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SoulFood

Home of the SoulFood Tradition

SoulFood
Community Mental Health and Community Development
Category: Mapping

What is SoulFood?

General or Social Level

The practical wisdom of this Soul Food Tradition method is that makes clearer the value of culture in contrast to heritage.

In the paper being developed currently I ask readers to consider the difference between heritage and culture. (If this interest you feel free to contact me about how you can read the paper when it's completed)

Soul Food emerges from oral traditions as a soulful tradition not be confused with an intellectual tradition. Rather than rely on known knowledge (intellectual tradition) it relies on the bridge between the intellect and creative intuition (soulful tradition) as am approach to developing new solutions for increasingly complex situations. Furthermore it provides illumination about how to do this with integrity (purity of ingredients), value for the individual, and appreciation for context.

Starting with the insights from Source:Acceptance

Through this approach one finds balance and peace...here in the context of mixing ingredients, recipes, etc it is akin to "cooked just the way you like with the ingredients available to you".

In the WebAntiphon:Clear_CRM_Strategy scheme of things this approach acknowledges the value of each person served and consulted by helping you find the recipe for the SoulFood:Meal or SoulFood:Dish that best suits your needs and taste:

Project:Oci_Novosti

what-is-peace 2007

Fusion_Installatie_Genesis

Will add others soon, in the meantime see the sidebar or taxonomy

Individual or Personal Level

To me there is the game and then there is the essence of this paradigm that supports healing. Soul food is depository of Love that flows forward through time to reach across generations. It is less about a particular kind of food, and more about an approach to creating. The soul food tradition when undertaken with Attention, is one that endeavors to create nourishing artistry infused with Love. This is why so often mom's version of a SoulFood:Dish tastes so much better than the rest.

Because it is about SoulFood:Cooking/creating from the fullness of ones being, it relies on the intuition rather than a SoulFood:Recipe card (which granted, does help others to prepare the SoulFood:Dish). Soul Food seems to be akin to oral traditions in that it is passed on via interpersonal Relationships and you have to observe them to learn/retain them.

My works produced with my creative energy and attention are under the SoulFood Tradition Original brand...This is an endeavor into Attention based brands where personal unique Attention and creativity are the key ingredients that overtime give themselves over to an abundance of recipes.

I think of my Grandma Lottie, who died in 2005. My cousin who lived closer and spent more Time with her knows most of her SoulFood:Recipes.

Community Mental Health and Community Development

In the context of my work in community development, SoulFood emerges from a new depth of understanding. My interest started inCommunity_Mental_Health via expressive therapy for community renewal and it has evolved from a community program concept to a social enterprise and art series which facilitates interdisciplinary projects addressing multiple issues simultaneously.

What makes Soul Food special?

Several years ago I was planning to go out to meet some friends and I was feeling annoyed that I felt obligated to make dinner first. I hurriedly made a SoulFood:Meal of pasta with a salad using the same SoulFood:Ingredients I had used on numerous occassions. I plopped the SoulFood:Meal down on the table just before I dashed to the other room to finish getting ready for my evening out.

When I walked back out my family sat looking dejected as they picked at their food. It doesn't taste the same they complained.

"You didn't put any love into it," said my husband. I deduced from that--- the love normally involved in food preparation actually infused the food with soul (aka love).

I feel this is a tradition that was passed on to me by my Grandma Lottie and my Mom, but I have had it validated by friends over the years, most noteably those that introduced me to their native cuisines and their version of Soul Food.

This SoulFood language endeavors to explore paths to greater inclusion in the “creative class” of artists, viewed metaphorically through the lens of culinary artistry (cook and chef) to expand the context for considering and valuing works of art.

What is the essence of SoulFood?

From article posted at SocialBC:Important dialogues are required to build the needed bridges and creativity tempered by good will is essential to accomplishing global social responsibility as a way of living/doing business. Has the time come to ask questions about the nature and roles of love and Attention in commerce?

9:14:47 AM Yvette Dubel says: i feel SoulFood is the context for approaching the roles of Love and Attention in business and commerce

9:15:17 AM Ronald Wopereis says: it means business and commerce must pay attention to soulfood ?

9:15:35 AM Ronald Wopereis says: recently Getrude reminded me of Ubuntu

9:15:43 AM Yvette Dubel says: hm....i hadn't thought of that way....

9:15:45 AM Yvette Dubel says: yes

9:16:05 AM Ronald Wopereis says: if soulfood is the context, then business and commerce are content

9:16:31 AM Yvette Dubel says: i feel it is a way to approach the problem identified in the article i mentioned that Corin sent....the differences in meaning from one culture to the next

9:16:40 AM Ronald Wopereis says: or maybe there should be a crossover of roles ? from one context to another ?

9:16:44 AM Yvette Dubel says: even when the content is consistent as in business

9:16:55 AM Ronald Wopereis says: yes

9:17:33 AM Yvette Dubel says: using Attention and Love as base reference points to create an Attention language base line

The Game

SoulFood perspective are Games of acceptance: The Cultural_Fusion series yields CRM strategies (the SoulFood:Restaurant) that create context for games to engage and nourish, so that a bridge exist to sustain Source:Connections to solutions. Then it is no longer necessary to want people to change or long for global social responsibility because we are participating in the remedies. Simply by playing a game where you/the player enters a (Hotel_Infinity)SoulFood:Restaurant (WebAntiphon:Clear_CRM_Strategy) to place your order or shop around at the Galleria to meet needs you already want to address.