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Wisdom 2.0: Connecting With Ourselves, Connecting With Each Other: An Evening Of Embodiment Practice | LinkedIn (August 2018): My Notes

With: Stephanie Meux (Wisdom 2.0) & David Treleaven (Strozzi Institute)

LinkedIn. August 2018. San Francisco, CA

Disclaimer: As with all of my published notes from workshops or conferences, these are in no way comprehensive. Nor are they a literal summation of what was said. They are simply my notes, my interpreted, perspective-ed reflections, photos, and jottings, that occasionally combine my own records & thoughts with those of the speakers. There might be some typos.

Looking. Up (:-)

Somatics & Embodiment – just because you know better, doesn’t necessarily mean you can do better.

Just because there’s intellectual understanding, doesn’t mean it will lead to new action under pressure…

Is what you’re practicing in you life aligned with your values?

Transformation isn’t just an idea, it’s a lived, felt experience.

By learning to tolerate uncomfortability, and vulnerability..

We practice, we practice, we practice, and then at some point it clicks.

1) You are what you practice.

2) You’re always practicing something.

3) Is what you’re practicing in alignment with what you care about / your values?

How can we be of support?

The connection between the mind & body.

Head. Heart. Intuition :)

Can we act from a place where these are all in alignment at the same time?

Related Pages & Links: 

Wisdom 2.0 (17-18)

Wisdom 2.0 (16-17)

Wisdom 2.0 (15-16)

Wisdom 2.0 (14-15)

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Wisdom 2.0 2018: Some Of My Favorite Talks - Part 1

The #MeToo Movement: Silence Breakers & The Call to Action | Tarana Burke, Soren Gordhamer:

Understanding Parts: Compassion & Healing | Richard Schwartz, Elizabeth Esalen:

Embodied Leadership: Now More Than Ever | Richard Strozzi-Heckler:

How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris, Soren Gordhamer:

Meaningful Human Connection in the Digital Age | Radha Agrawal, Konda Mason, Heather Gallagher:

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Wisdom 2.0 Speaker Highlights

Out next gathering is 9 months away and I’m already looking forward to it! Major “Yes” feeling inside 📿 🤗 

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SIYLI Teacher Training Cohort 4

Thrilled to be part of this incredible group! Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute Teacher Training Cohort 4 ~ Woot Woot! 🤗

From SIYLI’s May 2018 Newsletter: 

*My gratitude for permission to post. 

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SIY Teacher Training (April 2018): Morning Movement 💃🏽🕺🏽

Beautiful first day of @searchinsideyou teacher training yesterday! If you'd like to dance, there will be a movement session this morning at 7:30am @WithoutViolence - We'll be doing a Brain Dance Warmup, Freedom, Creative Movement, and some Asanas to close; 

No dance experience necessary. Everyone welcome! 

•SIY Morning Wellness Activity :)

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Practicing To Lead A Morning Wellness Activity..

Hera Hub. April 2018. San Diego, CA

Turning Hera Hub @herahub into a dance studio! 💃🏽🕺🏽 Practicing to lead a Morning Wellness activity movement session at our SIY Teacher Training, which begins this week! 🤗 I'm excited for the training, and also to be moving (italicizes that please! Oh wait, I can on Tumblr :) again. We'll be doing a Brain Dance Warmup, learning a dance called "Freedom", and closing with a few gentle asanas. 

Link to the full plan below:

•SIY Morning Wellness Activity :)

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Strozzi Institute - Embodied Leadership Level One - Scholarship Application

I’m applying for a scholarship for Strozzi Institute’s Embodied Leadership Level One course, in July. Answering their questions was a helpful way for me to reflect on where I’ve been, where I am at, and where I’m going. My answers also, I feel, highlight the financial realities of being a public elementary school teacher in San Francisco - incredibly rewarding in myriad ways, and simultaneously not easy (or even possible, for some) to sustain. I believe in looking at situations comprehensively, and that’s exactly what this year outside the classroom is helping me do.  

Answers to select questions below: 

What other leadership development and/or somatic training have you been involved in? “I am a dance teaching artist, currently working with the San Francisco Unified School District, and part of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), as well as the California Dance Education Association (CDEA). With the exception of this year (as I’m currently on a year of leave / personal sabbatical) I’ve been attending NDEO’s national conference since 2012, and have attended a handful of CDEA conferences - all focused around best practices and leadership in the field of dance education, at both the national and state level. I have been attending Wisdom 2.0 conferences since 2012, and just this past October took part in a Two Day program with Search Inside Yourself (SIY). I’m also slated to begin teacher training with Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute next month, in April.”

What type of leaders/coaches or organizations do you work with? “For the past 7 years I’ve primarily worked with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), teaching original standards based dance curriculum to students, teachers, principals, staff and other administrators at multiple K-5th grade urban elementary school sites in San Francisco. I am also a member of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), the California Dance Education Association (CDEA), and Wisdom Hackers. Additionally, I’m part of the Wisdom 2.0 Community, the Luna Dance Institute Community, The Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute Community, the Hera Hub Community, and have partnered with the Center for Wellness and Achievement in Education (CWAE), responsible for administering David Lynch’s Quite Time Program in various SFUSD schools, via a grant from Kaiser Permanente, to bring a Quiet Time experience, through Yoga, to the Kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 3rd grade students of John Muir Elementary School in San Francisco (http://artistsintheclassroom7.tumblr.com/yogaindance1516). I also recently became a certified Mediator with SF Community Boards, a conflict resolution organization, and am working with Alex Cary, an Executive life coach.”

