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TheArt of LIVING

Coalition

© Frankie Lee Slater, The Art of LIVING Coalition


841 9th Street, Suite B, Santa Monica, CA 90403
Tel: 310-451-2017 liveart@concentric.net
http://www.artofliving.com
THE ART OF LIVING - IN ACTION
Essentially, The Art of LIVING is a framework for conscious living,
designed to take us deeper into our experience of being human
by helping us grow in our understanding of ourselves as
conscious co-creators of our reality.

Beginning in 1996, our extended community immersed ourselves in a process to discover first-hand
what it means to become artists of life, and to live our lives in this capacity. As we did, we also
picked up video cameras and tape recorders to document our experience so we can extend the
Circle and people throughout the world will reep the benefits via our series of Becoming Artists
of LIFE documentaries.

1996
The Art of LIVING Coalition was formed by Frankie Lee Slater and a network of her friends in Los
Angeles. A Circle of Women (the women’s group which she co-founded in 1991) had invited men to
join them at their spring equinox gathering. In attendance were men and women leaders from
various activist and consciousness oriented groups, and the notion was born that “rather than
running in parallel, we could all benefit from coming together in one larger community. “ Acting as
a bridge, the Coalition moved forward, producing The Great Sun Circles - large outdoor gatherings
celebrating the cycles of nature, which involved hundreds of participants in an experience of
conscious community. Among the participating organizations were Earthways Foundation, Sacred
Earth, Rainbow Hall, Lynette Kessler Dance, The Medicine Men’s Lodge and Hard Light Center of
Awakening.

1997
This was a year of grass-roots community building as well as deepening our understanding of the
principles inherent in the art of living through small group welcoming circles, outreach and creative
collaboration. The documentary “TOUCHING ONE ANOTHER’S LIVES: An Artist of Life Profile of
His Holiness the Dalai Lama” was set in motion as was The Art of LIVING audiotape library -
demonstrating our unique approach in which many voices come together in the circle - around
such topics as “Becoming Artists of Life” and “Bringing the Generations Together.”

1998
With a core team assembled, the Coalition expanded our activities -creating strategic alliances
locally, nationally and internationally with organizations including the Institute of Noetic Sciences,
the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, New Civilization Network, Light 2000, the Magical Child
Foundation and the Foundation for Global Community. The Coalition received non-profit status
through Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs, and A Circle of Women evolved within
The Art of LIVING Coalition into a national alliance. Frankie Lee was invited to co-facilitate a
week-long gathering in Oklahoma which brought women together from all across the United States
in the spirit of unity, with her contribution designed to “Free Our Voices to be Heard.” A model
“Delegate Program” was created whereby an individual could take the initiative to attend
representing her community and being supported by them in doing so. The Coalition also
established centers in Atlanta, Capetown, London, New York, Paris, Puna, Sydney and Vancouver.
1999
The Art of LIVING Coalition again put our ideas and ideals into action, creating “We Are The
Weavers, We Are The Weave.” in only nine-weeks from inception. This city-wide event -
Celebrating the Feminine in Everyone! - helped put Women’s Day International back on the map
and demonstrated what is possible right here, right now when we combine our resources and give
our gifts freely. Groups which participated in the co-creative process included the Season for
Nonviolence LA, the Agape International Center for Truth, as well as many leaders who faciliate
movement, musical, environmental and ritual groups throughout Los Angeles. By attracting
favorable press, the event also served to extend our message to a greater number of people who
are interested in what we are modeling. The opportunity to become a member of the Coalition
was made available, research and development took place to ground the Foudation, and the
internet provided opportunities for more extensive outreach. We continued videotaping our
experiences learning what it means to “be artists of our own life,” including footage for the
documentary “Choosing Peace Now: A Model for What is Possible in Our Schools,” and coverage
of Earth Dance for Tibet, the Sacred Music Festival and the interview with The Dalai Lama of Tibet
by TAOLiving founder Frankie Lee Slater’s for “Touching One Another’s Lives.”

2000
We began the year organizing “We Are All Artists of LIFE,” our Second Annual Women’s Day
International event - designed to empower the “artist” in every one, while fostering the much
needed balance between the feminine and masculine in our culture. TAOLiving Outreach brought
many new volunteers into our community which allowed us to transcribe much of our video library,
establish a fundraising team, move our Being Artists of LIFE series of television specials forward
towards completion, complete the design phase for The Art of LIVING TV Show as “A Mystery
School for Prime-time Television.” We launched a pilot chapter of The Art of LIVING Coalition in
Fayetteville, Arkansas which was responsible for a community-wide action on behalf of 100 trees,
and our website artofliving.com designed to reach and respond to the global community.

