Appreciative Inquiry David Cooperrider, and Suresh Srivastva , Ronald Fry Case Western Reserve University 's Weatherhead School of Management "AI Commons"--a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change. This site is a resource for you and many of us--leaders of change, scholars, students, and business managers--and it is proudly hosted by Case Western Reserve University 's Weatherhead School of Management. In the years since the original theory and vision for "Appreciative Inquiry Into Organizational Life" was articulated by two professors at the Weatherhead School of Management (see David Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva, 1987) there have been literally hundreds of people involved in co-creating new concepts and practices for doing AI, and for bringing the spirit and methodology of AI into organizations all over the world. Commenting on her assessment of AI's uniqueness, a senior executive at one company recently said: "I know what Ai is about...it is about creating a positive revolution in change". And in words that echo the same thing, University of Michigan Professor Robert Quinn , in his acclaimed book Change the World writes: " Appreciative Inquiry is currently revolutionizing the field of organizational development." Appreciative Inquiry Programs at Case Weatherhead School of Management: Come to Case Weatherhead School of Management and experience Appreciative Inquiry at its origins with founders Dr. David L. Cooperrider and Dr. Ronald Fry. The Weatherhead AI experience includes expert faculty, intimate learning environments and peer scholarship unlike any other in the world. www.appreciativeinquiry.case.edu/
	PMH Atwater EHE Research, EHEer [Had at least 3 near-death experiences; the most acknowledged NDE researcher from the perspective of one who's been there.] www.cinemind.com/atwater
	Mellen-Thomas Benedict EHEer [Has often been cited for one of the most profound (core) near-death experiences ever to be documented; he calls it his 'death experience'.  He was declared 'dead' for at least one and a half hours.] http://Mellen-Thomas.com
	The Co[llective]-Intelligence Institute [Tom Atlee]   P.O. Box 493, Eugene, OR  979440 The nonprofit Co-Intelligence Institute (CII) promotes awareness of co-intelligence and of the many existing tools and ideas that can be used to increase it. The CII embraces all such ideas and methods, and explores and catalyzes their integrated application to democratic renewal, community problems, organizational transformation, national and global crises and the creation of just, vibrant, sustainable cultures. We research, network, advocate, and help organize leading-edge experiments and conversations in order to weave what is possible into new, wiser forms of civilization. The goal of the CII is the conscious evolution of culture in harmony with nature and with the highest human potentials. www.co-intelligence.org  cii@igc.org
	The Collective Wisdom Initiative [CWI] Sponsored by the Fetzer Institute This website has been created to help make visible an emerging field of collective wisdom, its study and practice. It came into being in 2002 with support of the Fetzer Institute and has evolved to the form you see today by the support and contributions of hundreds of people and organizations who have, for decades, been actively engaged in this field. CONNECTIONS: Connect with others by visiting People, participating in Events, or by contributing to Seeded Conversations. Seeded Conversations are accessible in selected parts of the site and may be found wherever you see the  icon. You are also invited to add to what is available on this site by contributing a Self-Portrait or suggesting content. DECLARATION of INTENT: We believe there exists a field of collective consciousness — often seen and expressed through metaphor — that is real and influential, yet invisible. When we come into alignment with this field, there is a deeper understanding of our connection with others, with life, and with a source of collective wisdom. The work is on-going and dynamic. We are calling into awareness this field of collective consciousness and invite you to join us in building this discipline of collective wisdom, its study and practice.... [continued] ROOTS: The Collective Wisdom Initiative began with the publication of Centered on the Edge, an Inquiry into group wisdom. This inquiry developed into an exploration of ten arenas of collective wisdom, represented by the Doorways you see on the left. All of the content to be found through these doorways is contributed by people who are living, studying, or practicing in the field of collective wisdom.... www.collectivewisdominitiative.org
	Richard L. Daft and Dr. Robert H. Lengel This is in relation to an exciting book by these two individuals, entitled: Fusion Leadership  The book describes a new way of leading based on "fusion" -- bringing together the emotional, intellectual, and spiritual aspects of people to accomplish mutual goals based on shared visions and values. robert.lengel@utsa.edu http://owen.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt/data/faculty/96cv.pdf  Best Practice Institute:  www.bestpracticeinstitute.org  Also see:  www.fusionalliance.org ; www.NewworkWorld.com ; www.nwfusion.com
	Stevan Davies Gospel of Thomas [transl.] www.misericordia.edu/users/davies/thomas/thomas.htm
	Duane Elgin Collective Consciousness and Cultural Healing [October 1997] ; © Duane Elgin and the Fetzer Institute, October 1997 [This report presents the views of the author and does not necessarily represent those of the Fetzer Institute.  This report may be copied for nonprofit purposes, provided that credit is given. Please notify the author of articles or publications referring to this report.] www.awakeningearth.org duane@awakeningearth.org
