Sponsored by Association for Humanistic Psychology

A 12 Hour Workshop for General Public and Professionals

You Were Born for Such a Time!
Navigating Personal Transition & High Evolutionary Stress

with

James O'Dea
Global Transformation & Leadership
Learn How to Navigate Change
Social Transformation

All Day Workshop
April 4,2009
Seattle
9 AM-9 PM
Seattle Unity Sanctuary
200 8th Ave N
Seattle 98109

For professionals/public
FEE: $125 (includes  lunch. dinner, snacks)
(AHP members: IONS members: $110).
 

You Were Born for Such a Time as This Workshop (4/04/09) with James O'Dea, follows an evening presentation (4/03/09) with a culturally diverse panel of community leaders to introduce the topic.

Sponsored by
Association for Humanistic Psychology



9.0 CEC's for
Nurses,
Social Workers, Counselors,
Marriage & Family Therapists

CEC's paid on site: $10
9.0 Continuing Education Units

The Heritage Institute
.9 CEU's for Health  & 9 Clock Hours/PDU's for  Educators
Cont Ed Qtr. Credits Availablle

AN ALL DAY WORKSHOP 4-04-09
Immerse yourself in a 12 hour experiential retreat with James O'Dea, where consciousness informs personal and collective transformation. James is a noted global transformation leader and world change catalyst who is known for social healing. Recent Past President of The Institute of Noetic Sciences and consultant to several global change initiatives.

Discover how templates for social healing and social synergy and social transformation apply to your own work.  In a time of high evolutionary stress and transition, as change accelerates and emerging worldviews have greater space for inclusion and acceptance in broader social contexts, we will explore our own assimilation of change and deeper transformation.

This will be an interactive exploration into what it spells for how we collaborate with others and experience greater synergy. Open to professionals/public/social change leaders.

Immerse yourself in a 12 hour experiential retreat where consciousness informs personal & collective transformation. Learn how to work with collective intelligence. Find out how to work effectively with personal and global change. Discover how to activate your authentic paradigm shift and become a world catalyst in critical times.

On April 4, 2009
Professionals/Public/Social Change Leaders Are Invited
To Spend A Day and An Evening
with
James O'Dea
Global Transformation Leader

Understand the principals needed to midwife the old paradigm of consumption to a new era of global transformation. Learn how you can effectively help others through chaotic, troubled times. Discover personal essential skills for dealing with change.

What Are Templates for Social Healing?
James works on international and domestic social healing projects and has along history of work in this arena. The workshop will cover best practices and issues in this emerging field including: mutual acknowledgment work; accessing dimensions of truth; reconciliation, atonement, forgiveness, healing of memories, compassionate listening and restorative justice and victim/perpetrator issues.

How Does Social Synergy and Social Transformation Relate?
James is part of an evolutionary leaders group with prominent leaders in evolutionary theory, social change and transformational leadership and has considerable professional experience working with researchers, theorists and practitioners in this areas. The workshop will cover social neuroscience and social contagion theories and how synergy is catalyzed...as well as" synergistic convergence".

What Do We Mean by Evolutionary Stress and Whole Systems Transition
James is engaged with a broad cross-sector of multi-disciplinary colleagues on initiatives around whole systems transition. The workshop will cover how we map evolutionary change and how we manage the interfaces of current social, historical and evolutionary stresses that go from system wide collapse and transition to personal crisis and breakthrough.
 

James O'Dea, a consciousness transformational leader, who integrates lifelong experience as a social justice advocate, a cultural change catalyst & educator will guide you to discover your own wisdom and insight for the times ahead.

Gain a perspective on personal transformation and how relates to a changing world. Learn about contemporary social movements; the latest in science as it applies to social healing; how to apply systems theory; and understand the root dynamics of disintegrating personal, global, and cultural systems.

Learn to work fluidly with the change process for others. Discover how to evaluate personal assumptions/belief systems and discover a hopeful approach to reframing personal and collective crisis. Gain access to new forms of collaboration emerging from outmoded belief systems.

Whether you are a professional helping others or someone in the midst of personal or collective change, by the end of the workshop, you will have an appreciation of how YOU ARE BORN FOR SUCH A TIME AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. Amid crisis, be able to effectively navigate a world in flux.

    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.

    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.

James O'Dea is a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and was until recently its President.  IONS 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 Earth.

He 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.

Also see this page of a past workshop on Conscious Universe where James O'Dea's bio includes links to recent works.

James O'Dea's Web Site.

Link directly to James O'Dea Luminary page on Shift in Action.

Continuing education clock hours/PDUs/CEUs or Continuing Education Quarter Credit is available for educators and health professionals through The Heritage Institute affiliated with Antioch University Seattle.
Fee: $15

Contact: info@transformativegroups.com