Authentic adulthood is a potential... not a given.
NO ONE CAN GET INITIATED FOR YOU.
MORE INTERESTINGLY, NO ONE CAN STOP YOU FROM GETTING INITIATED.
"Until you get bigger than your relationship with your mom and your dad, this is where you will be stuck.
Every conflict you are in, every tension you feel, every problem you have will come from you still carrying this adolescent baggage.
It is time to grow up."
- Anne-Chloé Destremau
Think of this website as a free online e-pathway which is initiatory if you actually do the experiments.
This is an Experimenter's Handbook.
The suggestion is to take the time you need to allow your inner workings to shift and evolve.
I promise you, it will be worth it.
Each Experiment contains a powerful new Distinction that is too clear for your mind to digest. Instead, the Distinction digests your mind.
Each new Distinction has the power to hack your worldview into a different shape and give you a brighter future as a more 'free and natural' Adult.
By changing the shape of your worldview, you simultaneously change the shape of the human Morphogenetic Field, also causing the Earth Coincidence Control Office (E.C.C.O.) to interact with you with more respect. This creates new results in your life.
Isn’t that why you are reading this? To get some new results in your life?
Your life... "How's it working for you?"
...a question from Tyler Durden in the film Fight Club, when he's asking about the results of all your cleverness, all that effort to be smart and funny...
Surviving is not Living.
Are you surviving?
Trying to win?
How is it working out for you? Really...
Still stuck in that childhood survival strategy?
Initiations were banned 6000 years ago by the patriarchal empire.
This means it will be necessary for you to go to the edges of modern culture to initialize your adulthood potentials.
Simply seeking adulthood automatically makes you an 'Edgeworker', or a 'Possibilitator', perhaps even a 'Riftwalker'...
Fortunately, this website is on that edge, serving as a bridge between modern culture and 'next culture'.
Next culture? Next culture centers itself around authentic adulthood initiatory processes. Modern culture is centered around personal 'success', making a profit, regardless of the social, environmental, or personal costs.
By now it should be perfectly clear that modern culture has failed to bring a bright future for humanity. Your future is being abused to death by uninitiated adolescents.
Next culture does not arise from repairing modern culture. Modern culture cannot be repaired because it is not broken.
Modern culture is doing exactly as it is designed to do.
Modern culture is exterminating life on Earth at the fastest possible rate, and replacing it with computers full of big numbers owned by a few people.
Times, they are a changin'...
A key ingredient to the shift from patriarchy to Archiarchy is replacing profit with authentic adulthood initiatory processes as the highest value at the center of your culture. Distinctions replace money as the central Nonmaterial Value. Who decides this?
Next culture is as different from modern culture’s capitalist patriarchal empire as modern culture is from roving matriarchal clans hunting and gathering in the wilderness.Next culture - Achiarchy - is the culture that naturally emerges after matriarchy and patriarchy have run their course. Like it or not, ready or not, the time of culture-shift to is now.
Archiarchal cultures are regenerative, initiation-centered, sustainable, wildly creative, nonmaterial valued, and richly diverse.
At the center of Archiarchal cultures is the archetypally initiated adult feminine ecstatically co-creating with the archetypally initiated adult masculine. (This is represented by the symbol with the infinity sign inside the zero.)
Archans understand that Earth is not our planet to pillage and plunder.
The bible is dead wrong about this...
Humans are naked monkeys with enough synapsis to potentially become aware enough to collaborate with Gaia's biology experiment of consciously evolving the organic manifestations of consciousness on Earth.
We do not live on spaceship Earth as Buckminster Fuller said.
Bucky Fuller was dead wrong about this…
Human beings do not live on the Earth.
We are the Earth.
Who do you think you're fooling?
The mind has the capacity to think thoughts that are completely disconnected from reality. One such thought is, “This paper says I own part of the planet and I can do whatever I want with it…”
As soon as you start thinking about this idea you realize it is utterly ridiculous. This idea leads directly to fear, competition, rabid extraction, war, and annihilation of life on Earth.
Humans are the part of the forest that stood up and talks. We can bring each other through authentic adulthood initiations enough to Disidentify from our bodies and from our psychological belief systems (our Boxes…).We can shift the purpose of our defense strategies from defending itself to expanding itself so that we can grow into our massive adulthood and archetypal potentials.
Below modern culture’s news radar, Archiarchy is alive and well, rapidly emerging in thousands of places around the Earth simultaneously as human awareness increases.
You are part of this evolutionary process.
This is a responsible Universe.
Awareness leads to responsibility.
Responsibility is consciousness in action.
Each distinction you get activates greater personal authority in you.
During initiation you take responsibility for something for which you may never have imagined responsibility could be taken.
This puts you at source for that thing.
For example, before you take responsibility for your energetic center you reflexively give your center away to external authority figures as a survival strategy.
After you are initiated into Being Centered you consciously decide what you do with your Center.
From each new Point Of Origin the next initiatory gateway becomes visible.
Nobody can get Initiated for you.
Nobody can stop you from getting Initiated.
You are imprisoned 8 layers deep.
Where is the human being?
Deep inside their Box.
It stays that way until successful adulthood initiatory processes make the Box optional and give choices for actions that are not possible when inside our childhood survival strategy.
Have you waited long enough?The FAQ section (Frequently Asked Questions) explains how initiations work, and the differences between traditional indigenous initiations and the kinds of initiations needed in today’s unstable conditions with no working role models to adopt.
This website explains the necessity for authentic initiations into next culture adulthood so your mind understands why you might decide to spend time, energy, money, and excitement getting yourself initiated.
