60 blocks per set in the last seven matches.


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- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 2 large egg whites
- 1 cup reduced-fat sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- Cooking spray
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Preheat oven to 350°.
Combine first 3 ingredients; set aside.
Place granulated sugar and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well-blended (about 5 minutes). Add egg whites, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in sour cream and vanilla. Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, stirring well with a whisk. Gradually add flour mixture to sugar mixture; beat well. Spread half of batter into an 8-inch square baking pan coated with cooking spray. Sprinkle half of walnut streusel over batter. Spread remaining batter over streusel. Top with remaining streusel.
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Daniel proves that lifting weights and girlie shirts don't mix; Phyllis goes dumpster diving; and Billy rocks the jail jumpsuit
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Santa sez sit on my lap... and tell me what you 'need' for Christmas...
Daniel -> something in a mauve jumpsusit... dropseat included.
Deacon -> letter writing campaign... I want to stay... Amber if only you could write.
Billy-> forget the mag... I wanna jail... where I can lick my knuckles and publish the prison newspaper.
Jill-> carton of V. Slims, a pint... no make it a fifth of bourbon and a(ny) man... multiply this by 365... lastly, a GPS finding on Larry Warden.
Sharon-> new sex signal CD (anyone using Ravel's Bolero?)
Nick-> any 'Third Eye Blind' CD.
Amanda-> pushbroom with long, long, long, extension handle.
Lindsay-> book on landfills/dumps of the world... including various codes, ordinances for each.
Christmas miracle -> Adam's sight returns as the result of Nick's suckah punch.
Love, peace and soooouuuuuuuuuul train... er sorry... love and peace.
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Oh man...I'm laughing too hard...Third Eye Blind CD...that's too good!!
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I agree Make Up Forever's Microfinish Powder is amazing! Perfectly sets your make up without looking "over done". I wish they would change the packaging however! Super messy.
Yes on the MUFE HD Powder, and a little tip I learned in a training a long time ago is to use a crease brush (one with longer, looser bristles as opposed to a smaller, tightly packed crease brush) like this one:
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This is really pretty, and I would wear it other times than just Halloween, too. GMV!
Re: You're the BOMB!
i think it's hilarious.
It's either hilarious, or I'm terribly disturbed.
Still pretty scary...probably the scariest thing out there! ha.
jackie31337 wrote:I'm also worried about whether this will get disqualified for too much text. Maybe resub it without the text bubble? I think it would still be funny. It's the pinky that puts it over the top.
It is blatantly obvious that the text in this design took 5 seconds to make versus the several hours I put into drawing/coloring/rendering the alien, which is the FOCAL POINT. The text only compliments the design. It is not the main idea. Tgentry would calls this "plussing". If you haven't read his help thread, you should. I recommend it to everyone as a starting point.
With the right accessories, you could also use this to be a barber's pole.
Re: My sources say YES
This shirt is pretty awesome. I would buy it.
female wrote:The text kind of ruins an otherwise well executed shirt. It's just not that funny and the shirt works well enough without it. Still a good job on the alien.
My vision for this shirt was that the person wearing the shirt could use it as a "conversation starter" (<--- hehe) at a halloween party/celebration. The joke was supposed to be the fact that the alien is the life of the party - drink in hand, telling stories and what not.
I ROFLMAO when I thought of the caption, so there's no way I could sleep at night if I excluded it from the design. I'm sorry you don't like it. Maybe a "male" would enjoy the shirt more. ;)
I've just been waiting for an opportunity to show off my ridiculously long internet abbreviation skills. Check that one off my list.
Thanks to all who have supported me to this point and please spread the word. Maybe this will make it, and I can finally get rid of the "I can't get me first print blues".
bradyson wrote:The hammer is for smashing pumpkins. Good job Blammoed!!!
ahh, I totally see it now, thanks
Re: Steampunk Robot
Steam-tacular! Great illustration. How do you make it so clean and crisp? Do you use illustrator to make all your shapes?
Re: Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
Designs like this are why I love Woot so much! Clever!
Re: By the Magic of Grayskull
If this is on red, I love it. If it's on cranberry, I hate it!
Re: Stars Upon Thars
If you voted for this shirt, please consider also voting for my resubmission with a different detail picture:
female wrote:Looks pretty slapdash to me. There's white crusties around a lot of the black lines and a big green square around the whole thing. I'd look to the mountie one as something that was done with artistry. This seems kind of sloppy.
I'm starting to think that this "female" screen name is just an alias created by one of my two arch enemies on woot to legitimize there slanderous haphazardy.
Despite the fact that I really shouldn't have to justify your remarks with a response, I'm in a fun mood, so I'll have a go at them. I also wouldn't want you putting naughty ideas in the heads of my other woot friends.
First off, the crusties are due to the resolution difference between the original design and the 600x600 dimensions that woot allots for the S-Comp. Furthermore, "female", if you had ever attempted making a design you would know about resolution and compression artifacts and how they relate to displaying a design.
