Who We Are
We are a network of activists, business people, leaders, scientists, spiritual teachers, thought-leaders, and other change-agents who are applying the disciplines and practices of Organizational Consulting, Engaged Spirituality & Lived Philosophy, and Strategic Activism to catalyze individual leadership capacity and to create highly effective groups, teams, organizations, communities, and social-change movements.
Our Passion
Our work centers on how to most skillfully address the unprecedented environmental and social crises of our time, particularly where environmental and human rights concerns intersect.
The call is clear. Global warming and other catastrophic environmental crises have finally gone mainstream. Many human rights crises -- from the AIDS pandemic to global genocides and cultural destruction -- are of similar proportion.
Given the enormous magnitude of the crises we face, clearly we must go well beyond the "business as usual" world-view.
Instead, the world needs a range of responses to catalyze and facilitate the required change.
Our Unique Approach
- To prompt and facilitate the needed transformation, Paths to Change brings to bear three primary approaches -- or Paths:
- Organizational consulting, training, facilitation, and coaching;
- Engaged Spirituality & Lived Philosophy -- spiritual and/or philosophical practices that seek to directly engage with and transform the suffering of the world; and
- Strategic Activism.
More than anything else in the full Paths to Change repertoire, our customers/clients and communities call on us for these approaches -- either individually, or with the three Paths integrated in some way.
Additionally, we are among the few who are able to blend "clockware" and "swarmware" practices.
Clockware practices are conventional approaches that treat change like clockwork, and that involve traditional strategizing, research, planning, facilitation, management, and targeted outcomes.
Swarmware practices are more innovative approaches drawn from complexity science and from select ancient wisdom and mastery traditions, and are characterized by non-linearity, emergence, experimentation, diffusion, serendipity, spontaneous learning, and innovation.
Our Work and the Results
We offer a full spectrum of Resources and Services across all three Paths, to meet the needs of our customers/clients, and communities.
Paths to Change Resources and Services include, but are not limited to:
- Communication Consulting
- Complex Adaptive Systems Consulting
- Conscious Marketing Consulting for Socially Responsible Groups
- Consulting for Socially & Environmentally Responsible Organizations
- Engaged Spirituality & Strategic Activism Retreats
- Event Facilitation (e.g. for conferences, symposia, etc.)
- Information Technology & Systems Integration – including IT solutions for project management, organizing and mobilizing constituent groups, helping groups to self-organize virtually (using Open Space technology)
- Leadership Coaching
- Life Coaching
- Organizational Development Consulting
- Small-Enterprise Consulting
- Visionary SoloPreneur Consulting
- Workshops/Training
Additionally, our soon-to-be-completed online store will offer:
- Articles
- Books
- E-Zines and E-Books
- PDF Guides and Workbooks
- Blogs
- Downloadable Audio Talks and Video Presentations
- E-Learning Courses
- Webinars
To get a sense of what's in store, visit the website of our team member, Ivy Sea. Ivy Sea Online has been recognized by Harvard Business School, CEO Refresher, Inc.com, and other high-calibre organizations as one of the best resources on the internet for entrepreneurs, leaders, and socially conscious change-agents.
Visit Ivy Sea Online's Resource Store now.
Our Customers/Clients and Communities
- Paths to Change works with individuals, community-based organizations, socially & environmentally responsible corporations and other for-profits, governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other non-profits.
- Given our three Paths – Organizational Consulting, Engaged Spirituality & Lived Philosophy, and Strategic Activism – the roles we play with customers/clients and communities will vary as best suits the need.
- Depending on the project, we may work as fee-for-service, or from grants to support non-profits. At other times we may be citizen-activists in social change campaigns and actions; or we may offer complimentary events or online resources in our roles as spiritual teachers and leaders.
- See a partial list of customers/clients
- Review testimonials from customers/clients about our team members and their work clients
- See a sampling of our projects and results clients
Our Team
Paths to Change has existed as a network of colleague-collaborators working together in formal and informal ways on specific projects since 1995 — bringing decades of experience individually, and a collective history that adds up to centuries. We reached a crucial decision to come together in a more formal, focused way in a recent re-organization.
- Learn more about Paths To Change Team Members
- Through early 2008, we’ll be clarifying roles and responsibilities, and formal agreements between Team Members. We’ll also standardize our online profiles describing our backgrounds, areas of expertise, typical projects and results.
During this timeframe, we will also formally redesign our existing for-profit structures, and create a new nonprofit.
Over the coming months, the Paths to Change website will evolve to reflect our new vision, direction, structure, resources and services, team members, logo and look, and more.
And Right Now
Though we are in the midst of a redesign, Paths to Change is active and available for consultation now.
So do contact us with any requests for information or consultation.
As we've noted, we're in the process of redesigning our brand new logo, look, and website -- including integrating content-offerings from various Paths to Change members' sites.
Even so, we invite you to visit our previous website to learn more about Paths to Change, our projects, clients, and network members.
