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AGGIFTA
The All Globally Gen(d)erationally Interrelated Family Therapeutic Associaternity.
A Free GeoVirtual Networking/Service/Portal of
Equal Gender Partnership and InterCooperating Sorority and Fraternity
for EQuality of Life for the Beloved Local-Global Human Family/Community

Purpose
Paradigm
Internet Network and Portal
A Highlighting of Associat-eternity: Co-Healers/Co-Leaders for Sororite/Fraternite Model
Including Guestbook
Connection to Local-Global Resources for the Family of Humanity on Earth: including
A Free All Global Mini-Forum and Meeting Place for Announcements
ORGANIZATIONAl LINKS PORTALand FORUMS-PORTAL
Additional Highlighted COHEALING-COLEADING EXAMPLES
Tele and Virtual Conference Co-Hosting and Facilitation

PURPOSE

The PURPOSE of AGGIFTA is to facilitate and encourage entirely free, easy to use, friendly, virtual, systemic, interrelated and frequent **global** linkage among thoughtful and systemically aware people of related disciplines, striving to heal the human family of the universal planet Earth. It is dedicated to bringing the human family community of Earth a sustainable and sound future for and of both genders-respectful, equally esteemed sisterhood and brotherhood, sharing restored full empowerment and mutuality, to bring forth the fulfillment of human potential in good will and peace.

AGGIFTA It is explicitly NOT organized by national or regional boundary. Wherever possible, nations/regions will be here referred to primarily emphasizing the Earth as our shared location, such as by name of the city/town location ____, followed by "Nation-Region/EARTH!", to indicate primarily a geographical location (in contrast to past-generationally primarily unigenderistically-defined political entities.) This approach is used to model and eventually achieve, in the present and coming future, a more all-4 geodirectional, all hemispheric, female-male cooperatively defined sisterhood and brotherhood for a whole, balanced home Planet, Earth.

AGGIFTA expresses a yin-yang aware and balancing, global and future-oriented perspective. This befits a maturing humanity on an Earth at the threshhold of fully global intercommunication, global spirit and potential globally cooperative interplanetary exploration. With reference to yin and yang in balance, special highlight and reference is given to heeding the urgent recommendations regarding women's participation and representation with men of good will who want them there, of the 1995 Beijing Conference of Women's Non-Governmental Organizations that brought together the largest ever gathering of women from around the world, with the gratitude and support of men who value their essential importance to the human family and related gender and yin and yang balancing. The balance of gender in any decision-making assemblage is urgently critical, now, to the environmental as well as social viability and balance of the Planet. The Beijing Conference and related efforts express imporant recommendations for women, not only because they are essential for women, but because they are essential for all the human family all around the Earth.\par

Earth as seen from space is one planet, connected everywhere by its water\par and weather-producing atmosphere, which flows and connects the gift of life freely without political barriers, to a range of balance temperate enough to sustain humanity and all life. Studies have shown the adequate presence of women and balance of gender in decision-making is linked to decision-making for environmental sustainability, and of the social underpinnings of human bonding (as reflected in protections such as maternity and family leave)\par and ethical development, for societies of peace instead of war, terror and violence, disease, or environmentally widespread famines which could destroy the Planet, given to humanity as a home, as its most precious Gift.

The (D) in "Gen(d)erationally" in the AGGIFTA name, is a reference to the importance of the family community, local and global, as the first,\par cradling experience of consensual Day by Development and Dia~logue, that is caring to both genders in equal and mutual respect, in Decision-Making and Democracy, and the fulfillment of the Dream of all generations for a good life for all generations, and especially for young and future generations as well as current and older generations learning the ways of new millennia. Most people and cultures have experienced the planet Earth as a shared Gift of Divine Endowment and Blessing to and represented within All the Human Family, and the many different and still being discovered natural Life forms which enrich this Planet in its place and potential within the Universe, as well.

PARADIGM

AGGIFTA offers the PARADIGM that all people on earth are endowed and universally related by an essential humanity, not only genetically, but by nature-nurture *interactively*: via gender-cooperatively-genealogically-anthropologically, culturally and technologically educationally, and according to the endowed natural democracy of the human rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for both self and others of both genders and all ages. Thus, all are equally endowed in essential natural birthright/ being/earth citizenship/planetary communityhood/universal spirit. Many people have developed unique yet inherently shared, sometimes specialized but interdisciplinararily shareable knowledge, in understanding humanity to assist well-being for one and all. Thanks to the World Wide Web, their understanding can be shared locally and globally, for family~community-earth sustaining inspiration and understanding, from areas including anthropology, psychology, sociology, political and economic sciences, to earth, astronomical and physical ecological sciences, all understood as interacting systemically and globally/universally. Seeking increased cooperation among all disciplines of knoweledge, AGGIFTA's paradigm is family-based or family-centered, microcosmic as well as macrocosmic, regarding all humanity as an interrelated family, healing itself of past injuries and preparing its best present and future for a home planet and beyond.

