Take a WORKShop in all 7 Stages and QUALIFY FOR THE SYNERGY FUND!
The Synergy Fund is an effort to create a common language for collaboration and promote 7SS best practices in locally-led sustainable development. Registrants of The Global Summit II (and 7SS online students) will meet the basic education requirement to be eligible for Synergy Grants. While a majority of The Global Summit II proceeds are dedicated to supporting it, we are calling upon donors to help build critical mass. Contact us to learn more.
MONDAY (Nov. 8) WORKShops:
2PM - 7SS #1: Build a team around your ideal future.
7SS1.1: Lead Yourself – Lead a Business – Lead a Movementpresented by Peter Matthies, CEO of the Conscious Business Institute
Existing leadership models are obsolete. In a world dominated by increasing change and complexity, we need new leadership approaches for building a sustainable future. With more than 90% of our population struggling with money or time, it becomes clear that sustainable your business must start with sustaining yourself.
OUTCOMES: Identifying your personal way to lead, Creating a culture of trust, commitment, authenticity and purpose, Understanding why persistent problems exist in your organization, How to bridge money and meaning in a purpose-oriented business.
7SS1.2: Resonate your Dreams in Voice Work with Nikki Slade
Come ready towork in partnerships and teams and connect with the joy of resonating as one voice. Find your Passion and Purpose, empower yourself, and align with your Vision. Come ready to sound, move and connect with the source energy within you and discover that as you access your ‘key note’ as resonance, life begins to flow naturally and easily for you and all that you truly desire is revealed spontaneously from within.As we align with source energy in sound vibration we begin to tap into the ancient ‘Laws of Attraction’. Tap your own inner voice and resonate your dreams in the world as reality.
OUTCOMES: Expand your communication and connection with others, Experience the joy of partnerships and teams, Step outside of the box and enjoy full self expression * No experience required.
7SS1.3: Women’s Leadership in Promoting A Post-Carbon Future with Osprey Orielle Lake
A study by the Asian Development Bank states that climate change-related weather events claim between two and three times as many female as male victims, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called for women to have a greater role in climate change debates.
As the Director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Caucus, Osprey Orielle Lake will explore the collaborative alliances being created by women in the U.S. and abroad and the importance of women’s leadership as a game-changer in generating collective will towards climate solutions.
7SS1.4: Intro to The PRIZM Game with Innovation Researcher/ Inventor, Anja Karina-Pahl
The PRIZM Game, Innovation Map and Method reveals the raw mechanics of inventive thought. It shows, in only 7 steps, exactly what people do when they make inventions that change the world.
The PRIZM Game is one of three social innovation processes offered during Day 2 of the Solution Councils. *Once the first Solution Council session is completed you will have greater indication of this innovation process. Learn more about PRIZM Here
3:20 - 7SS #2: Assess your assets. Take inventory of human and natural resources inside and in your backyard.
7SS2.1: How to Leverage Strengths for Success - joint session with Marta Monahan Author of My Bouquet of Beautiful Things andLaura Delizonna, PhD, Founder, Choosing Happiness
OUTCOMES: Optimize your group’s potential by focusing on its greatest untapped resource—the strengths of your members. Most people under utilize their strengths and have a reservoir of unrealized strengths. In this workshop participants will learn how to leverage the strengths of their group members to achieve success. They will learn how to assess their own and other’s strengths through experiential exercises. They will gain practical tools to harness the untapped power of each other’s strengths to enhance collaboration, motivation and synergy.
7SS2.2: Evolution of Community Exchanges - An Interactive Dialogue on Currencies, Resources & More
Common Good Bank's Sarah Noyes, VP, SRI, EP of Wealth Advisors, Inc., Greg Wendt, and Cloud Currencies Founder & CEO Jon Underwood lead a dynamic and interactive dialogue delving into what's working and emerging in complimentary currencies, barter systems, and localized banks. They will speak to how even small shifts in market share to local businesses and community-owned banks can create significant economic activity and employment gains. They will give clear guidance on how to begin similar alternative exchange projects in your community. + Regina Gelfo of Evolver.net!
7SS2.3: Show me the Money! with Alan Tratner & Jerry Avila
A stellar workshop/panel on all aspects of Funding: Equity to Debt and alternative financing, Small Business Administration programs and aspects about innovative funding issues for Non profits.
