Every year the Celebrate Life Festival offers a unique platform for new models of consciousness and the opportunity to experiment with innovative approaches to human evolution within an awakened collective field. This year for the first time the Festival will include a new forum for consciousness in the fields of business, economy, organisational and working life:

• a dedicated and hosted covered area in which visitors can find out and experience the latest leading-edge developments in consciousness in business life;
• special events - mini-workshops, discussions and presentations by leading thinkers and activists in the field;
• opportunities to reserve time with an on-site team member for an in-depth and entirely free introductory personal and business-oriented coaching session, or for team coaching sessions too.

Key workshop sessions:

• the flow of leadership, as the art of facilitating the emergence of new structures and potentials through whole systems collective intelligence;
• higher-potential in people and workplaces, supporting people in releasing their creative potential by working through individual and collective shadow areas and hidden obstacles to change;
• organisational unfoldment, sensing where a collective or organisational field is open to a next step in its potential and how this may best be optimised;
• we-culture workplaces, intuiting the potential for radically different kinds of work-communities and how these may become embodied in people's lives;
• shaping the future - through conscious action in the now: moving from crisis-response towards presence and inner impulse.

Key questions:

• In what kinds of workplaces can we fully mobilise people's intelligence, skills, wisdom and imagination?
• How can we work together in a more responsive, collaborative, inspiring and interpersonally authentic way? What would be the consequence of this?
• What forms of new social and economic architecture are possible? How may collective intelligence and potential for innovation be better harnessed?
• How together can we invent the future and realise more of our evolutionary potential at work? How can we move from pressure-through-crisis to more proactive co-creation?

Keynote speakers:

• Terry Patten - Awakening to the Heart of Evolutionary Leadership
• Stephan Breidenbach - Social Responsibility and Innovation

Who we are:

In 2009, the Academy of Inner Science (AIS) in cooperation with the IMU (at Augsburg in Germany) initiated the "Economy and Consciousness" circle - a new cross-disciplinary research and consultancy platform for organisational and societal transformation. We are driven by a vision for new models and approaches to work where working people are:

• drawn to serve the deeper unfolding social purpose of their workplace;
• naturally attracted to the future - exploring new capacities and levels of perception;
• called toward their highest evolutionary potential.
  

Stephen Busby is a coach and consultant in organisational and learning development in international environments, with a special interest in the systemic impact of hidden symmetries in relational and business systems. He has worked for over 25 years in the international arena in the public and private sectors, and has also researched and originated new forms of learning in his home environment – the Findhorn community in northern Scotland: an international centre for holistic education with a focus on environmentally sustainable models of development. He is enthusiastically researching new approaches in systemic coaching for evolutionary potential.

Heidi Tiedemann works as coach, consultant and organizational developer after completing a career as successful architect in her own extensive office. Her interests comprise systemic constellations of organizations and integral models of change. She lives and works in Hamburg and has been working for several years with the methods of Thomas Hübl.

Helmut Dannemann has worked as consultant and coach in economic and social organizations for more than 15 years. Before this he was engaged in leading positions in social institutions for many years. In his consultancy he has developed a very personal style that invites the collective intelligence to open up in communication on all levels. Since 2006 he has been integrating Thomas Hübl’s work into his own. Helmut is a master in Japanese martial arts since 1987.

Dr. Markus Strobel founded the imu augsburg GmbH & Co. KG more than 18 years ago and is co-founder of the Augsburger Schule für Organisationsentwicklung (Augsburg School of Organizational Development). He accompanies numerous organizations in the process of capacity building step by step. He supports individuals and organizations in integrating the shadow and encourages them to live the highest potential. The success of his work lies in a higher awareness, aliveness and innovative strength of the organization. His background is in systemic and integral work and he is inspired by Thomas Hübl’s work.

Thomas Strauß is associate of the economic research and consultancy institute imu augsburg GmbH & Co. KG. He is concerned with accompanying individuals, groups and organizations on their developmental path towards major breakthroughs. With his sincere and appreciative way he succeeds in uncovering unconscious potentials as well as blockages. This opens up the space for sustainable advances in competence. His work is based on the innovation coaching according to the Augsburg school that he co-developed, on integral management approaches and the inspiration through Thomas Hübl.

Dr. Stefan Enzler has been working for more than 15 years as coach and consultant at the imu augsburg GmbH & Co. KG. His personal concern here is developing the potentials of individuals, teams and organizations towards more aliveness, success and meaningfulness. In this he links modern coaching methods with the wisdom of the world religions and the work of Thomas Hübl.

"Any organisation has its own particular collective intelligence. It has purpose - a social or corporate purpose for instance, expressed through business activities. How much is the creative expression of each individual there in harmony with the full unfolding of the whole organisation's potential? This potential can only be reached if the organisation dedicates itself to the service of the whole - if there is awareness in everyone of the whole system in which enterprise happens. This is the basis of a new evolutionary step."

(Thomas Hübl)