Distance Working

New ways of working will be the most powerful change agent in designing a new social, economic and technology driven paradigm for human development in a new order.

Presenters

• Myrtha B Casanova Mederosfounded Stanhome Spain a US based marketing organization en 1968 and built it up to 50,000 dealers and over 3,000M Pesetas a year at the time. She joined The Naisbitt Group which developed the content analysis methodology to detect and forecast trends. She founded The European Institute for Managing Diversity which has operated for 35 years at the international level. She has won numerous awards for her achievements, including Woman of the Year and Woman in Leadership.

• Gonzalo Sánchez-Gardey, PhD, is a Professor at University of Cádiz (Business Management Department). His research has been focused on two main lines: a) workforce diversity and strategic HRM, and b) the analysis of intellectual capital in academic research teams, which led him to achieve important levels of scientific productivity. In particular, he is a co-author of several papers in top international journals such as the British Journal of Management, European Management Journal, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Group Decision and Negotiation and Journal of Business Ethics among others. Additionally, Prof. Sánchez-Gardey has coordinated several funding research projects and has also been a promotor of a number of dissertations. At the international level, he has been continually involved in organizing research events such as the International Workshop on HRM held and arranged biannually at Cádiz University research seminars and conferences. The research networks derived from his trajectory resulted in diverse research stays at European and American universities as Oxford University and Cornell University.

Co-Moderators:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Homo Novus: The New Man of Wisdom and Heart

This is the first in a series of 5 panels being convened to discuss Homo Novus - the New Man emerging in society to meet and change the challenges of patriarchy, hierarchy, and the masculine domination model that has been dominant in Western Societies for too long.  A new vision of men and masculinity is being born.  This series highlights the many initiatives that are transforming the vision of what a man is, who he can be, and what he can do. The modern Men’s Movement is as wide and varied as the Women’s Movement. It began as a response to women’s empowerment circles in the early 1970’s, and has evolved steadily through the decades.  There are many flavors and styles of men’s work, including those who focus on men’s rights (especially divorced fathers), mythopoetic exploration, masculine archetype embodiment, social projects, initiation programs, and many others. 

The biological and historical reality is that men need each other. We can form bonds and work on ourselves in the presence of other men in a way that cannot be done in the presence of women. Our Western society reinforces competition and separation between men, and men’s groups reverse this trend and bring men together through cooperation, collaboration and mutual support.

• Panels are led by Lion Goodman, PCC, a co-founder of The Tribe of Men, creator of the Ultimate Men’s Summit, author of Menlightenment and Creating On Purpose, and founder of the Clear Beliefs Institute which offers trainings to coaches, therapists and healers in transformational and therapeutic coaching. 

In this first panel, Lion is joined by four other co-founders of the Tribe of men: Keith Merron, Ph.D., Tim Kelley, M.S., Michael Lipson, and Steve Tennant. 

• Lion Goodman is an executive coach and the founder of the Clear Beliefs Institute which offers trainings to coaches, therapists and healers on transformational and therapeutic coaching. He is the author of Creating On Purpose.

• Keith Merron is the founder of Leadership Pathways, an organizational development and consulting firm, and the author of The Art of Transformational Coaching.   

• Michael Lipson is an executive coach and business consultant, having consulted to more than 300 companies in Silicon Valley. He has been an investment banker, an interim CEO, and is currently a partner at Evryman, a worldwide men’s organization.  

• Steve Tennant is an independent consultant helping B2B tech companies transform their customer experience. He volunteers on the Leadership Ring for the Tribe of Men.  Steve has been in a monthly Tribe Challenge Group for 16 years, has been married for 32 years, and is a father to three adult children he thinks are pretty cool.

• Sergio Baroni, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and life coach working in private practice with individuals and couples.  He specializes in helping clients heal core wounds, and guides people to experience much greater empowerment, happiness, and fulfillment. He’s a co-author of Ready, Set, Live! and a contributor to the NY Times best-selling book Happy for No Reason and its accompanying training program.

Recommended Reading & Links

• www.TheTribeOfMen.com
• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette
• The King Within: Accessing the King in the Male Psyche, by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette
• Iron John: A Book About men, by Robert Bly
• https://tennantconsulting.com/strategy-cx-customer-experience-consulting/
• https://static1.squarespace.com/static/592b10dfe4fcb57df0a87c26/t/5e5031221e73460ae84292f4/1582313778773/keithbio2020.pdf
• https://www.truepurposeinstitute.com/coaches/tim-kelley/
• https://www.waterinno.com/people-bio/michael-lipson
• www.LionGoodman.com

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Emergence of the Sage Archetype — Sages Transforming the World

At this unprecedented time in human history, the Sage archetype is making itself unequivocally known. Although archetypal potentials within each of us are universal, we express them differently, endowing them with different styles, traits, and manners. The Sage archetype is constellating today in revelations of truth, deep self-reflection, holistic sensing, and intuitions of co-creative solutions that serve the wellbeing of the planet. Those who can consciously embody the Sage archetype are seekers of wisdom, regardless of their age. Their goals emerge from within, and then are expressed outward in inter-generational collaboration and service to the world. Sages are emerging in these challenging times as wise advisers, mentors, teachers, activists and inspirers for hope.

Join us in a potent webinar exploring an essential task at this time to awaken, identify and then claim the role of the Sage inherent in the Sage archetype.  Learn to heed the urgent call to speak for it, protect it, preserve it, and convey its wisdom function for future generations. As a participant, you will embark on aheartfelt journey in identifying the Sage archetype within and exploring its potential to make positive and innovative contributions to family, community, and the healing of the planet.  SuchSage-ingis a vital contribution to maintaining the “partnership of generations’” so essential to the future destiny of humanity. 

Presenters:

• Marilyn Loy Every, DMin, CSL, Co-Chair of Sage-ing International

Marilyn holds a Doctor of Ministry degree in Wisdom Studies with a focus on aging, and Certifications in Spiritual Direction and Sage-ing Leadership. She also holds a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, and Master of Science in Audiology. Marilyn is founder of Sagessence (www.sagesssence.com), a company dedicated to promoting affirmative transformation of personal and cultural views of aging. She is currently Co-Chair of Sage-ing International (m.loyevery@sage-ing..org), and views her role as an opportunity to support change that honors aging in creating a better world.

Marilyn has authored Fire in the Well, Women and the Liberating Journey of Aging, and Tending the Fire—each book embracing elements of aging. She enthusiastically facilitates seminars, retreats, and classes that focus on potent aging topics. It is the Pacific Northwest with its powerful natural beauty—the home of her heart—that imprints Marilyn’s soul-scape and influences her spirituality, outlook, and work in the world.

