Program Overview: What You Will Learn

We are excited to bring you this 9-month program that bridges the deepening of your inner work with the practical skills and guidance that you will need to be seasoned Agents of Conscious Evolution – all designed and taught by top evolutionary leaders.

During the 9-month program, we’ll be teaching and exploring some of the following topics, along with our extraordinary guest faculty. Please note: Specific topics will be determined based on the needs and desires of those in the program.

The Guides program can be completed virtually, saving you the time and expense of travel. We want this group to be as global as possible and there is no limit on the number of participants.

The Mentors program will be limited to 50 individuals who also attend three intimate retreats where they will work closely with Barbara Marx Hubbard and receive additional guidance to deepen and embody the shift on all levels.

Module 1: Embodying the Inner Shift
(Feb 21 – May 15 – no class May 8)

Core Faculty:

• Patricia Ellsberg, social change activist, meditation teacher, life coach and public speaker
• Deborah Rozman and Howard Martin, primary leaders of HeartMath
• Dave Ellis, renowned evolutionary coach
• Gordon Davidson, co-founder of Center for Visionary Leadership

Bonus Sessions Include:

• Rev. Michael Beckwith, founder of the Agape International Spiritual Center
• Terry Patten, co-developer of Integral Life Practice with Ken Wilber

One of the core principles of the Guides of Conscious Evolution work is learning to consistently shift your identity from that of the egoic “local self” to the profound depth and magnificence of your Essential Self. This enables you to become fully available to BE the change and become an activation point for conscious evolution.

During this module, we will go more deeply into The Emergence Process of Shifting from Ego to Essence, with Emergence Process co-founder Patricia Ellsberg. You will participate in an ongoing hub, a sacred circle where you will speak essence-to-essence and support each other in becoming Universal Humans.

Patricia Ellsberg has been waiting for an advanced group of students with whom she can teach her deepest work and share unpublished insights. In doing so, she will model ways of sharing your own essence-based insights.

Key Topics in Module 1:

Deepening the Shift from Ego to Essence

• Expanding your practice of the emergence processes
• Stabilizing the Inner Shift from Ego to Essence
• Connecting more fully to the Great Creating Process and Universal Intelligence

Creating Heart-Mind Coherence

• Learning about higher levels of heart coherence
• Bringing heart resonance practices more into your daily life
• Using HeartMath skills to live from essence
• Group facilitation skills for deepening this process

Loving Your Sub-Personalities

• Understanding and integrating all three spheres of your Being
• Processes and techniques for joyful evolution
• Understanding consciousness and presence

Giving Love and Support to Others

• Practice calling others into authentic being
• Intuitive understanding: Listening from your Essence
• Affirming through loving communication

Communicating Essence to Essence

• Learning to speak as your Essence
• Creating a Hub and maintaining a resonant field with others
• Advanced heart-to-heart communication in a Hub

Moving into the “Sunlit Garden of Co-Creation” and Beyond

• Discovering your soul’s purpose
• Clarifying your mission: Vision and passion in action
• Co-creating with others

Connecting the Inner Shift & Outer Shift

• Importance of all actions emerging from the inner Shift
• Supporting each other to bridge the gap between the inner and outer Shift
• Putting Emergence into action

52 Codes to Embody Higher Frequencies

• Connecting to Universal Intelligence
• Taking a quantum jump to higher frequencies
• Becoming a young Universal Human

Beyond Memes: The Myths that Shape Our Society and World

• Evolving myths of the Western World: The Shift in the Judeo-Christian Myth
• From the Garden of Eden to the Garden of Co-creation
• The Cosmic Family Reunion

Emergence Revelations

• Opening to the deeper revelations of your own emergence
• Moving from personal emergence to societal emergence
• From youth to young adulthood

Core Coaching Skills for the Shift

• Evoking another’s essential freedom
• Listening for and assisting an individual’s deepest vision
• Practical action plans for manifestation

Mentor’s Evolutionary Intensive 1:
May 25 – 27, 2012

At the end of Module 1, participants in the Mentor’s Program will join Barbara and Patricia for an intimate retreat in California in which you will deepen your own emergence process and sharpen the tools that will enable you to mentor others in the Shift.

