Climate of Emotions Day 1 NEWLY EMERGING

Through connecting with nature, we will explore its intersectionality with empathy, diversity, and inclusion. Participants will design an empathy kaleidoscope from natural elements and reflect on questions that invite them to observe how they interact, coexist, and depend on one another. Participants will then translate this design into a Kaleidoscope of Humanity. We will then discuss how we can see, honor, and reflect all people in our human kaleidoscope experience. Finally, observing their kaleidoscopes, participants will create and take away their empathy statements. These empathy statements will provide an opportunity to identify specific roles in caring for our environment (nature) to ensure all elements thrive and the responsibility in caring for one another (humanity) to ensure all people thrive.

About the Facilitators

Don Ajené Wilcoxson has a Doctorate in Ministry focused on Multifaith Theology, and a Master’s of Business Administration concentrated in Entrepreneurship. He is a college Professor of business, a student of Logotherapy, and a Certified Six Seconds EQ Practitioner and Assessor. Ajené facilitates inspirational talks, workshops and is a consultant, but most importantly, he is a teacher. A teacher from the perspective of being a guide, helper, and mentor in the Life-Learning Process. His passion and foundation are living and teaching how to live a Soul-Centered, Emotionally Intelligent Life.

Joanna Brewster is an Emotional Intelligence Coach and Certified Six Seconds EQ Practitioner and Assessor (adults and youth). She seeks to empower individuals to develop their leadership potential and best self. Her purpose is to foster empathy to deepen connection and understanding of self and others, open minds to work for equity, and embrace joy in the present moment. She is the founder of Heart Talks, focused on uncovering what is at the heart of you, your organization, your family or your team and the founder of Feeling Talks which focuses on deepening emotional literacy and self-awareness.

Both the racial and viral pandemics together give us space – a kind of distance from structures and rhythms we take for granted. Participants will cultivate new wellness or spiritual practices that are inherently liberative, comforting and connected to the land and sky.

For some this will be be decolonizing, which is intentionally letting go of beliefs and practices that are laced with colonial residue and white supremacy. For others, it will be de-institutionalizing their ways of being.

This workshop will support people to reclaim or claim authentic, life-giving practices by creating a rule of life, which is a monastic ordering of one’s way of being in the world. We will make room to consider individual and communal practices

Facilitator

Rev. Charity Goodwin is an African American woman ordained in the predominantly white United Methodist Church. After serving multiple churches as one of the few persons of color, she began developing spiritual practices that support her faith devoid of colonialism and white supremacy. She continues to cultivate and practice these ways of being. They have been most fulfilling during the pandemics.  Rev. Goodwin is a mom to two boys. The oldest is on the autism spectrum. She says that parenting has most shaped her as a leader.EQPC, EQAC

Can Art model the change? During this interactive workshop designed by artists for artists, participants will be invited to share their art works and projects. They will present their way to soothe the current Global Grief and re-design & re-imagine the present by using Art. They will activate through creativity and solidarity. They will finally reflect on the role of radical thinking in Art and offer ideas to strengthen the process of agency.

Facilitators
Ilaria Boffa is and EQ expert and a poet. She has published three bilingual poetry books and over the last years, she has been experimenting with field recording, blending her spoken words with sounds.

Hannah Bowers Singer-Songwriter, Director of Marketing and Promotions at The Producers Lab, co-Producer of the Wolf In Tune Podcast, and Program Coordinator at Six Seconds. Hannah is intensely passionate about music, mental health, and mindfulness. She writes, produces and performs her own genre-blending music as well as for other artists. Heavily influenced by the creativity of skateboarding and power of emotion, she intends for her transmedia collaborations to support young people confidently embrace their authenticity.

We listen to music all the time, we love it!

And the good thing is that we don’t need to have musical talent to use music to enhance our wellbeing and health.

The aim of this workshop is to unlock our creativity by making music together. We will discuss simple techniques to enrich mind, body and spirit through music. These methods can be applied in our daily life, particularly when we are feeling down or stressed out.

Join me in this creative experience!

About the Facilitator

Six Seconds EQ Certified Practitioner and EQ Network Leader for my region.

For me emotional intelligence is a lifestyle, a way of showing up in the world. EQ helps me pursue what matters to me, be more connected and empathic with people and ultimately live a more meaningful life.

