• Agape Institute - "Lifelong learning for the Soul"

• Alliance For Spiritual Community - The Alliance for Spiritual Community is an interfaith, multicultural, non-profit organization dedicated to strengthening community. We are a Cooperation Circle of the United Religions Initiative.

• A Season For Non Violence - A Season for Nonviolence, January 30 - April 4, is a national 64-day educational, media, and grassroots campaign dedicated to demonstrating that nonviolence is a powerful way to heal, transform, and empower our lives and our communities. Inspired by the 50th and 30th memorial anniversaries of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this international event honors their vision for an empowered, nonviolent world.

• Center for Nonviolent Communication - Nonviolent Communicationsm (NVC) is a process that strengthens our ability to inspire compassion from others and respond compassionately to others and ourselves. NVC guides us to reframe how we express ourselves and how we hear others by focusing our consciousness on what we are observing, feeling, needing, and requesting.

• EVOLVE: a Global Community Center for Conscious Evolution - The mission of EVOLVE: a Global Community Center for Conscious Evolution is to serve as a central resource hub for individuals and communities worldwide that are choosing to embrace and apply the emerging principles, tools and templates of cocreative self and social conscious evolution.

• Foundation for Global Community - The focus of the Foundation for Global Community is taking creative action to reconnect people, the planet, peace and prosperity. Through education, outreach, and inspiration, their projects are attempting to build "a world that functions for the benefit of all life."

• Institute of Interfaith Dialog - The Institute of Interfaith Dialog (IID) is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to unite the global communities through interfaith dialogue by sharing the differences in cultures and religions in an effort to achieve world peace in the foreseeable future.

• New Thought Music Association - The New-Thought Music Association (NTMA) was founded as a support organization for music ministries throughout the Religious Science, Unity, Divine Science, Bahai and other so-called "New-Thought/Ancient Wisdom" spiritual communities.

• The Association of Global New Thought - Once called the "religion of healthy-mindedness" by the philosopher, William James, the New Thought movement was born almost 150 years ago as a revolt against the negative dogmas so prevalent in the churches of that day.

• The Earth Charter - The Earth Charter is an international people's (not governments, UN or organizations) agreement for a compassionate, just and sustainable world that was written by thousands of folks in 78 countries over the course of 12 years and was launched at the Hague Peace Palace in June 2000. It has the core value of interdependence and calls for economic and social justice, peace, democracy and ecological integrity.

• The Omega Institute - Omega is the nation's largest and most trusted holistic education provider and is highly regarded for its pioneering work in holistic health, meditation, yoga, transformational psychology, spirituality, world music, and art.

• The Philadelphia Society for Art, Literature & Music (PSALM) - PSALM sponsors and presents the work of musicians, artists, writers, actors and dancers whose creativity uniquely reflects the beauty of the sacred, joining humanity in a healing and transforming celebration of the "one within many."

MENTORS/RECENT SPEAKERS

• Rev. Dr. Michael Beckwith - Dr. Beckwith is the founder and senior minister of the Agape International Spiritual Center, a 7,000-plus member church and one of the nation's largest multicultural, transdenominational, spiritual communities. Rev. Michael is one of the metaphysical movement's most influential visionaries, leaders, and teachers of New Thought-Ancient Wisdom spirituality and, with his wife, Dr. Rickie Byars-Beckwith, serves as one of Common Ground's most active mentors.

• The Reverend Doctor Charles O. Brown D.D. - Renowned world religions scholar and mystic Dr.Charles Brown is based at Della Reese's Understanding Principles for Better Living Church in Los Angeles.

• Dr. Ashok Gangadean - Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute, and Co-Convenor of the World Commission on Global Consciousness & Spirituality, which brings eminent world leaders together in sustained deep dialogue to cultivate global vision and wisdom for the new millennium, Ashok's primary focus is to clarify the universal Logos or common ground between diverse cultural, religious and ideological worlds.

• Jonathan Granoff - Author, attorney, international peace activist and Sufi mystic, Jonathan works tirelessly as President of the Global Security Institute and as Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's Committee on Arms Control and National Security, to reduce the profound threat to our world that continues to be posed by nuclear weapons, and to remind us that love is the ultimate nuclear power.

• Barbara Marx Hubbard - Barbara Marx Hubbard, noted author, futurist, speaker and social architect is dedicated to understanding and communicating humanity's potentials for a positive future. She is a founding board member of the World Future Society, the Society for the Universal Human and co-founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

• Rev. Dr. Carol Lawson - Founding Minister of the Center For Conscious Living in Moorsetown, NJ, a spiritual community dedicated to being a beacon of Truth and a resonant field of Love empowering all individuals to realize their Oneness with God and manifest their limitless potential.

• Rabbi Marcia Prager - Rabbi Marcia Prager is a vibrant Reconstructionist/Jewish Renewal teacher, storyteller, artist and therapist living and working in the Mt. Airy community of Philadelphia. She serves as rabbi of the Philadelphia P'nai Or Jewish Renewal Community, and is the founding rabbi of a sister congregation, P'nai Or of Princeton, New Jersey.

• Bhante Wimala - "Bhante Wimala's heartfelt concern for the suffering and the simple remedies he draws from the Buddha's teachings will be a source of strength for everyone confused by the pressures of modern life." - His Holiness The Dalai Lama