Barbara will offer her most potent insights into catalyzing personal evolution. You’ll experience the power of the resonant group field as you share and network with other committed leaders of this work and organize for the collective Birth.

Module 2: Facilitating the Shift in Groups
(May 29 – August 21, 2012 – no class July 3)

Core Faculty:

• Daniel Stone, world expert on group facilitation skills
• Victoria and Ron Friedman, co-creators of the Vistar Method
• Susan Davis, founder of Capital Missions, creators of KINS method of forming high-impact change communities

Bonus Sessions Include:

• Oscar Miro-Quesada, cross-cultural shaman
• Susan Collin Marks, Senior Vice President, Search for Common Ground
• Thomas Huebl, renowned spiritual teacher from Germany
• Teresa Collins, Inspirational teacher and co-founder of Gene Keys

In this 12-week module, we will be expanding our ability to create and run local circles and help groups operate at another level of functioning, as well as learn how to create regional hubs. We’ll also be exploring and honing the discovery and flourishing of your Vocational Destiny and how to join forces with others to find the most productive and effective Evolutionary Partnerships–matching needs and resources to create a win-win situation for all.

You will be putting the theoretical background from ACE in these areas into practical ACTION in your life.

Key Topics in Module 2:

Group Essence to Essence Communication

• Establishing group coherence in the resonant field
• Learning to be an advanced Evolutionary Circle guide
• Form a live and virtual circle

Skills for Co-Creative Groups

• Utilize the Evolutionary Circle to advance group and community projects
• Learn new ways to inspire group participation, facilitate emergence, co-creation and evolutionary action
• Receive training to clear internal limitations and blocks in yourself and others that block individuals and groups from expressing their full evolutionary potential
• Learn the foundations of Open Space Technology (OST), and Dynamic Group Facilitation

Navigating Conflict and Dissonance

• Advanced techniques for establishing group coherence and sensing when a group is not coherent
• Practice facilitating emergence through conscious dialogues
• Transforming conflict

Leading Groups in Resonance Processes

• Cultivate communion in resonant practices with other Agents, as well as with neighbors, family and other evolutionary souls in your community, to promote harmonious relationships and co-creative partnerships
• Learn various resonance processes and their application for different groups and situations
• Discover the right resonance process for you and deepen this practice so that you can radiate this resonance to others

Co-Creative Circle Skills 2

• The Co-Creative way of life
• Overcoming the illusion of separation
• Attuning to the design of your creative intentions
• Co-Creator’s agreements
• Accessing our collective wisdom

Vocational Arousal

• Bring your Vocational Arousal skill to a new level, forming greater group coherence and collective inspiration
• Clearly identify the activities and archetypes that bring you consistent joy as the impulse of evolution is localized within you
• Deepen sacred practices to support your communion with your partners and the global community

Fusion of Genius with Others

• Learn advanced techniques to engage and draw out group members’ highest individual and group contribution potentials
• As a cultural co-creator, learn to intuit the overall pattern of evolution and discover your role in this greater design
• Build momentum in expressing your own calling and projects with others – within and across sectors of the Wheel for activities related to Birth 2012 and beyond
• Learn an advanced exploration of the pattern of “12 around 1” as an organizing principle for wholeness

Fundamentals of Suprasex

• Learn the secrets to unleashing your full creative potential
• Practice supra-sexual co-creation on a larger scale
• Deepen your connection to your internal guidance system – your “Compass of Joy” and Impulse of Evolution

Premature Supra-Sexual Promiscuity/Premature Synergy

• Learn the signs of ineffective alliances with others and how to refocus your efforts with more sustainable partnerships
• Experience personal presence in a way that magnetizes excellent co-creative partnerships
• Learn how to nurture positive co-creative synergies