You might not be able to explain it to your mother at first… but at least you will have more certainty about why you crave learning experiences that come from beyond what was given to you at school.
This website also provides links to a few initiators we have found to be reputable and worthy. This can be a useful reference for taking your next steps.
Initiation to nonlinear Doorways.
Doorways can lead to new futures.
However, you can only go through a Doorway when you are at the Doorway.
No one else can go through a Doorway for you.
When you are at a Doorway, no one can stop you from going through it.
What you do next is up to you.There is no particular order for initiatory experiences.
The circle has no end.
Trust what you are attracted to next and go do it. Also try the path of greatest resistance... meaning, sometimes try what you are repelled by or most afraid of.
Someone might show you a Doorway, but no one can go through for you, not even to save your life…
Understanding can only take you so far…
about this far…
Seriously, now...
Authentic adulthood is not triggered by an empty ritual or mere ceremony.
There is, in reality, a gap between leaving behind any part of a childhood survival strategy and activating your adulthood potential.
This gap can be formidable.
Making it across the gap is not always successful.
Some are lost. In particular psychopaths.
Indigenous initiators knew they would lose about 10% of their candidates for adulthood. On the other hand, if you are not Initiated, you are not regarded as a person in the village, and are forbidden from holding any position of power or authority.
In traditional indigenous initiations, 10% of the candidates died.
Tribal elders kept a specially carved wooden board which they used for carrying the bodies of the those who failed initiations back to the village where they were honored for having tried.
This is how important authentic adulthood initiations are in a regenerative culture.
You might want to change your priorities.
What would happen if for the next 5 years you made your adulthood initiatory processes your highest priority and let the rest of your life fall where it may? Who might you become?
Prepare yourself.
We haven’t lost anybody, but that is because we make our Doorways very difficult to find.
You must pass many tests just to get a chair in our initiatory training spaces. You need to have prepared yourself.
Nobody can prepare you for initiation. Nobody can stop you from preparing yourself.
The preparation initiates the initiation.
How will you know you are prepared? When you suddenly find yourself at the next level. But then you are already not prepared enough for the next further initiation.
There are two ways to work with this. Either you recognize that you can never be prepared enough, or you engage life as ongoing preparation.
Psychopaths don’t make it through authentic adulthood initiatory processes. Their measurable lack of a heart-mind connection deletes their conscience and prevents them from navigating their inner processes.
On the other hand, a psychopath’s diminished sensitivity is ideal for climbing hierarchical power ladders in modern patriarchal organizations. If you have no conscience then you can do whatever it takes to get the next power position in government, military, corporate, medical, educational, and religions hierarchies, even in NGOs.
It was the psychopaths who banned authentic adulthood initiatory processes from modern culture. It prevented them from being found out.
Build Your Matrix.
Next culture initiations deliver practices for building matrix.
Matrix is the structure in your energetic body that holds consciousness.
For example, have you ever read a book and then read the same book a few years later? Did you noticed how much more you could get out of the book the second time you read it? Or possibly, you noticed that you had outgrown the book? This is because in the meantime you have built more matrix into your energetic body and are now more conscious.
Matrix is constructed out of experiential distinctions. If you get a distinction it changes who you are. For example, if the distinctions in the previous paragraph landed in your energetic body you are no longer the same person you were before integrating it. You have already started interacting with the world in new ways.
There is a natural speed limit to how fast a person can sustainably build matrix. The recommended approach to building matrix is the long, slow steady way that occurs during a life of practice.
Another way to describe this is to shift your identity so that you regard yourself or, rather, define yourself as an experimenter. Who gets to define who you are? Someone else?
As Sylvie Guillem says, "If you spend your life just doing what other people tell you to do, it's not your life. It's their life."
Heal Your Technopenuriaphobia.
We describe three categories of initiatory processes, although there are many more.
One category of initiations focuses on healing the fear that you might suddenly lose modern technology and will no longer be able to survive.
Forty years ago the term technophobia was invented. It means fear of new technology.
At that time there was widespread fear about all the new technologies invading our lives (fax machines, microwave ovens, garage door openers, electric typewriters, satellite telephones, velcro, etc.)
Now, one generation later, we can’t imagine living without all this technology. We live in a strong unconscious fear that we might not survive if the car won't start, the phone dies, the elevator stops, or the refrigerator breaks down.
A new word was needed to name this new kind of fear. The word is: technopenuriaphobia, fear of losing technology, where penuria means the lack of.
You were born high up on a ladder of technology. Modern culture only encourages you to try to climb higher.
Technopenuriaphobia (TPP) is healed through installing low-tech rungs that permit you to descend off the ladder and once again set foot directly on the Earth.
Upgrade Your Thoughtware.
A second category of initiatory processes upgrades the thoughtware you are using to think with.
Upgrading thoughtware… didn’t this happen in school? No. School taught us what to think about, not what to think with.
Educators in classes at school provide new content to think about.
Trainers in training spaces provide new thoughtware distinctions to think with.
You had to be able to think before they let you in school. This means you inherited most of your thoughtware from your parents.
Where did they get it? Right! From their parents.
This means you are using thoughtware that has been handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.
Without special efforts you end up using Standard Human Intelligence Thoughtware. It is very outdated…
Newer and more powerful thoughtware is available with interesting and useful new features.
Trainers and Educators.
Upgrading your thoughtware occurs in initiatory training spaces.
Why in training spaces?
