Margaret Paul – Finally, Truly Loving Yourself (Thursday, January 31, 2019)

The ACE Training is designed to:

• Give you a comprehensive toolkit and understanding of conscious evolution, including built-in opportunities to practice communicating these essential elements and facilitating others in consciously evolving.
• Empower you with practices to apply conscious evolution to your own life, so you can truly embody the principles, deepen your connection with Source, align with your most joyful path and become an evolutionary pioneer.
• Offer you the skills-training to facilitate group coherence and social synergy toward the Planetary Birth 2012 and beyond.

The Conscious Evolutionary Worldview:

Genes create bodies. Memes create cultures. And it’s time for a new planetary culture, which means a new set of memes based on conscious evolution.

In this training, you will become a global pioneer ready to co-create the next stage for humanity. One of the key foundations for leading the change is learning to embody, communicate and apply a conscious evolutionary worldview – the way we see the world creates much of our reality.

Understanding the worldview of conscious evolution and its deeper dynamics can help catalyze a global paradigm shift as well as rapidly change your own life, evoking your life’s purpose and vocation of destiny. You will be guided to use a “head-heart-hands” approach: as you explore new ideas, you’ll open to a heart and spirit connection, and learn practices that help you to apply these high frequency thought-forms in your daily life and work. As this happens, you will be creating a field of conscious evolution for the planetary shift.

Each week is a step on the evolutionary journey toward becoming an Agent of Conscious Evolution contributing to the Planetary Birth 2012 event and to the continued Planetary Awakening.

Week 1 (Aug. 9): Communicating the Sacred Story of Conscious Evolution

With the threat of environmental and social collapse in many parts of the world, our culture has lost its compelling meta-narrative. However, when you place yourself in the Universe Story – the 13.7 billion year sacred story of evolution through crisis and transformation leading to ever higher consciousness, freedom and more synergistic order – you can see that we are actually facing consciously what nature has learned to do for billions of years. During this week, you will:

• Understand the unfolding of the Universe Story through deep-time history using the evolutionary spiral as a developmental framework.
• Recognize that you are an expression of the Universe Story; you are the universe in person, unfolding in an evolutionary mode, as the universe becoming conscious of itself.
• Reflect on the power of story to change yourself and the world, and see how this story applies to your experience.
• Clarify your intention and purpose in choosing to evolve.

Week 2 (Aug. 16): Understanding the Worldview of Conscious Evolution: Choosing to Evolve

Conscious evolution is the evolution from unconscious to conscious choice. Meaning that you are empowered to move from unconscious chance to one of conscious choice. It marks a phase-change in evolution itself, leading to the vast empowerment of humanity in our ever-evolving universe. As a developing Agent of Conscious Evolution, you are a co-founder of the evolutionary movement, now being born in every field and function as old systems break down and new systems emerge through all of us. In this week, you will:

• Learn the new worldview of conscious evolution, giving you the tools to become causal in your life by identifying situations in which you can evolve by choice, not chance.
• Realize that you can choose the story you tell yourself about life experiences and thereby affect your own reality and everything around you – consciously evolving your life and contributing to the planetary shift.
• Reflect on your life story through “evolutionary eyes,” finding the gifts within your past and present challenges.
• See that your choice for more life, more expression, more love is natural and supported by the whole process of creation within you and beyond you.

Week 3 (Aug. 23): Practicing Evolutionary Spirituality

Evolutionary spirituality is the experience of incarnating the “Impulse of Evolution” as your own motivation to evolve. The intelligence that is creating the universe is becoming conscious of itself within you. In essence, you are “bringing God home as our own evolutionary potential,” and as an Agent, you are invited to enter a new inner sacred space called “The Evolutionary Monastery.” The planetary shift is occurring as many more of us are personally moving from ego to essence, and from fear into creativity and love. This is a critical aspect in your developmental path as a co-creator in self-evolution. During this week, you will:

• Connect to your own inner “Evolutionary Monastery” throughout the day, as a source for continuous inspiration and guidance.
• Learn a wide range of practices to connect to Source. Choose the best practice for you and gain support for maintaining it and deepening it throughout the course.
• Bring your brain and heart into “coherence” by practicing techniques pioneered by HeartMath. You will also learn to create resonance when two or more are gathered to work together.
• Learn the distinction between the ego and essence, and practice shifting from ego towards essence as your true identity and nature.
• Discover how the emerging process of your personal shift contributes to the planetary shift.

