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elisabet
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brief bio
ELISABET SAHTOURIS, Ph.D
Internationally known as a dynamic speaker and media personality, Dr. Sahtouris is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, author and consultant on Living Systems Design. Elisabet shows the relevance of biological systems to organizational design in businesses, government and global trade. She teaches in the Bainbridge Graduate Institute's sustainable business MBA program and is a fellow of the World Business Academy. Her books include A Walk Through TIme: from Stardust to Us, Biology Revisioned, co-authored with Willis Harman, and EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution.
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business advice
"We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems." - Elisabet Sahtouris, EarthDance
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nature's lessons
All healthy Living Systems self-organize and maintain themselves by the same principles
Among these principles are:
Empowered participation of all parts
Negotiated Self-Interest among all levels
Businesses are Living Systems
and will be healthy when they ensure:
Empowered participation of all employees and negotiated self-interest among all levels
bookings
To contact Dr. Sahtouris about availability and booking information,
simply send an email to this address.
elisabet@sahtouris.com
venues
United Nations,New York
The World Bank,Washington DC
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)Wash DC
Siemens Management Training,Stanford University
Boeing Leadership Institute,St. Louis
Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Valley, CA
Getulio Vargas Business University, Sao Paulo
UNIMED, Brasilia, Brazil
The Santa Fe Institute,New Mexico
State of the World Forum, San Francisco & New York
Australian Govt ,Nat'l Tax Office; Land & Water, Canberra
New Zealand Govt, Sustainability Agency
Public Relations Institute of Australia
Be the Change, London
SVNI (Social Venture Network Int'l) London, Amsterdam
Co-Creation Sciences PostDoc Program, Amsterdam
Earth Celebrations 2000, Athens,Greece
World Parliament of Religions, South Africa
Tamchang University, Taiwan
Tokyo Dome Stadium
Businesses are Living Systems
books
earthdance
EARTHDANCE: LIVING SYSTEMS IN EVOLUTION, 2000, iUniversity Press
"the imperfect and flexible principles of nature lead to greater stability and resilience in natural systems than we have produced in ours-both technological and social... We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems." - Elisabet Sahtouris, EarthDance
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biology revisioned
BIOLOGY REVISIONED North Atlantic Books, Berkeley 1997 by Willis Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris
Elisabet Sahtouris and Willis Harman (founder of the World Business Academy) in conversation about biology as self-organizing intelligent systems, rather than mechanical Darwinian accidents, and the relevance of this new understanding for human organizations.
"A Biology that sees all nature as co-evolving holons (living entities) in holarchies (interdependent embeddedness) will quickly reveal much about humanity itself as one such holon-containing its own holarchy of individuals, families, organizations, communities, nations and world. Through this understanding of ourselves, we will gain profound insights on where we succeed and where we fail as a living system..." -Elisabet Sahtouris in Biology Revisioned
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a walk through time
A WALK THROUGH TIME: From Stardust to Us Wiley, NY 1998.
By Elisabet Sahtouris, with Cosmic Prologue by Brian Swimme; Intro and Epilog by Sid Liebes.
This book takes you through the cutting edge scientific story of Earth's five billion year evolution in enjoyable prose and gorgeous color pictures. Great for corporate gifts, families, libraries.
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also recommended
THE CLUETRAIN MANIFESTO
Levine, Locke, Searls, Weinberger Perseus Books 1999
SYNCHRONICITY: The Inner Path of Leadership
Joseph Jaworski, Berrett-Koehler 1996
WEB WITHOUT A WEAVER
by Victor Grey, Open Heart Press 1997
BIRTH OF THE CHAORDIC AGE
by Dee Hock, Berrett-Koehler 1999
THE OWNERSHIP SOLUTION
by Jeff Gates, Addison-Wesley 1998
THE POST CORPORATE WORLD
by David Korten, Berrett-Koehler 1999
THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE
by Peter M. Senge, Doubleday 1990
articles
biology of globalization
"The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization"
Elisabet Sahtouris
The Biology of Globalization
Perspectives in Business and Global Change, Sept. 1997
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humanity - year 3000
Humanity in the Year 3000:
Dr Sahtouris' participant statement for a
Foundation for the Future Seattle seminar.
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evolution of governance
THE EVOLUTION OF GOVERNANCE
What we can learn about governance from ancient microbes - published in In Context magazine
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tentative model of living universe
PART I
Going back to fundamental assumptions and axioms of our scientific model of the universe and life, Sahtouris rebuilds the foundations of the model to show a living universe rooted in consciousness
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PART II
Concludes the building of the model with implications for physics, biology and our future
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media
crises into wisdom
TURNING CRISES INTO WISDOM
Radio Show Tape (60 minutes)
New Dimensions Program:
Michael Thomas interviews Elisabet Sahtouris
Also (on same page)
RESTORING GAIA
New Dimensions Program 2013
Offering a multitude of reasons to remain hopeful despite dire predictions for our environment, Sahtouris is confident we can turn things around-and quickly-because "life is too intelligent to proceed by accident. - click link icon, then search Sahtouris
holistic biology
HOLISTIC BIOLOGY
Video of two 30 min interviews with Elisabet Sahtouris on Thinking Allowed TV series
(interviewer Jeffrey Michlove)
This video is available for purchase at the Thinking-Allowed web site.
order
the unfolding story
THE UNFOLDING STORY
60-min video aired repeatedly on PBS
See also:
VOICES OF CHANGE on this same link
Scientists, including Elisabet Sahtouris, and other visionaries relate the story that is now unfolding of an interconnected, interdependent, living universe.