	Evelyn Elsaesser-Valarino EHE Research [Near death experiences] www.elsaesser-valarino.com/
	Environmental Defense Fund Activist organization www.environmentaldefense.org
	Evolutionary Nexus Steve Cady and Peggy Holman Our Mission :  Evolutionary Nexus contributes to the emergence of conscious humanity by increasing the connectivity in the ecosystem of evolutionary initiatives.  This organization appears to be particularly focused on college students. Evolutionary Nexus contributes to the emergence of conscious humanity by increasing the connectivity in the ecosystem of evolutionary initiatives. Upcoming events of relevance to evolutionary agents - everyone who is working for the conscious evolution of social systems. Paving the Way into Collective Wisdom Evolutionary Life:  An e-magazine  inspired by sacred, meaningful understandings of the evolutionary story of the universe www.nexusforchange.org/
	Robert Foreman Service Organization www.theforge.org/forge/fundraising.asp
	Palyne / "PJ" Gaenier PJ was the long-time webmistress who did so much work to make ehe.org, Rhea A. White's website, what it is today.  Interestingly, she is the webmistress for a number of other consciousness studies scientists as well, among them, Charles T. Tart and Russell Targ.  PJ has a long hirstory of extraordinary EHEerly adventures, by the way, that are all over the map -- OBEs, conscious dreaming, experiencing other-dimensional realities within her everyday goings on.  I haven't checked in the last year or two, but she posted some of this amazing and ongoing multi-dimensional living at www.firedocs.com.  See if it's still there; guaranteed to knock your socks off!   Because of her deeply connected affiliations within the professional consciousness community and its high regard for her and her work, and of whom Rhea White was herself a great admirer, it's never occurred to me to question the genuineness of her roller-coaster double life.   www.sciencehorizon.com
	Jim Garrison Garrison Institute The world’s great wisdom traditions and cognitive neuroscience alike attest to the power of contemplative practices to shift perspectives and perceptions, obviate destructive patterns of thought and behavior and unleash creative energies, transforming the individuals who practice them. History attests to the power of such people to change the world. In 1998, brain researchers discovered the phenomenon of “neuroplasticity” whereby the brain actually changes physiologically in response to contemplative practice, literally transforming itself. As little as eight weeks of meditation can stimulate new cell growth in the brain. Case studies of nuns working and praying daily in the Sudan showed they had healthy brain function and no sign of trauma symptoms despite living through twenty years of devastation and war. There are similar findings for Tibetan monks held in Chinese prisons. These aspects of contemplation clearly have real-world impacts. Rather than being disengaged from the world, in the modern context contemplation is increasingly convergent with action in the world. This is no accident. The greatest social challenges of our time – healing traumas, redressing environmental threats, building a future for our children – are also our greatest spiritual challenges. Meeting them often requires reexamining our behavior, values and worldviews, and tapping inner sources of compassion, vision and motivation. These are skills contemplative practitioners cultivate. They are also mission-critical for professional caregivers, environmental advocates, educators and others whose work involves building a better future. The Garrison Institute is dedicated to bringing engaged action and contemplative practice systematically together. We develop rigorous, evidence-based ways to apply contemplative techniques to key social change fields. We offer a rich calendar of retreats and events featuring contemplative teachers and ideas which support both personal transformation and social change. And we provide a unique, non-sectarian institutional context, sometimes described as a “monastery of the 21st century” or a “think and action tank,” where leaders and practitioners in the realms of contemplation and social action connect and collaborate. Building a Constituency for Positive Change Spiritual leaders, policy makers, advocates and activists, scholars, funding partners and directors of organizations are actively engaged in our work. All told, some 10,000 people have participated our Program Initiatives, retreats and conferences since the Garrison Institute’s inception in 2003. Each of them is a prospective changemaker; each has received some training in the contemplative dimensions of personal and/or social change. In our theory of change, there is a non-linear, mutually reinforcing relationship between big, systemic changes in society and shifts in individual perspectives and behavior. Meaningful social change results from a complex interaction between evolving systems and evolving individuals. Contemplative practices stimulate both kinds of change, helping create the conditions for much-needed shifts in values and policies, effective networks for change, healthier communities and a better future. Where Contemplation and Action Meet Contemplation — the practice of reflecting deeply — opens fresh possibilities for new thinking and innovative action. If, as Einstein said, we cannot solve problems with the state of mind that created them, then contemplative practice can be an indispensable part of the solution to today’s real-world, human-created problems, from domestic violence to climate change. Richard Long, Karoo Crossing , South Africa , 2004. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan Gallery , New York . http://www.garrisoninstitute.org
