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Program Facilitators
The Program Facilitators are on site during the session delivering the special sauce of the Labs: the Human Alchemy of gathing people to produce outrageous results together.
Arthur Brock builds targeted currencies that are at the core of the emerging post-industrial economy. He has created more than a hundred designs for multi-currency systems and his software company has built and deployed dozens of those systems.
Initially, Arthur put his degree in Artificial Intelligence to use at GM, Chrysler & Hughes, but he soon realized he was committed to bringing intelligence to social architectures rather than to computers. He started student-run schools and award-winning, employee-run businesses and discovered that the self-managing feedback loops needed to operate these types of organizations were built on particular patterns of incentives and measurement. He began to unlock the social DNA by which groups operate and uncover the critical role of currencies as carriers of that social DNA.
Arthur’s designs include currency systems for: collaborative scientific research, sustainable fishery management, corporate compensation plans, employee stock options, community-based economic development, business barter and exchange, triple-bottom-line trade credits, open source software development, customer loyalty programs, water rights, recirculating gift certificates, community service, employee performance management, arts & culture development, efficient resource sharing & management, and community & environmental impact assessment.
Based in Denver, Colorado, Arthur Brock consults worldwide with organizations which are actively restructuring themselves for the new economy. He speak at events about the future of money and value and the emergence of the next economy. He has consulted with Citibank and SWIFT about pre-empting disruptions in the financial transaction space and preparing currencies and transaction systems for the evolving future of value and how we relate to it.
Upstate New York
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Eric Harris-Braun designs and builds software infrastructure for the post monetary economy. He is a co-founder of the MetaCurrency project. He works closely with TheTransitioner, a research and development group dedicated to understanding and developing new forms of collective intelligence, where he is the lead developer of the Flowplace.
Eric serves on the board of the New Economics Institute. He is the co-founder of Glass Bead Software, a provider of peer-to-peer networking applications, and of Harris-Braun Enterprises, a free-lance software development shop, which has created, among other things, complex data-collection web-sites for the health-care industry, an Android application for catch-monitoring for the fishing industry, and which built and operates the Online Writers Workshop. In 1994, he published the Internet Directory, with Fawcett Columbine which sold over 100,000 copies, and which went on to a second edition in 1996 before thankfully being made obsolete by Google. Eric received a B.A. in Computer Science from Yale University.
Currently he lives in a straw-bale house in rural New York where he is part of a Quaker Intentional community, plays with his two kids, tends a garden and occasionally feeds the sheep and chickens.
East Chatham, NY
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Source Team
The Source Team is the Jedi Council, or Wisdom Council, or Council of Elders who are at the source of making this session happen. They provide the guidance, perspective, expertise and skills to pull it off. Although they'e not necessarily on site during the session, they also provide the Social Capital necessary to be able to do a project like this without money.
Arthur Brock builds targeted currencies that are at the core of the emerging post-industrial economy. He has created more than a hundred designs for multi-currency systems and his software company has built and deployed dozens of those systems.
Initially, Arthur put his degree in Artificial Intelligence to use at GM, Chrysler & Hughes, but he soon realized he was committed to bringing intelligence to social architectures rather than to computers. He started student-run schools and award-winning, employee-run businesses and discovered that the self-managing feedback loops needed to operate these types of organizations were built on particular patterns of incentives and measurement. He began to unlock the social DNA by which groups operate and uncover the critical role of currencies as carriers of that social DNA.
Arthur’s designs include currency systems for: collaborative scientific research, sustainable fishery management, corporate compensation plans, employee stock options, community-based economic development, business barter and exchange, triple-bottom-line trade credits, open source software development, customer loyalty programs, water rights, recirculating gift certificates, community service, employee performance management, arts & culture development, efficient resource sharing & management, and community & environmental impact assessment.
Based in Denver, Colorado, Arthur Brock consults worldwide with organizations which are actively restructuring themselves for the new economy. He speak at events about the future of money and value and the emergence of the next economy. He has consulted with Citibank and SWIFT about pre-empting disruptions in the financial transaction space and preparing currencies and transaction systems for the evolving future of value and how we relate to it.