Music is my favorite friend. I started playing with it after an on-line course and have been using it as a cradle for my emotions ever since

A perception exists that neuro-typical (NT) individuals benefit from SEL programs, whereas individuals with Autism (ASD) benefit from intervention to improve their social communication and interaction skills. This session is designed to challenge this binary system of thinking to support diversity, which includes individuals with ASD and their families in our conversation regarding EQ.
You will meet parents who will share their stories regarding their personal need and child’s need for EQ. Your voice will be heard as you share experiences regarding individuals with ASD and their families. Your thoughts and creativity will be valued as we strive to move “”beyond empathy into radical respect & interconnectedness of all life.” 

Facilitator

Dr. Sharon Gainforth is the facilitator. She has worked with individuals with challenges for over 35 years. Her EQ experience uniquely gives her the ability to present the intersectionality between EQ and the needs of individuals with autism.

This moderated discussion aims to (re)center voices that continue to sit on the margins of critical social justice movements for nature-human reconciliation–development and climate change, and SEL. Global Indigenous voices can be reduced to romanticized expressions of the esoteric, while being characterized as largely contradictory to progress and as nonscientific and unrealistic in the so-called modern world. The keynote panel accepts Six Seconds’ challenge to re-imagine intersectionality and intergenerational knowledge and face the harsh realities of race, colonialism, and injustice in addressing complex environmental challenges.

Our panel unpacks how global Indigenous peoples continue to work towards ecological healing and environmental regeneration across multiple spaces, including academia, the private sector, and community development, and how robust Indigenous values like love and respect linked with cultural practices and contemporary educational formations have the power to help us to rethink our fractured relationships with each other and Mother Universe.

Speakers

Elizabeth Sumida Huaman, Ed.D.

Associate Professor of Comparative and International Development Education, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Elizabeth Sumida Huaman is Wanka/Quechua from the Mantaro Valley, Peru. An Indigenous education researcher, her work focuses on the relationship between Indigenous lands and environment, cultural practices, and in and out-of-school educational development in the Americas. Her research includes collaborative approaches with Indigenous communities and institutions rooted in Indigenous knowledge systems and that explore modernization and cross-national education policy impacts, Indigenous community-based education and environmental sustainability, and Indigenous rights. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elizabethsumidahuaman/

Tsering Yangki

Tsering Yangki is Head of Real Estate Finance & Development, 3 publicly listed Canadian real estate development and asset management companies, Dream Unlimited Corp., Dream Impact Trust and Dream Office REIT spanning a diverse portfolio ranging from condominium, purpose-built rentals, office, retail development and income producing properties across Canada & the USA. In this role, she leads the origination, strategic direction, execution & oversight on all aspects of debt solutions and oversees the risk management & governance of existing debt. Over the last three years, Tsering has successfully led or co-led in excess of $3 billion of complex and innovative debt solutions.

As part of Dream Impact Trust’s Executive Management Team, Tsering develops and manages governmental and civil society stakeholder relations with a focus on affordable housing & climate change. As a former refugee, she has a direct appreciation of the value of diversity & inclusiveness to all stakeholders. She is active in community efforts addressing intersectionality of perspectives, issues, people, & institutions, on matters ranging from affordability, water security and food security. She continues her work to bring access, and equity in communities as Advisor to Reimagining Doeguling, India.

Tsering holds a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy, with a focus on International Finance & Economics from Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA and a MPhil in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Tsering holds a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy, with a focus on International Finance & Economics from Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA and a MPhil in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. 

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsering-yangki-b85747/

Samira N Chatila

Samira Chatila (she/her/hers) is a doctoral student in Comparative and International Development Education at the University of Minnesota (UMN), Twin Cities, and a fellow in the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at UMN. 

Moderator: Belinda H.Y. Chiu, Ed.D.

Founder of Hummingbird research coaching consulting, Belinda is on the forefront of democratizing emotional intelligence (EI), serving as faculty and Meta-Coach for Goleman EI, co-developed by Daniel Goleman, on the board of eiFocus to train female athletes to lead and compete with EI, and as a member of Laughter on Call, bringing EI through shared laughter. She is the author of The Mindful College Applicant, a series on “Reimagining Education,” Key Step Media, and a other publications. She is also visiting faculty for Tuck’s Global Leadership and Leadership Fellows programs, the Rockefeller Center’s Management & Leadership Development Program at Dartmouth, and Gabelli TALK at Fordham University. An ICF-accredited executive coach, she works with leaders from a wide range of industries from pharma to tech. She is also a Certified Teacher with the Google-born Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and chief designer with Ignition Coaching LLC. An International Liaison with the U.S. State Department, Belinda holds a doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, M.A. from the Fletcher School, and A.B. from Dartmouth College. 