• Katia Petersen, PhD, Co-Chair of Sage-ing International

Katia Petersen, PhD is President of Petersen Argo Inc. a Transformational Education company, and brings decades of experience as a clinical psychotherapist, educator, and author. She is known for her ability to touch the hearts of individuals in dynamic and healing ways, and is in demand as a motivational speaker, master trainer and coach. She has led teams in the translation, design, and delivery of evidence-based methodologies and practices. Her experiential work, is designed to shift perspective on life creating new possibilities while re-igniting our sense of purpose and meaning.

Dr. Petersen’s work focuses on systems change, collaborative communication, power of story, and shared leadership. An experienced dialogue practitioner, she draws upon a wide range of emergent processes that support effective group work including: World Cafe, Theory U, Appreciative Inquiry and Social Emotional Wellness. Katia’s passion resides in holding hospitable spaces for individuals and groups to recognize their strengths and increase their capacity to create positive change.

• Randy Morris, PhD, CSL, Sage-ing International Executive Circle Member-At-Large 

Randy Morris is Faculty Emeritus at Antioch University Seattle where he taught adult students in the BA Liberal Studies Program for 30 years and was the coordinator of the Psychology and Spiritual Studies areas of concentrations. He is also the President Emeritus of the Board at Rite of Passage Journeys, a non-profit dedicated to restoring rites of passage for youth, adults and elders, and where he led adult vision quests for many years. He currently serves on the ritual team for Sage-ing International. As a Sage-ing Leader, Randy is interested in facilitating classes and workshops on any topics related to Sage-ing and Conscious Eldering. Additional interests include dreams, myth, ritual process, eco-spirituality, rites of passage and The Work That Reconnects pioneered by Joanna Macy. Randy lives in The Pacific Northwest on South Whidbey Island, just outside of Seattle, WA.

Co-Moderators:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Radiation and Gender: The Effect of Radiation on Women

Today, we deepen our investigation into deleterious health impacts we see from 79 years of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, focusing on the fact that radiation has a far stronger effect on women than on men both in terms of cancers and in terms of leadership. The goals of this session are to empower individuals and families to make better radiation choices for their daughters, to speak to governments of their obligation to protect all of the public better, and as cautionary voices speaking to investors attempting a revival of nuclear energy and weapons. The panel includes leaders who themselves have been directly harmed, from communities which have suffered, and NGO leaders who have sustained long-term commitments to building security and energy without splitting more atoms. Many thanks to Mary Olson for convening this panel. She spoke on radiation issues on Humanity Rising Day 80 and Day 160.

Presenters:

• Chuck Johnson (moderator) serves as Nuclear Program Director for International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), a global federation of medical professionals in over 60 affiliates worldwide and winner of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize for its work in bridging the Cold War gap between US and Soviet doctors and their colleagues around the world.  IPPNW’s clear message, which was adopted by US and Soviet leaders, is “nuclear war can never be won and must never be fought.” Chuck is responsible for coordinating the federation’s advocacy work on the medical and humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons. He is currently serving as administrative co-chair of the International Steering Group, the governing body of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), winner of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize and lead NGO in support of the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), which entered into force on 22 January 2021. Prior to joining IPPNW in 2017, Chuck was a long-time leader in national, state, and regional coalitions in the US, and an advocate at the UN in New York, opposing the development of nuclear energy and supporting nuclear weapons abolition. https://www.ippnw.org/

• Tina Cordova is Co-Founder of Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium; Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is a seventh generation native New Mexican born and raised in the small town of Tularosa in south central New Mexico.  In 2005 Tina co-founded the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) with the late Fred Tyler. The mission of the TBDC is to bring attention to the negative health effects suffered by the unknowing, unwilling, uncompensated, innocent victims of the first nuclear blast on earth that took place at the Trinity site in South Central New Mexico.  Ultimately, the goal is the passage of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Amendments to bring much needed health care coverage and compensation to the People of New Mexico who have suffered with the health effects of overexposure to radiation since 1945.  Tina is a cancer survivor having been diagnosed with Thyroid cancer when she was 39 years old.     
  
  In her role as an advocate on behalf of the TBDC she has testified before the US Senate judiciary Committee and the Committee on Indian Affairs.  Tina has also been a guest lecturer at the University of New Mexico and at events all over the State of New Mexico communicating the history of the New Mexico Downwinders.  Throughout 2020, Tina was invited to participate in webinars all over the world as people reflected on the 75th Anniversary of the Trinity Test. Tina has a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science degree from New Mexico Highlands University where she majored in Biology and minored in Chemistry. https://www.trinitydownwinders.com/

• Mary Olson is the founder, and acting Director of Gender and Radiation Impact Project (GRIP) a non-government, educational organization based in North Carolina, USA. Originally a student of Biology and Life Science, Olson’s work on radiation is rooted in a three-decade career as an educator and advocate for better radioactive waste policy in the United States. During that work, a novel question was posed to Olson, on whether biological sex is a factor in radiation harm. In 2011 Olson undertook an independent gender analysis of the data reported in the US National Academy of Science (NAS) report on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation, which is primarily from the A-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Her findings were striking and resulted in a series of presentations in United Nations proceedings, including the Vienna Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons in 2014, the 2015 Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and in 2017 during the negotiation phase of the new Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Olson was also hosted to present the findings that radiation is more harmful to females compared to males, by the International Committee of the Red Cross both in 2016 and 2020. She has also presented at Gender Summits (EU) in 2016 and 2018. https://www.genderandradiation.org/

• Cindy Folkers is the Radiation and Health Hazards Specialist at Beyond Nuclear. She advocates for science-based radiation regulations that are more protective of public health. Her focus is on the disproportionate impacts radiation exposure causes to women, children and pregnancy. She has written numerous articles and essays, and given presentations, on how this impact from nuclear weapons and power technology is minimized or ignored altogether, even as society is making world-altering decisions about what energy sources should be used to confront a changing climate. Cindy holds a degree in  Environmental Science from The Johns Hopkins University. http://www.beyondnuclear.org/

• Victoria Moore is an artist, author and activist whose entire life has been influenced by atomic and thermonuclear testing in the Pacific Proving Grounds. She is the daughter of US Naval Chief Petty Officer Moore on the Command ship USS ESTES, designed specifically for the Joint Task Forces, where he served from her departure to the Marshall Islands in 1951 until his forced early retirement in 1962 due to medical complications of repeated ionizing radiation exposures. Victoria was conceived in 1955 when she was considered quite “hot” from protracted and repeated exposures to both Op IVY & CASTLE. She was deemed an ‘at-risk’ pregnancy and birth. She was somewhat monitored as a child and often in the company of her father on bases surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area. Born under the veil of silence in a “Q Cleared” officer’s home required strict protocols and mostly operated on a ‘need to know’ basis. At 23, Victoria required a full hysterectomy due to ill-defined organ failures. https://childrenofatomicveterans.org/

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Repair, Restoration & Atonement: A Reckoning with Chattel Slavery and its Aftermath

W.E.B. DuBois wrote in 1909 (Biography of John Brown) that “As a school of brutality and human suffering, of female prostitution and male debauchery; as a mockery of marriage and defilement of family life; as a darkening of reason and of spiritual death…[slavery]… had no parallel in its day.” The Atlantic Trafficking and subsequent enslavement of captive Africans represented the theft of a people’s humanity and personhood which resulted in a permanent state of dispossession, exile and homeless.

