2020 Issue 25 • Nov 29

By Jessica Dibb, host of the Enneagram Global Summit

We all dream of living a life of meaning, purpose, fulfillment, and love… and deep in our hearts and souls wish that for everyone.

What if we could integrate all of our potential to self-actualize that vision for our own lives AND simultaneously help build a world in which everyone could flourish?

That vision is more urgent and compelling than ever before as we live through a global pandemic that’s affecting life for everyone — and we are even more aware of the global impacts of racial injustice and climate degradation on ALL.

For personal, relational, and global wellbeing to emerge and be sustainable, we have to be able to experience oneness, while also addressing the differentiated needs and capacities of ourselves and others.

Is there an orientation towards inner work and personal growth that can support that degree of integration? Yes, and it is one of the three fastest growing modalities in the human potential movement this year.

I am honored to be one of 55 teachers, as well as the host, of the FREE 5-day Enneagram Global Summit from December 7- 11. Now in its seventh year, this popular summit features its largest faculty ever — and is covering an even greater depth and breadth than before.

In session after session, you’ll hear from master Enneagram teachers, therapists, people in service sectors, social activists, and researchers about how personal healing and transformation, inner work, spiritual paths, relationships, education, social justice issues, the arts, prison work, policing, trauma, feminine and masculine empowerment, healthcare, and more are supported and enhanced by working with the universal patterns of energy that the Enneagram teaches.

This summit is a highly curated event that’s designed to help you build powerful pathways of transformation for yourself and the world. Together we’ll create a learning and practice community, guided by renowned teachers such as Dr. Dan Siegel, Helen Palmer, Russ Hudson, Dr. Dick Schwartz, Cynthia Bourgeault, Dr. Deborah Egerton, Suzanne Stabile, Dr. Judith Orloff, and more. There’s also music, comedy, and deeply intimate sharings about personal and collective trauma and repair!

We’ll be embarking on a voyage, a journey of consciousness that leads to deeper and higher integration, embodying awakened presence, wisdom, and love.

I welcome you to join us to discover, laugh, cry, heal, transform, awaken, and be inspired to live life like never before.

Register for this free online event here!

A note from Aliah MaJon, Chief Inclusion Officer for The Shift Network:

In 1990, President George H. W. Bush declared the month of November as National American Indian Heritage Month, now commonly referred to as Native American Heritage Month. This November, I personally consider it a tremendous privilege to honor the First Nations peoples of the United States, the original inhabitants of this country that is now home to us all.

It is my intention in this hand-picked collection of materials to both educate myself and inform others about what we may not know by providing you with a glimpse into the stories of our far too often forgotten sisters and brothers, the centuries-old stewards of this land.

To help set the tone, I'd like to share this statement I found in Wikipedia: "The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in what is now the United States at least 15,000 years ago, possibly much earlier, from Asia via Beringia. A vast variety of peoples, societies, and cultures subsequently developed."

I hope you enjoy these offerings...

What really happened four centuries ago? USA Today asks: After a Summer of Racial Reckoning, Is America Ready to Learn the Truth About Thanksgiving?

Shift Network Course Manager Gillian Shelley, a fierce advocate for racial justice and healing, offers a thought-provoking perspective on how to best honor and celebrate "Thanksgrieving."

In two brief videos, Larissa FastHorse shares The Harsh Truth About Thanksgiving while Native American Girls Describe the REAL History Behind Thanksgiving.

The Wampanoag, a Native American tribe from the northeastern United States, were there when the Pilgrims arrived in 1620 and they are still there today. Learn about their lives long ago by meeting two modern-day Wampanoag girls in this 7-minute video.

We also want to take this opportunity to honor and celebrate the wisdom and culture of Indigenous peoples. In these illuminating TEDx talks, LoVina Louie explains the historical root causes for the challenges facing many Native Americans, while Gregg Deal talks about the use of history as a tool, and challenges those who hear his words to take responsibility for their knowledge and create room for this nation’s First Peoples.

We can continue to learn from Native Americans, who view all life as sacred, as we all work to heal the Earth together. Click here to discover seven values from the Lakota Sioux tribe that are central to their teachings, ceremonies, and beliefs.

