ChangeBridge™

ChangeBridge™

Leadership Summit

Innovative Leadership & Conscious Entrepreneurship For Global Change

November 13-15, 2020

In Partnership with the Détente Foundation

and Mandala Springs - Wellness Retreat Center

Our earth is communicating to us that we must behave differently.

We are being forced to change.We are being shown the interconnectedness of all life on Earth, including the health of humanity and health of our environment.

These times call for strong leaders and social entrepreneurs to step forward and build a sustainable future for our planet.

This is the time to create much needed change. Join us to connect, learn, and inspire each other and identify real solutions for lasting change.

This ChangeBridge summit is the first of many conferences designed to bring thought leaders together
to find innovative ways to create sustainable change.

At a time when the stakes are high and the need for change has never been so great, we must find new ways to come together and be that change.

Event Highlights

Mandala Springs' Retreat and Education Center Campus
Meditations, hiking, yoga, more
Participants may arrive November 12th if they would like to enjoy additional time on the land and connect with nature on the 120 acre site.
Limited attendees to comply with social distancing. The large property and distanced structures provide an ideal facility to maintain social distancing. Cost: $1,500 per person for three nights

Event Topics

Conscious innovation as a bridge to systemic change
What current events are teaching us about human, environmental, and psychological health
How leadership and entrepreneurship are a solution the problems we currently face
The interconnectedness of human and environmental health
How who we are spiritually affects the ecological whole

Practices for healing ourselves to heal the whole
Building food, water, and environmental systems that serve humanity and the planet and how they are interrelated
How to facilitate a shift in belief and consciousness
Innovative hybrid organizations and organizational sociology
Sustainable and regenerative ways of living and creating balance

Speakers

Wilford Welch

Wilford has been exploring the driving forces impacting our world for more than five decades as a U.S. diplomat in Asia; as an economic development and business consultant in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the U.S.; as the publisher of a world affairs magazine that appeared in 26 countries in six language editions; and as the leader of educational trips to numerous countries and cultures. Wilford developed future planning scenarios for a number of multinational corporations and governments, including Citibank, Toyota, the U.S. Navy, and the Korean Government. He was the leader of a research team that developed the Wealth of Nations Index to measure each nation’s economic, information technology, and social well-being. He is the author of In Our Hands: A Handbook for Intergenerational Actions to Solve the Climate Crisis, and The Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World. Wilford has a BA from Yale, a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PMD degree from the Harvard Business School.

Dr. Lisa Rayburn, Esq.

Lisa Rayburn is the founder and CEO of The Détente Foundation, and an advisor, educator, leadership counsel, and ecotheologian. She leads individuals and groups through change. As an attorney and business executive she was trained to think strategically. Her life has also been largely dedicated to helping people spiritually. She has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine, a law degree from Southwestern University School of Law, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Claremont School of Theology in Spiritual Renewal, Contemplative Practice, and Strategic Leadership. She believes we are experiencing a critical time when we must live in elevated ways we have never done before, especially our leaders. We must realize the sacred nature of the world we live in, and how everything is interconnected. She believes we need more truth and wisdom in our lives not only for our personal wellbeing, but to ensure that humanity has what it needs. Her work includes studies in consciousness, neurotheology, neuroplasticity, and how we might embody ways of being that improve our world. She helps entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and business leaders, among others, to be who the world needs them to be, and build companies and form alliances that serve the world. Her work also includes speaking, teaching, and gathering leaders to dialogue about how to ensure the world has what it needs including a regenerative food supply, clean water, and a thriving environment.

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Cleveland Justis is the founder and principal of the Potrero Group. An accomplished organizational leader in entrepreneurship and the environment for the past 25 years, Cleveland has worked and consulted widely with startups, businesses, nonprofits, foundations, and governmental organizations, including the National Park Service, Resources Legacy Fund, and Grand Canyon Conservancy. He currently teaches Social Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Cleveland’s expertise spans strategic planning, business planning, board development, public/private partnerships, entrepreneurship, network analysis, and innovation. He was formerly the executive director of the UC Davis Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and co-founded and served as director of the Institute at Golden Gate. He also held executive level positions at Headlands Institute of NatureBridge (formerly Yosemite National Institutes) and the National Outdoor Leadership School. Cleveland served as board chair of the Marin Community Foundation (over $2 billion in assets), as a board member of Net Impact, an organization with a global network of more than 15,000 leaders who are changing the world through business, and as a commissioner of the Marin County Parks and Open Space Commission. Cleveland studied biology and environmental sciences at Swarthmore College and the University of California, Berkeley. He received an MBA in strategic management and finance at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, and a PhD in Social Entrepreneurship at UC Davis.

