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Thursday, October 22, 2009 at 8:30 AM - Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM (GMT+0100)
In the next decade we will be challenged as never before as individuals, professionals and in our organizations. The convergent economic, ecological and cultural crises we are in mark the beginning of a great shift in our economy, culture and biosphere.
Are you ready for what comes next?
Between October 22 and 26 2009, Renaissance2 is holding the “Great Shift Gathering” following our highly successful Great Shift Partner Event in June 2009.
Join in an ongoing conversation with living legends such as Barbara Marx Hubbard, Michael Braungart, Ervin Laszlo, Don Beck, Andrew Cohen and Neale Donald Walsch. We will also be launching the Worldshift Alliance with Worldshift2012 and other partners which include the Club of Budapest, Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Alliance for a New Humanity, the State of the World Forum, Humanity Unites Brilliance and many other amazing organizations. (For the full list of Worldshift Alliance partners click here). Some of the notable individuals involved in these initiatives include Mikhail Gorbachev, Peter Gabriel, the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Nelson Mandela, Bishop Desmond Tutu, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Jane Goodall, Jim Garrison, Al Gore, Mary Robinson and hundreds of other luminaries working towards creating a thriving human civilization in the next decade.
This is your personal invitation to attend one or both of the two ground breaking events which comprise the Great Shift Gathering:
· Event 1: Designing a Resilient Civilization- 22-24 October 2009:
The legendary architect and designer Buckminster Fuller commented that:
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
At this event we will continue to prototype the new models which form the basis of Capitalism 2.0, while launching new projects that help accelerate their adoption. Join some of the world’s leading innovators who are:
- transforming the world of renewable energy, including solar, wind and electric powered transport;
- creating resilient environments including urban, industrial and service habitats around the world, using cradle-to-cradle and integral approaches;
- developing enlightened enterprises driving social innovation and accelerating human and social development around the globe;
- making the connections which enable new forms of integral governance systems to align the efforts of business, government, NGO’s and communities.
· Event 2: Accelerating Conscious Evolution- 26-26 October 2009:
Science and technology are helping us learn how nature works – the gene, the atom, the brain. Every decision we make today affects our own evolution. That is why we need to accelerate our ability to make better conscious choices from world-centric rather than ego-centric or ethno-centric perspectives.
Conscious Evolution enables us to use our creative power to guide our own lives and the evolution of the systems and the communities in which we live and work. It is a process by which individuals and groups, families, organizations, and societies can envision and create images of what should be, and bring those images to life by design.
Living legends such as Barbara Marx Hubbard, Don Beck, Andrew Cohen and Neale Donald Walsch will be joining us along with a host of experts on human cultural and spiritual development to map out the way ahead, and highlight what we can each do to shift ourselves, our organizations, families and communities in:
- Developing ourselves to the next level of conscious creative power in our own lives;
- Developing our communities and organizations to co-create aligned, collectively intelligent human systems.
What Leaders & Executives Said About our June Great Shift Event
25 leaders from eight countries (including several CEO’s, NGO directors, senior academics and change agents) joined us for two exceptionally dynamic days in June- this is what they had to say about the event:
“Rewarding, Connecting, Full of Possibilities, Sensing traction & attraction”
”Hugely inspirational and fulfilling. It has shifted my mindset and opened new gateways.”
“Now able to relate my day to day actions into a bigger picture and visualize how accountable I am towards my group and community.”
“It was wonderful to be in such an open learning environment with such a motivated group of people.
“The speakers were mostly excellent and thought provoking.”
“The participants – surprising in diversity – great combo – amazingly controlled egos – generous, curious and intelligent.”
“The facilitators did a great job and showed flexibility and that they were in tune with our needs.”
“The organization and hosting, meals, entertainment, information, logistics were excellent.”
“I have enormous appreciation for …the special energy and fellowship we have experienced.”
The two events comprising the October Great Shift Gathering build on the core team which delivered the June event together with world class speakers and facilitators.
Take Advantage of the Early Bird and Special Discounts - Book Now
This is your personal invitation to attend one or both of the Renaissance2 Great Shift Gathering events. Buy your ticket now, and make sure you take advantage of the early-bird registration discounts.
