John and Ocean Robbins – Living With Purpose and Passion

(This course is available for immediate delivery)  The insights they will share are the product of hard-earned experience. John Robbins’ books, presentations and workshops have shaken many polluting industries and galvanized millions.

John and Ocean Robbins – Living With Purpose and Passion

 

Make the Shift Real at Every Level of Your Life with Two of Today’s Most Celebrated Change Leaders
When John Robbins walked away from Baskin-Robbins (founded and then owned by his father and uncle) and the vast wealth it represented, his family thought he had lost his mind.
But, instinctually, he knew he needed to pursue a different kind of life that went beyond the old American dream of unlimited consumption. He was called to a deeper dream of unlimited compassion. A dream to make a real contribution to the well-being and happiness of others, and to live a life of integrity and service. In the decades since, his books have sold three million copies, and his work has helped to awaken the conscience of a nation.
While most of us didn’t grow up with ice cream cone-shaped swimming pools like John Robbins did, we DO have dreams for a better world and for our own lives. Most of us have become disillusioned with the empty promises of materialistic obsession. And we truly want a world that is free from the scourges of endless war and starvation, a world with a healthy environment, a world with thriving relationships, healthy people, peace and social justice for all.
But, HOW? How do we truly create a thriving, just and sustainable world – while also enjoying a fulfilling and abundant life ourselves?
These are questions the father and son team of John and Ocean Robbins have been grappling with for a combined 70 years. And they are joining forces – for the first time in a telecourse format – to offer REAL solutions to help you enjoy a healthy and fulfilling life WHILE making a positive contribution to the world.
The insights they will share are the product of hard-earned experience. John Robbins’ books, presentations and workshops have shaken many polluting industries and galvanized millions.
Ocean organized a peace rally in 3rd grade and was facilitating international youth summits in Moscow at age 14. At age 16, he founded a global non-profit organization (YES!) that in the next 20 years grew under his direction to dramatically improve the lives of people in 65 countries. Now that Ocean and his wife Michele have identical twins with autism, the whole Robbins family is learning about faith, community resiliency and the real meaning of unconditional love.
They are living testimony to a thriving and joyful lifestyle while tirelessly and successfully advocating for a spiritually fulfilling, environmentally sustainable and socially just human presence on this planet.
How You Can Become Happier, Healthier and More Passionately Alive
And through this 7-week course, they are offering specific action steps you can take to express your deep care and concern for the crises we face. We all want to stop world hunger, solve our climate crisis, prevent animal cruelty, eat in ways that are healthy and nourishing to our bodies and see peace flourish around the world.
But, we haven’t been taught what we can do – beyond recycling and using compact fluorescent light bulbs. And we certainly have had very little support, tools and community to help us act on what we do know.
That’s what this course offers. If you’re hungry for the truth – and want to know specific steps you can take to create a world that works for all – then you’ll want to join this 7-week telecourse. It will help you align your values with your actions, align your personal health with your social impact, and align your service with your joy.
You’ll discover those leverage places where the same choices that build a world of justice, liberation and peace can also help you to be happier, healthier, and more passionately ALIVE.
This course promises to support your health, uphold your spirit and help you to fulfill your true nature and reason for being born.
From the Desk of John and Ocean Robbins
Dear Friends,
In the last 20 years, we’ve spoken to more than 600,000 people in person and have reached many millions more through our books and articles. Everywhere we go, we find people who know something is wrong with the status quo.
People are sick of being sick, they’re weary of dysfunctional relationships, they’re fed up with watching the destruction of people and the planet, and they’re frightened by the breakdown of our economy.
We need to know what we can do, we need to know the steps we can take, and we need to have the tools and community support to help us act on what we know.
Fortunately, the path of liberation isn’t just altruistic, it’s also fulfilling. When we bring our lives into greater congruency with our values, we start to feel better, and we build positive feedback loops.
Greater health, self respect, and contribution aren’t just concepts. They are real; they are attainable; and there are practical things we can all do to get there.
If you want to take a stand for your own health and wellness, then please join us. If you want more healthy and fulfilling relationships with your parents, with your children, or with loved ones in your life, please join us. If you want to make a difference in the world, and want inspiration and support to galvanize you on your path, please do join us.
The more you know, the more power you will have to take effective and meaningful action. The more you know, the better able you will be to bring your life choices into alignment with your purpose and your passion. Your mind will be clearer, your heart will be more at peace, and your body will thank you for the rest of your life.
We look forward to these seven weeks with you!
In service,

