Nichol Bradford
Nichol Bradford, MBA is the CEO of the Willow Group and Executive Director of the Transformative Technology Lab at Sofia University (transtechlab.org). She has served as a senior executive in video games with responsibility for strategy, operations, and marketing for major brands including Activision Blizzard, Disney, and Vivendi Games. She is a fellow of the British American Project, currently…
Transformative Media: From the Hero’s Journey to Our Collective Journey
The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings
~Lady Galadriel
Breaking Free of The Hero Myth
We humans and the way we interact with narrative, we’ve come a long way. We’ve evolved from the days of stories round a campfire, epic tales…
Daniel Christian Wahl
Daniel Wahl has 14 years of experience in sustainability education and consultancy, and has been a careful student of nature and ecological systems for more than 20 years. Originally trained as a biologist and zoologist (University of Edinburgh), in 2002, he completed his MSc in Holistic Science at Schumacher College with distinction, and, in 2006, received his PhD in Natural Design (University…
Spring-Summer 2016
In this IssueNew Models and Practices - by Nancy B. RoofMirror Flourishing: The New Business North Star - by David CooperriderA Model for Building Safe Communities: The River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding Leads the Way - by Dot MaverSeeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition - by Alnoor Ladhagallery one: Syrian Refugee Children’s Photographs - by…
A Model for Building Safe Communities: The River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding Leads the Way
We share our model as an inspiration and affirmation that work is being done that builds safe community. We know now that a community will benefit from a group that has the intention to listen, learn what is needed, and work as solutionaries in support of one another. We also know that building relationships and shift- ing from a problem-solving to solutions-oriented approach makes a significant…
Seeing Wetiko: On Capitalism, Mind Viruses, and Antidotes for a World in Transition
It’s delicate confronting these priests of the golden bull
They preach from the pulpit of the bottom line
Their minds rustle with million dollar bills
You say Silver burns a hole in your pocket
And Gold burns a hole in your soul
Well, uranium burns a hole in forever
It just gets out of control.
– Buffy Sainte-Marie, “The Priests of the Golden Bull”1
What if we told you that humanity is…
Transformative Technology: A New Pulse
Winslow Strong couldn’t resist the pull. He felt driven to use his knowledge of technology to help people improve their mental and emotional well-being. Laser-focused on that goal, he abandoned his life as an academic finance expert in Zurich and headed to Silicon Valley in search of a like-minded community. It didn’t take him long to find his startup partner, Forrest Bennett. A 25-year Bay Area…
The Technology Of Peace
For all the technological progress we have made as a species, we still struggle when it comes to resolving our differences. Our attempts at sustainability are thwarted by failing to put into practice the subtle technology of how we relate. All our accomplishments will mean very little if we don't succeed in living together on our planet.
Seeing the urgency of this situation, I am establishing…
Service Great and Small
In the early ‘90s I met a woman of similar age. She could no longer live in her home and moved into a nursing home where she was challenged by an imposed daily routine and diet that served the owner.
She accepted her choice and focused on what she could do to be of service in her small and greater worlds. She meditated for a major portion of each day for humanity, for the United States, and…
Changing the “system” through integration with the system
“You are part of a global healing manifestation process!”
Every morning these words, drawn from spiritual guidance I recently received, greet me on my front door. They encapsulate a growing consciousness within me that for the Earth to heal, I must heal. That justice of any kind—environmental, social, or personal—manifests from the mitigation of violence. They remind me that what our Earth…