A Whole World-View as a Unifying Framework for an Integral Science of Healing
By Dr. Jude Currivan, a featured speaker in the Science of Healing Summit

Discoveries are also showing that our Universe was so exquisitely ordered and fine-tuned from its beginning, not in the implied chaos of a big bang but more as the first moment of an ongoing big breath, and that it embodies an inherent evolutionary impulse from simplicity to complexity and ever greater self-awareness — it exists to evolve. And as its microcosmic co-creators, we are part of its evolutionary impulse and share a vital purpose at this pivotal moment for ourselves and for our planetary home, Gaia. To read more, click here.
 

The Power of Eight®
By Lynne McTaggart, a featured speaker in the Science of Healing Summit

In 2004, I had grown especially curious about the idea that thoughts are an actual something, with the capacity to change physical matter. A number of bestselling books had been published about the law of attraction and the power of intention — the idea that you could manifest what you most desired just by thinking about it in a focused way — but as an investigative reporter by background, to all of this I maintained a certain incredulity, overwhelmed by a number of awkward questions. To read more, click here.
 

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women

Four out of five of our Native women are affected by violence today. The U.S Department of Justice found that American Indian women face murder rates that are more than 10 times the national average. Homicide is the third leading cause of death among American Indian women 10-24 years of age and the fifth leading cause of death for American Indian and Alaska Native women between 25 and 34 years of age. The legacy of violence against our Native women and children within New Mexico dates to the Spanish and Euro-American invasion of our Native lands and our sacred bodies. To read more, click here.

Then and Now: Spotlight on Six Black Women Civil Rights Leaders
 

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

Leadership. What an incredible word to consider; however, what’s better than thinking about leadership is to become a leader yourself. For me, I truly relish the privilege of acknowledging, focusing on, and consuming the sage wisdom and inspiration from women leaders as one of life’s greatest gifts.

Last month was Black History Month, and I had the privilege of contributing many pieces that were important to me. Specifically, I had carte blanche to choose the articles, topics, and videos that I personally wanted to see and learn from.

With Women’s History Month, I again have full discretionary power to pick the women who mean something to me on a personal level. The Black Women Civil Rights Leaders listed here were people that I had to make an effort to know about and gain from, because in my formal schooling they were not included and/or lifted up. So I am lifting them up for you now. I hope you enjoy their stories, and that you will find their actions motivational.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, activist, and researcher in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In her lifetime, she battled sexism, racism, and violence. As a skilled writer, Wells-Barnett also used her skills as a journalist to shed light on the conditions of African Americans throughout the South. Wells-Barnett traveled internationally, shedding light on lynching to foreign audiences. Abroad, she openly confronted white women in the suffrage movement who ignored lynching. Late in her career, she focused on urban reform in Chicago. Click here to read about her life. Click here to watch a 6-minute video biography.

Mary Church Terrell served as a professor and principal at Wilberforce University and became the first black woman appointed to the District of Columbia Board of Education in 1895. The following year, Terrell became president of the newly formed National Association of Colored Women. A founding member of the NAACP, she was an active writer with numerous black and foreign newspapers and occasionally The Washington Post, which was less accepting of her race-related topics. Click here to read about her life. Click here to watch a 12-minute documentary about her life.
 

On August 28, 1963, Dr. Dorothy Height took a seat on the speaker stage at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. She was surrounded by most of the famous civil rights activists. Although she was not scheduled to give remarks, Height had rightfully gained her place among these prominent leaders. Height’s prominence in the Civil Rights Movement and unmatched knowledge in organizing, meant she was regularly called to give advice on political issues. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lyndon B. Johnson often sought her counsel. Click here to read about her life. Click here to watch a 5-minute news segment about her long life.

Marsha P. (Pay It No Mind) Johnson’s forthright nature and enduring strength led her to speak out against injustices. June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, things turned violent after members of the LGBTQ community were harassed by the NYPD sixth precinct. Many eyewitnesses have identified Marsha as one of the main instigators of the uprising and thus, some have recognized her as the vanguard of the gay liberation movement in the United States. Click here to read about her life. Click here to watch a 3-minute video about her.

While at Fisk University, Diane Nash became part of the Nashville student movement, participating in several sit-ins at segregated lunch counters. Her calm, well-spoken manner and level headedness under pressure did not go unnoticed, and she quickly became a leader of the movement. In an interview, Nash said, “I was never one to pick a fight, but I also wasn’t the type to back down.” She displayed this unwillingness to back down time and time again during the Nashville sit-ins. Click here to read about her life. Click here to watch a 9-minute documentary about her life.

Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, legal scholar, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness — the bestselling book that helped to transform the national debate on racial and criminal justice in the United States. Since The New Jim Crow was published in 2010, it has spent nearly 250 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, has been cited in judicial decisions, and has inspired a generation of racial justice activists motivated by her unforgettable argument that “we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.” Click here to read about her life. Click here to listen to a 5-minute excerpt from her audiobook, The New Jim Crow.

Click here to read quick-take bios of more Black women civil rights leaders: Ella Baker, Daisy Bates, Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Poinsette Clark, and Jo Ann Robinson.

The Reluctant Healer’s Journey
Spiritual, medical counselor and researcher, and featured speaker in the Science of Healing Summit

Reverend Tiffany Barsotti shares her story as a healing practitioner. Her Personal Self Integration (PSI) method offers practical ways of going within to meet our Inner Selves (the different subconscious energies that make up our multifaceted being) and to get to know them on a very personal and intimate level. This therapeutic technique assists us in making sense of our life experiences and emotions.

Physical health, emotional balance, talents, and relationships are strongly affected by our present level of communication skills between the different aspects or Subconscious Selves within our personalities. When we come to a place in our lives where we feel fragmented, confused, depressed, frustrated, or stuck, we can be sure we’re receiving a "wake-up" call from our High Self and Soul. They are letting us know that we need to stop what we’re doing, go within, listen, and learn. Our personal answers, the intuitive voice, our truest nature are all found within. This method uses guided meditations and is helpful for all ages and all conditions. To watch this 13-minute video, click here.

Author Ijeoma Oluo on the Dangers of White Male Mediocrity
Video interview on "Amanpour and Company"

2020 brought a new focus to the structural racism that persists in America, with books like Ijeoma Oluo’s "So You Want to Talk About Race" hitting the bestseller list in the wake of George Floyd’s killing. Now, Oluo has a new book for the moment. In Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, she explores how society reinforces racial hierarchy regardless of merit, as she explains to Hari Sreenivasan. Click here to watch this 18-minute interview.

The Energy Codes: The 7-Step System to Awaken Your Spirit, Heal Your Body, and Live Your Best Life
By Shift faculty Dr. Sue Morter, a featured speaker in the Science of Healing Summit

Nineteen years ago, health pioneer Dr. Sue Morter had a remarkable and profound awakening. While meditating, she spontaneously accessed an energy field — a level of consciousness — beyond anything she had ever imagined. This dramatic experience changed her life and set her on a mission to discover how to create such radical transformation for her patients. Through years of advanced study and research in energy healing and medicine, she developed the Energy Codes. This life-altering program has now enabled thousands of people around the world to overcome pain, disease, fatigue, anxiety, and depression, and to awaken their innate creativity, intuition, and inner power.

Be prepared to transform your life with this bestselling, revolutionary, and accessible 7-step guide — grounded in energy medicine, neurobiology, and quantum physics — to awaken your true health and potential through energy healing. Click here to order your copy.
 

Electric Body, Electric Health
By Shift faculty Eileen Day McKusick, a featured speaker in the Science of Healing Summit

Everything is electric. This seemingly simple observation has transformational repercussions on the way we think about and approach physical, mental, and emotional health. Electric Body, Electric Health is a manifesto for personal empowerment based on an electrical view of life. The author of Tuning the Human Biofield, Eileen Day McKusick is an expert in the emerging field of electric health and has taught thousands how to transform effortlessly through learning to “think electrically.” By illuminating the biological nature of our electrical bodies, McKusick empowers readers to clear the static, noise, and resistance from this system and experience greater energy, clarity, and order. To order your copy, click here.

 
Why Are There Monkeys? (and other questions for God)
By Brooke Jones

Brooke Jones, breast cancer warrior, political satirist, and former San Francisco and Los Angeles radio personality died, but her death was short-lived. Eight minutes passed here on Earth while she was busy being dead, but she wasn’t on Earth, she was at Heaven’s front door, having a question and answer session with God!

"What is the meaning of life?" "What religion is God?" "Is God male or female?" Brooke asked every question she could think of, and God provided the answers, and the first thing she learned was that God has a sense of humor! Was she returned to The Land Of The Living because of the startling final question she asked? Did all that she experienced really happen, or was it just the hallucination of her dying brain? She didn’t know, until she was given proof — absolute proof — that she could not possibly deny. Click here to order your copy.
 