That the fathers of the American revolution, with its ideals of liberty and inalienable rights promoted by theories of the enlightenment thinkers of the age, used their lofty words and doctrines on which to base their own drive for independence while denying it to the humans they had stolen and held in captivity is nothing short of an “amazing moral contradiction.”

At the same time, what the founders were constructing was something uniquely sinister: ritualistic racial bigotry and an oppressive systematic form of dehumanization of Africans—chattelization. Leading slavers, politicians, philosophers, and theologians of Europe created a category called “blackness” as property. Africans were, in effect, according to their discursive rendering of them, without a soul, a spirit, emotions, desires, or rights-- because chattel/things could have neither mind nor spirit. At the same time as African captives were re-designated chattel,” black and inferior, Europeans were assigned the status of “white” and superior. 

Chattel slavery was something far more brutally inhuman in its end result than more ancient forms of slavery because Africans could be (and were) hurt physically mentally, and spiritually but without any recourse to judicial redress. In process of chattelisation, Blacks were defined as real-estate, assets, units of monetary value; they made products and created wealth. They themselves had monetary value as a commodity. All of this represents a great “theft,” (as Edward Baptist calls it)  that has been the defining signifier of black people’s experience in America.  This reality, it can be argued, is directly linked to the present dispossessed status of African-descended people in the US and other countries of the Atlantic world today.

The commodification of Africans also established a pattern that would become the fundamental method of transferring wealth in a capitalist society. Who could accumulate wealth by dispossessing Africans? Whites could do it because they had acquired the privilege of “whiteness,” regardless of their origins, conditions or the economic status with which they arrived in America.  Wealth accumulation could be assured by virtue of the fact of chattelization of Africans. Thus, accumulation by dispossession became one of the principal ways Africans and their descendants in the United States were systematically constrained and restrained, constructed and reconstructed in inferior positions economically, socially, politically, legally, and psychologically throughout their experience in America. This saga of original theft and ongoing oppressive conditions for descendants of formerly enslaved and colonized African people is at the base of the current national and international debates about repair, restitution & restorative justice.

Presenter:

• Dr. Joyce Hope Scott is Clinical Professor of African American Studies at Boston University/Boston, Massachusetts.  She is a former Fulbright professor to Burkina Faso and the Republic of Bénin and a former-Scholar of the Oxford Round Table (United Kingdom). She has lectured extensively, nationally and globally, on African/and Black American history and culture. She has developed and taught Courses in African-American and Caribbean Literature and History, Black Theatre and Popular culture; Reparations and Restorative Justice in Comparative Perspective; Slavery and the Creation of Race; The Black Radical Tradition; African Spirituality in American Literature and Culture; and created and led International Service Learning and Internship Programs to Ghana, Benin and Senegal.  Prof. Hope Scott is Co-Founder/Co-Director of the International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR) and current President of the Boston Pan African Forum.
  
  In February 2020, she organized the international symposium on “Restorative Justice and Societal Repair on Global Racism and Reparations” at Boston University; she is invited consultant to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Resolution & Accountability, Remedy and Redress for transatlantic slavery, colonialism and systemic racism;  Invited Expert for New York University’s Review of Law’s Colloquium on “Past, Present and Future of Reparations”;  A Principal Organizer of International Conference on “Rematriation and The Future of Reparations and Restorative Justice for the Enslavement Of African People,” held in Porto-Novo, Republic of Bénin (2018).  She is current President of the Boston Pan-African Forum (BPAF) and Vice President and Co-founder of the international NGO, Hope for Africa (HFA), for sustainable development in West Africa.  Prof. Hope Scott is the recipient of many awards and recognitions and author of numerous publications.

Recommended Reading and Links from Dr. Scott

• Reparations, Restitution, Transitional Justice: The International Network of Scholars and Activists for Afrikan Reparations (INOSAAR). Symposium: Using World-History to Inform Work for Reparations. Journal Of World-Systems Research. Vo. 26 Issue 2. (DOI 10.5195/JWSR. 2020).
• Contentious Discourses: Signifying on the Law in African American Writing.” Journalism & Mass Communication Vol.5 No. 4, (April 2015), pp. 181 – 193.
• Culture & Liberation: Amilcar Cabral and Martin Luther King’s Nationalist Aesthetics.”
• Leadership and Legacy: King and Cabral. J. Kamara (Ed). (in press) Boston: Diaspora Press.
• Senghor & the Godmothers of Négritude. Interrgating Gaze: Colonialism and Negritude. J. Kamara (ed). (in press) Boston: Diaspora Press
• Subversive Language & the Carnivalesque in Toni Morrison.” Cambridge: The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison. Justine Tally, (Editor) 2007.

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Remembrances and Beyond: The Coherent Heart through Music and Painting

Remembrance, music, and visual art converge for a transformative experience in the Krása Skyscapes Project, presented to Humanity Rising by convener Dr. Kathleen Riley, joined by Mark Ludwig, Terezín Music Foundation Executive Director and a Fulbright scholar of art under the Nazis, and painter Jim Schantz.  This program illustrates the power of the arts to amplify coherence, honor life, humanity and the creative spirit.

Presenters:

• Kathleen Riley, Ph.D., is a pianist, Yamaha Artist in Education, performer, researcher, lecturer, teacher and writer with a mission to help performing artists connect more deeply with their heart’s intelligence and create coherence through their music and sound. Having received three degrees in piano performance, she performed for many years as a soloist and chamber musician. She pursued a doctorate in piano performance with the intention of investigating the use of auditory and visual feedback to deepen pianists’ awareness of nuances in performers’ interpretations. She went on to post-doctoral studies in neurophysiology and psychology at NYU. Seeing the intimate connection between the mind and body, she expanded her “toolkit” to include biofeedback fir neuromuscular problems and performance anxiety.
  
  Her latest research study, conducted in collaboration with the HeartMath Institute, explored the effects of a shared heart intention among members of a string quartet on the musicians and audience members. The research was filmed and produced as a documentary, Intention: The Power of the Heart. In response to COVID-19, she created the Global Coherent Musicians Community on Facebook, designed to bring musicians, scientists and researchers together to understand and explore how our intentions and sound frequencies affect the global field. Dr. Riley has also been invited by Awake TV to come on board as Director of Performance Arts.

