An Interview with Alan Wilson

By Colin Whitby

Editor’s Note:-

I met Alan at a gathering in London this year and was taken with his story of how he has set up a network of support for children and their parents. I found this truly inspirational, and to some extent speaking with Alan has helped me formulate some of my own ideas for the future.

Colin – When did you first come to the realisation that a change of direction was in order, and how did that come about?

Alan – When I was in Advertising and Marketing I realised, whilst on a family holiday, that I no longer wanted to work in that way. I decided to become a Marketing Consultant and found that I had much more time, and it was during this spare time that I started learning Tai Chi. My Tai Chi teacher recommended that I went to see a friend of his who helped me clear some energy blockages, and this left me with such an amazing clear energy. It was after this that I had a session with a life coach where I realised I wanted to put something back, and if it could be to do with children that would be a bonus.

I went to a life coaching weekend, and found that the way I had been working in the past was quite harmonious with the life coaching approach, and I really liked the idea of helping people find their potential. As I had become interested in spirituality I thought it would be an idea to develop this, and I met a spiritual life coach who helped me realise that my passion was to wholistically develop millions of children globally.

My first thought was, how am I going to do that?

Colin – I think this is where many of us get to, but few then take the next step. Where did you go next?

Alan – I was drawn to inner city areas where it is tougher for kids and I soon found that any child with a problem had a parent with a bigger problem. There was no point me helping the kids if they were going to go home to the same environment and not be able to practice their new learnt skills. I then started doing some life coaching with parents which gave me a new perspective, and again I realised that it is no good just helping the children and their parents, there is a need to help the schools and the environments around young people.

I began to be aware that children had so much more to give if we surrounded them with a suitable environment.

So whilst I am happy to work with young people and families, I also want to create an infrastructure to help educate people throughout the country and the world. So far I have set up a web site http://www.developyourchild.co.uk/, made a DVD Kids are really different these days, written a book Listen to your Children and am now setting up a network of coaches throughout the UK, we already have one in Singapore, one in New Zealand, someone in France and possibly someone in Denmark. I’m also in discussions around joint ventures in Australia, New Zealand and possibly Canada and the US.

Colin – On your site you mention Indigo children, how did you get involved with them?

Alan – It was during my life coaching that I realised the importance of intuition, and as I started to study this I discovered Indigo children, and it occurred to me that the parents of these children were having bigger challenges that those of regular parents.

Then met Suzy Miller in the States who showed me how to connect with these children energetically, and from there we were able to help the parents to understand what was going on and coach them to support the children in the way that Suzy did.

So my understanding and belief is that all the terms like Autism, Aspergers, ADD, ADHD, Indigo, Crystal, Rainbow – they are just labels – all I really want people to do is see children as the wonderful magnificent beings that they really are. I think before that can happen parents need to see themselves in a different light.

As a result of this work I have set up another organisation, The Energy Alliance http://www.theenergyalliance.com/, which is a group of energetically aware coaches, therapists, practitioners and teachers who are exploring a belief that as people we are here to assist our children to grow and contribute whilst on this planet. If we are able to co-create an energy-based connection with them, they can teach us as much as we can teach them.

Together we bring a new way of working to anyone who works with children, be that as parent, teacher, therapist, coach or simply friend. This new way encompasses energetics, consciousness, potential and the discovery and unfolding of our children's gifts as a contribution to our world.

We have monthly teleconferences and have interviews with people who have a specialism in a particular area. This work culminated in a conference during November of last year (2006) which was captured on DVD. I also recorded some interviews with kids about their experiences with energy, telepathy and other subjects and this DVD Kids are really different these days is available now from my web site.

So whereas I was previously worried about speaking out about energy openly, particularly to local authorities and places like that, now I have incorporated all this thinking into my new web site Develop Your Child http://www.developyourchild.co.uk/

Colin -– Yes I understand what you mean, I had similar discussions around what to put in this web site, and some of the material is certainly challenging the old ways of thinking.

Alan – Yes it is a risk, and I probably speak to a lot less people, but the ones I do speak to it is just phenomenal.

Colin – Have you noticed that the children of today have different problems to the ones we may have grown up with, such as isolation from spending so much time on computers or the internet, and that the parents do not know how to help them?

Alan – The first stage of this is to re-assure the parents that they have done a good job at being a father or mother, despite the fact that their children may not listen to them or appear to respect them. What they need to do then is understand why the kids are different these days, they are highly sensitive emotionally, physically and energetically, their feeling of isolation and their lack of social skills that have been born out of that isolation.

