This document provides information about Steve Farrell and Humanity's Team, a global grassroots spiritual movement. It summarizes that Steve Farrell founded two Silicon Valley companies and now leads Humanity's Team, which operates in over 90 countries with over 50,000 volunteers. The movement's goals are to awaken people to the idea that we are all interconnected and promote a sustainable world of peace and harmony. It outlines Humanity's Team's programs, governance structure, and cultural diversity statement as it works to connect people spiritually and address global problems.
2. STEVE FARRELL
BACKGROUND
• Currently live in Boulder, Colorado with my
wife and our two children
• Founder and chairman of two Silicon
Valley companies (1990s)
• Sold all interests by 2001 to pursue
spiritual path
3. BACKGROUND
• Assisted founder Neale Donald Walsch
launch Humanity’s Team (HT) June 2003
• Took responsibility for HT February 2004
• Created non-profit status, governance
structure and began coordination of
global movement
4. PROFILE OF
HUMANITY’S TEAM
Global grassroots spiritual movement
Awakening the world to Oneness
A timeless truth and sacred belief:
We Are All One, One with God,
One With Life
5. PROFILE OF
HUMANITY’S TEAM
• Expressing a shared global unity
• Enabling a sustainable world of peace,
harmony and happiness
• HT operates in 90+ countries
• Over 50, 000 worldwide teammates
• All volunteer staff
6. FOUCUS ON
URGENT PROBLEM
• We are Holons but most know Self as
body only
• Lack of awareness that we are part of a
larger Whole
• Potential to heal Self and world through
connection with God/Source, the universe
and each other
7. HUMANITY TEAM
PROGRAMS
• Tools for personal transformation
• Build community groups worldwide
• Global education outreach
• Spiritual activism
8. ONENESS DAY
PETITION
• 50, 000+ signatures
• Meeting with United Nations (New York)
May 20, 2010
• First step toward creating International
Oneness Day sanctioned by the UN
• Towards living Who We Are by co-creating
a compassionate and sustainable world
9. MILESTONE
PROGRAMS
• 2003 Humanity’s Team launch with 800+
people in Wilsonville, Oregon, USA
• 2005 Co-host Seeds of Transformation
Conference with Bard College Institute of
Advanced Theology
• 2007 World Tour, 10 countries in 39 days
10. MILESTONE
PROGRAMS
• 2008 Oneness Summit in Argentina
• 2009 Presentation of Spiritual Leadership
Award to Desmond Tutu in South Africa
12. GOVERNANCE
STRUCTURE
• General agreement on goals
• Initial agitation
• Focus on mutual trust and respect with
Adizes Institute
• Cultural Diversity Statement
• Importance of culture
13. SHARED
POWER
• Vote on Statement of Direction for the
creation of stability and shared power
• Council of trustees based on Carver Model
• Worldwide Coordinating Director
14. SHARED
POWER
• Core Team meets once a month and
approves key projects
• Global Council meets once a year and
approves all global projects
• All approval reached through consensus
15. CULTURAL DIVERSITY
STATEMENT
“I commit to increasing my consciousness
of cultural diversity, within my own country
as well as around the world, so that my
Humanity’s Team work and that of my
teammates reflect this consciousness.”
16. CULTURAL DIVERSITY
STATEMENT (cont.)
“This consciousness includes respect for
cultural differences such as language,
dress and traditions, the ways societies
organize themselves, their values and
religions, and the ways they interact with
the environment.”
17. THE SEVEN C’s
• Consciousness
• Courage
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Consensus
• Commitment
• Call to Action
18. HUMANITY’S TEAM
END STATEMENTS
• An active, coordinated spiritual movement
• Emergence of the New Spirituality
• Transparent operation and finances
• Knowledge that We Are All One
• Five Steps to Peace
• Civil rights movement for the Soul