Join me and Lem Watson (Antioch University) for a dialogue about how mindfulness practices interface with inclusion and belonging! This will be a chance to talk about what we actually experience - to connect with ourselves and one another in service our our deepest intentions.
FACILITATORS: Kathryn Goldman Schuyler and Lemuel Watson
SATURDAY AUG 5, 11 am - 1 pm, Marriott Salon H
364: Holding Space-Facing Our Fears: Generative Mindfulness, Dialogue, and Inclusion for a Healthy World
Bringing together dialogue and generative mindfulness with a sense of underlying love can support all of us who wish to create inclusive workplaces in service to a healthy world. Few of us feel strong enough to sit quietly, sensing the presence of fear or anger, and just let it be as it is-yet this is a core skill for leaders today. A short workshop cannot change lifelong habits; however, it can offer insight into how such practice yields a path. You may leave with fresh insights into yourself and how your awareness practice can support you in times of crisis. How often have you reflected on how tough it is to hold space for dialogue among people who need to talk, yet have deep differences? When difficult moments happen at work, despite our practice, meditation, or spiritual path, it can be hard to be present. It is challenging to allow space for what we and others are feeling and experiencing in the moment, let alone being patient enough to understand the context, audience, and "temperature." Yet we need to listen and react in ways that build respect, acknowledgment, and integrity during such moments of conflict and crisis. This PDW will support us in moving beyond the surface learning of "skills" into the realm where we sit with ourselves and face the people we are with, openly, in the moment, in service of collaboratively remembering our deepest intentions for our organizations, society, and the Earth.
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Kathryn Goldman Schuyler
Professor Emeritus
Alliant Intl Univ and Coherent Change
San Francisco CA
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