The Global Crisis – An Unprecedented Opportunity
Catalyzing a Second Renaissance

How can higher consciousness transform our current crises into opportunities? You are invited to join an early evening dialogue with Dr Robin Wood, Founding President of global social innovation catalyst Renaissance2, to find out. Robin brings a fun, entertaining style to an often sobering and complex topic. Cutting through the complexity and rhetoric, he challenges, empowers and inspires us with fresh insights and energy to go out and make a difference with passion and discernment.

Some of the big questions and opportunities he will be covering include:

Is There A Way Out, Up & Beyond The Other Side Of Business & Life As Usual?
The evolution of our civilization is driven by an accelerating rate of knowledge breakthroughs, new technologies and ways of organizing. Through the emerging medium of “wethink” and “wecocreate’, a few hundred million of us are shifting toward a more empathic, world-centric way of living. Yet our growing environmental footprint could trigger the extinction of 80% of all species this century, and we have only a few years left to avoid the tipping point to runaway warming and climate change.

Seeing The Simplicity The Other Side Of Complexity Through The Renaissance2 Lens
Unconscious evolution has always been driven by crises which trigger mass extinctions of species, technologies, products and organizations. Some say we are at the chaos point of no-return, others that we are at the dawn of the emergence of a new kind of human being. Dr Wood believes it is both more complex and yet simple. He’ll explain how global trends are:

• encouraging the conscious development of body, mind and spirit in self, culture and nature in myriad ways
• enabling conscious evolution to catch-up with and tame the runaway growth of our economies and technologies
• catalyzing a new interactive form of collective consciousness which is aware of the whole global system and able to effectively deal with previously insurmountable global challenges.

Creating Our Own Energy, Information & Wellbeing: Power To The People From The Bottom Up

Robin will explain the new global dynamic he calls "Power to the People" , whereby

• resilient, thriving human habitats are being enabled by
• socially entrepreneurial systems providing
• renewable energy solutions, biosphere renewal services, bottom-up funding mechanisms,
• catalyzed by meshworked organizational approaches, worldcentric mindsets and mass interactive innovation.

Aligning People, Planet & Profit 2.0 By 2020 Is Doable With A Skip In Your Step

He will also talk about the formation of the R2 WorldShift Leadership Circle and the upcoming events in Perpignan France during May and October 2010. http://bit.ly/92wBED            Not to be missed!

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Short Biography : Dr Robin Wood

Dr Robin Wood is a futurist, strategist, evolutionary and entrepreneur who has advised and worked at board level in hundreds of global organizations, governments and NGO's in 30 countries over 3 decades. Robin is recognized internationally as being in the vanguard of integral leaders and innovators. Based in the South of France and London, he has founded, developed and supported the transformation of organizations to realize their full potential in sustainable ways. View his Linked-In profile here: http://bit.ly/aQPhX8

His award winning book "Managing Complexity" mapped out the challenges of and solutions to doing business in the global digital economy, and his new book: "The Great Shift: Catalyzing the Second Renaissance", explores the trends and options unfolding in the next decade, making a coherent case for the possibility of a thriving future if we make intelligent choices in the next few years. He has also published hundreds of articles on dozens of topics in a wide range of journals including the Integral Leadership Review, and blogs regularly on the Renaissance2 Meshwork: http://r2meshwork.ning.com/

As Founding President of Renaissance2 Robin shapes the vision, strategy and design of Renaissance2, and leads the team that ensures the effective operation of the meshwork and organization. The Renaissance2 Foundation catalyzes enterprise and social innovation for people, profit and a sustainable planet. In 2009 Robin was inaugurated as a Creative Member of the Club of Budapest, founded by Dr Ervin Laszlo, whose members include Deepak Chopra, Mikhail Gorbachev and many other leaders, thinkers and activists shaping a new worldcentric culture for a thriving 21st century.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THE NEW BOOK:
“The Great Shift – Catalyzing the Second Renaissance”

Barbara Marx Hubbard -- Founder, Foundation of Conscious Evolution
As a lifelong champion of conscious evolution I see “The Great Shift” as a seminal contribution toward our ability to evolve consciously. The shift of evolution itself from unconscious to conscious choice is to me the signal of the evolution of the species of Homo sapiens sapiens. As Sri Aurobindo put it: “Man is a transitional species.” Transitional toward what is a key question. Reading “The Great Shift” helps us see that we are in transition to a co-creative, planetary, universal species, the fulfilment of the aspiration of the ages, the hearts’ desire of countless millions. We gain “evolutionary eyes,” and can see ourselves from the “Overview Perspective” as a species emerging toward its birth as a universal humanity.
We can place our own yearning for greater meaning, more creative life, deeper giving of our best into this framework and accept Robin Wood as one of our beloved planetary teachers, guides and friends in this fabulous journey into the unknown.

Ervin Laszlo -- Founder of the Club of Budapest and co-founder of the Club of Rome
"We will have a WorldShift sooner or later, and more than likely by the end of 2012. This is our current window in time. Robin Wood's ideas for a Second Reconnaissance - this time a global, and holistic rebirth and not only a European socio-cultural one - are a precious compass for helping us make the coming worldshift into a shift to a new and vital human civilization: an upshift to evolution, rather than a downshift to extinction."

For more information and reviews of “The Great Shift – Catalyzing the Second Renaissance”
see: http://bit.ly/gscsr


THERE IS A $9.95 DISCOUNT FOR ATTENDEES WHO BUY THE GREAT SHIFT BOOK AT THE EVENT

ROBIN WILL BE ALSO SIGNING COPIES OF “THE GREAT SHIFT” FOR EVENT PARTICIPANTS

THE GREAT SHIFT book now has this companion guidebook, LIFESHIFT 2020. Linda Lee Ratto, EdM, one of Neale Donald Walsch’s principal guidebook writing collaborators, is Dr. Wood's co-author of this guidebook that is a call to action for leaders in all walks of business -- all walks of life. LIFESHIFT 2020 is a personal planner, workbook and "playbook" on how to evolve oneself to next higher levels of living, business collaborations, and global solutions-making.

For more information and reviews of “LifeShift2020 – GuideBook Companion” see : http://bit.ly/ls2020

Robin will be working from the central model featured in his new book, called:

The Driving Forces of the Evolution of Human Civilization Model

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