We look forward to hearing from, and to seeing you at one or more of the Great Shift events this October!
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Monday, October 26, 2009 at 6:00 PM (GMT+0100)
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Via Michelin | GoogleRenaissance2 is the world’s first dedicated accelerator of social, business and governance innovation, led by executives with deep experience of social change, scientific, technological and business innovation. We are registered as a not-for-profit organization and funded by donations, member subscriptions, event fees and publications.
The Mission of Renaissance2 is to accelerate open-source innovation between business, design, the scientific and technology communities, governments and NGO’s to address the most challenging issues facing human civilization today. To deliver this mission, we are co-creating the WorldShift Alliance with other leading organisations around the world, including the Club of Budapest, Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Events4Change and Positive TV.
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major events and virtual collaboration between these events, using online tools including web-based video-
conferencing and sophisticated online innovation forums. This model will evolve to serve as an ongoing open system
of social, business and technological innovation for the next decade.
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Confirmed speakers for The Great Shift Gathering
Barbara Marx Hubbard Buckminster Fuller has called BARBARA MARX HUBBARD “the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” Widely regarded as his philosophical heir, Barbara is a social innovator, speaker, author, educator and leader in the new worldview of conscious evolution. Through her books, DVDs, educational programs, TV appearances, interviews and speaking engagements, her message continues to bring answers and comfort to global audiences seeking answers to today’s most pressing issues. Barbara was instrumental in founding many major organizations including the World Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, Women of Vision In Action, The Foundation for the Future, and the Association for Global New Thought. Andrew Cohen ANDREW COHEN is an American spiritual teacher and visionary thinker widely recognized for his original contribution to the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. Cohen's original spiritual teaching for life in the twenty-first century, Evolutionary Enlightenment, places the traditional realization of enlightenment in the context of fourteen billion years of cosmic evolution. He was a featured speaker on the future of religion at the 2004 Parliament of the World's Religions, has given talks on authentic leadership to major corporations, and is also a founding member of philosopher Ken Wilber's Integral Institute. The founder and editor in chief of the international, award-winning EnlightenNext Magazine, formerly What is Enlightenment? Cohen is dedicated to creating "nothing less than a revolution in consciousness and culture." Don Beck DON BECK has been developing, implementing, and teaching the evolutionary theory of Spiral Dynamics for more than three decades. Beck has elaborated upon the work of his mentor, Clare Graves, to develop a multidimensional model for understanding the evolutionary transformation of human values and cultures. As cofounder of the National Values Center in Denton, Texas, and CEO of the Spiral Dynamics Group, Inc., Beck is employing the Spiral Dynamics model to effect large-scale systems change in and among various sectors and societies of the world. He is the author of Spiral Dynamics: Mastering Values, Leadership & Change, written with Christopher Cowan in 1996. Neale Donald Walsch Neale Donald Walsch is a modern day spiritual messenger whose words continue to touch the world in profound ways. With an early interest in religion and a deeply felt connection to spirituality, Neale spent the majority of his life thriving professionally, yet searching for spiritual meaning before beginning his now famous conversation with God. His With God series of books has been translated into 34 languages, touching millions of lives and inspiring important changes in their day-to-day lives.
Eric Allodi
ERIC ALLODI is founder and CEO of Integral Vision, a cutting edge agency providing consulting and prospective services to help corporation to raise their level of consciousness and be able to increase their capabilities to innovate, use collective intelligence and alternative governance technologies. Integral Vision also provides project management and research facilities to help implementing the new sustainable development paradigm called "Cradle to Cradle" where each product or service can be eco-designed according to the "waste = food" natural law. Eric is also Président of EnlightenNext France, a nonprofit international think tank, of which the aim is to help to create a new level of consciousness and culture in the world.
