Cost: $40, or $20 (if you bring a large dish to share), or FREE (if you are a member of the Friendly Favors network, you can use 20 Thank You's and bring a large dish to share).

Payment: Make checks payable to IONS Potluck

Directions to the event are below and also can be found on the Noetic Sciences website.

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Due to the enormous breadth and depth of this project, we are allowing additional time for questions, answers, and discussion. Participants are also encouraged to read the executive briefing material online and to email questions they may have to ioow@ffga.org before the event.

Event Synopsis:

Alex Kochkin, director and co-founder of Foundation for Global Awakening, with John Hudy, research director, will lead a discussion of the implications and applications of one of the largest contemporary research studies of American core values and beliefs, one that carries profound implications for our future as a society and as a species.

A summary presentation will be made of the key findings from a two-year landmark research project in which over 1,600 households, selected according to US Census data across America, were interviewed at the turn of the millennium. The study was carefully designed to meet unusually high standards for social science research and was conducted by a highly qualified research team. The results provide a very reliable and realistic picture of America today -- and where we may be heading.

In this presentation, new material will be shared for the first time concerning pressing sociopolitical trends that we are facing. The In Our Own Words (IOOW) 2000 Research Program demonstrates a growing shift in American attitudes, beliefs and values toward the search for a more integral way of life, a shift that has profound implications for all facets of our society. Our current social structures and institutions do not reflect these values, as they were developed to maintain a course based more on old paradigm history than a new paradigm for our future.

"In our ways, spiritual consciousness is the highest form of politics. We must live in harmony with the natural world and recognize that excessive exploitation can only lead to our own destruction. We cannot trade the welfare of our future generations for profit... We are instructed to carry love for one another, and to show great respect for all beings of the earth. ...Our energy is the combined will of all people with the spirit of the natural world, to be of one body, one heart, and one mind."
-- Leon Shenandoah, Fire Keeper of the Central Fire
for the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy

Presenters' Background:

Alexander S. Kochkin is co-founder of the Foundation for Global Awakening, a private foundation, and is president of Fund For Global Awakening, a public benefit corporation that acts as a project incubator for various research, Internet, and social initiatives. Alex has a twenty-year professional background that includes management, advanced technologies, marketing and economic research. Much of this work emphasized product development, marketing, qualitative and quantitative research, strategic information, and data services for a wide range of commercial, governmental and non-profit clients in the US. He has carried a passion for a global social and spiritual awakening most of his life. The primary focus of Foundation for Global Awakening is the development and launching of the Internet Global Interchange Project, a strategic hub connecting people and resources for a positive future and an awakened world.

Dr. John J. Hudy is research director for the Foundation for Global Awakening and project leader for the In Our Own Words Research Program. John has twenty years of experience as an Industrial/Organizational Psychologist. His clients include many of the Fortune 500 as well as major corporations in Japan, Great Britain, France, and Sweden. His expertise has been applied to projects involving organizational development, coaching and facilitation, performance management, organizational culture surveys, psychometric assessment, and computerized assessment & feedback tools. Dr. Hudy is on the ad-hoc Editorial Review Board for The Academy of Management Review, has published in professional journals, and has served as an invited speaker at various Human Resource-oriented conventions. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Society, and the University of Southern Florida Psychology Foundation.

Directions:

INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES - AMPHITHEATRE ROOM
101 San Antonio Road, Petaluma, California 94952

Directions from the South: Take Highway 101 North, passing through San Rafael and Novato. Continue north on 101 until the first Petaluma exit, Petaluma Blvd South. Exit and follow the signs back towards San Francisco, in order to return south on 101. Ignore a small sign for San Antonio Road, and stay on 101 past the Sonoma-Marin County line. After that you will see a big green sign for San Antonio Road. Prepare to make a sharp right turn onto South San Antonio Road.

Take the first left at the Institute of Noetic Sciences sign and follow the road almost to the end; turn left through the gate and up the hill. Turn left at the top of the hill and park. We are located at the former campus of the University of Northern California.

Directions from the North: Take Highway 101 south, passing through Petaluma.Continue South on 101 past the last Petaluma exit, Petaluma Blvd. South. Ignore a small sign for San Antonio Road, and stay on 101 past the Sonoma-Marin County line. After that you will see a big green sign for San Antonio Road. Prepare to make a sharp right turn onto South San Antonio Road. Take the first left at the Institute of Noetic Sciences sign and follow the road almost to the end; turn left through the gate and up the hill. Turn left at the top of the hill and park. We are located at the former campus of the University of Northern California.

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