Change is an integral part of the human event of living. We age, we have new experiences that we try to assimilate into meaningful patterns, life experience that challenge us to discover new parts of ourselves but we are living in a time when change is an imperative, knowing now that we cannot continue as we do as humans – it is no longer sustainable.

It is a unique moment in time where we humans, together, are being challenged to look at our evolutionary history that has brought us to this point and reconsider whether all that has gone before can illuminate a different future.

Consumption and resources, daily life considerations of health and success, complex societal issues, across the whole spectrum of living a new upgrade needs to take place. Only an ‘Essential Shift’ to be able to first of all SEE the vision of something different inside the challenge of living can bring a new world.

The Essential Shift shows that SEEING has been the central engine for growth throughout evolution from our early awareness of the world around us to our increasing ability to perceive the reasons and processes behind life’s complexities to the point now where we are beginning to become CONSCIOUS (the highest level of integral SEEING) of our part in an interconnected whole.

Richard’s best selling United Nations book ‘An Urgent Plea from the Future’ demonstrates the way all the global challenges we face are a reflection of our inner human world trying to evolve,

We are individuals and we are together together across the world. This can be the source of conflict and difference or a shared experience of an evolutionary next step that we are struggling to master.

From our evolutionary past we are conditioned to look at life from a need to project ourselves into it and make the world fit our inner experience thinking we can ‘fix’ what is wrong to ‘make’ life better, more sustainable even more equitable. Even the language of our collective ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ are framed in terms of ‘overcoming’ everything from hunger and poverty to ‘fixing’ climate change – carrying the implied meaning that our part in living is to enforce and coerce life ‘out there’ to conform to the expectations we carry within us ‘in here’.

This introduction to the adult step into consciousness is vital for every person living on the planet and shows in a gentle and compelling way (non-coercive) that ‘Hey, you might be looking at what is wrong and missing what is trying to unfold right here’. While we seek the future the future seeks to unfold in us and it is this way of interconnection that allows the consciousness of ourselves as part of the whole to emerge.

When we individually and collectively come to SEE the same future unfolding no one needs to be coerced into deeply responding. Whether it is in a family, in an organization or on the planet living as individuals together, this presentation introduces the way we have all become global citizens facing global challenges that can only be addressed from a new level of maturity, the consciousness of our part in the fabric of life.

Service and conscious contribution characterize the way we evolve in harmony with life.

This presentation opens up minds to a new evolutionary phase of integral and conscious living as a between oneself and the planet and has direct insight into the global challenges we face and the rapid transformation that is taking place in addressing those challenges as whole people – time is running out.