In learning and conference settings inter-generational community building is a principle and value of the work Sabine Amend and Doug Cohen especially with youth and students. In this video they address various aspects of leadership from 'what does it all mean' to an alchemy of imagination, the Call of Time, importance of diversity in a diet of perceptual inputs, life long learning and natural leadership.

Sabine and Doug were interviewed by Barry Heidt of Sustainability Action Media (SAM) at the SEED Graduate Institute's Conference, Wisdom from the Origins, September 13-17, 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference featured a Youth Leadership and Scholarship Program led by Doug and Sabine.

Ryan Red Corn (Osage) is the co-chairman of NVision, a Native run non-profit youth media organization headquartered in Denver. Red Corn attended the University of Kansas, where he graduated in 2003 with a B.F.A in graphic design.

The social aspects of stereotyping are explored in a New York Times article, It's Not Me, It's You in their Gray Matter Section, October 7, 2012, on the "stereotype threat" the literature on the subject  showing that even alone in an exam room, we hear a chorus of voices appraising, evaluating, passing judgment. And as social creatures, humans are strongly affected by what these voices say." Ryan Red Corn is presenting us with a view of the force of the stereotype threat on his people.

Dr. Newman is the Director of Clinical Research in the Emergency Department at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, and an Iraq war veteran. In addition to being widely published in medical journals he has written health care articles for the New York Times and is the author of Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine. He is also the editor-in-chief for two online publications, TheNNT.com, (The Number Needed to Treat)a resource for health care evidence summaries. Presented by TEDxColumbiaEngineering

Public information campaigns and apathetic non-responders or?  Dr. Lertzman challenges existing assumptions around the public response to climate change. She suggests how we re-frame issues to be more successful at protecting the environment and our people.

Renee Lertzman is an applied researcher and strategic communications specialist. Her work targets how to generate actual, lasting behavior change. It is a systems-based psychosocial approach – scalable, potent, and goes deep.

CROC E MOSES is a seasoned musician and slam poet who has mastered his unique style of performance to critical acclaim. Here he performs in the TEDx setting. Visit his website for more videos, artwork, and poetry.

Celebracion del Wajxaqib Baatz 27 de Marzo 2012 Belejeb Tzi Guatemala

Don Alejandro Cirilo Pérez, Wakatel Utiw (Wandering Wolf), is Quiche Maya from the highlands of Guatemala. Wandering Wolf serves as: leader of the National Mayan Council of Elders of Guatemala; Day Keeper of the Mayan Calendar; 13th generation Quiche Mayan Spiritual Leader; a founder and Grand Elder of the Continental Council of Elders & Spiritual Guides of the Americas; Extraordinary Ambassador in the Guatemalan government representing the indigenous pueblos; and an international lecturer on Mayan culture.His mathematical provenance extends to the traditional and elegant mathematics of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, which culminates in the Mayan year “Zero,” or approximately 2012 in the Gregorian calendar. Grandfather Cirilo holds the great honor of keeping sacred the teachings, visions, ceremonies and prophecies of the Maya people.

I AC TAH , a descendant of the men of maayab of the eastern part of Yucatan state, come from the lineage TAH CANCHE Baak and AC . Through the teachings of my grandparents and Baak Huchin BEE HAT , I learned that after 5125 years the earth with other planets create a perfect alignment to develop ourselves as beings of light, therefore we live in a historical time to create a conducive new state of consciousness where humans can live in harmony and balance. So, I am currently doing a tour around the country promoting awareness awakening to the return of the Maya foretold by my ancestors.

A 10 minute film about the work of Honor the Earth featuring the music of John Trudell.

Honor the Earth is a Native-led organization, established by Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) and Indigo Girls Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, in 1993 to address the two primary needs of the Native environmental movement: the need to break the geographic and political isolation of Native communities and the need to increase financial resources for organizing and change.

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Vernon Masayesva is a Hopi Leader of the Coyote Clan, and the Chairman of the Hopi Tribal Council. In the Fall of 2005, Dr. Masaru Emoto, author of "Message From Water" visited Hopi Land, Arizona. Here he is introduces Dr. Emoto author of The Hidden Messages of Water. To order his book from Amazon, click on the image or visit your local bookstore. Thank you.

He will be presenting on Sunday afternoon, September 16, at the Wisdom from the Origins Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The title of his presentation is “Sipaapuni — Emergence to the Fourth World of the Hopi.”

A Culture Collective Video shot by Yakima Lee, and edited by Jacob Devaney.

Invitation to attend the SEED Institute's Wisdom from the Origins Conference, The Mayan Calendar, and other Prophecies on the Future of Humanity on September 13-17, 2012. (Schedule) The video features video clips from videos of conference presenters Gregg Braden, Grandmother Flordemayo (Mayan), LeRoy Little Bear (Blackfoot), Barbara Marx Hubbard, Sequoyah Trueblood (Choctaw), Tata Pedro Cruz (Mayan), and footage from a Dancing Earth performance, Of Bodies of Elements.

Produced by Ruth Ann Barrett, EarthSayers.tv, Portland, Oregon.