EDITOR’S NOTE: “The Master Key” by Robert Peng, a featured speaker in The Shift Network’s 2020 Energy Medicine & Healing Summit, is one of the most profoundly important books I’ve ever read. I can say that it’s life-changing with complete confidence, because it changed my life before I even finished reading it. I was so impressed with this book that we are serializing the section called “One Hundred Days of Darkness and Light” in future issues of Catalyst. You can read the twenty-sixth installment (as well as the previous ones) here.
— Phil Bolsta

The uplifting stories in this issue’s “The Nicest Thing” section come from rainforest herbalist Adriana Ayales… voice pioneer Chloë Goodchild….

… and summit speakers Dr. Judith Orloff, psychiatrist and bestselling author… and Deborah Egerton, the founder and president of Trinity Transition Consultants.

Finally, we’d love to hear your answer to the question, How has knowing your Enneagram results impacted your daily life? To share your thoughts in our Facebook Page community, click here.

One of the main reasons that we resist changing is that the movement back to our Essence always entails feeling the pain of our self-abandonment. When we are willing to say, “I want to be who I really am, and I want to live in the truth,” the process of recovering ourselves has already begun.
― Enneagram Resources Series, The Wisdom of the Enneagram

A Personal Invitation to the December 7-11 Enneagram Global Summit From Your Host, Jessica Dibb

You are invited to a 5-day, 40-session global event with teachers from almost every continent on this planet, initiating us and taking us on a journey of healing, consciousness, transformation, love, wisdom, and presence for ourselves, for our relationship, and for the healing and benefit of our entire planet.

We will be using the Enneagram as one of the resounding threads that go through this conference. The Enneagram is a system that came from ancient times about how it is that human beings manifest nine different essential energies through nine different temperaments — we can also find those patterns running through all of life. This summit is designed to help you tap into all nine of those energies so that you can experience wholeness of yourself and wholeness in your relationships… and you can be a contribution to the world.

To watch this 6-minute video and read the rest of the text, click here.

The Master Key
By Robert Peng, a featured speaker in The Shift Network’s 2019 Qigong Global Summit

It's 1972 in the industrial city of Xiangtan, China. A frail child with a heart condition sneaks into a hotel boiler room and befriends the elderly yet vibrant attendant, who eventually reveals his true identity as a revered Qigong master. He heals the boy and, for the next 13 years, secretly teaches him the keys to unlocking the spiritual and healing dimensions of the Life Force.

It sounds like a modern-day fable, but the story is true. And with The Master Key, that grateful student, Robert Peng, invites all of us to enter the next chapter of this empowering path. Here, Master Peng brings together the unique insights of his teacher with the moving account of his own journey.

Click here to read the twenty-sixth installment (as well as all the previous installments) of this profoundly moving book.

Would you like to join The Shift Network team?

We are seeking two unique and talented individuals for important positions at The Shift Network.

Our new Director of Recruiting will be an expert on best sourcing and recruiting practices and take a leadership role in getting our opportunities broadcast across multiple channels and platforms, focused on doubling our size in 2021, and making an aggressive one hire per week as our business expands — and that’s just the start!

As Sr. Manager, Marketing Production, you’ll lead the team responsible for developing and producing the digital assets necessary to deliver our marketing and product communication to the world!

If you're inspired and passionate about joining our team, please click here for more information about these positions. The Shift Network is committed to creating a diverse environment and is an equal-opportunity employer.

In this special video series, prominent authors, speakers, thought leaders, and others answer the question, “What is the nicest thing a non-family member has ever done for you?”

Adriana Ayales’s Story
Rainforest herbalist and Shift faculty

EXCERPT: I was a little girl. I was probably eight years old, but it was such a profound story for me because I remember coming out of school late and I was waiting for my mom to pick me up at school, and I was just there hanging out, everybody had left and I was sitting on the sidewalk. And it was a mystical experience. This lady walked by and she had an iguana on her shoulder, and I looked up and I had this thick science book and my backpack was heavy and I was all sad that my mom was late.

To watch the video and read the transcript of Adriana’s 4-minute story about her reptile-loving guardian angel, click here.

Adriana’s brand-new 5-week live video training, Indigenous Plant Medicine & Rituals From the Rainforest: Combine Healing Plants With Curanderismo Ceremonies for Physical, Spiritual & Energetic Wellbeing, begins Monday, December 7. For more details, click here.