During a thoughtware upgrade there is always this nagging little time after the old thoughtware stops functioning and before the new thoughtware starts. These are Liquid States.
Trainers are skilled at creating and navigating ultra-safe spaces in which they accompany you through your transformational liquid states.
Trainers are not Educators.
More importantly, Educators are not Trainers.
We need both.
And right now what Gaia needs is a lot more Trainers delivering authentic adulthood initiatory processes.
Perhaps you are a potential trainer? If so, please do not hesitate to inquire further about that.
Stellate Inner & Outer Resources
A third category of initiatory processes involves jacking you into your internal and external resources.
These resources abundant provide the specific energy and information you need for delivering your true calling as a service to Earth.
Some of your new resources are applied through adulthood levels of responsibility.
Some of your new resources are applied through archetypal levels of responsibility.
Modern culture knows nothing about these resources, yet both adulthood and archetypal resources are completely natural. They are hard-wired into the human body.
You already use many of these resources each day unconsciously to serve shadow purposes.
You cannot use them consciously until you install batteries and flip the 'on' switch during authentic adulthood and archetypal initiatory processes.
Adulthood and archetypal initiatory processes are powerful indeed. They may be what you have been longing for since you were 18 years old, ready to shake off the restrictions of childhood and society and begin your initiatory journeys into adulthood and beyond.
In the photo gallery we have posted many pictures. These are not posed or staged for the camera. You can see the variety and depth of impact from these experiences. Imagine yourself having these experiences. How would it be to have these experiences build you out from the inside? Who could you become?
You Start Where You Are...
The three films shown below (Contact, Ad Astra, and Interstellar) are an example of the limits created by lack of Authentic Adulthood Initiations. In all three films, the full breadth of the universe is the canvas upon which the stories can unfold. Liberated from the egocentric human realms, something new about ourselves could have been explored. Here was a chance - created at huge expense of money, time, and imaginative teamwork - to unfold their true potentials as accessed from an expanded perspective, a chance to take the viewers beyond our prosaic concerns. But in each case, the main characters were limited by not yet having been initiated into an adulthood where their parents are located energetically behind them as their ancestors. These characters could not go about exploring and inventing their new futures, because they were forced to deal with their next healing and initiatory steps completing 'daddy issues'. Of course, there is nothing wrong, or bad, or stupid about this. Such healing is necessary, whatever your age. But imagine where these stories could have gone if the main characters had escaped from the 8 Prisons between the ages of 18-25 years, already having stepped out of their parents' bubble, and could in the films have explored inner frontiers as well as the outer frontiers. Imagine what your life could be like in that condition...
Photos of Authentic Initiatory Processes
When will this be you ?
We Seem To Have Forgotten...
For 40,000 years human beings knew that children do not become adult except through formidable initiatory processes!
We seem to have forgotten...
...are you about to remember?
This article could be the disinhibiting factor that triggers your anamnesia... so you regain clarity that was once alive in your cells but which you seem to have forgotten...
AN ESSAY ON INITIATIONS VS. TRIBALISM by Martin Prechtel
A great deal has been said about the possibility of making initiations and rites of passage for non-Native, noncommunity, nonvillage, modern people. Tribal-type initiations have been touted as a remedy for the frustration that modern people feel concerning the desperate lives of their young people. In a nihilistic age filled with weapons, drugs, insolence, and depression, the parents of such children may be powerfully drawn to the wild, elegant lack of complication that can be seen in the eyes of a truly indigenous person. Perhaps they think that by simply obtaining a tribal initiation, the same way one buys a medicine, they will achieve that look of wholeness and belonging in their eyes, thereby avoiding the whole frightening landscape of the alienated synthetic existence of modern life...
Initiators
Each of the initiators below can help you activate your inner capacities and jack-into your outer potentials. If you have any doubts about which initiations you might be missing to power-up as an adult human being with archetypal resources, please study the list in this 7 minute video. Press PAUSE and write down each of the initiations you have already activated. Find the Matrix Code for each one and register your Matrix Points at StartOver.xyz. The remaining initiations are waiting to welcome you into unexpectedly precious new worlds.
It could also be that your next step is to provide initiatory processes for others. At some point on the adulthood path your further learning occurs through serving your fellow humans on their evolutionary path.
The time to start delivering initiations may become appropriate sooner than you think, unless, of course, you already think it is appropriate, in which case it will probably become appropriate later than you think…
There is a big difference between the appearance of competence, and competence. (Millennials be warned!)
An effective strategy is to seek continuous feedback from skilled professional initiators and trust their coaching, even if your Box hates it.
You don’t have to deliver initiations perfectly because perfectionism serves unconscious shadow purposes. However, your work does need to be better than you can do. This happens when Bright Principles work through you.
The Bright Principles do not have hands or a mouth or feet. They need you to succeed and will generate tiny miracles of coincidence and opportunity while you serve by being the space through which your Bright Principles can do their work in the world.
Mages know that true magic is inspired improvisation. Its authenticity and power comes from its extemporaneousness, from it never having been done before.
What helps most is to start creating what your Being longs to exist, each time asking your participants for clear and radically honest feedback, then using what they tell you to improve your next edition.
It can be difficult to trust yourself to select a potential initiator. There are many cul-de-sacs and energy-draining whirlpools out here beyond the edges of modern culture (but perhaps far fewer than within modern culture…)
Below is a listing of women and men I personally vouch for as strong initiators because I have experienced their work (Clinton Callahan).