Available for purchase on the Hooked on Nature web site.
order
evolutionary poetry
EVOLUTION POETRY
Video by Elisabet Sahtouris
Poem 1: Cosmogenesis:
Using space images from NASA, Elisabet Sahtouris weaves
a moving and poetic story of the 15 billion years of cosmic evolution
Poem 2: Journey of a Silica Atom:
In this intriguing tale one experiences the incredible interconnectedness
of all our planet's geology and biology in a single living system
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exhibit
A WALK THROUGH TIME: From Stardust to Us
This exciting story of Earth's evolution is told in 90 colorful panels spaced along a one-mile walk, each foot representing one million years. Elisabet Sahtouris wrote the book based on this exhibit and is available to travel anywhere in the world with it.
Book the exhibit through the linked page below (book Dr. Sahtouris under Bookings)
www.globalcommunity.org/wtt/index.shtml
brief video clips
Link:
http://www.global-mindshift.org/toolsforevolution.html
after darwin pt 1
In this two-part series Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris talks about reuniting spirituality with science in order to form a new world view that shows how humanity is still evolving and how the environmental crisis is the challenge that will prove our mettle as a species. Sahtouris draws upon the fascinating world of living systems to give examples of how change is ever-occurring in nature and how we are all inter-connected in ways that we have only just begun to understand. What does it take to survive?
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after darwin pt 2
In this three-part series Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris talks about reuniting spirituality with science in order to form a new world view that shows how humanity is still evolving and how the environmental crisis is the challenge that will prove our mettle as a species. Sahtouris draws upon the fascinating world of living systems to give examples of how change is ever-occurring in nature and how we are all inter-connected in ways that we have only just begun to understand. What does it take to survive?
Click for transcript of this interview here
after darwin pt 3
In the conclusion to this three-part series Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris tpresents a positive analogy involving metamorphosis that can provide insight into the events of the world we see unfolding in our present day and age.
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Integral Naked Interview
Interview on globalization and other matters for Ken Wilber's Integral Naked www.integralnaked.org with Stuart Davis
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Dalai Lama Film
At the cusp of the new Millennium, forty visionaries and innovative thinkers, with Dr. Sahtouris among them, left the United States with high expectations of changing the world. They set off for India to meet with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at his residence at the mystical foothills of the Himalayas.
Each day, the Dalai Lama's wise and patient presence reminded everyone what they were truly there for - to create "synthesis" and bring about more compassion and happiness in the world through each particular individual's concrete action.
Documented by Producer-Director Khashyar Darvich, you can view the full trailer of the soon to be released, and narrated by Harrison Ford film at dalailamafilm.com
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Be the Change
London Conference, May 2004
For a streaming video preview of my talk during the Be the Change London Conference, click the link below.
topics
for businesses
Why business is usefully seen as biology
How organic models can meet corporate needs
How quality of life and profits can improve together
Business lessons in repeating cycles of evolution
Self-organization principles in living systems and businesses
Essential features of healthy living systems
How management changes under organic principles
What healthy globalization would look like
Humanity as a living system in rapid evolution
The Internet: self-organizing system and key to human evolution
other organizations
Dr. Sahtouris is available for motivational keynote speeches, seminars or workshops (deeper exploration and participation), consulting by the day, and lecture series on the following topics: (several of these can be combined in a single speech)
Crisis as Opportunity: Learning Nature's Ways
Globalization: An Evolutionary Leap for Humanity
What does it mean to be part of a live planet?
Making biological sense of a world in evolution
Humanity as a living system in rapid evolution
The Internet: self-organizing system and key to human evolution
The Hot Age: how humanity can thrive despite rising temperatures
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Dr. Sahtouris
MAILING ADDRESS:
Elisabet Sahtouris
2i5 Hitchcock Way, Suite 310
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105
U.S.A
EMAIL:
elisabet@sahtouris.com
site design
GICO Graphic Internet Content Organizer
Besides being speedy and easy to navigate, this site can be easily edited by Dr. Sahtouris whenever and wherever she may be on the planet!
It is powered by GICO, the latest in do it yourself site design. This site was donated to Dr. Sahtouris in recognition of her valuable work.
It features a custom 'planet' template designed specifically for this site, but allows her to easily structure sections and add text, images and video whenever she likes. If you are interested in such a site contact designer Philip La Vere here.
vision in action
VIA- Vision in Action
www.via-visioninaction.org
ratical.org
my personal website with many more writings
www.ratical.org/lifeweb
events
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