Support Us: To Support You & Everyone Else
Why Should YOU Support Us?
Individually, YOU are the most important person who can affect positive change and
successfully resolve problems!
Throughout human history, individuals are:
- - the discoverers of novel and essential ideas (that benefit people),
- - the first to adopt and support vital changes (that support society),
- - the real (unsung) heroes
(who define and defend the principles that sustain humanity).
History demonstrates that, people in groups (e.g., businesses, organizations, societies, and countries) can be slow to appropriately respond to changing needs:
- - as the majority of individual members of groups must be willing to see, understand, and collectively agree to essential changes before positive progress can be made.
Individuals are better positioned to appreciate, understand, and adopt essential changes for themselves, and for the sake of society which they contribute to and form.
With all of the other good causes and demands on our time and money it is easy for people to overlook the importance of education and hands on experience to everyone as a whole.
Individual's need for food and shelter are immediate, readily seen, and are understandable.
The benefits of helping someone to find shelter or providing food to someone in need are equally immediate, apparent, and understood by all.
However, the needs of everyone for (appropriate) education aren't always as readily seen or understood, compared to the immediate needs for food and shelter.
The considerable benefits of education and training to the individual and society are often far from obvious, as the benefits take appreciable time to be seen and passed on.
Education not only helps the individual, but helps everyone in society as a whole.
Through education people and society can find food and shelter, which are ultimately provided for us by the environment.
Education can allow everyone to intellectually see the big picture (i.e., comprehensive understanding), which allows people and society to succeed while respecting the environment.
It is becoming apparent that we all need help to be able to see how to reach our objectives, while respecting the systems we depend on, by seeing the big picture.
Todays challenges rely on us being able to appreciate and respect the big picture, while all of our historical intellectual tools focus on solving problems without seeing things in context of the whole.
Our contemporary challenges are resolvable, but only through working with the systems that support us; so that those systems can resolve our challenges for us as they were intended.
For example:
If humanity weren't around, the environment would eventually establish a healthy balance of biodiversity and the numbers of organisms that are endangered would recover over time.
Therefore, if we actively promote biodiversity our environmental concerns will more rapidly resolve themselves naturally and we will see secondary benefits (e.g., cleaner air and water).
Similarly, although increasing plant biodiversity won't immediately resolve all of the challenges associated with climate change, increasing plant biodiversity can:
- - contribute to resolving climate change by capturing carbon,
- - protect shorelines from coastal erosion,
- - will directly and indirectly help to repopulate the numbers of endangered species.
Through comprehensive understanding we can appreciate that a few simple solutions can resolve a wide array of problems when they work successfully within the systems we depend on.
Without comprehensive understanding people are likely to seek technological and direct solutions to our challenges, which represent the approaches that contributed to our contemporary problems.
We need your financial support to promote and distribute the Sapient Method to allow people to mindfully see how to reach their goals while respective the big picture.
As a new and small team providing educational materials and support it is a big challenge to obtain sufficient initial funding to grow and help people confidently 'know how' to succeed together.
New ideas are slow to spread. Novel educational practices are especially slow to gain ground, due to the time taken for these practices to be mastered, appreciated, and distributed.
However, the benefits of education can be far reaching, as a single persons good idea can not only change one persons life, but can benefit many people for many years to come.
The Sapient Method is an effective pathway for people, and teams to come together, to see how to achieve objectives while respecting the systems that enable their objectives.
The Sapient Method is comprised of all of the successful learning tools, techniques, and practices which have stood the test of time.
Individual elements of the Sapient Method have been shown to double the proportion of students in academic courses who achieve high letter grades.
The critical thinking components of the Sapient Method have been demonstrated to promote unrelated critical thinking skills beyond that of any other academic experience.
Learners who experience components of the Sapient Method are confident and happily work together to reach consensus understandings and decisions.
We are happy to show you the benefits of the method and to demonstrate the method to anyone who wishes to see how the method brings us together and empowers us in our lives.
We have assembled a rough three part plan to achieve our desire to provide people with the Sapient Method, and highlight our short-term and mid-term objectives.
Short-term Objectives:
- - Appoint a team of full-time members
- - Train and evaluate team members for mastery of the Sapient Method
- - Design and optimize the curriculum for delivery and standardization of the method
- - Design and generate course materials to teach the method
- - Assign team members to focus groups:
- - Book and video production (i.e., distribution of method, tools, and revenue source)
- - Consulting services (i.e., distribution of guidance, support, and revenue source)
- - Design and optimization of public and legally binding mission statement for Bry-man
- - Appointment of board of directors for Bry-man
- - Establishment of Bry-man as a non-profit organization
- - Optimization of the distribution pathways for the method and tools
- - Standardization, assessment, and quality control for the method and tools
- - Assessment of distribution structures for the method and tools
Mid-term Objectives:
- - Establishment of offices (i.e., for standardization, quality control, and outreach)
- - Establishment of partnerships:
- - Business partnerships:
- - Promote sustainable systems
(in and between businesses, communities and the environment) - - Design and distribute new tools for visualizing and understanding
- - Partnerships with schools, colleges, and universities
- - License and distribute the method
- - Establish think tanks and discussion groups (i.e., identify and promote resolutions)
- Partnerships with churches and social groups
- Informal introduction to the method and tools (i.e., for understanding and resolutions)
- Establish think-tanks and discussion groups (i.e., identify and promote resolutions)
Please don't leave it to others to help, or leave it till tomorrow to help; the longer we leave it to make positive changes the great the consequences will be from all our inaction.
Without knowing how to change, and coming together to share appropriate changes, we are all contributing to our shared problems through our current practices (more so than our ancestors).
The longer we leave it to affect positive changes the greater the consequences we will experience from all our current poor choices.
There are a number of ways that you can help us to promote a better way of thinking, which helps us to correctly see and respect all that we care about when we pursue our goals.
1) By Purchasing A Copy Of Our Book:
Our first publication 'Sapient Thinking' should be available online early in 2020. We will update the links on our website and social media sites once the book has been published.
The book 'Sapient Thinking' is a great way to learn about how humanity originated as an intellectual being, the twists and turns that we have taken on our intellectual journey toward wisdom, and to glimpse what things look like through comprehensive understanding and wise actions.
2) Donations By Check Or Postal Order:
If you would like to, and are in a position to, please feel free to send donations (checks or money order) directly to:
- The Bry-man Group LLC,
- PO Box 12083
- Raleigh,
- NC 27605-1345
Please make sure you enclose a cover note with your contact information (name, address, email address) and your donation amount. That way we can keep our paperwork straight and can also thank you for your help.
As a thank you for your help, any donation over $500 will receive a copy of our forthcoming publication 'Sapient Thinking'.
3) Donate Online:
When you make a donation online, please make sure you include your contact information (name, address, email address etc), that way we can contact you to thank you for your help.
As a thank you for your kindness, any donation over $500 will receive a copy of our forthcoming publication 'Sapient Thinking'.