Afternoon Workshops 15.00-16.10

How do you hack your mind to change the world? 
Jennifer Garvey Berger​

Inner Compassion and Outer Change.
​Kristin Neff

Learning by doing - transferring inner circus skills to foster human sustainable development.
Kajsa Balkfors, Emmanuel Bochud

Peter Senge

Otto Scharmer

Amy Edmonson

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The workshops explores the connection between inner and outer sustainable development from many  perspectives and how mindshifts could be crucial for success in the new era of business, societal challenges and climate crises. 

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How do you hack your mind to change the world?
Jennifer Garvey Berger
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This workshop is for you if you want to lead yourselves and others to find grace, creativity, and connection inside the sometimes overwhelming complexity of today. One core human paradox is that we have many gifts for thriving in complexity, but that complexity itself often stresses us which reduces our ability to use those natural gifts. The workshop helps you find and expand the habits, rituals, and practices that support you to shift from a smaller, more constrained, fear-led space into a more open, experimental, possibility-led space in yourself. ​

Learning by doing - transferring inner circus skills to foster human sustainable development.
Kajsa Balkfors, Emmanuel Bochud​
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Welcome to an experience-based workshop that makes the case for integrating the practical and the intellectual as we aim to create a more humane future, via inner and  sustainable development. 

What does the Circus Arts, children's play and creative collaborative processes have in common? They are all exceptional fields of practices that are made possible when its practitioners develop abilities such as trust, solidarity, inclusion, diversity, risk, performance, challenge, collaboration, creativity, security, lightness, resilience and the "Yes it is possible!”. 
In this workshop we are going to explore how we can learn from those who depend on integrating inner development with outer performance and collaboration. How can we strengthen core human values and abilities by learning from life and practice ourselves? 

How can embodied experiences become our best learning tools for developing as individuals and collectives? How can integrating the practical and intellectual/conscious enable the inner development needed from all, if we are to be able to reach the SDGs? 

Inner Compassion and Outer Change
Kristin Neff

There are huge challenges facing our planet today - entrenched poverty,
systemic racism, global warming, just to name a few. I order to take on those challenges, we need to draw on the power of compassion and aim it both inwardly and outwardly. We need self-compassion to provide the inner strength and grit necessary to heal ourselves and do the hard work of creating a more compassionate world. An exploding body of research shows that self-compassion - giving yourself the same care, respect, and support you would naturally show to a good friend when they struggle is powerfully linked to coping and resilience.

Self-compassionate people are less likely to be overwhelmed in the face of difficulty and have more resources to help others without
burning out. Compassion is aimed at the alleviation of suffering, and has both a tender and fierce side. Tender self-compassion allows us to accept our flawed selves and our imperfect lives with kindness rather than harsh judgment. This results in less anxiety, depression, and stress. Fierce self-compassion spurs us to alleviate suffering by standing up to injustice or making needed changes to improve our lives. This results in more motivation, greater ability to learn from our failures, and a growth mindset. When fierce and tender compassion are combined and integrated, and aimed inwardly and outwardly, it creates a type of caring force that is extremely effective and powerful in terms of mental and physical wellbeing, improved relationships, and commitment to social justice. 

This talk will provide an overview of theory and research on self-compassion, and also teach a short self-compassion practice for use in daily life.

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Peter Senge