• Mark Ludwig is a Fulbright scholar of Terezín and a member of the Pamatník Terezín (Terezín Memorial) Advisory Board. He founded Terezin Music Foundation in 1991 and serves as its Executive Director. He is Adjunct Professor of Music at Boston College and author of the Holocaust education curriculum Finding A Voice: Musicians in Terezín. Mr. Ludwig teaches about Terezín and the Holocaust around the world and consults for major orchestras and organizations.
  
  A violist and Boston Symphony Orchestra member emeritus who has blended his musical career with social causes promoting tolerance, he has performed to benefit causes in the U.S., Bosnia, Darfur, Tibet, and Central Europe, and was nominated as a UNESCO Artist for Peace and Goodwill Ambassador. Mr. Ludwig has published essays and CD liner and program notes, and has participated as an artist, consultant, and producer of recordings on the London DECCA and other major labels. He is editor of Liberation: New Works on Freedom from Internationally Renowned Poets (Beacon 2015)

• Jim Schantz has been painting the Western Massachusetts landscape since 1982. He is best known for his staggering land, sea, and skyscapes that frame and share emotion as well as outdoor scenes. His work confronts the viewer with the sublimity of nature. Sometimes subtle and tranquil, sometimes tempestuous, Schantz’s paintings ponder through the depths of human feeling, each eliciting an immediate, almost primal reaction. Although influenced by a Romanticist appreciation for the greatness of nature, and a hint of Fauvist color-boldness, Schantz’s art never capitulates to gloom or agitation. Portraying mood with variations in light, he renders strong emotion, concealing and revealing in turn through careful layers of oil paint, through the coloration of each cloud and the twist of each rivulet. Schantz’s work imparts his vision, instilling in any observer the admiration and reverence for nature that he so tangibly experiences.   
  
  He has exhibited internationally and throughout the United States. His works can be found in many public collections, including the Berkshire Museum, Center for Spiritual Life at Emerson College, Lowe Art Museum, Syracuse University, Nelson Museum, U.C. Davis, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Skidmore College, Simon’s Rock of Bard College, and University of Massachusetts. Schantz’s paintings have been featured in exhibitions at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, the Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, the Albany Institute of Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Berkshire Museum. 

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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A Salute to Stan Grof on his 90th Birthday IV— The Art of Psychedelic Sitting: Dialogue with Rick Doblin and Diane Haug with Stan and Brigitte Grof

Dr. Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. is a world-renowned pioneer, theoretician, and practitioner of the transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. His groundbreaking theories have influenced depth psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy with his brilliant mapping of the transpersonal and perinatal dimensions of the psyche. Stan is well-known for his seminal work with LSD as a psychotherapeutic tool, beginning with his first LSD session in 1956 followed by his extensive clinical research through the 1960s and early 1970s. His use of LSD and other psychedelic substances in his psychiatric practice foreshadowed today’s widespread recognition that such substances can play an invaluable role in the treatment of many emotional and psychosomatic disorders as well as the alleviation of anxiety concerning the fear of death in terminally ill patients.

Stan was the first person to recognize that the results of LSD use for psychoanalysis were the same as what spiritual teachings have shown for thousands of years regarding non-ordinary states of consciousness. This led to his creating an award-winning cartography of the psyche that coined the term “ holotropic" as characteristic of non-ordinary states of consciousness such as meditative, mystical, or psychedelic experiences, all states which aim towards wholeness and the totality of existence.

For the past 50 years, Stan has continued his exploration of the many states of mind that can be explored without drugs by using certain breathing techniques. This holotropic breathwork (Grof® Breathwork) is an experiential method of self-exploration and psychotherapy that combines and integrates various elements from modern consciousness research, depth psychology, transpersonal psychology, Eastern spiritual philosophies, shamanism and other native healing practices. In May 2020, together with his wife Brigitte Grof, they launched their Grof® Legacy Training where students can develop theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in a large category of non-ordinary states that have a healing, transformative, heuristic, and evolutionary potential.

Stan turns 90 this July 1, Ubiquity University is collaborating with Stan, Brigitte and their Grof Legacy Training to celebrate his enormous contribution to the world’s understanding of how each of us can enter transcendent states of consciousness. His research and study have provided us with evidence that these “non-ordinary” states can grant us more robust health, an increased enthusiasm for life, an expanded worldview, and a sense of the sacred that is universal, non­denominational, and all­ inclusive.

Participants:

• Rick Doblin, PhD, Executive Director and founder of MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) offers a historical understanding of the war on drugs, the omissions of negative experiences in Leary’s Good Friday Experiment, and the need to embrace the challenging experiences that lead to lasting transformation of world views. He suggests that psychedelics can help people work through their fears to find new ways of thinking about the challenges we face, including generational conflicts and healing deep traumas. MAPS has been working to legalize psychedelic therapies, and have also begun training sitters to provide safe and effective sessions for those seeking healing.

• Diane Haug, MA, was one of the first students learning the approach and technique of breathwork with Stan, and has gone on to lead facilitator trainings around the world. In addition to being one of the core faculty leading the Grof Legacy Training work, Diane is also working with the Center for Psychedelic Assisted Therapies at CIIS (California Institute for Integral Studies) to teach breathwork principles that are foundational to safely holding space for deep internal exploration.

• Stan Grof and his wife Brigitte join the conversation, sharing their work with Grof Legacy Training, and their collaboration with both Rick and Diane. Together they discuss the core principles inherent to sitting for psychedelic sessions, and the importance of providing this support for the renaissance of psychedelic assisted therapies.

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Regenerate Costa Rica

In 1994, Eduard Muller founded the University for International Cooperation (UCI) in Costa Rica with the purpose of training young leaders in an integral, transversal and holistic way. Focused in the development of systemic thinking and skills, UCI seeks to face the complex problems that the planetary crisis presents. It is in this context that the institution became a pioneer of regenerative development in the country, and that in 2018 launched theRegenerate Costa Ricaprogram. Regenerate Costa Ricabrings together a community with multiple capacities in order to reflect, plan and activate projects that enable the transition towards a regenerative paradigm.

Presenters:

• Eduard Muller is founder and rector of the University for International Cooperation which since 1994 has been working on permanent innovation in education, leading UCI to be a pioneer in online education in over 60 countries. He has overseen the launch of many innovative programs in many different fields. He has visited over 90 countries and carried out professional activities in more than 35 of them on all continents, having given more than 250 international conferences worldwide in recent years on global change and regenerative development. He is currently globally recognized for his work in Regenerative Development leading the Regenerate Costa Rica initiative to convert the country into the first actively regenerative nation. He is a member of the Global Council for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance and the Bounce Beyond project. He was a member of the Scientific Council for Climate Change of Costa Rica and country negotiator at the Convention of Biological Diversity. He is also the chairholder of the UNESCO Chair for Biosphere Reserves and Natural and Mixed World Heritage sites.

