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What is Renaissance2?
Renaissance2 is an independent, not-for-profit foundation dedicated to catalyzing enterprise and social innovation that co-creates a renewable, thriving world for all of us. We work with and offer programs and events to both individuals and organizations in over 30 countries. Our members are leaders, decision-makers, innovators, designers and entrepreneurs drawn from a broad variety of professions and industries. Together we offer fresh perspectives, inspired connections and fruitful outcomes to anyone who shares our passion for co-creating the next generation of socio-technical systems which offer us the promise of a flourishing, integral world. The R2 WorldShift Leadership Circle : Catalyzing Enterprise and Social Innovation Needed for Sustainable Planet, People & Profit The WorldShift Leadership Circle is inspired by the genius of the first Renaissance, while moving beyond its limits…Toward the unleashing of the incredible potential emerging all around us at the dawn of the second Renaissance. Renaissance2 catalyses meshworks of change-making networks, engaging the crisis on the planet as the biggest series of interconnected business opportunities in history. Meet leading experts in both enterprise and social innovation, and learn how to apply Collective Genius for change & innovation in your career and organization. Join us to explore fresh, integral perspectives….make inspired connections…..and co-create fruitful outcomes. For Leaders, Innovators, Decision-makers and Entrepreneurs: R2 Delivers Synergy by Weaving together these 5 strands of activity through our Meshworks, Events and Programs • Make friends and business contacts who are aligned to your values and needs • Make a better, more sustainable living by building relationships with successful innovators, designers, employers, entrepreneurs, customers and suppliers at the leading edge. • Develop yourself and your career through the LifeShift and CareerShift programs. • Co-create collective genius in your networks and organization through the WorldShift Leadership Circle and associated programs. • Make a difference through a variety of prototypes and projects which catalyze innovation in communities and organizations. Imagine yourself living in a world ….… powered by renewable energy……where people live and work in well designed, resilient environments…..in which enlightened enterprises deliver excellent, sustainable products and services….one where integral governance is provided by foresightful, healthy organizations and systems……..and conscious evolution powers a thriving global civilization in which a wise culture and human wellbeing are paramount. |
Listen to what co-founder of the World Futures Society, Barbara Marx Hubbard, has to say about Renaissance2 and its program “Renowned architect, designer and one of the world’s first futurists and global thinkers, Buckminster Fuller, said of Barbara Marx Hubbard that she was the most intelligent person he had ever met.” |
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Early Accolades for “The Great Shift- Catalying a Second Renaissance”, by Dr Robin Wood "We will have a WorldShift sooner or later, and more than likely by the end of 2012. This is our current window in time. Robin Wood's ideas for a Second Reconnaissance - this time a global, and holistic rebirth and not only a European socio-cultural one - are a precious compass for helping us make the coming worldshift into a shift to a new and vital human civilization: an upshift to evolution, rather than a downshift to extinction." Ervin Laszlo - Author of WorldShift 2012 and 86 leading books on the future - Founder of the Club of Budapest and co-founder of the Club of Rome and “limits to growth” Reading “The Great Shift” helps us see that we are in transition to a co-creative, planetary, universal species. Covering major themes of self, social and systemic evolution, “The Great Shift” is one of the most comprehensive coherent and strategic plans of action on all levels- this is the guidebook on how to make a whole system shift in our lifetime. Like a Medici of the 21st century we find Dr Robin Wood serving as a catalyst for the next Renaissance … for a new world, a global dream of a “thriving global civilization on a thriving planet.” There he is, gathering people, knowledge, creativity, innovations, know-how, and new systems, bringing business genius to the business of planetary evolution. He calls each of us to be one of those evolutionary pioneers. In “The Great Shift” Wood pieces together, organizes coherently and communicates effectively a comprehensive blueprint for planetary evolution: How to get from “Here,” breakdown and collapse, to “There,” breakthroughs to an actual new world. In time. Readers will develop a Second Renaissance-person perspective and integration, together with a set of practices that enable us to become “world-centric,” to create, lead, strategize, engage, design and shift our own life, career, and participation in the evolution of the world. He offers us a “macroscope” to appreciate the system at a planetary level. A microscope” which enables us to zoom in on who we are, where we are going and what are deepest priorities and intentions are. Third, he provides a “mesoscope,” an “intermediate level between the big picture and our personal story, where our intentions turn into actions and outcomes.” We can place our own yearning for greater meaning, more creative life, deeper giving of our best into this framework and accept Robin Wood as one of our beloved planetary teachers, guides and friends in this fabulous journey into the unknown. Barbara Marx Hubbard - Author of Conscious Evolution and world-renowned futurist - Founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and former associate of Buckminster Fuller |