Realigning humanity with nature and life through empowering children
Ms. Susan Curry is an award-winning environmental activist, community organizer, educator, and social change leader. Her efforts to change mindsets about our human relationship to the planet and to each other have birthed new activist leaders and generated many community collaborations.
Ms. Curry is former President of the Alliance for a Sustainable Future, a non-profit in the greater Philadelphia area that convened conferences for government agency staff, NGO leaders, faculty, religious congregations, and the general public to adopt more sustainable and regenerative practices.
Ms. Curry has devoted the last twenty-five years to leading volunteer projects applying “education-in-action.” Volunteers discover root causes and the interconnectedness of issues as they build their capacities for their ongoing, self-organizing activism. At 80 years of age, Ms. Curry is focusing on producing her vision for “Family Earth,” where humans view all life as sacred and embrace their role as caretakers of the future of all life on Earth.
Anne Adams, PhD — Owner/President, Adams Consulting Services
Consultant to many Fortune 50 companies and national and international educational institutions for over 30 years. Designed, co-created and led individual, cultural and organizational transformation programs ….in deep, systemic, transformational initiatives – for individuals, teams, corporations, professional groups and educational institutions.
Additional roles as teacher, school director, university instructor, and manager in an international educational corporation.
Recent 20 years focused on integral educational practices within both educational institutions and businesses – accentuating the need to understand and honor the integral nature of human beings, along with developing and integrating all of our intelligences – mental, emotional, physical, energetic, social and spiritual. This interwoven approach influences relationships, communications, our epistemology and ontology, the quality of results we produce, and an embodied integral worldview.
Current deep commitment: transforming education, in the United States, our world, and our humanity. Educating FOR Human BEINGNESS; People of all ages are “listened to,” “heard,” “seen,” “known,” and honored for the unique contribution that is theirs to make in our world.
Gina Simm has been an early childhood educator for over thirty years. Her background in Montessori education and children’s theater launched her into the world of public teaching, where she has spent most of her career as a first-grade teacher. One of those years, Gina spent teaching English in China. Most significantly, her knowledge of Nonviolent Communication has transformed her classroom into a place where systems of the heart create a child-centered environment for moving through conflict. Gina lives in the Cherry Hill Cohousing Community in Amherst, Massachusetts.
My two life questions empower Discovery and Transformation for myself and others:. How to get to radically regenerative human cultures on Earth, and how to thrive there.
I hold a vision of human beings helping each other grow up with a sense of adulthood derived from the incredible potentials of perception and creation that Gaia has designed into us. There is so much to explore and develop together.
A network of women Sharing the Wisdom, Shaping the Dream. Sisters of Earth was founded in 1994 by several Catholic Sisters from the US and Canada who were engaged in exploring the new cosmology and implications for this emerging worldview. Sisters of Earth is an informal network of roughly 250 women who share a deep concern for the ecological and spiritual crises of our times and who wish to support one another in work toward healing the human spirit and restoring Earth’s life support systems. We are teachers, gardeners, artists, writers, administrators, workshop and retreat presenters, mothers, contemplatives and activists in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand. This network of sharing and support is open to all women whose life and work would identify them as Sisters of Earth.
We are collaborating through our Children of the Universe Project, a project co-sponsored by the Thomas Berry Foundation.
Chris is a professional organizer with 20 years experience, a certified coach, and a certified Nonviolent Communication (NVC) facilitator. She creates children’s books and tools to help teachers and parents foster need-based awareness in schools and homes.
Chris has volunteered in Baltimore City schools, helping students navigate emotions and resolve conflicts through NVC. She also teaches monthly parenting classes and supports NVC trainers through CapitalNVC.org. Currently, she’s developing a training program for school volunteers.
Inspired by her school work, Chris co-authored An Inside Story: A Children’s Book for Grown-Ups Too! to raise awareness about NVC’s transformative power.
Barbara Thomason is president of LeaderShift LLC, parent company of the Joy Circles ® family of programs. She previously owned and operated a Gymboree ® play center franchise, where she learned the value of movement and music to build children’s sensory-motor integration. She also devoted years to the prevention of child abuse in communities across Texas.
Barbara previously served as dean for the Lone Star Community College System, followed by fourteen years as CEO of the Houston Northwest Chamber of Commerce. Now she is committed to building resilience in preteens and their families through “The Joy Circles Gang” web series premiering in 2026, “Reading Rumble,” a virtual book club, “TranscenDance™ for Preteens”, a conscious dance/movement program, and “Joyful Parenting”, a self-paced, online parenting education program.
Transforming human identity through young experiential interactive education in emotional intelligence, self awareness, and inter-relatedness.
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