ConsciousSHIFT with Julie Ann Turner

SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF with Google's Chade-Meng Tan
"SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF," the popular course taught at Google, was created by Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest Chade-Meng Tan, to elevate the work and lives of the best and brightest people at one of the most innovative, successful, and profitable businesses in the world.
Now, Meng has captured and shared the magic and transformation of the Google course, in his new book, "SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace)."
Meng's job title at Google is Jolly Good Fellow (which nobody can deny). His job description reads, "Enlighten minds, open hearts, create world peace."

Isn't that a phenomenal job description - one that many ConsciousSHIFT-ers would love to express, as well?
Meng, as he is known, takes his job seriously and laughs a lot at the office. As one of Google's earliest engineers, he helped build Google's first mobile search service and headed the team that monitored Google's search quality. He currently serves with Google's Talent Team.
Deeply rooted in science, the SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF course was designed for Googlers as a means to reduce stress, increase well-being, heighten focus and creativity, become more optimistic and resilient, build fulfilling relationships, and ultimately become happier and more profitable in their work and their lives.

While the "Search Inside Yourself" skills learned are designed to help one to "optimize thyself" and gain an extra edge, it may be surprising that the core concepts of the program are mindfulness and emotional intelligence.
Created in collaboration with a Zen Master, a CEO, a Stanford University scientist, and bestselling author Daniel Goleman (the guy who literally wrote the book on emotional intelligence), and written by Meng, "SEARCH INSIDE YOURSELF" distills mindfulness and emotional intelligence in a way even a skeptical, compulsively pragmatic, engineering-oriented brain like Meng's can process, breaking them down into a set of practical tools and skills that can be adopted by anyone, at any career or experience level.

"For the benefits of mindfulness and emotional intelligence to become widely accessible, they cannot be just the domain of bald people in funny robes living in mountains, or small groups of New Age folks living in San Francisco," says Meng. "Meditation needs to become 'real'. It needs to align with the lives and interests of real people."
On ConsciousSHIFT, Meng addresses questions that may arise from skeptics with a "traditional" business mindset, such as: How can one to find joy while succeeding at work when under stress and pressure? How does compassion impact the profitability of a business? How can meditative practices benefit people's careers and business bottom lines?

Is 2012 leading up to a doomsday - or a planetary BIRTH DAY - an invitation for humanity to rise to a new level of conscious choice and co-creation?
As we move further into 2012, many people are experiencing heightened uncertainty and fear that is exacerbated by the media frenzy of doom and gloom scenarios, as we face a escalation of natural disasters, economic instability, global warming, threats of war, and more.
While many indigenous prophecies - most prominently those of the Maya, whose prophecies are often, erroneously, associated with these "forecasts of 2012 doom" - do concur that a time for a planetary shift is upon us, the leading voices and conscious visionaries of our time are heralding the truth about this shift as a "conscious choice point" for humanity - as Julie Ann shares as the core message on ConsciousSHIFT.
Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guest and concious visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard, especially, has been a leading voice to put forth a more hopeful vision, which is to declare this 2012 “end” date of what is passing away, and as a symbolic marker of what is actually being born within us that is new, that is good, creative and loving.
In fact, Barbara and other fellow conscious visionaries have declared December 22, 2012 as “day one” of the next era of life on this planet - a planetary BIRTH DAY - and an invitation for humanity to shift toward sustainability, peace building, innovative solutions in every field and function.
“This great time is an unprecedented opportunity to collectively make a planetary shift and step forward and give our greatest gifts to the emergence of a new co-creative human society," Barbara shares. "If we do that, together we can ignite a new way of being that endures for decades to come.”
It's clear, humanity is facing a historic turning point.

We are evolving from unconscious chance to conscious choice.

Why?

Because we know we can affect our own evolution by all the choices we make – from the food we eat, the number of babies we have, the cars we drive, and the weapons we build.
At the same time, we also are facing the possibility of the collapse of our life support system - if our choices about our resources are not conscious or based in wisdom.

