THE BUSINESS RENAISSANCE INSTITUTE…..

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

THE BUSINESS RENAISSANCE INSTITUTE…..

…..was founded in 2004 by Dr. Richard King, Dr. Joan Marques and Dr. Satinder Dhiman with the mission of ‘transforming the workplace by adding more humanity to the bottom line.’

Although I am not a member, my dear friend Carol Soucek King was going to be a speaker so I marked the date down as ‘not to be missed!’

Joan Marques, a staggeringly prolific writer of great substance opened with her talk on our interconnectedness and our place in the universe. It was a sobering yet meaningful discussion on the serious, structural imbalance in the world and what we as individuals can do to shift our paradigm.

For more on this insightful talk:

Here’s a link on Joan’s talk: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_zAJcX7BQcrM2MzYTRjMzUtNGI0Mi00ZWM3LTkzZjUtNjk5ZGI1OGUzZWQ1&hl=en_US

Carol followed with the most amazing talk that moved the entire audience to their core. The day prior to the meeting she had a life changing experience and I’m not going to spoil it by an explanation. Just do yourself a favor and read her talk on ‘The Interconnectedness of Everything and Everyone’ in the link below:

Here’s a link on Carol’s talk:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_zAJcX7BQcrYjdmNTNiYjEtNzAyMC00YWZjLWJjY2MtMGI5ODNlZjgwZTNj&hl=en_US

Richard King had a perfect way of wrapping it all up in a practical, everyday, here’s how to do it style. His great advice is linked below:

Here’s the link to Richard’s talk: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B_zAJcX7BQcrMDhmMGViMjEtNzBjYi00MGJkLWIxMGItOGY1NDkyNWQ0OTI0&hl=en_US

For More Information:

Dr. Joan Marques:

jmarques01@earthlink.net

Dr. Carol Soucek King: www.CarolSoucekKing.com

Dr. Richard King:

www.bri-usa.com

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I've come to realize two foundational principals, there are no accidents and everyone has a purpose. More and more I'm desiring everyone to come into a full realization of their purpose as we all find our way on this little jewel of a planet.

For me, as a professional 'Western style artist', I stumbled into Chinese Brush Painting after a trip in 1980 to Monet's home/garden. Seeing all of his collection of Japanese woodblock prints was an ahh haa moment for me and when I returned to the States I started painting in the Chinese manner and never looked back. The first year was extremely painful for me as I felt that I should be able to master the technique since I was a 'trained' artist. Not a chance ... that just gets in your way.

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