They have taken enough of a stand for the quality of their services that they ask for feedback and coaching from their participants. Please keep telling them specifically what worked and what did not work for you about their services, and anything you can see or feel that they could try to make their services even more relevant to your life, more thrilling, and more authentically useful.
This list is obviously only a few of the tens of thousands of authentic initiators now available. Perhaps your name should be on this list. If so, please tell us about what you deliver.
Initiators are of necessity themselves initiated.
In my opinion we need many more full-time trained-and-initiated initiators working in schools, colleges, universities, corporations, hospitals, vacation resorts, governments, and in private circles right now. Seven billion customers are waiting for you.
While we are talking about my opinions… I think that the currency of the future is authentic adulthood initiatory processes and the distinctions they use as rocket fuel.
If it feels like you might have been killed off during the 700 years of Catholic Inquisitions and witch burnings… and as you died you made a vow never to risk helping others with your talents again… notice that killing you did not work.
Because you are back.
Consider that it might be time for you to return to work.
Please take courage again. Help us all grow up and step into the world each day as joyfully initiated adult women and men. There is a new future to build together.
It has been such a celebration to make this list of organizations and individuals below! Enjoy!
PACHAMAMA ALLIANCE
“Up to Us” Program, https://www.pachamama.org/engage, Pachamama Game Changer Intensive: https://www.pachamama.org/engage/intensive
DREAM CHANGE
Indigenous traditions stress the importance of living in harmony with nature and one another- both for the short-term and the long-term. It’s time for us in the modern world to remember how to do this.
EARTH GUARDIANS
We inspire and train diverse youth to be effective leaders in the environmental, climate, and social justice movements.
CONTEXT INSTITUTE
Catalyzing a graceful transition to the planetary era: Bright Future Now Program. http://www.context.org/next-bright-future-now-course/
POSSIBILITY MANAGEMENT
Thoughtware upgrades for next culture, authentic adulthood initiatory processes, prepare to enliven your archetypal body and jack-in to your Archetypal Lineage. http://www.possibilitymanagement.org
YOUTH PASSAGEWAYS
We are being called to raise our youth with resiliency, creativity, and will to thrive in the 21st Century. YOUTH PASSAGEWAYS is an evolving network of individuals, organizations, and communities who help regenerate healthy passages into mature adulthood for today’s youth. https://youthpassageways.org/
Achim Ecker
Awareness training, integral Forum, “the work that reconnects,” World Work, Permaculture, how to create an ecovillage, Global Ecovillage Network, http://www.zegg-forum.org/en/about-us/45-achim.html
Alanja Forsberg
Avalon Meetings, deep healing and transformation processes for unfolding human potential, http://www.avalondharma.com, https://www.facebook.com/Avalon-Dharma-1063961417020689/, mom
Ana Norambuena
Personal healing and transformation, possibility shaman, decontamination from Gremlin contamination, authentic adulthood initiations, individuals, pairs, and projects.
Anne-Chloé Destremau
Warrioress Distinguisher, Rage Club and Fear Club Spaceholder Training, Trainer Path gatherings, Possibility Coaching, Gameworld Builder, Expand The Box trainer, Possibility Lab trainer, Memetic Engineer, Evolutionary Gameworld Consultant: http://trainerpath.org, http://nextcultureradio.org, http://startover.xyz, http://rageclub.org, http://generalmemetics.org,
Annette Türk-Marzell
Family constellation, personal coaching and healing processes: (German only website, she speaks perfect English)
Ariana Aomarere
Maori shaman, New Zealand, explains that there is a window of opportunity now open for taking actions to fulfill your biggest dreams and goals. She trains people to be “unreasonable” NOW, to trust your own impulses NOW, to make powerful responsible actions NOW — rather than leaking life energy into all the things that don’t work in the world anyway anymore. Then at the end you can say: “At least I lived. At least I experienced what Earth was.”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbXcssFq_Q
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Arkan Lushwala
Sweat lodge initiation, Arawaka Ceremonial Center, New Mexico, author of Time of the Black Jaguar: https://landing.pachamama.org/time-of-the-black-jaguar , Caretakers of Life (5 part video message): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1lNKweV9LA, Indigeneous Wisdom Immersion Journey (with Pat McCabe) (24 August to 1 September 2017): https://www.pachamama.org/journey/2017/8/journey-to-new-mexico-with-arkan-lushwala-and-woman-stands-shining-pat-mccabe
Arthur Dorsch
Anger training, men's initiation, sweat lodge, firewalking, vision quest, nature coaching, Possibility Management.
