Manifesting with Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Wheel of Co-Creation

Barbara Marx Hubbard, often called “the mother of conscious evolution,” was a visionary thinker whose work emphasized humanity’s potential for deliberate, positive transformation. Throughout her career, she focused on the power of human consciousness, creativity, and collaboration to birth a new era of collective evolution. One of her most enduring contributions is the Wheel of Co-Creation—a dynamic model for how individuals and groups can align their talents, innovations, and aspirations toward large-scale, systemic transformation.

In this blog post, you’ll learn what each component of Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Wheel of Co-Creation is, understanding the goals and their relevance to our current global landscape. You’ll also learn how the Wheel of Co-creation can serve as a profound framework for large-scale manifestation and co-creation—a perfect complement to the personal manifestation principles I cover here on the Kidest OM blog.

What is the Wheel of Co-Creation?

The Wheel of Co-Creation is a symbolic and functional model that depicts the different sectors of human society that need to be considered for conscious evolution. The wheel is typically represented as a circle divided into twelve sectors, each representing a key area of societal development. At the center of the wheel is a unified field of spirit, source, or consciousness—the field from which all creative action is initiated.

Barbara's idea was that humanity could co-create a future rooted in cooperation, compassion, innovation, and higher purpose by consciously working within and across these sectors. It is an evolutionary roadmap for collective manifestation.

The Twelve Sectors of the Wheel of Co-Creation

Each sector of the wheel represents a domain of life where human beings can apply their creativity to improve the world.

The following is an overview of each of the sectors as well as their relevance to social progress.

Health

The health sector emphasizes the full-spectrum enhancement of human health — body, mind, and spirit. It includes traditional medicine, integrative and alternative health practices, preventive healthcare, mental health support, emotional healing, energy healing, and longevity research.

Goal: To foster physical, emotional, and mental well-being and evolve toward a total human flourishing and regenerative wellness model.

Focus: Holistic health, preventative and proactive health, emotional intelligence and resilience, cognitive vitality, integrative medicine, personalized and precision medicine, healing practices, wellness, physical flourishing.

Relevance: Health innovations that focus on regenerative wellness (including mind-body approaches) are crucial for building resilient societies.

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Spirituality

Barbara advocated a universal spirituality that honors diverse traditions but moves toward unity and shared purpose. Spirituality in the Wheel means inner awakening, access to higher states of consciousness, personal transformation, and practices that foster love, compassion, and intuitive wisdom.

Goal: To align human evolution with divine intention and universal consciousness;  connect to the deeper meaning and purpose of life.

Focus: Inner development, ethical and moral development, exploration of wisdom traditions, consciousness expansion, understanding universal laws and principles, experiential spirituality, interfaith dialogue, service and contribution to the greater good.

Relevance: Spiritual growth fosters compassion, resilience, and vision—qualities needed for collective evolution.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure includes how we design cities, transportation systems, housing, energy grids, and all physical systems that support human society. It emphasizes sustainable architecture, smart cities, renewable energy, and infrastructure that supports human dignity.

Goal: To create resilient, beautiful, life-supporting structures and systems that reflect higher values.

Focus: Sustainable cities, renewable energy integration, green architecture, future-proof designs, intelligent transportation, and cultural integration.

Relevance: Our built environments profoundly impact our well-being and social cohesion.

Environment

This sector involves ecological restoration, climate action, sustainable living, and deep ecological consciousness. It focuses on regenerating ecosystems, protecting biodiversity, and recognizing the Earth as a living system.

Goal: To live in a mutually beneficial relationship with all life forms and protect, heal, and regenerate the planetary environment.  

Focus: Climate solutions, renewable energy, conservation, ecological education, environmental justice and equity, regenerative agriculture and food systems, sustainable consumption and production, circular economy and waste reduction, water stewardship and restoration.

Relevance: Environmental stewardship is not optional—it is central to human survival and thriving.

Media (Communication)

Communication covers media, social platforms, journalism, storytelling, and art — all the ways we inform and inspire each other. Barbara emphasized the need for positive news, transparent truth-telling, and creativity that awakens higher consciousness.

Goal: To create global communication networks that unite, uplift, and empower humanity.

Focus: Conscious media, inclusive and accessible media, media literacy education, storytelling for change, transparency, conscious digital citizenship (ethical use of tools).

Relevance: Media shapes human perception; ethical, uplifting narratives are critical for shaping a hopeful future.

Governance

Governance here transcends political partisanship; it means self-governance, conscious leadership, and participatory democracy. It involves creating transparent, compassionate, and visionary systems for organizing society and resolving conflict.

Goal: To evolve leadership from domination and control to participatory, just, and compassionate leadership that serves and facilitates collective flourishing.

Focus: Transparent governance, ethical governance, distributed leadership, shared power, citizen participation, collaboration and partnership building, systems thinking and long-term vision, social and restorative justice.

Relevance: Calls for new models of governance that honor human rights and dignity are growing globally.

Relations

Relations involve how we form and nurture our personal and collective bonds: family, friendship, partnership, community, and global kinship. This sector includes conscious parenting, compassionate communication, and collaborative living models.

Goal: To evolve human relationships into expressions of mutual empowerment, love, and creativity that foster harmony.

Focus: Conflict resolution, emotional intelligence, conscious communication, multicultural understanding, partnership models, fostering global citizenship, creative collaboration and co-creation education.

