WIDESPREAD GROWTH AND

USE OF ONLINE

COMMUNITIES

PROLIFERATION OF

MAINSTREAM ONLINE

EDUCATION

GLOBALIZATION TREND

& CULTURE

INCREASE IN FORMAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

INCREASE IN INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH &

SELF ADVOCACY (due to internet)

PROLIFERATION OF

SELF HELP

TECHNOLOGY TRENDS

PROLIFERATION OF MOBILE

COMMUNITY AND MICRO

CONTENT· “Always On, Always Connected” lifestyles, good and bad

· Increased consumption of micro interactions vs. RL

· Increased trend towards micro consumption for dopamine high

· Hyper competition, need to have an edge to win

· 1 in 10 Americans on anti-depressants

· Enter Wisdom 2.0 (2010)

· Rise of big desire for non-Pharma solution

· Increased sense of loneliness

· Increased online connectedness, less RL connection

· Increased mental stress

· Increased social stress

· Increase in unhappiness· Increased attention fragmentation

· Rise of “Wearable for Everything” problem solving

· Rise of “App for Everything” problem solving

· Innovate everything mentality (Valley and early adopters everywhere)

· Reaching boundaries of traditional self-help, where is the lasting change? · Acceptance of self-change

& transformation as a natural part of adulthood

· Online solutions and communities for everything

· ENTER TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGY LAB @ SOFIA UNIVERSITY (2014)· Enter Spire,

Muse, Thync and many more (2012-now) · Sold out TTC

conference (2015)· Tim Chang, JAZZ, One Earth, Bridgebuilders and other VC’s enter

· Enter Zen Friend & many more (2014)

· Enter Headspace App (2013)

· Tim Ferris begins to meditate (2014)

· Smart phones explode, 2B by 2015, demand content, change behavior

· World of Warcraft, Online Games & Facebook shift connection online

· Increased acceptance of virtual support

· Increased use of virtual counseling and personal development

· Deep therapeutic work moves online/skype (for distance/ groups/serious health outcomes)

· Enter Neurograming Conference (Mindtraining + Health Outcome + Games 2013)

· Increased access to info & tools for meditation via online (Buddha at the Gas Pump, Non-Duality.org)

· Increased acceptance of online education (internet, mobile, college costs)

· Increased instances of people using meditation & mind-training

· Increased instances of information entrepreneurs online

· Enter MOOCS (and PR around them) (2012)

· Enter MindValley (2003)

· Rise of experts and teachers online (YouTube teachers proliferate)

· Vedic expands via Tom Knowles, becomes hip via Charlie Knowles· Meditation at Davos, Le Web, TedX and more (2013/2014)

· ENTER FINDERS COURSE & WILLOW (2014)

· Enter Google (SIYL 2012)

· Sam Harris writes Waking Up (2014)

· Celebrity Biz and Culture Meditators proliferate (Oprah, Ray Dalio, Loic Le Meur, Russell Simmons, etc.)

· Rick Hanson writes Buddha’s Brain (2009)

· Adam Gazzaley creates Glass Brain @ UCSF

· G. Dietsch 1st QEEG (1932)

· Increased understanding of brain structure and neurotransmitters

· Enter Intel, Aetna with big corporate programs (2012)

· Insurance companies begin to cover & HR depts. to offer

· Increased specific studies on Happiness

· Military uses meditation and MBSR to treat PTSD

· Increase in mindfulness in business theories & HBR cases Major Studies on meditation and neuroscience (Richard Davidson, Mind Life, Harvard etc.)

· Increased awareness of the benefits of meditation in public

· Stuart Hameroff consciousness research @ UoA

· J. Brewer mindfulness study @ UMass

· Increase in theories on happiness /mindfulness and health

· Increased access to long term meditators from East as subjects

· Rise of self-advocacy

· Rise of productivity bloggers

· Enter Consciousness Hacking Meetup (2014)

· Understanding of “on” versus “in” the brain methods

· M. Csikszentmihalyi studies Flow

· Rise of human potential communities, meditation a key tool

· Rise of 4 hour work week

· Rise of Tony Robbins, “program & condition yourself” and measurement standard · Therapy is socially

acceptable

· Enter Flow Genome Project

· Rise of self-hacking, then team-hacking

· Seattle Seahawks win Superbowl (2013), use meditation, more high performance teams adopt

· Dan Harris writes 10% Happier (2014)

· DR. JEFFERY MARTIN PUBLISHES 1ST WORLDWIDE STUDY ON PNSE (2013)

· Enter the Path, Ziva & Unplug (2014)

· Jon Kabat-Zinn creates MBSR & popularizes “mindfulness”

· Enter Arianna, Hu�Po and Mindfulness bloggers (2012)

· Rise of global middle class and huge demand for education drives West models/demand and growth

· Transcendental Meditation (TM) grows. TM goes into schools to decrease violence

· Buddhist ideas move West, loses some dogma (a la Yoga)

· Increase in online DIY communities around human potential: physical (extreme sports) & psychological (PNSE and TCDS etc.)

· Surge in instances of PNSE with online sharing (4 min mile e�ect)

· Increased acceptance of virtual relationships

DESIRE FOR RESULTS IN

TRANSFORMATION(graduate from issues)

(happiness)

DESIRE FOR REAL HAPPINESS

(happiness)

ACCEPTANCE OF ONLINE

EVERYTHING(adoption)

DESIRE FOR SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT

(growth)

DESIRE FOR WORKPLACE

MINDFULNESS(performance)

DESIRE FOR PRACTICAL MEDICALAND STRESS TOOLS

(health)

DESIRE FOR POTENTIAL

FULFILLED(performance)

DEMAND FOR TRANSFORMATIVE

TECHNOLOGY

(c) Nichol Bradford, Executive Director, Transformative Technology Lab