Nicholas Beecroft's Blog
February 10, 2015
New Magna Carta
The New Magna Carta is a bold vision and strategy to rejuvenate Western Civilization. On the 800th anniversary of the original ‘Great Charter,’ Dr Nicholas Beecroft invites you to recalibrate your inner compass and map to help you navigate through this period of dramatic change that is reshaping our world. The New Magna Carta proposes a clear vision of who we are, what we believe, what we value, where we want to get to and the necessary steps to get there. It is intended as a living, evolving document to be continuously improved. Far from the pessimistic cynicism of our time, the New Magna Carta envisions a bright future. Let’s rise to the challenges we face and harness the creative energy of every human being alive to create a new civilization that enables each one of us to fulfil our potential. Once you’ve read it, make your own suggestions for the next edition at newmagnacarta.org. Dr Nicholas Beecroft is a Consultant Psychiatrist who has spent 25 years exploring the worlds of Medicine, Psychiatry, Business, Leadership, International Relations, Politics, the Military and Spirituality. He created the Future of Western Civilization Series of interviews with visionary leaders. He is author of ‘Analyze West: A Psychiatrist Takes Western Civilization on a Journey of Transformation.’
January 25, 2015
Analyze West: A Psychiatrist Takes Western Civilization on a Journey of Transformation
Analyze West: Psychiatrist Takes Western Civilization on a Journey of Transformation
“The scope and ambition of Analyze West is breathtaking
Imagine Western Civilization embodied in a character called West. On the brink of suicide, West presents himself to maverick psychiatrist Dr James Hill. West has lost his self-confidence and direction. He’s torn apart by inner conflict, self-loathing and fear of the future. Is he on the cusp of a new age of enlightened global consciousness or on the brink of collapse into world of religious extremism, global warming, terrorism, interracial conflict and domination by China?
“A truly unique book. Non-fiction cleverly disguised as fiction.”
James leads West through a process of analysis, therapy and transformation, covering the major challenges facing Western Civilization including immigration, sex, the economy, family, energy, sustainability, security, meaning, power, fairness, demographics, authority, healthcare and democracy.
“Inspiring! I feel optimistic about the future having read Analyze West.”
James introduces West to the eight major value systems. He invites each of them to speak their mind in a process of integration. West undergoes therapy for his guilt, shame and loss on the subjects of race, identity, immigration, patriotism and security. James challenges him to overcome victim mentality and to unlock his full potential.
“Dr Beecroft offers genuine insight and resolutions for a brighter future.”
Dr Nicholas Beecroft is a Consultant Psychiatrist who has spent 25 years exploring the worlds of Medicine, Psychiatry, Business, Leadership, International Relations, Politics, Spirituality and the Military. He has consulted on the psychology of international relations, cultural diplomacy, national identity, organic leadership and counterterrorism. He interviewed 30 visionary leaders for the Future of Western Civilization Series.
You need to read Analyze West if you want:
To be optimistic about the future
A strategy to survive and thrive in this complex world
To rise to the challenges facing our civilization
Integrate the best of all perspectives
To feel like you’re part of the greatest evolutionary leap in history
Future of Western Civilization Series 1, Book 1
Who are we? Where are we going? How can we survive and thrive in this complex and competitive world? How can we boost our cultural confidence? Can we be patriotic, open, diverse and global at the same time? How do we harness capitalism to get what we really want? How do we remain free and safe whilst Islam undergoes its global awakening? Can politics integrate the best of all shades of opinion? How do we create Heaven on Earth? What can our culture learn from the science of fields, energy and consciousness? How do we make the welfare state fair to taxpayers and empowering to recipients? If you already know the right thing to do, how do you make it happen? Can we make globalisation democratic How should we combine wisdom with science? What would life be like if science assumed that the universe is a conscious living system? How do successful organizations unlock the productivity and potential of their people?
