How You Can Joyfully Help Humanity Make the Shift in Time!

Who Else Wants to Help Create a Healthy, Sustainable, Peaceful and Prosperous World For All?

You CAN learn to become a powerful catalyst of conscious evolution and play a role in one of the most exciting events ever envisioned: a planetary Birth Day on December 22, 2012. This day will help us shift beyond fearful separation toward a global sense of oneness, symbolically marking the start of a new era in human development.

Already more than 65,000 people have said "yes" to the Vision for the planetary Birth Day and more than 2,000 have trained to be part of the global team. You, too, can join this movement determined to help make the Shift.

In the mainstream media, our times are seen as precarious and grim. We teeter on the edge of environmental collapse and global disaster, buffeted by war and strife.

This intense and often emotional drama has one powerful solution: our conscious evolution as a species. We have within us extraordinary creative potentials that have yet to be massively unleashed, leading to wide-scale cooperation, innovation, sustainability and peace.

The solutions are available; it is only the human software that needs an upgrade.

Now You Can Become a Catalyst for Positive Change

Which brings us to YOU: are you one of those here to upgrade the software? Reboot planet earth with a more holistic, compassionate, and sacred vision? Connect to and empower what IS truly working within yourself and within the world, rather than lament what no longer works?

If so, we want you to join us for an extraordinary 12-module training with one of today’s greatest and most empowering pioneers: Barbara Marx Hubbard, the woman who Deepak Chopra calls “the voice for conscious evolution in our times.”

The Agents of Conscious Evolution (ACE) training will offer you an in-depth understanding of key “mother memes” for the new worldview, designed for a new era (and an evolving you).

It will train you in the skills necessary to catalyze transformation within yourself and others. It will prepare you to play your perfect role in the Birth 2012 events next year. And it will connect you with a global community of change leaders who are here to light the way forward.

The ACE Training is designed to awaken your full creative potential, empower you in your “vocation of destiny,” give you a template for joyful co-creation, and provide a path for manifesting your heart’s desires.

And it will help you find your authentic leadership in the collective shift now underway.

There is a profound birthing process underway on our planet, and the crises we face can be seen as contractions -- and evolutionary drivers. These catalytic events are accelerating, which is really good news because it means the birth is near.

Give Your Greatest Gift to the Shift

Many prophecies concur that the time for a planetary shift has arrived. Only it won’t happen by magic; it will happen only if those of us with the “codes” step forward and give our greatest gifts to the emergence of a new co-creative human society. If we do that, we can collectively ignite a new way of being that endures for decades to come.

This truly is the hour for which we were born. And the ACE training will help you make the best use of this hour AND hone your gifts as an evolutionary leader.

Join us to begin the evolutionary adventure of a lifetime!

By completing the Agents of Conscious Evolution (ACE) Training, you will:

• Hone your gifts and fully realize your authentic leadership in the collective shift underway.
• Gain the skills needed to catalyze transformation within yourself, your family and others in your sphere – leading to evolutionary vision and action.
• Learn to create resonance with two or more people in order to lead and facilitate evolutionary and transformative processes.
• Gain mastery in affecting your own reality and everything around you, joyfully co-creating our emerging new world.
• Connect and synergize with a global community of change leaders and discover how your calling fits within a larger whole.
• Become an evolutionary mystic and learn to shift from ego to essence.
• Become a communicator of the new world view of conscious evolution by embodying it within yourself.
• Identify and prepare for your perfect role in the Birth 2012 events this year.

Dear Agents of Conscious Evolution throughout the world,

This is the most extraordinary invitation I have ever been able to offer.

It’s to participate as an Agent of Conscious Evolution in your own self and social development, while co-creating a global team building towards a planetary Birth Day Celebration on December 22, 2012.

Ever since Stephen Dinan and The Shift Network agreed to produce this event and began to design a new social architecture for countless people to participate in its co-creation, I realized that this initiative is an evolutionary signal. And if you are attracted to this vision, YOU are also an evolutionary signal of planetary change.

This is not merely a class. It’s a call to the deepest level of co-creation. The results of our work together will be unpredictable and emergent. No one has guided a culture from an over-populating, polluting, warring phase to a sustainable and ever-evolving phase.

That’s our job - to help midwife this transition by offering a new worldview, breakthrough innovations, and new patterns of social synergy. That’s us!

