Friday, June 27, 2025

Evolutionary Leadership Toolkit

 Link: https://www.evolutionaryleaders.net/download-toolkit

Evolutionary Leaders: Purpose, Mission, Vision & Principles, How We Engage

Evolutionary Leaders Circle Purpose Statement

Our purpose is to collectively inspire, support and serve conscious evolution.

Evolutionary Leaders Circle Mission Statement

United by a shared commitment to strategically engage our collective field of potential, we serve our purpose by providing opportunities for synergistic engagement among evolutionary leaders who are forging a movement for the conscious evolution of humanity. 

The Evolutionary Leaders Circle gathers annually in retreat to come into communal relationship with one another, deepening our collective consciousness and strengthening our mutual intention, thus setting the foundation for the emergence of the next steps of our evolutionary journey.

The retreat balances silence, relaxation, collaborative inquiry, and sharing amongst peers, inspiring and fostering new pathways of consciousness, capacity, collaboration, and community among us.

Together we explore ideas, perspectives and modalities that support an evolutionary worldview, pushing the edge of our collective thinking, knowing, and evolution. We seek to make insights that emerge from our exploration accessible to the public through diverse media, educational, and other relevant platforms.

Our engagement with one another inspires cooperative partnerships within the EL Circle and also enhances and amplifies the work we are already doing in our various fields of endeavor. The EL Circle strives to inspire and support evolutionary leadership and visionary action throughout the world by giving voice to conscious, transformational and evolutionary ideas that meet the challenges of our time.

 

Evolutionary Leaders Circle Vision & Principles Statement

Vision: 

To collaboratively co-create and synergize a global network of networks, organizations and individuals dedicated to accelerating the evolution of consciousness for the benefit of all life.

Principles: 

Unitive Worldview: We weave together a diverse global community in service to a universal, unitive and evolving consciousness. (Click here for the unitive narrative statement.)

Heart-Based: We balance and integrate mind- and heart-based wisdom to empower compassionate action.

Synergy: We nurture synergies that lead to constructive, creative collaboration. 

Empowerment: We are mutually supportive of each other’s uniqueness, diversity, strengths, and efforts.

Coherence: We integrate our individual and collective gifts and strengths to create super-coherence among organizations. 

Innovation: We utilize emergent social processes and technologies that bring us together and enable us to live in harmony with each other and enhance all life. 

New Narrative: We co-create a unitive new narrative of peace, well-being, and an expanded evolutionary consciousness for all humanity.

 

Evolutionary Leaders How We Engage Statement

We are a network of people who feel deep caring and a sense of urgency about the state of our world, and who each dedicate our lives and work to expressing a passionate commitment to both the inner work of human transformation and the outer work of social transformation.

We come together to catalyze and contribute to the evolution of one another and everyone whose lives we touch, and to magnify our ability to be of benefit. We aspire to pioneer the processes by which evolutionaries themselves continually evolve holistically, personally and in our service to all life.

We are committed to mentoring, coaching, inspiring and loving one another dynamically. Our convergence helps us, individually and collectively, to become more and more authentic, aligned, humble, cooperative, courageous, vulnerable, co-creative, innovative, and effective. Our engagement with one another inspires synergistic collaborations in self-organizing partnerships, in service to the emergence of a movement for the conscious evolution of humanity. 

Friday, November 8, 2024

The Holomovement Wave: Co-Creating a Ripple-Effect of Change

 Link: https://issuu.com/lightonlight/docs/theholomovementwave

Written by stewards of the movement, The Holomovement Wave: Co-Creating a Ripple-Effect of Change is an inspiring roadmap for social transformation grounded in joy, love and interconnectedness. Within the pages of this new e-publication is an invitation to join fellow stewards of the Holomovement to create a world that works for All.


Explore how you can be part of the Holomovement’s four-part call to action: Build a Culture of Love, See the Whole, Play Your Role, and Co-Create with Soul to amplify a wave of love-in-action. This e-book serves as a practical guide to building a world where collaboration and interconnectedness can flourish.

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Eco-nomics for an Ecological Civilization

Source: https://davidkorten.org/eco-nomics-for-an-ecological-civilizataion/

This paper, a companion to my earlier paper “Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence,” outlines a big picture conceptual and interdisciplinary framework for a new eco-nomics that recognizes our distinctive human nature and purpose as living beings born of and nurtured by a living Earth. This new eco-nomics is dedicated to the love of life and recognizes that money is only a number with no meaning outside the human mind. It calls us to bring forth a true civilization, an Ecological Civilization, grounded in the principles of the Earth Charter.
     – David Korten, March 29, 2024

Click on the image below to access the paper and download the PDF, or read online or from your mobile device HERE. Feel free to use this paper and its content in any way you believe may be useful in your work, community, and personal life to build public awareness and help move us forward on the path to an Ecological Civilization.

Source: https://davidkorten.org/ecological-civilization-from-emergency-to-emergence/

Ecological Civilization: From Emergency to Emergence 


Drawing on the work and insights of many colleagues and from ongoing conversations, this paper was written in an effort to connect the dots and engage a serious conversation about the causes of the existential crisis we face, while bringing a message of hope and possibility.

