May 10 - Day 1: Deep Resilience and Nature

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  • Join Ginny Whitelaw Roshi and Elder Iya Tahirah Abubakr for opening ceremonies and words of welcome to the Living and Leading With Deep Resilience Summit.

  • Join summit co-hosts Ginny Whitelaw and Kelly Bannister for a brief introduction to who’s who and an overview of what to expect and how to make the most of your summit experience.

  • Ginny Jiko Whitelaw

    While explicit signs such as good health, social connections and a sense of purpose certainly contribute to our resilience, something implicit, often hidden, underlies our deepest resilience. This session invites you to explore and experience the very nature of deep resilience.

  • Amanda Blake

    You are a microcosm of the earth. The astonishing miracle of our biological existence ties us inexorably to the astonishing miracle of ecological communities. That means how we inhabit our bodies invariably informs how we care for the planet. Learn how experiential practices of interconnectedness can help us approach this task in more well-resourced and genuinely effective ways.

  • Kelly Bannister, Michele-Lee Moore, and Maria Kukhareva

    The term 'resilience' has permeated our speech and our daily lives. Experts and professionals from all walks of life talk about the need to be more resilient. But what this means can vary widely. What does resilience mean to you? In this session we explore the diverse landscape of resilience to make some meaning together. To seed the conversation, we look through the lenses of human, socio-ecological and biocultural resilience within complex systems and crises related to (un)sustainability, (in)equity, and (in)justice. We explore relationships between resilience, transformation and nature to help us locate ourselves in the broader landscape of resilience and ask what kind of resilience we each need to embrace the complexity of these times.

  • Training in Zen and Zen leadership offers unique strengths in helping people be at peace in not-knowing, cultivate hara-centeredness for deep-rooted power and stability, and expand into a connected experience of one-withness from which trustworthy wisdom arises. Each day of the summit, Ginny Whitelaw introduces one of the embodied practices in our “Zen Toolkit” of 1-breath, 2-sides, 3-centers, 4-patterns to help us access this wisdom as a source of deep resilience that lies within.

May 11 - Day 2: Deep Resilience and Loving Responses

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  • All are welcome to join a brief sitting meditation in the Zen tradition, with guidance on ways to optimize breath and posture for getting the most out of the practice of meditation.

  • Richard Strozzi-Heckler

    This session is an inquiry into what "Deep Resilience" means and its importance in our times. We will engage in practices that give a felt sense of what this means in our bodies and how we can embody a deep resilience. Through a Q&A period we will build on a pragmatic wisdom for ourselves individually and collectively.

  • Kristi Crymes and Maile Auterson

    Speakers will share their experience in creating a collaborative food is medicine, relationships-first program in their community. Then, through conversation and embodied practice, we will explore the roots of lasting health and community resilience. A method for participants to develop their own loving responses to their community will be offered.

  • Terry LePage and Lisa Gordon

    Leadership experiences and group facilitation methods will be shared from the international Deep Adaptation Forum, including simple formats and deep listening practices to support anxious and despairing people to process their feelings and find meaning in the “Predicament” of intertwined ecological and social breakdowns.

  • Kosha Joubert

    This session focuses on healing, the connection of grief and joy, suffering and love, welcoming the lightness and darkness alike, resourcing ourselves in the seen and unseen, and sitting down with the hidden pockets of our life - how to create resilient movements for healing in our world?

  • Training in Zen and Zen leadership offers unique strengths in helping people be at peace in not-knowing, cultivate hara-centeredness for deep-rooted power and stability, and expand into a connected experience of one-withness from which trustworthy wisdom arises. Each day of the summit, Ginny Whitelaw introduces one of the embodied practices in our “Zen Toolkit” of 1-breath, 2-sides, 3-centers, 4-patterns to help us access this wisdom as a source of deep resilience that lies within.

May 17 - Day 3: Deep Resilience and Zen, Indigenous and Intergenerational Wisdom Traditions

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  • All are welcome to join a brief sitting meditation in the Zen tradition, with guidance on ways to optimize breath and posture to get the most out of meditation practice.

  • Elder Ilarion “Kuuyux” Merculieff opens the Indigenous-led Ciircle for Ancient Resilience by sharing stories from the Unangan people, revealing the depth of his experience, and showing the power of leading from heart and putting relationships first.

  • Ilarion “Kuuyux” Merculieff, Iya Tahirah Abubakr, Selene Manga, Sabra Kauka, Yael Zeligman-Merculieff, Heather Meikyo Scobie and Ginny Jiko Whitelaw

    This Indigenous-led Circle draws upon resilience teachings of Indigenous, Zen and Wombs of Peace traditions. The Circle is opened by placing relationships in the center and inviting teachings from these diverse wisdom traditions to be shared, followed by expanding the Circle to invite all participants to join in this ancient practice for collective resilience. Experience and enter a collective resilience practice drawing from ancient teachings of Indigenous and Zen traditions and the womb.

  • Ella Martindale and Angel Kennedy

    In this session, we engage with intergenerational knowledge and collective resilience by sharing in Water as our relation, teacher and connector of past, present and future. As we visit with each other, we will discuss how resilience is deepened by our relational connections across watersheds and generations.

  • Training in Zen and Zen leadership offers unique strengths in helping people be at peace in not-knowing, cultivate hara-centeredness for deep-rooted power and stability, and expand into a connected experience of one-withness from which trustworthy wisdom arises. Each day of the summit, Ginny Whitelaw introduces one of the embodied practices in our “Zen Toolkit” of 1-breath, 2-sides, 3-centers, 4-patterns to help us access this wisdom as a source of deep resilience that lies within.

May 18 - Day 4: Deeply Resilient Futures

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  • All are welcome to join a brief sitting meditation in the Zen tradition, with guidance on ways to optimize breath and posture to get the most out of meditation practice.

  • Rebecca Yakumei Ryan

    “If you don’t know where you’re going, nearly any path can take you there,” said the Cheshire Cat to Alice in Wonderland. What is YOUR clear path for the future you want to create? Can your path - or you? - hold up amidst foreseeable disruption? Unexpected disruption? Join this speaker who bridges the worlds of futures, scenario planning and Zen for a discussion about futures, resiliency, and what Zen practice offers to each.

  • Heather Meikyo Scobie

    To face a future without fear, human beings need to live in our bodies (not in our heads) and be engaged in the present moment, moment-by-moment. This session will help you experience the “no-mind” of present-mind experience and connectedness through one-with-ness, leaving you feeling well-resourced and ready to face what comes.

  • Ginny Jiko Whitelaw

    We attract the future with deep resilience as our experience of connectedness, clarity of purpose, and agility of means all come together. This session helps you integrate these elements and experience how to use four energies in your nervous system to meet each moment and manifest your visions.

  • Training in Zen and Zen leadership offers unique strengths in helping people be at peace in not-knowing, cultivate hara-centeredness for deep-rooted power and stability, and expand into a connected experience of one-withness from which trustworthy wisdom arises. Each day of the summit, Ginny Whitelaw introduces one of the embodied practices in our “Zen Toolkit” of 1-breath, 2-sides, 3-centers, 4-patterns to help us access this wisdom as a source of deep resilience that lies within.

  • Ginny Jiko Whitelaw, Iya Tahirah Abubakr and Kelly Bannister

    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.

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