November Chapter Meeting
Monday, Nov 7, 2006, 7 - 9 pm
Community Congregational Church (CCC), Tiburon

David Isaacs, featured guest presenter, with Graphics Artists Nancy Margulies and Mariah Howard

The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter

By Juanita Brown, Ph.D with David Isaacs and The World Café Community of Practice was published this Spring by Berrett-Koehler. The book represents the result of 10 years of guiding The World Café, an innovative approach to evoking collaborative intelligence in Business and Organizations.

At this Spirit at Work Author Program, David Isaacs, co-founder of The World Café, along with graphic artists Nancy Margulies and Mariah Howard, will host a World Café experience in which design principles for hosting and convening conversations that matter will be experienced.

David Isaacs is President of Clearing Communications, an organizational and communications strategy company working with senior executives in the U.S. and abroad. He has collaborated with a wide range of corporate and not for profit clients including hosting Cafe dialogues with organizations including the Institute for Noetic Sciences, The Shambhala Institute, The Society for Organizational Learning, and The Kellogg Foundation. David serves as adjunct faculty of the University of Texas Business school, California Institute for Integral Studies, and St. Mary’s University.

Please stay to meet the author, mingle and enjoy refreshments immediately following presentation!

RSVP: cynthia@successbydesign.net


SPIRIT AND WORK RESOURCE CENTER LAUNCHES IN BERKELEY
April 27, 2006 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Unity of Berkeley, 2075 Eunice Street, Berkeley

Featuring: talks by Pat and John Sullivan about spirit and work, plus music, small group discussion, dessert, and networking.

$20 at the door or $15 if prepaid at http://www.unityberkeley.org/
For more information, call Pat or John Sullivan at (510) 530-0284

* New best-selling business books including Faith and Fortune: The Quiet Revolution to Reform American Businesses by Marc Gunther, senior editor of Fortune Magazine.

* An article from Harvard Negotiation Law Review showing how lawyers can be more effective when spiritual practices inform their legal practices.

* A list of local groups where you can talk about any aspect of connecting spirit at work, including one at a Chamber of Commerce that has met for over eight years.

* Marketplace Ministries magazine and other materials from faith communities that are focusing on workplace issues. These are just a few of the resources from all faiths, all fields of work in the new Spirit at Work Resource Center that opens April 27 at Unity of Berkeley. The bulk of the resources were collected by Pat McHenry Sullivan, author of Work with Meaning, Work with Joy and former columnist on spirit at work for the San Francisco Chronicle, and her husband John, a spirit and work researcher since 1995.

The Sullivans have long wanted to make these resources available to anyone who wants to bring more integrity, purpose and joy to their work -- or the work of others. "When people work with spirit, they tap their wisest, most creative selves. Stress melts. Burnout is a non-issue. Workers are more productive, much more ethical, " says Pat. "That obviously translates to an improved bottom line. But few people have the time to do the kind of research that John and I have done the past ten years. We'd much rather share those resources than keep them to ourselves."

The Spirit and Work Resource Center is housed at Unity of Berkeley at 2075 Eunice Street, Berkeley, CA 94709. In addition to a collection of more than 70 books on spirit at work, there are a packed filing cabinet and a copier. There are also several free resources, including articles on a variety of topics and a list of resources (many of which are available online). For times when the Center will be open, call John Sullivan, 510-547-8168.

June Chapter Meeting
TUESDAY, June 7th, 2006, 7 - 9 pm
Community Congregational Church (CCC), Tiburon

Z.B.A Zen of Business Administration: How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work And Your Life.

With Marc Lesser:

By Juanita Brown, Ph.D with David Isaacs and The World Café Community of Practice was published this Spring by Berrett-Koehler. The book represents the result of 10 years of guiding The World Café, an innovative approach to evoking collaborative intelligence in Business and Organizations.

At this Spirit at Work Author Program, David Isaacs, co-founder of The World Café, along with graphic artists Nancy Margulies and Mariah Howard, will host a World Café experience in which design principles for hosting and convening conversations that matter will be experienced.