Future of Western Civilization Series 1, Book 1
Introduction to the Series– Dr Nicholas Beecroft interviewed by Melanie Mortiboys
British Patriotism–A Newcomer’s Perspective-William Nkata Masembe
The Next Big Shift–From Machine to Living System-Dr Nicholas Beecroft
Global Simultaneous Policy Making-Bottom-Up Global Policy-John Bunzl
The Future of Capitalism–Getting What We Really Want–Jon Freeman
Transpartisan Politics-The Power of Integrating Diversity-Joseph McCormick
Creating Heaven on Earth-Taking Small Steps in the Right Direction-Martin Rutte
Bonds, Fields and Intentions–Culture Catches Up with Science-Lynne McTaggart
Leadership with Integrity–How to be True to Yourself-Dr Mary Gentile
Wisdom-Lost and Rediscovered-Professor Jim Garrison
The Living Universe-Bringing Science, Finance and Society to Life-Dr Elisabet Sahtouris
Organizational Democracy-10 Steps to Democratic Culture and Leadership-Traci Fenton
Future of Western Civilization Series 1, Book 2
What’s unique about the West? Is the West still best? Can we agree upon a shared language for God, life and spirit? How do we adapt to the rise of the East and South? How do we preserve and renew democracy and freedom? How do we re-legitimize the judgement of right and wrong, good and bad as the foundation of autonomy,freedom and authority? How can we heal the wounds of our history so as to empower our present? How do we catalyze the Second Renaissance? How can an enlightened postmodern liberal be patriotic? What is the Master Code of natural design, our psychological and cultural DNA?
Future of Western Civilization Series 1, Book 2
The West is Best-Insights from the PR Man to the Stars-Howard Bloom
Evolutionary Enlightenment-Living from your Creative Impulse-Andrew Cohen
Renaissance 2-Catalyzing the Second Renaissance-Dr Robin Wood
Positive Patriotism-The Evolving British-Chris Parish
The Master Code-The Theory that Explains Everything-Dr Don Beck
January 24, 2015
Future of Western Civilization Series 1, Book 3
What do the generational cycles of the past predict about the future? What techniques can we use to catalyze change? How do successful countries harness the aspirations of their people? Can Christianity rise to the challenge of materialism, secularism and Islam? How are young Germans rediscovering healthy patriotism? How can power be loving and empowering? What disruptive technologies will change our way of life? How do we bring compassion and healing back into medicine? How do we escape the recession? Which innovations in finance will transform our culture?
Future of Western Civilization Series 1, Book 3
Generational Cycles-Predicting the Future-Neil Howe
Catalyzing Change-Engaging Emergence-Peggy Holman
Successful Nations-Harnessing the Aspirations of the People-Richard Barrett
Resurrecting Christianity-Rising to the Challenges of a Complex World-Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali
German Identity & Patriotism-Healing the Wounds, Integrating the Shadow-Adrian Wagner
Compassionate Healthcare-Re-humanising Medicine-Dr Robin Youngson
New Money-The Evolution of Finance-Jordan MacLeod
The Future of Western Civilization Series 1, Book 4
How can we maximize human potential? How do ordinary citizens find solutions to intractable problems? Why should we practice mindfulness? What’s the future of Europe, the Euro and the European Union? How are masculinity, femininity and the family evolving? How does a hardline conservative make friends with a diehard liberal? How do we live in harmony with nature without economic collapse? What kind of leadership do we need in this age of transition? How can we use our consciousness and energy to create the future? Can we make our Civilization so attractive that others choose to become friends and allies?
