Welcome to Shift in Action!

For a limited time, you can explore the program for a trial month for only $1, which includes the Living Deeply book, and features the deepest insights of 60 major spiritual leaders. A Living Deeply Practice CD then helps you put this insight into practice.

Includes:

• BOOK: Living Deeply: The Art & Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, by Drs. Marilyn Mandate Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten, and Tina Amorok

• Living Deeply Practice CD — Featuring 11 leaders such as Michael Bernard Beckwith

• The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future

ACCESS TO 500 HOURS OF ARCHIVES with 150 leaders such as: Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Neale Donald Walsch, Larry Dossey, Caroline Myss, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Candace Pert, James Redfield, Jeanne Achterberg, Matthew Fox, Michael Murphy, Paul Ray, Peter Russell, Joan Borysenko, Sam Keen, and Willis Harman.

• SHIFT magazine

• LIVE TELESEMINARS every week

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Welcome!

The Shift in Action website is organized in five sections. You can read a detailed description of each section by moving your mouse over the list to the left and this center box will change. You will find section summaries with links to highlights below.

• Live Teleseminar Calendar
• Audios
• Videos
• Articles
• Transcripts

• Blogs
• Personal Profile
• Professional Profile

• Blogs
• Forums

• GaiaStar Room
• Shakuhachi Room
• Thich Nhat Hahn Room

• Event listings
• Community Groups List
• Community Group Network Information

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Living Deeply

The Living Deeply Teleseminar series is complete now. To listen to past recordings of the Living Deeply Teleseminars, click here.

We're now expanding our work to a wider audience through a new, free Internet radio program. It will be hosted by Shift in Action founder Stephen Dinan on VoiceAmerica, the largest Internet talk radio channel. Guests will include some of your favorite luminaries from the last three years of Shift in Action, talking about their latest work. Shows will air live at 9 am Pacific time on Tuesday mornings and re-air at 9 pm Pacific. All shows will also be archived and released on the Shift in Action website.

Van Jones
Tuesday, January 13th at 9:00 am PST
New York Times best-selling author of The Green Collar Economy, president of Green for All, and an influential voice in President-elect Obama's energy policy. Van has also been one of IONS top-rated conference presenters and is increasingly hailed as one of the most important leaders of our day. (full bio)

• Jan. 13th - Van Jones - Green for All
• Jan. 20th - TBA
• Jan. 27th - Aqeela Sherrills - Reverence Movement
• Feb. 3rd - Barbara Marx Hubbard - Synergistic Democracy
• Feb. 10th - Andrew Harvey - Evolutionary Mysticism and the Birth of the Divine Human
• Feb. 17th - Shiva Rea - The Leading Edge of Yoga
• Feb. 24th - Sadhguru - Bringing Spirituality Alive Now (pre-record)
• Mar. 3rd - Dean Radin - Entangled Minds
• Mar. 10th - Edgar Mitchell - Consciousness Science
• Mar. 17th - TBA
• Mar. 24th - Stanislav Grof - The Future of Psychology
• Mar. 31st - TBA
• Apr. 7th - Chip Conley - Enlightened Entrepreneurship
• Apr. 14th - Hazel Henderson - Reforming the Global Casino

All Upcoming Teleseminars

Hazel Henderson teleseminar on "An Economic Vision for the New Administration"(Wed, Jan 7, 2009)

Daniel Siegel teleseminar on "The Neurobiology of Interconnection"(Wed, Jan 14, 2009)

Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey teleseminar(Wed, Jan 21, 2009)

Diane Powell teleseminar on "The ESP Enigma: The Scientific Case for Psychic Phenomena"(Wed, Jan 28, 2009)

Wilford Welch teleseminar on "Tactics of Hope"(Wed, Feb 11, 2009)

Recent Teleseminars

Jeremy Geffen teleseminar on "Multidimensional, Whole-Person Medicine for the 21st Century" Oncologist and pioneer in integrative medicine, Dr. Jeremy Geffen, provides insights into his seven levels of healing program during this teleseminar with host Marilyn Schlitz. (Wed, Dec 17, 2008)

Jeremy Taylor teleseminar on "Dreams and the Roots of Love, Violence and Creativity" In this teleseminar, author, dream work innovator and Unitarian Universalist minister Dr. Jeremy Taylor describes the importance of dreams with host Tina Amorok, he describes how the dream work process provides an opportunity to work through unconscious f (Tue, Dec 16, 2008)

Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo teleseminar on "The Confluence of Many Streams" International spiritual teacher, author, and catalyst for peace, Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo shares wisdom from her Cherokee tradition with host Angela Murphy. (Wed, Dec 10, 2008)

Ervin Laszlo teleseminar on "Worldshift: Evolution Or Extinction - Your Way To Evolution" Author Ervin Laszlo, PhD, discusses his theories of evolution and the tipping point that determines whether we head toward mass extinction or a sustainable world. He emphasizes the importance of recognizing our connection to each other. Some call it intu (Tue, Dec 9, 2008)

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee teleseminar on "Global Oneness Project" Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee has traveled to the far corners of the earth to create a remarkable video library of insight and inspiration called the Global Oneness Project. He shares stories with host Stephen Dinan, of remarkable people who work in slums, combat (Wed, Dec 3, 2008)

Dacher Keltner teleseminar on "Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life" Author and professor of psychology Dacher Keltner talks about his research on the biological and evolutionary origins of human goodness, inspired by Charles Darwin’s surprising insights. (Tue, Dec 2, 2008)

Debbe Kennedy teleseminar on "Putting Our Differences to Work" The leadership landscape has changed. Today its call touches all of us. It is as local as sitting at your own desk or as global and collaborative as differences, distance, and technology will take us. (Wed, Nov 26, 2008)

Consciousness and Healing

With medical and health insurance costs skyrocketing and millions of people having no insurance at all, there is growing professional frustration and despair among physicians. More and more patients are seeking alternative treatments, in which physicians are not well-enough informed to take part.

The Consciousness & Healing channel is hosted by Marilyn Schlitz and features content that calls health professionals and patients alike to carry the responsibility to help craft a new, more fitting way of practicing medicine in light of the major crisis in the practice and delivery of healthcare in the United States.

On this channel we take the time to consider the integral perspective, the view that the scientific quest is incomplete without data from many domains of inquiry, and that human transcendence can occur in the face of illness and disease.

Recent guests have included Deepak Chopra, Barbara Dossey, Neale Donald Walsch, Candace Pert, Jeanne Achterberg, Michael Harner, Howard Martin, James Gordon and Elliott Dacher. All these teleseminars are available for download from the Consciousness and Healing home page.

Join us every six weeks for a fascinating new exploration of the frontiers of health and healing!

ConverZations that Matter

ConverZations that Matter: Frontiers of Race, Cosmology, and Consciousness brings consciousness studies down to earth, making them real and relevant for everyday life, looking especially at questions of race, cosmology and consciousness.

Host Belvie Rooks explores the full spectrum, from street realities to cosmic visions of human potential, with guests committed to harnessing frontier science and philosophy in the service of healing.

Belvie is an IONS board member and executive producer of Watts Up!, an IONS-sponsored documentary about 17-year-old Demaria Perry's journey from Watts, California to the Quest for Global Healing Conference in Bali. The conversations that Demaria shared with such visionaries as IONS founder Edgar Mitchell and Archbishop Desmond Tutu in Bali during filming inspired the ConverZations that Matter series.

Recent guests have included Brian Swimme, Dr. Michael Lerner, Drew Dellinger, Barbara Holmes, R. Dafina Kuficha, Matthew Fox, Thomas DeWolf, John Powell, Ruth King, Vincent Harding and Edgar Mitchell. All these teleseminars are now available for download from the Converzations home page.

Also, feel free to visit the Watts Up! homepage: www.wattsupjourney.com

Entangled Minds

The guests on Entangled Minds are scientists devoted to exploring the frontiers of consciousness research, including evidence suggestive of the survival of consciousness after bodily death, psychic abilities, mystical states of awareness, distant healing, mind-matter interaction phenomena, and other forms of exceptional human experience.

Recent guests have included Russell Targ, Roger Nelson, Charles Tart, Arthur Hastings, Will Arntz, Loyd Auerbach, Stephan Schwartz, Gary Schwartz, Bruce Lipton, and Rollin McCraty. All these teleseminars are available for download from this channel home.

Host Dean Radin is also the creator of the Psi Arcade, an amusing and engaging way to participate in games that advance our understanding of psychic phenomena.

