Birgitt Williams and Ward Williams created the Genuine Contact program and approach in the late 1990s. Since then, one or more components of Genuine Contact has been taught to thousands of people around the world, with more than 100 authorized trainers now conducting this work in the world. The people who have participated in this training make up the Genuine Contact Community and can self-select to become Co-Owners of the program. The Genuine Contact program and approach are underpinned by the Genuine Contact Way.
The advent of positive psychology Judging by the focus of people’s thoughts and conversations, knowing what works seems to be harder to know than what doesn’t work. The newly emerging field of positive psychology was formally birthed in the 1990’s, highlighting that more than 90 percent of published articles in psychology were of something not working, with only a small … Read More
Use of participatory meetings to access collective intelligence Immediately upon this gift of the Medicine Wheel being released and my awareness of it, in rapid succession, I met Harrison Owen and learned about facilitating a meeting using his method of Open Space Technology (Owen, Harrison. Open Space Technology: A User’s Guide. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1997); I met Angeles Arrien and … Read More
A gift to the human race I was also grateful to receive news in 1991 that it was time for the Medicine Wheel to be given by the red race of the native people to be used by the full human race. The red race had so carefully preserved this knowledge for the human race for millennia so that it … Read More