• Fernanda Pia is coordinator of the Regenerate Costa Rica initiative. Her interests are in communications, knowledge creation, and innovations to achieve sustainable development through creativity and collaboration with others. She has expertise in communications and strategy development, and speaks multiple languages (Spanish, English, French, Italian, and Mandarin).

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Communicating with Animals: A Dialogue with Pea Horsley

Everyone has the ability to communicate with animals – it’s part of our nature. Pea Horsley's role as a professional animal communicator is to bring this simple and profound language of connection into the mainstream and everyday life. Her passion is to raise awareness, increase compassion and advance the relationships among humans and other species, on both the personal and spiritual levels to realign us back with the natural world. Pea believes that animal communication is the greatest power to restoring a loving and respectful relationship with animals and the natural world. She invites you to join her exciting online event, Conversations with Nature World Summit 2021, a meaningful gathering of 24 expert speakers from around the world sharing their guidance and heart over four days from  20 – 23 April 2021. It’s free to register. Pea Horsley is the UK’s most highly regarded animal communicator, TEDx speaker, workshop teacher, empowering mentor and a best-selling author of Heart to Heart, The Animal Communicator’s Guide Through Life, Loss and Love and Animal Communication Made Easy. 

Pea teaches internationally and offers ethical wild animal communication retreats in natural habitat with dolphins, whales, orcas, and bears. Pea provides an online course for people to learn from their home, species communication-meditation experiences and animal communication recharge retreats within nature. Pea’s passion is to bring deeper understanding and greater empathy towards other species and help people rekindle a profound connection with the natural world. Pea is the creator of the Conversations with Nature World Summit, April 2021. www.animalthoughts.com

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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At the Front Lines of Climate Justice: A Dialogue with Osprey Orielle Lake

In this session, we will dialogue with Osprey Orielle Lake, Founder and Executive Director of the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International dedicated to accelerating a global women’s climate justice movement. She works nationally and internationally with grassroots and Indigenous leaders, policy-makers and scientists to promote climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition to a decentralized, democratized energy future. Osprey serves on the Executive Committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature, Co-Director of the Indigenous Women's Divestment Delegations, and actively leads WECAN’s advocacy, policy and campaign work in areas such as Women for Forests, Divestment and Just Transition, Indigenous Rights, a Feminist Agenda for a Green New Deal, and UN Forums. Osprey is the author of the award-winning bookUprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature.

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Queen Boudica: War-Leader of her people - and so much more

In 61AD, Boudica of the Eceni (also known as Boadicea, Boudicca and Boudega of the Iceni) led the combined warhost of the British tribes in armed rebellion against the occupying armies of Rome.  For nearly a year, she routed the colonizing legions until the final battle at which she fell. Her defeat led to 400 years of occupation, the destruction of the druids and of a culture many thousands of years in the making that was amongst the most creative and spiritually coherent in the ancient world. 

When Manda Scott came to write the four Boudica: Dreaming novels, this was as much as she knew.  Her own shamanic practice pushed her to shift from writing crime to writing history and sustained her for 6 years of intense productivity, believing that if she could show who the ancestors of her lands had been, it would provide a blueprint for who the peoples not just of Britain, but of the world, could be: that the world would change. In this session, she tells the story of Boudica, of writing Boudica and explores who we might be if that last battle had gone the other way.  Along the way, she explains why there aren’t knives on the wheels of the chariots, how Boudica got her name, and why pretty much all the historians are wrong in their identification of the landing place of the invasion. 

Born and brought up in Scotland, Manda Scott started her professional life as a veterinary surgeon, specialising in equine neonatal intensive care.  She changed to writing full time when her first novel was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and continued until 2016, when she studied for a Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher College. Since then, she has become a smallholder, a podcaster and a screenwriter.  She is co-founder of Accidental Gods and Narrative Ark. 

Recommended Links

• https://mandascott.co.uk/boudica-dreaming-the-eagle/
• https://mandascott.co.uk/breaking-the-legacy-of-rome/
  
  

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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How the United States Created Vladimir Putin

We witnessed the obsequious relationship between former President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin during the four years Trump was in the White House as Trump worked essentially as an asset of the Kremlin. More recently, we saw Alexei Navalny, the main opposition leader to Putin who was poisoned by the Kremlin last Fall, rushed to Germany for treatment, then returned to Russia this February, only to be arrested again and imprisoned. This action sparked major protests across Russia. Putin has been in power for two decades and seems intent on staying in power indefinitely into the future. Who is Putin? We blame him for many things but the deeper reality is that he has been largely shaped by Russia’s reaction to NATO expansion and US policies.

To help us understand Putin and the prospect for better Russian - Western relations, Jim Garrison will dialogue with Vladimir Posner, a veteran journalist widely respected for his insight and fairness both in Russia where he is one of the most popular TV journalists and in the West where he has lived and traveled for many decades.

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Tree Whispering on Earth Day

Interspecies communication, healing trees, partnering with Nature are necessary and easy goals.  You and your favorite tree can have a mutual partnership.  In our guided visualization experience, your tree can tell you not only wisdoms but also what its life and state of health are like.  Learn how to WHISPER—collaborate and co-create—with trees and other Nature Beings by coming from their point of view.  They are alive, have consciousness, and can be HEALED through direct engagement in consciousness. This leads to mutual healing. Also, receive The Tree Whisperer’s 10 tree insights.  

On Earth Day, realize the “other half” of what’s needed to restore a livable planet.  Practical and large scale actions are crucial, but we say that by having engagement in consciousness right in your own backyard, then Nature Beings can be healed, strengthened, and withstand climate extremes.  There’s hope to start a positive feedback loop which might counteract the negative trends of climate change.

Presenters:

• Jim Conroy, PhD., and Ms. Basia Alexander have a mission to heal ecological damage and upshift human thinking. They are co-founders of the Institute for Cooperative BioBalance, authors of 7 books, and co-creators of the Tree Whispering®, Green Centrics®, and EcoPeace Treaty® systems for tree, plant, and ecosystem bioenergy healing. They are world travelers and passionate rose growers.
  
  Dr. Conroy received his PhD. in Plant Pathology from Purdue University, left a successful career in the ag-chem industry after an epiphany to become The Tree Whisperer®. He is an impassioned speaker and ingenious visionary for collaboration with Nature, including with invasive organisms. “Dr. Jim” is the innovator of a unique Light-based and multidimensional healing approach for trees and ecosystems.
  
