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. […]
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 […]
The HLA Hart Memorial Lecture at Oxford
References contributed by Anthony Slingsby, Esq. Retired Solicitor, London, Portugal The HLA Hart Memorial Lecture at Oxford Thursday, 16 May 2024, given by Professor Anita L Allen, Henry R Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, on the subject “Unconditional Love, Some Implications for the Law.” Abstract As […]
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 […]
Summary of February 25 Evolutionary Conversation — Discovering Your Inner Power, Part I
Leveling the Playing Field with the Wireless Juggernaut is a part of a larger response to the rapid deterioration of values essential to our collective survival—specifically, wisdom, caring, kindness, integrity, and intimacy and dialogue with Nature. As David Attenborough documents, we have already crossed seven critical planetary boundaries. There is considerable evidence that we — our movement and our […]
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 […]
Evolutionary Course: Building Regenerative Careers in the Fourth Sector Economy (Coming March 2024)
What if you can realize your soul’s work and be paid for it? Gallup estimates in 2022 that the loss in productivity to the world from people disengaged from work at $ 7.8 trillion. And this number likely greatly underestimates the added costs of life threatening illnesses, depression, addiction, and suicide—all stemming from disenchantment with […]