Kingsley L. Dennis
Kingsley Dennis, PhD, is an author, researcher, and futurist. He is the author of Breaking the Spell: An Exploration of Human Perception; New Revolutions for a Small Planet: How the Global Shift in Humanity and Nature Will Transform Our Minds and Lives; The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution & The Battle to Control How We Think; and New Consciousness for a New World. He is the…
Patrick McNamara
Patrick McNamara is an independent consultant and social entrepreneur focusing on leadership development, social innovation, and institutional transformation. He has 20 years experience facilitating change with international organizations, corporations, NGO’s and government agencies. Patrick helped design and coordinate an institutional learning and change process with a 2,500-employee government…
Interview | Sharing the Commons: Humanity’s Collective Heritage
Jason Francis for Share International (SI): You’ve spent most of your career in international development, but in recent years you’ve switched into this new area called the commons. Why is that?
James Quilligan (JQ): International development for me was a way of understanding the problems of the world and how they could be solved. I felt at home in development. But was it the truth? All along…
Spring-Summer 2013
In this IssueThe Emerging New Paradigm - by Nancy B. RoofExperiments in Democracy and Diversity within the Occupy Movement(s) - by Marianne MaeckelberghInterOccupy: Toward a Democratic Global Communications Commons - by Michael BadgerThe Future of Leadership for Sustainability-Part Two - by Barrett C. BrownThe Commons as a New | Old Paradigm for Governance, Economics and Policy – Part One - by…
The Future of Leadership for Sustainability-Part Two
I recently met with the Chief Operating Officer from one of the largest environmental NGOs in the world. Their latest global strategy drives transformative change in landscapes, river networks, seascapes and policy across 30+ countries. Achieving it would mean significant steps toward global sustainability. He noted that the biggest limiting factor to executing the strategy is leader development.…
Adam Bucko
Adam Bucko is an activist, karma yogi and spiritual director to many of New York’s homeless youth. In 2004, Adam co-founded the Reciprocity Foundation, an award winning nonprofit that uses an interspiritual and contemplative approach to empower homeless youth. Adam recently founded HAB, an interspiritual ‘new monastic’ fellowship for young people. adam@adambucko.com
Adam's…
Adam Bucko and Rory McEntee
Adam Bucko (left) is an activist, karma yogi and spiritual director to many of New York’s homeless youth. In 2004, Adam co-founded the Reciprocity Foundation, an award winning nonprofit that uses an interspiritual and contemplative approach to empower homeless youth. Adam recently founded HAB, an interspiritual ‘new monastic’ fellowship for young people.……
Rory McEntee
Rory McEntee participated in the founding of the interspiritual movement as a close friend and mentee of the late Brother Wayne Teasdale. He is currently the administrator for the Snowmass InterSpiritual Dialogue, which was founded in 1984 by Father Thomas Keating. Rory lives a contemplative life while writing, teaching mathematics and being a father. rmcentee21@gmail.com
Rory's article, New…
Reflections on New Revolutions for a Small Planet
New Revolutions for a Small Planet
Humanity is in the midst of a great transformation across the globe. This is now apparent to even casual observers, who are witnessing some of the changes happening on the planet at this time. Most of what we see in the daily news reports informs us of dramatic Earth changes in part due to climatic disruption: earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, volcanic…
Learning to See Life: Developing the Goethean Approach to Science
I have often thought that if a teacher wanted to have one succinct motto to hang above his or her bed, she'd have a hard time finding a better one than: 'characterize, don't define.' Characterization is based on careful observation. Through our own observations and those of others we can form within ourselves and in collaboration with our students a vibrant picture, say, of an animal—its shape,…