	The Global Leadership Initiative Joseph Jaworski [also:  C. Otto Scharmer -- and see below] Joseph Jaworski is founder of the American Leadership Forum, a nongovernmental agency responsible for developing collaborative leadership; cofounder of the Global Leadership Initiative; and founding partner of Generon Consulting. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership and co-author of recently released Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. www.globalleadershipinitiative.org
	Judy and Bill Guggenheim EHE Research [After-death communications / ADCs] www.after-death.com
	Vijali Hamilton A mystic and amazing visionary artist who has created "a Theater of the Earth" to help through community-healing ritual and the consecration of communal sacred spaces and art.  She calls her projects World Wheel communities, her objective being to "call forth the mythos that is particular to each community" by asking three questions:  Who are the people who live here?  What is it that ails you?  What will heal you?  These places comprise what she refers to as Earth Mandala.  Vijali has said that beyond the immediate bringing together of community in this powerful, wholeness-making way, "people long to be connected to others around the Earth."  The rituals, community healing and art also have inspired a strong sense of planetary connection, a sacred kinship within the global family. www.rocvision.com/vijali.htm
	John Heron EHE Research [Created a person-centered social-science approach to spirituality anyone can use] www.johnheron.info
	Claudia Horwitz ; Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey The Stone House, 6602 Nicks Rd., Mebane, NC  [919/304-5000] Claudia Horwitz wrote the definitive book, Spiritual Activism, 2002. The Stone House and "stone circles" share a common thread of meaning sourced in helping people -- specifically activists -- integrate spiritual and reflective practices into their social justice work.  Horwitz started the organization because she knows firsthand how exhausting social justice work can be.   She wrote a book, published in 2002, titled The Spiritual Activist. Jesse Maceo Vega-Frey is one of the founders and leaders of the Stone House.   www.stonecircles.org
	Tom Hurley ; Amy Lenzo June 19, 2007 Oneness The Global Oneness Project engages with some of the big questions facing humanity through wonderful video interviews, including this one with our own Tom Hurley speaking about healing, perceived dualities of western culture, and the soul's knowing. I think this is a fantastic use of technology for global storytelling... after all it is through our stories that we become real to each other, and begin to develop the understanding that leads to love and compassion. With the advent of places to share them like YouTube and projects like this, video becomes a new form of conversation that can flash like wildfire through the hearts and minds of internet-connected humanity.
	Images and Voices of Hope re:  Appreciative Inquiry project Images and Voices of Hope is an international conversation about the impact of images and stories on people, families, communities, cultures and the world. focusing on problems, and asking questions about what's wrong, tends to reveal more problems. What is hard in a problem-focused approach is to raise one's energy above the negativity and frustration of dealing endlessly with problems, to a higher, positive, more inspiring level. So, is there an alternative way forward? Indeed, since the early nineties, an unconventional approach has been gaining ground globally, and in Nepal in an expanding network of NGOs, community groups, and government agencies. Popularly known as "Appreciative Inquiry" (AI), it has been found a powerful tool in transforming communities, programs, and especially large organizations. Using the appreciative and analytical AI method, people systematically discover "best practice" success stories-what happened, how, and why. From that higher-level reality, participants develop shared visions, or dreams, for the future, and design and implement strategies for reaching those visions based on replicating the lessons of success. In the words of AI's founder, Professor David Cooperrider, AI liberates the "positive, life-giving core" in human society and, in so doing, unloks people's transformational energy and capacity to shape and co-construct new realities. IMAGINE Nepal is an initiative of Nepalese AI practitioners inspired by other "IMAGINE" movements in the world. www.ivofhope.org
	Integrative Spirituality  P.O. Box 1508  Sausalito, CA. 94966  Via Phone: 1-415-332-2301   Preamble Integrative Spirituality was formed because it was believed that a new type of spirituality created in the post-postmodern age with post-postmodern technologies and information could do many of the following spiritual activities and services in new and better ways and, that this reasonably could far better benefit both the individual and the world. It was also believed that older forms of religion created with pre-modern, traditional and even modern thinking or technologies were inherently flawed for use at this critical post-postmodern time in history and, they inadvertently help to cause many global religious problems such as religious intolerance, which could easily be solved if a whole new type of post-postmodern integrative spirituality would come into being. The post-postmodern spiritual purposes of our organization are:  To collect and make available the totality of humankind’s spiritual wisdom in a free, multi-language online Global Spiritual Commons to individuals to: Expand their transformative, direct spiritual experience of the Ever Present Origin of All Reality, which as a result  Maximizes their spiritual growth, which causes them to Make better decisions and act more effectively to resolve personal and societal challenges. Realize the three purposes above through a collaboration to co-create a post-postmodern new type of nondenominational, spiritual organization and self organizing network that is evolutionary, global and open to all life affirming sources of spiritual wisdom, teaching and leadership.  