Upstate New York
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Eric Harris-Braun designs and builds software infrastructure for the post monetary economy. He is a co-founder of the MetaCurrency project. He works closely with TheTransitioner, a research and development group dedicated to understanding and developing new forms of collective intelligence, where he is the lead developer of the Flowplace.
Eric serves on the board of the New Economics Institute. He is the co-founder of Glass Bead Software, a provider of peer-to-peer networking applications, and of Harris-Braun Enterprises, a free-lance software development shop, which has created, among other things, complex data-collection web-sites for the health-care industry, an Android application for catch-monitoring for the fishing industry, and which built and operates the Online Writers Workshop. In 1994, he published the Internet Directory, with Fawcett Columbine which sold over 100,000 copies, and which went on to a second edition in 1996 before thankfully being made obsolete by Google. Eric received a B.A. in Computer Science from Yale University.
Currently he lives in a straw-bale house in rural New York where he is part of a Quaker Intentional community, plays with his two kids, tends a garden and occasionally feeds the sheep and chickens.
East Chatham, NY
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My passion has been in watching what is happening at the intersection of technology, communication and culture – how people are using the web and peer-to-peer technology to more effectively self-organize, collaborate, build community, and accelerate social innovation.
I feel that we are a global society in transition. Many of our traditional institutions are failing or just broken. The narrative is broken. The idea of ‘us verse them’ doesn’t work when the realization is made that we are all co-existing in an interdependent set of systems. We are now in the process of telling a new story about how civilization can function in a way that incorporates sustainable practices and leads to resilient and thrivable societies.
New models are being created for open collaboration and open enterprise, for complementary and alternative currencies, for governance, and for spirituality and empowerment. These experiments are inspirational and give me hope that we are reaching the tipping point where a critical mass of people on this planet (much less than I would have thought was necessary) are waking up to our true potential as a globally networked consciousness.
I am scouting the edges of technology and innovation, right where the magic happens.
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Seb Paquet is a scientist by training, an artist by vocation, and a social process expert by necessity.
He published one of the first Ph.D. theses on the social web, in 2003. As a researcher, professor and entrepreneur, he has spent the last decade experimenting with social tools that boost individual and collective intelligence.
Thus far, he has variously played roles of evangelist, explainer/popularizer, user advocate, connector, and catalyst in the applications of the social web to knowledge sharing and collaboration.
He is currently undertaking a 100-day Journey into the Creative Economy. He aims to help generate awareness of the potential of social web technologies, and create and spread a literacy of collaboration far and wide, in workplaces as well as in civil society.
He writes the Emergent Cities blog and tweets under the handle @sebpaquet.
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Laura Conley has had her own coaching practice since 2007. Laura has extensive training in communication processes, learning styles, decision-making, creativity and group dynamics. She has been involved with start-ups, mid-size companies, and large corporations throughout her career. Her business background is broad with experience in research & development, legal, finance, engineering, operations, marketing, special projects and human resources. Specialized training in shifting internal barriers and roadblocks, a keen awareness of interpersonal interactions, and practical business wisdom, together allow Laura to lead clients through the outside and inside moves necessary to manifest what they really want.
Laura holds a Master’s Degree from Caltech and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Patent Agent in good standing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In addition, Laura has done extensive personal growth work, including training and/or certification in ThriveTypes, Alignment Technologies, Intuitive Integrative Psychotherapy and Advanced Bodywork with Robert and Diane Masters, Applied Existential Psychotherapy with Betty Cannon, Holacracy and Conscious Loving and Living with Katie and Gay Hendricks.
Laura lives in Morrison, Colorado, and enjoys cooking, creating conscious community, and hiking in the mountains. She loves connecting people to each other for a myriad of reasons and has been called a "connectress" and a "social chemist."
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Jean Russell is a catalyst, culture hacker, and social ecosystem designer. As your guide to a thrivable world, Jean takes entrepreneurs, social innovators, and business builders on tours of the network economy. She navigates clients through the crucial questions of creating and nurturing teams and networks to develop healthy and productive collaborations.
“Jean Russell is a visionary poet and master of network dynamics. She’s been a great teacher to me. I now have a next generation blueprint and operating principles for the growth of my tribe. ” Michael Margolis, Dean, Story University, Founder, Get Storied
As a founder of the thrivability movement in 2007 and a premier expert on collective thriving, Jean speaks to and with innovators, builders, and edge-riders from Malmo to Melbourne, and London to San Francisco. Demonstrating rapid implementation of collective action, she curated, “Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch” in 2010 with 65 inspiring people.
