THE JOURNAL of the 2019 CONFERENCE for GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION Listening for Fulfillment May 17, 18 and 19, 2019 Hollywood, California
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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 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 ©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). (continued on next page) (TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTINUED) FOREWORD 155 BEING THE SOURCE OF OUR WELL-BEING: 190 ANSWERING THE CALL: LEARNING TO TEACH AND TRANSFORMING “HEALTH CARE” TEACHING TO LEARN MELINDA VOSS, EDITOR 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 This year’s conference theme, “Listening for Fulfillment,” can be Virginia Beck FULFILLMENT OF THE ANALOGUE TRANSFORMATION INSIDE TIME, SPACE AND seen from many different prisms put forth by the authors in this 166 A NEW ECONOMIC PARADIGM LEADERSHIP journal. Most likely, their writings will inspire you, challenge your Wendell Fitzgerald Martin Michaelis 168 FROM STREET LIFE TO SWEET LIFE – AN 198 THE ROLE OF “MEETINGS” IN THE CREATION OF thinking and open new inquiries and possibilities. A few may even EXPLORATION OF POSSIBILITY FOR SPANISH A WORLD THAT WORKS FOR EVERYONE mystify or delight you. Some may require deep thinking on your part. GALGOS AND PODENCOS Fiona Pelham Bernie Bonar 200 TRANSFORMATIONAL TRAVEL Some may stimulate you to launch your own inquiries, such as: What 170 MEASURES: PRACTICING THE ART E. Chloé Lauer does it take to listen for fulfillment? What’s the experience of listening OF COMPARISON Tom Braford 202 BECOMING THE ME I KNOW MYSELF TO BE for fulfillment? Is this listening simply allowing something to be said, Fred Moss 172 THE PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD’S RELIGIONS a place to come from or a practice to develop? What is it for you? 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 We start with Nathalie Concepcion, who looks study of global economics from last year by 175 EXPANDING THE CONVERSATION ABOUT 209 THE HEALING POWER OF ART at six discoveries she made on this journey examining why wealth inequality is growing. He HUNGER: FOOD INSECURITY IN NEW YORK Dorothy Weintraub and offers what it takes to listen. Jill Rickards poses a key question: Is listening for fulfillment Lawrence Hui 210 DON’T WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE ON YOUR explores anxiety, which often gets in the way for Self or society? The next two papers address 177 LISTENING FOR JOY – A CLEARING FOR DEATHBED: SAY IT NOW (WITH LOVE)! of listening and relates what she discovered issues related to girls and women. Sara Safari COMMUNITY SELF-EXPRESSION Jason Winfrey Terrence McClain about using anxiety as a lens for listening. describes her quest – with its life-threatening 212 ANSWERING THE RIME MAGIC KNOCK Rosy Navarro describes how she listened for moments – to empower girls in Nepal, and 179 I PROMISE TO TRANSFORM THE TEACHING OF Meredith Wiley MATHEMATICS WORLDWIDE fulfillment through her father’s wise words Merilyn Skelton details a wrenching personal 215 FROM PARALYSIS TO MARATHON Joe Ousby and by asking herself, “Do I really want to learn story that led to her project for eliminating Kristin Tracy 181 PERFORMING MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY – FULFILLING English? Am I willing to pay the price for it?” intimate partner violence in Australia. ON A COMMITMENT TO RAISE AWARENESS ABOUT APARTHEID Shifting to global transformation, Sophia From there, three papers focus on our use of Susie Miles 218 JOURNAL AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES Olivas distinguishes some types of poverty resources and the role that community plays 184 COLLECTING VINYL RECORDS AS AN ACCESS TO often hidden from our view and ponders: Is in creating workability. Tom Braford lays out 222 KEYNOTE SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES EXPANDING APPRECIATION OF ANYTHING AND poverty solvable? What listening would it take how he has been listening for fulfillment of his LISTENING FOR FULFILLMENT (LITERALLY) 223 BREAKOUT SESSION PRESENTERS to solve it? What would happen if we solved life’s longing for the past 40 years or so as a THROUGH MUSIC poverty? For Katharina Wuppinger, it was professional community builder. His main work Chris Doonan 236 CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION her Landmark training that served her when has been to create sustainable communities in 185 TRANSFORMATION: THE DANCE BETWEEN TIME, she was drawn – almost unwillingly – into St. Louis, Missouri and beyond. Karl Zeller and CONVERSATION AND BEING the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. Ned Nikolov weave together the process of how Virginia Beck they discovered something they believe breaks 187 FULFILLMENT THROUGH DIGNITY AND RESPECT Using a wider lens, Tony Graddon builds on his new ground and listened to each other and the Tracy A. Hunt 4 Journal of the 2019 Conference for Global Transformation, Volume 19, No. 1 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 THREE CHOICE PAPERS thinking once again by looking at global madness and what it will take for humanity to unite. MELINDA VOSS, EDITOR 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 compassion and willingness to create his parents’ working together on writing since last year’s Choosing the top three papers last days as full, pleasurable and complete as Conference for Global Transformation. possible. See if his willingness to redesign his life is never easy. Though reviewers will inspire you to do the same no matter what The next two authors confront being viewed as had differing opinions on their circumstances you encounter. the “other” or “less than.” What’s incorporated favorite, they mostly agreed on into each of these narratives – through the Lorraine “Rain” Warren covers a wide range of her the top three papers. In thinking breakdowns and breakthroughs – is the discovery life and views on it. She methodically engages in and practice of being cause in the matter of about the conference theme, listening for fulfillment by reviewing the impact one’s life. As a lesbian mother living in Virginia, “Listening for Fulfillment,” that various Landmark courses have had on who Cheryl Fox found one day in 1997 that her former the reviewers considered what she has become in life and the mark she has already made on the world. Her poignant retelling husband had up and moved with their two moved and inspired them as well children to California without telling her. What of transforming her childhood from “terrible” to followed led to a life focused on transforming as how the theme was exemplified “many wonderful moments” offers each of us an not just her extended family but many troubled in the papers.