The Agents of Conscious Evolution (ACE) training will lead you to become a vital part of the global team that catalyzes the Birth 2012 experience and beyond. It will offer you the opportunity and skills to take the next step to embody, apply and realize your potential for conscious evolution.

I will offer you the latest insights, experiences and transmissions in my life’s work, providing a map to cross the gap from here – breakdowns in a devolving world – to there – breakthroughs in an evolving world. The map is the whole story of our birth, from the origin of creation, through billions of years of crises, applying the lessons of evolution to guide us toward a future equal to our full potential.

In the first hour of each class, which will be live video-streamed, I will provide an in-depth transmission of each key theme of conscious evolution, combined with an experiential spiritual practice related to that theme that has inspired and guided me over 50 years of evolutionary revelation. During the next portion, you’ll learn practices and skills to further your work as an Agent – communication and facilitation skills, evolutionary meditations and social synergy practices. And then you’ll work in evolutionary circles to embody and apply what you learn.

This training is the most potent synthesis of my life’s work and study of the greatest thinkers and innovators of our day. And it’s all in service to not just learning but making a planetary impact far greater than any of us could achieve alone.

I invite you – no, I wholeheartedly urge you – to join me and other co-evolutionaries on this exciting journey!

Love,
Barbara

Dear Allies in the Shift,

I know, deep in my heart, that we are all coming together for something truly unprecedented. If you are reading this letter, you know it.

We are here to participate in the Great Turning from one era into another. Our planetary crises AND our unbridled creativity are together pushing for this larger Shift, and it’s happening right now. It merely needs to be accelerated, activated and made visible to the whole of humanity, inviting their participation.

That’s why our intention is to build a year’s worth of transformative programs that help shift our culture and reaches a crescendo with a planetary Birth Day event on Dec. 22, 2012.

This day will involve a global broadcast, a State of the Planet address, a 100-year vision for humanity, synchronized meditation and sounds, and a global children’s choir. And it will lead into local synergy circles, activation of collaborations, and creative parties around the world.

Imagine what’s possible if tens of millions of us choose to unify for that day and express our highest consciousness and creativity. Imagine connecting what is innovative and creative at a planetary scale. Imagine what can be unleashed.

For the ACE Training, we will give you everything we can to prepare you to help catalyze this wave of planetary change. We want you to learn, transform and open to your highest gifts. And we want you to become part of our team to create something truly magnificent.

That is our invitation and if your soul rings with knowing when you hear this, please do join us. It’s show time!

In spirit,

The Agents of Conscious Evolution (ACE) Course Overview

The ACE Training is designed to:

• Give you a comprehensive toolkit and understanding of conscious evolution, including built-in opportunities to practice communicating these essential elements and facilitating others in consciously evolving.
• Empower you with practices to apply conscious evolution to your own life, so you can truly embody the principles, deepen your connection with Source, align with your most joyful path and become an evolutionary pioneer.
• Offer you the skills-training to facilitate group coherence and social synergy toward the Birth 2012 and beyond.

The Conscious Evolutionary Worldview:

Genes create bodies. Memes create cultures. And it’s time for a new planetary culture, which means a new set of memes based on conscious evolution.

In this training, you will become a global pioneer ready to co-create the next stage for humanity. One of the key foundations for leading the change is learning to embody, communicate and apply a conscious evolutionary worldview – the way we see the world creates much of our reality.

Understanding the worldview of conscious evolution and its deeper dynamics can help catalyze a global paradigm shift as well as rapidly change your own life, evoking your life’s purpose and vocation of destiny. You will be guided to use a “head-heart-hands” approach: as you explore new ideas, you’ll open to a heart and spirit connection, and learn practices that help you to apply these high frequency thought-forms in your daily life and work. As this happens, you will be creating a field of conscious evolution for the planetary shift.

Each module is a step on the evolutionary journey toward becoming an Agent of Conscious Evolution contributing to to Birth 2012 events and to the continued Planetary Awakening.

Module 1: Communicating the Sacred Story of Conscious Evolution

With the threat of environmental and social collapse in many parts of the world, our culture has lost its compelling meta-narrative. However, when you place yourself in the Universe Story – the 13.7 billion year sacred story of evolution through crisis and transformation leading to ever higher consciousness, freedom and more synergistic order – you can see that we are actually facing consciously what nature has learned to do for billions of years.

