Cultural Turning Discussion Group

Afternoon

Resources

• The Soul of Money
• Lynn Twist
•  Stroke of Insight
• TED.com – Jim Bolte Taylor
• Consciousness: The New Currency
• Kevin Billet & Brandon Bays
• Nature & the Human Soul
• Richard Plotkin
• Thomas Berry’s Books
• Life Abundant
• Sally McFague
• Margaret Wheatley
• The Blockage
• Eva Kras

• Awakening the Dreamer
• Transition towns
• Presence
• The art of Hosting (the Berkana Institute)
• The Otesha Project
• Carp Ridge Eco-Wellness Centre
• L’Arche
• 11-11-10: “New Reality” Meditation
• HeartMath
• Barbara Marx Hubbard “ The Shift”
• The New Consciousness
• The Journey
• The Field by Lynn McTaggart
• Circle of All Nations
• New Cosmology
• Kairos Centre
• Brain Swimme has new film coming out
• “The Green Beautiful” – film
• “Home” – film
• Sustainable Living Ottawa West
• Sustainable Living Ottawa East
• Faith & The Common Good
• Opportunity to Connect with
• Aboriginal Wisdom
• Standing in solidarity with Aboriginal people: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
• “Right Relations” groups
• UN Declaration on Indigenous Rights (?)
• Truth & Reconciliation Commission

Questions

• What is the work we are called at this time and in this place to help bring about the Cultural transformation required for the Great Turning?
• Where is this work underway?
• Who is already doing it?
• How can each of us contribute to the next steps?

Next Steps

• Clearly identify and express what out assumptions are as part of the old story/paradigm.
• Challenge ourselves.
• Finish a play – Nuclear Guardianship
• Start/continue in our families and communities.
• “Be Realistic: Expect Lots of Miracles”
• Avoid “us vs. them” mentality.