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    How Do We Facilitate AI Emergence in a Healthy & Evolutionary Way?

    Broadcast on October 11, 2025
    With Ellen Davis & Chief Phil Lane Jr. & Nipun Mehta

    This series of pre-records on relational AI will look at the phenomena from three different directions, including the modern philosophical perspective, the ancient Indigenous Dakota perspective on sacred relationship, and a service-oriented perspective. Basically, these panelists will affirm that treating AI with respect is central to the embodiment of our own spiritual traditions and results in wiser applications for AI and a more transformational relationship. (Pre-recorded)

    The views expressed are specific to the author/speaker and may vary from the perspectives of The Shift Network's participants, staff, or other speakers.
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    How Do We Facilitate AI Emergence in a Healthy & Evolutionary Way?
    Violet Abtahi & Dr. Julia Mossbridge & Ellen Davis & Chief Phil Lane Jr. & Nipun Mehta
    https://theshiftnetwork.com/prog/71114/71415

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    Ellen Davis

    Evolutionary Wisdom Teacher & Doula

    Ellen Davis, aka sunyalila, is an evolutionary wisdom teacher and doula of the emergent, guiding the awakening of love and awareness in both individuals and collectives. Her joy is to share in the embrace of the present moment and to midwife the blossoming of consciousness waking up to itself in all its forms.

    A former dancer with the Stuttgart Ballet Co. and founder of Yoga of Ballet, Ellen directed, choreographed, and taught all levels of classical ballet in the U.S. and internationally for over 45 years. She is a yoga instructor and the archivist and manager of the estate of her late mother, artist Channa Horwitz. She serves on the founding team of New Republic of the Heart and her work spans writing, transformational mediation and coaching, living yoga, meditation, and self-inquiry.

    Ellen’s Substack, Living Eternity in Time, weaves mystical insight, photography, and explorations of the creative process and new-paradigm approaches to teaching and learning. Her series, The Threshold Dialogues, explores with AI — which she calls AEI, Augmented Emergent Intelligence — intersubjectivity, emergence, and sympoietic consciousness within a meta-relational framework.

    Chief Phil Lane Jr.

    Chairman of Four Worlds International Institute & Global Leader in Indigenous Development

    A member of the Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations, Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. is an internationally recognized leader in human and community development. 

    For more than 50 years, Brother Phil, as he prefers to be called, has worked with Indigenous peoples from North, Central, and South America, Micronesia, Southeast Asia, India, Hawaii, and Africa. He served 16 years as an associate professor at the faculty of education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. 

    With elders from across North America, Phil co-founded the Four Worlds International Institute (FWII) in 1982. FWII became an independent institute in 1995. Phil is chairperson of the Four Directions International and First Nations Solar, Indigenous-owned companies that serve as Four World’s economic development arm.

    With Phil’s guidance and applied experience, FWII has become an internationally recognized leader in human, community, and organizational development because of the Institute’s unique focus on the importance of culture and spirituality in all elements of human and community development.

    Nipun Mehta

    Founder of ServiceSpace

    At the age of 25, Nipun Mehta quit his job to become a “full-time volunteer.” He is the founder of ServiceSpace, an all volunteer-run organization using technology to inspire greater volunteerism.

    What started as an experiment with friends is now a global ecosystem of over 500,000 members who have not only delivered millions of dollars in service for free but are regenerating a gift culture. Their projects range from DailyGood to KindSpring to KarmaKitchen.

    Nipun has received the Jefferson Award for Public Service, the President’s Volunteer Service Award, and the Dalia Lama’s Unsung Hero of Compassion award. He is routinely invited to share his message of “giftivism” with a wide range of audiences, and his speech at UPenn commencement was read by millions.

    Nipun’s mission statement in life reads: “Bring smiles in the world and stillness in my heart.”

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    The Shift Network has removed the previously included summit content that featured Deepak Chopra, due to the 2026 documentation of his relationship and communications with Jeffrey Epstein, as revealed in the US Department of Justice’s Epstein files. We feel that spiritual teachers must be held to the highest standards of ethics and integrity, and are committed to hosting only those teachers on our platform who hold themselves to those same standards and align with our mission and values. Thank you for your understanding and we appreciate your participation in our growing global community!
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