SEMINARS AND TRAININGS
With Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson

The following seminars are offered on both the East and West Coasts as weekend programs, as well as modules in a longer training program.  Dates and location to be announced.

Discover the Power of Your Soul:
Find Inner Strength and Peace in Challenging Times

This training in the art and science of the soul provides both a heartfelt and a scientific approach to spiritual development.  This approach is based on the Ageless Wisdom -- the "golden thread" connecting the hidden teachings at the heart of all spiritual paths, East and West.  With intellectually clear and stimulating presentations and engaging experiential exercises, this course will bring you a deeper sense of inner peace and an awareness of the larger evolutionary plan.  This training will help you:

	Discover whether your soul or your personality is in charge at any given time
	Integrate your personality and soul by learning to build the Rainbow Bridge
	Learn techniques for balancing the mind, heart and will
	Experience a meditation for transmuting emotional energy and invoking the soul
	Align your life purpose with the Divine Plan
	Understand the right use of the charkas for bringing your purpose into the world

Visionary Leadership Training:
How You Can Implement Your Higher Purpose in the World

Would you like to develop more vision in your leadership?  Or develop more leadership to make your vision practical?  Visionaries and spiritual people often dream wonderful dreams—but visionary leaders make them real. Visionary leaders are intuitive pioneers who see an inspirational picture of the future and are successful in making it a reality in today’s world. This innovative seminar will present insights, tools and techniques to help you:

	Think and act outside traditional norms so you can lead from your core spiritual values
	Sound  a clear note of purpose to attract energy and resources
	Tap your inner resources to build a coherent and supportive “field” around your mission
	Use a personal assessment tool to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses
	Learn how to balance the three essential leadership qualities: will, heart and mind
	Overcome your self-created barriers to success so you function at your peak
	Understand how your vision fits in the bigger picture -- the Higher Plan of evolution

Money as a Spiritual Asset:
How You Can Generate, Attract and Use It Skillfully

This  experiential seminar will help you learn the three conditions needed to attract money.  Money is essentially concretized energy or prana. Money is simply Spirit, vibrating at a lower or denser frequency. Money is necessary not only for personal needs, but also for making our service in the world more powerful and for supporting good work. This workshop includes presentations, experiential tools and meditations to help you learn:

	Why spiritual people have money problems
	Why circulation of financial resources is the key to individual and planetary health
	The deeper causes of personal and national debt
	How to clear psychological blocks to your money flow
	How to balance your chakra energies to create financial abundance
	How to work with the spiritual law of demand and supply
	How you can build your karmic bank account
	How to develop your own philanthropic and socially responsible investing program

Mastering Time

In this seminar you can withdraw from stressful, busy activities and go more deeply within to the timeless dimensions, which are the core of your being. You'll release stress and tension, and renew yourself in a quiet, supportive environment. And you will deepen your connection to your soul and to God. This seminar includes personal spiritual work, music, meditation, and experiential techniques, with time for quiet reflection and sharing with others. You’ll learn how to:

	Get more organized and use time effectively so your life works
	Experience linear daily time as well as spherical, infinite time to develop both peace of mind and be more effective
	Live in the present moment by keeping your awareness where you choose
	Avoid entrainment with the frantic beat of modern life
	Use the synchronicity of events as guidance
	Understand time as an expression of the will
	Learn how time and karma are synonymous

The Hidden Causes of World Events And How You Can Respond Creatively 

Despite appearances, Spirit is moving deeply and powerfully through the world today in ways that are seldom explained on the evening news.  In this participantory seminar, you will discover the deeper, hidden causes of world events by learning to “Read the Book of LifeThrough the lens of the Ageless Wisdom of East and West, you will see current crises as the out-working of inner forces, collective thought and karma.  With presentations, meditations and small group discussions, you’ll learn how to:

	Analyze the symbolism, meaning and significance of current events such as war or economic changes
	Understand the interplay of Divine intention and human choice in weaving the tapestry of current events.
	Recognize workings of the “Inner Government” guiding humanity from behind the scenes of world events
	Explore how each of us can respond positively and creatively to the opportunities hidden in current crises

World Crisis and the Divine Plan:
How You Can Be a Positive Force Amidst Rapid Change

Are you confused and concerned about what’s happening in the world?   This seminar will inspire you with energy and optimism through understanding the higher purpose and positive energies underlying our national and world crises.  With lively, interactive presentations and discussions, meditation, and experiential tools and techniques, you’ll learn how to:

	Deepen your inner connection with your soul/Spirit so you can remain calm and centered
	Align your purpose and passion with the Higher Plan and the Masters of Wisdom
	Co-create with the Forces of Light amidst the breakdown of old structures
	Understand the manifesting signs and lessons in your personal and collective life
	Become inspired about humanity’s future and your power to create solutions to our problems

Spiritual Techniques For Energizing Your Workplace

Would you like a more enlivening and fulfilling workplace where you can bring your whole self to work—body, mind and spirit?  A spiritual approach to building a positive workplace can help the bottom line, as people who experience a greater sense of meaning and fulfillment at work are more creative and productive. Recent research by The University of Chicago shows that companies with a defined corporate commitment to ethical principles do better financially than those without it.  In this seminar, you’ll learn:

	Effective strategies and tools for bringing your spiritual values and experience into the workplace with examples drawn from many successful socially responsible companies;
	How to experience a greater sense of meaning and fulfillment at work and access intuition and innovation;
	How you can build a high performance work culture by invigorating and supporting your people more effectively;
	How you can reduce stress and turnover and attract the best people to your company.

POSITIVE FEEDBACK

“Corinne and Gordon have proven by their experience and dedication over many years that deeply held spiritual values can indeed be practiced in this world.  They experience they share in their seminars is more profound than most of us have been able to achieve.”   --Walter Beebee, attorney and founder of The New York Open Center for Adult Education

“Gordon and Corinne are powerful new paradigm thinkers who are transforming the way we view political and economic issues.  Their dynamic and insightful presentations address more questions than you ever thought to ask about the forces underlying today’s events.”        -- Hazel Henderson, environmental economist and author, Politics of the Solar Age and Building a Win/Win World.

“Studying the Ageless Wisdom with Corinne and Gordon and the high-caliber people drawn to the course revealed to me that I have a spiritual home ….The heartfelt interaction with such bright and dedicated people has profoundly transformed and uplifted me with a practical, useful vision for clarifying my life purpose."  --Bruce First, Wash. DC, seminar participant

“I love these studies.  Corinne and Gordon present them well and model living them.  They are excellent -- very effective and inspiring.”--Diana Cristopher, Calif., seminar participant

 “Corinne and Gordon were superb as always, in their knowledge, background, enthusiasm and desire to share.”  --Hiedi Casasco, Virginia, seminar participant

FACULTY
 

Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson are co-founders of several successful businesses and non-profit organizations, and are co-authors of Spiritual Politics (Foreword by the Dalai Lama), and Builders of the Dawn.  They are co-founders of The Center for Visionary Leadership, based in Washington, D.C. and the San Francisco area, and co-founders of Sirius, an ecological village and spiritual community in Massachusetts.  Corinne coordinated a national task force for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development. Gordon was formerly the Executive Director of the Social Investment Forum and of The Center for Environmentally Responsible Economies. They both have served on the adjunct faculty of The American University and the University of Massachusetts, and are Fellows of The World Business Academy and The Findhorn Foundation. They have consulted with a wide variety of clients in business, government and the non-profit community, and hav etaught courses on spiritual development and social change around the U.S. and Europe for over 25 years.