December 11, 2024, 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific

Actions to Meet Challenges to Sustaining our Lives on Earth:

Session 7: Building Capacities for Inner Resilience in the Face of Challenges 

December 11, 2024, 1PM Eastern/10AM Pacific

This is the seventh and final short online workshop in the SRRR series: Actions to Meet Challenges to Sustaining our Lives on Earth. Information shared in this series, the daily flow of current events, and our own direct experiences, all make clear to us the increasing challenges faced by humanity, and the stresses they are creating for the economy, our social structures, and for life on Earth.

This workshop on Building Capacities for Inner Resilience in the Face of Challenges, focuses on approaches to sustaining our equilibrium, equanimity, and capacities to contribute to solutions. It is important to pause, contemplate our relationships with each other, with the natural world and our access to insights, to be open to our ability to address complex problems.

The workshop offers information and participation to support our own well-being and regeneration. An investment in the practices that serve as antidotes to reactivity, discouragement, and depression not only change how we feel, but also change the influence we have on everyone and everything around us.

This final workshop of the series is also a step in community building that will benefit us and the people and topics on which we focus our efforts.  It will be recorded.

Presenters:

Enhancing Resilience and Outcomes Through Mindfulness: Paul Massera and Abdul Khan, California Dept. of Water Resources

Dr. Abdul Khan has over 30 years of experience in leading and directing teams in water resources planning and management. Abdul has moderated the California Water Plan session for California Water and Environmental Modeling Forum’s annual meeting for many years, and conducted numerous planning, operations, flood studies, analysis and modeling of groundwater flow, reservoir operations, and many other issues. He led the development of the sustainability Indicators Framework for the California Water Plan. Besides his work on water resources, Abdul is a leader of a Mindfulness training program in DWR which has been so successful that it is now going state-wide in government agencies.

Inner Resilience: The Power of Calling: Sharon Franquemont, Intuition Works 

Sharon is a coach, consultant, teacher, and writer in the intuition field. Sharon led nature and intuition retreats at Charlson Meadows, a Minnesota non-profit for 20 years, worked with the University of Minnesota’s Earl E. Bakken Center for Spirituality and Healing on Ways of Knowing conferences for healthcare professionals, and developed retreats for the Shumei International Institute, a Japanese organization devoted to nature, art, and world citizenship. Her works include You Already Know What to Do (Putnam/Penguin), an audio program Intuition: Your Electric Self (Sounds True), and articles for Creative Nursing. She explores inner knowing and collaborative intuition in cultural, scientific, mystical, artistic and other disciplines. She is the  visionary co-founder of the annual volunteer Prayer Vigil for the Earth held on the National Mall for 20 years. The event supported environmental and spiritual awareness and had meetings in the White House, Pentagon, and Congress.

I-We-It: Inward Journey for Outward Change: Sandy Wiggins, Consilience

Sandy is a national leader for equitable economies, environmental sustainability and the transformation of finance. After walking out of his life as a corporate executive, he served as Chair of US Green Building Council, was founding Chair of Green Business Certification Institute, and Chair of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (now Common Future). He also served as Sr. Advisor to RSF Social Finance, creating the Local Economy Foundation Circle and their Conscious Finance initiative. Sandy now works with individuals and organizations around the world to support healing, the evolution of consciousness, and the exploration of new possibilities for the human family and life on Earth. He currently leads Capital Institute’s “Inner Work for a Regenerative Economy” program. He is also a certified breathwork practitioner and meditation teacher.

Q & A will follow each speaker's presentation and we will hold a discussion at the conclusion of the session.

Ticketing options:  

- Donation of Any Amount to Support SRRR's work

- Subsidized Ticket - Free