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The Delphi Technique and Rick Warren (?)
The Delphi Technique and Rick Warren (?)
Is This happening in your Purpose-Driven
Church ?
The Delphi Technique and consensus building are both founded in the same principle —the Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, with synthesis becoming the new thesis. The goal is a continual evolution to "oneness of mind" (consensus means solidarity of belief) —the collective mind, the wholistic society, the wholistic earth, etc.
In thesis and antithesis, opinions or views are presented on a subject to establish views and opposing views. In synthesis, opposites are brought together to form the new thesis. All participants in the process are then to accept ownership of the new thesis and support it, changing their views to align with the new thesis. Through a continual process of evolution, "oneness of mind" will supposedly occur.
In group settings, the Delphi Technique is an unethical method of achieving consensus on controversial topics. It requires well-trained professionals, known as "facilitators" or "change agents," who deliberately escalate tension among group members, pitting one faction against another to make a preordained viewpoint appear "sensible," while making opposing views appear ridiculous.
In her book Educating for the New World Order, author and educator Beverly Eakman makes numerous references to the need of those in power to preserve the illusion that there is "community participation in decision-making processes, while in fact lay citizens are being squeezed out."
The Delphi Technique. What Is It?
"The goal of the Delphi technique is to lead a targeted group of people to a predetermined outcome, while giving the illusion of taking public input and under the pretext of being accountable to the public."
How Delphi Technique leaders - (& Some Church Consultants) are instructed to deal with opposition
Lights, camera, action!
architect_selection_concerns - If you can't prove the speaker's points are wrong or invalid, attack him personally. Also, accuse him of doing exactly what you are doing.
public_input
- You've got to confuse the issue, make it hard for the opposing speakers to get their points across. Remember that everyone has their own equally valid opinions and suggestions (that can be disregarded).
designer_selection_process - Create your own reality. Say what you need to say to achieve your goals, other people can check the validity of your statements later. If no one questions you, you must have been right.
delphi_technique_bandwagon - Everybody's doing it. It may not be right but everybody's doing it. You should too. Help us achieve a comfortable consensus...
school_concerns_no_comment - Ignore all questions that make you feel foolish or uncomfortable. Meeting adjourned.
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The goal of the Delphi technique
The goal of the Delphi technique is to lead a targeted group of people to a pre-determined outcome, while giving the illusion of taking public input under the pretext of being accountable to the public. For Delphi to work, it is critical that the targeted group be kept away from knowledgeable people who could lead them away from the Delphier's pre-determined outcome.
One variation of the Delphi technique is to use a series of meetings. The attendees are often given a number or a colored card when they enter the room, to determine at which table they are to sit. The purpose of this is to break up the groups of potentially knowledgeable people who arrive together so that they will be sitting with strangers and therefore be subdued.
"Typically, at each table is a facilitator, someone who will know which way to help "steer" the group. Usually, the people at each table are instructed to answer among themselves some of the questions and arrive at a table "consensus".
The "Delphi Technique" And How It Robs Parents of Control Over Their Child's Education
Many school administrators have been specially trained to deal with those who seek to question the education "reforms" that are rapidly replacing the teaching of basic academics. In most cases a school administrator has no intention of changing anything the parent finds troubling. But he also knows that an angry group of parents can cause trouble for their plans.
His job is to keep parents happy and quiet. He's been trained for just such a challenge. It's called the "Delphi Technique" and parents, who don't know they're being manipulated, haven't a chance against it.
The Delphi Technique was first developed in the late 1950's by the Rand Corporation as a method to "forecast" the future. Companies used it to help make decisions in determining product development and how new technology would affect the market.
Later, the technique was perfected to literally dictate desired
outcomes. A panel of experts was placed in a group session and through a very subtle manipulations process to separate supporters from detractors of the official, desired outcome, they were brought around to accept a pre-determined position. Those who opposed the position were subjected to ridicule, divisions were driven between the two sides, until only one possible solution could be accepted - the pre-determined outcome. Once this group of respected authorities had accepted that position it was a simple step to dictate the outcome to the rest of the market.
