Just listen to this, from Shawn Madden, visionary musician:
Shawn Madden attended the VisionForce Boot Camp, aka, iStand Experience in March 2007. He came with his guitar and serenaded us with his uplifting music. Later that year he moved to Austin, joined the VisionForce team, and has been preparing the launch of his grand vision for transforming the world through song and dance.
Check out my audio interview of him and his One Prosperous World Music Tour.
For nearly two years, the VisionForce community has been following the story of Clovis Ategeka, as he has ventured forward to create prosperity in Uganda. Now he’s coming to America this June! With your help, that is!
I just interviewed him and his friend/colleague Medi, who aims to join Clovis here in Austin for Prosperity For All 2008. Please chipin even a small amount to make Clovis’ voyage here possible!
Watch for more details about this adventure at the Prosperity For All 2008 blog.
Michael Skye: This is a special interview by my mother, Sasha Xarrian, who was a powerful guiding force in my life. She is author of Outrageous Mastery, An Experiment with Power, which has sold very well on-line for the last few years and is about to be published in print.
She conducted this interview for her membership site, where she invites people to experiment with their creative power and create the life they envision. My mother's story is an incredible one, and she has been a continual source of inspiration to me since the time I was born (yes, I am biased, but just ask the hundreds of people have written to her, after her story and ideas changed their lives)!
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VisionForce stands behind the visionaries in the world who are sticking their necks out to stand for their vision of a better world.
One visionary, Nancy Polend, has taken a stand for prosperity for all in our lifetime.
VisionForce is standing with her, and calling to the world to find 50 visionaries willing to stand with her.
Read more at Prosperity For All 2008.
Podcast with VisionForce founder, Michael Skye, interviewing Future Search facilitator and Program Director of Prosperous Communities, Prosperous Nation, Nancy Polend, about her stand for prosperity for all.
Nancy attended the iStand Experience in March, and is bringing the next one into being.
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An interesting quote from a post to the Vision Cafe:
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was on the verge of fronting a new campaign to withdraw from the Vietnam War and combat poverty in America, and possibly the rest of the world. It was called the Poor People´s Campaign. He was assassinated before he had the chance to march forward with his vision. Here is a link for an article that sums it up…
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/04/01/mlk.final.crusade/index.html
To finish reading the post above, and engage, click here.
If you’re someone who stands for a better world, and contributes your time and energy in service, we at VisionForce want to stand behind you. To honor you and support you in bringing about the world you envision, we’ve created Visionary Activist Awards, which make it much more affordable for you to attend our iStand Experiences. You can read more about these awards at our One Million Visionaries web site (live but under early development).
Often times we, as visionary activists, can become so enraged by what people are doing to the things, people or causes we care about that we start fighting against the powers that be, rather than standing for the world we envision and inviting others to stand with us. Our iStand Experience is an intensive training in how to think, speak and take action in ways that can inspire even your greatest adversaries to let down their walls and stand with you.
Our next iStand Experience is this June 10-15, 2008 in Austin, TX, where 50 visionaries from around the globe will unite to face everything, avoid nothing and stand for PROSPERITY FOR ALL IN OUR LIFETIME! If you feel called by this and you are a visionary activist, look for applications here next week.
I just finished reading Glenn Beck’s article, The $53 Trillion Dollar Astroid, calling Americans to take a stand and do something to protect their prospects of future prosperity in the face of the looming potentiality of financial collapse in the decade to come.
This, after just getting off the phone with Nancy Polend, Director of Prosperous Communities, Prosperous Nation, and a “What If” conversation that ended up with this: What if she, I and other inspired members of the VisionForce community initiated a call for 50 individuals from around the world to unite in Austin, Texas this June 10-15, 2008 to face everything, avoid nothing and stand for PROSPERITY FOR ALL in our lifetime!
I added the “in our lifetime” since talking to Nancy, and we are still in the process of refining our call. Is it to stand for prosperity, prosperity for all, prosperity in our lifetime, prosperity for all in our lifetime, or something else?
Those who answer the call, whatever we (including you–please post your comments below!) come together to decide it should be, will unite inside of our iStand Experience, a week-long retreat structured in a way that brings forth the best within us as we find access to new levels of courage, compassion, vision, wisdom and power in standing for prosperity for all. We will form alliances and discover powerful new tools for alliance building and sharing our individual visions.
Just before speaking one on one with Nancy, an alumnus of our last iStand Experience, I was on a conference call with Nancy, and Marvin Weisbord & Sandra Janoff, founders of Future Search and authors of a book by the same title. Their lastest book, Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There, illuminates ten of the principles by which their whole systems conferences, called future searches, operate.
Nancy’s Prosperous Communities, Prosperous Nation is an issue-focussed initiative of the Future Search Network, which would employ the Future Search method to activate individuals, organizations and communities in standing for and creating prosperity for all.
From the Future Search web site: Future Search, the method, is an interactive planning process used world-wide in diverse cultures to achieve shared goals and fast action. Future search leads to cooperative planning that lasts for years. Future Search, the network, is a voluntary world-wide Network offering public, non-profit and NGO future search processes and training for whatever people can afford. Those who join the Future Search Network help make a more open, inclusive and sustainable world.
There is no official alliance between Future Search and VisionForce, yet there are some very inspiring synergies emerging. Nancy has been the catalyst, and is the one who, in alliance with me, is standing for calling forth 50 inspired individuals from around the world, who are inspired to stand for prosperity for all. And, of course, whatever initiatives and alliances are formed at such an iStand Experience, the work of standing for prosperity for all begins with standing for prosperity for ourselves individually, for our families, our organizations, our communities.
If you’re inspired by this call to stand, please leave your comments below. If you have suggestions to revise the wording of the call, we’d like to hear that too!
Jeff Hutner’s new site, New Paradigm Digest, features Michael Skye, Clovis and VisionForce here.
Jeff is a connector, and someone who keeps his eye on emerging trends and new developments in the realm of creating a world that works for all of us.
By the way, as you’ll read in the article, Clovis is coming from Uganda to Austin for the upcoming June iStand Experience!
You’re committed to being the change you seek in the world. You live life with your heart wide open, and inspire others to follow their own heart. You have the potential to be a powerful creative force in creating the kind of world we’d all love to live in.
A visionary in today’s world faces all kinds of challenges.
By definition, you see a vision that most others do not. You’re likely laughed at, rejected, criticized and judged for taking the stand you do and staying true to your vision. So challenging is the path you’ve chosen that few dare to walk such a path, and few dare to join you on your path. Your challenge is multiplied by the fact the you and most of the rest of us live in a world that trains and conditions us to fit within the existing system. We are trained to be good, not developed to be great. So deep is the conditioning that a vast majority of human beings still believe we have very little power to create an …
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