Coaching and the Dance with Culture

It is time to expand our understanding of resilience. It is not enough to simply recover from difficulties. We need to move beyond our original starting point by utilizing the wisdom we have gained from navigating disruptions.

We must dare to confront the assumptions that have brought us to this point in history and aim to consciously enhance our present level of consciousness.

That is why resilience must include reimagining. In order for humanity to attain new vistas and horizons, we must move beyond the dominant understanding that suggests that knowing consists of simply having answers, and into a deeper knowing which elicits unasked questions, novel inquiry, and innovative investigation.

In this session, you will learn how to: 

• Foster awareness of the cultural messages that live as an inner collective and feed identity and belonging
• Discover how this is manifested as multiple unconscious assumptions that create a prison for thinking
• Break the cultural, ontological assumptions that isolate us
• Understand the value of coaching as a conscious step towards a change in consciousness

The Courage to Reimagine & Regenerate Who We Are

In this session, you will explore:

• Profound indigenous wisdom and ancient prophecies about this time
• How 2021 to 2030 could be the most pivotal decade in history
• The privilege of being alive during this great transformation
• Finding your role and owning your leadership

Windstorms, Barnacles & the Frothing Edge: How to Cultivate Resiliency & Emergence in a Deeply Complex World

In this presentation, TED speaker, Newfield faculty member, and founder of the eos learning collective Alexander Love, will take you on a journey that reveals how to cultivate resilience for the sake of creative emergence. Resilience is the ability to meet the ever-shifting social and interior terrain with dynamism and spontaneity. Doing so enables you to lean into the mysterious frothing edge of the creative impulse. 

You will learn distinctions and tools to cultivate resilience and how to lean into the creative impulse for the sake of catalyzing emergence. 

• Do you want skills that enable you to be able to meet the world with more resilience? 
• Do you want to learn how to contact the source of perpetual creativity? 
• Are you a coach that wants to have new tools and distinctions to apply to your coaching practice? 

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this presentation is for you. 

In this session, you will:

• Learn about wind as an ancient metaphor for change and embodied tools for effectively dealing with it
• Explore how to allow pain to become a catalyst for the evolution of the soul
• Discover the source of emergence and practices to embody it

Organizational Transformation from the Inside Out

Now is the time to reimagine what’s possible with social enterprise (regardless of its tax status – non-profit/for-profit)! Possibilities with any organization lie within its leader and their ability to unlock possibilities within their teams. Any organization transformation has to move from the inside out. 

As a management consultant and accountant, Dorri McWhorter’s move into the non-profit sector after over 20 years in corporate America enabled the transformation of the YWCA Metropolitan Chicago from a 145-year-old social service agency to a 21st-century social enterprise. The transformation leads to significant growth of impact and revenue.

In this session, you will explore transforming organizations from the inside out by: 

• Re-imagining organizational transformation principles
• Understanding new models for social enterprise
• Redefining the word “work”
• Catalyzing people to unleash their purpose and potential

How We Create the Future

In this conversation, Bob provides a perspective on how human beings live in and create the future, both individually and together. Due to the pervasive cultural blindness about creating the future, most people live as though it is beyond their reach and build safety into their worlds with contraction into what they can control or narratives of justified resignation. 

Yet a fundamental capability of our being human is our capacity for choice. When we discover and connect to our capacity for choice and that it is always available, no matter what the situation, then we open up our capacity for empowerment and creating the future.

Resilience is finding our connection to choice, and reimaging is learning to use our power of choice to create a future and the actions to fulfill it that matter to you. We have the choice of no choice, or to go beyond our edges and discover how to create a meaningful future in the face of a world in breakdown.

In this session, you will explore:

• What the future really is and how we create it, whether we are aware of it or not
• Discovering our power of choice in any situation
• The role of our mood and body reactions and the skills choosing them 
• Connecting to what matters to you now and into the future, what you care about
• Building a context supporting your power of choice and creation
• Committing to action and to the journey of cultivating skillful action in the face of your challenges

Pursuing Resilience & Reimagining Life's Possibilities through Integral Polarity Practice

In his presentation, John will demonstrate how one can use IPP to pursue resilience and reimagining life possibilities.   

Integral polarity practice (IPP) is a powerful meditation and life practice that weaves together some of the most potent elements from the Wisdom traditions of the world, both ancient and modern, both East and West.

A uniquely comprehensive system, IPP helps cultivate critical aspects of human growth and flourishing such as mindful awareness, positive adult development, psychological healing and relational well-being through the creative play of opposites. Working consciously with opposites, or polarities, one immediately begins to taste the embodied sense of greater wholeness and freedom in life.

In this session, you will explore:

• An overview of IPP 
• Optimizing resilience through IPP
• Optimizing abundance and possibility through IPP
• Optimizing creativity through IPP
• Tying it all together: Pursuing resilience and reimagining life’s possibility through IPP

Designing the Way Forward: Principles of Design Cycle Thinking

Learn to leverage the power of design cycle thinking to re-imagine the world and to build the resilience that comes from clarity, good design, and purposeful experimentation.