7SS2.4: Global Perspectives in Natural Resources Management
Lecturer and Environmental Economy Researcher, Adila Shafqat from Pakistan; Shamima Jahan from Bangladesh; organicArchitect, Eric Corey Freed and CSR and International Ethical Sourcing Expert, Bonnie Nixon tap into the nexus - where NGOs, Big Business, Ecosystems and Human Rights Converge.
11AM - 7SS #3: Co-Create a plan – Develop strategies to overcome the barriers to a sustainable future.
7SS3.1: ROADMAP TO A HEALTHY FUTURE
As we are finding out, solving humanity's big challenges in the key areas of environment, human rights and economics will require a great deal of cross-sector collaboration—the days of the single issue silo focus are over. This lively and engaging dialogue with a diverse group of influential movers and shakers will be exploring what the key foundations need to be for a master plan that will move us in the direction of a world based on ecological stewardship and social justice, and what each of us can do to help bring this about.
Moderator: Vinit Allen - Director, Sustainable World Coalition. Panelists:
Konda Mason - film maker and senior facilitator for the Awakening the Dreamer Symposium; Bandita Thapa - Director, Women Foundation Nepal; Dave Room - Bay Localize Founder & Clean Energy Director; Melinda Kramer - Co-founder, Women's Earth Alliance; Bruce Cahan - Ashoka Fellow in recognition of work on sustainable finance; AND Ahmed Rahim - CEO/ Founder / Master blender of Numi Tea!
7SS3.2: Re-designing Humanitywith Daniel Schmachtenberger
Can we make a world-system that truly works for all? What’s the blueprint for it? How do we get from here to there as quickly and smoothly as possible, factoring all the components, as one integrated project?
In this talk, we will discuss fundamental flaws in the foundational theories and structures of economics, politics, law, and all areas of human infrastructure…and how they lead to unavoidable problems. We will discuss the difference between fundamental redesign and retrofitting current systems…and why the latter will never bring the results we want (and where it is still relevant). And offer an approach for the development of a blueprint for a world-system that makes possible the highest quality of life for all people in harmony with the biosphere….and a dynamic critical path analysis of how to get there.
2PM - 7SS #4: Educate Yourself and Learn from Others – Get the skills you need.
7SS4:1: Sustainability "from the inside out" with Deborah Eden Tull
Leading expert in the field of Sustainability, Deborah Eden Tull shares her personal experience as a sustainability consultant, organic farmer/community organizer, and author of "The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide to the Sustainable Food Revolution," she will talk about the principles of sustainability "from the inside out" and how their relationship to food can help people to make the shift from being "passive consumers" to "engaged earth stewards." She will propose that using this as a framework/goal for the main shift we need to make in all areas in our lives can provide a powerful connection to global food security and sustainability. This session will be in collaboration with the film "Vanishing of the Bees."
7SS4.2: Capacity Building for Success: Personal. Community. Business.
Global Business Leadership Coach, Marta Monahan(Author, How 5 Acts a Day will Change Your Life) delivers a very skill-building oriented session delivering deeper spiritual and global business insights into what Capacity Building is all about.
7SS4.3: "Capitalism 2.0: How big money is transforming corporate culture toward sustainability."
Come learn about the opportunities and challenges of how money and influence from socially responsible investors is changing corporate behavior. CSR has become a hot topic inside of boardrooms of major corporations across the world as thought leaders, shareholders and NGO's weigh in.
Learn from some of the thought leaders about the most innovative trends, and ways that you can be part of creating a new corporate culture which takes into account the well being of all life on the planet."
John Perkins - Author "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"www.johnperkins.org
Moderated by Gregory Wendt - Director of Sustainable and Responsible Investing EP Wealth Advisors, Inc. www.gregwendt.com
3:20 - 7SS #5: Put the Pieces Together. Exchange & Invest in appropriate technologies & critical information.
7SS5.1: Getting Green Tech into the Blue Economy
Mark Chasan (CEO of Transformative Capital) moderates a panel of finance and implementation experts: Bruce Cahan (Ashoka Fellow and founder of GoodBank™(IO)), Alan Tratner (founder of Green2Gold) and Marc Thibault (CEO of Green Age 360).
