Summer ‘75-‘79

Summer 1980 – Present

• 1980 GRA : Task Force Assignments preparing for GRA
  • • Council Opening:  Joe Slicker

• 1981 Global Council, July:
  • • An Assembly of the Regional Teams:  Symbolic Life Guide, July 1981
    • The Spirit Talks,
    • The Five Great Talks, July 1981
    • Strategies Discourse, July 1981
    • Council Mandates, Quarter I 1981-1982
    • Global Program, July 1981
    • One World Grid
    • Global Priorities 1981-1982
    • Proposal on North American Configuration, Global Council, July 1981
    • Structural Permeation Lab Report and Permeation Prob, July 1981
    • Ponderables: Team Reports, July 1981
    • Working Papers on Common Models, July 1981
    • Twenty Year and Four Year Tasks, Global Council Quarter I, 1981-2
    • The Global Voice, 1981-1982 Councils

*    1985:  July-August, Brussels – The Planetary Connection

Examined factors leading to social change and identified trends. Participants delved into understandings of consciousness and spiritual development practiced globally. Looked at life styles and systems for contemporary social ethics. Leading thinkers and futuriists contributed:  Jean Houston (Co-Director of the Foundation for Mind Research, New York; Oliver Markley (Directors of the Futures Research Department, University of Houston): Barbara Hubbard, (Catalyst of Positive futures Society): Willis Harman (Author of An Incomplete Guide to the Future)

• 1986 Bilbao, Spain
  • • Rising of the Great Eastern Sun, Charlene Powell, August 8, 1986

• 1989 Global Research Assembly, Brussels, Belgium, September 29
  • • GRA Report
    • “ICA: The Hero with 1000 Faces“, Tojo Thatchenkery

• 1990 Taipei, Taiwan Global Research Assembly:  Our Common Future
  • • GRA Brochure

• 1992 Prague, Czechoslovakia Global Research Assembly, September 
  • Conference Brochure
  • Preparation, Council and Attendees

• 1996 Cairo, Egypt: The Rise of Civil Society in the 21st Century, September
  • • Conference Results and More and More

• 2000 Millennium Connection, Colorado
  • • Bishop James Mathews, Address at Vail Gathering, Colorado, August 5, 2000
    • Streams: Arts for Community Transformation (ACT); Community Youth Development; Philanthropy for Social Innovation; Practice of Participation; Sustainabie Community Development;  Spirituality in Organizations; Wholistic Lifelong Learning
    •  Opening and Closing Celebrations.    “Between the Arrows”, closing play.