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Engaged Elder Series

In furtherance of creating and maintaining the planetary dialogues now required in the 21st century, I will be featuring a special series of dialogues on this site with myself and other elders leading up to and during the 2008 U.S. election season.  With another major global event of 2008 being the Beijing Olympics, we remember that the Chinese character for “crisis” is often described as meaning both “danger” when visioned from a fear perspective, and “opportunity” when visioned from a wisdom perspective. These dialogues will address various specific political aspects of our planetary crisis, with its dangers and opportunities for a visionary and evolutionary shift.

In my preceding dialogues I have talked in various ways about the need to generate dialogues across generational, ethnic, gender, and national boundaries -- building bridges of understanding and wisdom in the cooperative spirit and reaching out required by our 21st century realities, and the essential roles that we all are called to play in our evolution for it to take place.

This is the time for renewed dialogue, for visionary and inspiring discourse producing practical and innovative solutions together, to engage our own elder wisdom and youthful inspiration, and in so doing to experience and exemplify that “Dialogue is the Language of Evolutionary Transformation”.

And that is what we all do, in our mutual roles as host, deep listeners, and guests, when we gather together here from all parts of the globe in Living Dialogues.
 

[>>] Featured Dialogues In Engaged Elders Series:

• Frances Moore Lappe| The Evolution of Living Democracy
• Jane Goodall and Marc Bekoff | The Animal in All
• Paul Hawken| The Blessed Unrest
  
• Paul Ray | Co-Creating a New Wisdom Culture
  
• Joseph Ellis | 2008 U.S. Elections – Historical Tipping Point and Evolutionary Perspective
• Duane Elgin | A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future
• Michael Meade | The Art and Evolutionary Necessity of Dialogic Myth Making
• Angeles  Arrien | Co-Creating New Evolutionary Elders
• Coleman Barks | The Soul of Rumi
• Sobonfu Some | The Essential Participation and Wisdom Gifts of Elders and Youth in Evolving Our Cultural Dialogue
• Ted Sorenson | Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History
• Rober Turnman | Why the Dalai Lama Matters
• David Maraniss | Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World
• David Boren | A Letter to America
• George Lakoff | The Evolutionary Challenge of the 21st Century for the Political Mind