Creating a Synergistic Convergence Event

• Learn an overview of synergistic convergence events and explore different models of such events
• Develop your concept for a synergistic convergence event
• Begin to implement your event idea and leadership

Catalyzing Transformative Dialogue and Transforming Conflicts

• Advanced skills in utilizing conflicts to positively transform group and interpersonal coherence
• Centering exercises to maintain personal resonance and leadership in tense situations
• Practice transformative dialogue techniques with groups and person-to-person

Mentor’s Evolutionary Intensive 2:
August 17 – 19, 2012

At the end of Module 2, participants in the Mentor’s Program will join Barbara for an intimate retreat in California in which you will expand your experience and application of tools and models for co-creative partnerships, synergistic convergence events, and transforming group conflict, all preconditions of the collective Birth. Share and network with other committed leaders of the Conscious Evolution during this intimate, deeply inspiring retreat.

Module 3: Co-Creating the Collective Shift
(September 4 – November 27, 2012 – no class October 16)

Core Faculty:

• James O’Dea, former Amnesty International Director, social healing pioneer
• Sharif Abdullah, Director of the Commonway Institute
• David Gershon, social change architect, author of Social Change 2.0
• Stephen Dinan, founder and CEO of The Shift Network

Bonus Sessions Include:

• Ervin Laszlo, philosopher, scientist, author of 69 books
• Rinaldo Brutoco, founder of World Business academy, pioneer in conscious business
• Elisabet Sahtouris, evolutionary biologist, author

This final segment will usher us toward the countdown to the Planetary Birth. We’ll empower our contributions to the planetary community as we mobilize ourselves, our circles, regional hubs, community birthing centers, and together build the evolutionary momentum needed to tip us into a new global consciousness.

By this point, we will have built a large global movement and will be taking active leadership roles in events, circles and regional groups for the collective Birth. We will be applying our learning in real time.

Key Topics in Module 3:

Core Skills of the Peacemaker and Social Healer

• Explore the dynamics of inner peace from both a scientific and spiritual perspective
• Practical approaches of transforming conflict on the interpersonal, community, national, and international level
• Mastering systems change and organizing for peace

Social Change 2.0

• Team building for specific social change goals
• Masterminding key initiatives that can make a difference
• Birth 2012 Team building

Planetary Birthing Centers

• Formation of hubs as sacred centers of shared creativity and revelation
• Linking hub with hub to join together to catalyze the Birth
• Development of on-going centers for post-birth evolution

Grassroots Mobilizing People and Media

• Ascertain what is working and not working – on multiple levels, from community to globally, and how to support agents of change
• Utilize the New Organizing Institute’s proven skills for grassroots organizing
• Create your Story of Self – who are you, where do you come from, and what values motivate you
• Weaving the stories of others – the Story of Us and Now- what are we facing together right now
• Determine the next steps needed and wanted, and learn to ask others to join you in committing to specific, clear action

Motivational Communication Skills

• Learn to give voice to your essential self
• Become a powerful communicator to awaken people to their own evolutionary leadership
• Learn to charismatically present your own inspiration
• Foundational communication and listening skills

Social Media

• Learn how to use social media so that you can “be” the news
• Mobilize people to participate in the Birth through social networking
• Gain a greater identity for your own Birth contribution through social media
• Learn to utilize blogs and social media best practices

Organizing the Planetary Birth

• Understanding methodologies for large creative group facilitation
• Effective collaboration with regional visionary leaders
• Honoring and empowering creative individual gifts and group collaborations
• Learn to partner and collaborate with other organizations regardless of their languaging
• The seven thinking skills of a systems designer
• How we perceive, and how our perceptual filters literally determine what we allow ourselves to experience as “reality”
• How to change perceptual filters to expand your perception of the possible

