Climate of Emotions Day 3 REGENERATIVE PLANNING

Food deserts exist all over. More often, they are located in lower income and underserved communities, especially those occupied by black and brown persons. As climate change continues to threaten agriculture, the divide between those provided with better options for food and those who aren’t may widen. What if we decide to teach people to nourish themselves creating their own sustainable solutions lessening fear, scarcity and hopefully impacting long term health consequences of eating unhealthy foods? We will examine what this looks like in this interactive session on a path towards hope for the future.

Facilitator

Aleasa Word is a DEI strategist, certified emotional intelligence practitioner, assessor coach and speaker. Ms.Word engages deep dive conversations and trauma-informed coaching discovery practices to reframe limiting beliefs, empower individuals, improve leadership effectiveness and shift organizational culture.

Tackling cultural complexity demands awareness that our larger systems are echoes of our individual actions. Taking right action requires a deeper understanding of what lies beneath the surface.

Together we will uncover the myths and metaphors that fuel our society and the resulting emotional consequences of our beliefs in them. Leveraging optimism and consequential thinking, we will envision an equitable, diverse and inclusive future using new myths and organize the pathway that leads us there.

You will leave this session with a transformative reflection tool that will empower the cultures you work with to strategize towards their desired futures.

Facilitators

Melissa Landry, is a Management Coach & Team Strategist focused on working with driven Executives and Managers to build high-performing innovative teams craving impact and change. As a Collaborative Futures Institute facilitator, she empowers leaders to build emotional intelligence skills, learn lead management strategies, and create safe collaborative environments for their teams to thrive.

Jenny Whyte, is a Collaborative Design Strategist and Futurist working to combine futures thinking, inclusive design thinking and emotional intelligence to inspire collaborative action. Co-Founder of Collaborative Futures Institute, she is passionate about catalyzing collaboration processes that build towards flourishing futures.

In this session, we will explore how the Liberatory Consciousness Framework combined with intentional action can help each of us create a better society. We will discuss the importance of curiosity, thoughtful reflection, empathy, and more to take transformative action within our own spheres of influence. Specifically, participants will:

• Expand awareness of local and global issues, and discuss how these may (or may not) intersect with issues experienced by other participants
• Reflect on the ways empathy and compassion have played a role in creating a more just society, and where further work is needed
• Brainstorm possible actions that would further address local and global issues
• Harness joy, hope, and resiliency to take small and big actions together toward their shared vision of the world

Facilitators

Julye Williams is the founder of Project 2043, an educational consulting firm committed to helping individuals, organizations, and educators develop an inclusive, equitable, and healthy multiracial democracy. In her 15-years in education, Julye has established free tutoring programs in NYC, created and led international youth exchange programs, co-founded a public elementary school, and created resources on race & diversity, trauma and social-emotional learning that have been downloaded by over 75,000 educators nationwide. Julye is a passionate advocate for racial and social justice and holds an MBA from Florida A & M University.

Shraya Sharma works on the Programs team at Empatico, where she focuses on developing content for children that fosters key social-emotional skills, facilitates conversations across divides, and empowers them to make a difference in the world. At Empatico, she also works closely with an amazing community of educators and partners from around the world. Her previous positions included working with children with special needs and students who are English-language learners. Shraya was born in India and grew up in California, before moving to New Hampshire, Boston, and finally NYC.

Verónica Vazquez Ugalde is a Program Associate at Empatico. After graduating from Boston University with an MA in Economic Policy, Verónica worked in nonprofit evaluation estimating the social impact of domestic and international nonprofits. She joined Empatico to help expand its evidence of impact and create accessible, evidence-based resources to help foster empathy and bridge differences in children and adults. Verónica was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico until her family moved to Florida at 15. Before settling down in NYC, she also lived in DC, Madrid, and Boston.

This session is an opportunity to reflect on what participants have learned from this event and most of all get clarity on “”what”” and “how” they want to change moving forward.

The word mandala comes from the ancient Sanskrit language, and it means “circle” or “centre”. They have been used for centuries in rituals and for meditation. Participants will create their unique work of art, connecting with their own wisdom and creativity. This exercise will be more effective if they can turn off the phone and “”isolate themselves”” through the entire session, to be fully immersed in the activity and get to the “flow” state of mind

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Mariateresa Romeo is a management consultant and an ICF (International Coach Federation) certified coach, with 15+ years of experience working in international and multicultural settings. She is a versatile and results oriented professional, able to develop strategic initiatives and drive organizational changes. Individually she helps clients accelerate their personal and professional growth, discover and make the best use of their talents and improve their wellbeing.

Mariateresa holds a Master Degree in Science of Communication for Business and Organization from the University of Rome “La Sapienza” , a diploma in Ontological Coaching from the European Coaching School in Milan, and she is also a certified EQ Practitioner and Assessor. Working in corporate environments she has developed a strong commitment to promote and support Environmental Sustainability, Social Responsibility, and Diversity & Inclusion initiatives Mariateresa is originally italian and lives in NYC. She is an art enthusiast, musician, tireless traveler, lover of the sea, and celebrator of life.

Robin C Blake is the owner of Transformational Consulting and Coaching Group, LLC, specializing in consulting, coaching, strategic planning, and stress management, emphasizing building productive relationships, and creating positive change. She is a certified EQ Practitioner and Assessor and has been trained in Coaching Equity Essentials.

Robin has over 30 years of federal experience with a diverse range of expertise incorporating interagency collaboration, conflict and crisis management, building rapport, and operational planning. She has worked in various professions, including crisis intervention programs, psychiatric rehabilitation programs, and federal law enforcement. She is certified in Mental Health First Aid and Assisting Individuals in Crisis and Group Crisis Intervention.

