2013 Forum
Does One Day Fit All?   
 

 

The recently released movie "42" celebrates the efforts of Jackie Robinson to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball on April 15, 1947, with unknown and unknowable ripples around our planet, for years to come. In 1,382 games over his 10-year career, he batted in the 4th position, "clean up," in 683 games.  Given his hitting prowess, it's unlikely he ever batted last in the line-up.

 

A week after honoring Robinson, 192 countries will celebrate Earth Day today.   With the first Earth Day celebrated in 1970 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco, April 22nd was designated as "International Mother Earth Day" in 2009. The celebration serves as a reminder that our planet is populated by fellow interdependent participants, termed Spect-actors by Barnet Bain, who spoke at our 2012 Forum and has also served as an Ongoing Discussion Thought Leader for Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's Ongoing Discussion.  In stark contrast, Spectators point fingers and make observations with the illusion of the immunity of independence.   Years earlier, Buckminster Fuller spoke of fellow astronauts on Spaceship Earth.   He left an operating manual for his fellow Spect-actors.

 

Does one day always fit all?   Once again, it depends on the context.  Although Jackie Robinson never batted last, a common day of celebration reminds us that nature always bats last.    

 

If you're interested in exploring the limitless implications of interdependence in industry, government, and education, through better thinking about thinking, we invite you to join with peers at the In2:InThinking Network 2013 Forum in Los Angeles, California, from June 19th through 23rd, on the campus of California State University, Northridge (CSUN).  This year, our ever timely focus will be;   

 

"The Art of Reflection: Connect - Inspire - Act"


For more information, visit our 2013 Forum website at www.in2in.org/forums/2013 or e-mail us at registrar@in2in.org.  Our Forum registration fee is $400 for our Weekend Conference, with a $50 discount for registrations received by midnight, Pacific Time, on May 8th.  
  

If you are not able to attend our Weekend Conference, you are most welcome to attend any of our 18 Pre-Conference sessions, all free, with the exception of a $40 material fee for one (N - What We're Learning About the Brain).   Webcasting is also an option; find details at this link.     A $25 discount on our webcasting offer is in place until May 8th.

 
Registration Deadlines
Register by Friday, June 14th (new date) to reserve a residence hall suite at CSUN
Register by Wednesday, June 19th to reserve our discounted rate at the Airtel Plaza Hotel

Register by Monday, June 17th to attend any of our Pre-Conference sessions 

Register by Saturday, June 22nd to attend our Weekend Conference  

 

If you're not ready to register, but are likely to attend, please complete our RSVP Survey to help us with attendee estimates in our planning efforts.  


For a glimpse of the excitement we offer, link here for a photo montage from our 2012 Forum.   Link here for a complete list of our previous 2013 Forum UPDATES.  

 

In2:InThinking Network 2013 Forum Team  

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