One Spirit Learning Alliance
Founded in 2001 by Rev. Diane Berke and Rev. Joyce Lichtenstein in the aftermath of September 11th, One Spirit Learning Alliance is a New York-based interspiritual education community whose vision is to inspire and advance the evolution of sacred consciousness in service to individuals, communities, and the earth. Rather than asking seekers to choose one […]
The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC)
The Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee (IPACC) is the largest Indigenous peoples’ network in the world — a membership organization representing 135 communities across 21 African countries, from hunter-gatherer peoples of the Kalahari to nomadic pastoralists of the Sahel. Founded in 1997, IPACC works at the intersection of human rights, environmental justice, and the […]
YES!
YES! (Youth for Environmental Sustainability), founded by two teenagers in California in 1990 Ocean Robbins & Ryan Eliason, connects, inspires, and collaborates with change-makers to build thriving, just, and regenerative ways of life for all. The organization provides co-creative brave spaces for people gifted with compassion and a desire to make a difference—people looking for […]
The Wellbeing Project
The Wellbeing Project, conceived in 2014 as a co-creation, works to integrate inner wellbeing and social change, recognizing that cultural and systemic transformation requires the effort, insight, and input of different groups woven into a larger whole. Today over 60 institutions worldwide co-create the Project, including leading nonprofits, intermediaries, foundations, universities, media groups, venture capital […]
Alliance for Relational Repair and Mutuality
The Alliance for Relational Repair and Mutuality invites people across race, class, and gender into the slow, courageous work of healing the wounds left by chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and systems that divide us. The organization nurtures practices and tends relationships that restore dignity, belonging, and interconnection, serving as a hub where relational repair circles […]
Regenerating Paradise
Regenerating Paradise is a nonprofit organization formed in the wake of the Camp Fire with a mission “to weave the social fabric that regenerates us.” The organization defines regenerating as a process of rebuilding and recovery that, as in regenerative agriculture, replenishes rather than depletes. Looking to Ridge community residents for resources, Regenerating Paradise works […]
Building Resilience
Building Resilience: Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery by Daniel P. Aldrich examines why responses to disaster recovery vary greatly in ways not explained by the magnitude of catastrophe or amount of aid provided. The difference between resilience and disrepair, Aldrich shows, lies in the depth of communities’ social capital. The book highlights the critical role […]
Flow Genome Project
Flow Research Collective brings together award-winning academics, artists, special operations commanders, professional athletes, Fortune 500 business leaders, and experts dedicated to peak performance, building world-class training programs on peak performance, optimal psychology, and leadership. The organization charges a premium for world-class trainings while open sourcing content for free, helping people make better sense of their […]
Brett KenCairn
Brett KenCairn is the Founding Director of Center for Regenerative Solutions and Senior Policy Advisor for Climate and Resilience in the City of Boulder’s Climate Initiatives Team, where he coordinates the city’s nature-based solutions work. Brett has worked across the western U.S. in community-based initiatives in rural, Native American, and other marginalized communities, and is […]
Julian Brave NoiseCat
Julian Brave NoiseCat is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award and the first Indigenous North American author to ever write about healing from intergenerational trauma by getting stoned with his dad in the pages […]
Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams has been called “a citizen writer,” a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, Williams has consistently shown how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. She has testified before Congress […]
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), specializing in integral ecology, environmental humanities, religion and ecology, integral theories and philosophies, Jungian and transpersonal psychology, archetypal cosmology, Romanticism and German Idealism. Sean Kelly received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Ottawa in […]
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
We’ve all wondered, at some point, what drives a person to the edge — what could possibly bring someone to a place where survival itself seems secondary to the next fix. In In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, physician Gabor Maté answers that question not with judgment but with one of […]
On Death and Dying
This now controversial book, On Death and Dying by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, is still one of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century. It grew out of her famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and […]
From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing
From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing: A Revolutionary Approach to Growing Older by Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Ronald S. Miller emerged from Reb Zalman’s personal mission to confront his fears about death and infirmity. Through a vision quest, study with Sufi masters, Buddhist teachers, and Native-American shamans, he found a way to turn aging into the most […]
The Responsibility Process
The Responsibility Process is a behavioral science framework and the world’s first proven how-to approach for understanding, teaching, and taking personal responsibility. The framework helps people apply their innate leadership ability to face and overcome any challenge by operating in freedom, power, and choice—and encouraging those they lead to do likewise. The organization’s purpose is […]