The AGGIFTA concept bequeaths and offers the perspective that the variety of problems of the human family on Earth are simply multiple generational cumulative manifestations of the following imbalances, that are residual artifacts of a primitive period on Earth. These imbalances have been carried on too long as residually and unwittingly, as earth-endangering templates, over millennias of generations and migrations. These endangering templates are now inevitably giving way to a new evolving era of greater sustainable balance and mutuality, because humanity is maturing more rapidly now due to intercommunication that connects so many intelligent\par people, female and male both.

The major components of the imbalance (of human/natural interface in yin and yang), due to more primitive practices which become dysfunctional on a more advanced Planet include:

male gender domination and female gender submission/enabling (instead of inevitably evolving equality of women and men in family and community decision-making including representation in government, and equal welcome and educational access for both female and male.

cumulative effects of and extremes in intergenerational and sibling/kinship inequities, i.e. carryovers of past long long periods of hierarchy and primogeniture, and the failure to represent younger adults in community decision-making compared to elder generations and cohorts, all related to periods of more regressive or divisive misuse of technology and\par resultant illusions of scarcity

derivative cumulative conflicts that emerged as class, racial and tribal/regional/national inequities and conflicts, as gender and generational habits often morphed-reified as widespread group processes resulting in human conflict, alienation, division, exploitation, malnutrition, stress-produced reduced immunological resistance and vulnerability/disease, crime, environmental disharmony and war, and other negative cycles of human and environmental interaction.

AGGIFTA's paradigm allows human beings anywhere on Earth to consider and heal these elements in family and community processes, both personally/locally and planetarily/globally. Wherever possible, information is provided on the context of gender relations and the interface of gender and generational relations to reduce rigid hierarchies that interfere with the best expression of human talent and cooperation. For example, for many cities, states and countries, it is possible to ascertain the percent representation of females and males as an indicator of gender partnership in decision-making, and measure family leave policies related to children and younger/future generations, which improve with more equal representation in decision-making for women as well as men who welcome them in more equal number. Such information is presented here accompanied by these relevant links with easy to find information on that part of the planet's current official city/state and national/regional (legislative) gender balance of representation %/rank and href="http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/Facts4.html">state/provincial/cantonic (legislature %/rank appears at end of each info page;) and family leave policies affecting the families of the region; Equally important is access to education and communication (media) of both genders and people at all ages. Information is also included about sustainable economic approaches, often called the Love, Core, Earth, Natural and/or Gift Economies, that revisibilize the unpaid work and unrecognized contributions and abilities, especially of women but also of men to their families and communities, the importance of nurturing younger people especially and all people snd human life-long care and connection, and the sustainability of the most safe and beneficial forms of energy and the environment. Along with such information is included resources to help families and all people understand their genealogically shared past, present and future. again, of both genders and at all ages., with all this information to guide them.

Therefore, AGGIFTA exists to develop a worldwide interconnecting resources network on gender, generational and related and derivative patterns, and their transformation and healing for the human family at many levels of interaction. This network, then, can be visualized as an everbudding and growing interacting circle of interconnecting circles, where female as well as male, young as well as old, and all the human family of all origins on earth, can synergistically heal each other in mutual respect, that will assure sustainability and future thriving for ALL the human family and the home planet as a Whole with a conscsiousness of the balances of Universe that sustain a\par loving quality of life.