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Support Team
The Support Team support the daily operations of the program and facility. This involves communications, logistics, housing, sourcing food, transportation, documentation, media production, publishing, public relations, social media, and the general activing of keeping the plates spinning in the air.
Arthur Brock builds targeted currencies that are at the core of the emerging post-industrial economy. He has created more than a hundred designs for multi-currency systems and his software company has built and deployed dozens of those systems.
Initially, Arthur put his degree in Artificial Intelligence to use at GM, Chrysler & Hughes, but he soon realized he was committed to bringing intelligence to social architectures rather than to computers. He started student-run schools and award-winning, employee-run businesses and discovered that the self-managing feedback loops needed to operate these types of organizations were built on particular patterns of incentives and measurement. He began to unlock the social DNA by which groups operate and uncover the critical role of currencies as carriers of that social DNA.
Arthur’s designs include currency systems for: collaborative scientific research, sustainable fishery management, corporate compensation plans, employee stock options, community-based economic development, business barter and exchange, triple-bottom-line trade credits, open source software development, customer loyalty programs, water rights, recirculating gift certificates, community service, employee performance management, arts & culture development, efficient resource sharing & management, and community & environmental impact assessment.
Based in Denver, Colorado, Arthur Brock consults worldwide with organizations which are actively restructuring themselves for the new economy. He speak at events about the future of money and value and the emergence of the next economy. He has consulted with Citibank and SWIFT about pre-empting disruptions in the financial transaction space and preparing currencies and transaction systems for the evolving future of value and how we relate to it.
Upstate New York
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Eric Harris-Braun designs and builds software infrastructure for the post monetary economy. He is a co-founder of the MetaCurrency project. He works closely with TheTransitioner, a research and development group dedicated to understanding and developing new forms of collective intelligence, where he is the lead developer of the Flowplace.
Eric serves on the board of the New Economics Institute. He is the co-founder of Glass Bead Software, a provider of peer-to-peer networking applications, and of Harris-Braun Enterprises, a free-lance software development shop, which has created, among other things, complex data-collection web-sites for the health-care industry, an Android application for catch-monitoring for the fishing industry, and which built and operates the Online Writers Workshop. In 1994, he published the Internet Directory, with Fawcett Columbine which sold over 100,000 copies, and which went on to a second edition in 1996 before thankfully being made obsolete by Google. Eric received a B.A. in Computer Science from Yale University.
Currently he lives in a straw-bale house in rural New York where he is part of a Quaker Intentional community, plays with his two kids, tends a garden and occasionally feeds the sheep and chickens.
East Chatham, NY
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Program Participants
The Program Participants are what it's all about. They're the ones bringing their heart, soul and visions and running themselves through the ringer to break through the barriers between them and the difference that they want to make on the planet. Not an easy job, but someone's got to do it.
I believe that, even though I try, defining myself is something I can not do, change is permanent (paradoxically), . My name is Rubén, was born in México and I'm currently living there. Love to write, photography and steping into "the unknown". Learning is my passion, think life it's the perfect school, from the cradle to the grave.
Believe that evolution, being a natural event, is unstoppable. I want to put my heart, intelect and talents to serve this divine transition into a fairer life.
We need air to live but we do not live to breath, life is waiting for us beyond the current paradigm of interaction. Let's find her, bravely
Thank you for your time and attention.
Love and health.
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Over the last few years, I've realized, like many others, that if what we want is a new and better human 'operating system' then the best place to start is within myself. To deconstruct my own patterns and assumptions is something which I have not just sat down and done once, but adopted as a process to continually revise and polish my own capacities. My gifts include:
Hosting, making others feel seen and safe.
Empowerment to employ many disciplines of thinking including design, systems, computational, creative, and critical thinking, and the discernment to tell what's needed when.
Pragmatically, my main area of skill is in technology, ranging from video production, to image manipulation, to web development, design, and hosting server knowledge and experience, to web application development using frameworks like Ruby On Rails.
My gratitudes include:
The ongoing support and connection to an intentional learning community of practice, which makes all else more possible.