Bert Hellinger - d. 2019
Family constellation initiations and trainer training, originator of Family Constellation work: http://www2.hellinger.com/en/home/
Bill Kauth and Zoe Alowan
Author of “A Circle of Men,” and with Zoe Alowan, “We Need Each Other,” Gift Circles, co-originator of Mankind Project, New Warrior Training Adventure, and New Tribe Training: http://www.timefortribe.com
Brad Blanton
Radical honesty initiations and trainer training, the skills of noticing, author of “Radical Honesty,” “Radical Parenting,” and “Korporate Kannibal Kookbook“: http://www.radicalhonesty.com, dad
Brianne Vaillancourt
Rage Club, online or offline Possibility Coaching, Adulthood Initiatory Processes, Whole Permaculture works
Carola Mayer-Ackermann
Family constellation with feelings work (in Germany): (German only website) http://www.evoleo.de , https://www.facebook.com/carola.mayerackermann
Christine Dürschner
Personal and group evolution processes applying tools and distinctions of Possibility Management: http://completiontour.christineduerschner.net/, (also a mostly German website) http://christineduerschner.net/, creating an ecovillage community: (German only website) https://gemeinschaft.schloss-glarisegg.ch/projekte/therapeutikum/berater-therapeuten/671-christine-duerschner
Christine Neubauer-Dorsch
Transformational theater witch. Our theater is evolved from mystical games in different religious rites to take ourselves to reality and unfold our own potential. This promotes mental and emotional personality development as well as social and cultural competence. www.theater-vivalavida.de
Claudio Naranjo - d. 2019
Originator of SAT (Seekers After Truth), personal evolution using enneagram and gestalt for self-awareness, vitality, presence, and transformation (Peru, Argentina, Berkeley California): http://www.naranjo-sat.com/, http://www.claudionaranjo.net/, https://www.facebook.com/Claudio.Naranjo.SAT/?ref=br_rs, Special Event near Bremen, Germany: “The Character of Self-Realized Beings and How To Be Inspired By Their Lives” 24-29 September 2018. SAT In Spanish: http://www.claudionaranjo.net/content_phoenix_spanish/sat_spanish.html, and http://www.fundacionclaudionaranjo.com/
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Clinton Callahan
Memetic Engineer, Transformational-Circle Alchemist, community context shift, adulthood and archetypal initiations, originator of Possibility Management, Expand The Box training, Possibility Village Labs, S.P.A.R.K. Experiments, Possibility Management Trainer-Training: featured in Leap - The Coaching Movie, Cooler S-E-X Congress, and The Circle Way film, http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, Nanonations, Archiarchy, Distinctionary, Torus Technology, Author of “Building Love That Lasts”, “Conscious Feelings” and “Goodnight Feelings – a family healing storybook” (all available in German from Next Culture Press), Projects: http://www.clintoncallahan.org, dad
Cornelius Butz
Global Consciousness Midwife, Possibility Management trainer, Expand The Boxtraining, Possibility Lab, Intimacy Research Lab, personal evolution processes: 4-Koerpertraining (German only website, he speaks perfect English): https://intensivcoach.mystrikingly.com, http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, Alternative Currencies and Metals: (German only website, he speaks perfect English) http://www.corneliusbutz.de, Archiarchy, healing technopenuriaphobia, dad
Dagmar Thürnagel
Illusion Slayer, Feelings Practitioner initiations: http://www.feelingspractitioner.com, Possibility Management trainer, Expand The Box training, Possibility Lab, Possibility Team: Aufbruch Trainings (German only website, she speaks perfect English) http://www.aufbruch-trainings.de/, and http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, Training Center Spielraum in München (Planegg): (German only website): http://www.aufbruch-trainings.de/spielraum-planegg.html, Alexander Technique, Eye Body
Dahlia Abramovic
Wake-Up-Call Healer, 4 Body Healer and Trainer, 4-Körpertraining (German only website, she speaks excellent English): http://4koerpertraining.de/, and http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, Originator of 4-Body Osteopathy, Certified Healing Practitioner, mom
Dan Palmer - d. 2022
Regenerative Culture Educator and Trainer
https://makingpermaculturestronger.net/
Daniel Koupermann
Ecuador, Peru, Guatemala jungle and highland cultures initiations, secret teachings and exercises for splitting attention and growing presence
Devin Gleeson
Gremlin Transformation, Adult Egostate Decontaminations, one-on-one Possibility Coaching with Emotional Healing Processes (EHP), Expand The Box trainer-in-training, Rage Club and Fear Club spaceholder.
https://devingleeson.mystrikingly.com
Dirk Schröder
Wilderness outdoor living and survival school in Southern Germany. Dirk can create the space for you to walk barefoot on burning coals. Dirk speaks great English but his website is only German, so call him if you have questions. Dirk does wonders with city children, giving them some hope to live on planet Earth. He also trains trainers. Dirk’s classes are listed on his websites: http://www.der-spirituelle-weg.de/seminare-kurse/grenzen-ausdehnen/and: http://www.elementar-erfahrungen.de/seminare-kurse-wildnisschule/kraftvolle-naturverbindung/feuerlauf0/
Felix Fulda
Possibility Management trainer, Expand The Box trainings, Possibility Lab, Men’s Lab, Rage Club, Possibility Team: http://harbigarr.org/trainer and http://www.possibilitymanagement.org
Fleet Maull
Compassionate communication, mindful leadership, author of Radical Responsibility, radical responsibility training: http://fleetmaull.com/radical-responsibility-page/
Georg Pollitt
Archiarchy Infrastructure Knight, Possibility Management trainer, Expand the Boxtraining, Possibility Lab, Intimacy Research Lab, Rage Club, Possibility Team: http://www.harbigarr.ch, and http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, dad
Gerlinde Fink
Being able to look at life from different perspectives enables us to rediscover the love of life. My concern is to accompany people in this maturation process. http://gerlindefink.de
Gigi Coyle
Archetypal eleven-day Vision Fast, Way of Council, practice of living and dying: School of Lost Borders: http://schooloflostborders.org/, and https://www.facebook.com/lostborders
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Guy MacPherson
Near term human extinction support group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NTHESupportGroup/, Climate Change Summary: https://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/climate-change-summary-and-update/, Nature Bats Last Podcasts (weekly recorded radio show interviews): http://naturebatslast.podbean.com/, About his leaving the USA and moving to Belize: https://guymcpherson.com/2017/02/beyond-belize/
Hermano Maya
Yucatan Mayan Shaman healer and wilderness expert, lives near Izamal, Yucatan, Mexico: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008434322351
Hilde Mohren