Chloë Goodchild’s Story
Voice pioneer and Shift faculty

EXCERPT: The energy and the atmosphere of this place, taking us back to pre-Christian times, and then hearing this incredible vibration coming through my voice inside one of these caves. In fact, my friend Ingrid, who took me there, told me that she'd taken a Peruvian shaman there quite recently and he'd said that he was convinced that it was a vortex that was connected like a song line or a vibrational ley line with Peru, right over to Peru. It was so profound. When I sounded, it was like disappearing down into the deepest part of myself that I've ever, ever encountered. And not only that, the sound was not only coming through me as I was sounding in this cave, but it seemed to be coming from all around me.

To watch the video and read the transcript of Chloë’s 4-minute story about her reptile-loving guardian angel, click here.

Chloë will be presenting a free hour-long video event on Saturday, December 12, called Find Your Soul’s Voice & the Joy of Oneness: Explore Your Voice’s Vibrational Energy to Transform Difficult Emotions & Reveal Your Eternal Identity. For more details — and to register for this free event — click here.

Dr. Judith Orloff’s Story
Psychiatrist, bestselling author, and a featured speaker in the Enneagram Global Summit

EXCERPT: I’d never had a boyfriend before, and so going through the first boyfriend experience or the first partner experience, it's so sacred to have... Who goes through that with you? She went through that with me and she supported me. And girls need support going through that first love experience. And down the road, he dumped me and left me precipitously for this blonde-haired, blue-eyed cheerleader. And I was more the girl by the auditorium, the outsider. And he left me and it was just this huge, huge wound.

To watch the video and read the transcript of Judith’s 6-minute story of friendship and loss, click here.

Deborah Egerton's Story
Founder and president of Trinity Transition Consultants, and a featured speaker in the Enneagram Global Summit

EXCERPT: As the cars were all passing by, he came up to my window and I reached into my purse to give him something. That's not always been my practice. Usually I like to take people and give them something to eat or what have you. But there was something on that day that touched my heart and said, "Go ahead and give him some money." I pulled over to the side out of the traffic, and I went into my purse, and I handed him a $20 bill.

To watch the video and read the transcript of Deborah’s heartwarming 3-minute story, click here.

If you missed any “Nicest Thing” stories, you can catch up on all of them here.

“Facilitating Your Body’s Magic With Aston® Kinetics” Facebook Live Q&A with Judith Aston

Would you like to learn gentle exercises to address physical challenges from stress or injury — for a stronger, more flexible, more toned, happier you? Judith Aston, movement and bodywork teacher, trainer, coach, and founder of Aston Kinetics, will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Tuesday, December 1, at 11:00am Pacific to share how you can move through each day with physical ease and emotional balance. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.

“Andean Shamanic Rituals to Synchronize Your Life Path With the Cosmos” Facebook Live Q&A with Puma Fredy Quispe Singona

Would you like to be transformed by the wisdom of nature, gain clarity, and learn to love yourself unconditionally? Andean medicine man Puma Fredy Quispe Singona will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Tuesday, December 1, at 1:00pm Pacific to share how you can uncover alchemic treasures as you go on weekly shamanic journeys of the spirit and soul. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.

“Movement as Medicine With Radiant Lotus Qigong for Women” Facebook Live Q&A with Daisy Lee

Are you intrigued by gentle breathing, the 7 Tibetan Healing Sounds, self-massage, and empowering Qigong movements? Renowned Qigong teacher Daisy Lee will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Wednesday, December 2, at Noon Pacific to share how you can build your own daily Qigong practice you can use right away. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.

“Release Trauma From the Body With BioDynamic Breathwork” Facebook Live Q&A with Giten Tonkov

Would you like to find the strength and ability to live your life happily, openly, and freely? Giten Tonkov, founder of the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System, will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Thursday, December 3, at 1:00pm Pacific to share how you can learn powerful breath and movement techniques to track the sensations in each area of your body and let go of trauma. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.