Quest for Global Healing

The Quest for Global Healing channel explores how to deal with wounds created by conflict, collective trauma and large-scale oppression. We highlight areas of collective experience which remain unresolved, neglected, and repressed within the psyche of groups and even nations.

Our focus is on consciousness rather than politics per se; global healing is psycho-spiritual in nature and only activist in its consequences. The primary modalities for this work are truth, reconciliation, forgiveness and restorative justice.

This vital and emerging field of inquiry empowers us to dialogue with history - and history in the making – and not simply experience it as a series of externalized events or enactments that are beyond our reach. Join us in engaging some of the most amazing social healers of our time.

In the last year, we've hosted teleseminars with Jean Houston, Frances Moore Lappe, Azim Khamisa, Andrew Cohen, Kaethe Weingarten, Robin Casarjian, and Ervin Laszlo. Partners can now download all of these teleseminars from the Quest for Global Healing home page.

Radical Spirit

The Radical Spirit channel explores the meeting point between consciousness and societal change, highlighting leaders who exemplify spiritual depth and passionate engagement in public processes, as well as offering practical steps to engage change work in life-enhancing ways.

We are especially focused on bridging between different evolutionary movements such as spiritual practice and political change. Our preference is to look at the leading edge – how is a more integral version of spiritual activism emerging in a next generation of leaders? How are these leaders engaging the public sphere?

This year's guests have included Marianne Williamson, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Van Jones, Corinne McLaughlin & Gordon Davidson, Saniel Bonder, Arjuna Ardagh, J. Manuel Herrera, and Noah Levine. All these teleseminars are now available for download on the channel page.

The Shift Report

Next teleseminar guest: Hazel Henderson, speaking on the subject of "An Economic Vision" on Jan 7th.

Explore the frontiers of the Global Shift with Host Matthew Gilbert.

The evidence is compelling that the arc of modern human existence is going through a difficult and uncertain transition, driven by breakdowns in old worldviews and the emergence of new ones. Foundational changes are occurring across a wide spectrum of industries and fields of study, from medicine and business to education and politics. Many of these shifts were captured in the Institute’s acclaimed reports, The 2007 Shift Report: Evidence of a World Transforming and The 2008 Shift Report: Changing the Story of Our Future. Each one described how the assumptions we make about who we are and how reality works drive the choices we make, individually as well as collectively. Those assumptions are now changing, sparked by the intersection of new scientific research and the re-emergence of ancient wisdom.

In this series we dialogue with a variety of voices at the leading edge of these foundational changes, who discuss how we are just beginning to tap into our potential as human beings despite, or perhaps because of, the multiple crises that we are facing. Are we on the precipice of an Age of Re-Enlightenment? Tune in and find out!

Transformation in Action

Next teleseminar guest: Daniel J. Siegel on Jan 14th.

Hosted by IONS Associate Director of Research
Cassandra Vieten, the Transformation Channel explores the mystery and science of transformation with recognized experts and pioneers.

Transformation is an irreversible shift in how you experience and interpret yourself and the world around you. Often, it begins with deconstruction of old beliefs, old patterns, and outdated worldviews. This is followed by a reintegration in which new parts of you are discovered, and false selves fall away. It's a process that is ongoing, leading to increasingly broader perspectives.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences has been studying these kinds of shifts since the life-changing vision of Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, on his way back to earth from the moon. How do they happen? What conditions foster such transformations? What are their outcomes? And how can we integrate our transformations into day-to-day changes in ourselves, our communities, and our world?

We invite you to participate in these calls by bringing your own transformative vision forward, along with the tools you've found useful and the strategies to surmount difficulties. Our goal in this series is for all of us to find and express our most authentic self, one that is aligned with our greatest worldly service.

Workplace Revolution

The Workplace Revolution channel interviews a wide range of business leaders, change agents, and visionaries who believe in the potential of business to be a force for good in the world, but who also are aware of the challenges.

We address transformational strategies on both a personal and organizational level in a series of lively discussions that will explore the institution of business and our personal experiences at work from many perspectives.

Is there meaning in the workplace and hope for business to be conscious global citizens? Tune in and find out!

Our recent teleseminar guests have included Hazel Henderson, David Korten, Patricia Aburdene, Danah Zohar, Herman Maynard, and Margaret Wheatley,all of whom can now be downloaded from our channel home page.