Closing Reflections: Living, Leading and Loving in Deep Resilience
(2:00 pm US Central Time Zone)
Join summit co-hosts and Elder Iya for closing reflections and a recap of summit highlights, as well as opportunities to stay connected and support deep resilience in your life and leadership.
About the Speakers
Ginny Jiko Whitelaw
Dr. Ginny Jiko Whitelaw (summit co-host) is an 86th Generation Rinzai Zen master, Chosei Zen priest, and founder of the Institute for Zen Leadership. She has been developing whole leaders for over 25 years and is the author of Resonate and The Zen Leader, and co-developer of FEBI (pronounced “fee-bee”), a personality assessment that links mind and body and behaviors. Formerly, Deputy Manager for integrating NASA’s Space Station Program, she has a doctorate in biophysics, degrees in physics and philosophy, and a 5th degree black belt in Aikido. She is a regular contributor to Forbes.com in leadership strategy.
Iya Tahirah Abubakr
Elder Iya Tahirah Abubakr of Black American & Yoruba ancestry, was born River Lee Adams in Pocahontas, Mississippi. Iya was initiated by Ifa Priestess Yamaya in the ancestral traditions of the Yoruba people of Western Africa and studied and trained with Malidoma Some' in shamanism. She is a medicine woman, diviner, and shamanic practitioner. She provides initiatory guidance and trainings for those who seek greater wisdom in the mystery. She is founder & co-founder for the St. Croix Council of Elders. Iya’s life purpose and dedication are to the service of humanity as a whole and to leave the Earth in a greater place than she found it.
Kelly Bannister
Dr. Kelly Bannister (summit co-host) is an ethnobiologist and applied ethicist who is devoted to supporting intercultural collaborations that bridge Western scientific and Indigenous knowledge systems. Her work explores how we can work well across different worldviews and knowledge systems, guided by diverse wisdom traditions and embodied practices, to address pressing social and ecological issues and support biocultural diversity and resilience. She is Co-Director of the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance in the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria (Canada). She is also an Aikido and somatic movement practitioner, a Zen student with Chosei Zen, and an Instructor with the Institute for Zen Leadership. Kelly is a 4th generation settler on unceded Coast Salish territory.
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