INTRODUCTORY EVENING
PRESENTATION
Global Transformation Leaders
You Were Born For Such a
Time As This!
Collective Wisdom of Transformation
with
James O'Dea,
David Spangler, Phil Lane Jr.
Gloria Burgess, Norma Timbang
April 03, 2009
7-10:00 PM
Seattle Unity Sanctuary
200 8th Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98109
Fee: $15
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Learn
the art of conscious change with a culturally diverse panel of
Northwest and Global Transformation Leaders who join with former
IONS President James O'Dea to speak on how You Were Born for Such a
Time as This! Presenters dialogue
with you on how to navigate and negotiate these times of complex
change and possibility while addressing transformation. James O'Dea, David Spangler, Phil Lane
Jr., Gloria Burgess, and Norma Timbang, and Sarah Van Gelder. See bios below.
The world is at a tipping point. The
old is dying and the new has not quite been born. Evolutionary tension between crisis and emerging opportunity
grips humanity as it seeks new answers to complex problems of sustainability.
Welcoming a new national administration beckons hope and invites
unprecedented creativity and cooperation. While this shift is full
of possibility, the overload of information and overwhelm of fear
can stop us. We need
practical skills for the way forward.
These 5 teachers of our time stand
on common ground to explore this historic moment and its meaning
for you and others. The collective message of this culturally
experienced panel of presenters is about transformation, one of
discovering and embodying your power amid collective emergence.
Learn to transform conditioned fear into creativity, panic into
possibility, struggle into success. Find out how to gain capacity
to stand amidst a changing society in this time of great
potential. You can consciously balance these pivotal times,
thrive, and contribute.
You Were Born for Such a Time as This!
Collective Wisdom of Transformation
Friday, April 3 at Seattle Unity, 7-10 PM
Panelists represent diverse and
empowering perspectives on how to navigate these times of
transition. They invite you to a conversation on how to grow the
garden of the future as a harvest of consciousness, reap wisdom
from the ancestors, pull out indigenous roots to revive old ways,
sow into cross cultural bridges, and turn over age old wounds.
Each has their own critical message and experience to share. Books
will be available at the event.
James O'Dea continues the
conversation the next day in a workshop,
You Were Born For Such A Time As This!
Navigating Personal Transition & High Evolutionary Stress
April 4, 2009, (9 AM -9 PM), Seattle Unity Fellowship Hall
follow link for info/registration
- James O'Dea's 4/04 workshop
James sets the field for an intensive personal and collective
exploration with an in depth 12 hour community workshop. He will
facilitate a synergetic sharing and collective wisdom of leaders,
healing professionals, and educators, as well as general public.
James will experientially teach skills for social healing and
complex systems change.
You Were Born For Such a Time as This!
Collective Wisdom of Transformation
Introductory Presentation
April 3, 7-10 PM
Details and
Register
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Link to 4/04/09 workshop with James
O'Dea
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ABOUT THE
PANELISTS
JAMES O'DEA
James O'Dea is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
(IONS) and was until
recently its President (4/2003-9/2008). IONS is a non-profit
membership organization founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell which
explores the frontiers of consciousness and global paradigm change. Prior,
he spent ten years as the Director of the Washington Office of Amnesty
International and five years as Executive Director of the Seva
Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to international health &
development issues in Latin America, Asia, and on American Indian
reservations.
James founded and co-led an international series of "Compassion and Social
Healing" dialogues funded by The Fetzer Institute. The dialogues, spanning
a five year period, brought together leaders and activists in a variety of
fields related to human rights, peace, and social reconciliation
initiatives.
James is a member of the World Wisdom Council. This council is a
coalescing of international leaders in diverse fields banding together to
formulate a structure and support system that furthers the realization
that we are one family of humankind. He works with emerging young leaders
and the development of their initiatives, is engaged in intergenerational
dialogue, and is a member of the Advisory Board of Children of the Earth.
He lectures all over the world, and has essays published in numerous
magazines and books including currently the Mystery of 2012 (Sounds True)
Consciousness and Healing: An Integral Approach to Mind Body Medicine
(Elsevier) and Earthrise: The Dawning of a New Civilization in the 21st
Century ( Goi). He is currently writing a chapter for a book on Creative
Atonement. www.jamesodea.com
GLORIA BURGESS PHD
Dr.
Burgess’s life’s work focuses on legacy living and legacy
leadership—engaging our hearts and souls to create positive, generative
futures for ourselves, our families, our communities, our organizations,
and our environment. In her work and by her presence, Gloria embodies the
universal wisdom that the world was not given to us by our parents, it was
lent to us by our children. Founder and Executive Director of The Lift
Every Voice Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to developing leaders among
marginalized youth, Gloria is also Founder and Principal of Jazz, Inc.,
her leadership and organizational renewal firm. During the past 30 years,
she has worked with Fortune 500 corporations and diverse non-profits to
co-create healthy, life-affirming organizations. Gloria is Lead Faculty at
Saybrook’s Leadership Institute and is also an Affiliate Professor at the
University of Washington. She teaches and consults on legacy leadership
and living for diverse organizations and communities throughout the North
America, Africa, Australia, and Europe. Her latest book, Dare to Wear Your
Soul on the Outside, shows us how to live for such a time as this. (Jossey-Bass/Wiley,
2008)
www.gloriaburgess.com.