Future of Western Civilization Series 1, Book 4
Unleashing Human Potential-Alignment, Energetics and Connection-Soleira Green
Wise Democracy-Discovering Solutions to Intractable Problems-Jim Rough
Mindfulness-Applications for Leaders and Clinicians-Dr Nicholas Beecroft
Evolutionary Leadership-Conscious Leadership in an Age of Transition-Peter Merry
The Future of Europe-A View from Inside the European Union-Helen Titchen Beeth
Ending the Culture War-A Devoted Conservative and a Die-hard Liberal Make Friends-Phil Neisser & Jacob Hess
The Future of Western Civilization Progress Report–Dr Nicholas Beecroft interviewed by Melanie Mortiboys
Future of Western Civilization Progress Report. Melanie Mortiboys interviews Dr Nicholas Beecroft
Melanie Mortiboys interviews Dr Nicholas Beecroft on his series of interviews with visionary leaders exploring the Future of Western Civilization. Dr Nicholas Beecroft, a Military and Organizational Psychiatrist, has spent 25 years exploring the worlds of Medicine, Psychiatry, Business, International Relations and the Military. In this Series, he interviews visionary leaders to discover their inspiring, positive and practical visions for the future and challenges them with incisive questions including:
Who are we?
Where are we going?
How can we survive and thrive in this complex and competitive world?
How can we boost our cultural confidence?
Can we be patriotic, open, diverse and global at the same time?
How do we harness capitalism to get what we really want?
How do we remain free and safe whilst Islam undergoes its global awakening?
Can politics integrate the best of all shades of opinion?
How do we create Heaven on Earth?
What can our culture learn from the science of fields, energy and consciousness?
How do we make the welfare state fair to taxpayers and empowering to recipients?
How should we combine wisdom with science?
What’s unique about the West?
Is the West still best?
Can we agree upon a shared language for God, life and spirit?
How do we adapt to the rise of the East and South?
How do we preserve and renew democracy and freedom?
How do we re-legitimize the judgement of right and wrong, good and bad as the foundation of autonomy, freedom and authority?
How can we heal the wounds of our history so as to empower our present?
What is the Master Code of natural design, our psychological and cultural DNA?
What do the generational cycles of the past predict about the future?
Can Christianity rise to the challenge of materialism, secularism and Islam?
How are young Germans rediscovering healthy patriotism?
How do we bring compassion and healing back into medicine?
How do we escape the recession?
Which innovations in finance will transform our culture?
Melanie Mortiboys is a writer, artist, Pilates teacher, Bowen therapist, mother and Nicholas’ girlfriend. She has been a key catalyst of the Future of Western Civilization behind the scenes, offering her wisdom, support, encouragement and judgement throughout. She studied Drama, Film and Television at Bristol University and has since explored the world of personal development, psychology and health. She is currently working on her first novel.
January 17, 2015
Compassionate Healthcare- Dr Robin Youngson
Dr Robin Youngson is an inspiring visionary and catalyst for truly compassionate, holistic, mindful and healing healthcare. Through opening himself and his own personal journey to others, he touches the heart of patients, healthcare professionals and hospital managers. As founder of Hearts in Healthcare and author of “TIME TO CARE – How to love your patients and your job” he is a powerful advocate for the transformation of healthcare.
In this interview, he draws on his frustrating experience of trying to get proper care for his daughter who had been seriously injured and admitted to hospital for 100 days. Within a few hours he went from being a senior doctor, a powerful person in the hospital system, to a disempowered advocate for good care. He describes his own journey from doctor as technician to doctor as a mindful, healer and compassionate human being.
Robin shares some of the evidence for holistic, compassionate healthcare and gives examples of where this is already happening. He discusses how he benefitted from taking a mindful approach to his own thoughts, feelings and behaviours and how that radically transformed the healthcare experience for his patients, colleagues and himself. He talks about burnout and cynicism in medical staff. He shares his challenges in trying to reform the healthcare system. He has realized after 15 years of trying that there is no point in trying to persuade people or systems to practice compassionate healthcare. Instead, he has founded a global network of early adopters, passionate advocates and practitioners of caring, healing, holistic healthcare called Hearts in Healthcare. The network enables the sharing of powerful inspiring stories, of good evidence, of techniques that work and experience in transformational change.
Read “Time to Care- How to love your patients and your job”
Dr Robin Youngson
Robin is an anaesthetic specialist in New Zealand who is devoted to strengthening caring and compassion in healthcare. He is the founder of HEARTSinHEALTHCARE.com, a global social movement for health professionals, students, patient activists and all those passionate about re-humanising healthcare.