This is exactly how the radical Educrats are stopping opponents of Goals 2000 and Outcome-based Education. The reason the parents are quizzed about their interests and affiliations is to determine if they are potential trouble makers. If they are part of an organized effort to challenge "reforms" then steps will be taken to investigate, and possibly infiltrate the group.
Here is a sample of how the Delphi Technique is thrust on such a group.
The use of Delphi in Meetings and Public Settings: How Communities
(or Churches) Are Manipulated
The individual who gets involved will soon encounter the way educators, civic leaders, businessmen, the clergy and parents are manipulated using the Delphi Technique. Delphi is a method for obtaining a predetermined "consensus" among a diverse group of individuals who may or may not be knowledgeable about a field of endeavor or problem.
The Delphi Technique was developed by the RAND Corporation, a liberal think tank, in the 1960s. It was developed originally as a way of using repeated surveying of a group of people to bring them to agreement or "consensus."
The original survey technique has been adapted for use in controlling and manipulating meetings or study groups called to get public input for issues in education, police community relations, state control of child care, etc.
The survey approach, when used, is supposedly anonymous. It is done with a group of people who may never come face to face. A knowledgeable person has little opportunity to get exposure of his or her views or ideas to the entire group. It is a technique used by the educational establishment (often financed by the U.S. Department of Education) for reaching a supposed consensus on curriculum goals, content or instructional methods. Widely used as a technique for developing programs "to meet the needs of an individual state or community" the results often turn out to be almost identical, even in wording, to those adopted in other communities or states.
How Delphi Works
Using a series of surveys to develop a "consensus" was the original technique. A 100 page report using a Delphi technique survey done in 1989 is typical. The study was titled, Teacher Perceptions of the Effects of Implementation of Outcome-Based education. It was financed and distributed by ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) of the U.S. Department of Education. The report described the method used.
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The technique avoids the possibility of informed people with conflicting views influencing others.
Ultimately, depending on how big the project is, the "consensus" may be packaged beautifully (expensively) for dissemination to parents, teachers, legislators, and media.
Technique Used To Control Meetings
Delphi has been adapted for use in meetings where participants are present. Panels, groups and community meetings are manipulated to develop a community "consensus" which is then sold to the public. Here's how it works:
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Agents of Change "manage" [marginalize] dissenters who question New Doctrines for Church
How does the process take place? The techniques are well developed and well defined. First, the person who will be leading the meeting, the facilitator or Change Agent must be a likeable person with whom those participating in the meeting can agree or sympathize with. It is, therefore, the job of the facilitator to find a way to cause a split in the audience, to establish one or a few of the people as "bad guys" while the facilitator is perceived as the "good guy." Facilitators are trained to recognize potential opponents and how to make such people appear aggressive, foolish, extremist, etc. Once this is done, the facilitator establishes himself or herself as the "friend" of the rest of the audience. The stage is now set for the rest of the agenda to take place.
At this point, the audience is generally broken up into "discussion groups" of seven or eight people each. Each of these groups is to be led by a subordinate facilitator. Within each group, discussion takes place of issues, already decided upon by the leadership of the meeting. Here, too, the facilitator manipulates the discussion in the desired direction, isolating and demeaning opposing viewpoints. Generally, participants are asked to write down their ideas and disagreements with the papers to be turned in and "compiled" for general discussion after the general meeting is re-convened.
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Example of how
the Technique works: The Hijacking of State Schools
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“Consensus”
To bring about “group think” under peer pressure, Hegelian dialectic or conflict resolution, otherwise known as the Delphi Technique, is the behavior modification tactic of choice. You see, in Sustainable Values, Ross McCluney calls for a new, more liberal core set of values that the entire species can agree upon. Without a shared point of the compass, however, two cannot possibly walk together in agreement—that is, unless rugged individualism bows to consensus, and “gray” thinking prevails over absolutes. In the dialectic process, ends always justify means; and through it, educrats handily discredit notions of fixed rights or wrongs. Students, then, are primed for “transformation” to the new mindset.