Personal liquid-state support coaching also using Possibility Management tools and distinctions, expert in telephone and messaged coaching and support: (German only website, she speaks perfect English) http://mohren-coaching.de/, https://www.facebook.com/hilde.mohren, mom
Inge Kögl
Curandero initiator, personal development and unfolding processes, liquid-state navigation, relationship help using some distinctions and tools from Possibility Management and a hell of a lot of common sense: she speaks perfect English, contact her through: https://www.facebook.com/inge.pfeifer.7
Jennifer Welwood
Chief sorceress at Something Will Occur Mystery School: http://jenniferwelwood.com
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Jim Peal
Back in 1987 I drove alone to Sacramento, California, and spent a day with Jim Peal and 19 participants while he made it possible for us to walk barefoot across a bed of hot glowing coals. I was number. Standing at the edge, staring into the searing heat, I used radical trust and was about to take a step when Jim shouted across the coals at me and said, “No! Don’t look at the fire! Look at me!” And when I looked up into his eyes I could feel the entire space shift. It was suddenly possible to walk across the fire barefoot. I walked twice. This experience established the clarity that the space determines what is possible in Possibility Management. If you can get with Jim to do anything, I am sure it will be good: http://www.peal.com
Jim Rough
Empowers teams to use Choice Creating through Dynamic Facilitation, which then supports Wisdom Council, a form of community decision making that Austria changed its constitution to officially use. You need to have this in your tool box: http://www.tobe.net/. Some of the best explanations of Jim’s discoveries are by Tom Atlee: http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-dynamicfacilitation.html
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Jim and Nora Zarvos
Decades of breakthrough coaching with roots in LifeSpring trainings. Stretch your possibilities. Experiential transformational trainings. https://zarvoscoaching.com/
Joachim Müller
Wandering attentively, mindfulness initiatory experiences: (website is German but Joachim’s writing translates well using the Google translator, and if you can join him for a walk he speaks perfect English): http://wandern-achtsamkeit.de/
John Corrigan
Originator of Group 8 Education, a student-feedback-centered program. The shift from a teaching relationship to a learning relationship is fundamental in preparing young people to thrive in the twenty-first century. The Gaian Road Team interviewed John in Sydney, Australia. John is author of the book: Student Feedback - overcoming apprehension, embracing a new culture.
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
John Croft
Originator of Dragon Dreaming initiations, trainer-training: https://www.dragondreaming.org/trainer/john-croft/, Interview About Dragon Dreaming: https://thechangingways.com/tag/dragon-dreaming/, John Croft’s Blog: https://www.dragondreaming.org/the-forthcoming-collapse-of-the-western-system-a-christmas-post-by-john-croft/
John James
Longtime Edgeworker, author of The Great Field, and Transpersonal Therapy, creator of the Crucible Center along with his wife Hillary, originator of Sandplay Therapy, http://www.johnjames.com.au
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
John Perkins
Founder and board member of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, continues to bring small groups of individuals into the Amazon to experience pristine nature as a way of realizing why not to destroy it. https://johnperkins.org
John Welwood - d. 2019
Pioneer psychotherapist, edgeworker, and author for the past thirty years. His books include Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love, Toward a Psychology of Awakening, Love and Awakening, and, most recently, Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart.
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Jonathan Sprungk
Business culture transformation also using some tools and thoughtmaps from Possibility Management: (German only website, he speaks perfect English) http://www.jonathan-sprungk.de/, https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.sprungk, dad
Katharina Kaifler
Element Shifter, Feelings Practitioner initiations: http://www.feelingspractitioner.com, Possibility Management trainer, Expand The Box training, Possibility Lab, intimacy initiations, personal transformation processes: http://harbigarr.org/trainer, (German only website, she speaks perfect English) http://katharinakaifler.de/, and http://possibilitymanagement.org, 4-Körpertraining (German only website): http://4koerpertraining.de/?page_id=41, SecretGiant: http://www.secretgiant.org
Keith Varnum
Brings you into direct contact with the multidimensional nature of reality, and if you accidentally dropped through a crack into that realization and feel unsure about how it goes from there, Keith is your man!: http://thedream.com/, a huge amount of free support materials are available through his website, Matrix Energetics, outdoor adventures.
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Klaus (Odjo) Strese
Next Culture Organization Initiations: http://www.nextculture-organizations.org/en/about-us.html, Possibility Management Trainer and Coach: Possibility Team (in Germany AND Austria), Rage Club, Männerwerkstatt, Expand The Box training, Possibility Lab, Wahre Liebe im Alltag meetings – Kopfstand Trainings and Coaching: (German only website, Klaus speak excellent English) https://www.kopfstand-coaching.net/
LeeKumar
Transformational spaceholder, commitment to your adulthood initiation and evolution.
Levi Harrison
I deeply care for this planet and believe that if we live more simply, we can live healthier, happier and above all, preserve our beautiful habitat.
Lion Goodman
Taking radical responsibility for the beliefs that are unconsciously running your life, clean out your belief closet with the Belief Closet Process: http://beliefcloset.com/about/about/, Initiation work with Carista Luminare at Luminary Leadership, relationship repair: http://www.luminaryleadership.net/index.php?page=about-us
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Llewellyn Vaughan Lee
Oneness, unity, interconnectedness of all life, lineage holder of Irina Tweedie, Why does your heart feel connected in with something greater than itself?: http://www.workingwithoneness.org, Video: Changing the Story – the Need for Magic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aPN0yF2UCc (with German subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826nslfmHT0)
Llyn Roberts
(AKA Cedar) author of Shamanic Reiki, Shapeshifting Into Higher Consciousness, and many other books. She says, "Nature and the Earth are conscious. By opening our minds, hearts, and senses we can consciously awaken to the magic of the wild, the rhythms of nature, and the profound feminine wisdom of the Earth." http://llynroberts.com/
Malidoma Patrice Somé - d. 2021
Dagara Medicine Man, Diviner, Healer, Author of the book Of Water And The Spirit.