Heidi Kuhn

Heidi Kuhn is Founder and CEO of Roots of Peace, a humanitarian-nonprofit organization with a vision to transform MINES-TO-VINES, replacing the scourge of landmines with sustainable agricultural farmland. Her pioneering work empowers families living in war-torn regions with hope leading to the economics of peace through export and trade. Previously, Heidi owned her own television news organization, NewsLink International, reporting for ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Nippon Television and other media organizations. Heidi has grown Roots of Peace across the world with the support of the United States Government, United Nations, World Bank, international governments, Rotary Clubs and the private sector. She has been recognized by numerous world leaders including UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, His Holiness Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, the Grand Mufti of the Dome of Jerusalem and many heads of state. Heidi and Roots of Peace have received numerous awards including the 2006 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Award/National Jefferson Award for Public Service, and the Rotary International “Service Above Self” Award. In 2018, she received the inaugural Earth Ethics Award from Marcus Nobel, nephew of Alfred Nobel presented to her at the United Nations in New York. In 2019, Heidi received the Gandhi Global Family Award in New Delhi, the first American to receive this prestigious award.

J. Phillip Jones

J. Phillip Jones is a licensed psychotherapist, a spiritual counselor, and rites of passage facilitator. He is the author of Transcendence: Finding Peace at the End of Life. Phillip’s undergraduate studies in science and engineering and masters work in Organizational Development led him to the fields of psychology, philosophy, and religion to find complementary answers to life’s pressing questions. After serving as an officer in the U.S. Army, Phillip took an upwardly mobile job in systems engineering at a nuclear submarine base, but later made a radical career change, opting for seventeen years of spiritual study and discipline as a Hindu monk. In the 1990’s he traveled to meet/learn from prominent spiritual teachers of the Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Islamic, Sikh, and Native American traditions, and organized over a dozen North American Interfaith Conferences to make the universal wisdom teachings of these traditions available to the public. Phillip returned from monastic life to complete a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology, and began two decades of work in therapy, with young men and women, couples, people going through mid-life crises, and hospice patients at the end of life. He began an intensive study of Carl Jung’s teachings in 1993, and later integrated Jung’s personality insights with principles of indigenous Medicine Wheels. This developed into Phillip’s Life Wheel Model, which helps a person find their primary strength pattern, and how it fits into the larger relational circles of family, community, business, etc. Phillip is nearing completion of a new book entitled The Four Seeds of Greatness, which incorporates essential teachings of the Life Wheel Model. He and his wife Ana lead transformational group journeys around the world.

Vish Chatterji

After a successful twenty-year career as an executive and entrepreneur, Vish is honoring his soul mission as an East-meets-West Executive & Life Coach. He helps business leaders find balance and success through the wisdom of the Vedic tradition. He has studied and practiced yoga, meditation and Ayurveda (mind-body medicine) for over two decades, learning in Himalayan ashrams and at the Chopra Center in California. Vish coaches and advises senior executives and small-business owners blending Western management thinking with Eastern wisdom traditions and speaks on a variety of topics at the intersection of business and spirituality.Vish holds a BA in mechanical engineering from Northwestern, an MBA from the University of Michigan and an Executive Coaching Certificate from UC Berkeley. Vish is a publicly elected Board Director for the Beach Cities Health District in California and is the author of The Business Casual Yogi: Take Charge of Your Body, Mind & Career.

Onsite Experience

This summit includes food and lodging at Mandala Springs, a 1 12 acre wellness retreat center in the Mayacamas Mountains north of the Bay Area— a place where nature and spirit meet and create a natural healing environment for all.

Onsite Activities

Cafe & bookstore
Camp fire
Outdoor Pool & Jacuzzi
Boating & water activities
Camp Fires
Lawn Games & sports
Two year round creeks

120 acres of hiking trails
Meditation spots
Community garden
9 hole pitch & putt
Archery range
Bicycles to explore the grounds
Yoga studio

Event Registration

Event Cost

Conference Fee

Conference Fee - $1,000. Stay offsite and attend the conference. Catering and onsite activities included.

Accommodations at Mandala Springs

Accommodations A - $900. Private cottage or deluxe house room, private bathrooms.
Accommodations B - $700. Deluxe house or A frame, shared bathrooms.
Accommodations C - $500. Pods, rustic cabins, private Glamp tents with shared bathrooms.

Catering

Mandala Springs offers locally-sourced, organic and responsibly farmed gourmet vegetarian menus and impeccable service. Dining can be set outdoors in the pavilion, or in your private room. Rooms include a private lodge room, cottage or rustic cabin.

Campus Location

Health & Safety

Mandala Springs is authorized to conduct small retreats, its expansive campus and distanced accommodations can provide a relaxed environment while allowing for social distancing. Event meeting spaces and activities will comply with local and state guidelines, and its updated cleaning practices help increase guest safety.