Reflection and Conversation Space

Sunday, April 13. 10:00am-7:30pm. Alki Room.

Monday, April 14. 10:00am-7:30pm. Alki Room.

Tuesday, April 15. 3:00pm-6:30pm. Alki Room.

Description 

What are you experiencing and learning? What inspires you? Come reflect, explore, and share your experience of the Seeds of Compassion event in the Reflection and Conversation Space. To support each other in practicing compassion and deepening our conference experience, this inviting space offers a range of hosted and self-directed activities for people to reflect on their experience, share stories, explore possibilities, and connect with one another. Join a conversation, offer a creative expression, take a stretch break, or simply sit quietly and breathe. All people are welcome.

Hosted by teams of professionals whose collective experience and expertise may include the use of a variety of conversational forms: World Café, Appreciative Inquiry, Council Circles, Open Space Technology; and expressive modes: expressive arts professionals, graphic recorders, recorders of digital stories. 

Presenter Bios

Peggy Holman 

Peggy Holman hosts conversations that matter, inviting people to gather together around the issues most important to them and move their dreams into action. Her book, The Change Handbook, has been warmly received as an aid to people wishing to increase resilience, connection, collaboration, and aliveness in their organizations and communities.

Teresa Posakony

Teresa's work has led her beyond the bounds of corporate leadership and organizational development into the arena of community engagement and collective leadership. Teresa is passionate about working with groups as they discover their shared purpose and work to create positive futures for their organizations and communities. She does this work globally with the Berkana Institute and locally through her consulting practice in partnership with many local organizations and colleagues. 

Sono Hashisaki

Sono Hashisaki has worked for the last eight years with local Indian tribes providing facilitation and community-based strategic-planning services. Her passion and practice is standing and holding space.

Mark Jones is a Master "Systems Architect," "Strategic Thinking Partner," and spiritual leader with over 20 years leadership experience (CEO/VP/CIO/CTO/CTA/Chief Architect/Senior Manager/Chair/Vice Chair/...) in business and elected and/or appointed positions. He uses wisdom and compassion to optimize well-being and performance, having achieved over $1 billion in cost savings, cost avoidance, and/or revenue generation.

Dale Nienow is executive director of the Center for Ethical Leadership, a nonprofit that helps people put values into action and create environments where people open up, tap into their potential and gifts, and bring forward their collective wisdom.  He creates "Gracious Space" where people can work across boundaries and have the deeper conversations that will lead to positive change.

Candi Foon

Candi Foon, Integral Wellness Services (IWS), specializes in the design and delivery of integral wellness education and leadership programs to improve the quality of life, relationships, processes, and lifestyle practices of individuals, organizations, and communities. Her objective is to optimize overall effectiveness, productivity, leadership capacity, and well-being of individuals and collectives.

Ashley Cooper opens space for deepening connections and supporting social and emotional wellness within individuals, families and groups. She brings a playful and heart-centered presence into her work as a play therapist, school counselor, life and parenting coach, consultant, and group facilitator.

Tracy Robinson

(Not Available)

Karma Ruder

Karma Ruder engages people around collective, place-based leadership. She works nationally and locally with people and organizations seeking to do transformational change in their communities by crossing boundaries and making the space for everyone to fully show up and bring their gifts and talents.

Karen Sella provides coaching and consulting services through Lumina Coaching and Integral Ventures. She offers multi-modal perspectives, practices, and resources that help people translate meaningful intentions into masterful actions. Her work is based on an interdisciplinary background in human development, organizational psychology, expressive therapies, and somatic arts, as well as over 15 years of experience leading individual, community, and organizational development initiatives.

Gabriel Shirley

(Not Available)