Conference for Global Transformation
2024 Workshop Schedule
The 2025 workshop schedule will be published in April 2025
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New York Saturday |
London Saturday |
Sydney Sunday |
| Title | Description | Presenters |
| Singing Our Hearts Out Loud An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
What is the space that calls forth contribution? Could expressing your heart’s desire out loud in community be in service to your commitment? | Robyn Maitland and Ariela Marshall |
| Absurdities and Upsets: Playing With Possibility An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Come discover a capacity to let go of what you know and see how you might bring play to openings for action. | Stan Carpenter and Barbara La Valleur |
| An Alchemy of Being | Getting to the gold of what is driving our commitment, so no matter how it is expressed, it is always coming from the space of pure being. | Bruce Campbell and Draeyk van der Horn |
| Yes and…: Bringing Improvisation to Listening | What if being in a dance with word had to do with how we listen? How might tools from improvisational comedy alter how we listen? | Ben Gabin and Liz Allen |
| In a Dance With Self: Sourcing Your Commitment from the Eternal | What if commitment was sourced from the Eternal? Move your body as an access to being, getting unstuck and tapping into unimaginable freedom to create. | Kristen Mangione |
| Bringing Play to Our Created Self | This inquiry will explore how bringing play into expressing our created selves allows for freedom in allowing word to emerge in being. | Hilary Burns |
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San Francisco Saturday |
New York Saturday |
London Saturday |
Sydney Sunday |
| Title | Description | Presenters |
| Generating a Listening for New Discourse An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Join us for an investigation into sustaining oneself as a stand — saying something new in an environment with no listening for what is being said. | Rich Schuster and Peg Miller |
| What Do You Mean I Am Not My Commitment? An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
An inquiry into your commitment and how you show up in the world. | Chet Burgess and Susan Halim |
| Who, Me? Yes, You! What, Now? Inquiry Explorations! Core Curriculum |
Explore the five elements of Inquiry Explorations that are designed to support you over 10 months in making a difference and fulfilling on an invented commitment. | Janet Lester and Terry Kirtz |
| Bringing Clarity to the Expression of Your Word Core Curriculum |
What if expressing your commitments and word was simple, easy and fun? Would you share them everywhere and with everyone? | Eric Englart |
| Being Ecstatically Joyful | Come explore the nature of being ecstatically joyful, creating bliss in the midst of challenges. How do we be ecstatically joyful in our commitments? | Dolly Costello |
| The Alchemy of Practice | What if practice provides access and existence to a created self? What practices could your created self invent? | Dave Hoon and Ray Stoddard |
| In a Dance With Art | This workshop explores art as an access to being or is being an access to art? | Lynnie Sterba |
| Entrepreneurship Abundance, Energy, and Emotion…Say What? | In conventional wisdom, entrepreneurship is held as mysterious, random, and sourced by luck. What could be discovered about entrepreneurship in the space of art? | Ravi Bhola |
| Gender Pronoun Play! | Let’s review gender pronouns and terms, watch a short fun video and have a fun and invigorating discussion about transgender and non-binary gender communities! | Sel Hwahng |
| Being Yourself and Expressing Through Word: Spiritual Diversity in Education | We invite you to explore deeper access to yourself and your being while discussing current, traditional, and visionary pedagogy about speaking the divine word. | Deborah Robin Mech |
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San Francisco Saturday |
New York Saturday |
London Saturday |
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| Title | Description | Presenters |
| Given Being by Being An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Speaking the possibility of self into existence in the world. | Saeed Seyed and Gari Thompson |
| Measuring What Matters to You An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Join us to explore and play with measures. Come ready to do a short written exercise. | Susie Fraser and Diane Creel |
| Being Empowered by Measures The Scorecard Team |
For fulfillment of our commitments to occur as natural, necessary, and achievable, measures are required. Do measures empower you to have your commitments fulfilled? | David Flattery, Angela Amado, Khushnuma Cooper, Rose Grant, Wendy Keilin, Robert Thomas, Frank Quinlan, and Nancy Kleiman |
| Inquiry Explorations: Immediate Access to Magic and Miracles Core Curriculum |
Discover the wonder of authentic inquiry, and unlock your creative spirit. Freeing the human spirit brings the magic and miracles of transformation! | Jim Bergquist, Paul Freyermuth, Susan Katz Clark |
| Who Wants to be a Wisdom Course Leader? The Who, Why, How, and What. Core Curriculum |
If this has been your dream or desire, come find out what it takes, along with the joys and miracles of being developed in this path. | Andy Monks and Jerry Fishman |