So it is the environment they are in now that creates this situation and society has created it in a wider perspective. So I encourage parents to see themselves as wonderful, creative and whole, and when they can do that they can then start to see their kids in the same light.

Wherever I talk to young people and they say there are not listened to, they are not valued and not respected I hear the same thing from their parents and the same thing from their teachers. It is the adult who has to be the role model, it is they who have to make the change. I have found through this process that parents are able to have a completely different relationship with their kids. When they start to value and respect their kids and they start to get that back, this is when the whole family dynamic changes.

Colin – I notice that you are now looking to bring others into the arena as coaches, how is that going?

Alan – A coach in Singapore signed up for the Develop Your Child Family Coach training programme in March which lead me to look more closely at the material and as a result I completely re-wrote it and went over there to support her to understand the material, some 81 files. This has kicked off a kind of explosion of interest in the Family Coach training programme which is now going phenomenally well.

Colin – And what does the future hold, what areas are you interested in developing?

Alan – One of the projects I am working on at the moment is the Ethos Empowerment Programme, where I am hoping to get support from lottery funding, and this is a pilot where we intended to work with students, parents and teachers to create an Ethos of Empowerment around young people.

This is similar to the work we have done with the Develop Your Child Foundation http://www.dycf.org/, which was formed to enable the self empowerment programmes of Develop Your Child to be extended into families and the wider community.

So there is plenty going on for the future.

Colin - Alan thank you very much for such an interesting insight into your work, I wish you success in all that you do.

An Interview with Colin Turner

By Colin Whitby

Editor’s Note:-

It must have been sometime during the year 2000 that I was given Colin’s book Shooting the Monkey which for me was a revelation. Here was someone speaking about spiritual matters in the context of our workplace, the very thing I had been struggling with for some years.

Quite early in his book Colin discussed the tendency for us to focus on the negative, rather than the positive, and used our analysis of risks as an example. Typically we would use the SWOT method, looking at Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. In reality we would spend far more effort on looking for weaknesses and threats, which he calls the Seek Weaknesses Only Test.

Far better to use our time and effort focusing on the positive, using the SOM method, by carrying out a Strengths, Opportunities and Merits analysis. When we focus on our strengths our weaknesses do not count, something that I would certainly subscribe to.

So when Colin agreed to be interviewed I was delighted, here is someone who lives his truth to the full, I hope you enjoy.

Colin Whitby - Shooting the Monkey was published in 1999 and I think I must have read it very shortly afterwards, possibly in 2000. When did you start writing?

Colin Turner - I started writing in 1993 with a book called Born to Succeed which did very well, it got to number 6 in the UK and number 1 in Japan and sold over a million copies, and I’ve now written a total of 15 books.

Shooting the Monkey had a dramatic influence in Japan and because of that I changed it slightly and have re-launched it under the title of The Teachings of Billionaire Yen Tzu, I decided to give a less enigmatic name to it, and have tightened it up more into bullet points. It’s now one of those books that wherever you open it you will find a thought for the day.

I changed it because I wanted to open it up more as one of my goals was to get spirituality thinking in to the business world.

Over that period I was also doing a lot of consultancy with a number of businesses including Pfizer, where I helped them launch Viagra, and get them to number to one in the world and a whole host of large major FSTE 100 and Fortune 500 organisations.

At that time I had a farm in Somerset which I sold just before the outbreak of foot and mouth in 2001, which was fortunate timing, and moved to the south of France. Shortly after that I moved to Monaco which has a wonderful climate and is a very safe place to live. I’m also very close to Nice so can travel and meet with global clients from here.

I have been writing books but unfortunately people buy books but they do not read them. So I then I wrote very small books by condensing things down, and I find it’s actually harder to write short books than longer ones, it’s a bit like the Blaise Pascal story ‘the lack of time prevented this letter being shorter’. These smaller books went very well for conferences.

I had an idea that another way of presenting this material would be through iPods, although I was a little ahead of my time with that. This idea has led to another area of interest, I am also president of Future Media PLC in the UK, where we do e-learning on a whole host of different subjects.