  Ms. Basia Alexander synthesizes new systems that catalyze transformation in human consciousness for partnership with Nature. Basia’s nick-name is “The Chief Listener.” She writes and speaks about nature-based communication, conscious co-creativity, and her original insights into the elemental world’s structure. Her series: Partner with Spirit™ turns practical spirituality into easy steps. 

Co-Moderators:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Vibrational Intelligence™

Cultivating Heart Coherence and Flow Through the Power of Music

Research has shown that of all the senses, hearing is among the first to arrive in utero and the last to go before we die. This suggests that sound-based immersive modalities could offer us accelerated pathways to our essential vibratory nature, resulting in highly coherent states of consciousness, also known as stillness. When this stillness is fully integrated, we can harness the universal language of human emotion – music - to become more consistently aligned with our heart, gut and soul intelligences, in balanced coordination with our minds. This multi-dimensional mindfulness doesn’t only result in greater aliveness, compassion, and inner peace; it also creates the conditions in which research shows that our mitochondria can regenerate and lead to optimal wellness by aligning with the unlimited possibilities found in the Unified Field. Spacious music and sound strategies can upgrade your overall vibrational experience by moving you toward a greater balance between doing and being (as well as thinking and feeling) that can help you to be more conscious, creative, compassionate and connected to flow. When you upgrade your personal frequency to states of embodied coherence, you’ll be taking a quantum leap towards your highest potential. Join Gary Malkin in an exploration of how music can be created and integrated to awaken your core emotions, release grief, accept what is, and be more fully present, capacities that will lead to a more meaningful, authentic, and fulfilling life. 

Speaker:

• Gary Malkin is a multiple Emmy Award-winning composer, performer, public speaker, arts activist, and music and health innovator who empowers the world to embrace music and sound strategies as catalysts for health, wellness, and regenerative environments and lifestyles. He is redefining music’s role in healthcare, with a particular focus on developing sound and music strategies to support patients, their families, care providers, and their larger communities to face life transitions at both the beginnings and endings of life with greater mindfulness and compassion. He’s passionate about creating coherent environments that catalyze “heart-centered mindfulness” that is life-enhancing.  His globally acclaimed audio giftbook, Graceful Passages, co-created with award-winning filmmaker Michael Stillwater and his wife, Doris Laesser Stillwater, is considered the most celebrated work of its kind, having supported over a million people worldwide with psychospiritual support for all phases of the end-of-life process.  Their groundbreaking Care for the Journey care for the caregiver programs have been adopted and experienced by healthcare systems nationwide. After co-authoring the award-winning Book/CD, Safe in the Arms of Love with Lisa Rafel and Dr. David Surrenda to support the essential bond between parents and newborns, he is now completing their new social impact musical play called “Can You Hear Me Baby?”. Gary has presented at places such as UCSF Medical Center, Stanford Health, Houston Methodist Hospital, UCSF Medical Center, Google, Harvard’s Conference on Spirituality and Health, Scripps Clinic, Arizona Center for Integrative Health, and Kaiser Permanente among many others. Gary was commissioned to create the theme music for the global broadcast phenomenon taking place simultaneously on all continents called Pangea Day, stewarded by the founding curator of TED, Chris Anderson.  In 2013, he received the Hollywood Music in Media Award’s Best Soundtrack Award for his work on the groundbreaking film, Thrive: What on Earth Will It Take, which has been seen by an astonishing 90 million people in 28 languages worldwide He created the soundtrack for the sequel, Thrive II, released in Fall of 2020. Gary is frequently asked to speak and perform for integrative health, corporate, and life-affirming communities internationally. He currently consults and curates healthcare environments with life-enhancing musical treatments and strategies. Whether inspiring audiences, creating music and media that opens people’s hearts, or developing healing resources for a more humane world, Gary is a master of using music and media to enable us to create regenerative environments and lifestyles. For more information, go to WisdomoftheWorld.com. 

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Reflections of Second Generation Children of Holocaust Survivors

World War II ended nearly 76 years ago, and with it the barbarous extermination of 6 million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. Children of Holocaust survivors, today in their second half of life, reflect on the impact of the calamitous experiences of their parents on the development of their lives. Second generation to Holocaust survivors, today in the second half of life, are a very diverse group of individuals, as were their Holocaust survivor parent(s). This event will facilitate hearing their stories and how they view the impact of the Holocaust on different aspects of their lives throughout the years.

Presenters

• Ronnie Dunetz (Convener) was born in the US to an Israeli-born mother and a Holocaust survivor father, immigrated to Israel at the age of 21. He is a senior life & business coach and group facilitator\ workshop leader, specializing today in the "sage-ing process": the harvesting of wisdom in life transitions during the second half of life. He has lived extensively in East Asia, pursuing traditional spiritual and internal martial arts through the years. His father, Max Dunetz, survived the ghetto, massacres, slave labor camp and Partisans of and around his native town of "Zhetl" (Dyatlovo), which is today Belarus. His father lost his entire family to barbarous killings in the Holocaust, rebuilding his life in the US and Israel to become a Jewish educator and journalist, preserver of Yiddish language and culture and the memory of the Holocaust. Ronnie holds a Masters of International business management from the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management. Today he is also a doctoral student at Ubiquity University, planning to write his dissertation on the creation of meaning, legacy and spiritual growth of children of Holocaust survivors, in their second half of life.
  Website: www.wisdom-opportunity.com

• Nili Ben-Shlomo Noam was born in Israel, where she lives today, to a "Sabra" (Israeli-born) mother and a Holocaust survivor father from Poland. She has decades of experience as an alternative medicine therapist (reflexology), integrating global clinical training, while continuing a parallel career in acting- cinema and television. She is married and the mother of 2. Her father, Jechezkel Ben Shlomo, was born in Poland to the famous Wendrovnick family of cantors. When World War II broke out, Jechezekel, only 11 years old, was taken into the ghetto of the city of Lodz and eventually to Auschwitz. He survived various "death marches" and was liberated in the Bergen Belzen concentration camp. He and one of his sisters were the only children of the family in Poland who survived, while his mother and 7 siblings (some who were married with children), perished. Nili's father came to Israel after the war in 1947, serving in the Israeli War of Independence of Israel which led to the establishment of the State of Israel. Nili feels that the best compliment you can give her is when someone comments, "You are exactly the same as your father".