John and Ocean Robbins
How You Can Benefit from John and Ocean’s Course

Join this internationally-renowned, inspiring father-son team and you can:

Discover your unique gifts and how they interface with the needs and opportunities in the world.
Take the next steps towards the fulfillment of your particular purpose and passion in this world.
Increase your energy, vitality and overall health as you learn and apply cutting-edge health and nutritional information.
Build sustaining, authentic and healthy partnerships in love, work, play and service.
Learn to keep your heart open when faced with grief and the devastation of our lives and world.
Save money and improve your quality of life at the same time.
Create effective partnerships across divides like race, class, gender, power, religion, political perspective and age.
Be inspired into action – and truly be the change you want to see in the world.

“The next time anyone tells you that who you are doesn’t matter, or that your actions and love are insignificant, here’s what they need to know: All who take a stand with their lives on behalf of what they cherish are part of something vast. The struggle for justice is as old as tyranny itself, and the longing for a world guided by love is as old as the human heart.”
John and Ocean Robbins

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What You Will Learn: Course Overview

WEEK 1 The New Good Life: Creating High-Joy, Low-Cost Solutions for Your Life (Oct 19th)
How do you define the good life? For many, success is measured not by health and happiness but by financial wealth. But such a worldview overlooks the important things in life: personal contentment, family time, spirituality and the health of the planet and those living on it. A preoccupation with money and possessions is not only unhealthy, it can also drain the true joy from life.
In recent years, millions have watched their financial dreams go up in smoke. The international financial collapse, out-of-control health care costs, massive layoffs, and burgeoning consumer debt have left people in dire financial straits. But there is a potential upside to our collective financial downturn: curtailed consumption could lead us to reassess our lives and values.
The New Good Life provides a philosophical and prescriptive path from conspicuous consumption to conscious consumption. Where the old view of success was measured in cash, stocks and various luxuries, the new view will be guided by financial restraint and a new awareness of what truly matters.
You will learn:

How to create your own definition of success based on your deepest beliefs and life experience.
The top three ways you can save significant money and improve your quality of life at the same time.
How you can live frugally, without deprivation.

WEEK 2 The Food Revolution: Creating a Healthier Future for Yourself, Your Family and Our Planet (Oct 26th)
A few companies dominate U.S. food policy and control an ever-larger share of the nation’s seed and food distribution systems. Meanwhile, the people of the U.S. spend vastly more money on medical care than any people in the history of the world, yet have unprecedented rates of obesity. In addition, tens of millions of kids in the U.S. now struggle to get decent food to eat.
There’s a connection between these realities as millions of people all over the world are realizing that chronic illness is not inevitable, and that a healthy diet and lifestyle can transform our lives and make a profound impact. We can all take steps that make us less dependent on insurance companies and doctors, and more dependent on our own health-giving choices. And we can create healthy habits that help us not just to survive, but to thrive.
In this first week together, you will learn:

The latest breakthroughs in medical science to support your optimal chances for health and wellness.
The most common nutritional mistakes that vegetarians make, and how you can be plant-strong and thrive, whether you call yourself a meat-eater, a vegan or an asparagus.
How farmer’s markets and organics are a pivotal part of the solutions for individuals and for communities.
How you can extend your life, increase your vibrancy and vitality and create a healthier future for yourself, your children and for our beleaguered planet and all the life it holds.
What’s on the front lines of the food policy struggle, and how you can get involved and make a real difference.

WEEK 3 Building Thriving Families and Relationships (Nov 2nd)
Loneliness and feelings of disconnection are among the most common realities of the modern human experience. Yet for most of us, love is fundamental to our joy and fulfillment.
Every heart encounters wounding and struggles in the journey of life. Often we armor ourselves to protect from future injury. Yet sometimes, the emotional walls we build come to imprison us over time. In this session we will explore the journey from isolation to connection, and what it takes to build healthy and thriving relationships that last.
You will gain:

Specific practices and insights to help you create a solid and vibrant foundation in your intimate partnership.
Tools to help you build more authentic and nourishing connections with those in your life.
Understanding as to which emotional protections serve you, and which imprison you.
Inspiration to discover what is possible for you in love and partnership.