| Mining for Gold: Finding Resources for Renewal in Commonality | When what lights you up in life begins to dim, don’t despair. Come see how sharing commonality can restore word and supercharge your commitments. | Carla Barrow and Dana Clary |
| Word and Risk: Art, Story, and the Status Quo | Art and storytelling that fulfill on our commitments often challenge the status quo and engender risk. How can we create new stories that transcend both? | Maureen Charles and Ana Krista Johnson |
| Humanity Flourishing: A Created Future | The era when humanity flourishes is coming, but that hasn’t been depicted in a major motion picture. We’ll create that possible future together in inquiry. | Peter Fiekowsky and Julia Dederer |
| Moving Into the Unknown: A Return to Integrity | We rarely explore the tethers that we struggle with as we move into the unknown. Could we see that moment as a return to integrity? | Joy Kuebler and Diego Robles |
| Sex and Gender: Identity, Language and Impact | Why do some identities seem to have personal or social impact while others do not? Consider sex and gender identities and the role of language. | Erin Meyer |
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San Francisco Saturday |
New York Saturday |
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| Title | Description | Presenters |
| Empowerment: Freedom to Be An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Participants will experience the aliveness of empowerment in relationships. We will be exploring and discovering being empowered. | Nina Master and Lynn Underhill |
| HipHopper, Foxtrotter, Bootscooter, Waltzer: How do People See You? An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
This workshop is inspired by dancing and the public persona. How do people see you dancing with your word? | Merilyn Fenn and Amrit Kendrick |
| Wouldn’t You Love to Make A Proposal for Our Next Conference? Core Curriculum |
Who, me? Yes, you! All sorts of people have produced wonderful things for our conference, and so could you! | Rose Grant and Susie Fraser |
| Inquiry, Word, Having it All: Living Your Created Life. | An inquiry about being in a world that provides what you say is important. What grants being and self-expression in that world? | Saeed Seyed, Reza Razeghi, and Rich Schuster |
| Magic of Word | What if the answer to living a created life you love was discovered in the magic of word? | Mary Icaza and Andrea Parker-Swenson |
| Forgiveness as an Access to Living a Created Life | Discovering forgiveness as a way of life gives access to living a created life as a matter of your word. Forgiveness allows space to say new things. | John Corbiere and Jane Grandbouche |
| Can We Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Future? | A panel workshop on emerging technologies’ societal impact, delving into Society 5.0 and the 4th Industrial Revolution. Inquiry into a new relationship with the future. | Eroca Cambriana Lowe, Kaer Soutthard, Benson Flores, Jim Hanson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Kralj, and Barb Odin |
| The Evolution of the Listener | Let’s upgrade our practice of listening to everyone in our lives. Wisdom graduates will share how they’ve have used their new skills of listening in this last year. | Kay Keeler and Lori Watkins |
| Breathing: An Access to Deepening Relationships in the World | An inquiry into breathing, exploring patterns of breathing and its impact on relationships, ourselves, others, and the world. Based on the work of Stephen Porges’ polyvagal theory. | Peg Miller |
| Being Our Word: What are You Really Up To? | Have you noticed what happens in daily life when you are being your word or not? Come discover seeing a new empowering context for life. | Meryl Sher |
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San Francisco Saturday |
New York Saturday |
London Sunday |
Sydney Sunday |
| Title | Description | Presenters |
| Moving Beyond the Mask by Inquiring From Authentic Self An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
The persona comes about through our engagement with the world. It is not who we are. | George Finsrud and Nina Master |
| The Social Commons as a Structure for Empowering You to Live as Your Word An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
If you relate to yourself as a network of conversations, where does your word live? How can the social commons empower you in living as your word? | Carey Gister and Lynn Underhill |
| Effectively Moving Your Promise/Commitment Forward: An Inquiry | How could you work on your promise/commitment most effectively and partner with other groups that are aligned with your commitment? | Paul Freyermuth |
| Look Ma! I Said That and it Happened! | Does life really go the way you say? Join other interested parties in an investigation to discover if life goes the way you say. | Cat Tews |
| Dancing as a Committed Partner in a Relationship | Inquire with us as we explore what is our word in a relationship and as a relationship. | Geoffrey Fenn and Merilyn Fenn |
| Returning to Babel: Endangered Languages and You | What if languages weren’t endangered? Let’s explore personal and collective language trauma, language loss across generations, and the United Nations’ Decade of Indigenous Languages. | Raukura Roa |