Click on the image below to read the paper and download the PDF. (For the best version to read via mobile devices, click HERE.) Feel free to use this paper and its content in any way you believe may be useful in your work, community, and personal life to draw attention and help move us forward on the path to an Ecological Civilization.
    – David Korten, May 25, 2021



Monday, January 15, 2024

Becoming Global Citizens for a Sustainable Society


This course introduces the SDGs and the notion of Global Citizenship through the series of lectures by renowned experts from all over the world, interviews with scholars, advocates and representatives from all different sectors, and case presentations by active global citizens. 

 

The course aims to examine and critically reflect on the revolving issues around the globe at local, national, and international levels by providing a platform where learners can virtually meet and learn from one another.

 

Learners will be able to deepen their understanding of the SDGs and global citizenship, exchange and embrace different perspectives, and challenge their own assumptions.

 

The course invites those who see themselves as global citizens as well as who aspire to assume active roles in bringing meaningful changes to oneself and to the society they are in.

 

No.ModuleUnits
1Global Citizenship and the SDGs

1) Understanding global citizenship in the context of the SDGs.

2) Why & What is Global Citizenship?

3) Issues Around Global Citizenship

2Global Citizenship in a Challenging World

Key Challenges to Global Citizenship

- Poverty & Glocal Justice

- Consumerism & Eco Justice

- Peace & Preventing Violent Extremism

- Media Influence and Critical Literacy

- Globalization & Migration

- Gender Equality

3Act to Change: Global Citizenship for Transformation

1) Highlights and Key Issues of the SDGs

2) Global Partnership for Achieving the SDGs

4Meet the Global Citizens Around the WorldCase studies of innovative movements and cases of global citizens
5Plan for Action: Becoming Active Global Citizens

1) How to become active global citizens

2) Advocacy tools and strategies

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

The Need to GROW

 Source: https://grow.foodrevolution.org/





This is a story of CUTTING-EDGE

SOLUTIONS to climate change.

With the planet on the brink of ecological disaster, with chronic disease rates skyrocketing, many are wondering...

“What can I do?”

Start by watching The Need To GROW.

An environmental film that gives the world hope.

Change happens when people know the truth.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL FILM THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAITING FOR

“No human being on the planet should miss this film.”

— Society of Voice Arts and Sciences


“Perhaps the best film on sustainability I have ever seen.”

— Teddy Grouya, Founding Director - American Documentary Film Festival


“I loved this movie...it was one of those environmental movies that gave me hope.”

— Todd James, Global News


It will make you laugh, make you cry, give you chills, and inspire you to participate in the restoration of this beautiful Earth.

The Need To GROW takes you inside the hearts and innovations of three very different leaders.

An 8-year-old girl challenges the ethics of a global organization.


A renegade farmer struggles to keep his land as he revolutionizes resource-efficient agriculture.

A visionary inventor faces catastrophe in the midst of developing a game-changing technology.

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Toolkit for Youth Eco-Activism

 Source: https://learn.ecounesco.ie/courses/toolkit-for-youth-eco-activism/

Nourishing Well-Being and Catalysing Collective Action for Earth

About this Course

Go on a journey of eco-activism using our online Toolkit for Eco-Activism!

This course follows River on her journey of self-discovery and action, building a community of like-minded people on the way, and gaining the skills and confidence to get involved in eco-activism. Whether you are an eco-activist, an educator, or a young person interested in the environment, this toolkit can have implications for your life and help you respond to social-ecological challenges.

This Toolkit is the result of the collaborative project, Youth Action for Nature and Wellbeing, which you can read more about below. In addition to this online course, the toolkit is available as a printed book and in PDF format at yafnaw.eu

How to Use the Toolkit

This course has been designed by young people for young people, aged 16 to 25. The toolkit can be used independently by the youth. It is primarily intended for individuals who wish to establish a collective group of local youth eco-activists. However, if you already have a group to collaborate with, that is fantastic.

There are two ways to use the toolkit, depending on your needs and interests as an eco-activist. One way is is to follow the toolkit linearly through the 6 Phases of Activism, or alternatively you can follow the Learning Icons, as illustrated below.

The 6 Phases of the Toolkit

The toolkit can be read linearly, from start to finish through 6 Phases of Activism. Along the way, you and River, the main character of the toolkit, will encounter a variety of animals that will present tools and activities for eco-activists to try, getting creative and using nature as a canvas. If you are new to eco-activism, we recommend you work through the 6 phases one after the other. 

The 7 Learning Ions

Another possibility is to navigate your way through the toolkit using the 7 learning icons, following your interests or needs at the time. If you are already engaged with eco-activism, you may find it more helpful to focus on what is needed at the moment or skip certain phases of your journey.

Youth Action for Nature and Wellbeing

The Youth Action for Nature and Well-Being project was funded by Erasmus+ and involved a strategic partnership between six non-governmental organisations: ECO-UNESCO, Resilience.Earth, Gaia Education, The Rural Parliament of Slovakia, Youth for Smile (Jaunatne smaidam), and Ecowellness Consulting.