INTERNET NETWORK and PORTAL

A Free INTERNET Multidisciplinary Universal All-Global Family Systemic Portal/Mini-Forum for Announcements, especially devoted to human healing and empowerment for all females and males and all generations beyond nationality especially current, young and future generations in experiencing its contents as belonging to all the human family, at http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/aggifta
The focus of the Mini-forum will include brief announcements and especially World Wide Web-available references, especially in the areas of suggested topics such as

Local/Global Clinical Family Therapy and Micro-to-MacroLevel Socio-Emotional Healing and Prevention, including Sociology and Anthropology
Local/Global Family Policy. Political-Economics, Law and Macro-Level Recovery and Prevention
Geogenealogy and Geogenealogical Culture with a mind to celebrating the diverse and inherent interconnectedness of humanity and human progress toward a Culture of Peace.
Archetypal-Spiritual-Symbolic-Literary Meta-Levels of Local/Global Family and Society Process and Experience

AGGIFTA was developed in large part by Students, in Anthropology, Sociology, Psychology, Nursing and Medicine, Political Science, Peace Studies, and Women's, Men's and Gender Studies. AGGIFTA specifically offerst its resources not only current educators and professionals, but just as

The AGGIFTA Portal will act as a portal to already existing link pages of organizations and forums (coming soon) of
Gender Healing and Empowerment Organizations
Family Generational/Intergenerational/Genealogy Resources
Family Therapy Associations,
and their Interdisciplinary Colleagues and Friends in Fields from Sociology and Psychology to Economics and Political Science,
Interdisciplinary Systemic Suggestions on the psychology-democracy-technology Interface, of environmentally-aware energies of geosystemic practice, and with invited Special Guest Postings from Related Respective Associations, Communities and Forums.
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In addition to promoting other forums, AGGIFTA's Mini-Forum and Guestbook both welcome your ideas, information and suggestions, including brief notes \par referencing links, articles, and other periodic contribution from any forum or newsletter that wishes to representatively highlight its content in the Mini-Forum here, and is consonant with the AGGIFTA model of gender reconciliation and restoration of equality in empowerment and cooperation for women and men and girls and boys, of all ages, for an environmentally sustainable, naturally, systemically aware universal planet.

AGGIFTA also offers a special section for existing

HIGHLIGHTING OF ASSOCIAETERNITY:
The AGGIFTA Paradigm Includes an Intercooperative Sororite/Fraternite and Gender Partnership Model,
An E-Turn-Taking HIGHLIGHTING
of Women and Men in Gender Balanced Representative Healing Co-Leadership "Quaturnity-Eighturnity" of Equal Sororite and Fraternite, to keep in mind as one increases information and explores what is freely available on the World Wide Web. This, of course, includes an Expanding \par GuestBook to Sign of Local-Global Sisterhood and\par Local-Global Brotherhood Honorarium, as a Template to All People Healing and Serving the Human Family, and can be used a s model by any organiztion. Any organization can include such a "Hall of Fame" or "Noble" Prize, that embodies fully and mutually respected Sororeternity, Gender Cooperation and Fratereternity, in learning and in caring for the Earth.

For Example:
Introducing as Interdisciplinary Associates and Local-Global Healing Co-Leaders in Sisterhood as well as Brotherhood Cooperation/Shared Gender Partnership: (This is for exemplar and honoraria purpose only; names will be periodically rotated; they are presented to depict a balanced and cooperative worldwide model) \par

Co-Leader Tarya Halonen      Co-Leader Pentii Arajarvi,      Co-Leader Shirley Gatenio,      Co-Leader Humberto Maturana,

Co-Leader Ximena Davila      Co-Leader Keith U.C. Appolis      Co-Leader Emily Marlin      Co-Leader Amartya Sen     

Co-Leader Sheila Kamerman     \ Co-Leader Roland Mayerl      Co-Leader Toby Segrun Herman      Co-Leader Tom Rue     

Co-Leader Ann Hartman      Co-Leader Mark Mattaini      Co-Leader Florence Kaslow      Co-Leader Michael Benjamin

and their global community of human family-healing Co-Leaders including     You,    You,     You     and You!

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AGGIFTA also offers MANY model and visionary intentionally curative Href="http://www.geocities.com/aggifta/healingcoleadership.html"> examples of gender restoration and coleadership worldwide. In this section, there are examples of existing pairs, even some quaternities of co-facilitators to co-presidents and other officers and enactors, of various organizations. These exemplify a growing context of sensitivity to the critical importance of gender representation in bringing forth more whole functioning of decision-making, policy-making and healing for the human family recovering from patriarchy and regressive gender preferences. After exploring this section, we invite you to visit the AGGIFTA Global Guestbookto add/view YOUR and YOUR colleagues names or works links, as healing co-leader profile information, and suggest many more names and ideas\par to Highlight, as Global Cooperating Pairs, Teams, Groups, Circles, Regions, "Quaturnities-Eighturnities".

