FLO-CL Authors and Sources¶
This document lists the principal authors and sources of the FLO Conscious Living resources published at https://consciouscommons.org/Conscious-Living/ and https://codeberg.org/FLO-Conscience/Conscious-Living
These are not complete lists of every contributor or influence. All the sources were themselves built on other sources. And we have not prioritized keeping thorough and complete citations.
Citations are most valuable when an assertion cannot be readily verified by a reader themselves. Unlike some other topics, the CL ideas require no deference to expertise, authority, or historic evidence. Each of us can readily and safely test the ideas directly in our own lives.
We do care to express specific appreciations and to help readers understand something about how these ideas came together. We also extend profound gratitude to every writer, speaker, researcher, thinker, friend, relation, challenger, and more — everyone who played any part in shaping the world that enabled all this wisdom to come together.
Principal authors¶
Those who have done substantial direct work on development and curation of these these CL resources:
- Aaron Wolf, aaron@wolftune.com
- Praveen Venkataramana, maxiwizz@gmail.com
Principal direct sources¶
For the starting framework of this FLO-CL project, we adapted the concepts of "Conscious Leadership" as described by the Conscious Leadership Group (CLG) and especially the founders Jim Dethmer and Diana Chapman. In developing their ideas, CLG themselves curated and synthesized ideas from numerous sources into a comprehensive structure with precise language. Several of their "commitments" come directly from the Hendricks Institute and The Foundation for Conscious Living, Byron Katie, and the Sedona Method, among others. Some CLG concepts draw on older traditions such as Buddhism and Stoicism. FLO-CL took the CLG framework and brought it into a FLO context. From there, we improved the structure and adjusted and expanded the concepts. The process included both bringing in additional influences and evolution through iterative review and conversation. For thorough details on how the CLG evolved into the initial version of CL, see our full article CLG-to-CL.