Week 4 (Aug. 30): Becoming a Catalyst for Evolution in Communion with Other Pioneering Souls

As you make the shift to a conscious evolutionary worldview, a greater impulse of life purpose is awakened. In evolutionary conversations with others who share your worldview, you will cultivate the “Impulse of Evolution” by bringing forth your unique calling and creativity in the company of other pioneering souls. During this week, you will:

• Learn to boldly follow and act from your “compass of joy,” your own internal impulse of evolution, as it guides you to right action moment to moment.
• Feel the power of group coherence and “vocational arousal” when two or more are gathered in a resonant field of communion.
• Recognize vocation as the set of activities and archetypes that bring you consistent joy – as the impulse of evolution localized within you.
• Engage the 7 S’s vital to social evolution: Synergy, Synchronicity, Syntony, Syntropy, Spontaneity, Suprasexuality and Self-Creation.
• Develop sacred practices to support your communion, with two or more locally, or globally in the field of pioneering souls.

Week 5: (Sept. 6) Building Evolutionary Circles

Wherever two or more Agents of Conscious Evolution are joined heart with heart, the process of creation is activated. As an Agent, you will cultivate a resonant field of oneness with others by opening your heart and deepening your universal consciousness. Through evolutionary circle groups, you will be seeding patterns of synergistic cooperation that contribute to the planetary birth. Groups networking with each other can create a communal force to awaken evolutionary pioneers to launch the new movement for the planetary birth. This week you will:

• Embody the power of group coherence and understand what’s possible when two or more are gathered in communion.
• Learn the Vistar Method for forming Evolutionary Circles in your local community.
• Establish group coherence and how to sense when a group is NOT coherent.
• Cultivate communion in resonant practices with other Agents, as well as with neighbors, family and other evolutionary souls in your community.
• Learn how to facilitate emergence through conscious dialogues.

Week 6: (Sept. 13) Activating Your Evolutionary Leadership

As you begin to co-create with others, you will further hone your emergent capacities for co-creative leadership and interaction, activating inner qualities that stimulate you to become an evolutionary leader. While holding a space of deep listening and receptivity to others, you will learn to facilitate evolutionary co-creativity. And as you maintain an evolutionary mindset that you are inventing the future and looking for “next” practices and “best” practices, you will learn to engage the roles of dissonance and consonance in creating group harmony and coherence. In this week, you will:

• Clear internal limitations and blocks that stand between you and your full leadership potential.
• Explore ways of inspiring group participation, and facilitating emergence, co-creation and evolutionary action.
• Practice holding a space of resonance, openness, unconditional regard and compassion for the group.
• Engage and draw out group members’ highest individual and group contribution potentials, and practice the art of transformative questioning.
• Explore the archetype of the feminine and masculine co-creators.

Week 7 (Sept. 20): Discovering the Patterns of a Co-Creative Society

As you continually follow your compass of joy, you will begin to notice the “sector” of the social body within which you are naturally attracted to co-create. These are represented by sectors of the Wheel of Co-Creation. You will begin to experience evolution by attraction in which each person is free to give his or her best in their chosen area. In this week, you will:

• Learn to feel your part in the greater whole, follow your compass of joy, and allow that inspiration and aspiration to empower and align you with the Impulse of Evolution.
• Become a cultural co-creator, in which you intuit the greater pattern of evolution and discover that your role is integral and vital to the larger design.
• Begin to align your own calling with others within and across sectors of the Wheel for activities related to Birth 2012 and beyond.
• Explore the pattern of “12 around 1” as an organizing principle for wholeness.

Week 8: (Sept. 27) Pioneering Synergistic Democracy

Nature is a hierarchy of synergies that has created vast interconnected organisms for billions of years. The difference is now you are ready to create synergy consciously in order to survive and thrive. This is the wake-up call that can mature our species. The recent mass uprisings of people in the Middle East, along with the conflict and polarization resulting from corporate dominance in many countries, serve as evolutionary drivers toward a synergistic democracy. This is your opportunity to develop and experience the “memetic code” of the next stage of democracy. In this week, you will:

• Identify what’s needed for you to give your deepest gifts into our society and the ways you can contribute to the inspired efforts of others.
• Discover sophisticated networking tools that can help you find soul allies who want to partner on co-creative projects.
• Learn about synergistic democracy through the example of the SYNCON – a process where key individuals from each sector of society come together in the spirit of collaboration and identify breakthrough ideas and potential links.
• Continue to use the Wheel of Co-Creation to build and support Birth 2012 projects and beyond that to facilitate our planetary awakening.