However, Barbara believes, as does Julie Ann, that this is the potential pivot point for the emergence of something new, something better than we have ever known before.
In Barbara's new book, BIRTH 2012 and Beyond: Humanity’s Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution, she outlines humanity's current crises, and offers a new paradigm for the new age of conscious evolution, as well as tools for becoming the new “universal human.” She offers us the vision of creating a harmonious heart-centered co-creative, sustainable new world.
On ConsciousSHIFT, Barbara will share with Julie Ann why it is time to rapidly connect what is working in every field and function, and communicate through all media, as fast as we can, our creativity, innovations, and capacities to make it through together.
Dec. 22, 2012, has been selected as DAY ONE to consciously contribute to this process. It is our first Planetary BIRTH DAY to celebrate the coming of the next era of evolution based on what works. Join Julie Ann and Barbara to discover YOUR ROLE in this ConsciousSHIFT!

IMAGINE: HOW CREATIVITY WORKS with Jonah Lehrer
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms?
That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?

In IMAGINE: How Creativity Works, bestselling author Jonah Lehrer will share with us a sparkling and revealing look at the new science of creativity.

Shattering many creativity myths, Jonah echoes one of ConsciousSHIFT's themes, that creativity is not a single “gift” possessed by the lucky few. It’s a variety of distinct thought processes that we can ALL learn to use more effectively.
Julie Ann will explore with Jonah the importance of embracing the rut, thinking like a child, and daydreaming productively ... and then take us out of our own heads to show how we can make our neighborhoods more vibrant, our companies more productive, and our schools more effective.
We’ll explore Bob Dylan’s writing habits and the drug addiction of poets ... consider bartender who thinks like a chemist, and an autistic surfer who invented an entirely new surfing move ... see why Elizabethan England experienced a creative explosion, and how Pixar designed its office space to get the most out of its talent.
By collapsing the layers separating the neuron from the finished symphony, Jonah will help us see the deep inventiveness of the human mind, and its essential - and conscious - role it can play in navigating, and co-creating in, our increasingly complex world.
Join Julie Ann as she interviews her guest on ConsciousSHIFT - Jonah Lehrer, author of IMAGINE, who is also a contributing editor at Wired and a frequent contributor to The New Yorker - to discover how YOU can cultivate YOUR creative genius!

According to rising young economist Enrico Moretti, of U.C. Berkeley, we are in the midst of an unprecedented redistribution of jobs, population, and wealth - and a huge shift in the world's centers of innovation - that will only accelerate in the years to come.
Tectonic shifts are reshaping the labor market — from globalization and income inequality to immigration and technological progress — and these shifts are dramatically affecting our communities.
New Innnovation Hubs are emerging - cities with a well-educated labor force and a strong innovation sector. Their workers are among the most productive, creative, and best paid on the planet. At the other extreme are cities once dominated by traditional manufacturing, which are declining rapidly, losing jobs and residents.
In the middle are a number of cities that could go either way - and, for the past 30 years, these differences have been diverging at an accelerating rate. This divergence is one the most important recent developments and is causing growing geographic disparities is all other aspects of our lives, from health and longevity to family stability and political engagement.
But the winners and losers aren’t necessarily who you’d expect. Moretti’s groundbreaking research shows that you don’t have to be a scientist or an engineer to thrive in one of these brain hubs.
In fact, Moretti has shown that for every new innovation job in a city, five additional non-innovation jobs are created, and those workers earn higher salaries than their counterparts in other cities.
It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
As the global economy shifted from manufacturing to innovation, geography was supposed to matter less. But the pundits were wrong. A new map is being drawn — the inevitable result of deep-seated but rarely discussed economic forces.
Julie Ann talks with Moretti about how these trends are reshaping the very fabric of our society - and the effects these innovation shifts will have on you, your work, and your potential going forward.