In this session, you will:

• Understand the unfolding of the Universe Story through deep-time history using the evolutionary spiral as a developmental framework.
• Recognize that you are an expression of the Universe Story; you are the universe in person, unfolding in an evolutionary mode, as the universe becoming conscious of itself.
• Reflect on the power of story to change yourself and the world, and see how this story applies to your experience.
• Clarify your intention and purpose in choosing to evolve.

Module 2: Understanding the Worldview of Conscious Evolution: Choosing to Evolve

Conscious evolution is the evolution from unconscious to conscious choice. Meaning that you are empowered to move from unconscious chance to one of conscious choice. It marks a phase-change in evolution itself, leading to the vast empowerment of humanity in our ever-evolving universe. As a developing Agent of Conscious Evolution, you are a co-founder of the evolutionary movement, now being born in every field and function as old systems break down and new systems emerge through all of us.

In this session, you will:

• Learn the new worldview of conscious evolution, giving you the tools to become causal in your life by identifying situations in which you can evolve by choice, not chance.
• Realize that you can choose the story you tell yourself about life experiences and thereby affect your own reality and everything around you – consciously evolving your life and contributing to the planetary shift.
• Reflect on your life story through “evolutionary eyes,” finding the gifts within your past and present challenges.
• See that your choice for more life, more expression, more love is natural and supported by the whole process of creation within you and beyond you.

Module 3: Practicing Evolutionary Spirituality

Evolutionary spirituality is the experience of incarnating the “Impulse of Evolution” as your own motivation to evolve. The intelligence that is creating the universe is becoming conscious of itself within you. In essence, you are “bringing God home as our own evolutionary potential,” and as an Agent, you are invited to enter a new inner sacred space called “Inner Sanctuary.” The planetary shift is occurring as many more of us are personally moving from ego to essence, and from fear into creativity and love. This is a critical aspect in your developmental path as a co-creator in self-evolution.

In this session, you will:

• Connect to your own inner “Inner Sanctuary” throughout the day, as a source for continuous inspiration and guidance.
• Learn a wide range of practices to connect to Source. Choose the best practice for you and gain support for maintaining it and deepening it throughout the course.
• Bring your brain and heart into “coherence” by practicing techniques pioneered by HeartMath. You will also learn to create resonance when two or more are gathered to work together.
• Learn the distinction between the ego and essence, and practice shifting from ego towards essence as your true identity and nature.
• Discover how the emerging process of your personal shift contributes to the planetary shift.

Module 4: Becoming a Catalyst for Evolution in Communion with Other Pioneering Souls

As you make the shift to a conscious evolutionary worldview, a greater impulse of life purpose is awakened. In evolutionary conversations with others who share your worldview, you will cultivate the “Impulse of Evolution” by bringing forth your unique calling and creativity in the company of other pioneering souls.

In this session, you will:

• Learn to boldly follow and act from your “compass of joy,” your own internal impulse of evolution, as it guides you to right action moment to moment.
• Feel the power of group coherence and “vocational arousal” when two or more are gathered in a resonant field of communion.
• Recognize vocation as the set of activities and archetypes that bring you consistent joy – as the impulse of evolution localized within you.
• Develop sacred practices to support your communion, with two or more locally, or globally in the field of pioneering souls.

Module 5: Building Evolutionary Circles

Wherever two or more Agents of Conscious Evolution are joined heart with heart, the process of creation is activated. As an Agent, you will cultivate a resonant field of oneness with others by opening your heart and deepening your universal consciousness. Through evolutionary circle groups, you will be seeding patterns of synergistic cooperation that contribute to the planetary birth. Groups networking with each other can create a communal force to awaken evolutionary pioneers to launch the new movement for the planetary birth.

In this session, you will:

• Embody the power of group coherence and understand what’s possible when two or more are gathered in communion.
• Learn the Vistar Method for forming Evolutionary Circles in your local community.
• Establish group coherence and how to sense when a group is NOT coherent.
• Cultivate communion in resonant practices with other Agents, as well as with neighbors, family and other evolutionary souls in your community.
• Learn how to facilitate emergence through conscious dialogues.