Second, the green square is a result of the texture pattern I added "underneath" the design to give it the feel of a rough fabric (i.e. elf boy's tunic). The texture is composed of many very small white marks, so when viewed at a distance they make the whole printable area appear a lighter green. Just google "value recognition with patterning or optical illusion" to find a more detailed explanation of this visual phenomenon.
Thirdly, I love the mounty entry! That's why I voted for it, as you should - and anyone else who thinks canada is the funniest country. Shoot, they gave us Jim Carrey, and you know he's Hella-Funny!
Nice! Wedge would be proud
re: may the force be with me resubmitted
Re: BE THE LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Shirt Detail.
I have re-submitted this design. Please vote again for the new design.
Re: may the force be with me
aerodino wrote:Thanks for leaving the upper shadow in! That's the thing I really need - something magnifying my girls
HAHAHAHAHA! No you didn't just say that. More power to you. Cheers, to being comfortable with your body image!
DavidShenoda wrote:Tgentry would calls this "plussing". If you haven't read his help thread, you should. I recommend it to everyone as a starting point.
Link plz
It's been Done:
Re: Marathon Spectator
I really doubt this text is going to qualify as incidental.
Re: Thriller Dancer
COOL ! ! ! ! ! ! I like it!
Re: Stars Upon Thars...
Why did you resubmit this? You submitted the exact same shirt 12 hours before this one. You're probably splitting your votes.
yankeebird wrote:Why did you resubmit this? You submitted the exact same shirt 12 hours before this one. You're probably splitting your votes.
I'm sure you're right. I decided a detail image showing a Sneetch would get more clicks (and votes.) I wish I could close the first one and transfer the votes to this one! Anyway, I'm hoping voters will vote for this one!
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I need this. D:
Re: may the force be with me (re-submitted)
Wedge would be proud
Re: Using blatent copyright infringment seems to work!
Ok, is anyone else sick of how dumb designs about zelda and starwars always get more votes then original designs? I know I am. So to point out how male people are, I spent a few minutes putting together this beauty!
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Ok, is anyone else sick of how dumb designs about zelda and starwars always get more votes then original designs? I know I am. So to point out how male people are, I spent a few minutes putting together this beauty!
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I originally conceived this "costume" as someone who's heartbroken...had their "heart
ripped out". Then I almost yanked it thinking, "this is hardly a costume" and "it doesn't really translate that well". But then I looked at it again, and left it up for the pure and simple reason that I would totally wear it. year 'round.
This is a great idea for a costume as a shirt. However, woot's shirt printing requirements force this one to be executed poorly.
The thatching on the shirt to make it look like a burlap material would be great if the entire shirt could be printed with it and/or the shirt itself could be patterned as such. The fact that it stops as a rectangle is not ideal, and I think it would look like someone printed it onto a t-shirt transfer and ironed it onto a shirt, even if professionally printed by Woot. I think the shirt would be better without them.
This is also a design that needs to be printed to the edges of the shirt and/or printed on the shoulder of the shirt to pull it off correctly. The belt should go to the edges of the shirt, and the shoulder storage packs should go over the shoulder to the seam, but they can't be printed like that under current derby requirements.
The fact that the shirts already have collars on them makes the second collar look out-of-place. My fear with this (and everything else I've mentioned) is that the person wearing the shirt would look like they're wearing a shirt that's made out of a shirt that's made for a smaller person. The belt won't line up to peoples' belt lines (because the shirt is too short), the collar will be too low (because it has to be printed there), and the shoulder satchels will just look wrong.
I love the design, but I just think it's trying to put a square peg into a round hole. Unless Woot is willing to print this one to the seams/over the shoulder, I'd pass on it, though.
I llo'd.
I llo'd
then tattled
Nice reference to the other shirts, though. A+
Hey everyone, sick of male zelda/starwars/NES ideas getting more votes than original ideas? Yeah, me too. I am not saying my shirts are worth voting for. I don't think I would vote for them. I am saying: at least I thought of them and did not piggy-back off of someones work. Oh the shirts int he fog today half are blatantly copying from other ideas. That is shameful!!!!!
theinfinityloop wrote:This is such a clever idea. I love how it's a pun. Really good job, Jaden!
Thanks loop!!!
josmul123 wrote:I llo'd
then tattled
Nice reference to the other shirts, though. A+
Tattled on what, they all stole there ideas from copyrighted things anyway. I did not steal the idea of zelda from what's his name, I stole it from the classic videogame just like everyone else! Please ban this shirt and all the other stupid zelda/superman/starwars/alien shirts!!!!!!!!!
eharmon wrote:I'm sure you're right. I decided a detail image showing a Sneetch would get more clicks (and votes.) I wish I could close the first one and transfer the votes to this one! Anyway, I'm hoping voters will vote for this one!
You submitted the first one less than 24 hours ago, so you should be able to delete it. There should be an "X" up in the top right by the "tattle" button.
I think your right, I re-submitted the design. its a little cleaner.
muellemc wrote:Is the print actually going to be able to extend up to the shoulders and to the sides?
Hey thanks. I re-submitted a new one at a higher res.
cak3 wrote:awesome shirt, GMV. picture could use some anti-aliasing, though (or higher res.)
Keelmy wrote:Link plz
Hopefully this is what David is referring to:
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