Mandaza Augustine Kandemwa
To tell the world where mankind came from, where we are now, and where we are going spiritually and politically. To teach the ways of asking Spirit why we were born and put on this Earth. To show all Nations that World Peace is possible without the use of weapons of war and how weapons of war begin in the hearts of each human being. To offer physical and spiritual healing as given to me by Our Creator and Our Ancestors. To teach the way of serving Spirit through ritual, ceremony and prayer.
Author of: The World of Nature:
A guide to listening with the ears of your heart
Martin Cadeé
Edgework innovator and bridgebuilder, invented KnowMads gameworld: http://www.knowmads.nl/, delivers technopenuriaphobia (TPP) Nature Quests wilderness initiations near Barcelona, Spain: http://naturequestbcn.strikingly.com/, journey beyond the status quo of your life seeking a personal answer to real needs in the world – Journey Quest initiations: http://journeynet.net/wp/, and Mycelium – a disruptively innovative living learning laboratory in Asheville, NC, USA: https://mycelium.is/index.php/about/
Martín Prechtel
Initiation artist in the Mayan traditions, author of Secrets of the Talking Jaguar, and Long Life Honey In The Heart (read them in that order). Spaceholder for a long-term initiation school called Bolad's Kitchen in New Mexico. https://www.floweringmountain.com/, https://www.martinprechtel.com/
Martin Worf
Guidance for hand-making your own wooden bow, and instinctual ways to shoot it. Website is German but he speaks excellent English. http://indiana-bogenbau.de Email: bogenschlaeger@t-online.de
Martina (Thora) Unger
Next Culture Organization Initiations: http://www.nextculture-organizations.org/en/about-us.html, Possibility Management Trainer and Coach: Possibility Team (in Germany AND Austria), Rage Club, Expand The Box training, Possibility Lab, Wahre Liebe im Alltag meetings – Kopfstand Trainings and Coaching: (German only website, Martina speaks fantastic English) https://www.kopfstand-coaching.net/
Matteo Tangi
Edgework Initiator: http://www.matteotangi.com, Possibility Management trainer, Expand The Box training, Warrior Intimacy trainings: http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, originator of Playfights, Playfight Trainer-trainer: http://www.playfight.org, Cacao Ceremonies: http://www.cacaoceremonies.org, Speaks Italian, English, Portuguese and Spanish
Meredith Little
Archetypal eleven-day vision fast, way of council, practice of living and dying: School of Lost Borders: http://schooloflostborders.org/, and https://www.facebook.com/lostborders
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Michael Hallinger
Alchemistic Healing Warrior, Feelings Practitioner initiations: http://www.feelingspactitioner.com, Possibility Management Trainer, Expand The Box training, Possibility Lab, Possibility Team, Overcoming Fear In The Mountains: Aufbruch Trainings (German only website, he speaks some English) http://www.aufbruch-trainings.de/, and http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, Training Center Spielraum in München (Planegg): (German only website): http://www.aufbruch-trainings.de/spielraum-planegg.html, Aikido, stick work (Jo), piano tuning initiations, dad
Michaela Kaiser
All Comprising Magic World Transformer, Feelings Practitioner initiations: http://www.feelingspactitioner.com, Possibility Management Trainer, Expand The Box training, Possibility Lab, Women’s Lab, Possibility Team: http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, Training Center Möglichkeitenraum (Bielefeld, Germany): (German only website, she can speak English) http://www.moeglichkeitenraum.de, Certified Healing Practitioner, mom
Mick Dodge(AKA Barefoot Sensei)
Experiencing your natural presence in nature, connecting to your own non-neurotic self and its surprising inner strengths and resilience, being at home with next to nothing from modern culture, technopenuriaphobia healing (TPP), pure joy of Being, Foot Camp (not Boot Camp…), Stick Camp, Stone Camp, EarthGym: http://www.mickdodge.com/, National Geographic’s special series about Mick’s teachings and methods: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/the-legend-of-mick-dodge/
Nara Petrovic
(NOTE: This is a rare photograph of Nara where he is not doing something that at first seems totally bizarre but after you get to know him makes total and healthy sense…) Technopenuriaphobia healing (TPP), healthy in natural simplicity: (website in Slovenian, Nara speaks perfect English) https://narapetrovic.wordpress.com/, Introductory Blog in English: https://narapetrovic.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/teachings-of-the-man-who-helped-himself/, Author of Human: Instructions for Use http://www.sanjepublishing.com/index.php/sanje/titles/human_instructions_for_use_operating_guide_to_healthy_body/, Video Documentary of Nara from 2016 “Nara = Human”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWrK4EqV7Ls
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Naresh Giangrande
Transition Town Trainer and Trainer-trainer, Transition Town Totnes, England, personal and especially group shift initiations: https://transitionnetwork.org/people/naresh-giangrande-2/, Articles in Resilience Online Magazine: https://www.resilience.org/resilience-author/naresh-giangrande/, Online Podcast of Interview at Great Mystery: http://greatmystery.org/Programs/rtransitionguest.html, dad
Nick Osborne