Thus, AGGIFTA offers a global-coleadership and budding circle(s) of community model, and an easy-to-use globally-oriented place to add your and colleagues links, names and projects in a fully global sisterhood and brotherhood of healers-leaders. It offers a virtual global gathering place in an explicit spirit of restoration, cooperation, mutuality and balance for a worldwide culture of peace. AGGIFTA believes such highlighting of good and global examples is explicitly needed, to avoid either gender inequality stagnation, hypocrisy or backsliding, or gender avoidance, alienation and separatism, all of which can variously endanger the Planet Earth.)\par

CONNECTION TO LOCAL-GLOBAL RESOURCES FOR THE FAMILY OF HUMANITY ON EARTH

ORGANIZATIONAl-LINKS-PORTAL

FORUMS-PORTAL

AGGIFTA CONNECTS to experiential and informational resources in gender and generational healing and empowerment\par for a world in process of a global gender equal and mutual restorative and redemptive family reunion without domination or exploitation, and a community culture of peace everywhere. specifically including\par Organizational and Website Resources (ORGANIZATIONS-PORTAL) and Online Discussion Forums(FORUMS-PORTAL)

AGGIFTA will work to cooperatively highlight and link to all local-global organizations' memberships and as well as interested globally-minded at-large individuals, in shared community as co-leaders for present and future, that embody, support and and promote local-global gender copartnership and awareness of global and universal kinship of sisterhood and brotherhood in co-leadership and co-operation. In addition, AGGIFTA's Mini-Forum offers a quick and easy place to post links of interest, refer people to current and recent (often archived) interesting discussions occuring in various places online, and give a truly global, universal, Universal Earth-First- geo/ecological focus (in contrast to national-boundary-defined greetings), to sisters and brothers of good will, working at any longitude and latitude of Earth to benefit the human family. The Mini-Forum already includes links that remind us that our communication is sometimes assisted by sarellite and telescopes, including the Hubble, which also looks at our planetary home from, in a sense, our own future, if we can sustain well enough to explore the Universe in Peace. Now, even realtime downloadable earth from space views from Earth-based/Heaven-based telescopes allows us to experience a fully global and universal perspective , sharable via the internet, even as we enjoy our local earth-based activities. It is a moving and humanly inspiring time to gaze upon our Planet and its human family with a shared vision of the necessary love and respect for the universal balance of female and male, and yin and yang, urgently needed now, to sustain and continue a home Planet with a mind to its universal potential and space-time present future.

A TELE AND VIRTUAL CONFERENCE MODEL AND FACILITATION \par \par

AGGIFTA also encourages TELE/VIRTUAL Mini-Conference Co-Hosting of Talk Circles and Live Chats from 3 to 99 people. A Daisy-Chaining Network of Gender and Generationally-Aware and Sustainability-Minded Co-Hosters is Easily Developed, for both within discipline and interdisciplinary conferences. Many free teleconference and live-chat connections appear on the Internet; simply use "free conference" or "free live chat" as search terms in your search engine and you will find many; we hope the information provided here will stimulate and inspire you to use them.

With a mind to such issues as discussed here, it is AGGIFTA's hope that every existing organization, society, forum and center, as well as individuals with special offerings, devoted to the healing of the human family locally and/or globally, in addition to whatever other resources they offer, will co-host, with at least 2 other such people/entities all around the world at least one or two free such teleconference(s) per year. We invite you to utilize and reference resources, ideas and information obtained at the AGGIFTA Website or Portals accessed via AGGIFTA, and enhance your existing resources with information provided here, connecting, partnering, teaming and daisychaining to others all around the world. If you are interested in co-sponsoring such an event with AGGIFTA, send AGGIFTA an email at aggifta@yahoo.com

It is hoped this website will facilitate something worthwhile, both between many and among all; restoratively for women in many fields, and for women and men who seek mutual coempowerment on a healthier and healthier planet. This will fulfill the AGGIFTA mission, of encouraging, facilitating and assisting in enjoying gifts which are entirely beyond boundary, multidisciplinary yet united in living systems and spirit, inspiring to what is shared, universal and eternal in kind and caring human nature: for female and male, current and coming generations, wholly global in focus, and naturally, like that which is best and ultimately possible in love and life itself, FREE!

This website in ongoing co-development by students of anthropology, nursing and medicine, psychology, family studies, family therapy, women's, men's and gender studies, peace studies, sociology, political science, economics, genealogy and environmental and related science, from all around the world.