“Energetic Practices to Bring Heaven to Earth” Facebook Live Q&A with Mona Delfino

Would you like to uncover your soul’s eternal energy and your natural connections to the guides and helpers in other realms? Quantum healer, teacher, and author Mona Delfino will be leading a special Facebook Live Q&A call on Thursday, December 10, at 2:00pm Pacific to share how you can learn to look at life through the shaman’s eye as you live from a place of love. Click here to get a Facebook Messenger reminder when the event goes live.

Differing Gifts of Consciousness
By Walter Geldart, a featured speaker in the Enneagram Global Summit

Consciousness is a gift because it permits us to be aware of external real objects in public events, internal subjective objects in private events, and intersubjective intentional objects which are dynamically created in mind when two people know and understand what the other person is thinking about or experiencing using language. To read more, click here.

A Prison Of Our Own Making
By Susan Olesek, a featured speaker in the Enneagram Global Summit

I cut my teeth learning how to teach the Enneagram in prison. I first went “inside” as a 36-year-old, at-home-mom of three young boys, armed with a BA in sociology and an idealism that often landed me in risky pursuits, but never behind bars. Among my first incarcerated students were a man on the FBI’s “most dangerous” list who spent 26 years in the correctional system; a serial bank robber; a former PhD student with a 16-year crystal meth addiction; a gang leader of the Nortenos; and a 65-year-old grandma in for embezzlement. To read more, click here.

Healing Our Transitioning World
By Vanessa LeMaistre

This new world that is currently on the verge of emerging will require us to continuously create new ways to connect with ourselves in deeper ways. Engaging in diverse ways systematically and truly making the conscious effort to heal on a massive level. Taking the time to raise our frequency so that we can keep up with evolutions watch. To read more, click here.

Reclaiming the Art of Dying
By Shift faculty Robert Moss

Our fear of death is bound up with our confusion about who we are. We fear losing all the props, connections, and résumés that we confuse with identity. We are terrified of being stripped of rank and title and credit cards and cell phones and being sent naked into the next world, as Inanna must descend naked into the underworld. To read more, click here.

Living From the World of Blessings and Choice Points
By Shift faculty Mona Delfino

I was on the bus with Hoyt Axton for about a half-hour as he gave me a tour. I gave him my phone number and pleaded with him to take me on the road! As I said my goodbyes, he turned to me and said, “Little darlin’, the drugs on this bus are too much and I wouldn’t want to see you get involved. You’re too beautiful and kind to be ruined by this.” Well, I promised I wouldn’t do drugs and told him this would still be a dream come true. I prayed for weeks so hard I probably bombarded every spirit in the spirit world! After a while, I felt my prayers weren’t heard. I cried for what seemed like forever. I waited by the phone, made bets with God, you name it! Were my prayers left unheard? To read more, click here.

Mona will be presenting a free hour-long video event on Wednesday, December 2, called
Tune in to the Energetic Powers of Your Higher Self: Shift Your Conscious Beliefs to Access Your Soul’s Eternal Healing Energies & True Purpose. For more details — and to register for this free event — click here.

Jessica Dibb and Katy Bray Discuss the Enneagram

Jessica Dibb, host of the Enneagram Global Summit, and Shift faculty Katy Bray explore the Enneagram — and Jessica’s pioneering approach to this system of personality typing that describes patterns in how people interpret the world and manage their emotions.

To watch this hour-long video, click here.

The Shift Network is showcasing the leaders, voices, and visions that are guiding us to create a just world by finally and permanently removing the affliction of the Racial Divide from all of our lives.

Dr. Ibram X. Kendi: Creating A More Equitable Society Is In White Americans' Self-Interest

Stephen Colbert interviews Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, the bestselling author of How To Be An Antiracist. Dr. Kendi discusses what it takes to call one's self antiracist, and why he believes it's in everyone's interest to end the racist policies that cause inequality in this country. To watch this 12-minute video, click here.

Michael Beckwith Talks About George Floyd's Death, Racism, & How to Fight Injustice
Interview with Lewis Howes

Reverend Michael Beckwith is a sought-after meditation teacher, conference speaker, and seminar leader on the Life Visioning Process. He’s also the founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center, and one of L.A.’s foremost black leaders. Click here to watch this thought-provoking 68-minute video, and reflect on the changes that have — and have not — taken place in the six months since this interview was conducted.

Maintaining Professionalism In The Age of Black Death Is... A Lot
By Shenequa Golding

I just witnessed the lynching of a black man, but don’t worry Ted, I’ll have those deliverables to you end of day.

