Institute for Research on Unlimited Love
The Institute for Research on Unlimited Love focuses on the science and spirituality of the unselfish love that shapes the lives of people who find energy and joy in the compassionate service of others. This site contains a description of their philosophy and program, publications and research.
Walk Out Walk On Movement
In Walk Out Walk On, authors Meg Wheatley and Deborah Frieze invite you on a learning journey to seven communities around the world to meet people who have walked out of limiting beliefs and assumptions and walked on to create healthy and resilient communities. These Walk Outs Who Walk On use their ingenuity and caring to figure out how to work with what they have to create what they need.
Fetzer Institute
The Fetzer Institute engages with people and projects around the world to help bring the power of love, forgiveness, and compassion to the center of individual and community life. See this website for projects, events and resources.
Leading Causes of Life
Gary Gunderson is one of the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners on how faith impacts the health of communities. Among the ideas that The Center draws from: The Eight Strengths of Congregations; Boundary Leadership; and the Leading Causes of Life. Follow his blog to connect with his ideas and projects.
Leading Causes of Life webinar
Turn on the television or pick up the paper and you’re bound to hear what Gary Gunderson calls “death language”. Statements like, “heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States”, “smoking causes cancer”, and even reports of rising divorce and violent crime rates. No matter where we turn, we hear negative, problem-based reporting which leads to problem-based conversation in our every day language. Since we are constantly bombarded with messages about what’s killing us, have we lost sight of what is really keeping us alive?
“It’s a fairly radical statement to say there are five causes of life,” says Gunderson. “You don’t have to look for 100 things. If you can pause and look for five things, you’re highly likely to find one of the five. And if you find one of the five, if you find connection and follow the thread of that connection, you’ll find that what you thought was just a terrific problem actually has a heartbeat in there. If you find the heartbeat, you can strengthen it and work with it.” Learn more on this site…and check out the free webinars!
Community Weaving
Community Weaving is a innovative approach to foster a community of responsible citizens who create Family Support Networks where they share their time, gifts, talents and resources with others. This community mobilization strategy increases civic engagement and social capital by tapping grass root resources, resulting in the creation of healthy thriving communities. A great model for congregations to use to provide support and care to their members and to the wider community.
International Religious Health Asset Programme (formerly African RHAP)
The African Religious Health Assets Programme (ARHAP) is an international research collaboration working on the interface of religion and public health, with a focus on Africa. ARHAP seeks to develop a systematic knowledge base of religious health assets (RHAs) in Sub-Saharan Africa to align and enhance the work of religious health leaders, public policy decision-makers and other health workers in their collaborative efforts to meet the challenge of disease such as HIV/AIDS, and to promote sustainable health, especially for those who live in poverty or under marginal conditions.
Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement
Tamarack is an Institute dedicated to the art and science of community engagement and collaborative leadership. They develop and support collaborative strategies that engage citizens and institutions to solve major community challenges, and to learn from and share these experiences. They pull together people across different sectors to work together strategically and comprehensively to build stronger communities. The Institute sponsors projects and provides learning resources, training, coaching and strategic consulting that enable people to collaborate and learn with and from each other.
They foster a learning community through a newsletter, on-line discussions, and accessible reports on the work they and their partners are doing.
The Presencing Institute (PI)
The Presencing Institute is a global awareness based action research community for profound societal innovation and change. Presencing,” a blend of the words “presence” and “sensing,” refers to the ability to sense and bring into the present one’s highest future potential—as an individual and as a group. The presencing process is a journey that connects us more deeply both to what wants to emerge in the world and to our emerging, higher self.
The PI community focuses on advancing presencing and related awareness based social technologies and making them available to change makers, innovators, and communities around the world. We work together on a variety of projects and offer capacity-building programs to addresses the root causes of the current economic, ecological, social, and spiritual crisis.