Marilyn Hamilton
MARILYN HAMILTON, PhD CGA, meshworks evolutionary intelligences in the city. She creates hope and enables community and city learning by engaging with differences of all kinds, to inspire fresh connections, open new pathways and strengthen weak signals. Marilyn is the author of “Integral City: Evolutionary Intelligences for the Human Hive”, and founder of Integral City Meshworks Inc. and TDG Global Learning Connections; a founding Member of the Integral Institute and Integral-Ecology; Canadian Leader and International Training Board Member of the Spiral Dynamics integral Constellation; Ginger Group Affiliate; Convener of Quantum Woman Inquiries; and faculty member at Royal Roads University, UFV, Banff Centre, California Institute of Integral Studies and Adizes Graduate School.
Simon Hamilton
SIMON HAMILTON escaped from a twenty year business career as a Chartered Accountant and discovered the delights of working in the voluntary sector in the UK and overseas. It was this combination of experience of both sectors that led Simon to set up Three Hands in 1998. Since then, he has worked at the interface between the business and voluntary sectors, devising and implementing a series of pioneering programmes designed to benefit both. Simon has worked all over the UK and internationally, from Mongolia to the Kalahari Desert. One of the first Three Hands Socially Responsible Development™ programmes devised was the Pfizer 'Children's Hospital Playbox Challenge', won a National Training Award.
Fiona Hayes
FIONA HAYES, a Certified Integral Coach, spent many years in coaching and consultancy, working on how organisations and people work most effectively, before recently taking up the challenge of structuring and implementing an organisational development strategy in one division of a large corporate with complex cultural challenges. She has accumulated her skills working in a range of industries including Fitness and Sport, Adult Education, Software Development, Agriculture, Professional Services and is now working in Construction. Fiona is driven by the urgent need for people, organisations and communities to find a new and better way; one that fully respects the whole of Life and nurtures the ecosystem that supports us.
Hari Nair
HARI NAIR is a partner at Innosight Ventures, a firm founded by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. With a primary focus on India and emerging markets, Hari is responsible for the incubation and early stage evolution of several pro-poor scalable and sustainable micro-enterprises, including Village Laundry Services, Razor Rave, Peepal Finance, and Portrait Shop. Prior to joining Innosight, Hari was with the Global Research and Development group at Procter & Gamble for 14 years.
Graham Boyd
GRAHAM BOYD has successfully lived and worked in six different cultures over the past 20 years, including South Africa, Germany, Italy, Japan, Belgium and China. More than anything else this has taught him how similar we all are. Now in TetraLD, he is enjoying combining his experience of people, science and business to develop individuals, teams and new businesses. Recently he has given cross-cultural trainings within P&G, building on his experience working and living in Asia, Europe and Africa. He also initiated quality control training in P&G, giving this 3 times a year for the past 8 years. Graham is also an accomplished public speaker, both in English as well as German, his second language.
Mark Henderson
MARK HENDERSON - Following studies in his native Scotland and in Switzerland and careers in retail jewellery and marketing consultancy, Mark spotted a business idea that appealed to his values, his passion and his entrepreneurial streak. In 2004, spending time in Sweden, where his wife is from, he discovered just how mainstream renewable energy and heat pumps, in particular, had become and recognized that the UK was going to have to make the transition away from fossil fuels. The idea behind Ecoliving was born and Mark has spent the last 4 years selling his idea and in the process, building a £5M company.
David Woolfson
David Woolfson is a business lawyer based in Toronto, and is President of the Club of Budapest Canada, Co-Initiator of the World Wisdom Council and Toronto Chapter Liaison of the World Future Society. Most recently David has been co-coordinating a global campaign initiated by The Club of Budapest, called WorldShift 2012.
Madeleine Marentette
MADELEINE MARENTETTE is the founder and creator of Grail Life Academy and Grail Springs, Canada's leading health spa and transformation centre. She is also the Canadian bestselling author of 'Grail Springs Holistic Detox: For Body, Mind & Spirit'.
Madeleine opened the doors to her centre in 2001 and soon began drawing guests from all over the world. It's success due to the unique combination of a natural healing environment, awe-inspiring setting, and the health and wellness programs that are based on her developed Grail Life Plan, a holistic approach to living an abundant and fulfilling life, in body, mind and Spirit.
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