Be a spiritual organization facilitating: the integration of life-affirming male and female spirituality the integration of the values and wisdom of spirituality with the rationality and fact of science the integration of the life affirming spiritual wisdom from earlier eras (pre-modern, traditional, modern and post modern with the spiritual wisdom of the post-postmodern integral era of the present.  The presentation of our spiritual wisdom collections in such a way that individuals from any psychological development level, personality type or culture can find this wisdom in ways they can learn easily.  www.IntegrativeSpirituality.org
	International Assoc. of Near Death Studies EHE organization www.iands.org
	Institute of Noetic Sciences / IONS Edgar D. Mitchell, John White Current President:  James O'Dea www.ions.org www.ishift.org
	Kids with Cameras Service organization http://kids-with-cameras.org/home
	David Korten THE PATH TO LIVING ECONOMIES PROGRAM ; The People-Centered Development Forum Seeking a just, inclusive, and sustainable world that works for all: and in close partnership with the Positive Futures Network, publishers of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures  includes Hazel Henderson! www.pcdf.org
	Jeffrey Long EHE Research [Especially known for NDE website] www.nderf.org
	Jodi and Jeffrey Long EHE Research [Especially known for after-death communications website] www.adcrf.org
	Joanna R. Macy   The Great Turning is a name for the essential adventure of our time: the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining civilization. The ecological and social crises we face are inflamed by an economic system dependent on accelerating growth. This self-destructing political economy sets its goals and measures its performance in terms of ever-increasing corporate profits--in other words by how fast materials can be extracted from Earth and turned into consumer products, weapons, and waste. A revolution is underway because people are realizing that our needs can be met without destroying our world. We have the technical knowledge, the communication tools, and material resources to grow enough food, ensure clean air and water, and meet rational energy needs. Future generations, if there is a livable world for them, will look back at the epochal transition we are making to a life-sustaining society. And they may well call this the time of the Great Turning. It is happening now. Whether or not it is recognized by corporate-controlled media, the Great Turning is a reality. Although we cannot know yet if it will take hold in time for humans and other complex life forms to survive, we can know that it is under way. And it is gaining momentum, through the actions of countless individuals and groups around the world. To see this as the larger context of our lives clears our vision and summons our courage. The Goals of the Work The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers in the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization. In order to do this, we pursue these contributing goals: to provide people the opportunity to experience and share with others their innermost responses to the present condition of our world to reframe their pain for the world as evidence of their interconnectedness in the web of life, and hence of their power to take part in its healing to provide people with concepts--from systems science, deep ecology, or spiritual traditions--which illumine this power, along with exercises which reveal its play in their own lives to provide methods by which people can experience their interdependence with, their responsibility to, and the inspiration they can draw from past and future generations, and other life-forms to enable people to embrace the Great Turning as a challenge which they are fully capable of meeting in a variety of ways, and as a privilege in which they can take joy to bring people into mutual support and collaboration in working for the world See also: Syllabus for Foundations of the Great Turning course by Dr. Randy Morris at Antioch University, Seattle.  Personal Guidelines for the Great Turning Each of us can develop our own list of attitudes and actions that help us take part in this revolution. Here are five that have helped me:      ^ The Shambhala Prophecy -- To take part in the Great Turning is the spiritual adventure of our time. I often share a story, a prophecy really, that helps us to see that, and to discover our moral power.      ^ Study Groups on Economic Globalization      ^ Corporate Globalization Learning Ritual: Guidelines; Chronology      ^ Wheel of the Great Turning      ^ A five-session course on the Great Turning "The Great Turning Times" For a gold mine of information about the Work That Reconnects in the UK and beyond, subscribe to Chris Johnstone's quarterly email newsletter, "The Great Turning Times." Write to him at chris@chrisjohnstone.info, with SUBSCRIBE in the subject line or visit his website, www.greatturningtimes.org.  www.joannamacy.net/html/great.html
