This is an edited talk that Justine Willis Toms gave in the summer of 2014. She includes the four keys to thriving in chaotic times and compares this time to that of a caterpillar inside the cocoon where it liquefies and the imaginal cells begin to coalesce, soon to emerge as a butterfly. She suggests that we are the imaginal cells of the changing of an age. Since 1973, Justine Willis Toms has been exploring personal, social and spiritual transformation through her work as an electronic journalist, editor and writer. She is co-founder, executive director and host of New Dimensions Radio. She is a founding convener of The Millionth Circle Initiative and has been actively involved in circle work since 1980. She serves on the board of World Prayers as well as Women’s Perspective. In June 2004, she was one of 30 people in the world invited to participate in The Synthesis Dialogues with his holiness the Dalai Lama. She was inducted into the Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2011. She is the author of: True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do (Michael Toms) (Harmony Books 1999) and Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World (Hampton Roads 2008) 

Recorded 6/29/2014     Tags: Justine Willis Toms, Justine Toms, Dr. Haridas Chaudhuri, Cultural Integration Fellowship, CIF, optimism, curiosity, circles, friends of the heart, isolate, isolation, circulate, butterfly, cocoon, chaotic times, GNP, GNH, Gross National Happiness index, media fast, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, Joseph Campbell, Dalai Lama, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Jennifer Louden, certainty, Chinese Bamboo metaphor, Personal Transformation, Self Help