Robin was a founding member of the national Quality Improvement Committee in New Zealand and was the NZ representative on the WHO International Steering Committee for Patient Safety Solutions. He also helped launch the WHO strategy for “People at the Centre of Healthcare” in 2007. He is an honorary senior lecturer at Auckland University and is the author of the newly published book “TIME TO CARE – How to love your patients and your job”
January 16, 2015
Resurrecting Christianity in a Complex World: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali is one of the leading figures in the Church of England. He was the 106th Bishop of Rochester, for 15 years which made him the first non-white Diocesan Bishop in the Church of England. Prior to that he had been Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan, his country of origin where he had a both Christian and Muslim family background. In 1999 he was elevated to the House of Lords. He has a prodigious academic record with much research into the role of Christianity in a pluralistic world, Christian-Muslim relations and on the teaching of Christianity in the modern world. Now he is President of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue. He courageously supports Christian leadership in many parts of the world where Christians suffer persecution.
Bishop MIchael really understands the state we are in the Civilisational challenges we face and has the courage to speak the truth in the face of strong social pressure to stick to the Politically Correct hymn sheet.
In this interview, Bishop Michael addresses the State of Western Civilisation; it’s strengths; what’s working really well; the challenges we face.
He describes his positive vision for the future- his version of heaven on earth. He believes that we need a spiritual foundation for life and that we are living on past spiritual capital and that Christianity is essential to start regenerating that spiritual capital.
Bishop Michael says what he thinks of being spiritual but not religious- whether or not that is an evolutionary step towards towards a global post-Ethnic pure form of spirituality without cultural and historical baggage. Could it be that the C of E is the first post postmodern religion which provides a lead for the others in recognizing their common path and accommodating all- the first post-postmodern, Integral, Global religion? He sets out his conditions for that to be possible.
He says we need a shared story of who we are, what we believe, our values and history. He tells his version of that story and his own identity. He celebrates the strengths of Britain and talks about how he personally views the history of the British Empire and how we relate to that today. Clearly he sees Christianity as absolutely the central pillar of our history, identity, culture and values.
Bishop MIchael comments upon the muted Western reaction to the persecution of Christians around the world. Why do the Western Elites turn a blind eye?
How do we defend our freedoms, democracy and way of life from those who want to force their authoritarian and absolutist way upon us at a time when the pseudoliberal elite have made it at least taboo if not illegal to engage in debate and assert that Western or British values are better and in any case are our own right in our own country?
What’s needed to sort out gang violence and social decay? How do we restore the healthy authority of a parent, teacher, policeman, doctor etc?
Visit Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali’s Website
Bio
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali was the 106th Bishop of Rochester, for 15 years, until 1 September 2009. He is originally from Asia and was the first non-white Diocesan Bishop in the Church of England. He was appointed in 1994. Before that he was the General Secretary of CMS from 1989-1994 and prior to holding this position was Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan. He holds both British and Pakistani citizenship and from 1999 was a member of the House of Lords where he was active in a number of areas of national and international concern. He has both a Christian and a Muslim family background and is now President of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue (OXTRAD).
Michael’s secondary education was in Pakistan. He read Economics, Sociology and Islamic History at the University of Karachi, and Theology at Fitzwilliam College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge. His interests have led him to research and study in several fields, including comparative literature, comparative philosophy of religion and theology at the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford, and elsewhere. He has taught at colleges and universities in the United Kingdom and Pakistan. He is an Honorary Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He is Visiting Professor of Theology and Religious Studies in the University of Greenwich and on the Faculty of the London School of Theology (LST) affiliated to the Universities of Brunel and Middlesex.
Michael has been a visiting lecturer in a number of universities and colleges in the UK, Canada, the USA and Australia. He has travelled widely in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America. He is the author of ten books and of numerous articles on Mission, Ecumenism, the Anglican Communion, and relations with people of other faiths (particularly Islam).