	Craig & Patricia Neal Heartland Heartland is a member-based network, serving you and the unfolding of our collective story by offering resources, education, and access to the VisionHolders who are called to be our social and organizational pioneers in these times.  Heartland offers dynamic online community services, publishing and commerce, in support of its global member base and a growing legion of daring new culturalists. In addition, we offer authentic conversation, support and leadership development, challenge and inspiration; face-to-face at our retreats and the Thought Leader Gatherings, and voice-to-voice through The Art of Convening TeleTraining series.  Together, in essential conversation, we are giving birth to a new story of transformation in our lives and organizations. We are the activists and visionaries working for a better world; together we are charting the course of our emerging future.  Come, take your place at the fire, Rachael. Philosophically, core beliefs inform our work and are foundational to the values we hold and the principles by which we operate. "The key to our future lies in the choices we make, moment-by-moment, hour-by-hour, day-by-day. The key to our future lies in our willingness to learn together by participating in courageous conversations, about ourselves, our work, our world. The key to our future lies in our ability to evoke and rediscover the power of community, in our families, our work, and our world. The key to our future lies in our commitment to discover and act on our true purpose, to share the gifts we came to give." - Kate O'Keefe, Heartland Member We believe: * A leader is anyone whose intention is to step forward to serve in these times; * Leadership development is rooted in personal and human development; * Organizational transformation is rooted in individual transformation; * Reflection is a core leadership competency, and one which is often minimized or overlooked; * Effective leaders combine their head and heart when making business decisions; * Humans learn best in a social context, within a community of others, and through storytelling and conversation; * Leaders are hungering for a time out for deep, genuine, transformative conversation; * Leadership is a shared activity; * Essential conversation will change us and the world. "The key to our future lies in the choices we make, moment-by-moment, hour-by-hour, day-by-day. The key to our future lies in our willingness to learn together by participating in courageous conversations, about ourselves, our work, our world. The key to our future lies in our ability to evoke and rediscover the power of community, in our families, our work, and our world. The key to our future lies in our commitment to discover and act on our true purpose, to share the gifts we came to give." www.heartlandcircle.com
	NextBillion.net Founding Sponsors Word Resources Institute ; Acumen Fund NOTE:  You will be seeing much more about this organization within this web project, because my hope is that this is where this work finally finds the support it needs to become all it can be.  [Prayers and visualization to this effect, most appreciated!]   Development through Enterprise Bringing together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers, and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. Why is this web site called Next Billion? We chose Next Billion for its dual meaning: on the one hand, the phrase represents the next billion people to rise into the middle class from the base of the economic pyramid (BoP); on the other, it indicates the next billion(s) in profits for businesses that fill market gaps by integrating the BoP into formal economies. Our Mission NextBillion.net is a website and blog bringing together the community of business leaders, social entrepreneurs, NGOs, policy makers and academics who want to explore the connection between development and enterprise. It is a discussion forum, networking space and knowledge base for individuals and organizations interested in the "next billion". Our goal is to highlight the development and implementation of business strategies that open opportunities and improve the lives of the world's approximately 4 billion low-income producers and consumers. Our History NextBillion.net launched in May 2005 as an initiative of the World Resources Institute's Markets and Enterprise Program. The site has evolved to become a blog, newsroom, research tool and career center - all dedicated solely to exploring the "next billion" and the base of the pyramid ideas. In April 2008, the World Resources Institute entered a partnership with Acumen Fund to co-own and co-manage NextBillion.net. Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Under the terms of the partnership, each organization staffs NextBillion.net with a co-managing editor and shares the costs of developing, hosting and maintaining the site. At WRI, the staff of NextBillion.net are also part of the Institute's New Ventures project. www.nextbillion.net
	Open Space ; Open Space Technology Harrison Owen Potomac, MD Welcome to Open Space!  Open Space Technology [OST] is a simple way to run productive meetings, for five to 2000+ people, and a powerful way to lead any kind of organization, in everyday practice and ongoing change. Please join us... Harrison Owen wrote it all down and shared it in a book, called Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide. This is the opening of that book and the beginning of the Open Space World Story the creation of OST has been a collaborative project involving perhaps 1000 people on four continents over a period of eight years (as of 1993, that is!). Some were participants, some practitioners, and all were contributors. In addition, many of the basic ideas come from a small West African village, the Native American Tradition, and the Wisdom of the East. To this should also be added the work on group dynamics done in many places, and the special contributions