Between Amy Cooper’s Oscar worthy Central Park performance, Ahmaud Arbery shooting death in Georgia, Breonna Taylor’s assassination inside her Louisville home, and the Minneapolis murder of George Floyd, black people in America are running on fumes. We’re tired, angry, confused and yet, this space is familiar to us. This place of torment and trauma has become a home of sorts. To read more, click here.

Here are actions The Shift Network is taking to advance racial justice and healing, to uplift BIPOC voices, and to support key organizations whose mission is to transform racism.

Climbing the Mountain of Racial Healing by Aliah MaJon, Chief Inclusion Officer for The Shift Network

We hosted 30 speakers in June in the free Transforming Racism Facebook Live Series. Click here to view the names of all 30 Transforming Racism speakers and their presentations. You can watch all 30 sessions here.

You can also watch these 20 archived interviews from our African American Wisdom Summit, and the 23 archived interviews in the Healing Cultural Wounds section of our World Peace Library.

Click here to read our Company Statement regarding George Floyd and incidents of police brutality.

You’ll find more resources and information here and in the “Racial Justice and Healing” section in future issues of Catalyst.

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
By Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the 15 million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the U.S. settler-colonial regime has largely been omitted from history. Acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the U.S. empire.

Click here for more information, to watch a 5-minute video interview with the author, and to order your copy.

Our Moment of Choice

Our moment of choice is at hand. There has never been a more urgent moment for humanity to come together in synergy and collectively choose to hold the greatest vision of what we can be and do together, to lead with our hearts and co-create new possibilities that will offer us hope for our future.

This uplifting and timely book is a call to action, offering evolutionary visions, resources and practical steps to help us navigate this moment of choice and amplify the movement for global transformation, upon which our future depends.

Click here to order your copy AND receive free bonus content from Michael Bernard Beckwith, Joan Borysenko, and more.

Click here to watch the book trailer video.

For several years, The Shift Network has hosted Indigenous leaders from around the world and invited them to share their sacred knowledge, rituals, and practices to guide us in a way of living that is sustainable, healthy, and just. We’re thus delighted that the Global Indigenous Wisdom Library makes this “virtual council” of leaders and their wisdom available for everyone, everywhere for free. The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a collection of audio and video interviews featuring Indigenous leaders from around the world sharing prayers, sacred songs, prophecies, spiritual teachings, and pathways to healing, as well as concrete examples for birthing a new era — one in which all members of the human family are treated with respect, understanding, compassion, and justice. This sacred wisdom is important medicine for us all.

The production of The Global Indigenous Wisdom Library is a gift from The Shift Network, designed to inspire, inform, and involve you by highlighting the voices and important messages of Indigenous leaders from around the world. We want to give a heartfelt thanks to Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. (“Brother Phil”) for his partnership in helping create this Indigenous Wisdom collection. And we thank all the speakers who have contributed to this body of knowledge. To discover more, click here.

World Peace Library. Designed for the layperson and professional peacebuilder alike, the World Peace Library has over 425 audio and video interviews with some of the most remarkable, inspiring peacebuilders in the world available to you at NO COST. You’ll find hundreds of hours of inspirational, peacebuilding, compassion-spreading talks and trainings at your fingertips with this FREE global resource. There’s no way you can’t come away from the World Peace Library deeply inspired, transformed — and part of the solution. Click here to find out how to take peace to the next level — and help co-create a global culture of peace that leaves a legacy of good for our children, our children’s children and all of humanity and life on earth.

Book by Stephen Dinan: Sacred America, Sacred World. Infused with visionary power, Sacred America, Sacred World is a manifesto for our country’s evolution that is both political and deeply spiritual. It offers profound hope that America can grow beyond our current challenges and manifest our noblest destiny, which the book shows is rooted in sacred principles that transcend left or right political views. To order your copy, click here.