• Noam Salpeter, MS, LMFT, has been working as a psychotherapist in a variety of settings for the past 3 decades. He currently serves as a senior staff therapist, clinical supervisor and trainer at a Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient program in Oakland, CA. Noam has special clinical interest in cultural, mind-body, and psycho-spiritual elements in the healing process in general and in trauma recovery in particular. While many clinicians focused on pathology in Holocaust survivors and their children, Noam developed interest in non-pathological and health-supporting elements in this legacy. Noam's mother and her parents escaped Nazi Germany before WWII. His father was born in Slatina (Czechoslovakia) survived concentration camps and the 'Death March.' Most of Mr. Salpeter's family members were killed in the Holocaust; he immigrated to Israel, where he had 1 surviving aunt, in 1949, becoming one of Israel's more respected journalists since the 1950's through his retirement in 2007. Mr. Salpeter’s professional focus was on Israeli economics and politics, international relations, and Jewish communities around the world. He passed away in 2016.

• Roslyn Franken was born in Montreal, Canada to a Dutch-born Holocaust survivor mother who survived 11 concentration camps including three trips to the gas chambers at Auschwitz and the death march in Czechoslovakia. After the war her mother married Roslyn’s father, a Dutch-Indonesian Jew who survived the atomic bomb as a prisoner of war in Japan. When diagnosed with cancer at 29, Roslyn turned to her parents’ strength and positivity as inspiration in her fight to beat cancer and overcome many other life obstacles. She is an author and public speaker dedicated to inspiring people with hope and courage for creating positive and meaningful change in their lives and the world around them. Roslyn has a Masters degree in Applied Human Sciences specialized in Human Systems Intervention from Concordia University in Montreal and a certification in Organizational Psychology from the Professional School of Psychology in Sacramento, California. She wrote a book about her parents’ lives and their positive influence on her as the daughter of these two remarkable WWII survivors called Meant to Be: A True Story of Might, Miracles and Triumph of the Human Spirit. 
  See www.RoslynFranken.com. Her book is being made into a movie currently in development.

Recommended reading and links for those who want to learn more  

• https://www.nextgenerations.org/
• https://dorotmemorialine.com/?lang=en
• https://www.yadvashem.org/education.htmlhttp://www.iritfelsen.com/presentations/

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Gender Fluidity: A Dialogue with Donovan Ackley

Donovan Ackley is a person with an intersex identity and is an active member of the national and global intersex community. Donovan’s starting point is body diversity, acknowledging that across species (including humans) biological sex itself can be complicated and even surprising: A person can be ambiguous at birth, emerge as a different biological sex than assigned through natural changes at puberty or mid-life, or discover through medical tests a different genetic code or internal organs than expected. Cultures around the world throughout history have often embraced and even honored this diversity. European colonialism with Christian missionary activity coincide as the shared factor in cultures in which this diversity has been suppressed. 

Gender and sex are not the same, though for most people they are closely related. Since even biological sex is more complex than many of us have been taught, the idea that gender is a spectrum (not two polar opposites) can become easier to understand. Gender is the way a person experiences and expresses who they are, along a spectrum from feminine to masculine and all points in between. For some people, this is a dynamic experience that includes movement and change that can include people who have transitioned from one gender to another, people who are genderfluid, and other forms of gender expression and identity.

After after coming out as LGBTQI+ in 2013, Donovan Ackley III, Ph.D.'s career path changed from 15 years as full-time undergraduate college professor and Department Chair in religion toward more creative, trauma-informed, intersectional continuing education and community organizing. Using a collaborative learning community-building approach, Dr. Ackley currently teaches at universities, public schools and community organizations, specializing in Mental Health and Spirituality, LGBTQ+ studies, Trauma Recovery Yoga, and other evidence-based, embodied mindfulness practices to build resilience both digitally and in person. 

Recent projects include helping to launch an 8-course continuing studies LGBTQ+ Leadership Certificate (Applied Wisdom Institute/University of Redlands, 2020); consulting on the curriculum "Fearfully & Wonderfully Made: Scripture and the New Science of Gender" (2021) & documentary film "Stories of Intersex & Faith" (2019); helping launch & accredit national non-profit peer support line Trans Lifeline, including its online staff & volunteer training (2014-2018); designing & teaching the classroom course "Yoga: Ancient Philosophy, Modern Practice" (University of Redlands, 2015-2017); and residential trauma-informed case management & intake screening for people in recovery from addiction with co-occurring mental health issues, including staff training on LGBTQIA+ diversity and inclusive care for McAlister Institute, 2018-2019).

Donovan volunteers in the bass section of the San Diego Gay Men's Chorus and with the queer neighborhood watch / crisis prevention nonprofit Stonewall Citizens Patrol. Some of his many books and articles, both academic and mainstream, including his new book Sex and Sacrament: A Queer Liberation Theology of Prayer & Worship (2021), are linked at his Academia archive and his Amazon Author page.

Recommended reading and links for those who want to learn more: 

• Global Action for Trans Equality, Aestrae Lesbian Foundation for Justice, American Jewish World Service (2017). The State of Trans Organizing (2017). Understanding the Needs and Priorities of a Growing but Under-resourced Movement, 2nd ed. (455 trans groups collaborated.) https://s3.amazonaws.com/astraea.production/app/asset/uploads/2017/10/Trans-REPORT-for-the-web-Updated.pdf
• Magdalene, Ky (2020). “4 resilience practices for trans people stuck in cissexist homes during self-isolation” https://kymagdalene.com/2020/04/06/4-resilience-practices-for-trans-people-stuck-in-cissexist-homes-during-self-isolation/ 
• Trans Lifeline (2020) What does supporting trans people look like right now? https://www.translifeline.org/weseeus
• The GENDER book https://thegenderbook.com/
• Harris, L. (2020) Coming Out as Non-Binary and Mad at Age 45, in a Pandemic * How 2020 broke me, and broke me out of the closets I had built around myself. Medium. (12/14/2020) https://leahharris.medium.com/coming-out-as-non-binary-and-mad-at-age-45-in-a-pandemic-d3e6ae1faffb
• Kutner, J. (2015) "’I want to be able to live my life’: An Indian-American trans woman on identity, tradition and India's ‘third gender.’" Salon. https://www.salon.com/2015/05/17/i_want_to_be_able_to_live_my_life_an_indian_american_trans_woman_on_identity_tradition_and_indias_third_gender/
• Villarreal, D. (2020). The Muxes of Mexico Are a 'Third Gender' Who Straddle the Line Between Respected and Reviled. Retrieved August 15, 2020, https://hornet.com/stories/muxes-mexico-gender-two/
• Sonoma, S. (2018) Four Transgender Indigenous and Two-Spirit People On What They Need From Allies, Impact (28 November 2018) https://www.intomore.com/impact/four-transgender-indigenous-and-two-spirit-people-on-what-they-need-from-allies 
• Testa, R., Habarth, J., Peta, J., Balsam, K., and Bockting, W. (2015). “Development of the Gender Minority Stress and Resilience Measure,” Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Vol. 2, No. 1, 65–77 © 2014 American Psychological Association
• Trans Faith (2017) Letter to Our Allies about Transgender Justice: What We Really Need From You (March 23, 2017) http://www.transfaithonline.org/connect/memorial/allies/ 
• Trevor Project (2020) National Survey on LGBTQ+ Youth Mental Health 2020 https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2020/ (linked in Lecture 1)
• Williams, D.R. (2016), "Everyday Discrimination Scale" (originally developed in 1995) in Measuring Discrimination Resource (Harvard University, June 2016) https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/davidrwilliams/files/measuring_discrimination_resource_june_2016.pdf
• Wilson, C. and Cariola, L. (2019) “LGBTQI+ Youth and Mental Health: A Systematic Review of Qualitative Research,” Adolescent Research Review (7 May 2019) https://www.academia.edu/39245997/LGBTQI_Youth_and_Mental_Health_A_Systematic_Review_of_Qualitative_Research?email_work_card=view-paper 
• Wolff, J., Kay, T.S., Himes, H.L. & Alquijay, J. (2017) Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming Student Experiences in Christian Higher Education: A Qualitative Exploration, Christian Higher Education, 16:5, 319-338, DOI: 10.1080/15363759.2017.131006