List of Bishop Michael’s published works:
The Unique & Universal Christ: Jesus in a Plural World, Carlisle, Paternoster, 2008
Conviction and Conflict: Islam, Christianity and World Order, Continuum, 2005
Understanding My Muslim Neighbour [with Chris Stone], Canterbury Press, 2002
Shapes of the Church to Come, Kingsway, Eastbourne, 2001
Citizens and Exiles: Christian Faith in a Plural Society, SPCK, London, 1998; United Church Press, Cleveland, 1998
The Mystery of Faith, CFS, Lahore, 1995
Mission and Dialogue: Proclaiming the Gospel Afresh in Every Age, SPCK, London, 1995
From Everywhere to Everywhere: A World View of Christian Mission, Collins, London, 1990
Frontiers in Christian-Muslim Encounter, Regnum, Oxford, 1987
Islam, a Christian Perspective, Paternoster Press, Exeter, 1982; Westminster Press, Philadelphia, 1983
Successful Nations-Harnessing the Aspirations of the People: Richard Barrett
Richard Barrett’s latest book is Love, Fear and the Destiny of Nations; the impact of the evolution of human consciousness on world affairs. Richard is a leading global expert on the evolution of human values, culture, leadership & consciousness in business and society. (bio below)
Richard gives his assessment of Western Civilisation- where we are, what’s working well, the challenges we face and his vision for the next evolutionary steps into ever deeper democracy. His model of values driven leadership, leadership development and conscious evolution has been honed over thousands of leaders and organisations globally. He shows how this can be applied at the national and civilisational level.
He believes that there is an inevitable evolution of human values and consciousness once people’s deficiency needs are met and they become able to expand their consciousness and values into seeking their growth needs. He is certain that China will evolve its own form of democracy within 20 years, as will those other nations which are learning from the West how to lift people out of poverty and the basic levels of deficiency needs.
In the West, he sees our next stage of development is to continue to create conditions in which people’s basic needs are met so that we can evolve from freedom through equality, accountability, openness, transparency to trust. He says that business leaders are already well engaged in developing themselves to make this leap because they watch successful people and learn. He calls on political leaders to do the same but laments the current political culture which he feels is holding back our development.
Richard says that the satiation of the deficiency needs allows one to move from a fear-based way of life to a love-centred one, driven by the growth needs. This enables us to shift through levels of consciousness as leaders from socialised consciousness through self-authoring leadership and on to self-transforming consciousness at which people comfortably operate at the 7 levels of consciousness and are able to lead people at all those levels as appropriate to the situation, people and task. He describes this leap from the “flatland” of non-judgement and relativism up to and integral level of consciousness. He deftly catches the hot potato challenge to say how one would design an immigration policy from that higher level of leadership consciousness.
Bio
Richard Barrett (FRSA) is an author, speaker and social commentator on the evolution of human values in business and society. He is the Founder and Chairman of the Barrett Values Centre and an internationally recognized thought leader on values, culture, leadership and consciousness. In 2011, he was invited to become a Fellow of the RSA (The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in the UK—an enlightenment organisation of thought leaders committed to finding innovative practical solutions to today’s social challenges.
He is a visiting lecturer at the Consulting and Coaching for Change, leadership course run by the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and HEC in Paris. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Royal Roads University, Institute for Values-based Leadership, and visiting lecturer at the One Planet MBA at Exeter University.
He is the creator of the internationally recognized Cultural Transformation Tools (CTT) currently being used in 60 countries to support more than 3,000 organizations and leaders in their transformational journeys. He is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, and Former Values Coordinator at the World Bank.
Richard Barrett is the author of A Guide to Liberating Your Soul (1995), Liberating the Corporate Soul: Building a Visionary Organization (1998), Building a Values-Driven Organization: A Whole System Approach to Cultural Transformation (2006), and The New Leadership Paradigm (2011). He is a contributing author to Psychometrics in Coaching (2008) – Chapter 15: Coaching for Cultural Transformation.
