Every day we make important decisions that can move us closer to achieving our goals - or lead us further away. When you have a brief, succinct and focused statement of purpose it can be used to initiate, evaluate and refine all of life’s activities. A mission statement can be the standard to define what is true about your life, and cut away all that is false.

History has demonstrated that people or groups with carefully defined missions lead and surpass those who don’t. In The Path workshop, Laurie will provide inspiring and practical guidelines and lead you through every step of both defining and fulfilling a mission — offering you clear guidance that will make it easy to formulate your own mission statement.

This hands-on session will teach the skills of "Managing To Have Fun." Once you bring a sense of fun and joy and celebration to your work place, you will become a more valuable manager and team member, and one who is less likely to suffer from job burnout. Yours will be a work place that is filled with joy and celebration and a resurgence of energy.

Explore the possibilities for the future by seeing what has been achieved through creative problem solving in this particular case history. You will be inspired to investigate the opportunities in your own community for replication of the ideas, values, and strategy illustrated during the presentation. Bill hopes to generate a vigorous question and answer exchange about how the program can be tailored to mirror the current needs of a given community.

As author of Mid-Course Correction: Toward a Sustainable Enterprise - The Interface Model, Ray has shared his plan for Interface's achieving sustainability. In this presentation he discusses the core aspects of that plan, and provides a progress report on Interfaces's real life case of corporate transformation, pioneering (as he puts it): "The Next Industrial Revolution."

Newspaper headlines reveal thousands of job losses and challenge our trust in corporate executives. Spiritual Economics is about healing, rebuilding confidence, and retaining jobs, not as a new business theory, but as a reconnection of "employees" and the "customer."

Why would we want to invest in retaining and developing our employees? Why would management find servant leadership more economically attractive than traditional governance? Why is embracing our employees' loyalty an economic sacrament? -A simple and now supportable business case which links employee loyalty to customer loyalty. Spiritual Economics raises individual fulfillment in the work place to a strategic business investment.

Let me ask you this. How would your workday change if:

1. Employee loyalty was proven to drive productivity, customer loyalty, and profitable growth of companies?
2. Employees were known to be a strategic advantage to the "best in class" global companies?
3. Employees were so emotionally attached to their work that their very being was lived out in the work place?

This is not a calling for civility in the work place. This is a calling for transformation of the marketplace into a mountain top existence.

And for you, this is a noble and economically valuable calling for leadership and service - A return to the sacred individual, the sanctity of every moment of life, and yielding to the Holy Spirit - A post Christendom evolution of the "work place" into a community of believers who share love and hope, while they more successfully sell products and services.

A multi-media experience takes you on a journey into the future and opens an extraordinary window on our past.

Authors and consultants Philip and Mikela Tarlow weave together a multitude of trends to describe four faces of the future: a world where no one owns the wind, the return of the storytellers, the rise of tribal mind and a model for more instinctive leadership. Although grounded in statistics, trends and sociological observation, this presentation is part theatre, part experiential, part vision. It is designed to awaken your imagination and stretch you to think differently about the future of business and far more optimistically about the direction of our culture.

If you dream of a world where imagination rules, creativity flourishes and leadership is found in each and every individual - then meet us at this intersection of business, culture and consciousness.

This will be an evening of deep personal sharing, learning, and conversation about questions that really matter to us. In a lively, interactive format designed to build community and friendship, we will play a modified version of the team-building card game, Truth at Work. During the process, we will: answer self-revealing questions, share feedback and self-talk, create our own "wild cards," and communicate with the intent to "relate" vs to "control." The results are often profound, frequently heartwarming, always provocative, sometimes disturbing, and altogether entertaining. WARNING: Playing this game could push the limits of your comfort zone!

Experience the spirit of celebration in a community drum circle!

• How to identify what true success really means - to you.
• How to focus your life purpose into a single statement of being.
• How to identify and navigate the Creative Tension Zone.
• Eight Action Steps which will guarantee you success-every time.

Our time together will be filled with interactive dialogue as well as true life stories about how these principles have been tested over time, and will work for you, too.

You will be introduced to a coaching model that authors and consultants, Philip and Mikela have taught to thousands. Their program shows participants how to manifest their dreams more rapidly and discover a deeper creative focus for their life. You will learn a four stage process that can be applied to any creative problem. We will also offer ideas for continuing your personal exploration after this session. You will see how to transform your work in the world into a path for spiritual growth.

Richard will describe how his organization (RBA) and the consultants who are part of the Corptools Network, are implementing cultural transformation in organizations using the model of the Seven Levels of Organizational Consciousness and the Corporate Transformation Tools to map values and measure personal and organizational consciousness. To date, the Corporate Transformation Tools have been used in over 350 companies in 22 countries.

Cindy will describe how the Corporate Transformation Tools were used to support the Methodist Health Care System (MHCS) effort to integrate their core values and create a "spiritual environment of caring." This effort resulted in MHCS becoming an international recipient of the 2002 Willis Harman Award for demonstrating commitment to Spirit At Work.

