Conference for Global Transformation
2022 Workshop Schedule
Information for the 2023 Conference will be posted in April 2023.
San Francisco | New York | London | Sydney |
7:15 am-8:15 am |
10:15 am-11:15 am |
3:15 pm-4:15 pm |
Sun 12:15 am-1:15 am |
Title | Description | Presenters | ||
Cooking Discourse: Moving the Conversation From In There to Out Here An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Participants will have the opportunity to inquire into and distinguish the building blocks of meaning (symbols, language, values, beliefs, and norms) from a discourse.
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George Finsrud & Robyn Maitland |
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Does “Should” Impact “Allowing Vision to Speak?” | The word “should” can bring with it meaning, standards, limitations and judgments. Let’s explore together how to free ourselves in our “Allowing Vision to Speak.”
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Hilary Burns | ||
When Allowing Vision to Speak Seems Like the Hardest Thing to Do | Is it a good thing to listen when vision speaks? is it bad to not listen? Let’s explore the times we don’t.
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Maria Zaharieva | ||
Out Here, Where?
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What if listening for empowerment in the words of others allows vision to speak?
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Bruce Campbell Draeyk van der Horn |
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How Could My Voice, My Vision, Be Expressed in the World? | You will leave this session with the beginnings of a written expression of your vision and your voice. Perhaps as poetry, a song or…..?
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Susan Liverpool | ||
The Pause: How Rest Supports What You’re up To | What if we let aspects of our world go fallow? What pause am I in? What’s the possibility of that?
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Diane McCormick |
San Francisco | New York | London | Sydney |
10:15 am-11:15 am |
1:15 pm-2:15 pm |
6:15 pm-7:15 pm |
Sun 3:15 am-4:15 am |
Title | Description | Presenters | ||
What if It All Starts With, “Hello?” An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Inquiry: How would we each relate to ourselves constituted as a person of the social commons of transformation?
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Carey Gister Rich Schuster |
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Allowing Vision to Speak From an Invented World That Works for Everyone With No One and Nothing Left Out An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Exploring our vision of a world of global governance and peace, where universal well-being flourishes, hunger and poverty are eliminated, and there is effective, world-wide health care.
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Chris Kirtz Susan Halim |
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State of the World Scorecard: Allowing Vision to Speak Through Measurement | Is measurement simply keeping score or is there a more powerful context we can create? Come inquire into how measurement can empower our promises.
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Angela Amado David Flattery Gisele Larose Khushnuma Cooper Tony Graddon Wendy Keilin |
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Inquiry and Commitments for the World: What is Possible? | This is an opportunity to speculate, hear results from previous Inquiry Explorations participants and get any questions answered.
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Janet Lester Julia Frampton Simms |
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Forgiveness: Living True to Your Vision
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Discovering and inquiring into forgiveness as access to living a created life. Forgiveness gives you space to take action and live consistent with your vision.
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Jane Grandbouche John Corbiere |
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Non-visual Collaging | Using material that can be felt with the fingers to create a collage. Bring collaging materials including the ones on the handout.
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Alberta Roman Janice Juliano Kathy Lyons |
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Hit Pause to Play!
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Your game has hit pause…..the action has stopped. Before hitting the pause button to play again, what could support playing your game?
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Cynthia Barnett Lorraine Telford |
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Well-Being for Transformational Junkies, Caregivers, People Who Assist, Chronic Givers and Serial Volunteers! | Regarding your well-being, what vision are you allowing to speak as you make a difference in the world?
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Glenn Greenidge Lorraine “Rain” Warren |
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Being with Being Soft and Open That Allows Vision to Speak | A writing/dialogue workshop inquiring into expanding the edges of our listening of being with being soft and open. How does this allow vision to speak?
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Cate Hill Sel Hwahng |
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Singing Your Vision: Bringing Play to the Pause | Participants look at how clearing opens a space for play in areas where they are paused in life and create lyrics to sing their vision.
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Heather Shapter Toby Goldberg |
San Francisco | New York | London | Sydney |
3:30 pm-4:30 pm |
6:30 pm-7:30 pm |
11:30 pm-12:30 am |
Sun 8:30 am-9:30 am |
Title | Description | Presenters | ||
Measure as the Art of Realizing Vision An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
What if measuring is an opening for realization of your commitment in the world?
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Amrit Kendrick Saeed Seyed |
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Listen to the Knock An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Let’s inquire into what’s available when we pause and listen to the knock and allow vision to speak; then our contribution can be fully expressed.
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Ariela Marshall Linda Qbq Russell |
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See It, Say It, Be It: Commitment 101
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An inquiry into your commitment by saying it aloud to others, looking at who you say you are and creating a structure for action.
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Terry Kirtz | ||
Playing Your Vision Board
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What if you could create your vision uniquely as a board game and art piece, discovering new ways to inquire and give vision new language?
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Andy Monks Sarasai Yutuc |
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What Is It to Live a Co-generated Life? Rediscovering the Distinction “Us”
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This workshop creates a new context for rediscovering the power of “Us,” a phenomenon that revolutionizes our ability to manifest vision in the world with velocity.