DAVID SPANGLER
Since 1964
David Spangler has been an author
and teacher of spirituality. From 1970 to 1973 he was a co-director of
the Findhorn Foundation Community in northern Scotland and the founder of
its educational program. He was also a co-founder in 1974 of the Lorian
Association, a non-profit spiritual educational foundation, which remains
to this day the organization for which he works. He is a Fellow of the
Lindisfarne Association. David has developed and taught classes at a
number of institutions, including the University of Wisconsin, Seattle
University, Bastyr University, and the California Institute of Integral
Studies. His current work involves developing and teaching a spiritual
practice called incarnational spirituality. Information about his work and
the online courses which he teaches can be found at
www.Lorian.org.
His books include Emergence;
The Call; Everyday Miracles; Parent as Mystic, Mystic as Parent;
Blessing: The Art and the Practice; The Story Tree; and
Manifestation: Creating the Life You Love.
David is happily married with
four children ranging in age from twenty-five to thirteen. He considers
being a parent his primary spiritual practice.
NORMA TIMBANG
Norma
Timbang
facilitates groups to raise consciousness about the impact of external
power on self specific to intersections of social identities, historical
(intergenerational) trauma, and individual trauma. Norma has worked with
small grassroots organizations here in the U.S. and gender specific
organizations in Japan to develop specific community centered
interventions and healing processes in response to divisiveness and
violence, towards safe and healthy support networks, and for the
advancement of peace and equity.
She
has extensive experience providing community program development and
evaluation, cross-cultural services development, and participatory
research methods for grassroots social change organizations and
community-based human service providers. She is also one of the founding
mothers and former executive director of Asian & Pacific Islander Women &
Family Safety Center (Seattle) and former executive director of Asian
Pacific AIDS Council (Seattle). She has served on the National Asian
Pacific American Women's Forum (board member); "Transforming Silence Into
Action"; Asian Pacific Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Network's 2006
national gathering; and the National Queer Asian & Pacific Islander
Alliance. She has provided consultation and briefings on committees and
panels contributing to publications and policy on human trafficking and
violence against women, such as the Congressional Caucus on Women's Issues
in Washington D.C., the Ford Foundation's publication on Asian Women's
Issues and Concerns, Violence Against Women Online Resources, and the
Washington State Task Force on Human Trafficking.
PHIL LANE JR, MED, MPA
Phil
is a co-founder and international coordinator of the Four Worlds family of
organizations. He is a Native American (Dakota-Chickasaw) who is both a
traditional pipe carrier and sweat lodge keeper and an internationally
acclaimed leader in human and community development.
He has worked with Indigenous peoples (and many others) in North and South
America, Micronesia, Southeast Asia and Hawaii. He is an award-winning
film producer. In 1992, Phil received the prestigious Windstar Award,
presented annually to an individual whose personal and professional life
exemplifies commitment to a global perspective, operates with an awareness
of the spiritual dimensions of human existence, and demonstrates concrete
actions and benefits to human beings and the earth. In 2000, Phil was
awarded the Swiss Foundation for Human Rights annual Human Rights Award in
recognition for his outstanding work on behalf of Indigenous people’s
rights. Phil is President of Four Directions International and serves as
chairman of Four Directions Information Systems Corporation, an Aboriginal
information technology initiative. He also serves as a board member of the
WETV Development Corporation.
Phil holds Masters degrees in both public administration and education. He
served on the faculty of The University of Lethbridge for fifteen years
and led the genesis of Four Worlds as a research project during those
years. www.fourworlds.ca
SARAH RUTH VAN GELDER
Sarah
Ruth van Gelder is co-founder and executive editor of YES! Magazine.
Since its launch in 1996, Sarah has directed the editorial content of the
magazine, and written, and spoken on leading-edge innovations that show
that a more just and sustainable world is not only possible, it is already
in the works. She also blogs about current headline news from a "YES! we
can" perspective, both on the YES! website and on Huffington Post.
Topics she has developed in print and on line include climate change, the
local economy movement, nonviolence and active peacemaking, food, water,
universal health care, corporate power, happiness, nuclear disarmament,
and much more. In each case, she frames issues of YES! around solutions to
our deepest problems and the leadership for a better world that can be
found in diverse communities.
As part of her community involvement, Sarah founded Suquamish Olalla
Neighbors, an organization that works in partnership with the Suquamish
Tribe on enhancing the quality of life for all area residents (and battles
anti-tribal activism). She is on the board of directors of the Suquamish
Foundation, a tribally chartered foundation, and on the board of YES!
Magazine.
Sarah has traveled widely in Latin America, India, China, Europe, and
Central America. She was a founding member of Winslow Cohousing, the first
member-developed co-housing community in the U.S., and previously was a
television and radio producer, a community organizer, and founder of a
cooperative of food co-ops that linked organic farmers to urban markets.
She has daughter, age 23, and a son, age 19. |