To survive in the 21st century, organizations will need to develop an employee, customer and shareholder value proposition that focuses on employee fulfillment, ethics and social responsibility. Who you are as an organization will become significantly more important than the services you provide and products you sell. The corporate leaders of the future will have to be more spiritually evolved than the leaders of the 20th century if they are going to lead their organizations to success. Richard shows how he has adapted the Corporate Transformation Tools to measure the consciousness of organizations, schools and nations.

In this highly interactive session, you'll acquire 20 techniques for persuasive leadership. (In the words of Ken Blanchard, "The key to leadership today is influence, not authority.") You'll leave with a better understanding of how great persuaders make their ethical convictions our own, how they transfer their passions, how they stir our souls. You'll also have an opportunity to create your own (individual and institutional) values statement, one as simple and straightforward as this from Intuit Company: "Having integrity means more to us than simply the absence of deception. It means we are completely forthright in all our dealings. We say what needs to be said, not simply what people want to hear."

In this highly interactive and fun presentation, Matthew uses the timeless music of The Beatles as a powerful metaphor and vehicle for exploring these and other key questions around values. Drawing on his work with leading organizations such as Bank of America, Sears and others, he will also illustrate and lead participants through a condensed Hoshin Values Compass(tm) discovery and alignment process for insight and practical application.

Miko has been founder, CEO, board member, and advisor to dozens of small innovative companies. He will provide prospective entrepreneurs and Intra preneurs (innovators within larger companies) with a host of strategies and perspectives that will enable them to successfully move innovations into being. Fundamentally, the entrepreneurship process is one of manifestation - of valuing, conjuring, inviting, supporting, protecting, communicating and developing new ideas into new realities. In addition, he will address how building sustainable new business processes with integrity forms a path to meaningful work in the framework of modern business.

His view is that the points of greatest leverage for improving business and social performance are usually aligned, but it takes a certain set of questions and discussions to uncover this fact. If an organization is willing to engage in this hard work it can operate on higher ground in every way.

Operating On Higher Ground will provide participants with an overview of the principles of social responsibility, a practical set of tools for uncovering which ones can be most potent, and some common sense ways to get started.

• Discover the archetypal brand identity of your product or service
• Better understand the deep needs of your clients or customers
• Deliver meaning as well as functional service
• Align your public image with your inner reality

This presentation will include slides that allow you to learn from successful approaches used by celebrities, organizations, and brand-name products. It also offers how-to exercises that will allow you to revolutionize your own approach to marketing practice.

1. learn an alternative, psychospiritual approach to time, and
2. will be given a profile, describing your personal relationship to time.

You will be shown how to use materials as part of a health promotion, work place spirituality or work-life program.

• Do you ever back out of a job opportunity because you're afraid that you might not be up to the challenge?
• Do you ever convince yourself not to try something new because you don't want to fail or look stupid?
• When asked, "What do you want?" do you frequently answer, "I don't know"?

Negaholism is a term coined by Cherie to describe a very common condition - the addiction to negativity and self-doubt that afflicts many people in varying degrees. Learn how to develop awareness, move through blocks and identify the traps of negativism. Cherie will show you how to move out of a nega-attack and into solutions.

This presentation will include a PowerPoint display.

John's unique and practical approach to revitalizing corporations will help you recapture the magic of your corporate soul along with its enthusiastic spirit. When you write a letter, the letter flows almost flawlessly from your mind when you are grateful and inspired. So too, when you lead your corporation, your management flows almost flawlessly when you are in such a dynamic state. Efficient and effective management takes place when your corporate soul is put back into your corporate body. John has brought such rejuvenation to some unvitalized companies that they have literally said that he has raised them from the dead.

On-the-job training for salespeople has traditionally comprised technical knowledge of the products or services offered by their company. Sales skills such as presenting product or service, dealing with objections, and closing skills.

This was focus on the "doing" level, yet a transformation needs to occur at the "being" level - teaching people to be more in touch with themselves, their thoughts, feelings and emotions. It encourages participants to be aware of what is occurring around them and to increase their ability to pick up the infinite number of clues that exist in the moment, by being totally in tune with themselves and others.

It is about allowing people to realize that being preoccupied with the future, planning and preparing for the uncontrollable, or continuously engaging in an internal dialogue in an attempt to understand what has already occurred in the past, inhibits their ability to gain insight into the event taking place at the moment.

Six Sense of Presence enhancement processes have been developed.

The first category belong to the "intrapersonal" domain, that of the "inner self." On the individual level, there are three types of actions that one needs to perform on the way to enhanced Sense of Presence: centering actions (through specific breathing exercises for instance), tapping into one's energy potential and goal focusing (through visualization exercises).

Intrapersonal variables, on the other hand, deal with the individual's energy toward the external world and are aimed at consolidating intrapersonal interactions. The three processes represent the basis for intrapersonal interactions: deep-breathing episodes as milestones in an interaction, active listening and purposeful looking.

The results of these actions have helped companies improve their performance in the areas of sales and management.