HEALTHY, WEALTHY & WISE

CONTEMPLATIVE INTELLIGENCE

AND THE

THIRD AMERICAN CENTURY

INTERFACE BOULDER

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Tyler Norris

What will it be?

A Connected Human Family

A just, peaceful, and prosperous

Middle East

Vision

Method

Connect the human family through:

• A common story - Abraham

• A common meeting place – Path

• A common experience –

Transformative hospitality

Path: A 5,000 KM Cultural Route

Cultural Paths / Walking Routes Around the World

El Camino de Santiago

de Compostela (Spain) Inca Trail (Peru) Lycian Way (Turkey)

St. Paul Trail (Turkey) Grande Randonnee

(France) Appalachian Trail

(USA)

Sustainable Development Metrics (Path as platform for guests, hosts, world)

Otto Scharmer, MIT

The Health Equation

Health Behaviors

40%

Environment

20%

Access to Care 10%

Genetics

30%

Prevention 4%

Medical Services

96%

Factors Influencing

Health

National Health

Expenditures

CDC, Blue Sky Initiative, University of California at San Francisco, Institute of the Future, 2000

Largest

Impact

Smallest

Impact

Factors that Affect Health

Examples

Eat healthy, be

physically active

Rx for high blood

pressure, high

cholesterol, diabetes

Poverty, education, housing, inequality

Immunizations, brief

intervention, cessation

treatment, colonoscopy

Fluoridation, 0g trans

fat, iodization, smoke-

free laws, tobacco tax

Socioeconomic Factors

Changing the Context to make individuals’ default

decisions healthy

Long-lasting

Protective Interventions

Clinical

Interventions

Counseling

& Education

It is unreasonable to expect

that people will change their behavior

easily when so many forces in the

social, cultural, and physical

environment

conspire against such change.

“

” Institute of Medicine

Current nutritional default

$$$$$ Rudd Center for Food Policy - Yale

Current physical activity default

Democracy in America

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www.communitycommons.org

DNA of the distributed movement

Multi-sector, multi-jurisdictional, place-based

Policy, systems and environmental change

Seeks health equity, eliminating disparities

Meaningful community engagement

Reach, intensity, duration (sufficient dose)

Informed by emerging evidence base

Prototyping & taking social innovation to scale

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Policy, Systems, Environmental ∆ Strategies

Neighborhoods

Parks, trails and other active public spaces

General Plan / Complete Street ordinances

Corner store conversion efforts

Farmers markets and community gardens

Multi-modal transit

Schools (+ child care, pre-, after- summer-)

Nutrition standards /Cafeteria reforms

Campus-wide PE and recess; + after school

Joint Use Agreements

Safe routes to school

Screen time policies

Healthcare

BMI as a vital sign

Breastfeeding promotion

Hospital cafeterias

Worksites

Stairwell prompts

Lactation support

Worksite wellness programs

Democracy 3.0

trans-partisan (values, perspectives)

trans-issue (systems convergence)

trans-sector (interest/benefits)

trans-jurisdiction (authority, inclusion)

trans-generation (ages)

transformational leadership

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1. Mindfulness

2. Insight

3. Concentration

4. Loving Kindness

5. Cultivating wakefulness

and awareness

6. Embracing suffering as a

common bond with others

7. Honoring and engaging

diversity in all its forms /

inclusion

8. Deep listening and

reflective listening

9. Appreciative inquiry

10. Non-violent

communications

11. Holding conducive, safe

space (for wide array of

purposes)

12. Group and community

facilitation

13. Realism and humor

14. Working with conflict

15. Wisdom Circles

16. Imagination

17. Systems thinking

18. Collaborative leadership

19. Getting to Yes / Creative

3rd Ways

20. Divergency Thinking

21. Engaging social networks

22. Spiritually rooted - Social

Justice view (haipiru)

23. Care of self / care of

persons / care of worlds

24. Prophetic voice

25. Homiletics, dharma

teaching, telling stories

that resonate

26. Presence (Healing

Presence / Basic

Attendance)

27. Contemplative civics and

social action

28. Keeping watch / bearing

witness

29. Coaching and mentoring

30. Advocating and liaising

31. Crisis intervention

32. Ethical accountability

Draft list of Contemplative Competencies

Interfaith Chaplaincy: Rooted in core coursework & practice.

Designed & structured with adequate time & opportunity

to go deep in other contemplative and wisdom

traditions. Provide for deep pluralism, embrace diverse

religious and secular traditions to skillfully develop

current/evolving paths, practices and interests.

Engaged Activism: Rooted in core coursework and practice, and

providing substantial exposure to other contemplative and wisdom

traditions. Designed with adequate time & opportunity for deep in field work in students’ selected sector and issue area of focus.

Buddhist Chaplaincy: Rooted in the lineage Coursework, practice,

service.

At heart of ALL three tracks is core Buddhist

coursework and practice, rooted in Naropa’s lineage

and evolving traditions.

NAROPA

M Div.

The Art Of The Possible

Don’t ask what the world needs.

Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

Because what the world needs is people who have

come alive.

Howard Thurman

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