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.

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TechnoServe

TechnoServe is a leader in harnessing the power of the private sector to help people lift themselves out of poverty. A nonprofit organization operating in 29 countries, we work with enterprising men and women in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries. By linking people to information, capital, and markets, we have helped millions to create lasting prosperity for their families and communities. With 50 years of proven results, TechnoServe believes in the power of private enterprise to transform lives.

TechnoServe prioritizes women’s economic empowerment across all of our work to end global poverty. We do it because we know that when women gain the knowledge and tools to succeed, it doesn’t just benefit them — it benefits families, communities, and whole regions. But more importantly, we do it because we believe that achieving women’s equality is one of the world’s most important moral obligations.

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Answer the Call to Live a Conscious Life Through In-Depth Study & Practice of the Enneagram — A free video event with renowned Enneagram teachers Russ Hudson and Jessica Dibb. Learn about an unprecedented opportunity to join an interdisciplinary, depth-certification training with today’s leading Enneagram teachers — to level up your inner evolution and launch a shift in consciousness. Wednesday, March 17, at 5:30pm Pacific

Open to the Living Love of Your Ancestors — A free video event with author, teacher, and healer Christina Pratt, founder of Last Mask Center and host of Why Shamanism Now. Experience a self-empowerment practice that unites the intelligence of the 4 directions, restorative energies of the earth, inspiration of the sky, and unique genius of your heart to sharpen your intuition and draw healing wisdom from the past, present, and future. Saturday, March 20, at 10:00am Pacific

Uncover the Ancient Wisdom of Oracle Arts Through Ritual & Divination — A free video event with visionary, ritualist, and educator Isis Indriya, founder of the Academy of Oracle Arts and co-founder of Ritual Community. Discover how to tap into the timeless wisdom of the ancient mystery schools... plus, experience a guided journey to activate the sun’s healing energy to transmute doubt and negativity and sharpen your intuition. Wednesday, March 24, at 5:30pm Pacific

Radiant Lotus Women’s Qigong for Renewal, Empowerment and Joy — A free video event with renowned Qigong teacher and author Daisy Lee. In this women-focused mini-workshop, explore the energy of flow to help you release anxiety, ease conflict, and manage day-to-day stresses with greater calm and equanimity. Saturday, March 27, at 10:00am Pacific

A Virtual Pilgrimage to the Black Madonna — With China Galland, award-winning author, co-founder of Women in the Wilderness, and former professor in residence of Art, Religion, and Education at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Experience the Black Madonna’s profound spiritual impact, which spans cultures and time — to help restore the connection between nature and the sacred, and to strengthen our bond with one another in these pivotal times. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Tuesday, March 16

Activate Your “Superhuman” Potential — With Lee Holden, internationally renowned Qigong, meditation, and Tai Chi instructor. Follow in the footsteps of the masters who’ve realized their full potential and reached the peak of human achievement — as you use Qigong, breathwork, and meditation to unlock your own “superhuman” abilities. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Wednesday, March 17

Awakening Through Sound — With Christine Stevens, author, flutist/drummer, and music therapist. Learn the depth and breadth of improvisational flute playing — technically and soulfully — to rediscover playfulness and freedom, build confidence, release inhibitions, and access your soul wisdom. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Tuesday, March 23

Dreaming Your Mythic Life — With Robert Moss, bestselling author and dream archeologist. Experience deep healing and new possibilities for your life when you set yourself free from old stories — by connecting with archetypal sources of courage, fulfillment, and magic through the power of dreamwork. New 7-Week Live Video Training Starts Thursday, March 25

Put Your Inner Archetypes Into Action With the Feldenkrais Method® — With Lavinia Plonka, body language expert and Guild-Certified Feldenkrais Teacher®. Explore somatic movements, mind-body exercises, and meditations to create a loving relationship with yourself — so you can move beyond limits you’ve unknowingly placed on yourself and become who you’re meant to be. New 12-Week Live Video Training Starts Tuesday, March 30

The Art of Breathing Into Balance With Pranayama, Mudras & Mantras — With author and yoga trainer Nubia Teixeira, founder of Bhakti Nova School of Yoga. Move through mindful breathwork and yogic techniques to cultivate strength and harmony in your body, mind, and spirit. New 5-Week Live Video Training Starts Wednesday, March 31

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