Social Entrepreneurship, Learning Edge paradigm shifting: http://www.nickosborne.net/, Transition Town Trainer: https://transitionnetwork.org/people/nick-osborne/, Conscious Collaboration: http://www.consciouscollaboration.co.uk/workshops/
Nicola Nagel
Global Revolutionary Wisdom Guardian, Business Culture Transformations: http://www.nextculture-organizations.org/en/, Co-Author of “Edgeworker” (only in German, she speaks perfect English): http://www.nextculturepress.org, Possibility Management Trainer-trainer, Expand The Boxtraining, Possibility Lab, Gaia Lab, Women’s Lab: http://www.viva-essenza.com/, and http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, Articles: https://independent.academia.edu/NicolaNagel
Pat McCabe
(AKA Woman Stands Shining) Circle ceremony, grieving initiations, women’s retreats and restoration: http://womanstandsshining.strikingly.com/ , Indigenous Wisdom Immersion Journey (with Arkan Lushwala) (24 August to 1 September 2017): https://www.pachamama.org/journey/2017/8/journey-to-new-mexico-with-arkan-lushwala-and-woman-stands-shining-pat-mccabe
Patch Adams
Conscious use of Gremlin’s humor to generate love, connection, and rapid healing, clown journeys to Russia, Peru, Costa Rica, incredible initiation opportunity to be with this man on the road: http://www.patchadams.org/opportunities/, Gesundheit Institute – help make it happen: http://www.patchadams.org/gesundheit/hospital-project/, Patch’s Recommended Movie List About Capitalism “the worst disease in history”: http://www.patchadams.org/blog/capitalism-documentaries/
Patrizia Patz
Evolutionary Crust Blaster, Business Culture Transformations: http://www.nextculture-organizations.org/en/, Co-Author of “Edgeworker” (only in German, she speaks perfect English): http://www.nextculturepress.org, Author of the book "Gefühle"(only in German), http://emotional-empowerment.de, Possibility Management Trainer-trainer, Expand The Boxtraining, Possibility Lab, Gaia Lab, Women’s Lab, Follow Your Calling: http://www.lebe-deine-berufung.de/en/, and http://www.possibilitymanagement.org, “Gaia Is Hiring” UnConferences: http://gaiaishiring.strikingly.com, SecretGiant: http://www.secretgiant.org
Peter van Oosterhout
Aikido principles and effectiveness during on-the-job Initiations include centering, connecting, attentiveness, profound listening, thoroughly communicating, making precise actions, bringing things to completion, follow-through with eyes in the back of your head: (website only in Dutch, Peter speaks perfect English) and uses some tools and thoughtmaps from Possibility Management: http://ki-coach.com/, dad
Philip Munyasia
Reinventing community, how to help people where it matters, inventing gameworlds (such as OTEPIC: http://www.otepic.org/), ecovillage construction plans: https://ecovillage.org/kenya-ecovillage-construction-plans/, Grow abundance in mixed cultures – without any chemicals. Recycle your organic waste and make compost. Learn to treat water as a living Being. Be friendly to animals. Make income from the surplus. Save your seeds. Cook with Solar Energy or Bio- gas. Share with your neighbors. And join the global food revolution.
Regina Birlinger
Personal unfolding through voice, movement, emotional clarity, and heartfulness meditation, Trainer-training: (German only website, she speaks perfect English) http://birlinger-akademie.de/ueber-uns/methode.html
Rens van Meegen
Trainer at Reis van de Held (Hero’s Journey) website in Dutch, he speaks English, http://www.reisvandeheld.com, Documentary filmmaker: Hummingbird film https://www.linkedin.com/in/rensvanmeegen/
Robert Fritz
Originator of Structural Dynamics (The reason your life shows up like it does is because of the way you have created your internal structure. If you don’t know about this you can’t do much to change it…): https://www.robertfritz.com/wp/programs/fundamentals-of-structural-thinking-fst/, Radically Responsible Choice Initiations: http://www.robertfritz.com/wp/programs/choices/, Creating Initiations: https://www.robertfritz.com/wp/programs/the-art-of-the-creative-process/, Trainer-training, Author of “Creating” and “The Path of Least Resistance” and “Identity”: https://www.robertfritz.com/wp/shop/
Robert Gilman
Skill building and insight initiations for being an effective bridge to next culture, Foundation Stones: http://www.context.org/engage/,
Tools for the Journey: http://www.context.org/foundation-stones/tools/,
Bright Future Now program: http://www.context.org/next-bright-future-now-course/, co-founder of Global Ecovillage Network: http://www.ecovillage.org
Rüdiger Schödel
Hand-made stringed instrument initiations: (video with English subtitles) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhjhUIlgxTY, Thoughts Towards Next Culture Music: http://klangkunstwerk.ch/thoughts-towards-next-culture-music, The Gremlin Song: (video of song in English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOzRQYSK8yI, Klangwerk build and play it yourself initiations (German only website, Rüdiger speaks perfect English) http://klangkunstwerk.ch/
Interviewed by the Gaian Road Team.
Sabine Lichtenfels
Peace Researching, love is political, creating a global love school, how to establish a nanonation (for example, http://www.tamera.org), creating and making use of stone circles: http://sabine-lichtenfels.com/en/
Scilla Elworthy
Enabling humans to make wiser decisions so that there is less suffering as a result of war
Sharron Ragan
Trains intuitive strategy, creative facilitation, transformational business, psychic insight, and soulful leadership through connection to original source.
Sobonfu Somé - d. 2017