WEEK 4 Bringing Healing and Wisdom to Our Elders and Youth (Nov 9th)
As we heal in relation to our parents and elders, our connections across the generations develop transformative power. And as we bring authenticity and vitality to our relationship with those who come after us, we fulfill a sacred task in the cycles of life.
For those of us who are parents and elders, it is our task to guide our children so that they may live with respect for themselves and respect for others. We do this most effectively when we, ourselves, embody respect for them. Our function is never to impose our limited and limiting beliefs upon our children, but rather to help them to develop so they may give the gifts they are here to give, and to receive the gifts that others have for them, as well.
Our children build on all that previous generations have accomplished, and yet they go places we can never imagine – they carry the seeds of the future. Each new generation is here not to fulfill the expectations of elders, nor to follow any agendas that might have been conceived for them. Our children and grandchildren have their own path to follow, their own dreams to fulfill, their own sorrows to learn from, their own joys to be nurtured by, and their own love to share.
You will discover:

An opportunity to reflect on your own childhood experiences and discover how they shape your experience of the present.
A deepened sense of community as you hear the struggles, breakdowns and breakthroughs of others.
Tools to help you step into your wisdom with clarity and respect.
Practical steps you can take to build healthier relationships with elders and young people in your life.

WEEK 5 The Power of Partnership: Reaching Across the Divide to Build Trust and Restore Harmony (Nov 16th)
Whatever our skin color, whatever economic class we inhabit, whatever the country in which we live, the social and political realities of an increasingly interdependent and resource-depleted world are defining realities of our lives. Commerce, ideas, pollution and perhaps even love flow across borders almost as effortlessly as the air we breathe. Recognizing our part in the web of life is not just a nice idea, but, increasingly, it’s becoming a necessity.
What’s at stake? In a world with nuclear weapons, with a resource consumption overshoot that is placing us on a collision course with systemic environmental collapse and with increasing numbers of people living in states of desperate poverty, the very future cannot be taken for granted. To create solutions to the vast challenges we face, we must do so not in isolation, but in crossing the divides and building healing relationships.
Partnership can be messy; it can be painful; it can challenge us deeply. And it may be one of the most pivotal forces upon which the future of a profoundly divided, yet at the same time increasingly interconnected, world may depend.
You will discover:

Step-by-step tools to engage in honest and healing conversations that build trust across historic divides.
Resources to help you build relationships and engage in constructive dialogue with people who are different from you.
Inspiring stories of courage, resiliency, love and partnership that offer hope for your life and our world.
Support to look at your own growing edge boundary-crossing hot spots, such as race, class, religion or political perspective – and to take steps to cross the divides.

WEEK 6 Heart-Centered Activism: Discovering Your Role in Healing the World (Nov 30th)
We are witness in our times to wars, destruction, plagues and pestilence on an almost biblical scale. But what we do with calamity is up to us. We can let it shatter our resolve and our sense of possibility. Or we can use the pain to deepen our commitment to all that is good and life-giving in ourselves and in the world.
Albert Einstein famously said that we cannot solve problems with the level of thinking that created them – we need to rise to the next level of consciousness. How, then, might we engage with the real world challenges and devastation that are so prevalent in our lives and in the world today, with a heart that is open to grieve, to love and to empower our responses? What aliveness, fulfillment and joy might we tap as we find ways to meaningfully engage with the vital work of our times? And if there are more than seven billion parts to play in the healing of our world – what is yours?
You will gain:

A deep inquiry into the nature of your unique gifts and how they interface with the needs and opportunities in the world.
Insight into where you shut down or become antagonistic in ways that are out of alignment with your values – and how you might experiment with other approaches.
Inspiring stories of heart-centered social change, and inspiration to help you on your path of manifesting your values in the world.
Practical resources and organizations to help you constructively engage and create change.

