Jim Channon
Jim Channon was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. Most notably he is remembered for creating the First Earth Battalion manual.
Jim Channon was featured in Fortune magazine as the business world's first corporate Shaman. He was featured in Omni and other magazines and websites as the founder of the Army's First Earth Battalion.
Recognized worldwide as the original pioneer of the corporate visioning process, Jim Channon has been a trusted strategic designer for ten of the World's largest companies. He was the lead futurist and educational technologist for the U.S. Army.
Jim has been described as a cross between Buckminster Fuller and Walt Disney. He created advanced visual AVL and the virtual reality exercise VRX. He has also done cultural voyaging with tribal groups worldwide. Presently his social architecture looks toward a new Pacific renaissance.
He is a lover of life and a spell-binding story teller. Channon is currently retired from the Army and resides in Hawaii.
IRVA 2010 - The First Earth Battalion
Abstract:
Jim Channon, Lt. Colonel, US Army (Ret.), presents on the First Earth Battalion, Task Force Delta, and his charge to think the unthinkable. Jim discusses how the techniques he developed for the Army can be applied to the challenges of remote viewing, including improving sketching and drawing skills, and the capture of perceptual data.