This is your invitation to LIVE from your heart's highest potential - to unleash your heart's transformative power - with the tools to reduce stress, improve your health & well-being, enhance your performance, and lead you to experience much more positive emotions.
Deborah Rozman, renowned psychologist and HeartMath co-founder, will share how HeartMath's techniques transform the body's physiological response to stressful emotions, so you may meet uncertainty, turbulence, challenge and other stressors - with peace, compassion, openness and joy.
When we learn to live from our heart's deepest wisdom, we can best serve the needs of the day and enjoy our lives more fully.
Positive emotions can literally shift your heart rhythms, transforming the effects of stress - and HeartMath's technologies and scientific research have confirmed the significant role the heart plays in emotional resilience and improved brain function.

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Life happens.
We lose our jobs, we face bankruptcy and foreclosure. Some of us are dealing with a divorce, others of us are facing life threatening illnesses such as cancer. Culturally, we see deep political fighting, immigration issues, war, despair and violence.

In the face of all this, how can we find the courage to forgive and cause a new realm of possibility, a new conversation?
And how can principles of enlightened living and a higher state of consciousness make it possible for us to weather traumatic, life-threatening circumstances, injustice or harm to those we love - and still come through the ordeal with insight, compassion and unconditional love - and respond with forgiveness, even in the face of the seemingly unforgivable?
Julie Ann's ConsciousSHIFT guests Shawne Duperon - the 6-time Emmy-winning filmmaker leading the creation of the new documentary "Project: Forgive" - and Master Charles Cannon - global spiritual teacher and author of "Forgiving the Unforgivable: The True Story of How the Survivors of the Mumbai Terrorist Attack Answered Hatred with Compassion."

Mariana Caplan, author of Eyes Wide Open and Julie Ann's guest on ConsciousSHIFT, reveals that safe travel requires a quality rarely taught, yet critically important, in today’s world: discernment.

Mariana shares that cultivating this acute judgment and discrimination will help us to live a spiritual life with intelligence, clarity, and authenticity.
"The degree to which we are awake, conscious, and discerning in our experience and choices is the extent to which we can consciously participate in our soul’s unfolding. We evolve spiritually by cultivating discernment that is powerful enough to pierce through confusion on every level of our experience," Mariana explains.

Susan's New York Times Bestselling book QUIET has the potential to revolutionize the “Extrovert Ideal” so predominant in the Western World - which she calls the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarous, "outgoing," and comfortable in the spotlight - as her research counters that "Extrovert Ideal," and highlights the valuable qualities possessed by Introverts.

As much lip service as we pay to Goalsetting - you'd think that actually setting goals would pay off in a much bigger way than it seems is the case - New Year's resolutions as the biggest, and perhaps most disappointing, case in point.
That's why I invited my ConsciousSHIFT Show guest Jim Katsoulis to share with you some powerful, paradigm-shifting truth.
And we're going to share with you exactly how why Dreamsetting is much more powerful - as Jim reveals exactly why Goalsetting doesn't work ... and share his best-kept secret for turning your most cherished dreams into accomplishments.
You'll begin to understand why, up to this point, you may have fallen short of the success you know you're here to experience ... and how - by making a few simple adjustments in your mind set, attitude, and behavior - your lifelong dreams can finally become a reality. Join us for this powerful ConsciousSHIFT Show!

Agapi Stassinopoulos - author of "Unbinding The Heart," Huffington Post regular, and Julie Ann Turner's guest on ConsciousSHIFT - says we are all born with an open heart, but we quickly learn to put conditions on our happiness - comparing ourselves to others, casting judgment, doubting ourselves, allowing fear or entitlement or self-righteousness to take hold-and slowly our hearts begin to close.
As a result, Agapi shares that we isolate ourselves, and find ourselves feeling alone, disconnected, and unheard - and, in doing so, we immobilize our spirit, stifle our authentic expression, and cut off our joy.