Note from Joyouschee: I was a participant at Human Forum 2006 in Puerto Rico and highly endorse this international event where wonderful people gather from all over the world to propel humanity forward.
Dear friends,
First, I would like to thank you all for your feedback to my May Update. I have read carefully your points of view, and although I must confess I have not had the time to answer each one, I have indeed replied to many, and I know Arsenio has done the same on my behalf to many others.
There is no more important task for us today, than to connect people to the accumulated wisdom of humankind that lives in our stories, to precipitate a new narrative that unites us and takes us to the birthing of a new paradigm. In this regard I want to briefly update you on our progress in building the Alliance. task.
We are set for launching the Alliance in Medellin and Bogota, Colombia, on the first week of July. Nestor Torres, the Grammy award winner flute player from Puerto Rico, Adolfo Jarrin from Venezuela, who works on the incorporation of spiritual values in corporations, Lina Barrantes of the Arias Foundation in Costa Rica, Ramiro Valencia a political and private sector leader from Colombia, and several other people will be joining us in workshops and panels introducing the Alliance conversation in Colombia.
In August we are gathering the small group of the Visionary Circle, those who have responded to bear the brunt of the financial support to the work of the Alliance, in Taos, New Mexico. At the same time we are working with Monica Sharma at the United Nations and a group of experienced workers from Mexico, Ireland, United Kingdom and the US in developing "wisdom in action" tools for grass roots empowerment/transformation programs based on the elements of the Soul of Leadership. Our aim 100 million people in 10 years.
Earlier this month we reached 4 million people in Latin America and the US through a 5 minute special TV broadcast to 18 countries, talking about the alliance plans ahead including the Human Forum in Costa Rica on March 11 to 13, 2008.
Our friends Lorin Hollander and Nestor Torres, will be ambassadors for the Alliance in a series of activities in Costa Rica in August and September. They would respectively use their talents on classical piano and flute, to benefit the Alliance and the Institute of Musical Education of Costa Rica.
Jeff Dunn, former President of Coca Cola for North America and member of our Board of Advisors, is collaborating with me in working out a deal with the Kellogg Business School, the Central American Business School INCAE, and other partners, for convening an Alliance sponsored workshop, to explore the consciousness and spiritual dimensions in marketing and corporate endeavors, as an associated activity to the Alliance Human Forum.
Claudia Madrazo, our Board Member from Mexico and Mary Callaghan from Ireland have teamed with Nader Shaterian of Marsys, in a formidable IT group that will be improving the look, feel and deliverability of our website to make it friendlier and more useful as a platform to communicate all of us. First phase coming up in July.
The preparations for our Annual Forum in Costa Rica are well underway. We are expecting an extraordinary gathering that will benefit from it being in Costa Rica, a courageous and visionary country, which took the extraordinary decision of abolishing its army and devote its military budgets to education, and which has adopted the sustainable use of its natural resources as an engine for its economy.
It will be indeed an emblematic venue, for the re-launching of the Alliance, in a new scaled-up phase that will accelerate the movement towards a new humanity. Our friend Oscar Arias, actual president of the country, Nobel Peace Laureate 1987, and co-founder of the Alliance, will inaugurate the proceedings of the Forum in an opening ceremony that will take place at the National Museum of Costa Rica, former central headquarters of the Costa Rican Army, where in 1948 the military abolition decree was issued.
Participatory workshops, with a view of equipping the participants with the tools they need (such as the soul of leadership methodology) will be the essence of the event. Our aim is to set in motion wisdom in action, in communities, corporations, and grass root organizations, with the aim of scaling up transformational forces that would be spread by conference participants within their own networks and communities.
Daniel Stone, with vast experience in participatory consultations in Europe, US and in Asia, (e.g. consultations for Ground Zero development with 5,000 people and Meeting of Minds - European Citizens' Deliberation on Brain Science) at corporate, public and village levels, has agreed to help us to structure the Forum in Costa Rica to produce with all the participants there concrete tools to continue spreading the movement of the Alliance in each respective sphere of life
I look forward to seeing many of you in Costa Rica. Mark your dates, tell your friends, join us in Costa Rica March 11 to 13, 2008. More detailed information and registration will be opening up within the next six weeks in our website.
Love,
Deepak
Alliance for a New Humanity
http://www.anhglobal.org