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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I am a maker testing a civic accelerator called theMAKE: http://www.themake.org/. I explore, and make a business case for, how to ignite participatory communion within diversity so that wildly different people feel purposeful, grounded and generous, coming together to make something that has a measurable impact on a community. Some call this civic action. I think of it as neighbors, building neighborhoods, by any means necessary.
Where I am now is largely informed by what I've done and a recent, giant leap of faith.
The bricks and mortar of me – I’ve worked with Fortune 500 Corporates, global NFPs and NGOs to execute action change campaigns that shift consumption behavior and perception towards a greater good through internal/external engagement, storytelling, cultural design, number crunching, branding, marketing and messaging. I’ve focused on getting you engaged and active, as a positive change agent.
My background is in strategy, alliance and partnership creation, public finance and community and economic development. I’ve outliered as a culture reporter for MTV Asia, a financial anchor for Hong Kong’s Metro Broadcast Corporation Radio, a high-end florist, a garde manger, a stylist, and fish monger. On paper, I have an advanced degree in Management & Policy from the New School of Social Research and an AB from Barnard College, Columbia University.
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Hi and welcome to my bio. I write creatively and journalistically, study astrological counseling with a teacher in New York City, have an active dream life, and have many other interests including edge science research through the SSE and bodywork training through the Rosen Method. In the academic realm, I have a degree in biological engineering from Cornell University where I also was a captain of the cross country team. As an athlete, I played many sports and was a dedicated distance running practitioner and coach for about 9 years. In 2010, shortly after I ran my first marathon in Philadelphia where I placed 2nd, my life experience was offered the first of many significant shocks when I met a man who was teaching a yoga class in Mercersburg, PA. I stopped running competitively and started investigating other worldviews. Since then, I have been exploring many different practices outside of the academic and sports world, and enjoy trying to synthesize my experiences in a valuable way for myself and others. Currently I live in Hudson, NY near my hometown of Ghent and am experimenting with the Emerging Leader Labs seed project in Chatham, NY.
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I'm excited by the idea of an emerging ecosystem for social innovation and sustainable peer production!
My personal story leads from outdoorsey childhood in Oregon, through undergrad physics / astronomy education, into media production and ecological design. I am keen on the idea of networked agile ecovillaging, utilizing digital tools to engage large supportive communities in this process as stakeholders.
I am working to develop prototypes and projects around Columbia County, NY, including the Solaqua home base of Emerging Leader Labs. This includes permaculture design, natural building and landscape art, community organizing and outreach, video production, team building, personal growth and learning, open enterprise development, gift exchange, and lots of fun risk and reward.
I am comfortable in roles like ideation, invention, strategy, observation, and push my edge on things like project management, group facilitation, communications, marketing/soliciting, mentorship, and executive action.
I believe, and increasingly act, in accordance with the evident abundance of nature and networks.
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I like gameshifting. (; [Listen With Me Page to the Right] (http://emergingleaderlabs.org/Gameshifting_Overview) We use Languague, sure, but FORGET ABOUT THE MAGIC AND COHERENCE AND ARCHITECTURE AND ENERGY AND CREATIVITIY AND EXPRESSION OF CONVERSATION and COMMUNICATION ITSELF!
I'm a hard one to pin down, but I'm all about games, whether they be physical or virtual. I've been on a leap year recovering from illness (bi-polar) and it had been long overdue as I had this UNDIAGONOSED condition for about 4-5 years with no treatment now.
I'm no visual artist, but I am a concept art fan and a Java Jam Junkie from High School. I only just entered (or will be) entering college right around the second round of the labs.
I'm into WRITING, exploring, researching, and well... drifting off, creating new worlds in the process. I enjoy iterations of Glass Bead Games [kanban boards, metamaps.cc, GameShifting, Open Modeling, MetaCurrency] and drawing maps/legends/canon/knowledge/holons/edges/ with my mind (and specialized tools) kwown as Open Modeling and/or 'GameShifting'.
How can I put it? I'm an Reportager Edger (or Reportager) now (But still a gameshifter!) [Someone who reports what is happening on the edge of different paradigms] and want to live the part. Enjoy the roller-coaster, between the techtonic, miraculous, serendpitious and (sometimes painful and hard) shifts, but stll, it will be fun!
