Corinne McLaughlin is an American

United States

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 author and educator. She is executive director of The Center for Visionary Leadership and a Fellow of The World Business Academy and the Findhorn Foundation

Findhorn Foundation

The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest intentional communities in Britain....

 in Scotland

Scotland

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. McLaughlin and her partner Gordon Davidson founded Sirius, an ecological village in Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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. She coordinated a national task force for President Clinton's

Bill Clinton

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 Council on Sustainable Development

Sustainable development

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 and has taught politics at American University

American University

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. McLaughlin has lectured in the U.S., Europe and South America. She is co-author of The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual Growth and Social Change, Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out and Builders of the Dawn: Community Lifestyles in a Changing World.

Quotations

• "Using well-developed dialoguing and visioning processes involving the entire community, people could develop new ways to organize themselves with community-supported agriculture, barter and alternative currencies, solar and wind energy, holistic and complementary medicine, and co-ops of all kinds." —Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson in Utne Reader.

Books written

• "The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual Growth and Social Change", 2010. With Gordon Davidson, Unity House Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87159-340-5
• Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out. 1994. With Gordon Davidson. Ballantine/Random House Books. ISBN 0-345-36983-1
• Builders of the Dawn: Community Lifestyles in a Changing World. 1990. With Gordon Davidson. Book Publishing Company. ISBN 0-913990-68-X

External links

• Leadership And Power In Intentional Communities by Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, In Context #7, Autumn 1984.
• To Think Like Others an Interview with Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, by Robert
  Robert Gilman
  Robert C. Gilman is a thinker on sustainability who, along with his late wife Diane Gilman, has researched and written about ecovillages. The Gilmans’ work was important in giving definition to the ecovillage movement and shaping the direction of the Global Ecovillage Network...
  
   and Diane Gilman
  Diane Gilman
  Diane Gilman , was a painter, potter, writer and co-founder of the Context Institute. She played a key role in the initial development and coordination of the Global Ecovillage Network, a support network for model communities to show how to live more sustainably on the planet, in urban, rural,...
  
  . In Context #29, Summer 1991.