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Here is the complete schedule of speakers

CGT 2012 Program

Global Transformation—our world transformed. 

Many people have or are creating compelling visions of a new reality, visions that give new meaning to education, the environment, relationships, business, international relations, … visions that may contribute to the transformation of our world. Whatever your vision, fulfilling it will require many other people’s contributions. Aspects of your promise for the world will need to become a part of the lives of the people of the world; it will need to be woven into their regular conversations and practices. And not just the people you know or the people in your neighborhood and community, not just the people who alive today—people around the world who have yet to be born. 

But how can we accomplish this? How do we get our promises and visions for a new reality into the conversations and discourses around the world? How do we engage and foster the contributions of the diverse and varied people of the world, particularly when we do not know what is required, from whom it is required, or even what a world transformed looks like? 

What strategies, methods, techniques, etc. can we use to develop our capacity to engage the diversity of languages, cultures, governments, and traditions that currently exist? How do we address the constant uncertainty of our future? How do we foster the contributions of other people, groups, and institutions? There is much we do not know. 

What techniques have you tried for expanding the future of your promise and for engaging others in its fulfillment? What has worked? What hasn’t? What does your experience of working with promises for the world tell you about what might be required to fulfill new realities and realize a world transformed?

The Conference for Global Transformation is close at hand. We're thrilled that you will be a part of this gathering of the Wisdom community and experience the possibility of a world working for everyone. The lineup of speakers designed to empower you is remarkable.

Hear from these powerful thinkers, among others:

• Chip Wilson, founder and Chairman or the Board, lululemon athletica. A passionate entrepreneur, Wilson founded the dynamic, yoga-inspired athletic apparel company in 1998 with the mission to create components for people to live longer, healthier, and more fun lives.

• Lera Boroditsky, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Stanford University and cognitive scientist named one of the top 25 visionary leaders by Utne Reader, conducts groundbreaking research on how language shapes thoughts. Boroditsky makes the bold claim that "different languages invite speakers to develop different cognitive skills".

• Allan L. Cohen, interdisciplinary management consultant, entrepreneur, and executive, will speak about making something happen in a world made up of myriad, unpredictable, complex, and adaptive living systems with minimal intervention so as to advance the biggest of possibilities.

• Brian Regnier, Landmark Forum Leader, joins Jeffrey Ford, Professor of Management, Ohio State University, co-creator of the ever-popular State of the World Scorecard, to present the latest data on progress to date.

In addition, experts in a wide range of disciplines—art and creativity, well-being, business, organizational change, politics, technology—will lead workshops, deliver lectures and present posters that provide new insights, practices, tools, and techniques for bringing forth and fulfilling new worlds and new realities.

Here’s a sample of the many opportunities:

• Explore with Linda Hassan Anderson how to be powerful and effective in the gap.
• Look at “fields of connection” and “spaces of conversation” with Mark Weinstein.
• Learn to set up and use a structure for fulfilling your unique contribution to a transformed world with Laurie Ford.
• Find out about the fine art of wasting time with Wendy Mike.
• Learn from A. B. Orlik how to harness the power and fun of unconventional meeting practices.
• Discover how to add velocity and accomplishment to your promise for the world with Blair Barnett.
• Using movement and dialogue, in Chinarut Ruangchotvit’s workshop, deepen your ability to create possibilities for the world.
• Identify and eliminate the hidden barriers that keep you from making a commitment to transform the world with Mary Stroupe.

There’s nothing like getting together each year and connecting with powerful colleagues and like-minded people. We look forward to seeing you there.

This section will highlight people who are using the tools of the CGT to bring transformation to their communities

Zully Alvarado

For Zully Alvarado, what’s more important than creating change is creating the possibility for more change. A Chicago entrepreneur and businesswoman, Alvarado completed Power & Contribution in 2008. A presenter at the 2009 Conference for Global Transformation, Alvarado has much to share. Stricken with polio as a poor child in Ecuador, Alvarado was placed in an orphanage and almost died. Eventually, a priest sent her to America, where she became successful in the mortgage and real estate business. Being restricted to a wheelchair has never stopped her. Empowered by her Landmark Education training, she founded Causes for Change International, a Chicago-based not-for-profit that has touched the lives of more than 15,000 Ecuadorian children since 1996. As Alvarado puts it, “Empowerment perpetuates itself.” Her goal is to see Causes for Change International expand through the Americas, eventually serving communities throughout the world. She attended the 2011Conference for Global Transformation to rejuvenate her mind and body; to draw from the power and and strength generated by the conference and to prepare for the unexpected.

Liz Allen

Liz Allen likes nothing better than playing in the “sandbox of people with huge commitments.” For that reason, she has attended the Conference for Global Transformation nearly every year since it began in 2000. “I come back refueled and renewed to do the work I do,” she says.

IN 2011, Allen led a session at the conference, “Spirit – The Sixth Vital Sign” on how to sustain a promise for a lifetime. At 66, Allen is a hospital chaplain in Madison, Wis. after a long career as a clinical educator. She also is a certified leader of The CareGiver Renewal Course created by Brian Regnier of Landmark’s Wisdom Division. Allen has been leading that course nationally and internationally since the early 1990's.

She completed the Wisdom curriculum years ago, so she has had lots of practice sustaining her promise: ONE WELL WORLD: Freedom, Love, Joy and Possibility Abounding for All by 2011. Her job fits perfectly. As she notes, “There is no work here. I am paid but I am just me. I live my promise. It is the air I breathe.” For Allen, true joy in life is knowing one’s promise for the world. “He who has a why to live can put up with almost any how,” she notes. “I have it that everyone is called [to have a promise.] That way, you are being used by something greater. It fills you.”

Liz Allen's CGT 2011 presentation handout, Spirit The Sixth Vital Sign, is available for download.