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Innate Capacities, Regeneration and Multidimensional Renewal 

In this session, we will explore innate abilities and readily available tools and technologies to optimize human potential. Infinite capacities exist within us and around us, patiently waiting to be activated, integrated and expanded. Through bringing awareness to these inner technologies and outer tools we can optimize our overall potential and well-being. From modern scientific discoveries to ancient perspectives, we will explore a grander look into human capabilities. We will focus on cellular and metabolic discoveries, the capacities of the mind, emotions, energy and the impact of vibrational tones.

Presenters:

• Dr. Todd Ovokaitys was first in his class in high school and won the coveted Bucky Pioneer Award. He was also at the top of his class at Northwestern University and after two years was one of 26 people accepted into an accelerated undergraduate and medical training program at Johns Hopkins University and medical school. He then completed specialty training in internal medicine and subspecialty training and pulmonary and critical care medicine at Georgetown University hospital. He was assessed by a faculty committee as the best of all the residents across the board. He was inspired to move to California to understand energy medicine and shortly after the journey had a vision of communicating with the pure consciousness of DNA. This has resulted in co-inventing a laser based interdimensional platform which has numerous US and international patents granted in the areas of nutraceuticals, agriculture including cannabis, and especially stem cell biology. He also pursues and provides training in the area of psycho emotional medicine, getting at the core root of any condition, physical or psychiatric, that can offer lasting relief. These discoveries have the potential to be a part of what may revolutionize and personalize the practice of medicine. He is also the composer and at times co-conductor of the Lemurian choirs that create patterns of tones and information that can accelerate expansion of consciousness.

• Ronnie Rancich holds a Bachelor in Science degree and as Licensed Registered Nurse in the US. Ronni holds a solid foundation in health and modern medicine. Her post graduate studies include trainings in neuroplasticity, certification in neuroscience and brain health, certification and licensed as a Heart Math mentor in building personal resilience and heart brain coherence, certified and licensed as a neurolinguistic programing practitioner along with a two year Masters program in energy work and studies in Meso-American healing modalities. Her unique integrated approach has been molded through a lifetime of personal experiences and over 12 years of academic studies and research. She provides tools, techniques and insights to facilitate the integration and expansion of inner latent capabilities so one may encompass their fullest and optimal potential. Her work ranges to organizational collaborations sharing talks, workshops, writings, to podcast interviews and sessions in Mexico and the US. Her mission is that every being live at their highest potential, enabling an optimal society and thereby an optimal collective reality for humanity.

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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Salute to Stan Grof on his 90th Birthday VI— Navigating the Collective Death and Rebirth Facing Humanity: Dialogue with Rick Tarnas with Stan and Brigitte Grof

Dr. Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. is a world-renowned pioneer, theoretician, and practitioner of the transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness. His groundbreaking theories have influenced depth psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy with his brilliant mapping of the transpersonal and perinatal dimensions of the psyche. Stan is well-known for his seminal work with LSD as a psychotherapeutic tool, beginning with his first LSD session in 1956 followed by his extensive clinical research through the 1960s and early 1970s. His use of LSD and other psychedelic substances in his psychiatric practice foreshadowed today’s widespread recognition that such substances can play an invaluable role in the treatment of many emotional and psychosomatic disorders as well as the alleviation of anxiety concerning the fear of death in terminally ill patients.

Stan was the first person to recognize that the results of LSD use for psychoanalysis were the same as what spiritual teachings have shown for thousands of years regarding non-ordinary states of consciousness. This led to his creating an award-winning cartography of the psyche that coined the term “ holotropic" as characteristic of non-ordinary states of consciousness such as meditative, mystical, or psychedelic experiences, all states which aim towards wholeness and the totality of existence.

For the past 50 years, Stan has continued his exploration of the many states of mind that can be explored without drugs by using certain breathing techniques. This holotropic breathwork (Grof® Breathwork) is an experiential method of self-exploration and psychotherapy that combines and integrates various elements from modern consciousness research, depth psychology, transpersonal psychology, Eastern spiritual philosophies, shamanism and other native healing practices. In May 2020, together with his wife Brigitte Grof, they launched their Grof® Legacy Training where students can develop theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in a large category of non-ordinary states that have a healing, transformative, heuristic, and evolutionary potential.

Stan turns 90 this July 1, Ubiquity University is collaborating with Stan, Brigitte and their Grof Legacy Training to celebrate his enormous contribution to the world’s understanding of how each of us can enter transcendent states of consciousness. His research and study have provided us with evidence that these “non-ordinary” states can grant us more robust health, an increased enthusiasm for life, an expanded worldview, and a sense of the sacred that is universal, non­denominational, and all­ inclusive.

Participants:

• Rick Tarnas, PhD explains humanity’s sense of separation from the natural world through a philosophical and historical perspective. This disconnect has resulted in the destruction of the Earth’s ecosystem, which Rick refers to as a crisis of consciousness for both individuals and the collective. He observes how Stan’s work with psychedelics and exposure to Eastern philosophies allowed him to see the archetypal nature of non-ordinary experiences, and note the similarities to ancient spiritual traditions. This rendered Stan's approach “psychiatrically grounded and spiritually informed.” Seeing how the traumas underlying Stan’s 4 Basic Perinatal Matrices are reflected in humanity’s fear of mortality, the fear of the feminine, and our need to control nature, Rick believes humanity is poised for a collective death/ rebirth experience.
  

• Stan Grof and his wife Brigitte join Rick, reflecting on the long and profound collaboration between them, and the collective friendship that began at Esalen over thirty years ago.

Convener:

• Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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