Dr. Jean Houston, scholar, philosopher and researcher in Human Capacities, was one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She was long regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement.
In 1965, along with her husband Dr. Robert Masters, Dr. Houston founded The Foundation for Mind Research. She was also the founder and principal teacher of the Mystery School, a program of cross-cultural, mythic and spiritual studies, dedicated to teaching history, philosophy, the New Physics, psychology, anthropology, myth and the many dimensions of human potential. The Mystery School began in 1983 and takes place on both the East and West Coasts annually.
Dr. Houston was a prolific writer and author of 26 published books, including A Passion for the Possible, The Possible Human, Public Like a Frog, A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story, and The Passion of Isis and Osiris. Her book Jump Time explores a new Global Paradigm and speaks boldly of a re-genesis of human society. The questions raised in this book and the exciting suggestion of possibilities are producing new pioneers – Social Artists – working on the frontiers of this new global society. As well as the Mystery School, Dr. Houston offered seminars in Social Artistry.
A powerful and dynamic speaker, she held conferences and seminars with social leaders, educational institutions and business organizations worldwide. Dr. Houston worked intensively in 40 cultures helping to enhance and deepen their own uniqueness while they became part of the global community. She worked in over 100 countries and was the recipient of many awards. She worked at all levels of leadership and broadened her work with the United Nations as a Senior Advisor to the UNDP – training leaders in developing countries in this new field of Social Artistry (human development in the light of social complexity).
In 2007, Dr. Houston received a mandate from Dr. Monica Sharma, the Director of Leadership and Capacity Development for the United Nations to train 10,000 trainers, who in turn trained some 100 million people worldwide by 2017.
Jean Houston’s ability to inspire and invigorate people enabled her to readily convey her vision – the finest possible achievement of the individual potential – while sharing with her audiences and students throughout the world the inner fire and excitement of that possibility!
Academy Articles by Jean Houston:
- Our Evolutionary Journey: It’s Jump Time
- We are all New Yorkers