You'll also learn the age-old practices of design cycle thinking as we explore what it means to re-imagine.

In this session, you will:

• Explore the stops along the design cycle from provocation to execution
• Experience tools for harnessing and refining imagination into mission
• Discover the links between emotion, physical experience, language and design
• Benefit from the wisdom of the designers who have gone before as you imagine what can come next

Insights for Living in Our Moment of History

For each of us to navigate our own way in life during the dramatic age of human history and Earth evolution we now find ourselves in requires sources of insight that go beyond simple strategies for just getting ahead or coping with life. We need glimpses of a larger context and frame of reference to help us access those deeper moral and spiritual sources through which we can re-imagine our lives and find new resilience.

In this session, you will:

• Explore certain critical but often overlooked factors that shape our contemporary consciousness and influence our actions
• Recognize that at a deep level the unfolding of a human life is a spiritual journey 
• Examine how we are also participating in a much larger collective spiritual journey, with our lives embedded in great historical and evolutionary developments 
• Explore the ways in which certain powerful archetypal forces and principles are at work at both the individual and collective level 
• Consider how the virtue of hope can play a role in the unfolding of life, and how hope can be cultivated as a seed that can bear fruit in the future we are all creating

(Please note that in the last few minutes, Julio Olalla will join Richard to discuss his presentation.)

Discovering the Lessons & Blessings in Life's Experience

In her presentation, Linda takes us on a journey to discover resilience in our most challenging life lessons and how to reframe them as blessings.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how life’s deepest lessons can become life’s blessings
• Highlight some of your significant life experiences that have required resilience
• Explore the lessons learned from these life experiences
• Reframe them into blessings—shifting from life happening “to” me to life happening “for” me
• Embody resilience and reframing as a way of life through essential practices  

Integrity is the Root of Our Divinity

As a writer, storyteller, speaker, and coach, Angela has dedicated her life to helping others discover their true selves. Yet the discovery is only the beginning. The real work begins when Angela dares to invite her clients to step into the “space between,” where they learn the power of experiencing experiences as they occur. A transformative remembrance of our undeniable intrinsic connection to nature and the world. 

This infusion of self with nature reconnects us to our universal creativity, resilience, and renewal where we can reimagine what is. In this conversation with Angela, learn why integrity is the single most important quality we must possess to tap into our Divine Imagination. And how our Divine Imagination enables us to raise our collective intelligence in the design of a new and better future for our world.

In this session, you will:

• Reflect on our relationship with Integrity
• Reveal the role Divine Imagination has in sustaining human life
• Reimagine ourselves and the world from the inside out 
• Reacquaint ourselves with our Self 
• Renew our commitment to living in and leading with Integrity

Perturbing the Known: Fueling Imaginative Freedom

Our habitual mindset determines our default way of orienting our life. To instigate a disruption, to consciously invite new possibilities to emerge, we must find a way to perturb that habitual mindset. By perturbing the known, we expand the horizon for a new vision of life to unfold.

What worlds of possibility lie in the realms of the yet to be imagined? By tapping into the liminal space between what we seem to know and what we could imagine, we can fuel our capacity to reflect, re-imagine, and re-invent. This is necessary to inspire innovation, nourish novelty, and renew ourselves and the world.

In our time together, we will explore some key concepts and fundamental principles from the world of the visual arts to see how these can inform, influence, and impact our daily lives. We will discover what is possible at the intersection of the visual arts and ontological design.

In this session, you will:

• Explore methods to interrupt habitual orientation
• Learn to ignite your imagination
• Awaken new possibilities

An Elegant Solution to End Homelessness

Neli Vazquez Rowland hails from one of Chicago’s immigrant communities called ‘Little Village.’ Today, she is an influential force and a passionate advocate for the homeless. In 1994, Neli and her husband Brian launched A Safe Haven to address and heal the root causes of the growing opioid and homeless epidemics. Now, the organization is frequently lauded as one of the most successful, vertically-integrated delivery systems and continuum of care models that provide people access to transitional housing, and individualized social services, including job training and placement and supportive and permanent affordable housing. 

A Safe Haven has helped 130,000 people transform their lives too short and long-term independence and self-sufficiency. Her authentic, courageous, and visionary approach to confronting and solving one of America’s most challenging issues has made her a highly sought-after speaker by top media, academia, and local, national, and international public policy stages. She is an award-winning humanitarian and entrepreneur, an author of landmark State legislation, and the creator of Chicago’s first medical COVID-19 respite center serving vulnerable populations in need of a place to isolate.

In this session, you will explore:

• ASH History – Why we started A Safe Haven
• Building a model that works to prevent, address and end homelessness in a sustainable manner
• A Safe Haven Continuum of Care 

1. COVID19+ Isolation Space
2. Transitional & Supportive Housing
3. In Person and Tele-Healthcare
4. In person and Tele-Behavioral Health
5. Education/Life Skills
6. Industry Training
7. Employment
8. Social Business Enterprises
9. Affordable, Senior & Veteran Housing 

• Creating Ecosystem and Reducing the Stigma
• A Safe Haven’s innovative response to COVID-19 pandemic