As a further digression I have started to write adventure thriller fiction, I write under the name of Emerson Cole, where I have written GodSword and Nemesis Circle, GodSword has just been launched in paperback in the UK.
http://www.meettheauthor.co.uk/bookbites/1492.html

Colin W - Well your books certainly provoke change, and one of the classic problems when introducing change is that people can attend courses or read books that can change their lives, only to find that when they bring these new ideas into the workplace they are told ‘we don’t do things like that here’.

Colin T - Yes well our subconscious knows our Achilles heel so well, we strive to remain consistent with what we are most familiar with even if it is leading us away from what we really want. One of the things I wrote about in Shooting the Monkey was how to be in the right place at the right time and how to draw things to you and I use this a lot.

For example on the 24th July I was launching my book GodSword and we were doing a bit of TV and Radio. I met with my son who has a part in a new film Mamma Mia! produced by Tom Hanks and starring Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep. We had met at the Sofitel and we had a reporter come along to discuss an article.

During the discussion it was suggested to get the book into the hands of Pierce Brosnan. However I would not like to exploit this kind of situation, perhaps if we focus on this idea we’ll see what happens.

The reporter then left and my son and I had another cup of tea, although we should have left ourselves. Later when I stood up to leave I turned round and bumped in to Pierce Brosnan! Now this was an example of instant manifestation. Once you are focused like that these things happen quite a lot.

The secret is that most of us know what we don’t want, and we hope what we don’t want doesn’t happen, which of course it does. It can be hard as we have been programmed not to, but we must focus on what we really really want.

You know from basic Gestalt, if we buy a new car we begin to see them everywhere, but usually we only see them after we have bought the car. If you know exactly what you want, right down to the detail, then it will materialise.

For example when I was looking for my farm in Somerset I wrote down exactly what I wanted in absolute detail, where it should be situated, the lie of the land and so on, although I did not detail the inside of the farmhouse.

An agent took me to a property that he thought would fit the bill and although some of the features were hidden and had to be uncovered, everything I wanted was there. However, we had to gut the whole farmhouse and rebuild the inside, and this was the area I had not visualised.

What I do now is I use what I call the 1% solution. A day comprises of 1440 minutes, and 1% of that day is 14 minutes, so if you focus on what you want for 1% of your day, the other 99% takes care of itself. This is detailed in my book Passion vs Pension or Lead to Succeed. Nothing can be materially accomplished until first it is mentally accomplished so we must visualise it.

However people are so busy doing their job they are not actually living their dream. So when we get bogged down in low energy it is because we are allowing all the other energies to distract you from things.

Colin W - Yes I can think of an example where something similar happened to us, where we had detailed exactly what we would like in a caravan, and had written it down clearly. When we went to a caravan show we stepped into the first van we came to and knew that it was the one. The strange thing was we then went round the exhibition to see some of the others, just to make sure, because we couldn’t believe it was that easy.

Colin T - That is exactly an example of where we question it and then doubt our own energy, however if we could stop rationalising life becomes much easier. People often say, hang on you’ve got to be realistic, but in effect most of the important things that happen in our lives happen after a period of chaos, and the same word for chaos in China means opportunity. Sometimes events need to knock you off the spot because you are not in the flow, when you are in the flow, things just seem to happen to you.

It’s easy to know when you are in the flow, if you make a decision and it feels heavy, then it’s not in the flow, there should be a sense of euphoria about what you are going to do. So when you sat I the caravan and felt it was right, in there was no need to look at anything else, and you would also avoid seeing something else that would make you think you made the wrong choice, but we do it to ourselves.

Colin W - Have you been noticing a shift in large organisations over the years in their approach to the way they work, with regard to the kind of teachings you have been giving.

Colin T - Yes most certainly, people are finding they are able to express their vocation within the business area, in fact this is probably the best area in which to do so. The most important thing in life is to make people feel valued, and in business where people do not feel valued they do not perform, if customers don’t feel valued they wont buy. So over the last 5 years HR has now raised it’s level and a lot of HR directors are now sitting on the board, whereas before they were policing. There are 4000 corporate universities in America, and 400 in the UK, which is increasing, and they are all interesting in the value of the individual.

There is still some way to go but there has been a huge change, people now know so much more, access to the internet and such like gives people much more understanding, and they know if someone is ripping them off. So there has been a raising of consciousness and awareness in that the only way to serve yourself is to serve others; Executives are now aware that in order to get on they need to be professional and creative in order to achieve excellence, and if they work from that centred place they provide role models for others.

The key message is follow your heart, know what your heart is and channel your Godself.