Synergistic Convergence Processes for Social Evolution

• Group Resonance Techniques
• Collaborative Planning and Marketing
• Co-creative decision-making and planning

Larger Community “Synergistic Town Meetings”

• How to create town meetings to connect co-creators of the Shift
• How to plant synergistic democracy into our work for the planetary shift
• How to align with nature’s tendency for synergistic convergence

Mapping Global Co-Creators in the Sectors of the Wheel

• Learn to use the Internet to identify and connect what’s working in the world
• Learn how to flesh-out the Wheel of Co-Creation
• Connect projects that work to see the pattern of the emerging world

Birth 2012 AND BEYOND

• Visions of a future equal to our potential
• What would it be like when everything works? Laying out the field for what’s working at the next stage of evolution
• Barbara’s unrevealed teachings on the Species Shift to Universal Humans
• Mystical visions and evolutionary potentials joined

Youth: Involving the Next Generation in Catalyzing the Birth Process

• Discovering the wisdom of youth leaders to link into an intergenerational movement
• Guiding and empowering the next generation of Universal Humans
• Exploring new education models for the global shift

Mentor’s Evolutionary Intensive 3:
November 30 – December 2, 2012

At the end of Module 3, participants in the Mentor’s Program will join Barbara for an intimate retreat in California to deepen their experience of inner and outer peace and personal and social healing, hone organization, grassroots, and social media marketing skills required for the Shift, and further imagine a world of Universal Humans. During this final retreat, you’ll experience what it’s like to be a true catalyst of the collective evolution.

How Can I Participate?

The ACE Guides Program has two levels of participation:

The ACE Guides Program is for ACE graduates who want to play a leadership role in creating the templates for a new society and help guide others in the process. You’ll become a guide to frontline ACE graduates who will be leading circles at a local level.

The ACE Mentors Program is designed for a select inner group (maximum of 50) who would like to be part of Barbara’s most intimate Evolutionary Corp and play a more substantial leadership role in The Shift Network. There is a written application process to become part of this group from which we will draw our senior-most leaders.

Over the nine months, you will work closely with Barbara (including the three live Evolutionary Intensives between each module). You will receive substantial personal attention, with group coaching for your soul’s unfolding as well as your work in the world.

The ACE Guides Program includes:

• Thirty-six 90-minute, in-depth training calls (one per week with breaks between modules), led by Barbara Marx Hubbard and a full roster of core faculty. Every session begins with a broadcast from Barbara with the latest from the frontiers of the Shift. Classes will take place on Tuesdays at 5:00 pm PT.
  Please note: To accommodate participants from other time zones, there will be a “replay” of the Tuesday calls on Thursday morning at 9:00 AM PT. (Click here to convert to your time zone.)
• Thirty-six small group breakout sessions (that will follow the training calls)
• 9 monthly bonus trainings with extraordinary guest faculty
• Audio recordings and transcripts for each call
• Community Online Forum with a committed group of pioneering souls

The ACE Mentors Program includes:

• Three live Mentor Evolutionary Intensive Retreats (food, lodging, and travel are not included).
• Monthly Mentor group calls with Barbara Marx Hubbard
• Ongoing inner circle mentoring via private email
• Access to join The Shift Network in collaborative ventures that highlight your gifts to the world and in co-creating the Planetary Birth Event
• 50% discount on all other virtual Shift Network trainings while you are in the Mentors program – a great way to supplement your learning with powerful additional teachings and programs.

PLUS, All the Benefits of the Guides Program (outlined below):

• Thirty-six 90-minute in-depth training calls (1 per week with breaks between modules), led by Barbara Marx Hubbard and 12 core faculty. Every session begins with a broadcast from Barbara with the latest from the frontiers of the Shift.
• Thirty-six small group breakout sessions (that will follow the training calls)
• 9 monthly bonus trainings with extraordinary guest faculty
• Audio recordings and transcripts for each call
• Community Online Forum with a committed group of pioneering souls