David Isaacs is President of Clearing Communications, an organizational and communications strategy company working with senior executives in the U.S. and abroad. He has collaborated with a wide range of corporate and not for profit clients including hosting Cafe dialogues with organizations including the Institute for Noetic Sciences, The Shambhala Institute, The Society for Organizational Learning, and The Kellogg Foundation. David serves as adjunct faculty of the University of Texas Business school, California Institute for Integral Studies, and St. Mary’s University.

Please stay to meet the author, mingle and enjoy refreshments immediately following presentation! .

About The Author:

Marc Lesser is a Zen priest and the founder and former CEO of Brush Dance, a publishing company that creates greeting cards, journals and calendars. He has been practicing Zen for more than 30 years and has an M.B.A. degree from New York University. He leads retreats for business people at the San Francisco Zen Center’s Green Gulch Farm in Northern California and teaches and lectures in the Zen community and business community. He is currently president of ZBA Associates, a company offering coaching and consulting services, and is author of Z.B.A. Zen of Business Administration; How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work and Your Life, published by New World Library.

How can we bring our full selves to our work, utilizing work as a place for personal and spiritual growth? Learn how by joining us for an engaging, interactive session that includes meditation, guidance and practical ways to integrate spiritual and business practices.

Marc Lesser
ZBA Associates
218 Cleveland Court
Mill Valley, CA 94941
415 389-6228 phone
415 389-1629 fax
mlesser@zbaassociates.com
www.zbaassociates.com


APRIL Chapter Meeting
TUESDAY, April 19, 2006, 7 - 9 pm
Community Congregational Church (CCC), Tiburon

Answering Your Call: Sustaining Purpose in an upside down world. With John P. Schuster:

Living a life of sustained purpose ~ learning to listen to our calls ~ is neither simple nor easy. In our April workshop, author and coach John Schuster, whose 2003 Berrett-Koehler book Answering Your Call has won wide acclaim, discusses the mystery and secrets of calls, how to respond to them, and how to renew and rediscover them. And he dispels the common myths of a called life. In pursuing our calls, we come up against our own limitations. While some of these are limitations in talent, others are self-limiting patterns that keep us from saying yes to life's invitation to live from our essence. John explores these limits and provides processes to go beyond them, so that we all can act as the authors of our own lives.

About The Author:

JOHN P. SCHUSTER is the founding partner of The Schuster Kane Alliance, Inc. (www.skalliance.com) a consulting firm he started in 1981. He has been featured in the Washington Post and Investor's Business Daily, among others. John's company is known for its unique ability to connect soft people skills with hard business results for enterprises like Applebee's and Sprint. On the personal side, John is learning guitar, snowboards on occasion, gardens a little, and hits golf balls when not reading Tolkein again. He has two sons and three grandchildren and teaches in an executive MBA program at a Midwestern university.


FEBRUARY 2005
IGNITING THE SOUL AT WORK:
With Robert Rabbin:

Is "the soul at work" an oxymoron? Is it possible to live with full spiritual passion, power, and truth in corporate environments? What is a soulful, authentic life? How do we demonstrate our deepest truth, and what are the consequences of self-betrayal? How do we find spiritual redemption right here, right now—without compromise or camouflage? What is our spiritual responsibility to society? These and other questions will be the focus of this evening’s dialogue with life-long mystic Robert Rabbin.

About The Author:

Robert Rabbin is a writer, speaker, and “solution architect” with a passion for radically engaged spiritual wisdom. After trekking overland to India in 1973, Robert met Swami Muktananda, with whom he studied for ten years. Since 1985, Robert has been lecturing and leading seminars throughout the country, coaching corporate leaders, and designing spirit-based retreats for executive teams. Robert is a frequent guest on radio programs and presenter at national conferences; his newest project is Radical Sages. He’s published four books, including Igniting the Soul at Work: A Mandate for Mystics, and more than 150 articles. For details, please visit http://www.robrabbin.com and http://www.radicalsages.com.