Colin W - Colin thanks so much for your time, it has been a pleasure speaking with you.

Interview with Lou Rhodes

By Colin Whitby

I hope you enjoy our interview with Lou Rhodes who’s latest album ‘Beloved One’ was featured in our last edition. The album really resonated with us and it should be no surprise that Lou’s interview has confirmed our ‘knowing’ that she performs from the heart.

Don’t forget you can find out more about Lou from her web site

Colin.

Colin Whitby: Who do you feel has been your main inspiration over the years (music or other influences)?

Lou Rhodes: I think rather than “who” my answer would be rather a “what”. Essentially my influence and inspiration since I can remember has been “love” in all it’s forms and guises. I’ve resigned myself over recent years to the fact that I’m very heart-centred. I used to think this was a weakness but have begun to think more and more of it as a strength. I’ve just got into the work of David Deida and find he speaks my truth in a profound way. I believe more and more that the pursuit of deeper and deeper love is about abandonment to the divine. I feel very lucky to have an outlet for these feelings through my songs. I think I’d be too much for those close to me if I didn’t have this!

CW: Do you find that being yourself so openly has brought like minded people to you (like attracts like)?

LR: Yes I think it does to a degree. I get so many lovely e-mails and letters from people telling me my songs have somehow helped them deal with feelings they have and that’s such a blessing to me. It’s funny though; although my songs may give the impression that I’m this incredibly open person who’s really in touch with her feelings I find that, in my own relationships, I still find it hard to express my own, deepest truths.

CW: If you could pick a song that meant the most to you in recent years, what would it be and why?

LR: Not sure if you mean one of my own songs or someone elses. Hmm, guess I should answer to both. My own: Each Moment New (my “flagship” song) Someone else’s: Oh so many! Think I’d have to go for “My Lady of the Island” by Stephen Stills. (I just wish someone had written a song like that for me!)

CW: You were supported by Jim Moray recently, do you feel his style of mixing old and new is the way forward for folk?

LR: I think folk is essentially about mixing old and new. Many people have the idea of folk music being about woolly jumpers, beards, pipes and dusty old pubs. This is what sidelines it as a musical genre. Folk is basically “music of the people”. It’s about story-telling and conveying life-experience and roots. Our roots in the contemporay west are multi-faceted and multi-cultural. It would be very blinkered for us to cut out these influences in our music.

CW: Did you find Lamb fans followed you to your new solo career?

LR: Yes, some have and, I guess some of the more electronic and beats oriented fans didn’t. In general I’ve had really lovely responses from Lamb fans.

CW: We saw you on Daughters of Albion, where we heard Beloved One for the first time. How did your involvement in the concert come about?

LR: My involvement in Daughters of Albion came about by chance. An old friend of mine who worked in connection with the Barbican suggested me for it and the rest’s history. It was an amazing event to be a part of.

CW: The song Beloved One has evoked a very personal response in myself and my wife connecting each of us somehow deeper with ourselves, have you found others have responded in this way?

LR: That’s wonderful to hear. Yes I have heard from a few people that Beloved One spoke to them deeply. For me it was an attempt to convey feelings that were almost beyond words so to hear that it got through to even a few is reward indeed.

CW: Your appearance on the Mercury Awards was another high this year, how has your nomination impacted you?

LR: Getting nominated was great. It felt like a real acknowledgemnet of my work. Things like that are funny though. Once it’s over it’s very much... business as usual.

CW: What are your plans for 2007, will you be touring?

LR: As I write it’s the first week of 2007. I’m about a third of the way into writing and recording my new album. I don’t have a title as yet but one will come when it comes. In the diary so far is a small US tour in March, Australia in April and UK and Europe in May (watch www.infinitebloom.com for details). I’m also really looking forward to the summer festival season in the UK and Europe and hope to play at some of my favourites.

An Interview with Liz Morrison

By Colin Whitby

Liz and I first met whilst working in a central government office in the UK where we had completely different roles, she in communications and myself as a deployment manager for one of the projects there.

It was only when I attended a workshop run by Soleira Green that I met one of Liz’s friends who said she knew someone working in the same department. I thought how likely was it that I would know her friend in a department of several thousand people, but yes not only did I know her, but she and I had worked together a number of times.

For me this shows that many of us may think we are working alone with this new energy when in fact, just down the corridor, is someone else who may be thinking the same way. This signals a move from keeping this kind of discussion under wraps with a select few trusted souls to a more open dialogue.