Module 6: Activating Your Evolutionary Leadership

As you begin to co-create with others, you will further hone your emergent capacities for co-creative leadership and interaction, activating inner qualities that stimulate you to become an evolutionary leader. While holding a space of deep listening and receptivity to others, you will learn to facilitate evolutionary co-creativity. And as you maintain an evolutionary mindset that you are inventing the future and looking for “next” practices and “best” practices, you will learn to engage the roles of dissonance and consonance in creating group harmony and coherence.

In this session, you will:

• Clear internal limitations and blocks that stand between you and your full leadership potential.
• Explore ways of inspiring group participation, and facilitating emergence, co-creation and evolutionary action.
• Practice holding a space of resonance, openness, unconditional regard and compassion for the group.
• Engage and draw out group members’ highest individual and group contribution potentials, and practice the art of transformative questioning.
• Explore the archetype of the feminine and masculine co-creators.

Module 7: Discovering the Patterns of a Co-Creative Society

As you continually follow your compass of joy, you will begin to notice the “sector” of the social body within which you are naturally attracted to co-create. These are represented by sectors of the Wheel of Co-Creation. You will begin to experience evolution by attraction in which each person is free to give his or her best in their chosen area.

In this session, you will:

• Learn to feel your part in the greater whole, follow your compass of joy, and allow that inspiration and aspiration to empower and align you with the Impulse of Evolution.
• Become a cultural co-creator, in which you intuit the greater pattern of evolution and discover that your role is integral and vital to the larger design.
• Begin to align your own calling with others within and across sectors of the Wheel for activities related to Birth 2012 and beyond.
• Explore the pattern of “12 around 1” as an organizing principle for wholeness.

Module 8: Pioneering Synergistic Democracy

Nature is a hierarchy of synergies that has created vast interconnected organisms for billions of years. The difference is now you are ready to create synergy consciously in order to survive and thrive. This is the wake-up call that can mature our species. The recent mass uprisings of people in the Middle East, along with the conflict and polarization resulting from corporate dominance in many countries, serve as evolutionary drivers toward a synergistic democracy. This is your opportunity to develop and experience the “memetic code” of the next stage of democracy.

In this session, you will:

• Identify what’s needed for you to give your deepest gifts into our society and the ways you can contribute to the inspired efforts of others.
• Discover sophisticated networking tools that can help you find soul allies who want to partner on co-creative projects.
• Learn about synergistic democracy through the example of the SYNCON – a process where key individuals from each sector of society come together in the spirit of collaboration and identify breakthrough ideas and potential links.
• Continue to use the Wheel of Co-Creation to build and support Birth 2012 projects and beyond that to facilitate our planetary awakening.

Module 9: Co-Creating the “New News” of What is Working

You are now ready to discover and connect what is working in every field and function as well as identify projects that are contributing toward our Birth as a co-creative humanity. As an Agent, you will identify local and global projects and co-creators, masterful innovators in every field and function who are already successful pioneers and initiators to help create the greatest convergence and coherence of what is working in human history. You will help facilitate and co-create synergistically with one another the planetary shift in microcosm as a contribution toward the Birth 2012 event on Dec. 22, 2012.

In this session, you will:

• Model The Planetary Peace Room where we learn together how to scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working within key sectors of the Wheel of Co-Creation, identifying the genius of major global co-creators.
• Relate what is working to the projected success and planning of your own Birth 2012 or Planetary Shift project.
• Identify social innovations like new healthcare advances, conscious business, technological innovations, educational breakthroughs, and entrepreneurship that can help create a new planetary civilization.
• Explore using digital media to communicate this “new news” to your community.
• Celebrate individuals who are “crossing the gap” as conscious evolutionary leaders.

Module 10: Participating in Birth 2012

Here you will begin to imagine and pre-experience the actuality of humanity’s “birth” and connect deeply to others about what is emergent and working in the world. As an Agent of Conscious Evolution, you will be empowered to take a leadership role to help catalyze Birth 2012 and other planetary shifts.

In this session, you will:

• Learn about current plans for the activities of Birth 2012 and ways that you can actively participate in the formal events.
• Share other creative ways you might participate and attract others to weave their genius into the Birth Day celebration.
• Explore ideas for spreading the excitement and engaging other networks of allies.
• Further the process of assembling and organizing into a more coherent and sustainable community.

