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The mission of Clear Compass Media, LLC is to create compelling media that assists humanity in thriving through the evolutionary challenges threatening our survival. This website and the documentary film THRIVE: What on Earth Will It Take? are the main projects of Clear Compass Media. We are a small team of committed individuals based out of Soquel, CA, dedicated to getting the message of THRIVE out to as many people worldwide as possible. |
About the Filmmakers
Foster Gamble - President & Co-Founder of Clear Compass Media; Creator, Host, Co-Writer, and Director of Visual Design for THRIVE
At age 14, Foster Gamble had a vision where he glimpsed what he perceived to be the Universe’s fundamental energy pattern. He spent the next 35 years trying to figure out the details and implications of what he had seen. That quest took two paths: a scientific journey and an exploration of the human potential to navigate successfully through the challenges threatening our survival. THRIVE represents the convergence of these two paths.
While at Princeton University, Foster helped to create their first film-making department. At the time, the emergence of a global media delivery system seemed likely, and Foster’s love of film combined with his concern for the planet inspired him to focus on what would be the most critical content to one day deliver through that system.
In his search for a way out of our violence and demise, Foster discovered Aikido – the non-violent martial art – which proved for him the possibility of being simultaneously powerful and gentle. He earned a third degree black belt and trained in and taught Aikido for 15 years.
Applying Aikido principles to daily life informed Foster’s professional career: He created a training and technology company, MindCenter, that employed brainwave biofeedback to help people learn how to manage stress and to tune their consciousness. He also created Interaction Dynamics, a training program for mastering skills in communication, team-building and conflict resolution for couples, business teams, schools and families across the United States. He combined Aikido energy principles and mind fitness techniques in Zonesport Training, which tapped his passion for sports in helping high level athletes to enhance their performance. Addressing the demands of balancing his own personal, family and professional lives led Foster to create a program called LifeBalance.
Furthering his exploration of what was keeping humanity from thriving, Foster spent nearly a decade “following the money” in every sector of human endeavor. The process revealed an understanding of our predicament that led him to create the strategic solutions offered in THRIVE. Foster’s exploration of “living geometry” – how nature builds the “material” world, came to fruition in 1997 when he co-convened the Sequoia Symposium, a multi-disciplinary scientific think tank exploring perspectives on “Unification Theory.”
There, the primary patterning that the universe uses to sustain healthy systems was clarified and cohered, as was its use as a blueprint for us to design sustainable, all-inclusive technologies and social systems. This discovery represents the convergence of science and the evolution of consciousness that Foster set out to explore after his initial vision, and is the “code” that is featured in the documentary film, THRIVE, and on this website.
Foster lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife Kimberly Carter Gamble.
Kimberly Carter Gamble - Former CEO, Co-Founder and Advisor for Clear Compass Media; Producer, Director, and Co-Writer of THRIVE
When asked about THRIVE, Kimberly says “Having the courage to risk stepping out of what David Icke calls the “hassle-free zone” is the quality I am most proud to have mustered in this life, and it felt great to infuse the clarity and compassion that come from that process into the story – and production – of THRIVE.”
One especially encouraging insight that emerged in the course of making THRIVE was that the most informed people are consistently the most hopeful, because once the nature of the problem is clear, so are the solutions. Kimberly is committed to using her privilege to empower these bold and leveraged solutions.
About the Team
Paul Taylor - CEO of Clear Compass Media
By the age of 33, Paul thought that all of his dreams had come true. He was a Global Director/VP of Strategic Innovation at The Coca-Cola Company in charge of the $12 Billion Coke Classic/Diet Coke business unit and had been identified as having the upside to eventually become the Chief Marketing Officer. But a funny thing happened on the way to living happily ever after. No matter how much more money, more stuff, more promotions, more everything…Paul could not fill the void of meaning in his life.
Eventually, Paul was saved by the love of a good woman, his beloved wife Anne, and they now live in sunny Florida with their three young boys and a golden retriever to boot.
To that end, Paul has spent the past decade pursuing three questions at the heart of his life’s work.
How do we awaken, inspire, empower, and enable the new possibility of being a human being?
