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THE JOURNAL OF THE 2019 CONFERENCE FOR GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION Listening for Fulfillment May 17, 18 and 19, 2019 Hollywood, California Volume 19, Number 1 EDITOR Melinda Voss EDITORIAL TEAM Joan Bordow Sam Bowen Ruth B. Shields Scott Wolf COPY EDITORS Susan Bouet Meredith Boyles Cecilia Burch Bill Paul Jane Self Julia Simms Stuart Tanenbaum ©2019 Landmark Worldwide. Portions of this work may be subject to the copyright of others and are used by permission. All rights reserved. No portion of this Journal may be reproduced in any form without express permission of the author(s). TABLE OF CONTENTS DISCOVERIES FROM THE INQUIRIES 05 FOREWORD Melinda Voss, Editor 100 HOW DO I DISCOVER? 07 THREE CHOICE PAPERS Susie Fraser Melinda Voss 101 FROM WHAT FIELD AM I REPORTING? 09 LEARNING TO LISTEN: DISCOVERIES AND J. Belle Bell PRACTICES 104 FORGIVENESS AS A WAY OF LIFE D. Nathalie Concepcion Jane Grandbouche and John Corbiere 13 USING ANXIETY FOR PURPOSE 106 INQUIRY: LOVING THE JOURNEY OF LIFE Jill Rickards Sarah Thomas 17 SMALL CHANGES PRODUCE GREAT 109 SPAGHETTI AND WAFFLES TRANSFORMATIONS Alisa Reynolds Rosy Navarro 111 BEING MYSELF FROM COMPASSION AND LOVE 20 POVERTY: IS IT SOLVABLE? Susanne Mähler Sophia Olivas 113 ON THE ROAD TO LISTENING: WHAT IF I’M A 28 GETTING TO ZERO DURING THE VERB, NOT A NOUN? 2014 EBOLA OUTBREAK Chris Kirtz Katharina Wuppinger 116 A WORLD VIBRATING WITH INFINITE 32 FULFILLMENT AND DOMINATION RESOURCES FULFILLED Tony Graddon Ina R. Ames 37 LEADING CHANGE: EMPOWERING NEPALI GIRLS 118 INQUIRY: WHEN STRUCTURE Sara Safari BECOMES UNSTRUCTURED 44 BEYOND INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE: THE Larry Bernard FULFILLMENT OF LOVE, RESPECT AND 120 SOCIAL COMMONS: THE MEMORY YOU FORGOT CONNECTION IN AUSTRALIA Chris Doonan Merilyn Skelton 121 ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE 49 LISTENING TO LIFE’S LONGING FOR ITSELF Andy Gonzalez Tom Braford 122 SAYING, SHOWING AND LISTENING – AN 55 CAN OUR CLIMATE CRISES BE INVESTIGATED BY EXPLORATION OF LISTENING IN DISCOURSING LISTENING FOR FULFILLMENT? Ed Stroupe Karl Zeller and Ned Nikolov 131 IS THERE A POSSIBILITY OF UNITY IN 62 GLOBAL MADNESS: WHAT MUST HAPPEN TO YOUR PROMISE? UNITE? Mike Ginn Fred Moss 133 THE EMERGENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF 66 HOT WRITERS’ GROUP: LISTENING, COMMUNITY CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE INTEGRAL ARTS OF AND FULFILLMENT HUMAN THRIVING Toby Goldberg, Melissa Gold, Carol Mark and Brian McFadin Lorraine “Rain” Warren 71 TRANSFORMING FAMILIES – LEADERSHIP AND REPORTS FROM THE FIELD FULFILLMENT IN A CHALLENGING AND FORMIDABLE WORLD 146 THE NOVA STORY Cheryl Fox Krishna Nair 78 LISTENING FOR FULFILLMENT: IN THE MOMENT, 149 VOICES FROM THE FIELD BACK AND FORWARD Susan Katz Clark Lorraine “Rain” Warren 152 LISTENING FOR FULFILLMENT AS 83 THE LAST KISS GOODBYE A NONPROFIT FOUNDER John Robert Niec Susan Hoskins 91 IN SEARCH OF LIFE-DEFINING MOMENTS 154 JENNIFER’S DREAM FULFILLED Wayne Davis Jennifer Brown (continued on next page) (TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTINUED) 155 BEING THE SOURCE OF OUR WELL-BEING: 190 ANSWERING THE CALL: LEARNING TO TEACH AND TRANSFORMING “HEALTH CARE” TEACHING TO LEARN Stuart Apony Ruth B. Shields 158 LISTENING FOR FULFILLMENT IN FAILURE: THAT 192 BECOMING A WISDOM FACILITATOR BIG JOB I THOUGHT I HAD Douglas Dunn Heather Shapter 194 HOLLYWOOD IS LISTENING: SPIRITUAL DIVERSITY 161 A NEW MODEL OF CONNECTEDNESS FOR SOCIAL IN EDUCATION – THE FUTURE FULFILLED IN MEDIA THE NOW Danica Lani Deborah Robin Mech 164 TRANSFORMATION: THE LAW OF UNINTENDED POSSIBILITIES 196 DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION – AS THE Virginia Beck FULFILLMENT OF THE ANALOGUE TRANSFORMATION INSIDE TIME, SPACE AND 166 A NEW ECONOMIC PARADIGM LEADERSHIP Wendell Fitzgerald Martin Michaelis 168 FROM STREET LIFE TO SWEET LIFE – AN 198 THE ROLE OF “MEETINGS” IN THE CREATION OF EXPLORATION OF POSSIBILITY FOR SPANISH A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE GALGOS AND PODENCOS Fiona Pelham Bernie Bonar 200 TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAVEL 170 MEASURES: PRACTICING THE ART E. Chloé Lauer OF COMPARISON Tom Braford 202 BECOMING THE ME I KNOW MYSELF TO BE Fred Moss 172 THE PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD’S RELIGIONS ROCKS 205 BEHIND THE MASK The Rev. Eileen L. Epperson Eva-Rivca 173 A TOUCH OF TRANSFORMATION: GIVING 206 FINDING A WAY TO WATER MASSAGES TO PEOPLE LIVING WITH CANCER AND Paolo Visentin PALLIATIVE CARE 207 FROM THE FIELD OF AGING François Guay Alberta Roman 175 EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT 209 THE HEALING POWER OF ART HUNGER: FOOD INSECURITY IN NEW YORK Dorothy Weintraub Lawrence Hui 210 DON’T WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE ON YOUR 177 LISTENING FOR JOY – A CLEARING FOR DEATHBED: SAY IT NOW (WITH LOVE)! COMMUNITY SELF-EXPRESSION Jason Winfrey Terrence McClain 212 ANSWERING THE RIME MAGIC KNOCK 179 I PROMISE TO TRANSFORM THE TEACHING OF Meredith Wiley MATHEMATICS WORLDWIDE 215 FROM PARALYSIS TO MARATHON Joe Ousby Kristin Tracy 181 PERFORMING MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY – FULFILLING ON A COMMITMENT TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT APARTHEID Susie Miles 218 JOURNAL AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES 184 COLLECTING VINYL RECORDS AS AN ACCESS TO 222 KEYNOTE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES EXPANDING APPRECIATION OF ANYTHING AND LISTENING FOR FULFILLMENT (LITERALLY) 223 BREAKOUT SESSION PRESENTERS THROUGH MUSIC Chris Doonan 236 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION 185 TRANSFORMATION: THE DANCE BETWEEN TIME, CONVERSATION AND BEING Virginia Beck 187 FULFILLMENT THROUGH DIGNITY AND RESPECT Tracy A. Hunt 4 Journal of the 2019 Conference for Global Transformation, Volume 19, No. 1 FOREWORD MELINDA VOSS, EDITOR This year’s conference theme, “Listening for Fulfillment,” can be seen from many different prisms put forth by the authors in this journal. Most likely, their writings will inspire you, challenge your thinking and open new inquiries and possibilities. A few may even mystify or delight you. Some may require deep thinking on your part. Some may stimulate you to launch your own inquiries, such as: What does it take to listen for fulfillment? What’s the experience of listening for fulfillment? Is this listening simply allowing something to be said, a place to come from or a practice to develop? What is it for you? We start with Nathalie Concepcion, who looks study of global economics from last year by at six discoveries she made on this journey examining why wealth inequality is growing. He and offers what it takes to listen. Jill Rickards poses a key question: Is listening for fulfillment explores anxiety, which often gets in the way for Self or society? The next two papers address of listening and relates what she discovered issues related to girls and women. Sara Safari about using anxiety as a lens for listening. describes her quest – with its life-threatening Rosy Navarro describes how she listened for moments – to empower girls in Nepal, and fulfillment through her father’s wise words Merilyn Skelton details a wrenching personal and by asking herself, “Do I really want to learn story that led to her project for eliminating English? Am I willing to pay the price for it?” intimate partner violence in Australia. Shifting to global transformation, Sophia From there, three papers focus on our use of Olivas distinguishes some types of poverty resources and the role that community plays often hidden from our view and ponders: Is in creating workability. Tom Braford lays out poverty solvable? What listening would it take how he has been listening for fulfillment of his to solve it? What would happen if we solved life’s longing for the past 40 years or so as a poverty? For Katharina Wuppinger, it was professional community builder. His main work her Landmark training that served her when has been to create sustainable communities in she was drawn – almost unwillingly – into St. Louis, Missouri and beyond. Karl Zeller and the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. Ned Nikolov weave together the process of how they discovered something they believe breaks Using a wider lens, Tony Graddon builds on his new ground and listened to each other and the Journal of the 2019 Conference for Global Transformation, Volume 19, No. 1 5 reaction of the scientific community when their findings disrupted some long-standing thinking about climate change. Fred Moss challenges our thinking once again by looking at global madness and what it will take for humanity to unite. The hot writers’ group, which includes Toby Goldberg, Melissa Gold, Carol Mark and Lorraine “Rain” Warren, presents a joyful collection of haikus and thoughts about working together on writing since last year’s Conference for Global Transformation. The next two authors confront being viewed as the “other” or “less than.” What’s incorporated into each of these narratives – through the breakdowns and breakthroughs – is the discovery and practice of being cause in the matter of one’s life. As a lesbian mother living in Virginia, Cheryl Fox found one day in 1997 that her former husband had up and moved with their two children to California without telling her. What followed led to a life focused on transforming not just her extended family but many troubled families in Ventura, California. Lorraine “Rain” Warren experienced transformation after transformation via her participation in Landmark courses. Each time, she invented possibilities that broadened views of her childhood, a grade school teacher, white and black people and her ability to make a global impact with children and adults who have experienced trauma. Finally, John Robert Niec and Wayne Davis write inspired accounts involving life and death. Niec evokes a tenderness and loving support for his aging parents in their last days. Prompted by the diagnosis of a progressive brain disorder, Davis recounts how his life, through many circumstances and tribulations, transformed and has left him asking, “What do I want to accomplish in the time I have left?” That’s a powerful inquiry for any of us. I invite you to take it on. 6 Journal of the 2019 Conference for Global Transformation, Volume 19, No.

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