of many friends and colleagues. The list could go on and on, but the reality is, Open Space Technology is a World Product. There is also the practical matter that a number of people, in a number of places, are already using Open Space Technology without my say-so or sanction — a situation in which I profoundly rejoice. Open Space Technology is a process originally designed by Harrison Owen which allows organizations, groups and communities to operate with high levels of dialogue, passion and commitment. It allows leadership and structure to emerge, stimulates meaningful planning and initiates inspired performance. In short, it strips away all that is non-essential and invites people to operate in Open Space. Within these pages you will find an extensive resource dedicated to Open Space and Open Space Technology. Whether you are a sponsor or a practitioner, these resources have been designed to be used by you. www.openspaceworld.org
	The Parapsychology Foundation Originally founded by none other than Eileen Garrett, one of the most gifted psychics of the 20th century.  This very colorful woman was a great respecter of modern science and had confident hopes scientists would be able to explain sooner or later the nature of her extraordinary gifts.  She was always generous about making herself available to any scientific interest who wished to study her abilities.  She had an international presence that garnered tremendous admiration for her talents and her faith in science.  Less known about her is that she was tremendously service-oriented, doing so much for others during both WWI and WWII. http://parapsychology.org
	Nicanor Perlas [This information comes off the CADI website:]   cadi@info.com.ph <cadi@info.com.ph> Center for Alt. Dev. Initiatives Promoting sustainable Development through Threefolding Including Threefolding Partnerships   Nicanor Perlas is ...  President of the Center for Alternative Development Initiatives (CADI) in Manila where he guides research and policy work and develops initiatives on globalization, threefolding and their impacts on civil society, cultural power and sustainable development.  Co-Founder and Spokesperson, Karangalan, 1st National Conference and Festival on “Mobilizing Excellence for Creating a Visionary Philippines”, January 21-23, 2005 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines, in partnership with over 40 organizations and networks. Details, see TruthForce! below.  Chief Facilitator, ABS-CBN Forum on the Filipino Future, December 16, 2004  Adviser on Strategy and Integral Sustainable Development and Member, Board of Directors, Lifebank, and Board of Trustees of Lifebank Foundation, both of which help close to 35,000 economically poor families thru microfinance. Professor, Doctoral Program on Applied Cosmic Anthropology, Asian Social Institute  Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, TruthForce! Internet based newspaper cum magazine, www.truthforce.info and Editor-In-Chief, Ikabuhi Newspaper for Micro-Entrepreneurs (34,000 + circulation)  Co-Founder, Tindog Pilipinas! (also Spokesperson), national movement for a better Philippines, Professionals for Social Responsibility, Philippine Advancement and Renewal thru Threefolding Networking, Research & Service (PARTNERS), and Global Network for Social Threefolding, found in 12 country areas in the world. www.globenet3.org  Co-Founder, President and Executive Director, Center for Alternative Development Initiatives, Metro Manila and Iloilo City, www.cadi.ph  Co-Founder and Board Member, Global Leadership Initiative, www.theglobalinstitute.org and member, Mikhail Gorbachev’s Commission on Globalization  Creative Member, Club of Budapest, Recognized as “highly creative innovators for a social and ecological sustainable world and a culture of peace”.  Author, over 100 articles and monographs including an international best selling book, Shaping Globalization: Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding, translated in over 9 languages. (Other topics, see below.)  Resource Person and Keynote Speaker, Over 70 global conferences and 100 national conferences on a range of topics including culture and societal transformation, integral sustainable development, globalization, technology, corporate social responsibility, science and spirituality, social threefolding, strategic microfinance, direct democracy and others  Consultant and Adviser, UN agencies, Philippine official delegations to the United Nations, government and donor agencies, and civil society organizations.  cadi@info.com.ph <cadi@info.com.ph> Center for Alt. Dev. Initiatives Promoting Sustainable Development through [Social] Threefolding Including Threefolding Partnerships [Social Threefolding includes society, along with business and government as essential to all decision-making and dialogue important to this relational triangle of interests.  [See glossary:  "social threefolding" -- for more information.]   www.cadi.ph/nicanor_perlas.htm
	Presence reader resources Book:  Presence:  Human Purpose and the Field of the Future by:  Peter M. Senge,  C. Otto Scharmer, Betty Sue Flowers and Joseph Jaworski.  www.presence.net
	R.E.A.L. Visions of Peace Hazel Landers "REAL" is an acronym for ... [I'll get back to you on that!] A potteress in Greensboro, NC, who started an organization that creates traveling showings of phenomenal artists' works that in some way convey the intentions of PEACE.  And that is not an acronym, but a very REAL idea, ideal, and longing for most of us! www.REALvisionsofpeace.org
