All of the Global PathMarkers can be considered communicators par excellence. By studying their lives we can hope to learn how both their message and how they communicated, were so effective.

The Future Is Now World Peace Celebration chose these ten areas of concern as a means of focusing attention on the interrelatedness of human activities that cannot be separated out from one another.

If your primary concern is communication then you will also be involved in art as a means of expression, education for learning how to learn (hear), technological advances like computers, cell phones, the web - all related to discoveries made through science methodology, and effecting how we form community. Peace and justice depend on being able to share meaning, as does our health and the environment we share.

Communications Resources at The Creative Process

• Creative Process Communications Bookshelf
• Creative Process Gallery of Literature & Language Arts Posters

Communications Links for Learning

• National Institute on Deafness and Communications Disorders- NIDCD focuses national attention on the estimated 46 million people in the United States that suffer some form of disordered communication and has contributed to advances in biomedical and behavioral research that will improve the lives of those with communication disorders.

• American Indian Language Development Institute - advocate indigenous language rights and ensure linguistic and cultural diversity.

• American Speech-Language-Hearing Association - ASHA is the professional, scientific, and credentialing association for audiologists, speech-language pathologists, and speech, language, and hearing scientists.

• Linguistic Society of America - LSA advances the scientific study of languages, the sets of rules for generating speech.

• Language and Culture: An Introduction to Human Communications - Academic site / tutorial.

• Center for Applied Linguistics - CAL provides a comprehensive range of research-based language tools and resources related to language and culture through bilingual education, English as a second language, literacy, foreign language education, dialect studies, language policy, refugee orientation, and the education of linguistically and culturally diverse adults and children.

• United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations 2001 - The goal of the Year of Dialogue among Civilizations was to nurture a dialogue that is both preventive of conflicts-when possible-and inclusive in nature through implementation of cultural, educational and social programmes to promote dialogue among civilizations.

• Bohm_Dialogue -- An inquiry into David Bohm's proposals regarding dialogue.

• International Reading Association - IRA is a professional organization for those involved in teaching reading to learners of all ages, improving the quality of reading instruction, disseminating research and information about reading, and encouraging the lifetime reading habit.

• Information Age Article at Wikipedia -

• Marshall McLuhan- author of The Medium is the Massage (Did you know that the printer made a typo on the first run of the cover of McLuhan's book? McLuhan thought 'Massage' was an apt replacement for 'Message'.)