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COMMUNICATING THE WISDOM THAT'S CHANGING THE WORLD
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 Editor's Desk:New Dimensions in Practice Community (NDiP) Is Now Available Engage with New Dimensions Listeners New Dimensions in Practice Community is a FREE online forum offered, in partnership with Aliveworld, to our listeners for exploration of the expanding awareness in our community and to tap into the innate genius and potential of the individual spirit. You are invited to make comments on the most recent New Dimensions "flagship" program or the "New Dimensions Café" podcasts. It is easy to log-on. We look forward to hearing from our listeners about how you are putting ideas and inspirations into practice in your lives to make significant changes both personally and globally. Go to: New Dimensions in Practice Community (NDiP) |
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May 2008 Broadcast Schedule
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| The Broadcast Week Beginning Wednesday, May 7-13, 2008
We've all attempted to make changes in our lives whether it's loosing weight or incorporating a spiritual practice into our lifestyle. But having the desire and even knowing the steps to take, often falls short of lasting, sustainable change. Mark Feenstra of Aliveworld, an Internet based platform, believes we can use today's technology to support the actions we need to take and perhaps, most importantly, to tap into the support of a global community of like-minded individuals. "There needs to be an infrastructure on this planet to help us consolidate what we are learning about how to make the most important changes... The primary people who need to be sharing what's working are the people who are themselves wanting to make the changes. Aliveworld is a global organization, person-centric infrastructure. It a container for human wisdom, understanding, and knowledge about how to make the most important changes and how to sustain them." Mark Feenstra is the co-founder and CEO of Aliveworld, a web-based software platform to help people sustain the changes they want to make in their lives. Mark is based in New Zealand and leads a global, multi-cultural team. He is a long-term spiritual practitioner, blending East and West. He has a background in large scale systems change, research and development about how people learn together, and technology platforms that support human development. To learn more about the work of Mark Feenstra and Aliveworld go to www.aliveworld.com Topics Explored in this Dialogue:
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The Broadcast Week Beginning Wednesday, May 14-20, 2008
Why do we have such difficulty saying the right things when friends, loved ones, colleagues, and acquaintances are ill? Because we are afraid to say the wrong things, we often stumble over our words or don't say anything at all. Susan Halpern says, "I think it's important to say something. There is such a loneliness that comes with a diagnosis. Suddenly our path in life has changed, and something has entered that we never expected, so we need to hear from friends that they care. I did. I needed to hear that friends cared. Just a simple, 'I'm thinking of you' is all that it takes." Halpern shares her own story both as a support person for those who are ill, and as a person who has had a diagnosis of cancer. With great wisdom she imparts to us how to be both a better caregiver and patient. (Hosted by Justine Willis Toms) Susan Halpern has been a clinical social worker since 1977. She has, over the years, worked in a variety of settings, from community mental health centers to consulting on supervision at the Yale Law School Legal Services Clinic. She has facilitated support groups for people with cancer, and is the founder of the New York Cancer Help Program and a staff associate at the Commonweal Cancer Help Program and, on the staff of Smith Farm Center for the Healing Arts. Informed by both her work with cancer support groups and her own diagnosis of lymphoma in 1995, she is the author of The Etiquette of Illness: What to Say When You Can't Find the Words (Bloomsbury 2004). To learn more about the work of Susan P. Halpern go to www.theetiquetteofillness.com Topics Explored in this Dialogue:
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| The Broadcast Week Beginning Wednesday, May 21-27, 2008
In just a few short visits a single therapist can help one child walk for the first time, another overcome a learning disability, and an autistic youngster make an emotional connection. She even helps a teenager recover from alcohol abuse. This therapist has snowy white hair and large, dark eyes. She's a grey mare, and she reaches her "clients" like few human therapists can. Patricia Broersma brings the healing nature of horses to children, teens, and adults, and opens up a world of possibility for physical, emotional, and even spiritual growth. She finds that these great and gentle creatures activate the body’s nervous system, and also ignite the imagination so that we discover the mythic elements of the heroic journeys of our lives. That's a lot of healing and a lot of growth-but then, these four legged therapists are very wise. Ms. Broersma describes what happens in her stable between her clients and their horse healers. She says, "It's important for us to attend to that larger story that we're a part of. It's often hard to see that because our world is so complex. And yet, for us to attend to our own story, and also to attend to what we can do with horses, it's like a pressure point, an acupressure." (Hosted by Justine Willis Toms) Patricia Broersma has been working with horses for more than forty years, and has also studied mythology, body-based healing, and healing touch. She is a certified therapeutic riding instructor, founder of a nonprofit program in San Antonio, Texas, and head instructor for HOPE Equestrian Center in Ashland, Oregon. She is the author of Riding into Your Mythic Life: Transformational Adventures with the Horse (New World Library 2007). To learn more about the work of Patricia Broersma go to www.trishbroersma.com Topics Explored in this Dialogue:
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The Broadcast Week Beginning Wednesday, May 28-Jun 3, 2008
Does the Internet and our newest digital technology reflect a deeper spiritual consciousness or create new ways of thinking and perceiving? Steven Vedro makes a compelling case for how the Infosphere does both and can teach us how to take the next step on our journey to wholeness. "It's my belief that everything is part of the dharma path... and like it or not, we are evolving into this connected global brain, this connected community, and with it at each point comes incredible moral challenges. And so the dharma path of seeing each opportunity as a lesson and how we handle ourselves... who we are as we are interacting with the media forms." Steven Vedro is a writer, lecturer, and nationally recognized telecommunications consultant who has been at the interface of new telecommunications technology and public service for the last twenty years. In the 1980's, he produced the nation's first television series on new consumer electronics for PBS, "The New Tech Times." More recently, Vedro has advised numerous state and county government agencies, universities, and public broadcasting stations in planning and managing distance learning networks and new technology initiatives. He is the author of Digital Dharma: A User's Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere (Quest Books 2007). To learn more about the work of Steven Vedro go to www.srvedro.com Topics Explored in this Dialogue:
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 Parties with a Purpose; Celebrating what's working in our communities, for people, for business and for the environment May 17-18 in Chicago, IL www.greenfestivals.com |
 Expand Your Consciousness in Optimal Learning Environments www.conferenceworks.com |
 Books for the Evolving Human Spirit www.hamptonroadspub.com |
 Transform the Way You Live and Lead with Purpose, Passion, Energy, and Joy www.getclarity.com |
 Publisher of Oprah's Book Club selection A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Register for ten weekly webcasts at www.oprah.com |
 To Help Individuals Realize Their True Relationship with Life Through Higher Self-Studies Guy Finley, Director www.guyfinley.org |
