Upcoming Events

Empowering Evolutionary Leadership
with Barbara Marx Hubbard
August 14 - 17, 2008, Hummingbird Ranch, NM
A new worldview is emerging that can guide humanity across the threshold from our current set of unprecedented crises to
a sustainable, co-creative world. That view is called conscious evolution. It is the evolution of evolution itself. Click here for more information about this event >>

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What participants have said about prior Global Family gatherings

“This note is simply to let you know the depth of the impact being with you has had on us, and how it so supports and affirms the work we are committed to in this world at this time. Each of us is personally processing the events — concrete and wordless — that occurred during the magical “Convergence”.

And at the same time we know we want to continue to honor and nurture what was so powerfully and lovingly presenced during our time with Hummingbird Community."

-- Group of Participants from Santa Barbara, CA

"I went to the Global Family advance not really knowing why - it just felt like the right thing to do. What occurred for me was a sacred, personal and transforming experience, guided by the loving intention of both the facilitators and the other participants."

Much love and blessings,
Tom Gibbons
New Mexico, USA

"What impressed me so much about this program was that, with the assistance and the active participation of the experienced and dedicated facilitators, and the healing power of the land at Hummingbird Ranch, we were indeed able to take a “quantum leap” in our connection with each other, with ourselves and with Nature! The program also helped me in increasing my awareness of the importance and the possibilities of establishing heart connections with people around me and of co-creating - small and larger, local and global – communities!

Upon arrival we were a group of individuals from different places in the US and from several other countries. The program was wonderfully balanced and offered us a great [variety] of learning experiences. The combination of daily morning yoga sessions, daily check-ins after breakfast, community work-day, teachings, a day of silence, women’s and men’s circle, the daily meetings in small Core Groups, gatherings at the fire pit and much more, all offered a great opportunity to experience ourselves in different states - Being, Doing, Learning, Teaching, Giving and Receiving…

I felt pleasantly surrounded and greatly supported by the kind and caring members of Hummingbird! I am very grateful for all I have received here and I am sure that I am not the only one who intends to come back for more!"

Yosef de Miranda
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

I went to the GF Advance at the gentle nudging of my husband, Ken, who had attended the 5-day "work retreat" two months earlier. I've never lived in community, never even seriously investigated or considered the possibility of doing so. I'm too private, and shy, and too scared. Yet, I've felt for some time a longing for deeper more authentic connection to others, and to myself, and I've often wondered what it might be like to live with others in an intentional sacred space. Besides, how hard could five days be? It turned out be very hard, very scary, and immensely gratifying. The first afternoon was awkward. I wanted to hide in my lovely yurt by the creek. The next day was easier. The location was glorious; the people seemed so open and honest; I loved the hike up to meditation point; and I felt almost comfortable in my six member core group. Physically I overdid it the first day, didn't bring the right shoes, stayed damp and cold, and by the time I made it back to my yurt after the evening group, my body hurt, and I was overwrought. Ken and I had some issues come up, and by the next morning I was hysterical. During the large group, I broke down and sobbed like a baby. Even when I stopped sobbing, I could feel the internal shaking ... I felt alone, separate, scared, and didn't want to be there. The last time I'd had a "meltdown" was at a yoga retreat, and I had left in the middle of the weekend. I'm pretty good at sharing how I feel, I've been in small groups many times, the hard part is staying with myself, or continuing to share myself when I feel so ugly and unlovable. I got a lot of verbal and energetic support from the group and from lovely Katharine who gave me total permission to take care of myself, which meant not participating in the work project that morning. So I went back to my yurt alone and cried for hours as I felt into the pain of feeling separate.

The rest of the time at Hummingbird I had emotional ups and downs, Ken and I continued to butt heads over a hot issue. I also felt much lightness, love and deep gratitude for this sacred environment where I imagine many major healings take place. I loved my small core group, loved the day of silence where four of us decided to hold our own core group, and loved the people! What a great bunch of souls with diverse histories and personalities, but all with a passion to live their lives with full consciousness and purpose....ahh... just like me.

I was in awe of the lack of rigidity or hierarchy, and the fact that everyone seemed to take responsibility for their own feelings. Ralph, who lives at Hummingbird, put it so beautifully when he said, "I triggered myself." What a beautiful phrase claiming total responsibility for how he felt....instead of "when you said this, you triggered me...." which seems to be a fairly responsible statement, he took it further, with "when this happened, I triggered myself." I've practiced that several times since returning to L.A., and it always makes me smile.

Much love and gratitude from a new Hummingbird fan,

Joyce Dvoren
California, USA