¿Qué comunicamos emocionalmente a los demás con nuestro uso del arte? ¿qué tipo de emociones “nuevas” o interpretaciones diferentes estamos transmitimos? En este laboratorio, vamos a explorar de qué manera aquellas formas de expresión artística como el reggaetón, grafiti y hasta los videos caseros conectan con la exploración de las emociones en uno mismo, y su impacto en las demás personas en nuestra sociedad.

Macarena Arribas Beckermeyer es CEO y fundadora de MAB Perú (www.mablovers.com), una comunidad educativa enfocada en la educación de niños de áreas urbanas y rurales del Perú a través de tecnología y la inteligencia emocional.

Fiorella Velarde, psicóloga, educadora y coach profesional, es la Directora Regional de Six Seconds en America Latina.

“In these urgent times, it is best to slow down to pause and to ask ‘WHO’ is around?

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In this Co-Lab we will connect to ourselves and each other by discovering who you are at the present moment and what emotions and biases you’re bringing into the space. Drop your work related labels and step into a space of sharing your own story. Be open to get uncomfortable, while realizing your own cognitive biases. And get courageous to enter into deep and authentic human connections that will accompany you during this retreat through-and-through.

Attending this session will help you look at your project’s target audience differently, realizing the power of listening and understanding their emotions and mindsets related to climate change.

Facilitators

Diya Deb is a Campaign Strategist from India, who has leadership experience in designing and running engagements with local and international non-profit organizations in the field of human rights and environmental justice. She is currently co-leading Mindworks, an innovation lab within Greenpeace that enables teams to design responsive and non-polarizing campaigns by translating the insights from cognitive and behavioral sciences into practical ways of campaigning around environmental issues. Her main focus area is to co-create a mobility campaign in India that is built on emotional conversation with the target audience as opposed to a one-way, broadcasting style of communication.

Tamas Hovanyecz is a Learning Experience Designer and Facilitator from Hungary, who has intersectional experiences in building projects and teams in the field of investment baking, social entrepreneurship and environmental activism. He is currently co-creating a number of initiatives at Mindworks, focusing on crafting experiences and conversations for people to overcome feelings of disconnection, powerlessness and pain in order to foster connection with oneself, each other and our environment during this visible transformation of life, triggered by rapidly emerging old and new global crises. He also studies with Gabor Mate the relationship of childhood experiences, beliefs and present moment feelings.

In this session we are going to dream together using Social Dreaming methodology to share our collective unconscious and what it might reveal about our emotional and social responses to social climate change.

Social Dreaming was developed by Gordon Lawrence at The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations:

“The task of social dreaming is to transform thinking through exploring dreams, using the methods of free association, amplification, and systemic thinking, so as to make links and find connections in order to discover new thinking and thoughts” (Lawrence, 2004).

Preparation

Please bring your overnight dreams by gathering, noting, jotting down recent dreams. These can be whole sequences or in part, or indeed just fragments.

The Session

We will introduce and open the Social Dreaming method and the precepts for the session and the so-called Social Dreaming Matrix (SDM).

1. Social Dreaming Matrix– 30 minutes in plenary
2. Review of the Matrix – 10 minutes in plenary
3. Sub-group work – 30 minutes in sub-groups
4. Integration and sharing of some generated artifacts – sketches, poems, sculptures – 20 minutes in plenary

Session Hosts

Andrew Hall – British and Dutch dual national, having over 35 years experience in Metallurgy, Marketing, Business, Education and Management Consulting. Trained in and practises systemic methods (Theory U, Systems Psychodynamics) in his own business with Teamsmith Consultancy where Andrew consults to Organisations, Leaders and Teams on Change and Development. Andrew holds a B.Met,, MBA and MSC. He also hold the Practitioner Certificate in Consulting and Change from the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. https://www.teamsmith.eu/

Juliet Scott – British, having over 30 years experience in Art, Social Sciences and as a Organisational Consultant helping organisations with the dynamics of the change process. Her practice is formed of her work as artist in residence at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations and organisational curation projects and programmes which incorporate psychoanalysis; organisational aesthetics; anthropology; group processes; use of self; organisational ecosystems; systems psychodynamics; spirituality and the environment.  She is programme director of Deepening Creative Practice with Organisations. https://www.tavinstitute.org/staff/juliet-scott/

Read more about Social Dreaming at:

https://www.tavinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/The-Practice-of-Social-Dreaming-Guiding-Principles.pdf

A note on safety

The session hosts are experienced in working with groups and dynamic processes. It is important to emphasise that there will be no therapeutic analysis or interpretation of dreams. Instead, dreams will be opened up to provide broader reflections on societal hierarchies, anxieties and conditions.