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San Francisco Sunday |
New York Sunday |
London Sunday |
Sydney Monday |
| Title | Description | Presenters |
| Creating Joyful Contribution An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
What’s available when we purposely create joyful as a context for contribution? | Chris Kirtz and Shirley Loo |
| The Film That Changed My Life An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
What if we had only 30 seconds to create it? What if tonight was the night? | Paolo Visentin and Cherylle Garnes |
| Practices for Listening: Lessons for Governing | Come explore how your listening defines and impacts your effectiveness in the discourse of government. | Della DiPietro |
| Commitments That Invite Full Self-Expression, Aliveness, and Fulfillment | We will discover what it takes to create commitments that are enlivening and empowering and invite full self-expression from everyone around us. | Allyn Silver and Susan Harrington |
| I’ve Looked at Word From Both Sides Now | What if your word in a specific, important area of commitment could be a creation over the long haul? What would it take? | Robyn Jamison and Lorraine Telford |
| Listening Past the Unsaid | Can I create a way of listening so the conversation spills outside of the expected bounds? Can I create a way of listening from being? | David Ritscher |
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San Francisco Sunday |
New York Sunday |
London Sunday |
Sydney Monday |
| Title | Description | Presenters |
| Language, Abundance and Infinite Resources An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Does being our word have resources occur newly? Participants will discover new ways to access resources that forward what matters to them. | Diane Dickey and Sudha Kumar |
| Life’s Continuum of Being…What’s Next? | In this inquiry, we are going to honor our past ways of being. | Peter DeFreitas, Jerrod Kerr, and Ginette Goulet |
| Commitment as an Access to Being Core Curriculum |
Being one’s commitment changes as we change over time. Come inquire into how your commitment is an expression of your true being. | Terry Kirtz |
| Top Three Authors Present: Learning to Surf Top Three Papers |
Three authors will together address the challenge of speaking and acting in an unconventional way that involves standing for a new paradigm out in the world. | Gary Kendrick, Annette Nathan, and Oliver McCrohan |
| Folding and Unfolding the Origami of a Creative Process | What if you must keep creating and dancing in the conversation from the unknown to create your self-expression in the world? | Corrina Sephora, Lori Watkins, and Margot Ayer |
| Dancing With Distinctions | What if distinctions are the catalyst for being word? If so, how can distinctions empower and evoke the creative freedom to dance with word? | Susan Jones and Bob Mueller |
| Enraptured: Returning to an Original Created Self | Reveal the voice within that ignites your original created self through drawing and sound exercise inquiries. Empower your commitment from Being rather than “in order to.” | Anna Choi |
| Unlocking Your Relationship With Word | What might happen when you allow word to be your inspiration for seemingly unrelated, everyday activities? Let’s practice allowing word to take the lead through play! (Bring pencil, paper, or other art supplies.) | Ariela Marshall and Paige Keck |
| In a Dance with Word and the World | An inquiry into where we are incomplete at the level of community and nation. What becomes possible if we achieve completion at this level? | Carlie Grindey |
| The Healing Power of Words | What if words were the powerful wonder drugs that could heal the suffering of humanity’s soul? | Eileen Forrestal |
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San Francisco Sunday |
New York Sunday |
London Monday |
Sydney Monday |
| Title | Description | Presenters |
| Measures in a Dance With Word An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Come explore measures and word, and how they fit with your commitments in the world. | Mark Krauss and Dolly Costello |
| Are You Willing to Risk Failure? Core Curriculum |
Come explore the 2025 conference theme with us and discover being empowered by failure | Owen Coffey and Joyce Pike |
| Grand Designs: Language for Your House of Being | If language is the house of being, what kind of home do you want to build for your commitment for the world? | Rachel Barwell and Rose Grant |
| Do You Wanna Dance? | What if being free was as easy as shifting to a different language? | Barry Pogorel and Joan Bordow |
| Listening for Contribution | We will inquire into being willing to be contributed to and what may be available in doing so. | David Novell |
| Celebrate Them Now | An inquiry into creating celebrations for the people in our lives now, while they are here. | Elizabeth Percival |
| Stop Dancing With Your Stuff and Start Dancing With Word | The impact of clutter is shocking. Approximately 23% of American households contain 300,000 items. Pare down your stuff. Upgrade your word. | Dorothy Breininger |
| Writing on Word: Visions of Integrity | A writing workshop on integrity. Come be inspired by others’ writings. | Margot Ayer |