My Concentrations are Resilence and Aptitude Training as well as Network Weaving. But Reportage Edger is my current... 'profression' for lack of a better word. It's BECOMING part of who I am. Not just being something, becoming something more resilent... with each stage of aptitude.
Ask yourself this question, just this one question, Are We Having Fun Yet? That question is a currency. The Benefit of the Doubt is a currency as well. What you Make of This is also a currency. Shift on it. Make shift happen. You can do it. GO! NIKE!
On [Novelty]
Human consciousnesses is not merely an emergent phenomenon; it epitomizes the logic of emergence in its very form... Consciousnesses emerges as the incessant creation of something from nothing. a process continually transcending itself. To be human is to know what it is like, (Evolution/Life/Paradigmatic Lore), what it feels like to to be evolution/involution happening.
Terrance Deacon, "The Hierarchic Logic of Emergence"
(R)E:Volutionaries Page 100 [ I plan on using the annotations out of this book as tools for building our collective social Emerging Leader Labs (and beyond!) Social DNA (Including Social Leadership and Social Imagination) ]
P.S - Twitter Description:
Gameshifter. Up to all kinds of good. Much interest in niches/Techneiums, plus serious and alternate reality game design. With complexity, systems, energy, generativity.
Social Ecosystemic Playgrounds · http://emergentbydesign.com/2012/09/05/video-emerging-leader-labs-wrap-up/
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P.S.S Dream Big. What does this Project make Possible in This World?
[Meta-Note: I plan on writing more, This more technical stuff. There will be more things meant for general audiences. This is what I'm 'writing for ELL.' (For now, more to come!) ]
Gameshifting is a lot of things... but its cool, without a doubt. Gameshifiting is a lot like hacking the (culture) matrix. For real. Learn what it means to be a Social Architect.
Gameshifting is about creating new social [membrane/dna] realities with our tribes [tribegathering] using co-designed cultural games, legends and tools. It teaches us how to become more agile and create greater 'soil.' The support and nurturing of social communities and natural emergence.
It lets us inteface with social artitechtures and combines the power of both meta and source. Meta being conceptual [or composable] abstractions and source being actual 'things', the 'membranes' that are embodiments of relationships, memories, technes and cohesions.
It is about co-creation, co-mentoring, co-learning and energetic praxis. It lets us reflect and engage in the practice of mindful cultures. Mindful cultures understand the potiencial in our social dna. Social dna being the language, rituals, traditions and social contracts or membranes that are generated and exchanged. Life design with our imaginations and commonwealth.
It lets us hold and morph spaces. It lets us pratice the art of hosting, mirroring and creating new roles in a group. It helps us to create renaissance teams. It's about trust. It uses strategic questioning to get the depth of what it is important to us.
It's about the resurangance of our own natural leadership which is being who we are and creating, building, being accountable without being limited.
P.S.S Original Culture Hacking Protocols For GameShifting
Purpose:
To show how everyone is and can be a creator, designer, curator and polymath. Each of us can transform, play different games, shift our roles and participate (or be visible) in different spaces. That people can be agile (and successful), as well as learn, teach, engage and transform things in many spaces. To learn how to self-create and understand the relationship between personal and social imagination, as well as open systems. Imaginalism. To learn how to design personal source (social imagination) tools and builds. To know how 'change/play/BECOMING is the law.' To learn the arts of power and negentropy, which *is* transformation. To be agile in our spaces. To engage with imaginalities. Open Space Design/ Life (Space) Design. Pathmaking. Operational processing. Learning how to become a piece of work/art. Learning how to opt-in, source and share. Forking. [LIKE UX Design but with our techniques and cultures. Creativity/ Open space cultural and transformational design.]
One Sentence Synopsis:
Gameshifting is a legend, imaginalsphere where our personal 'techne' (techniques, value(s), imagination, literacies, profiencies, processes, self-creations, crafts) can become open (space) design, cultures, of social imagination... powerful transformation spaces.
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Coaches
The Coaches guide the participants through their growth, project development, and personal breakthroughs. Each participant has a coach working with them individually to make sure they get what they need from the program.