Week 9: (Oct. 4) Co-Creating the “New News” of What is Working

You are now ready to discover and connect what is working in every field and function as well as identify projects that are contributing toward our Birth as a co-creative humanity. As an Agent, you will identify local and global projects and co-creators, masterful innovators in every field and function who are already successful pioneers and initiators to help create the greatest convergence and coherence of what is working in human history. And in 2012, you will help facilitate and co-create synergistically with one another the planetary shift in microcosm as a contribution toward the Birth 2012 event on Dec. 22, 2012. In this week, you will:

• Model The Planetary Peace Room where you learn to scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working within key sectors of the Wheel of Co-Creation, identifying the genius of major global co-creators.
• Relate what is working to the projected success and planning of your own Birth 2012 or Planetary Shift project.
• Identify social innovations like new healthcare advances, conscious business, technological innovations, educational breakthroughs, and entrepreneurship that can help create a new planetary civilization.
• Explore using digital media to communicate this “new news” to your community.
• Celebrate individuals who are “crossing the gap” as conscious evolutionary leaders.

Week 10: (Oct. 11) Participating in Birth 2012

Here you will begin to imagine and pre-experience the actuality of humanity’s “birth” and connect deeply to others about what is emergent and working in the world. As a certified Agent of Conscious Evolution, you will be empowered to take a leadership role to help catalyze Birth 2012 and other planetary shifts. In this week, you will:

• Learn about current plans for the activities of Birth 2012 and ways that you can actively participate in the formal events.
• Share other creative ways you might participate and attract others to weave their genius into the Birth Day celebration.
• Explore ideas for spreading the excitement and engaging other networks of allies.
• Further the process of assembling and organizing into a more coherent and sustainable community.

Week 11: (Oct. 18) Moving Beyond 2012: Becoming a Universal Human and Setting the Evolutionary Agenda

The ACE Training is preparing you for “mothering and fathering” the planetary birth. This is a loving process of delivering what is being born in all of us. The new norm for you includes incarnating the impulse of evolution, deepening your mystical peak experiences, and becoming a conscious co-creator with the creative process itself. This week you will:

• Gain skills in entering the “imaginal realm” as a storyteller and visionary of a new, flourishing humanity.
• Develop ways you will actively co-create the evolutionary agenda, globally and locally.
• Explore a 100-year collective vision for a universal humanity that engages the creativity, gifts and the evolutionary impulse of all people in ways never before imagined.
• Learn about continued opportunities to receive support from the ACE Program, the Shift Network and others for your ongoing growth, transformation, evolutionary contributions and leadership.

Week 12: (Oct. 25) Celebrating the Journey

Through the journey of this ACE Training, you will have learned about the evolutionary worldview and your place in what’s emerging. You will have learned many practices to help you re-create your own story and shift from ego to essence. You will have been practicing your social synergy and evolutionary leadership skills. You will have mapped specific ways you will contribute to our Planetary Awakening and participate in the activities surrounding Birth 2012 and beyond. And now it’s time to reflect on how you’ve grown and identify the next steps of your own journey from here. In our final week, you will:

• Review what you have learned in the course and assess where you are now strong and what areas you want to continue to focus on in your development as an Agent of Conscious Evolution.
• Present your next-step plan to another Agent (or Agents) for intention-setting and potential collaboration.
• Receive reflections from team-members who have witnessed your growth and transformation through the process.
• Participate in a “graduation celebration” and enjoy the fruits of your co-creative journey with Barbara and other Agents.

Throughout the Training, you will be supported by the gifted facilitation of Devaa Haley Mitchell, The Shift Network’s Chief Transformation Officer and the leader of our women’s programs. Devaa has taught Barbara’s work herself and will be helping you throughout the course to embody the core understandings in your life through experiential exercises, transformational practices, and concrete skills. You will also practice speaking some of the core themes of conscious evolution and getting feedback from your team about how to communicate in the most powerful way.

In addition, Claudia Welss, board member of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and founder of evomimicry with a focus on social synergy, will be a featured guest teacher. She serves on the steering committee of the Global Coherence Initiative (Institute of Heartmath) as Director of Strategic Partnerships and is an external research faculty member at the Institute of Noetic Sciences since 2004. She is also founder/executive director of NextNow Collaboratory, a lab for “cultivating connective intelligence for collective action.”

Replays – To accommodate ACE participants from countries with time zones that ’t work with the live Tuesday session, we’ll do a rebroadcast each Thursday at 10 am Pacific/ 5 pm GMT, 7 pm CEST and participants will be able to connect in live groups at that time as well.