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How to Change the World Faculty
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Louise Diamond, Ph.D.
www.louisediamond.com
diamond@louisediamond.com
 Louise Diamond is an international peacebuilder, author, and educator whose life is dedicated to helping build peace-full and healthy human systems, locally, nationally, and globally. Co-founder and president emeritus of The Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy, founder of The Peace Company, and president of Louise Diamond Consulting, Louise has deep experience as a change catalyst in war zones around the world as well as with communities, organizations, youth and families, and the terminally ill. She is the author of several books, including the best-selling The Peace Book: 108 Simple Ways to Create a More Peaceful World, and is a frequent public speaker, consultant, conference organizer and presenter. Louise, who has a Ph.D. in Peace Studies, is a visionary systems thinker and master trainer who has trained thousands around the world in areas related to human behavior, systems dynamics, inter-group relations, and the living spirit of peace.
Louise will be the principal faculty of the How to Change the World course, teaching all four seasons of the program and coordinating the participation of Guest Faculty.
Glenda H. Eoyang, Ph.D.
Human Systems Dynamics Institute
Chaos Limited, Inc.
www.hsdinstitute.org
geoyang@hsdinstitute.org
 Glenda Eoyang is a master teacher with deep insights into the art and science of self-organizing human systems. As a pioneer in the field of human systems dynamics, Eoyang applies principles of self-organizing systems to help people thrive in unpredictable environments. Since 1988, she has provided training, consulting, coaching, and facilitation support to organizations in the public and private sectors. She is currently serving as founding Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute, a network of professionals working at the intersection of complexity and social sciences. Her published works include numerous scholarly and practical articles, Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools, Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science, and Voices from the Field: An Introduction to Human Systems Dynamics.
In Season 1, Systems, the Way of the One, Glenda will speak via teleconference on the subject: The Art of Adaptation: Patterns of Human Systems Dynamics
Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo
www.beautywayproductions.com
www.sunray.org
info@beautywayproductions.com
 Venerable Dhyani Ywahoo is a global spiritual leader, peacemaker, and teacher. She is Chief of the Green Mountain Band of the Ani Yun Wiwa (Cherokee), and the founder of Sunray Meditation Society, an international non-governmental organization dedicated to planetary peace. Venerable is also recognized as Khandro ( Dakini, Sky Dancer), one who reveals secret teachings in Tibetan Buddhism. She is the author of Voices of Our Ancestors, New Crystal Teachings, Sky Dancer Teachings and Dem Ruf der Erde folgen.
In Season 1, Systems, the Way of the One, Ven. Dhyani will speak via teleconference about On Being One with All That Is.
Pat Clark Battle, Ph.D.
www.patbattleassociates.com
PATBATTLE@aol.com
 Dr. Pat Clark Battle is a renowned consultant, professor and lecturer who has worked in many parts of the world. She is the founder and president of Pat Battle Associates, an organizational consulting firm with programs on leading change, high performance through inclusion and valuing differences, leveraging the human side of technology, executive coaching, and teamwork in the new millenium. She is also the founder of the 7th Sense Leadership process, a comprehensive transformative executive program designed to help people successfully navigate the challenges of the 21st century to create and lead healthy, thriving systems. Dr. Battle is a co-creator of the Battle-Klein-Battle Resistance Style Inventory and co-author of Pigmentocracy: How Language Created, Perpetuates and Sustains it. She is often called upon as a motivational keynote speaker and conference presenter.
In Season 3, Transformation, the Way of Quantum Change, Dr. Battle will speak via teleconference on the subject, Resistance to Change: The Opportunity.
Lesley Michaels
Executive Producer, HonuaOla
www.lesleyamichaels.com
www.honuaola.com
Lesley Michaels—having moved away from a successful career in management in corporate oil—has spent the past two decades as a speaker and author. Applying a practical approach to spiritual principle she successfully assists individuals to understand their challenges and conflicts to be the doorway to their strength, internal joy and personal freedom. Most recently Ms Michaels co-founded the non-profit organization HonuaOla, which is focused on supporting the indigenous cultures of this planet, spreading awareness of planetary sustainability, and expanding communication on a variety of subject relevant to our collective challenges as a human community.
www.lesleyamichaels.com or www.honuaola.com
Victoria Hovde, RN
Vhovde@gmavt.net
 Victoria Hovde is a Registered Nurse and Licensed Five Element Acupuncturist. She has been on the faculty at the Traditional Acupuncture Institute and the Green Mountain School of Oriental Medicine, and is currently on the teaching faculty of Sunray Meditation Society. Her private practice serves people in Vermont and Pennsylvania. She also brings her experience of studies in Cherokee healing, shamanism, and meditation, as well as her training in the visual arts and love of gardening, weaving together ways to bring inner balance and harmony with all the elements.
Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson
www.visionarylead.org
cvldc@visionarylead.org
Corinne and Gordon are pioneers in applying Ageless Wisdom to the way we live, do business, govern ourselves, and think about the world. Together they co-founded the Sirius Community, a pre-eminent ecovillage in Massachusetts, plus the Center for Visionary Leadership, an educational center that supports and develops values-based visionary leadership in all fields of human endeavor, especially business and politics. They also co-authored the groundbreaking book Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out. Corinne and Gordon consult with various organizations and offer training and personal coaching for leaders. Gordon served as the Executive Director of the Social Investment Forum and The Center for Environmentally Responsible Economies. Corinne coordinated a national task force for President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development and taught politics at American University.