Jean Russell is a catalyst, culture hacker, and social ecosystem designer. As your guide to a thrivable world, Jean takes entrepreneurs, social innovators, and business builders on tours of the network economy. She navigates clients through the crucial questions of creating and nurturing teams and networks to develop healthy and productive collaborations.
“Jean Russell is a visionary poet and master of network dynamics. She’s been a great teacher to me. I now have a next generation blueprint and operating principles for the growth of my tribe. ” Michael Margolis, Dean, Story University, Founder, Get Storied
As a founder of the thrivability movement in 2007 and a premier expert on collective thriving, Jean speaks to and with innovators, builders, and edge-riders from Malmo to Melbourne, and London to San Francisco. Demonstrating rapid implementation of collective action, she curated, “Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch” in 2010 with 65 inspiring people.
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Laura Conley has had her own coaching practice since 2007. Laura has extensive training in communication processes, learning styles, decision-making, creativity and group dynamics. She has been involved with start-ups, mid-size companies, and large corporations throughout her career. Her business background is broad with experience in research & development, legal, finance, engineering, operations, marketing, special projects and human resources. Specialized training in shifting internal barriers and roadblocks, a keen awareness of interpersonal interactions, and practical business wisdom, together allow Laura to lead clients through the outside and inside moves necessary to manifest what they really want.
Laura holds a Master’s Degree from Caltech and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Patent Agent in good standing with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. In addition, Laura has done extensive personal growth work, including training and/or certification in ThriveTypes, Alignment Technologies, Intuitive Integrative Psychotherapy and Advanced Bodywork with Robert and Diane Masters, Applied Existential Psychotherapy with Betty Cannon, Holacracy and Conscious Loving and Living with Katie and Gay Hendricks.
Laura lives in Morrison, Colorado, and enjoys cooking, creating conscious community, and hiking in the mountains. She loves connecting people to each other for a myriad of reasons and has been called a "connectress" and a "social chemist."
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Ashley Cooper brings passion, playfulness, and grounded action to her life and work. She facilitates opportunities for individuals and groups to have meaningful connections with themselves, each other, their purpose, their environment and the greater whole. Ashley is particularly interested in creative approaches to social change and cultivating opportunities for intergenerational and interdisciplinary learning and collaboration.
Ashley’s experience spans from being an educator and life coach to serving as Executive Director for TEDxNextGenerationAsheville and doing organizational strategy work. Currently she is Creative Director for The Mycelium School, a program for social innovation and entrepreneurship. In all settings, she uses creative practices that support collective intelligence, participatory leadership, experiential learning and committed action.
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Grew up in a small town in MI. The day I graduated high school I started traveling the US. I landed in Flagstaff, AZ for college. Graduated with 2 degrees in 3 years. Ad and Psy. Moved to Seattle for the big city experience. After 2 years as an advertising executive, I wanted to follow my dreams and become a pro snowboarder. Moved to Jackson Hole, traveled the world competing in extremes. Lived in NZ for 2 years. Retired and went to grad school for traditional Chinese Med. Which landed well to my passion of Buddhist study. I was recruited by Salomon ski co to do international sports marketing. I worked for them until they moved the Co to Utah. I started my coaching training in 06. I’ve been coaching since 08. My style of coaching is holistic. I work integrate the mind, body, and spirit. My main focus is raising self-esteem to truly know they can create their dream lives. I’ve had offices in Jackson and San Diego. I work with both groups and individuals. I teach a coaching 101 class for new coaches and holistic training for experienced coaches. I host a coaching radio show called Living the Dream. I have a wonderful husband and incredible 3 yr old son. This is my second EEL coaching. Thank you for inviting me back. I am grateful to be part of this globally shifting project.
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I am a founder and partner in JoyaSolutions, a Denver based marketing and technology consulting firm that works with thriving businesses that are poised for growth. I am a co-creator of JoyaCMS, a highly customizable MVC.NET CMS used by marketers, churches and business. A Social Scientist by education, I write (on my blog) at the intersection of media, culture and religion.
I love leading teams to create things. I am not satisfied with the experience of individual contribution - I want to know that I am contributing to others producing value and results.
For fun, I am taking on outdoor mosaic sculture - I hope to eventually use my home pottery studio to create large, water-flowing pieces creating the structures including tile end-to-end.