So this interview is a result of these synchronistic meetings, I hope you enjoy.

Colin.

Colin: I love the interesting way we discovered we were both working with the new energy, but in different ways, how would you describe what you do?

Liz: The other day I was speaking at an NLP type of conference to a hundred or so people and prior to the meeting I had sent through a powerpoint presentation (expecting some projection facilities to be provided). However on arrival there was no projector so I set about photocoping a photograph that I was going to use in my presentation and distributed it to the audience; it was a picture of my horse.

I am interested in using different ways of communicating with the issues that are going on in the world and the example I use is our relationship with animals.

So I asked the audience to look at the picture and just imagine what it is like to be a horse. For example a horse is a prey animal, whereas we are predators, so we look straight ahead with a fairly limited angle of vision whereas horses have nearly 360° vision, with their eyes on the side of their head they have blind spots immediately in front and behind them.

Then I talked about how sensitive their other senses were, like smell and taste. As modern humans we barely use our senses of taste and smell, whereas the horse has very keen senses in these areas. The horse also has very sensitive skin and can flick off a fly virtually anywhere on their body whereas we would have much trouble twitching our skin.

So we seem to think we are above animals and yet here is one which is using all it’s senses to their full. A horse’s hearing for example is very keen, their ears are right on top of their heads and can move them 180°, and can also be used to show their emotions.

When the audience were thinking how it was to be a horse I asked if anyone was getting anything about this horse, anything about her body condition, emotional state, her temperament, her character, what was it like to be inside this horse’s body.

What intrigued me was that about five people immediately connected to the fact that this horse was pregnant, yet the picture was taken about 4 years previously, way before the pregnancy was established.

So that just shows that with a very gentle process of asking people to step into another consciousness, or being, that they were able to get current information about that horse, and in a public setting.

When I spoke to the people afterwards they were adamant that this was the very first thought that had popped into their heads, ‘this horse is pregnant’, then of course they dismissed it, which is quite important. This is something we all do, we dismiss our intuition as not relevant.

The interesting thing is just how this tuning in is possible and how important it is to start listening to stuff that we have naturally dismissed because it does not meet our conscious working world criteria.

Colin: Yes I think we can all relate to that example, where we often dismiss our first thought which is invariably right. How do you bring this kind of thinking to work, to this government department, for example.

Liz: Many of my friends ask me why I work in a large government department, we’ll never be able to change that system. I’ve done a lot of work on one to one change but I’m also very interested in systemic change, how do you get huge systems, huge organisations, to connect into bigger issues and take a more holistic view, how and were do we intervene.

With the many issues we have, whether we call them new age, sustainability, change management, business re-engineering, the actual process has to be ‘how do we make change happen’. So this is a fundamental element to everything I am doing, I am doing this job to teach me more about real complexity and started looking at the job from that point of view.

For example, what energy can I bring to this meeting so that people take and interest and participate. So I am learning and testing my way of being in order to create little spaces for this kind of thinking to spread. We could have a discussion about the example of the horse and the photograph over a coffee, then go further into how do we ‘know what we don’t know’ in the context of a big IT project.

Colin: It seems that we need to choose the most appropriate language for the context in which we are working.

Liz: Yes, and it is so easy to fall into the thought that it’s all someone else’s problem and it’s not my fault, so the question is ‘how on earth can we start to take the responsibility individually to start making these little changes’. It’s no use making huge sweeping statements like saying ‘you’ll never change government its corrupt’, which absolves us from taking any responsibility in every situation. It would be very easy to criticise as opposed to finding solutions, and the solution comes in your way of being in each situation.

Colin: It’s amazing how many people have an opinion as to where the right place to be is, I have been asked many times how it is I am working with organisations that have such dense energies, would I not be better to move to more enlightened organisations? So my key challenge has been how to we bring this kind of energy and thinking to the workplace, which in this case just happens to be in large organisations.

Liz: Yes and I think we have all got to rise to the challenge of ‘oh it’s too big, it’s hopeless’, of going into these environments and making these apparently tiny changes and just raise people’s awareness of their responsibility. There’s also something here about being in a continuous learning space ourselves, of not going into that ‘I’m right, you’re wrong’ situation. The question would be ‘are you tolerant enough to tolerate intolerance?’. In order to ‘be’ we need to be enough in control to let go. It’s so easy to say, ‘I’m being and you’re not, I’m good and you’re bad’ and to put a value judgement onto people’s behaviours, so our challenge is to be completely detached from the measurement, from the good/bad, I’m better than you kind of thinking.

