If you have an interest in positive psychology, appreciative inquiry, positive organizational scholarship, appreciative living, and other related approaches to creating and promoting a flourishing life,watch Dewitt Jones' 22 minute, tour de force video, Celebrate what's right with the world. It's a pathway to being in touch, at a fundamental, gut-level level with what appreciation and positivity is all about.
Every time I've watched this video since, I've been as inspired as I was that very first time. I continue to uncover deeper levels of meaning each time around. More »
When a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he/she is placed in the center of the village, alone ... All gather around the accused individual ... Then each person of every age, begins to talk out loud to the accused. One at a time, each person tells all the good things the one in the center ever did in his/her lifetime. Every incident, every experience that can be recalled with any detail and accuracy, is recounted. The tribal ceremony often lasts several days, not ceasing until everyone is drained.... Necessity for such ceremonies is rare!"
In 1961, Ben E. King recorded a song for the ages, Stand by Me, listed by BMI as the 4th most performed song of the 20th century, and ranked number 121 among Rolling Stone Magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.