Wellbeing for All Webinar Series
What is well-being and how do we support everyone to get it?
That’s the inquiry we’re exploring in this webinar series with our colleagues at CoCreative. Across this series, we’re inviting friends and partners of our respective organizations to share their stories, insights, and learning about the nature of well-being, what conditions support it, and how we shift systems and ourselves so that everyone can be more well, more of the time. We envision a world where, instead of focusing solely on systemic problems that need to be fixed, we work from a place of abundance, generously sharing our wisdom, practices, and values that can sustain well-being over time. Join us in this inquiry!
Upcoming Conversations
Reframing Equity As Liberatory Change
September 19, 2024 9:00 – 10:30am PT | 12:00 – 1:30pm ET | Free (donation optional)
We invite you to an insightful session hosted by Lucinda Garthwaite, Founder of the Institute for Liberatory Innovation, where we will explore a transformative approach to equity inschools and organizations. Moving beyond the conventional focus on diversity, inclusion, and awareness of injustice, this webinar will challenge participants to reframe equity in terms of thriving and liberatory change.
October 22, 2024 | 9:00 – 10:30 am PT | 12:00 – 1:30 pm ET | Free (donation optional)
The Discipline of Spaciousness
How might we differentiate between unconscious habits and intentional practices that could sustain our well-being for the long haul? In this thoughtful and inspiring session in our Well-Being for All series with the esteemed Zen Master, Norma Wong, we reconnected with our bodies, particularly through the power of conscious breathing. By becoming aware of our breath, we can better manage stress and anxiety, and enhance our leadership presence. In conversation with Norma, we explored how we cultivate the self-discipline required to maintain spaciousness, fostering resilience and creativity in the face of global challenges. Norma shared insights on aligning internal work with external change, supporting us in reflecting on self-sabotaging habits and cultivating practices that honor our needs and support effective systemic change leadership.
We were honored to partner and be in conversation with Norma for this community session. Together with Well-Being for All series co-hosts Marta Ceroni (Academy for Systems Change) and Heather Equinoss (CoCreative), Norma shared guided breath work, stories, and wisdom offering deeper insight and relation to the importance of spaciousness in support of connection to self and collaboration for collective well-being.
The Hidden Dimensions of Well-Being (In Spanish)
Speakers: Paz Bascuñán, Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis Co-Hosts: Luzette Jaimes, Maricela Wexler
In this session Ana Lucía Castaño Galvis and Paz Bascuñán of Arare Co. delve into the intricate space between well-being and ill-being and explore practical strategies for personal and collective resilience.
In the words of Ana Lucía and Paz: “Well-being is relational. It’s an emergent, interdependent outcome of the relationships we have at different levels of systems: from the individual to the communal to the socioecological. As a relational phenomenon, it depends on cultural narratives and social constructs that influence what we consider important or necessary to be well in this world. It is not free from preconceived notions of happiness or wellness, of what success looks like for systems change practitioners, and of what it takes for a person or an organization to create conditions for well-being (both within and outside their immediate sphere of influence). Some of those cultural narratives live inside us and go unchecked, silently informing our decisions, our perceptions of self and others, and ultimately our ways of tending to our well-being.”
Calling Forth the Light: Elevating Our Well-Being in These Emergent Times
Speaker: Deb Halliday Co-Hosts: Marta Ceroni, Russ Gaskin, Maricela Wexler
What does the future of our collective well-being look like, and in what ways is it already here? Too often in our work as changemakers, we focus on fixing our current reality to the neglect of seeing where the world we want is already present. How might we pause and open to the deeply resonant, generative wave of light and connection that is already present alongside the collective despair in our world? Anchored in current research and practice, this community session explores the Four Realms of Well-being developed by Deb Halliday, Principal of Halliday and Associates. MORE INFO.
Cultivating Self-Awareness for Collective Well-Being
Speaker: Kerstin Tebbe Co-Hosts: Marta Ceroni, Russ Gaskin, Maricela Wexler
How we show up in a collective – with the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors we bring – has real impacts on that collective and collaboration within it. Our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors reflect how we understand and operate in the world, whether we are conscious of it or not. Without a solid understanding of how we operate in the world, how that manifests in different situations and why, we can inadvertently limit or even harm the collectives we join. Alternatively, when we show up thoughtfully, intentionally, and self-aware, we can help foster positive, healthy dynamics. In this webinar, Kerstin Tebbe, Founder of Collective Mind and webinar series co-hosts Marta Ceroni (Academy for Systems Change) and Russ Gaskin (CoCreative) invite us to consider this connection between our self-awareness and how we show up in collectives. MORE INFO.