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<\/p>\nWelcome, my name is Arthur Cunningham. \u00a0I am a\u00a0program specialist for the University of Hawai’i at Hilo (UH Hilo). \u00a0I work with students, academics, administrators, community leaders and business owners.\u00a0 I have education and experience in the following areas:<\/p>\n
My time in the Air Force presented the opportunity to learn about my fellow man. I was in active duty for four years, Air Force Reserve for seven, and I have been drilling as Hawaii Air National Guard for one year now. I\u2019m still enlisted. Different people join a branch of the armed forces for different reasons, but generally all who serve share a love of country.<\/p>\n
Many join the armed forces in pursuit of, mentoring, and a sense of\u00a0belonging. They typically find one out of three.<\/p>\n
The armed forces do a good job of educating troops about leadership and management practices, but they don\u2019t teach anyone how to be a grown-up or how to use their intelligence. Military culture teaches troops WHAT to think: It is\u00a0expected<\/span> for troops to know and give the \u201cright answer\u201d rather than bothering with the correct, or true, response.<\/p>\n Question: \u201cHow often do you drink, and why?”<\/p>\n Right answer: \u201cOnly one drink at a time, occasionally, and only at social events.\u201d<\/p>\n Real answer: \u201cI drink a six-pack a night, to calm my mind and be able to sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n Giving the \u201cright answer\u201d is a rewarded behavior, as long as you aren\u2019t caught in the lie. Answering truthfully may cause trouble. This is a broken and dysfunctional culture.<\/p>\n Many who join the armed forces are fresh out of high school. Many of those individuals were raised by parents who were never taught how to be parents. How will these individuals learn how to be mentors? Will they learn how from adult-children just like them? Not likely.<\/span><\/p>\n Mentors<\/span>\u00a0are not born, they are created. A mentor knows HOW to think. They can see the big picture. They are mature in emotions and in their decisions. Emotional maturity is a requirement for being an adult and it is a necessary ingredient for interdependent relationships. Interdependence is a synergy multiplier.<\/span><\/p>\n Rather than continuing to have adolescents train other adolescents, why not build a program where adults are born first, then shaped into mentors? My vision is to see such a pilot program introduced and developed at my local Air National Guard unit. We will build mentors and develop a principle-based team culture.<\/span><\/p>\n A Military Culture Co-Lab Institute for Discovery would add structure and support to troops seeking to better themselves and become more effective team members. It would provide a framework for mentors to capture their wisdom and pass on their knowledge more effectively (with measureable results). Troops would have access to all the services offered by PWI including family assistance resources, employee assistance resources, skills development, and addiction recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n A Military Culture Co-Lab Institute for Discovery would add to the existing principle-based culture by providing a deeper understanding of core values and show why troops should embrace them. In general a culture of support, strength through interdependence, and wisdom-seeking would be nurtured.<\/span><\/p>\n A Military Culture Co-Lab Institute for Discovery provides troops and their families with the tools needed to grow, learn, and mature. With the PWI team, technology, and community as available resources we will be able offer an invitation for others to join in our mission of individual and team development.<\/span><\/p>\n I welcome local legislators, community leaders, public officials, high school principals, business owners, career advisors, and many local residents to join this important cause.<\/p>\n Currently I have the support of a number of influencers, change makers, and organizations, all who will be invited to participate and contribute to the Co-Lab:<\/p>\n The Military Co-Lab Project<\/b>\u00a0Flip eBook will\u00a0document and\u00a0memorialize the\u00a0mission, vision, goals and implementation plan of the Military Culture Co-Lab Institute for Discovery –\u00a0we\u00a0welcome and invite all to participate and contribute.<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n We\u00a0seek like-minded community member\u2019s, leaders and visionaries, associations, professionals, educational institutions, media, supporters, vendors, donors and sponsors to join us\u00a0in making our dream big enough for everybody.<\/b><\/p>\n Keeping in mind \u201cany problem well defined is already half solved.\u201d \u00a0We\u00a0invite you to submit your comments below, as they relate to helping us\u00a0define the problems, define the answers and discover solutions to the challenges we may face in reaching our goal. \u00a0So that together we can develop a Co-Lab Institute, where together we can create long-term implementable app-based solutions to reach our communities, businesses, schools, industry and world.<\/p>\n …remembering our goal is to create mentorship programs to better teach, nurture and evolve the culture into one of trust, discovery and maturity, rather than fear and compliance<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.<\/em> Opening Insights: Specialist Welcome, my name is Arthur Cunningham. \u00a0I am a\u00a0program specialist for the University of Hawai’i at Hilo (UH Hilo). \u00a0I work with students, academics, administrators, community leaders and business owners.\u00a0 I have […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,5,49,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-emod-blog","category-leadership","category-leadership-co-lab-blogs","category-military-co-lab-mission"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSCF2769-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6832"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23599,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions\/23599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Becoming Part of the\u00a0Solution<\/h3>\n
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It is my hope that together we will drive this dream along with others of like-mind. \u00a0In order to spearhead this dream we are writing a Flip eBook called \u201cThe Military Co-Lab\u00a0Project.” <\/b><\/p>\n![\"ind_colab_inst\"](\"\/\/pocketwisdominsights.com\/pwicolab\/wp-content\/uploads\/ind_colab_inst-1024x576.jpg\")
<\/p>\nPossibilities for Consideration: Mission Critical<\/h2>\n
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Add Your Insight: Reaching Out<\/h2>\n
\n<\/em>Being willing is not enough; we must do.<\/em>
\n<\/em>LEONARDO DA VINCI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"