Consciously Evolving the Species: Transitioning the Individual from Survival to Thrival

For the past 33 years I have been exploring the concept of thriving and thrival as the new goal for the human species, moving from survival to thrival in mindset, mentality, and lifestyle. What are the implications for the individual, relationships -- personal and professional, business, institutions, the arts? My most basic approach to thrival is from the standpoint of the individual. What are the essential changes required to move from survival to thrival? What are the challenges of the transition to thrival? And what are the major deterrents for the individual moving on? How do we break the bonds of the survival mentality?

I plan to explore the essential, core evolution required of the individual - self-acceptance; issues in moving from top-down to side-by-side relationship, and the new pragmatism, "Discovering the truth we don't know yet." This new pragmatism is a movement beyond "answers" to a search for more evocative questions. 

What I once perceived as the "survival mentality," a pervasive set of practices and behaviors that permeate species activity is articulated even better when referred to as the "damnation mentality." What basic beliefs undergird world conflict, corruption, and distrust? And how can we get beyond our limiting beliefs? Is thrival the heralded and much sought state of grace, nirvana, buddhahood, haim, "good life?"

From the Newtonian perspective of turning points, in November, 2005 we will be 15 years into noticeable world and species transition. World history is riding the roller coaster of this transition, while survival patterns, ego, and imperialism reassert themselves. Are they in the death throes, their end time? Or will these vestiges of the survival mentality and practices bungy us back from our thrival breakpoint and beyond, resulting in breakdown and regression?

Bio: Dr. Paul Radde, Ph.D. is a keynoter, author, psychologist, and expert on "thriving", the highest sustainable life style. Dr. Radde coaches audience and organization alike to go beyond survival to actually thrive in the workplace and in daily living. He does this by developing a positive inner state using an attitude called innertude® Custom-tailored keynotes provide specific steps, skills, and practices that can be applied immediately to get and sustain the feeling of success.