How do we organize/govern ourselves as a species to liberate human flourishing?
How do we reframe, re-imagine, and redesign all of our social systems inspired by the way nature/life works to liberate human thriving?
Throughout the film, THRIVE, we often refer to a shift in worldview that the human species is undergoing – from a reductionist, mechanistic understanding about how things are in the world that sees everything as separate, to a holistic, integral view that recognizes the interconnectedness of everything in a larger whole. This is what happened to Paul in his final couple years working at Coke. His entire worldview shifted and he is now seeking to use his unique experience, passion, and gifts to help frame, name, and amplify the greatest movement in human history.
Paul is deeply honored to be a part of the THRIVE team that is committed to helping to empower a self-creating movement that seeks to create a world where we can all thrive.
Lee Waterworth – Associate Producer
As an actor, he worked continuously in various productions, culminating in the acclaimed BBC drama, Cutting It.?? Lee began his business career in London at that same time. He started working as an Event Manager for Method Two; the experiential marketing division of GCI, where he enjoyed managing many public events including roadshows for Danone, Nestle, O2 and Virgin. Fast forward a few years and he was an Account Director overseeing a prestigious client list ranging from Fosters Group International and their International Cricket and Rugby Sponsorship, to the Linda McCartney British Music Festivals Sponsorship.
These years of concurrent acting and corporate marketing experience fueled a desire in Lee to work behind the camera as a producer, something that eventually evolved into his relocation to Los Angeles.
On arrival he set about trying to understand a film's market value and as such landed a job as the International Acquisitions Manager for Trans Pacific Media, a Film Distributors Rep representing high-end independent film distributors worldwide. During his tenure, Lee facilitated the purchases of many feature films including Slumdog Millionaire, 3:10 to Yuma, Twilight, Michael Clayton, Sin City and The Men Who Stare at Goats.?? Lee then went on to work as the EVP of Production for Green Planet Productions where he managed both feature length and commercial productions that included the Sundance Award-Winning documentary, FUEL, for which he also managed the distribution.
With the distribution of FUEL complete, Lee started his own film production, marketing and distribution consultancy, Waterworth and Associates, which has worked extensively with Cinema Libre Studio and others on the distribution of numerous feature length films including Oliver Stone's South of the Border, Norman Lear's El Súperstar: The Unlikely Rise of Juan Francés and Philippe Diaz’s award winning documentary, The End of Poverty?
Uniting people and different cultures across the world has always been a passion of Lee’s. When he was offered the opportunity to put his skills to work doing just that by generating a largely experimental marketing and distribution plan with the THRIVE team, he almost snatched their hands off.
Claire Darling – Associate Producer
Marshall Lefferts – Associate Producer of THRIVE
Collaborating on THRIVE has been a highlight in his life as it brings together all of his skills and knowledge into a comprehensive offering that, at its core, is founded upon an unquestionable faith in the integrity of life when lived in harmony with nature’s fundamental design.
Lillie Pearl Allen – Presence and Alignment Consultant for THRIVE / Creatrix of Play
As Lillie answered these questions on her life’s journey, she developed a transformative process (now known as the Be Present Empowerment Model®) for sustaining dialogue and learning to broaden understanding and build partnerships in our diverse and changing world. She first used the process in her work as Founder and CEO of the Lillie Allen Institute, Inc. In 1992 Lillie founded Be Present, Inc., and became its first Executive Director. In 2009 her title transitioned from Executive Director to Creatrix of Play, part of an innovative organizational model embodying the core principles and practices of collaborative leadership.
Lillie has served as a consultant to numerous non-profit organizations, foundations, government and for-profit institutions. Her areas of broad expertise and experience include human development, interpersonal relations and group dynamics.
Working on THRIVE was an important next step for Lillie. THRIVE confirms for her the belief that we are all part of a divine spirit; and that separation from our essential selves and our collective spirit is the result of social, political and cultural systems that were deliberately created to divide. She has been working for the past 35 years to expand a national and international network of people committed to creating a world of peace and justice for all. The work of THRIVE is part of the same dream.
Nick Alheit – Archivist for Clear Compass Media; Production Assistant for THRIVE