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Bob Mueller Susan Jones |
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Unleashing Your Inner Writer
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Bring writing materials to experience expressing yourself with the written word.
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Melinda Voss | ||
Listening for Your Vision (What Vision?)
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Inquiring into the limits of having or sharing a vision.
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Lori Wostl | ||
Vision and Our Indigenous Self: What Is Available in Connecting to All of It?
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There are cultural conversations in human history that are less prominent currently. What can be learned from them for our current life and world?
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Rochelle Frank | ||
What Kind of Speaking and Listening Allows for Vision to be Fulfilled?
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What would be available if you had access to speaking that fulfills your vision? If you had that kind of speaking, what would you create?
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Allyn Silver Jill Wooldridge |
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Family……..???
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This workshop is an inquiry into family. What is it, what does it mean and how are we impacted by family? Can we create family?
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Judith Aftergut Peg Miller |
San Francisco | New York | London | Sydney |
4:45 pm-5:45 pm |
7:45 pm-8:45 pm |
Sun 12:45 am-1:45 am |
Sun 9:45 am-10:45 am |
Title | Description | Presenters | ||
Social Commons – Whose Vision Is It? Yours? Theirs? Ours? An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
We will inquire into the connection between vision and commitment and whether a broader vision holds individual visions.
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Diane Dickey Susie Fraser |
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Is Vision Blind and Speechless? Is Your Listening Impaired? An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
An inquiry into speaking, listening and creating life as lived.
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Chet Burgess Sudha Kumar |
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Allowing Vision to Speak: What We’ve Learned from Werner Erhard
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Three panelists share their discoveries from working directly with Werner over four decades that allow their vision to be powerfully present in their daily lives.
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Gale Barnum Lily Starr Rik Super |
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The Power of Storytelling: Using Viewpoint to Evolve Vision
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Unlock the power of storytelling. Discover where your vision wants to go next and whose stories will serve that future. Bring paper and a writing implement.
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Ana Krista Johnson Maureen Charles |
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Why Leadership Requires the Mastery of Forgiveness
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Leadership that allows vision to speak is future-focused. Resentments/regrets keep us in the past preventing vision from emerging. Does leadership involve mastering forgiving?
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Daniel Kamanga Eileen Epperson |
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Living a Life Given by Your Vision – Who Could You Create Yourself to Be? | What if who you could create yourself to be had no limits? Join us and create beyond the limits of what you can now see.
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Cat Tews Larry Frantz |
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The Power of the Feminine in the World
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The power of the feminine, individually and in the world. Where is it making a difference? Where can it be expanded?
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Karen Roellig | ||
A Zest for Health! What’s Your Vision?
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For participants to inquire into what is health, well-being, and community as access to discovering new opportunities to express their health and vitality.
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Andrea Fono | ||
What If I Am the One? Answering the Call
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Three people from different backgrounds, following different paths in service of converging visions in faith, religion and people’s access to the Eternal.
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Dawn Wilder Joanne Coleman Martha Womack |
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Immigrant Stories: Acknowledging the Vision That Brought Us Here | All of us came from somewhere else to this conversation we call Home. Find your Self as an expression of immigration.
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Krishna Nair Natalie Le |
San Francisco | New York | London | Sydney |
6:00 pm-7:00 pm |
9:00 pm-10:00 pm |
Sun 2:00 am-3:00 am |
Sun 11:00 am-12:00 pm |
Title | Description | Presenters | ||
Whose Life Is It Anyway? Is It a Matter of Fate or Creation? An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
What is it to live a created life and how can you go about that? Is it simply a matter of discovering new actions?
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Merilyn Fenn Nina Master |
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Transformation and Sports: Are They Related? | How do sports make a difference in leaving people with more power, freedom, peace of mind, self-expression, and transformation?
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Jeannette Lazet Jen Sorosky |
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Partnering Communities and Indigenous Groups in Conserving and Restoring Nature | Could we have environmental indicators for the state of the world equal economic indicators? How can humans earn a living that fosters restoration and appreciation of ecosystems?
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Amrit Kendrick Gary Kendrick |
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The Ogre of Progress: Why We’re Tempted by Tomorrow Instead of Making Now Count | We will delve into the paradigm of progress and explore why wishful thinking displaces our power to fulfill on our commitments in the world.
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Rachel Barwell Rose Grant Shafeea Zubair |
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Allowing Sacred Vision to Speak | An inquiry into our relationship with the sacred in global transformation – where does the divine, transcendental, and mystical show up? What difference does it make?
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Bini Kimmitt Steph Henry |
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Endings and Transitions: An Inquiry Into Process and Possibility | Endings are inevitable, and transitions are natural. But what is the way of transition, our process, and what it makes possible?
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Judy Owens-Manley |
San Francisco | New York | London | Sydney |
7:15 am-8:15 am |
10:15 am-11:15 am |
3:15 pm-4:15 pm |
Mon 12:15 am-1:15 am |
Title | Description | Presenters | ||
Decrypting and Measuring Messages from the Uncharted Realms An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Radical change is disrupting life. What measures could distinguish the impact from blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs, self-driving cars … and your commitment? Where will you stand?