What do you hope to gain by the end of this course? “Primarily, I hope to gain clarity of purpose. Referenced above, I straddle many different worlds (public education, the arts, business, tech, mindfulness practice based communities etc.) and have felt - the last few years especially - a sensation of growing-out-of-my-old-skin, from the inside, and a sort of odd attention, from the outside. I feel like there’s something in me that’s been gestating for a while now, and might be ready to lead, in some capacity. It also feels like many individuals in the communities I’m part of are looking in my direction for leadership; Instead of constantly shape shifting, or highlighting only certain aspects / parts of myself when I’m working with a particular community, I would like to operate from a place of being fully myself & integrated at all times, regardless of setting. I would also like to quicken my ability to return to center after being triggered, expand my capability to hold seemingly disparate ideas / feelings / thoughts / views, and hone in on what I truly want to commit to.”

How do you plan to apply what you learn in this course? “Well, seeing as I’ve spent a majority of the past 7 years working with little and big individuals in urban public elementary school settings, and that I believe it’s truly our presence & quality of being that has the potential to generate & sustain positive change, it is my hope that this training will enable me to be a more compelling facilitator, a more embodied artist, and a more effective negotiator & resolver of conflicts. I also hope it will inform my work as a teacher in training with Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, as I feel there’s much overlap in the work. I would also like to be able to field the challenges & stresses of everyday life with more ease & skill.”

Any other relevant information regarding income, expenses, and request for support? “I am currently on a year of leave / personal sabbatical from teaching within the San Francisco Unified School District. While I have a voice in my communities & online (www.artistsintheclassroom.com | www.jakeytoor.com), I’m not currently a high net worth individual, and can attest to the challenges of living off a teacher’s salary in the city of San Francisco. This year, I qualified for Medi-Cal, and am supporting myself through savings, as well as receiving assistance from my parents - from whom I would like to take as little as possible. I am asking for a full scholarship because I believe I can put this work to good use out in the world. I hold that as my intension - and while I’m still in the process of envisioning what next year will look like for me - I am positioned to do so. A month ago I was accepted into Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute’s Teacher Training Program and awarded a 90% scholarship. If awarded a scholarship, I will certainly consider reaching out to Strozzi Institute if & when I have the resources to comfortably donate in kind.”

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Thank You For The Repost! :)

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Wisdom 2.0 2018: Some Of My Favorite Talks - Part 2

Spark Joy: The Magic of Tidying Up | Marie Kondo, Irene Au: 

Spiritual Innovation Within and Outside Traditions | Danya Shults, Darrell Jones III:

Inviting the Wisdom of Death Into Life | Frank Ostaseski:

The Mindfulness Advantage in Women's Leadership | Diana Chapman, Lynn Johnson, Lori Schwanbeck:

Empathic Design For Tech: The Future is Feeling | Danielle Krettek, Soren Gordhamer:

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Wisdom 2.0: Leadership & Wisdom | LinkedIn (July 2018): My Notes

With: Rich Fernandez (SIYLI) 

LinkedIn. July 2018. San Francisco, CA

Disclaimer: As with all of my published notes from workshops or conferences, these are in no way comprehensive. Nor are they a literal summation of what was said. They are simply my notes, my interpreted, perspective-ed reflections, photos, and jottings, that occasionally combine my own records & thoughts with those of the speakers. There might be some typos.

Moment to Arrive

An invitation to look into out own experience.

The quality of attention that you’re able to share with other people.

In order to endeavor to lead others, you have to know how to lead yourself.

A capacity we all possess for mindfulness.

Marshal arts is like meditation in motion.

Organizational Psychologist / Learning & Development.

A passion project.

Mindful, wise, compassionate leadership.

How our sense of purpose aligns with our actions in the world….

Journaling Activity / My Personal Notes:

What is your purpose? (My answer) To be kind & real with everyone that crosses my path, and do good work out in the world i.e. make it a more fair place for everyone, while respecting & taking care of myself and my boundaries.

What’s most alive for you?

What are your highest aspirations?

Traditionally, leadership is an office that you occupy, and you salute the rank.

But that’s just a person..

Leadership is an inside out job.

It starts with knowing yourself.

Leadership begins with mindfulness & self-compassion, and ends with compassion out in the world;

It begins from within, with ones own world view and mindset…

And once you are liberated without the compulsion to respond when listening…. and are actually listening to understand, rather than drive your agenda or problem solve… Well that’s wonderful (:-)

But the world drives us away from this.

Are we really occupying our own lives?

We have the freedom to assign whatever meaning we like to our experiences (interesting / still not sure how I feel about this).

Given the cost of admission to the school of hard-knocks is high, (it seems to behoove us to practice).

Creating gently structured spaces..

How might you offer a gently structured space to somebody?

Good Book Recs: Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach, Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff, Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

There’s a bit of an urban myth out there that being mindful makes you passive..

But mindfulness actually allows you to be less reactive, and more responsive.

Rather than reacting to the narrative you happen to believe

Working with the facts of a situation vs. the stories we tell ourselves.

It might look a little unconventional, and your organization might be conventional…

Jeff Weiner – compassionate is the singular most important quality of good leadership.

Jeff = voted top 10 on Glass Door.

Related Pages & Links:

Wisdom 2.0 (17-18)

Wisdom 2.0 (16-17)

Wisdom 2.0 (15-16)

Wisdom 2.0 (14-15)

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Wisdom 2.0 2018: Some Of My Favorite Talks - Part 3

The Neurobiology of Relationships and Community | Dan Siegel:

Mindfulness, Capitalism, and the Emerging Consciousness | Rich Fernandez:

Don’t Cut the Wings Off My Airplane | Chade Meng Tan: