Co-Creators Rising by Barbara Marx Hubbard

In this module, we will explore the historical shift from small tribes through the advent of warrior gods and dominator culture to the rise of global environmental and social problems, ending now in the breakdown of modern civilization and the advent of the shift to the co-creative culture.

Drawing from pioneer Co-creator Riane Eisler, we will set the scene for this cultural transformation from domination to co-creation and begin to understand the development of the co-creative culture and its earliest pioneers, among them Jesus, Buddha, Teilhard de Chardin, Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, Buckminster Fuller, the Dalai Lama, Jean Houston and Peter Russell. We’ll also lay the foundations for individual and group work over the 12 weeks.

In this first module, you will:

• Understand the natural evolutionary progression leading to the role of the Co-creator
• See how the old dominator pattern still lives in you and the way you relate with others, despite your best intentions
• Embark on a journey of shifting to the new co-creative ways of being and relating through journaling, Emergence practices and application of “52 Codes for Conscious Evolution”
• Form small resonant groups to share our experience and stabilize the shift occurring within and among us
• Enter into large group discussions to foster a co-creative community among ourselves – learning resonance, speaking from within, sharing with each other the inner experience of self evolution as co-creators
• Gain skills to reinforce an inner awareness so that we can discern when we’re acting as Co-creators and when we’re not

Riane Eisler, JD is President of the Center for Partnership Studies and internationally known as a systems scientist, attorney working for the human rights of women and children, and author of groundbreaking books such as The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 26 foreign editions, and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. Dr. Eisler has received many honors, including honorary PhDs and peace and human rights awards. She lectures worldwide, with venues including the United Nations General Assembly, the U.S. Department of State, Congressional briefings, universities, corporations, conference keynotes, and events hosted by heads of State.

In this second module, Joanne Brem – a leading evolutionary coach, pioneer in resonance and explorer of higher dimensions of universal life – will join us. We’ll learn the fundamental experiences, practices and qualities of being of the Feminine Co-creator.

What is this new archetype and what’s different about women now, at the threshold of either devolution or conscious evolution? We’ll explore the evolutionary progression from Feminism to Feminine Empowerment to the Feminine Co-creator. Barbara will share intimately about her own evolution into the new archetype over the course of her life.

With Joanne and Barbara’s guidance, you will come to:

• Understand the deeper gifts and blessings of the Feminine Co-Creator
• Recognize typical challenges and pitfalls
• Apply co-creative principles with children, partners and love relationships
• Engage the process of co-creative resonance in pairs and small groups
• Learn how language shapes your experience of resonance

Joanne Brem is a SF bay area based executive coach whose passion is to awaken consciousness and inspired visionary leadership in organizations globally, primarily in Fortune 1000 companies. She opens leaders to connect to their essential selves as the center from which they lead and helps them cultivate the awareness, skills and strategies to inspire optimal levels of engagement, creativity, collaboration and productivity in their teams and throughout the organizations within which they work. As a facilitator of team processes, she effectively both creates and sustains the field of collective resonance, intention and focus needed for true co-creation to take place and the highest outcomes to be achieved. She brings her fascination and curiosity regarding the laws of how manifestation in this dimension actually occurs to her coaching, where she effectively assist her clients to “get things done” and achieve the highest results, both of utmost importance in the corporate environments within which she works.

“Regenopause” is a remarkable new phenomenon among women that signifies a re-engagement with life that often results in women feeling more energized, on purpose and excited to contribute, even as they enter traditional years of retirement. Regenopause doesn’t just happen. It’s a state of being that is consciously cultivated and has profound effects on your life, health, creativity and experience.

Women literally become ever-evolving Co-creators, undergoing the regenerative process similar to the caterpillar transforming into a butterfly.

In this module, you’ll:

• Recognize the signs of Regenopause in yourself and others
• Cultivate practices that reconnect you with your life force and untapped creativity
• Shift from a career focus to “vocational arousal,” leading to more sustained passion for your real work
• Understand the nature of “Suprasex,” and how to cultivate it with evolutionary partners
• Learn how this state connects to spiritual lore around the Risen Body, the Rainbow Box, the Celestial Body, and more
• Come to appreciate that no matter how old you are, your best contributions can still be ahead of you
• Explore the new myth of the sacred marriage of the New Adam and New Eve at the Tree of Life
• Begin to see and experience death as an evolutionary innovation
• Open to the possibility of co-creating radically new bodies and lives as we emerge as a cosmic species
• Learn key practices to cultivate Regenopause by supporting bodily transformation toward regeneration and awaken higher faculties of creativity and spiritual awareness

In this module, we’ll explore the remarkable opportunity to move from self-preservation through self-reproduction to self-evolution and Suprasex. This shift represents not only an expansion beyond sex, it opens the portal to feminine spirituality and higher evolutionary potential.

As we live longer lives and have fewer children, our sexual drive yields to a suprasexual drive. In Suprasex, we access our co-creative genius to give birth to our greater selves and our work in the world. Over time, the drive for greater self-expression among Co-creators may become as powerful as the drive for sexual reproduction.

In this module, you’ll

• Learn how Feminine Co-creators activate a “hormonal reserve” that awakens a passion to create – as great or greater than the passion to procreate
• Expand your capacity for unconditional love for the unknown world, no matter how painful or difficult it may be to see its goodness
• Experience the core of Vocational Arousal and understand how to attract those who most need what you yearn to give
• Avoid the dangers of suprasexual promiscuity, where the natural impulse to co-create can lead to over-promising, over-excitement and failure to complete projects
• Learn to awaken your new hormonal reserves to enhance your health, creativity, beauty, service and joy
• Develop practices for cultivating your hormonal reserve through meditation, Suprasex and resonance among two or more
• Receive journal writings from Barbara’s unpublished journals on the discovery and practice of suprasexual co-creativity

Rev. Dr. Devaa Haley Mitchell is a transformational leader who supports people to reconnect with their spiritual essence, unleash their leadership gifts, and step into their full potential. Devaa co-founded The Shift Network and founded the Inspiring Women Summit, a virtual gathering of 70,000+ participants from more than 160 countries. Through her Soulful Women Wisdom School, which she co-founded with Elayne Kalila Doughty, she offers deeply experiential and transformative programs that guide hundreds of women to connect more deeply with spirit.
Devaa is also a musician whose debut album, Sacred Alchemy, aims to reawaken and liberate the many dimensions of the sacred feminine. Her LIVE performances fuse East and West with groovy, danceable tunes.

In this module, we will join renowned author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Charles Eisenstein, and Adam Hall, author of The Earth Keepers, as we learn to shift from the dominator to the partnership model. Focusing on challenges and methods that work in our lives now, Charles will share fundamental insights: The Story of Interbeing, the Age of Reunion, the ecological age, and the world of the gift. Adam Hall will share his extraordinary shift from an “Earth Conqueror” to a preservationist, uncovering the creative power of the universe. In dialogue with Charles and Adam, we will seek the best means of applying these principles in our own lives.

You will learn the key principles of Interbeing from Charles’ work, including:

• My being partakes of your being and that of all beings. Because our very existence is relational, what we do to another, we do to ourselves
• Each of us has a unique and necessary gift to give to the world, and the purpose of life is to express our gifts
• Every act is significant and has an effect on the cosmos
• Fundamentally we are inseparable from all beings and the universe
• Every person we encounter and every experience that we have mirrors something in ourselves
• Humanity is meant to join fully with the tribe of all life on Earth, offering our uniquely human gifts toward the well-being and development of the whole
• Purpose, consciousness, and intelligence are innate properties of matter and the universe.

Charles Eisenstein is a teacher, speaker, and writer focusing on themes of civilization, consciousness, money, and human cultural evolution. He is the author of several books including The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics, and The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible.

Adam C. Hall was an investment-banker and real estate developer when an unconventional and unexpected “mid-life crisis” radically altered his relationship to the Earth. Now, he is the Chairman and Founding Steward of Earthkeeper Alliance Inc. Earthkeeper’s 501c3 Urban Gardens, educates youths, their families and communities to grow, eat and sustain their own food and nourishment through local gardens. He has extensive expertise in structured finance and has raised in excess of $1.5 billion in equity and debt from private and institutional sources alike. As a leading impact investor, he is dedicated to the quadruple bottom line of Profits, People, Planet and Peace.

One of the great challenges – and beautiful opportunities! – of our day, is for women and men to join together in full co-creative partnerships. After millennia of imbalance, the old patterns are ingrained deeply in us and our culture. In this important module, we’ll learn how to lay the foundations for a new kind of relationship between the genders as well as navigate the many challenges that arise.

You’ll learn:

• How to navigate challenges that arise when one partner is more vocationally aroused than his or her mate
• The key foundations to positive relationships, including freeing ourselves from cycles of criticizing each other
• How to balance committed love and freedom as a couple
• The foundational agreements that lead to lasting love
• How to keep relationships alive and juicy for many decades
• Keys to sustaining co-creative relationships in your vocation

Since meeting at a professional conference in 1981, Glenn and Marian Head have been supporting people, organizations and movements to envision an ideal future and create it. Whether guiding a Fortune 500 team to clarify its values, co-chairing a graduate school department on Leadership and Organizational Transformation, or co-facilitating the Global Forum of Parliamentary and Spiritual Leaders on Human Survival, this co-creative couple infuses their love and esprit de corps into all they do.

Their personal values and approach are best reflected in Marian’s award-winning book, rEvolutionary Agreements: Twelve Ways to Transform Stress and Struggle Into Freedom and Joy, and The Suprasexual rEvolution: Toward the Birth of A Universal Humanity, co-authored with Barbara Marx Hubbard.

In this module, we focus on Masculine Co-creators and how men are transitioning from the dominator culture into experiencing the joys of co-creation. Guest Steven Starr will illumine his own shift, born of his recognition of the limiting beliefs associated with the winner-take-all personality and creator-as-God model. He’ll share his profound insights about the “sourcing” magic that co-creativity and collaboration allows. Coming from a background of traditional media and technology, as the head of the film division of William Morris, his heart told him there was another way, and he began his search for something more authentic and less opportunistic. We will also learn from Don Hudson, who will enter into dialogue with Steven and participants to share core insights about embracing the Masculine Co-creator.

In this module, you’ll:

• See how masculine strength can be sourced from a deep love and appreciation of essence
• How women can engage men with unconditional love to call them into their Co-creator self
• Receive key principles for empowering the Masculine Co-creator
• Understand how the creation of structure and form is one of the distinctive masculine blessings and how to encourage it

Don Hudson is an award-winning journalist who has covered politics, finance and gender issues for The Charlotte Observer and yahoo.com. Don’s novel heralding the emergence of the sacred feminine through the high-tech world of San Francisco will be published in 2015. He is also working on a nonfiction book about quantum physics and the cosmic Christ.

Stephen Starr launched the William Morris Agency’s media (home video and audiobooks) division in 1983. He went on to package television and screenplays, then headed the New York Motion Picture department under Sue Mengers. His clients over the years included Larry David, Ang Lee, Andy Warhol, Ziggy Marley, Sandra Bernhard, Andy Grove, Joseph Papp, Will Smith and Tim Robbins. Starr went on to focus full-time on media democratization in 1999, as a co-founder of the Los Angeles Independent Media Center, and founding CEO of AntEye.com, a user-generated video site where video creators, voted on by their peers, were awarded micro-pilot budgets in various categories.The Pacifica Foundation approached Starr to reorganize KPFK, the largest progressive radio signal in the US. After helping to restore community and financial controls, he started ChangeTv, a user-generated digital cable network designed to filter online video onto cable and reward creators, advised by John Perry Barlow and Amnesty International’s Jack Healy.

Neale Donald Walsch coined the term “Andropause” to explore the masculine version of Regenopause. In this module, we will explore the experience of a Masculine Co-creator during the mid-life shift from dominator to co-creator model. In mid-life, our guest John Perkins, author of The Economic Hit Man, became a founder of Pachamama Alliance and a world-renowned evolutionary shaman. John will describe in vivid poetic terms what happened to give him the courage, the insights and the vision to take a risk to his own well-being and deny the very culture that was supporting him – so that he could give his life to being the new culture.

He’ll put a special emphasis on his relationship with indigenous peoples and their wisdom, which is so vital to the survival and evolution of the world.

In this module, you’ll:

• Understand how this shift can occur and begin to cultivate it
• Explore ways that intimate relationship supports you in this phase change
• Define and begin to practice your ideal relationship with the Feminine Co-creator
• Enter into a shamanic ritual with John, shape-shifting and awakening the sleeping Co-creator within us

John Perkins has studied and lived with shamans on six continents. His books have sold over 1 million copies, spent more than 70 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller lists, and are published in more than 30 languages. As Chief Economist at a major consulting firm, his experiences advising the World Bank, UN, IMF, U.S. government, Fortune 500 corporations, and heads of state convinced him to devote the rest of his life to facilitating changes in consciousness and in social, political and economic systems. He was founder and CEO of a highly successful alternative energy company and is a founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofits dedicated to creating a sustainable, just, peaceful and thriving world.

John has lectured at universities around the globe, and is the author of many books. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CNN, NPR, A&E, the History Channel, Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Der Spiegel, and many other publications, as well as in numerous documentaries. He was awarded the Lennon-Ono Grant for Peace 2012, and Rainforest Action Network Challenging Business As Usual Award, 2006.

In modern society, most of us no longer live in extended families. As we get older, we find ourselves separated from our adult children, often lonely, and yet full of energy – not wanting to go into a retirement home.

Bill Kauth is the founder of the celebrated Mankind Project, which brings healthy masculinity back into our world through powerful weekend initiations led by men. In this module, Bill and his wife, Zoe, will probe their core proposal: to establish “core communities” designed to co-create a “gift culture” – moving from transaction to trust, consumption to contribution, scarcity to abundance, and isolation to community.

In this module, you’ll:

• Receive an evolutionary “world view” map that allows you to build bridges into the new culture
• Recreate the positive aspects of tribal culture within your community
• Learn how healthy and high-functioning communities are born and sustained
• Understand the power of gifting economics to unleash creativity
• Create resonant circles that are satisfying, fun and empowering

Bill and Zoe have been working together, actively learning and teaching the ideas and applications of “Gift” Community. They met at Burning Man, married in 2008 and are committed to bringing about a healing understanding of the essential feminine and masculine with a focus on building intimate, bonded tribes of men and women. Together they have authored the book We Need Each Other, and delivered 60+ Gift Community seminars around the world

Bill Kauth was working as a psychotherapist and business consultant in 1984 when he conceived and co-founded the New Warrior Training Adventure. It has now served well over 50,000 men through The ManKind Project with 47 centers in 10 countries around the world. In 1992 St. Martin’s Press published his