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 […]
Kokoro: Navigating Wise Decisions Assisted by AI

For wisdom is more precious than rubies and all things that may be desired are not to be compared with it.Proverbs 8:11 KJV Many users are thrilled by the arrival of AI, while others view AI with profound trepidation. This is altogether understandable, because AI like many economically strategic technologies (from the invention of fire to […]
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 […]
Neutralizing the Shadow Game and Winning by Finding the Leverage Points

Please enjoy this conversation and article at BBILAN.org by Julian. Neutralizing the Shadow Game and Winning by Finding the Leverage Points
Enhancing Attorney and Law Firm Wellbeing by Mastering Integral Resilience — The Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
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 […]
Synergistic Resilient Leadership with Robert Porter Lynch and Julian Gresser

A next generation leadership framework — Wisdom-based, Aiming at Breakthroughs that creates Value-Added Networks, powered by Artificial Intelligence TRANSCRIPT available on Youtube
Summary of Leveling the Playing Field #2 Resilient Negotiation—Decoding the Shadow Game

February 19, 2024, 12:00-1:15 pm Pacific Julian’s Presentation Notes and Essential Points Today’s webinar will focus on some of the elements of Resilient Negotiation, how I and you can decipher and decode the Shadow Game, and what you can do about it. My colleague, Odette Wilkens, will then provide a ringside seat on how she […]
Leveling the Playing Field with the Wireless Juggernaut—Essential Skills, Tools, and Metrics to Support a Strategic Shift—February 12, 2024

Julian’s Presentation Essential Points 3 Central Ideas of Today’s Evolutionary Conversation: Present Assessment of the Wireless Juggernaut Struggle and Battleground Message: Practical Hope: Leveling the Playing Field Case Examples— Integral Resilience model is making a quiet difference—not splashy, but critical in: Today’s Evolutionary Conversation: Goals: Take away: Self-assessment—Art of War: Sun Tzu: Know Yourself/Know the […]