Resources

Berkana Institute
Co-founded by Margaret Wheatley, this institute connects and supports pioneering, life-affirming leaders around the world who strengthen their community by working with the wisdom and wealth already present in its people, traditions and environment.

Breakthroughs Unlimited Inc.
Myriam Laberge is the co-founder of Breakthroughs Unlimited whose mission is to help organizations achieve their noble goals through the power of vision, dialogue, participation and leadership.

Bridges, Branches & Braids
Ruth King’s website outlining the products and services she provides to help people to understand and transform rage, and support the discharge of trauma that gives birth to rage.

Builders Without Borders
Founded by Neil Griggs, BWB is an international network of ecological builders
who advocate the use of natural, local, and affordable materials in construction.
BWB creates educational materials and opportunities to empower communities,
organizations and owner-builders.

Center for Courage & Renewal (CCR)
This center, founded by Parker J. Palmer, is an educational non-profit organization that strengthens individuals, professions, and communities through retreats and programs that help people reconnect who they are with what they do.

Clown One Italia
Associates of Patch Adams, Ginevra Sanguigno and Italo Bertolasi lead clowning
tours in Italy. The goal of these tours is to bring love, compassion, fun and the spirit of peace and friendship everywhere for everyone.

Community Friends
Carsten Henningsen is the founding director of this non-profit organization dedicated to making high-impact investments in social businesses, micro-entrepreneurships, village collectives and community-wide enterprises, the return for which is measured in financial, social and environmental returns.

Cultural Creatives
This website provides information about the Cultural Creatives and features the book: The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World, by Paul H.Ray, PhD and Sherry Ruth Anderson PhD.

For The GrandChildren – Being Present for the Future
This organization, founded by Rich Henry and Victor Bremson, produces Intergenerational- Intercultural Dialogues and events for groups and individuals to help bring about a more environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling and socially just human presence on Earth.

Foundation for Conscious Evolution
Founded by Barbara Marx Hubbard, this site includes a newsletter and outlines inspiring and educational programs that support the conscious evolution of humanity.

Global Footprint Network
This organization’s mission is to support a sustainable economy by advancing the Ecological Footprint, a measurement tool that makes the reality of planetary limits relevant to decision-makers throughout the world.

Greenopolis.com
Greenopolis.com is the first “green,” interactive, collaborative, educational website to bring together communities, environmental organizations, universities, foundations and corporations to reward individuals for making incremental positive environmental changes.

HeartMath
This organization is internationally recognized for being dedicated to facilitating
heart-based living—people relying on the intelligence of their heart in concert with their minds to improve health, performance, relationships and well-being at home and in the workplace.

Interaction Associates
President and CEO Linda Dunkel collaboratively leads this company, which helps
clients solve business problems, drawing on nearly 40 years of innovation in the
people-and-performance side of business.

Kyosei Consulting International, Inc.
Andrea Jacques is the CEO of this company which is a human resources training,
development, and consulting firm dedicated to creating a new vision of work.

Manjari Sankurathri Memorial Foundation
Founded by Dr. Chandra Sankurathri, this foundation promotes rural community
development through education, health care and disaster relief programs.

Meetup.com
Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups making it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting face-to-face.

Mindfulness Meditation CDs and Tapes
The site offers mindfulness CDs and information about programs, retreats and
workshops lead by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, an internationally known meditation teacher, author, researcher, and clinician in the fields of mind/body medicine, integrative medicine, lifestyle change, and self-healing.

Pachamama Alliance
Co-founded by Lynne Twist, the Pachamama Alliance’s mission is two-fold: To preserve the Earth’s tropical rainforests by empowering the indigenous people who are its natural custodians; to contribute to the creation of a new global vision of equity and sustainability for all.

Portfolio21
Carsten Henningsen is the chairmen of this company, which has been a pioneer in the field of social and environmental investing since 1982.

Quest for Global Healing
This site features information about the Bali conferences organized and produced by Marcia Jaffe and her team in 2004 and 2006.

Society for Organizational Learning
Founded by Peter Senge, SOL’s purpose is to discover (research), integrate (capacity development) and implement (practice) theories and practices of organizational learning for the interdependent development of people and their institutions and communities.

Soul of Money Institute
Lynne Twist founded this institute which is a center for exploring and sharing the
best practices, theories, and attitudes that enable people to relate to money and the money culture with greater freedom, power and effectiveness.

Sound Essence Project
Susan Bradbury developed this non-profit corporation with the intention to create a cross-cultural network of resources in an environment of mutual learning with an emphasis on cultural sustainability.

Turn Your Face to the Sun Travel
Founded by Nancy Klinkhamer, this company offers stimulating and spiritual travel experiences that combine activity, interaction with local cultures and viewing aweinspiring sacred sites.

US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
This site includesThe Inspired Futures Campaign, a national initiative lead by Douglas Cohen to make available to youth (15 to 30 years old) programs of leadership development and inter-generational mentoring.

Walking Together for Health and Development
This site features the work of Susan Smith and her team who are devoted to fostering self-sufficiency and rebuilding community in Tlamacazapa,Mexico.

Wildly Free Woman
Developed by Gaye Abbott,WildyFreeWoman is a website dedicated to the luxuriant growth and embodied confident expression of all women everywhere, assisting women 50+ to lead a heart and soul satisfying life!

World Center of Compassion for Children International
Betty Williams is the founder of this organization. Its mission is to create a strong political voice for children in areas of stress due to war, hunger or social, economic, or political upheaval and to respond to their expressed needs materially and emotionally