So to go with the changes that are coming our way we need to go with the flow, it’s like riding a horse, we cannot resist the movement to make something happen. There are a lot of activism that wants to change the direction of energy by pulling or blocking, whereas I think we need to sense where the energy is going and then, by our way of being, guide it in a new state. So there is a whole thing there about our congruence in our behaviour and attitude, so that we ‘be the change we want to see in the world’.

Unless we understand another person’s perspective, like stepping into that horse, we are never going to be enough to have these universal connections.

Colin: That’s great Liz, thanks very much for your time.

Your can read more about Liz and her different approaches at:-

http://www.sportingtactics.co.uk/
http://www.sustainabletactics.co.uk/

An Interview with Soleira Green

By Colin Whitby

Editor’s Note:-

I first met Soleira and Santari during a weekend conference they were running which was about Soul in Business, something which many of us have been thinking about, wondering where it is for example. This was some 7 or 8 years ago, and since then I have taken part in many of Soleira’s e-courses, all of which have been stretching and exactly what was needed in the moment.

I love the way Soleira can word this new energy and structure it so that others can not just comprehend it but also take it away with them and it put into action. I have learnt a great deal from the many hours of love and attention that Soleira puts into everything she does.

Colin Whitby: You’ve just returned from Australia, what did you do there and how did your world travels come about?

Soleira Green: The trip was fantastic. I worked with the most amazing people in Singapore, Melbourne, Perth and at our seven day course in Old Bar, NSW. Everywhere I go now, I continually meet people who are fully on line for evolution and for making the world a greater place.

For my own part, I’m leading courses on Evolutionary Coaching & Visionary Leadership at the moment, although that’s always evolving and transforming into something new. Jane MacAllister Dukes and I run The Evolutionary Network, which is a company dedicated to moving the world powerfully forward in our conscious evolution. At the moment we have 26 trainers working with us throughout the world to bring this work to people in countries everywhere. Our approach is based on energetics and consciousness, but energetics in terms of vibrational living and consciousness in terms of real life, walking around, eyes open wisdom, knowing and conscious understanding of who we really are and what we’re really here for.

CW: We met when you lived in Bristol, six or seven years ago – how would you describe your journey since then?

SG: When you and I met we were doing one of the first Corporate Soul Conferences. Since then I’ve hosted thirteen transformational conferences on Corporate Soul, Global Transformation and New Leadership. I stopped running the conferences a few years ago and have concentrated over the past three years on evolving the world of coaching. Imagine … there are over 3 million coaches throughout the world … and our goal over this time has been to get them all working on empowering people to leap into their visionary selves and evolve our world. We feel we’ve taken that a huge way as many of the coaching influencers are now talking about the influencing potential of the coaching community, as individuals and as a whole. A part of my work to make this happen was my first book in print, The Alchemical Coach … Coaching Passion, Potential and Power, as well as the development of an Advanced Coach Training Programme that wove conscious evolution into coaching potential.

This past year I’ve concentrated my efforts also on visionary leadership, having just completed my second book in print, The New Visionaries … Evolutionary Leadership for a Vibrant World. My goal in 2007 is to revolutionise the face of leadership on the planet by the end of the year. Feels like it’s time for that for sure!

CW: Tell me about your new book and how it came about?

SG: I’ve met the most fantastic people over the years and it dawned on me that in fact here was this emerging social trend, new visionary leaders popping up all over the planet … people with incredible visions who don’t waste their time protesting what is or trying to fix the old. They dive in with great passion and glee to create and invent the latest new. They’re leaderful, collaborative, inventive, creative, fresh, inspiring, empowering and just down right effective in making things happen. They don’t vision 20 or 50 years out. They make things happen right here right now. They live in the present and they don’t follow anyone else’s norms. They’re constantly inventing new ways to live, work, play, learn and evolve.

This is a new kind of leadership that’s springing up from the people. Our traditional leaders are failing us. They’re not producing engaging, empowering results. In fact, they seem to be taking us in a direction that the people don’t really seem to want to go. So here’s this new leadership popping up in unusual ways, right from the people, to make things go in the direction that Life wants. It’s about working with potential instead of problems and with passion instead of fear. It’s about seeing people as the magnificent beings they really are, empowering them to gift us the stunning contributions they’ve come to give.