Tune in to the Energetic Powers of Your Higher Self — A free video event with quantum healer, teacher, and author Mona Delfino. Experience a Quantum Shifting exercise to shift your conscious belief system, release a challenging emotion, and understand the dynamic of cellular memory. Wednesday, December 2, at 5:30pm Pacific

Embrace the Extremes of Darkness & Light to Find Enlightened Consciousness — A free video event with internationally renowned writer, mystical scholar, and spiritual teacher Andrew Harvey. Witness how the dance of opposites — “the wisdom of the serpent and the innocence of the dove” — can bring you to a new level of truth, compassion, and wisdom. Wednesday, December 9, at 5:30pm Pacific

Find Your Soul’s Voice & the Joy of Oneness — A free video event with international teacher, singing philosopher, voice pioneer, and author Chloë Goodchild. Experience a guided visualization and sound-healing journey into the Cave of Your Soul to access the raw power of your true sound, and shift feelings of separateness into a comforting state of Oneness. Saturday, December 12, at 10:00am Pacific

Julian of Norwich — With mystic scholar Mirabai Starr and renowned spiritual pioneer Matthew Fox. Participate in readings, chants, and meditations using Julian’s own words — to reframe these tumultuous times, step into her positivity, and look ahead to a more hopeful future. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Wednesday, December 2

Expand Your Innate Mediumship Skills With Soul-to-Soul Communication — With mystic, medium, and author Suzanne Giesemann. Embrace Oneness Consciousness to experience soul-to-soul communication with your higher self, loved ones who’ve passed, and beings from every realm — to access guidance and develop trust in the flow of life. New 8-Week Live Video Training Starts Wednesday, December 2

Indigenous Plant Medicine & Rituals From the Rainforest — With Adriana Ayales, herbalist and founder of Anima Mundi Herbals. Prepare powerful plant remedies and learn about curanderismo rituals to help heal dis-ease, connect with your higher consciousness, and enjoy expanded wellbeing. New 5-Week Live Video Training Starts Monday, December 7

Movement as Medicine With Radiant Lotus Qigong for Women — With renowned Qigong teacher Daisy Lee. Build your own daily Qigong practice — featuring gentle breathing, the 7 Tibetan Healing Sounds, self-massage, and empowering Qigong movements you can use right away. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Monday, December 7

Andean Shamanic Rituals to Synchronize Your Life Path With the Cosmos — With Andean medicine man Puma Fredy Quispe Singona. Uncover alchemic treasures as you go on weekly shamanic journeys of the spirit and soul — where you’ll be transformed by the wisdom of nature, gain clarity, and learn to love yourself unconditionally. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Tuesday, December 8

Facilitating Your Body’s Magic With Aston® Kinetics — With Judith Aston, movement and bodywork teacher, trainer, coach, and founder of Aston Kinetics. Make immediate, empowering shifts in the way you move, and learn gentle exercises to address physical challenges from stress or injury — for a stronger, more flexible, more toned, happier you. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Tuesday, December 8

Release Trauma From the Body With BioDynamic Breathwork — With Giten Tonkov, founder of the BioDynamic Breathwork & Trauma Release System. Learn powerful breath and movement techniques to track the sensations in each area of your body, let go of trauma — and find the strength and ability to live your life happily, openly, and freely. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Thursday, December 10

Upcoming Events (all subject to change):

December
• Mona Delfino 7-week course

January
• David Crow 7-week course
• Andrew Harvey 11-week course
• Chloe Goodchild 12-week course
• Breathwork Summit
• Roger Jahnke 7-week course
• Lavinia Plonka 7-week course
• Sharla Jacobs 7-week course
• Russ Hudson 7-week course
• Jeralyn Glass 9-week course
• Eben Alexander & Karen Newell 9-week course

Native American Rights Fund

The three main tenets of this nonprofit involve using legal advocacy to help create a world where “1. Native Americans’ rights, resources, and lifeways are intact and protected. 2. Promises made to Native peoples are upheld. 3. Tribes are able to exercise their sovereign right to manage their own affairs.” Why is this important? The history of broken treaties between the U.S. government and sovereign tribes, in addition to the countless human rights violations since colonizers showed up on America’s shores, have compounding repercussions today, like voter suppression.

Click here for more information. Click here to make a donation.

The Enneagram Prison Project

The Enneagram Prison Project is on a mission to understand why we do what we do, using the Enneagram to inspire transformation on both sides of the bars through self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-regulation. Our vision is to free people — all over the world — from the prisons of their own making. Click here to visit the website. Click here to make a donation.