
Affectionately known as "America's #1 Success Coach," Jack Canfield is the originator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and a leading authority in the areas of self-esteem, achievement motivation, and peak performance. [www.jackcanfield.com]

Arianna Huffington is the co-founder and Editor in Chief of the Huffington Post and the author of twelve books. [www.huffingtonpost.com]

Seth Godin is a prominent author, blogger and speaker. [www.squidoo.com/linchpin]

Krishna Kaur is the founder of YOGA for Youth, a program that takes yoga, meditation, and stimulating discussions on the philosophy of yoga to urban youth. [www.yogaforyouth.org]

Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film. He is also a political and social activist and philanthropist. [www.normanlear.com]

Leilani Münter is a professional race car driver and an environmental activist who uses her voice in the number one spectator sport in America as a catalyst for change. [www.leilanimunter.com]

By going undercover to meet slaves and slaveholders, Kevin Bales exposed modern slavery's penetration into the global economy. He co-founded Free the Slaves, which has helped to liberate thousands of slaves. [www.freetheslaves.net]

Sophie Chiche, lifebyme.com founder and curator, enjoys asking deep questions and living a life of meaning. Today she's launching Shape House, an urban sweat lodge, a place to melt away fears and fat. [www.shapehousela.com]

Entrepreneur and writer Mastin Kipp founded TheDailyLove.com, which merges pop culture with inspiration, and co-founded The Love Yourself Company, an apparel company that has started a global self-esteem movement. [www.TheDailyLove.com]

Liz Phair is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. [www.lizphair.com]

Archbishop Desmond Tutu is Chairman of The Elders, a group of world leaders who address some of the world's most pressing problems. He works energetically for human-rights and in his ministry. [www.tutu.org]

Zainab Salbi is the founder and CEO of Women for Women International, a group dedicated to helping women survivors of war rebuild their lives. [www.womenforwomen.org]

Despite his physical challenges, Sean Stephenson has taken a stand for a quality of life that has inspired millions of people around the world. He's a professional speaker, psychotherapist, and author. [www.timetostand.com]

Kia Miller teaches Yoga at Yoga Works in Los Angeles, leads teacher trainings, and runs retreats and workshops on meditation, chakras, pranayam, and mantras, and other practices. [www.kiamiller.com]

Simon Mainwaring is an ex-Nike/Wieden creative, former Worldwide Creative Director at Motorola/Ogilvy, branding/advertising writer, author/speaker/blogger, Australian, idea geek. [www.simonmainwaring.com]

Shannon Bindler is a style editor, life coach, and the co-founder of Get Up Girl, an empowerment company that inspires women to shine. [www.getupgirl.com]

Grammy-nominated art director/designer/photographer Mathieu Bitton has designed over 450 CDs and movie posters. He's a renowned collector of and authority on black films and their soundtracks. [www.candytangerine.com]

Opus Reps founder and agent-producer Jorge Perez travels the world producing photo shoots with great photographers and celebrities. He's also very involved with Meals on Wheels in Los Angeles. www.opusreps.com
birth

What’s most meaningful to me is participating in the planetary shift from the separation and potential disaster of our current system toward a co-evolutionary, co-creative humanity. I feel I was born for this shift.
In 1945, the United States dropped the first bombs on Japan. The question that arose for me was “What is the meaning of all this new power that’s good?” I was 15 then and I actually met President Eisenhower and had the chance to ask him my question. His answer was, “I have no idea.”
My life has been a pursuit of answers to that question. What are positive images of the future that are equal to our new power? What is the meaning of science, technology, and industry? Not meaningful in life after death or through metaphysics or science fiction, but in the actual unfolding of our human future.
I read and explored philosophy and religion to see if any of the faiths or great thinkers had a vision of the future equal to our power. And I kept asking questions. What I discovered is that the meaning of our power and the meaning of my life is participation in the conscious evolution of humanity.
I believe we’re at a critical phase change wherein we could destroy our life support systems … or we can evolve ourselves into a co-creating, co-evolving, universal species.
So many of us are examples of co-creation, incarnating the creative impulse. When you’ve seen the co-creative woman, you’ve seen the creative force of the universe embodied in feminine form. As men everywhere leave their roles in the patriarchy, they also evolve and create. I call creative power embodied in feminine form in partnership with the evolving man a co-creative evolutionary democracy.
For many years, I’ve proposed that the role of the vice president in the U.S. serve a new social function of exploring the peace road with as much sophistication as humans have explored the war road – mapping, tracking, and connecting what’s working in America and in the world, liberating emerging potentials.
Part of this vision is initiating a network on our Shift Movement website so that when people want to give their gifts – their creativity and projects, there’s a place for them to identify themselves as part of that whole system, part of the larger pattern of the conscious, co-creative evolutionary shift.
So, where are you? What are you doing? What’s your gift to the shift?
– Barbara Marx Hubbard
Comments