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Kathy Fedori Stan Carpenter |
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A Creative Inquiry of Asian Americans by Asian Americans | Discover how your cultural context colors your listening and experience through an inquiry of Asian Americans.
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Anna Choi Sel Hwahng |
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Digging for Diamonds: Discover Your Vision-Purpose | What if we are diamonds/light? As light, what unique gift will you share?
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Arnold Murray | ||
Indigenous Ways in Modern Times: A Contextual Shift
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How do we shift from “What’s in it for me?” to “What’s in it from me?” How do we live in balance, beauty and harmony?
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Mark Fox | ||
What Your Body Remembers Allows Your Vision to Speak
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What if the empowerment of your vision were directly accessed through your body? Inquire as you move and listen to discover what’s really next.
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Kristen Mangione | ||
You Speak, People Listen…Enroll the World into Your Vision! | Vision Smision! This is the workshop for you! You will leave with an enrolling and effective verbal script that conveys your vision, passion and commitment.
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Dana Clary Judy-Lee Chen Sang |
San Francisco | New York | London | Sydney |
10:15 am-11:15 am |
1:15 pm-2:15 pm |
6:15 pm-7:15 pm |
Mon 3:15 am-4:15 am |
Title | Description | Presenters | ||
What’s In Front of Us? (or “George Likes His Chicken Spicy”) An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
What if the hosts and you got together and looked at “What is in front of us?” speaking solely from the perspective of third person?
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Julia Frampton Simms Paolo Visentin |
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Pulling a Rabbit Out of a Hat When You Don’t Have a Rabbit! An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
Unexpected things happen in life. We get stopped. Typical ways of being don’t work. What do you do next? Come discover contribution newly.
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Diane J. Dickey Dolly Costello |
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Three Top Authors: Integrity, Imagination and Inclusion Allowing Vision to Speak | Global concerns, critical contexts: three key distinctions to transform knotty problems like corruption in Africa, mental disorders, and climate change.
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Daniel Kamanga Felicia Nagamatsu Rose Grant |
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The Social Commons of Transformation: The Key to Ontological Weight Loss | When we gather under the umbrella of Social Commons of Transformation, something remarkable happens. Where are we pointing when we say, “Social Commons of Transformation?”
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Reza Razeghi Rich Schuster Saeed Seyed |
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Creating Space for Your Vision to Speak: Mastering Empty and Meaningless in Your Life | Empty and meaningless—the “nothing”—is the foundation for being, and therefore the foundation for vision. To create true vision, you must first create nothing.
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Barry Pogorel | ||
Generating Your Passion Into Action and Bringing Your Vision to Fruition | We will look at how we interact with our passion so that we see a pathway for action which leads to our vision being fulfilled.
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Meryl Sher | ||
The Elders-Youngers Inquiry: Bridging the Gap of Wisdom | Have you noticed how many elders we have participating in the our work? How will we receive their Wisdom?
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Ben Gabin Corrina Sephora Jen Sorosky |
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Our Vision Speaks Through the Choices We Make
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Two major forces at play for leaders are often paradoxical. Discover how to stand in and effectively forward inclusive solutions, even when facing extremist positions.
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Pamela Stambaugh Tracey Wik |
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Haiti, It’s Not About the Water: One Year Later | An update on what Haiti Outreach has done, how it’s coping with life-changing circumstances in Haiti while maintaining the vision that Haiti is a developed nation.
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Saurel Quettan | ||
Access to Allowing Vision to Speak | What if you could bring play, self-love and responsibility and embrace any side of yourself?
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Kathryn Stroehlein |
San Francisco | New York | London | Sydney |
5:15 pm-6:15 pm |
8:15 pm-9:15 pm |
Mon 1:15 am-2:15 am |
Mon 10:15 am-11:15 am |
Title | Description | Presenters | ||
Constructing the Public Persona: It’s Not What You Think An Inquiry of the Social Commons |
What if you weren’t the architect of your Public Persona, but were the architect for others? How might that fulfill your commitment for the world?
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Mark Krauss Robyn Maitland |
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Speaking Vision in an Intimate Relationship | We are attracted to each other becoming a couple. Can I allow you to speak your vision of our partnership if it differs from mine?
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Geoffrey Fenn Merilyn Fenn |
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Hiding Out Versus Being Empowered: Unleash and Be Blessed! | What does it take to be a “Powerful You?” What happens when you discover power in your relationship with yourself and others that is unleashed?
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Nina Master | ||
Translating Vision Into Reality: Giving Voice to Your Dreams | What if creating your visions from a future fulfilled opened up a whole new world, giving you access to translate your visions into reality?
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Andrea Parker Swenson Mary Icaza |
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Shifting Make Wrong to Workability
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This inquiry is to explore “right/wrong good/bad” situations, discover ways of shifting the context to workability free of judgment while wondering what possibilities open up.
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Linda Qbq Russell | ||
What’s In a Label? | An inquiry into how labels influence our view of ourselves, others, and the world itself.
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Janet Flaton |
Key to the Inquiries of the Social Commons |
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