Resources

See Victoria's Blog and FAQ's for interesting thoughts and more ideas

Listen to the Centering Exercise , an excerpt from Victoria's Embodied Abundance Workshops.

Read Victoria's article on The Cycle of Abundance in the September 2007 issue of Personal Excellence, on page 13.
 

Victoria writes about Embodying Change: A Whole Systems Approach in The Systems Thinker, Vol. 18 No. 6

Victoria Castle writes about - The Art of Being Satisfied (published in Science of Mind Magazine, Dec. 2006)

Victoria addresses The Trance of Scarcity in the May 2007 issue of Personal Excellence.

Ambassadors of Abundance
A sample of organizations and projects operating outside the Trance

Embodiment and Well-Being 
Education and services to support full aliveness and contribution

Books & Publications
Provocative thinking and information for living Trance-free

Bioneers
Educational and economic development programs in the conservation of biological and cultural diversity, traditional farming practices, and environmental restoration.  

The Buckminster Fuller Institute
Serves a global network of design science innovators working at the leading edge to "make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time

Ecoliteracy
Dedicated to education for sustainable living

Conversation Cafe
A non-profit educational and charitable organization that seeks to foster a cooperative human community

GlobalPartnerships.org
Currently works with 21 MFI partners providing access to microfinance for 250,000 people in eight countries. 

Gratefulness.org
A worldwide community dedicated to gratefulness as the core inspiration for personal change, international cooperation, and sustainable activism 

Heifer International 
Ending hunger permanently by providing families with livestock and training so that they “could be spared the indignity of depending on others to feed their children.”  

Hot Women For A Cool Planet
A grassroots initiative (co-founded by Victoria) uniting women to turn our care into action on behalf of a healthy planet at peace where all can thrive.

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
Conducts and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness—including perceptions, beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. T

One.org
The campaign to make poverty history

Oxfam
A confederation of 12 organizations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice. 

Riverkeeper
An advocacy group that monitors the Hudson River ecosystem and challenges polluters, using both legal and grass roots campaigns, founded by Robert Kennedy, Jr.

Rocky Mountain Institute
Showing businesses, communities, individuals, and governments how to create more wealth and employment, protect and enhance natural and human capital,

Social Venture Network
Mission is to inspire a community of business and social leaders to build a just economy and sustainable planet. 

The Whidbey Institute
Connects the human spirit with the natural world through education, relfection, and experience

Embodiment and Well-Being

Aiki Works – Thomas Crum Associates

Authentic Promotion - Molly Gordon

Conscious Embodiment - Wendy Palmer

Institute for Women's Leadership

Radiant Embodiment - Sabine Grandke-Taft  

Strozzi Institute - Richard Strozzi Heckler

Wisdom at Work - InnerWork Technologies

Books and Publications

Read an excerpt of The Trance of Scarcity

Being Human at Work: Bringing Somatic Intelligence into Your Professional Life(2003)
   Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move Through Life's Transitions (1984, 1993)
   Richard Strozzi Heckler
Finding our Way(2005)
   Margaret J. Wheatley
Presence (2004)
   Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers
The Intuitive Body: Aikido as a Clairsentient Practice(1999)
   Wendy Palmer
The Soul of Money(2003)
   Lynne Twist
The End of Poverty (2005)
   Jeffrey Sachs
Megatrends 2010 (2005)
   Patricia Aburdene
The Power of Partnership(2002)
   Riane Eisler
The Future of Money (2001)
   Bernard Lietaer
A General Theory of Love (2000)
   Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
DesCartes Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (1994)
   Antonio Damasio
An Alchemy of Mind(2002)
   Diane Ackerman
Stewardship (1993, 1996)
   Peter Block
Critical Path (1981)
    R. Buckminster Fuller
New and Selected Poems, Volume II (2006)
   Mary Oliver
The Heart Aroused (1994)
   David Whyte
You Are What You Say (2000)
   Matthew Budd and Larry Rothstein
Mastery (1991)
   George Leonard
Your Money or Your Life(1999) 
  Vicki Robin and Joe Dominquez
Claiming Your Place at the Fire (2004)
   Richard Leider
Leadership and the New Science(1992)
   Margaret J. Wheatley
Living in Balance: A Dynamic Approach for Creating Harmony & Wholeness in a Chaotic World (1998)
   Dr. Joel and Michelle Levey
Comfortable with Uncertainty(2002)
   Pema Chodron
Let Your Life Speak(2000)
   Parker Palmer
The Hidden Messages of Water (2004)
    Masaru Emoto
The Politics of Hope(2004)
   Donna Zajonc
The Power of TED* (2005)
   David Emerald
Three Deep Breaths (2006)                 
   Thomas Crum
Blessed Unrest (2007)
   Paul Hawkens
Our Day to End Poverty (2007)
  Shannon Daley-Harris and Jeffrey Keenan
The Leadership Dojo (2007)
   Richard Strozzi Heckler
Creating a World without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism (2007)
   Muhammed Yunus
Getting a Grip:  Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad (2007)
   Francis Moore Lappe
 

If you have suggestions of organizations or professionals to be included on the Resouces list, please contact Victoria.