Challenging the Separation Hypothesis
Time Defeated by Love, Beauty, and Hope by Simon Vouet 1627 Program Outline 1. Introductory Practice — Shikantaza — setting a foundation 2. Stopping Time (in 3 steps): 3. Enjoying the Miracle — Just Click! — a practice to connect Quiet (Unfettered) Mind, Beauty, and Love to your very next moment and enjoy the miracle. 4. […]
Kokoro for Foundations and High Impact Investors
A Strategy for Systematically Increasing Measurable SROI Outcomes Two central challenges facing foundations and high impact investors are to ensure accountability and to deliver superior outcomes. Kokoro offers a novel solution to both challenges by generating overlapping and synergistic virtuous circles. Here are five simple overlapping steps. Step # 1: Increase Grantor Productivity Gains around […]
Collective Blindness, Risk, Resilience, Emergence
We live in an age of cascading risks which portend societies’ collapse. In this Evolutionary Conversation we will discuss some root causes of our inability or unwillingness to discern and deal with risk, even when it is palpable, and we will explore opportunities for community and national transcendence and transformation. We will use our indifference […]
May 20 National Call to Action on Fire Safety — Infographic
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May 20 Evolutionary Conversation — Wildfire Risks in an Age of Climate Turbulence and Cell Tower Densification
Join Julian Gresser and a Panel of Experts for an Evolutionary Conversation on May 20, 2024 —How Empowered Local Communities Can Effectively Address Urgent Wildfire Safety Risksin an Age of Climate Turbulence and Cell Tower Proliferation,Save Millions of Lives and Protect the EnvironmentMonday May 20, 2024, 12:00-2:00 pm PacificIf you have not previously registered for the […]
Ethics and 21st Century Technologies: with Doug Wood and Julian Gresser
Resilient Communities Course—Audio #1: The Opportunity and the Journey by Julian Gresser
Hello. I’m Julian Gresser. I would like to introduce the Opportunity and the Journey of our 12 week online/living course. As David Attenborough describes in his poignant video, Breaking Boundaries, we have already crossed 7 critical planetary thresholds. We have entered a perfect storm of cascading troubles. In addition to the destruction of diverse and bountiful […]