2001
Our Third Annual Women’s Day International event “Celebrating the Mystery” rose to new heights
this year as over 50 artists contributed their gifts into the co-creative process that brought our
spirited combination plate of ritual, performance and connectivity into a Methodist Church in Pacific
Palisade and culminated with several hundred people dancing in the aisles. It also marked the
official launch of TAOLiving’s “conscious media for a conscious world” with “Choosing Peace Now,”
our local and national campaign to create peaceful solutions in our schools and communities,
catalyzed by the documentary of the same name. We’ve begun introducing internship opportunities
on college campuses. And the vision for The Art of LIVING Television Show and Becoming Artists of
LIFE TV specials is coming into being with genuine integrity - precisely because of the route we have
taken - to grow it organically by growing ourselves in the process. Your Participation is Welcome!
BECOMING ARTISTS OF LIFE
Today the extended wisdom community represented by The Art of LIVING Coalition is available as
guides for people the world over to explore their lives within the creative context of the art of living.

Here is some of what we’ve discovered along the way:

1) When we identify ourselves as artists of life and become aware of our essential nature
as creative, we ask different questions, take different actions, and make different choices
than we would ordinarily. We bring awareness to every situation and are quite literally free
to participate more fully in our own evolution.

2) Evidence of The Art of Living is present all around us when we have the ability to notice.

3) When we have better access to one another and can pool our collective wisdom, the energy
spent “recreating the wheel” is liberated for innovation, refinement, and enhancement and the
Promise of the Information Age can be fulfilled!. We re helping this process along by providing
models of what is working and what is possible...
• Identifying these models where they exist
• Enhancing them where they can be made better
• Creating them where deemed necessary
• and making them accessible for everyone’s benefit.

“I asked the scholar of Sanskrit, one of humankind’s


ancient root languages, what he could tell me of
the word ART.

He said it originated from the same seed syllables


as the word RIGHT, that ART is about RIGHTNESS.
In this core understanding an Artist is someone who
applies him or her Self through discipline to come
to a lived sense of what is “Right.”

While the quality of what is Right is dynamic and


ever changing, the skilled Artist is able to sense
that which is Right in each proceeding moment.

In essence, when we experience a great work


of ART, whatever the medium or expression,
what is actually being experienced is the resonant
vibration conferred by the Artist through the Art -
that what had to be done has been done.
It is RIGHT.

And so it is with our own lives...”

- Frankie Lee Slater


THE ART OF LIVING COALITION...Overview

Holding the vision for a conscious and caring world in which the peoples of the Earth live
in peace, harmony and prosperity, THE ART OF LIVING COALITION is here to serve as a
catalyst for positive change on both a personal and planetary level.

We are a vital and growing community of individuals and organizations whose mission it is
to support humanity in realizing its highest potential, providing a lived understanding that
life itself is a creative process and we are the Artists! Having this way of identifying ourselves
and our essential nature empowers all of us to make the kind of informed choices and take
the kind of pro-active steps necessary to create the world and lives we really want.

Today we're realizing the exponential value of linking with one another, sharing resources and
insight in everything we're doing. We are moving beyond the old paradigm where people
and organizations attempted to solve problems in isolation and separation. Instead, we are
coming together and pooling our collective energies and gifts to help create a conscious world
for the enrichment of everyone.

Something emerges in relationship that is greater than the sum of the parts. THE COALITION
is a way to connect with that thing which is bigger than yourself. Whereas a single stick is easily
broken, together they and we hold strong. This is a grid of relationships - to catalyze projects
and spearhead new ways of being and doing.

You can impulse your dreams into action - empowered by your relationship with THE CO-
ALITION - in terms of sparks of creativity, a wealth of shared resources, access and support.
And you can co-create within the living framework of THE ART OF LIVING COALITION - with
regard to THE ART OF LIVING Television Show, TV Specials, Audiotape Series, artofliving.com
Website, Live Events, Trainings, Dialogues and Unitive Experiences. THE COALITION is very
much an organic, living system commensurate with the natural and sustainable flow of life.

The function of THE COALITION is to benefit all, uniting hearts and minds the world over with
a sense of alliance and community for our common good.

THE ART OF LIVING COALITION is conscious community in action!

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