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Meeting Archives October 2008 What's Important about the National Election of 2008 September 2008 The Story of 9 / 11 and How We Tell It June 2008 Story as a Metaphor for our Lives - Part B. May 2008 Coaching: A Movement that Makes the World Safe for Change April 2008 Story as a Metaphor for our Life with Dr. Steve Liebowitz March 2008 The Tracks We Make are the Choices we Take February 2008 Who, What and Where are we in the Cosmos? January 2008 Story as a Metaphor for our Life with Dr. Steve Liebowitz December 2007 Shared Leadership, Shared Responsibility - Part Two with Peggy Collins November 2007 Learning to Depend on Others - Part One with Peggy Collins October 2007 The "Right Stuff" - How Do You and Your Clients Develop it? September 2007 Building Grassroots, Healthcare Networks June 2007 Building Interdependent, Interconnected Networks May 2007 Podcasting 101 For Coaches: You Too Can Get The Word Out Fast About Your Work April 2007 The Power of Human Emotion March 2007 Virtual Assistants Provide Tangible Results February 2007 Blog Your Way Into A Thriving Coaching Practice January 2007 The People Want Peace December 2006 Gifting, Gratitude & Generosity November 2006 Post USA Elections 2006: Now What? How About Transpartisanship, for Starters? A Trialog with Your SIG Co-Hosts October 12th, 2006 Coaching Civic Engagement September 14th, 2006 The Crest of Change: Depression, Discovery, Direction

The Future of Democracy With Guest Byron Belitsos November 13th, 2008 Listen to the recording now: We have just seen the culmination of the most exciting election cycle the USA may ever have had. The question many people may be asking now is, "What's next?" That's what we invited our November guest speaker to discuss with us…. There is a new story emerging and with it, new possibilities. The extraordinary events of the recent election, the energy crisis, and the global financial crisis have inspired individual participation in the process of government like never before. How does this enlivened democracy affect you, and what changes do you think are pivotal on our journey towards a world that works for everyone? Guest speaker Byron Belitsos is co-author of the book, One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision For Enforceable Global Law. This book is the definitive account for our time of how humanity can abolish war by transforming the United Nations into an effective world democracy. His perspective places American politics within an understanding of "deep politics" and a global dynamic: "Global democracy - or, bottom-up control of planetary affairs by the world's people - is essential if we are to equitably manage the dire challenges humanity now faces. Yet, top-down control of the world by largely unaccountable corporate elites has taken giant steps forward in the last several decades. "Clues to what will happen to planet Earth after the 2008 election can be found, not in what the candidates {said}, but in what remains unsaid - that is, in the domain of "deep politics. It is here that we will find what lies ahead for us as we evolve, either toward a global police state, or toward a democratic world republic — or to some hybrid of the two." Special Offer to Cultural Creative SIG members: You can purchase the book, One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision For Enforceable Global Law by Jerry Tetalman and Byron Belitsos at a significantly discounted rate and no shipping charges by contacting Byron directly at byron@originpress.com. Information about Byron Belitsos and the Global Democracy Movement, go to http://www.oneworlddemocracy.net/. World Federalist Movement www.worldfederalist.org Citizens for Global Solutions www.globalsolutions.org Democratic World Federalists http://www.dwfed.org/ Other Key Organizations and Websites in the Global Governance Movement can be found at: http://www.oneworlddemocracy.net/organizations.htm http://www.wfm.org/site/index.php/articles/64 http://www.dwfed.org/links.htm Byron Belitsos at Institute of Noetic Sciences Shift in Action seminar on "World Democracy, Deep Politics, and the 2008 Election" archived recording at: http://www.shiftinaction.com/discover/teleseminars/byron_belitsos/world_democracy Byron Belitsos founded Origin Press in 1996 in San Rafael, California. He is also its principal funder and stockholder, and is the publisher of its two imprints, Wisdom Editions and Celestia. Origin's eighteen titles have so far been recipients of three national prizes. http://www.originpress.com/ You can contact Byron by email at byron@originpress.com

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