Helen Titchen Beeth
After 30 years of living in Brussels and working for the European Commission as a linguist and gentle provoker of change, I have retired from organizational life and city living. I now live on a smallholding in the Flemish countryside (Belgium) in community with two close friends, where we practice conscious co-creation with place, applying the principles and methods of permaculture.
As a…
Jean Houston
“In our time we have come to the stage where the real work of
humanity begins. It is the time where we partner with Creation in the
creation of ourselves, in the restoration of the biosphere, the
regenesis of society, and in the assuming of a new type of culture: the
culture of Kindness. Herein, we live daily life reconnected and
recharged by the Source, so as to become liberated and…
Jordan MacLeod
Jordan MacLeod is the author of New Currency: How Money Changes the World as We Know It (2009).
Since its publication, New Currency has garnered critical acclaim and
MacLeod has been dubbed a “visionary thinker” and “one of the promising
pioneers of a new planetary civilization” for his work on the impact of
consciousness on money and economic systems. He is also a……
Joseph P. Firmage
Joseph brings a lifetime of passion for science and more than a
decade of business experience to his leadership as Chairman and CEO of
ManyOne Networks. Known throughout Silicon Valley and beyond as a
visionary at the cusp of 21st century science and technology, he has led
companies that pioneered both object-oriented programming tools and the
commercial adoption of the World Wide Web. He began…
LeLy Hayslip
A survivor of unspeakable torture during the Vietnam War, LeLy Hayslip
tells of her war-time experiences as a 12 year old spy for the Viet Cong
and her remarkable transformation into an international leader of peace
and reconciliation, in her bestselling autobiography When Heaven and
Earth Changed Places. Her book is translated into 17 languages, made
into an Oliver Stone movie “Heaven and…
Maureen O’Hara
• Maureen O'Hara Ph.D. Chair, Department of psychology, National
University President Emerita, Saybrook Graduate School and Research
Center.
• A native of England, and resident in the US for over 35 years and
several years in Brazil, she received an honors degree in Biological
Sciences from the University of London. She did post-graduate research
in bio-science at Leeds University and…
Michael Edwards
Michael Edwards is widely recognized as one of the world's leading
authorities on civil society, philanthropy, and social change. For the
past thirty years, he has worked to strengthen the contributions of
ordinary citizens to their communities as a grant giver, writer,
advocate, organizer, and activist across five continents, and has lived
and worked in Zambia, Malawi, Colombia, India, the UK,…
Michael Vlahos
Michael Vlahos, PhD is Professor of Strategy at the United States Naval War College. He is the author of Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change,
a ‘take no prisoners’ analysis of how war—as culture’s core ritual—has
shaped national identity in the modern world. Vlahos, a graduate of Yale
and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, began his career in the…
Rama J. Vernon
Rama J. Vernon, Founder of the Center for International Dialogue has
traveled to the former Soviet Union 47 times organizing counterpart
meetings, exchange programs, events and conferences. She initiated the
First and Second Soviet-American Citizens Summits as well as the first
Conflict Resolution and Dialogue Round tables between Armenia and
Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Ukraine.
During the Gulf…
Richard Falk
Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and Fellow of the Orfalea Center of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014) proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. In 2001 he served on a three-person Human Rights Inquiry…