Module 11: Moving Beyond 2012: Becoming a Universal Human and Setting the Evolutionary Agenda

The ACE Training is preparing you for “mothering and fathering” the planetary birth. This is a loving process of delivering what is being born in all of us. The new norm for you includes incarnating the impulse of evolution, deepening your mystical peak experiences, and becoming a conscious co-creator with the creative process itself.

In this session, you will:

• Gain skills in entering the “imaginal realm” as a storyteller and visionary of a new, flourishing humanity.
• Develop ways you will actively co-create the evolutionary agenda, globally and locally.
• Explore a 100-year collective vision for a universal humanity that engages the creativity, gifts and the evolutionary impulse of all people in ways never before imagined.
• Learn about continued opportunities to receive support from the ACE Program, the Shift Network and others for your ongoing growth, transformation, evolutionary contributions and leadership.

Module 12: Celebrating the Journey

Through the journey of this ACE Training, you will have learned about the evolutionary worldview and your place in what’s emerging. You will have learned many practices to help you re-create your own story and shift from ego to essence. You will have been practicing your social synergy and evolutionary leadership skills. You will have mapped specific ways you will contribute to our Planetary Awakening and participate in the activities surrounding Birth 2012 and beyond. And now it’s time to reflect on how you’ve grown and identify the next steps of your own journey from here.

In this session, you will:

• Review what you have learned in the course and assess where you are now strong and what areas you want to continue to focus on in your development as an Agent of Conscious Evolution.
• Present your next-step plan to another Agent (or Agents) for intention-setting and potential collaboration.
• Receive reflections from team-members who have witnessed your growth and transformation through the process.
• Participate in a “graduation celebration” and enjoy the fruits of your co-creative journey with Barbara and other Agents.

Replays – To accommodate ACE participants from countries with time zones that don’t work with the live Wednesday session, we’ll do a rebroadcast each Friday at 10 am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern / 5 pm Greenwich (UTC) / 7 pm Central Europe. Participants will be able to connect in live groups at that time as well.

Bonus Audio Session #1 with Ken Wilber
The Inseparability of Your Unique Spiritual Expression and Evolution Itself

Revered as the “Einstein of consciousness,” Ken Wilber is one of the world’s leading integral philosophers. In this powerful bonus session, Ken and Barbara will discuss the role of Spirit-in-action and offer insights into how your own God-essence is an integral, co-creative expression of evolution itself.

Wilber has written 16 books exploring different facets of human development and cultural evolution such as A Brief History of Everything and A Theory of Everything. His philosophy integrates body, mind, soul, and Spirit with self, culture, and nature. In 1998, he founded the Integral Institute, for teaching and applications of Integral theory. Integral Life is the sponsoring organization of Integral Institute.

Bonus Audio Session #2 with Andrew Cohen and Barbara Marx Hubbard
The Meaning of Conscious Evolution and Evolutionary Enlightenment

Andrew Cohen is an internationally respected spiritual teacher, cultural visionary, and founder of the global nonprofit EnlightenNext and its award-winning publication EnlightenNext magazine. He is known for bringing the timeless depth of enlightened wisdom into the 21st century—calling not for transcendence of worldly attachment, or even for compassionate care and service, but for a deep and heroic responsibility for the evolution of the world.

Andrew and Barbara will engage in a deep dialogue on how you can actually become a genuine agent of conscious evolution at this most critical time in our culture, when the whole system is both breaking down and breaking through. Drawing from his forthcoming book Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew will share the nature of the Impulse of Evolution, the “Inner Big Bang,” the prime motivating force within you, for self and social evolution. His message is simple, yet profound: Life is evolution, and enlightenment is about waking up to this fundamentally creative impulse as your own deepest, most authentic self.

Bonus Audio Session #3 with Rinaldo Brutoco
Conscious Evolution and Business

Rinaldo Brutoco is president of the World Business Academy, a leading international executive, writer and keynote speaker for over 25 years. Rinaldo is widely recognized as a practical visionary, change agent and futurist. He uniquely combines theory and practice to assist individuals, executives and organizations in adapting to change with breakthrough ideas. Deepak Chopra says Rinaldo Brutoco knows what he’s talking about when it comes to creating a vision for sustainable and responsible business.