Relevance: In an interconnected world, cultivating empathy and cooperation across differences is vital. From intimate partnerships to global interactions, cooperation, and cultivating skills that enable effective communication can ensure collective well-being. Consciously evolving relationship capacities can help to shape a global landscape of mutual empowerment, respect, creativity, and collective flourishing.

Arts and Culture

Art, music, theater, literature, and visual storytelling are seen as essential tools for social transformation. The Arts sector emphasizes creativity not just for entertainment, but for inspiring collective awakening, emotional healing, and envisioning the future.

Goal: To use art as a catalyst for awakening, expressing, and evolving humanity's soul or spirit.

Focus: Creative expression, conscious storytelling, narrative shifting, collective myth-making, envisioning new futures, protecting cultural identity, facilitating healing and reconciliation, empowering future generations, documenting social change and historical moments.

Relevance: Art has the power to shift paradigms and inspire social movements.

Economics

This sector reimagines the economy as a system for mutual empowerment, wealth creation for all, and sustainable growth. It explores conscious business practices, ethical finance, cooperative economics, regenerative capitalism, and resource-based economies.

Goal: To create economic systems that foster well-being for the planet and prosperity for every being, not just profit.

Focus: Ethical business models, conscious capitalism, alternative currencies, wealth distribution models.

Relevance: Climate and technological changes have meant reimagining economies.

Science and Technology

Barbara saw science and technology as keys to solving humanity’s challenges — if guided by wisdom and ethics. This sector includes advancements in AI, biotechnology, space exploration, quantum physics, and green technologies, all aligned with the intention of supporting conscious evolution.

Goal: To guide scientific and technological innovation towards enhancing life and expanding knowledge in alignment with human well-being, ensuring conscious innovation serves as a force for social and global good.

Focus: Ethical scientific advancement, technology for good and life enhancement, ecological intelligence, and sustainability solutions.

Relevance: Science and technology are major forces shaping our collective future—conscious innovation can ensure that science and technology act as a unifying global force, fostering harmony and enhancing life for all (planetary, individual, group).

Education

Education, in this model, goes beyond the traditional classroom. It includes lifelong learning, consciousness studies, creative development, and the awakening of latent human capacities. It focuses on teaching people how to think creatively and compassionately rather than what to think.

Goal: To foster holistic human development and prepare people to be active co-creators in society. To awaken the full potential of individuals.

Focus: Lifelong learning, transformational education, cultivating potential, awakening potential, cultivating creativity and consciousness.

Relevance: A society’s ability to innovate and thrive depends on an education system that empowers learners rather than just instructs them.

Justice

This sector addresses legal systems, human rights, conflict resolution, and restorative justice models. Barbara emphasized the move away from punitive systems toward restorative, rehabilitative, and transformational approaches to justice.

Goal: To build societies where fairness, equity, and compassion guide human relations.

Focus: Fairness, universal access, human rights, economic justice, criminal justice reform, environmental justice, equality, protection of vulnerable groups, corporate accountability, peacebuilding, and restorative systems.

Relevance: Just legal systems form the bedrock of equitable and compassionate societies, ensuring the protection of fundamental human rights and providing recourse against injustice. Addressing systemic flaws and promoting restorative approaches within these systems is crucial for fostering social cohesion and enabling human flourishing in today's complex world.

Why the Wheel of Co-Creation is Vital Now

The world today faces interwoven challenges—climate change, technological disruption, social injustice, and political polarization. The Wheel of Co-Creation invites us to see solutions not in isolated silos, but through the integration of all sectors of life, harmonized by higher consciousness.

It recognizes that we must not only heal and innovate individually but also collectively. It shows that lasting transformation—especially on the scale of societal evolution—requires collaboration, inclusivity, and conscious intention across all fields of human activity.

The Wheel of Co-Creation and Manifestation: A Natural Connection

If you are familiar with the principles of manifestation and co-creation, Barbara’s Wheel feels like a natural extension of those approaches. Just as you, as an individual, can intentionally focus your energy to manifest new experiences for yourself, we, as a collective, can do the same for humanity.

The Wheel of Co-Creation offers a practical blueprint for large-scale manifestation. It reminds us that consciousness, vision, and action—applied systematically across all domains—can birth new societal structures rooted in compassion, sustainability, and innovation.

Working with the Wheel can expand your understanding of manifestation beyond personal goals to include community, planetary, and evolutionary goals.

Conclusion: Becoming Agents of Conscious Evolution

Barbara Marx Hubbard's legacy is a powerful invitation to step into our role as deliberate co-creators of the future. The Wheel of Co-Creation is a visionary, yet practical framework that shows how we can organize our individual talents, passions, and callings into collective action for the good of all.

At a time when the world is calling for higher solutions, greater unity, and visionary leadership, the Wheel reminds us that transformation is not just possible—it is inevitable when we act as conscious, creative participants in the unfolding story of life.

By aligning with the principles of manifestation, co-creation, and conscious evolution, each of us can contribute to building a more vibrant, thriving, and sustainable world.

About Kidest OM

Kidest OM is an author, teacher, and educator guiding individuals through personal development and consciousness evolution. As a futurist and co-creator, she offers insightful perspectives and practical tools for manifestation and cultural evolution. Her books include "Anything You Want" and "Nothing in the Way: Clearing the Paths to Success & Fulfilment" which are available globally in eBook, print, and audiobook on her website and through online book retailers. You can also find more inspiration and motivation from Kidest on her blog social media channels!