WEEK 7 Loving What Is and Being a Force for Change (Dec 7th)
Buddhism teaches us to accept the world as it is, recognizing that resistance to the truth is a sure recipe for suffering. Inspired activism teaches us to respond to injustice with justice, to meet hatred with love, and to find a strategic and effective response to the violence in our world. Somehow, in the center of being and doing, of reacting and embracing, there is a dance. What can it be like to live in that dance?
In this final week, we will explore our own places of resistance to what is so, our passion for change and the courage it takes to live with a heart that is open both to pain and to possibility.
You will gain:

Provocative reflections on some of the profound issues of our times.
Inspiration to make lemonade out of lemons, and to make the best of what you’ve been given.
Personal insight into the Robbins’ family journey with autism, and how raising special needs twins has deepened their notion of social change.
A powerful and galvanizing send-off, to take all that you’ve learned in this course and activate it as you live with ever-deepening passion and purpose.

Special Bonus Session with Marianne Williamson:

The Gift of Change – Spiritual Guidance For A Radically New Life
Acclaimed international bestselling author, teacher, activist and visionary Marianne Williamson will join John and Ocean for this special live interview as she shares tools for creating transformation in our lives as a key to changing our world.
Attempting to merely change the external world, Williamson asserts, is akin to trying to change a movie by altering the screen — when dealing with the projector is what’s needed. Building from the understanding that hidden beliefs are dangerous beliefs, she challenges us to examine personal beliefs and the attitudes they engender. Tracing defensiveness – a form of “passive violence” – to the root of war, Williamson demonstrates how our resistance to love and vulnerability keep us enslaved to the ego.
In this interview, Williamson will build on the ten bridges of transformation that can be crossed when we fix our eyes and hearts on that which is unchanging – an eternal compass of spiritual principles which can guide us on the personal AND global path to wholeness.

From Forgetting Who We Are to Remembering Who We Are
From Negative Thinking to Positive Love
From Anxiety to Atonement
From Asking God to Change the World to Praying That He Changes Us
From Living in the Past and Future to Living in the Present
From Focus on Guilt to Focus on Innocence
From Separation to Relationship
From Spiritual Death to Rebirth
From Your Plan to God’s Plan
From Who We Were to Who We Are Becoming

Special Bonus Session with Van Jones:

Living Your Purpose and Passion in a New Economy and a New World
As a globally recognized leader in human rights and the clean energy economy and someone Time Magazine named one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009, Van Jones will join John and Ocean for a lively exploration of how your purpose and passion connect to our current global challenges.
What lies ahead in the green economy and progressive human rights movements? How can we each play a powerful role in a healthy, sustainable future? Drawing on his work with dozens of non-profits and with the Obama White House, Van Jones will explore these questions and more in this rare conversation between these international social change agents.
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About John and Ocean Robbins
John and Ocean started talking about the state of the world, the purpose of life, the meaning of death, factory farms, the nuclear arms race, and the human potential movement, at about the time Ocean was getting out of diapers. When John wrote Diet for a New America, 11-year-old Ocean poured over every word and even came up with a few of the chapter titles. When Ocean founded YES! at age 16, John served as the board chair and leveraged the considerable response to his work to bring in many of the organization’s programmatic allies and financial supporters.
In the decades since, this duo has teamed up to lead workshops, speak to tens of thousands, and has shared council with one another’s hearts and lives. And this is their first telecourse they’re offering together, ever!
John Robbins is author of Diet for a New America and other books that have sold millions of copies and been translated into more than 30 languages. The founder of EarthSave International and one of the most popular bloggers on the Huffington Post, he is a recipient of the Rachel Carson Award, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, the Peace Abbey’s Courage of Conscience Award, Green America’s Lifetime Achievement Award and dozens of other honors. John is the father of Ocean Robbins, and is helping to raise Ocean’s autistic sons.
Ocean Robbins has facilitated hundreds of workshops for diverse leaders in 65+nations, and has spoken in person to more than 200,000 people worldwide. He is founder of YES!, author of The Power of Partnership and a recipient of the Jefferson and the Freedom’s Flame awards. He is the father of River and Bodhi Robbins, 10-year-old twins who have autism.
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