Hence my newest book, The New Visionaries, to show the world that there is a brand new face on leadership today and that that face could as easily be a three year old child or an eighty-five year old woman. The time of the black suits is almost over and the time of colourful visionaries has arrived. I’m thrilled to call myself a new visionary and to have been able to capture their essence in this new book. It’s full of interviews with amazing people from all over the world who are personifying this new kind of leadership and creating brand new ways of getting things done.

A great example for me of a new visionary is Jamie Oliver, who has just transformed the world of children’s school dinners in the UK. It’s amazing how he’s done that in such creative and collaborative ways, including getting Tony Blair to say that whatever he felt was needed for this to happen, the government would provide. Jamie’s my latest hero. I think he should get a medal for all he’s done for us here in the UK, from hiring kids in low income areas and training them to be chefs in his Fifteen restaurants around the world, to providing hot, nutritious meals for kids in the school system, to encouraging families to eat together several times a week to keep the family relationships strong. The world is for sure a better place with people like Jamie doing visionary work in it.

CW: One night recently we received a phone call from Jo telling us you were on the TV. The program was about children with unusual physic talents and you were coaching them. Tell us something about how you came to be on TV and how your work with children has developed.

SG: There's a lot of interest these days in new kids and all the possibilities that they hold for our future. They’re good examples of the newly evolving us. They are however equally stunned by the world we live in and require our assistance in helping them to hold onto their gifts and abilities as well as to be able to make their unique contributions to our collective future.

I’m not a fan of labels for kids, or for anyone for that matter. So I tend to see beyond many of the current labels given to the new kids ... indigo, rainbow, crystal and star kids, autistic, aspergers, ADD and ADHD to name a few. These kids are personifying a new vibrational frequency for us, as are many adults today. But with the kids, it’s getting more and more evident as they’re forced to live in an outdated school system that doesn’t honour the evolution of our intelligence and the new learning options that that requires. I’ve been a voice for this evolving intelligence and learning over the last ten years and have been fairly vocal in speaking up for our kids’ potential. I think we’re now beginning to see big shifts in this area as there are now global home schooling conferences and many alternative schooling options.

I just spoke at a conference here in the UK called ‘Kids Are Really Different These Days … Pioneering an Evolutionary Frontier.’ It was brilliant, bringing together experts from Australia the US and the UK to show parents and educators how they can relate in a new and different way to our marvellous new kids today. The conference was recorded and a DVD on it is likely to be released in 2007. For anyone who’s interested in this whole area, check out www.theenergyalliance.com. It’s hosted by Alan Wilson from the UK and is an alliance of experts from around the world who are working for the evolution of parenting, education and anything related to kids in general.

CW: There is a new kind of energy available now, and it feels like 2007 is going to be one to remember, what are your impressions and what are your plans?

SG: This is going to be an awesome year. We’re going to start to really see inspiring leadership around the world in unusual ways. And we’re going to get more and more global, as well as cosmic, in our view of things. Yes, I suppose there will be some of what people would call disasters, like weather changes and the water line rising on the coasts, but overall I think that everything that happens to us is an opportunity for our conscious evolution, so I don’t really fuss about that stuff too much. I just get on with creating new possibilities into reality.

2006 saw a lot of us, who have been on the leading edge for years, coming finally into a certain level of recognition, acceptance and abundance. Top people in companies now are looking for what we have to provide. It’s like all the old ways are used up and more and more top leaders in business are looking for something new and much more powerfully effective.

We’re starting to see now that companies must be environmentally responsible, but much more than that, I think we’re going to now start seeing the companies that make great profits be the ones that care about their people and who provide super products that support and empower life all around us.

I’m working with visionaries who believe that business leaders can come together with their incredible acumen, resources and knowledge to solve the world’s problems. I hold a view of the world as an abundant place, one that can provide an incredible life for people everywhere. The world she is a’changing and the way I see it, there’s no greater time than now to be alive on this gorgeous planet Earth, creating the evolution of ourselves into a brand new race that’s moving into a cosmicious view of our part in the greatest of evolutionary games. And in my view, it doesn’t get much better than that!

Soleira Green is a global visionary, author and speaker. To learn more about Soleira, visit her websites at:

www.transformingourworld.com Visionary training and events

www.wowingourworld.com  Her WOW web magazine

www.visionarybiz.biz  For businesses contributing to the world

or contact her directly at soleira@newvisionaries.net.