Summary: Dr. Barbara Fields is the executive director of the Association for Global New Thought, which was cofounded in 1996 to represent the leading edge of the New Thought lineage. Its constituent member churches and centers (700-800 in network) include Unity, Religious Science, and nondenominational New Thought spiritual communities. They are called forth by a deep commitment to bring the principles and practices of cocreation to a sacred and troubled world. Barbara is also cofounder (with Arun Gandhi) and project director of the Gandhi King Chavez Season for Nonviolence (1998-present); program director of the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago; cofounder and project director of the Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, Dharamsala, India, 1999, Trent, Italy, 2001, and Rome, 2004, and coordinator of U.S. based omni-local initiatives for Harvard Global Negotiation Project's Abraham Walk Initiative in the Middle East.
