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 […]
Women Leaders in a New World Order:
Ambassador Akiko Yamanaka
and Professor Patricia Bader-Johnston
Women Leaders in a New World Order Ambassador Akiko Yamanaka, Professor Patricia Bader-Johnston, and Julian Gresser Key Questions: Question # 1: Based on your research and direct personal experience—and I believe you met with and personally became acquainted, and in some cases friends, with these women leaders– what do you see as the essential qualities of character […]
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 […]
Building Personal Resilience and Interdependence in a World of Chaos with Julian Gresser
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Living in Integral Cities: A conversation with Marilyn Hamilton
Dr. Marilyn Hamilton is one of the world’s most thoughtful commentators on the future of cities, and how they can become more “alive” expressing and serving the deep needs and aspirations of their inhabitants, living closer to nature. It is a timely conversation in an era of urban dystopia.
Conversation with Dr. Joseph Cambray on Emergence from Complexity
In this Evolutionary Conversation former Pacifica University President and CEO, Dr. Joseph Cambray, and Julian Gresser, explore the theory of emergence in helping communities like Santa Barbara foresee, manage, and then thrive when facing complex adaptive challenges. Joseph Cambray Synchronicity—Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected World (2012) Synchronicity and Emergence Altered States, Intelligences, and Oracles: Re-visioning […]
Anguish of Today’s Generation
A Conversation with Nick Perault and Julian Gresser