Robin has a Master’s degree in Human Services: Marriage and Family Counseling and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Psychology. She is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute’s Leadership for a Democratic Society Program and American University’s Key Executive Leadership Program. Robin is passionate about diversity, equity & inclusion, creating transformational leadership, and change management within organizations. Robin is an amateur photographer and cellist.

It takes a village to raise children. Every carer influences the adaptable transferable skills of children around them. This workshop centers around Noble Purpose and use of your own Emotional Intelligence and the influence on developing hidden curriculum as part of a child’s village. This includes the carer’s noble purpose in relation to the Child’s Village and the child’s emerging noble purpose as a hidden curriculum of youth.

We are in a climate where we must radically reimagine children’s learning environments by becoming aware of your own Noble purpose and motivations. We wish to empower the child, their parents, and their village.

Facilitators

Robert Oglivie has been an Executive EQ Coach since 2013. His background includes 10+ years in technology startups, in addition to Teaching, Sales, Military Officer experience and 3 degrees. His ADHD combines with his psychology and management skills as he coaches his clients for better strategy, complex adaptability, perspective taking, and motivational awareness. Executive Coaching aside, his current work includes: Lead Product Owner on a Serious Game called “Wicked 21st” funded through $200k eCampus Ontario; cofounder at Collaborative Futures Institute; graduate research on Emergent Leadership, team communication, and EQ development; and the complex leadership demands of parenting his son “Jackson”.

Amanda Rose Horsman is a bilingual Anglophone woman with a prosthetic right eye and 80% hearing loss in my left ear as well as fibromyalgia (chronic pain and fatigue). Disability has taught her to be humble and resourceful. She naturally navigates complex systems regardless of barriers present. She wishes to help others, maybe even remind them of the amazing people that they are and for them to gain the necessary information resources and skills necessary to achieve their dreams.

A session that is focused on shifting the way that we engage with each other in a community. Leading with emotional intelligence helps to create spaces of vulnerability and healing. Information will be shared on how to create equitable spaces for people to commune, exchange, and heal. Guidelines will be practiced that help to govern how the participants engage to make sure that everyone feels respected and validated.

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Victor Ferguson is a strong advocate for Emotional Intelligence especially when it comes to young BIPOC boys. He serves as an ambassador for Six Seconds to help spread the practice of Emotional Intelligence. He owns an organization called Optimal Wellness Community LLC that brings people together in the true sense of community and develops critical thinking around principles of wellness in churches, neighborhoods, corporations and more.

Understanding your feelings and emotions is only a part of understanding yourself. You also need to know why they are there. Learning to read and understand your Radical Purpose through your feelings will help you know yourself, where you have come from, and the path that you are on.

This session is an exploration into our natural guidance system. Learn about the music of the universe and how it uniquely vibrates in each of us. And start to see that those vibrations are the intelligence of the universe at work within you. Learn to view the feelings that motivate your every action as emergent guides towards the path you were born to take — towards your Radical Purpose.

Facilitator

Jose Leal will facilitate the session. Jose is a Portuguese American Canadian living in Silicon Valley. After 30 years in startups with a 10-year stint in corporate leadership, Jose left it all behind to determine why he acted as he did while in his corporate role. The search took him over six years and led to the discovery of Radical Purpose — the understanding of the role that feelings and emotions have in the evolution of life.

This session will teach participants how to stretch all of their senses to experience nature and how to become intimately aware of the natural world in our own back yards.

• We will learn techniques for ‘seeing’ and enlivening the senses in nature
• We will learn about how to become invisible in nature
• We will find and name species of plants or animals in our own back yards
• We will learn how stories help is learn more about nature than guide books and make up our own

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Rhett Godfrey is public speaker, published author, outdoor educator, and thought leader in social impact and coalition building. Rhett has taught wilderness skills to elementary age children in New York’s Central Park for over five years and leads adult outdoor education around the NYC area with a focus on wild edible and medicinal plants.

Cuando reconectas con tus valores, no solo se trata de identificarlos mentalmente o conectarte emocionalmente con ellos, sino también de crear un espacio de conciencia para encarnarlos en tus movimientos corporales generando mayor congruencia a nivel físico, mental y emocional, bienestar y agilidad emocional para co crear el CAMBIO que quieres ver en el mundo. En este dinámico taller, vamos a usar técnicas de regulación somática y movimiento consciente para que experimentes como se aborda la energía emocional de los valores desde el lenguaje del cuerpo.

Eduardo Gonzalez, Embajador de EQ en América Latina, es coach certificado en Cuerpo Movimiento con Newfield Network.

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

An Interactive lab using imagination and disruptive thinking to co-create the Earth we want for the future. How would you want Earth to look like, feel like and sound like? Together we will grow our purpose for “Earth” and we will discover options to act with that purpose in our day to day interactions

This is a practical lab following the Six Seconds model of know yourself, choose yourself & give yourself with a challenging way to generate ideas. In this Lab you will:
*Grow your purpose with a guided imagination
*Share your awareness about what is present
*Generate options through a disruptive ideation process

Facilitator

Amina Khalifa is a leadership consultant, EQ & NLP/ ICF PCC coach and facilitator. A Mechanical Engineer who has a belief in people’s potential and a passion to optimize their leadership skills personally & professionally with Emotional Intelligence.
Amina supports organizations in building leadership capacity by working with C-Level executives, as well as young leaders, through coaching and facilitating interventions to enable & support growth and sustainable change.