In Season 4, Cooperation, the Way of Creative Synergy, Corinne and Gordon will speak via teleconference on the subject of Innovation and Synthesis.
David Peter Stroh
www.bridgewaypartners.com
dstroh@bridgewaypartners.com
David Peter Stroh is a co-founder of Bridgeway Partners, which offers organizational learning, consulting, and leadership development to clients in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. He was also a founding partner of Innovation Associates, the pioneering consulting firm in the area of organizational learning. David’s expertise lies in visionary planning, leadership development, systems thinking, organization design, and change management. Clients acknowledge him for his ability to integrate diverse thinking, people and organizations; clarify the essential challenges facing them; rekindle motivation; and establish strong relationships with both individuals and organizations based on his caring, knowledge and professional approach. A well-known author and speaker, David is a charter member of the Society for Organizational Learning.
In Season 3, Transformation, the Power of Quantum Change, David will be presenting a teleconference on the subject of Turning Vicious Circles into Virtuous Circles.
Chris Thorsen
www.quantumedge.org
 Chris spent his youth surrounded by the seasons, woods and streams of Illinois and his early twenties wandering the mountain wilderness of the great North West. He then settled on the Pt. Reyes Peninsula in northern California where he raised two lovely daughters, who now have three rambunctious sons. In his mid twenties, he met Jim, who shared the Way of Haiku as a life long path of living presence, taught him zazen, and became Chris’s spiritual mentor and deepest friend. Since then he has published several collections of Haiku – Gnarled Grasses; Spring Light and recently, Wandering in Wonder, his combined works from the last forty years. For his profession, Chris draws on his background in Zen, Haiku and Aikido, the Art of Peace, to advise corporate executives on inner mastery and servant leadership.
Stephan McLaughlin, Jr
http://www.healfoundation.org
 Stephan McLaughlin, Jr., is the author of Seeking Self: an inner journey to healthy relationship and the founder of the educational nonprofit HEAL (Humans Everywhere Allied in Love). He pursues his life mission to create harmony by loving and nurturing himself and others into wholeness and integrity through his work in the areas of multiculturalism, conflict resolution, and intervention programs and processes. He also collaborates with his associates at HEAL and with other gifted facilitators from around the world to increase awareness of healthy relationship through experiential workshops and community-building groups called Circles.
James O’Dea
www.noetic.org
rosewelch@noetic.org
 James O’Dea is the President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a native of Ireland. The Institute of Noetic Sciences is a non-profit membership organization founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell which focuses on emerging paradigms, extended human capacities, and integral health and healing. Before coming to IONS in April 2003, James spent ten years as the Director of the Washington Office of Amnesty International, where he testified before Congress, met with two U.S. presidents and numerous foreign heads of state and government leaders, and represented Amnesty International to the State Department, the White House, and the World Conference on Human Rights. Subsequently, he spent five years as executive director of Seva, a non-profit organization dedicated to international health & development issues in Latin America, Asia, and on American Indian reservations. Seva is a Sanskrit word meaning service. James lived and worked in Turkey and Lebanon, and witnessed civil conflict and massacres, which influenced him deeply. He brings to IONS a sense of urgency about the issues the world currently faces, as well as an Irish sense of humor and love of language.
James is also a member of the World Wisdom Council, bringing together leaders from the Religious, Spiritual, Political, Non-Profit, and Civil Society realms to formulate a structure and support system that furthers the realization that we are one family of humankind. He lectures all over the world, and has essays published in numerous magazines and books including currently The Mystery of 2012 and Consciousness and Healing.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
 Dr. Barbara Marx Hubbard, futurist and global citizen, is a leading voice in the field of conscious evolution. Currently President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, she also co-founded the World Future Society and the Global Association for New Thought.
Barbara is currently producing a seven part documentary series entitled “Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together.” This transformational series presents vital elements to awaken the codes for our own conscious evolution and offers direction, meaning and a vision toward our birth as a new humanity.
Dr. Hubbard’s books include Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential; Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence; The Evolutionary Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future; The Hunger of Eve: One Woman’s Odyssey toward the Future; and Revelation: Our Crisis is a Birth, plus 52 Codes to Conscious Self Evolution, now in beta testing phase to develop a deepening “Communion of Pioneering Souls.”
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
 Mohammed Abu-Nimer is a Professor in the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program at the School of International Service. He is also Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute at American University. An expert on conflict resolution and dialogue for peace, Dr. Abu-Nimer has conducted research on conflict resolution and dialogue for peace among Palestinians and Jews in Israel. His work has focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and on application of conflict resolution models in Muslim communities. Dr. Abu-Nimer has also conducted interreligious conflict resolution training, and interfaith dialogue. In the last decade, Dr. Abu-Nimer has completed many evaluation projects and reports of peacebuilding and development programs. As a scholar/practitioner, he has been intervening and conducting conflict resolution training workshops in many conflict areas around the world, including Palestine, Israel, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Philippines (Mindanao), Sri Lanka and other areas. In addition to his numerous articles and publications, Abu-Nimer is the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
 Mother Earth
This fine teacher will generously share wisdom gained from 14 billion years of existence. Fields and forests, flora and fauna, mountains and mesas, rivers and rapids – her abundant gifts will provide us with both a classroom and a living curriculum. A showcase for all four of the Wisdom Ways (Systems, Power, Transformation, and Cooperation), Mother Earth will be a primary teacher and integral part of our studies in all four seasonal sessions. Her website is outside your door – go and check it out.
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