	Robert Putnam The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Conversational recipes systems thinking open spaces technology Conversational recipes to help clarify and bring forth our mental models leading to productive conversations The core task of this discipline is bringing mental models to the surface, to explore and talk about them with minimal defensiveness - to help us see the pane of glass, see its impact on our lives, and find ways to re-form the glass by creating new mental models that serve us better in the world. (pg 237) According to some cognitive theorists, changes in short-term everyday mental models, accumulating over time, will gradually be reflected in changes in long-term deep-seated beliefs. www.lopn.net/Questions_for_MM.html
	Marty Rosenblatt:  Psychic Investing         www.p-i-a.com
	C. Otto Scharmer Massachusetts Institute of Technology … Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a founding co-director of ELIAS, a joint leadership development initiative the UN Global Compact, and SoL [Dr. Scharmer] uses the U process of presencing to help next-generation executives co-create profound systems innovations for a more sustainable world. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Center for Innovation and Knowledge Research, Helsinki School of Economics. An international action researcher, he is a co-founder of SoL and has consulted with multinational firms, international institutions, and NGOs in the United States , Europe, and Asia . With his colleagues, Otto has used presencing to facilitate profound innovation and change processes both within companies and across societal systems. From http://www.wie.org/unbound/media.asp?id=137 Andrew Cohen & Otto Scharmer Radical Spiritual Evolution What makes it possible for groups of ordinary people to enter into—and even stabilize in—higher states of consciousness? What are the nuts and bolts of this extraordinary process and why is it so significant for the future of our species? In this in-depth WIE interview, collective intelligence pioneer, economist, and MIT senior lecturer C. Otto Scharmer asks spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen about the evolution of higher consciousness and the necessity for creating an enlightened revolution in human culture. Cohen describes his goal of taking “the Many” and creating “the One”, an ultimately challenging maneuver he believes holds the key to the next step in our evolution. Such a radical collective attainment occurs only when people are attuned to what Cohen calls the Authentic Self, the liberated expression of ones humanity free from the influence of ego. It is a profound leap that rests upon a shared desire to urgently create a new philosophical, moral and spiritual context for oneself and for the world. This is a rare and remarkable discussion about the future of humanity between two bold innovators in the field of collective intelligence, human development, and spiritual evolution.   www.ottoscharmer.com scharmer@MIT.EDU  www.globalleadershipinitiative.org
	Tony Schwartz Can spirituality drive success?  Should it? Möbius Leadership Forum w/ Harvard Business School
	ScoreCard.org Activist organization www.scorecard.org
	Peter Senge [also see Jaworski and Scharmer, above] SoL:  society for organizational learning, inc; an outgrowth of former MIT center f organizational learning is a nonprofit international membership org'zn that connects researchers, organizations, consultants in over 30 countries in building knowledge for systemic change. Book:  The Fifth Discipline, "A Shift of Mind, Seeing the World Anew", pg 68 -- Peter Senge Systems thinking is a conceptual framework to discipline us in seeing and understanding patterns – looking beyond events, to deeper “structures” that control events, and discovering the leverage that lies hidden in these structures. By seeing these wholes (structures) we learn to foster health.  To do so, systems thinking offers a language that begins by restructuring how we think.  It is a set of general principles distilled over the course of the twentieth century spanning diverse fields such as physical and social sciences, engineering and management.  It is also a set of specific tools and techniques, originating in two threads: in “feedback: concepts of cybernetics and in “servo-mechanism” (grounded in Systems Dynamics that has been developed over the past fifty years); an engineering theory, dating back to the nineteenth century.  It is a sensibility for the subtle interconnectedness that gives living systems their unique character.  It is the antidote to this sense of helplessness that many feel as we enter the “age of interdependence”. … But there are two types of complexity [the 1st is detail complexity].  The second type is dynamic complexity, situations where cause and effect are subtle and where the effects over time of interventions are not obvious. www.solonline.org   www.globalleadershipinitiative.org www.presence.org
	The Society of Organizational Learning, Inc. / SoL  SoL is a nonprofit global membership organization whose purpose is to discover, integrate, and implement theories and practices for the interdependent development of people and their institutions.  a portion of the net proceeds from SoL publishing sales are reinvested in basic research, leading-edge applied learning projects, and building a global network of learning communities.  For information on SoL's organizing principles, membership, professional development opportunities, events, and other publications, including the e-journel Reflections. www.solonline.org
	David Spangler EHEer [Mystic; Incarnational Spirituality] www.lorian.bigmindcatalyst.com/     or/and     www.lorian.org
	James Stewart and Marilyn Kraker Service [Online Book Archivists, e.g., Rudolf Steiner] www.elib.org/ and  www.rsarchive.org
	Tapscott, Don, and Anthony D. Williams Wikinomics:  How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything.