To ease this process, facts, formulas, and laws of physics—that is, absolutes—are necessarily undermined for their inherent divisiveness. Spelling becomes more a matter of personal discretion, and any-old stab at reading is rewarded when students execute whole-word or configuration strategies. Certainly not to be mistaken for measurable, merited accomplishment, successful cosmic education relies instead on “balanced energy,” “human potential,” and “egoic advancement.” To mask demonstrably declining academic skill levels, youngsters are pumped up with fanciful notions of Self.
Today’s lifelong psycho-social process of relearning (also called “deschooling”) systematically supplants independence with interdependence, individual creativity with collectivism. Now, State schools employ unionized “change agents” to train human resources for specific placement in pre-determined, entry-level vocations that support our global economy.
To further the plan in Washington State, a bevy of bureaucrats collude with the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
(OSPI). Take, for example, Dr. Robert Carkhuff, creator of HRD Press (1975). This self-described, self-published scientist and educator has yet to publish in peer reviewed journals; nonetheless, his ever-unfolding pseudo-social science underpins a radical theory of cosmic education shared by his fellows.
“Transformation”
OSPI colleagues and longtime friends Drs. Shirley McCune, Andrew Griffin, Robert
Carkhuff, and Superintendent Terry Bergeson share interest in the disturbingly esoteric study of the paranormal and human potential. See for yourself in The Light Shall Set You Free (Athena Publishing, 1996) and The Possibilities Mind
(HRD Press 2000) by Drs. McCune and Carkhuff, respectively. In said pursuit of transpersonal psychology, Dr. Carkhuff applies his own make-believe formula (Energy=PE²1³) to measure human energy toward self-actualization, clarified by McCune as looking to “the Light within” in our collective journey toward the Fifth Dimension—that is, cosmic mindfulness entered through altered states of consciousness. The way to that Light, she claims, is to increase one’s vibration frequency.
Sounds to me like a religious experience. True, Dr. McCune has the constitutional right to believe as she does. Keep in mind, however, that the “path to power,” as she puts it, “requires a whole new curriculum and set of guidelines.” Don’t think for a moment that this federal liaison refrains from exposing children to her arcane theological grid. Without apology, McCune commissions “classrooms of today” to “accept expanded concepts of who and what we really are.” This, my friend, is New Age occultism. Enabling her nefarious vision, taxpayers reward Theosophist Dr. McCune with a generous salary akin to that of the Superintendent.
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How Church Consultants train Pastors to deal with Resistant Congregations
The
change agent or facilitator goes through the motions of acting as
an organizer, getting each person in the target group to elicit expression of
their concerns about a program, project, or policy in question.
The facilitator listens attentively, forms "task forces,"
"urges everyone to make lists," and so on.
While s/he is doing this, the facilitator learns something about each
member of the target group. S/He
identifies the "leaders," the "loud mouths," as well as
those who frequently turn sides during the argument — the "weak or
noncommittal".
Suddenly,
the amiable facilitator becomes "devil's advocate."
S/He dons his professional agitator hat.
Using the "divide and conquer" technique, s/he manipulates one
group opinion against the other. This
is accomplished by manipulating those who are out of step to appear
"ridiculous, unknowledgeable, inarticulate, or dogmatic."
S/He wants certain members of the group to become angry, thereby forcing
tensions to accelerate. The
facilitator is well trained in psychological manipulation.
S/He is able to predict the reactions of each group member.
Individuals in opposition to the policy or program will be shut out of
the group.
The
method works. It is very effective
with parents, teachers, school children, and any community group.
The "targets" rarely, if ever, know that they are being
manipulated. Or, if they suspect
this is happening, do not know how to end the process.
The
desired result is for group polarization, and for the facilitator to become
accepted as a member of the group and group process.
S/He will then throw the desired idea on the table and ask for opinions
during discussion. Very soon
his/her associates from the divided group begin to adopt the idea as if it were
their own, and pressure the entire group to accept the proposition.
This technique is a very unethical method of achieving consensus on a controversial topic in group settings. The Delphi Technique is based on the Hegelian Principle of achieving Oneness of Mind through a three step process of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
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