Category: Chronological History

Summer 1987 Research Event • New Horizons In Learning Educational Research Conference was held in Guatemala for 400 educators, business people, health professionals, development agencies, and government officials. 1987 - 1988 Movement   • Several people attended Jean Houston’s Mystery School and The Human Capacities...

Summer 1986 Planetary Vision Quest   Research Event The “Planetary Vision Quest” was held in Chicago with Jean Houston, Fritjof Capra, and Marilyn Ferguson as presenters. “We became fascinated with ‘New Age’ leaders…and incorporated visualization and meditation, etc. into our ‘repertoire’” (Ensinger, 1992).   Council...

Summer 1985 Research Events Chicago, July; Brussels, July–August. “The Planetary Connection” People examined the factors that lead to social change and identified social trends that are leading in new and needed directions. Participants delved into understandings of consciousness and spiritual development as practiced in various...

Summer 1984 The New Paradigm Safari, Chicago   Council of the Order Ecumenical Over 800 order members and associates met for six weeks in Chicago to determine the “corporate future, formation, direction and goals for the next 16 years [to the year 2000].” Sixty people...

Summer 1983   Council of the Order Ecumenical September 1983 to December 1984 was named The Year of Order Council. The events of the sixteen months were focused on creating and re-creating the forms, structures and relationships within the Order: Ecumenical community. Over 200 talking...

Summer 1982 • The Lamego, Portugal Human Development Project began. The community was an example of “Third World” conditions in Europe. • First Global Research Assembly was held in Jakarta, Indonesia. • Brussels developed the Service Ventures business and provided information systems advice to business....

Summer 1981   Council of the Order Ecumenical The Panchayat created a vocational journey chart, the basis of a conversation model, for the Order Council in Summer of 1981. In the 1981 July Council, [the Bug model, » see page 6] was rearticulated to reflect...

Summer 1980 Global Symposium on Human Development in the ’80s Research Assembly 600 people from 40 nations worked on where the Pressure Points had shifted. Rite of Passage (1980)—6th grade trip to the Minnesota Boundary Waters The Movement 1980-1984.  The Human Development Training Institute (HDTI)...

Summer 1979 The Global Symposium Research Assembly • Spun talks around The Way. • Established global priorities. • Emphasis was on building models to address commonly faced issues (The Institute of Cultural Affairs, 1979). » How can local economies be diversified and strengthened? » What...

Summer 1978 Research Assembly • Task Forces dealt with Awakenment, Demonstration, Formation, and Interchange. • There were six modules: The Seven Revolutions, Learnings, Framing, Awakenment, Maneuvers, and Primal Community. • A New Vision of Reality, Parts I and II, an anthology of current works on...