	Russell Targ EHE Research [Remote Viewing:  one of the 'Original Three' to study it] http://www.espresearch.com
	Charles T. Tart EHE Research [Dr. Tart is the 'original originator' of the field of Consciousness Studies.  He coined the term "altered state/s of consciousness."] Be sure not to miss Dr. Tart's T.A.S.T.E., re:  scientists' exceptional human experiences! www.paradigm-sys.com/cttart/index.cfm
	TrueMajority.org Activist organization www.truemajority.org
	Jaques F. Vallee EHE Research [One of the original Ufologists; also one of the original creators of the Internet] www.jacquesvallee.net
	Margaret Wheatley  [Leadership and Spirituality] The Berkana Institute Boston , Massachusetts 1280 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 203 Cambridge , MA 02138 The highest level in this scalable model will be comprised of people who grew beyond ‘belonging to one lineage'. They do carry a lot of experience and wisdom as carriers of these lineages, but Steve Cady -- they know it is all pieces of the big puzzle.  Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale Submitted by Ria Baeck on November 3, 2006 - 20:44. Margaret Wheatley   Collective Intelligence | Conscious Social Systems.        Body:   "Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale" That's the title of a seminal paper by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, in which they outline a path from networks to communities of practice to systems of influence. ABOUT BERKANA: About Berkana The Berkana Institute connects and supports pioneering, life-affirming leaders around the world who strengthen their communities by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in its people, traditions and environment. We define a leader as anyone who wants to help, who is willing to step forward to create change in their world. And we know that the leaders we need are already here. The Berkana Institute serves people globally who are giving birth to the new forms, processes and leadership that will restore hope to the future. Since 1992, Berkana has gradually expanded its work to reach pioneering leaders and communities in all types of organizations and in dozens of nations. The need for new leaders is urgent. We need people who can work together to resolve the pressing issues of health, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, justice, environment, democracy. We need leaders who know how to nourish and rely on the innate creativity, freedom, generosity, and caring of people. We need leaders who are life-affirming rather than life-destroying. Unless we quickly figure out how to nurture and support this new leadership, we can’t hope for peaceful change. We will, instead, be confronted by increasing anarchy and social and ecological meltdowns. At Berkana, we know that the leaders we need are emerging everywhere, among thousands of people who are stepping forward to create a future of possibility and hope. We do everything we can to support their pioneering efforts. We are a 501c3 public foundation co-founded by Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science, A Simpler Way , Turning to One Another, and Finding Our Way. Meg now serves on the board as President Emerita. Each of our initiatives is based on a coherent, in-depth theory of how life organizes in cooperative, generous, and interdependent systems—work we've developed with hundreds of colleagues over many years of dialogue, think tanks and practical applications in all types of settings. (Please see Resources for articles describing our theory and approaches.) Berkana Exchange The Berkana Exchange connects pioneering leaders throughout the globe around their shared commitment to making a difference in and beyond their communities. These leaders are developing the capacity to solve their most pressing problems—such as community health, ecological sustainability and economic self-reliance—by acting locally, connecting regionally and learning globally. We work with leadership learning centers, places where people gather to develop their capacity as leaders in their organizations and communities. We believe substantive change happens locally through the collective actions of ordinary people. And we believe transformation happens globally when local efforts are connected and people learn together. www.margaretwheatley.com www.berkana.org  info@berkana.org
	Rhea A. White EHE Research [Founder of the Exceptional Human Experience Network], EHEer.   NOTE:  Because Rhea recently passed [2/07], the continuance of her website is uncertain.  She made plans for the Parapsychology Foundation to retain her physical works.  As of 12/07 it appears the original site is back up under the PF's good graces.  As I learn more about their intentions for ehe.org, I will post that here. www.ehe.org
	Kevin Williams EHE Research, EHEer [Has one of best-known websites about NDEs] www.near-death.com
	Mohammad Yunus Here is a bit of information about this extraordinary person and his work from his website:             Muhammad Yunus (born June 28, 1940) is a Bangladeshi banker and economist. A former professor of economics, he is famous for his successful application of the concept of microcredit, the extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. Yunus is also the founder of Grameen Bank.  [and also]             Many of the problems in the world remain unresolved because we continue to interpret capitalism too narrowly. In this narrow interpretation we create a one-dimensional human being to play the role of entrepreneur. We insulate him from other dimensions of life, such as, religious, emotional, political dimensions.    Social Business Entrepreneurs Are the Solution. [He builds for us a bridge over the abyss of our otherwise dismal global business as usual scenario and its certain plunge into world agony, on the basis of taking fully into account and active collaboration the "other 95% of us" as ideological and business partners and equal co-participants.]  www.grameen.com