WORKSHOP - CLOSED
LIVING IN THE FIRE OF CHANGE DETAILS
NOVEMBER 28, 2009
In this seven hour workshop intensive:
Learn how to support self and others through chaotic, troubled times.
In a supportive way EXPLORE....
Healing and Reconciliation
Deep Listening and Dialogue
Compassion and Science
Conscious Evolution
Sacred Action
Subtle Truth
Spend time with James O'Dea, noted global transformation leader, visionary thinker & sacred activist. Develop a road map for navigating in this Time of Global Challenge. Draw strength from James’ skills as immediate past President of The Institute of Noetic Sciences, Executive Director of Seva and Director of the Washington DC office of Amnesty International, where he led global dialogues on peace and societal healing Joining James is Sequoyah Trueblood who holds a varied background in leadership within Western institutions including the U.S. Army, IONS, Harvard University Program for Extraordinary Experience Research, and Corrections Canada.Sequoyah’s ability to touch wounded hearts and sooth troubled minds with compassion has endeared him to both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people alike.
MORE ON JAMES
James O'Dea is currently:
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Collaborating with The Global Systems Initiatives in Washington DC, a project which brings together diverse systems theorists and experts to help shape government policy from a systems perspective.
Collaborating with The Global Systems Initiatives in Washington DC, a project which brings together diverse systems theorists and experts to help shape government policy from a systems perspective.•Engaged in an international team doing depth reconciliation work with 40 Israeli and Palestinian psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.
Engaged in an international team doing depth reconciliation work with 40 Israeli and Palestinian psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers.•Offering lectures and workshops on conscious evolution, spiritual activism, social healing, and social synergy. His 2009 schedule includes keynote conference presentations with Andrew Harvey and Marianne Williamson on Sacred Activism, with Brian Swimme on Cosmology, and John Major Jenkins on understanding the era of 2012.
Offering lectures and workshops on conscious evolution, spiritual activism, social healing, and social synergy. His 2009 schedule includes keynote conference presentations with Andrew Harvey and Marianne Williamson on Sacred Activism, with Brian Swimme on Cosmology, and John Major Jenkins on understanding the era of 2012.•Working with a newly formed group of 40 evolutionary leaders convened by Deepak Chopra to unify efforts in support of evolutionary changes in political, economic, ecological, scientific and health and healing arenas.
Working with a newly formed group of 40 evolutionary leaders convened by Deepak Chopra to unify efforts in support of evolutionary changes in political, economic, ecological, scientific and health and healing arenas.James O’Dea is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and was until recently its President. The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell which explores the frontiers of consciousness and global paradigm change. James O’Dea was President of IONS from April 2003 to September 2008.
He spent ten years as the Director of the Washington Office of Amnesty International, where he testified before Congress, met with two U.S. presidents and numerous foreign heads of state and government leaders, and represented Amnesty International to the State Department, the White House, and the World Conference on Human Rights.
Subsequently, he spent five years as Executive Director of the Seva Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to international health & development issues in Latin America, Asia, and on American Indian reservations. Seva is a Sanskrit word meaning service. Prior to that James lived and worked in Turkey and Lebanon, and witnessed civil conflict, war and massacre, which influenced him deeply. .
James founded and co-led an international series of "Compassion and Social Healing" dialogues funded by The Fetzer Institute. The dialogues, spanning a five year period, brought together leaders and activists in a variety of fields related to human rights, peace, and social reconciliation initiatives.
James is a member of the World Wisdom Council. This council is a coalescing of international leaders in diverse fields banding together to formulate a structure and support system that furthers the realization that we are one family of humankind. He works with emerging young leaders and the development of their initiatives, is engaged in intergenerational dialogue, and is a member of the Advisory Board of Children of the EarthHe lectures all over the world, and has essays published in numerous magazines and books including currently the Mystery of 2012 (Sounds True) Consciousness and Healing: An Integral Approach to Mind Body Medicine (Elsevier) and Earthrise: The Dawning of a New Civilization in the 21st Century ( Goi). He is currently writing a chapter for a book on Creative Atonement.