If you are an inventor/ innovator and want the macro, micro and map for navigating the Sustainable Technology and investment landscape, this is the place for you. Sustainable finance innovators Bruce Cahan (GoodBank), team up with green tech catalyst, Marc Thibault (Green Age 360) and Mark Chasan (Transformative Capital) to illuminate how to enter, reconfigure and maneuver the changing shades of our green and blue economy.
7SS5.2:Exploring Permaculture Networks & Appropriate Tech for a Sustainable Future
Permaculturist Nicholas Roberts of permaculture.coop & Appropedia Travel Intern Isabel Kimbrough bring home the most appropriate solutions from the field - pun entirely intended.
* Post conference note: "NICE JOB LIZ!!! Thanks to Nicholas for your presentation & URL"
7SS5.3: The Collective Critical Path- with Erik Rothenberg, Founder of URSULA
How do we rapidly and comprehensively identify and illuminate all the most important steps and solutions to implement now in order to serve a world that works for all life? Much of this remains invisible – and this results in a waste of vital time, money and other resources.
In this talk, we will focus on how we can objectively, comprehensively and dynamically define and prioritize these steps and solutions to serve all life -while at the same time, achieving maximum leverage and relevance for our own efforts, knowledge and projects in the context of this larger vision. We will discuss a simple, intuitive and unique method that can apply to any situation that helps us understand how to allocate resources, cooperate effectively and engage the best synthesis of all good ideas and information. In doing so, we can create a collective critical path while benefitting our own work in both the short and long term. We will also take time to engage feedback from participants on how to develop an application of this method that best serves their short and long term needs.
11AM - 7SS #6: Turn Assets into Impact & Income. Identify and Increase Access to Markets.
7SS6.1: How to globally market your masterpiece - Literary Agent, Peter Miller expands horizons
Literary and Film Manager Peter Miller will lecture on how his new Miami-based company, Global Lion Intellectual Property Management, Inc., will work particularly with transformational authors to globally market books and films with the focus of building international, positive life-changing culture and movements with a social conscience. Many of the authors and properties Miller has managed have been international bestsellers. Recently, Miller placed the New York Times bestseller The Element by Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica in 19 countries and also recently placed the sequel to this book, Finding Your Element and is presently marketing Discover The Gift (by Demian Lichstenstein and Shajen Joy Aziz) which has been sold in 13 countries, beginning a substantial hybrid film and book deal for world English rights with Harmony/Crown/Random House and a German language deal with Scorpio-Verlag.
In his lecture, Peter Miller will showcase as to how participants can approach the global marketing of their own transformational properties and offer his advice and knowledge gleaned from over 38 years of experience as a literary and film manager.
7SS6.2: How business and government sustainability policies are shaping the market: a workshop on Corporate Social Responsibility, Government Policies and Advocacy
Moderator: Marc Thibault, Green Age 360
Panelists: David Brodwin, American Sustainable Business Council; Melanie Nutter, Director Department of the Environment, City and County of San Francisco; Bonnie Nixon, Code Green, former HP Director of Environmental Sustainability and Global Citizenship; Ahmed Rahim, Founder and CEO Numi Tea.
A form of safe-regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility has the potential to help organizations achieve a higher standard of ethics, drive innovations and remediate social and environmental challenges ... so do public policies by encouraging constructive change. Often seen as contradictory, both offer the opportunity to establish a collaborative environment between industry, end-users, non-profits, lawmakers and the public of which the outcome could foster a new era of responsible behavior towards sustainability. We’ll gather with an impressive group of innovators and doers to explore paths of engagement to building a just, vibrant and sustainable economy.
7SS6.3: From a Dollar a Day - New Strategies and Success Stories in forging Economic Security
The real deal-- Bandita Thapa of Women's Foundation Nepal; Adila Shafqat – Lecturer, Department of Geography, The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Punjab-Pakistan; BeadforLife Founder, Torkin Wakefield; Microfinance Leader, Julie Castro Abrams; Madison Slate - Founder, The Slate Foundationand Empowerment WORKS Beyond Fair Trade Program Director, Shauna Kane (just returning from Africa) explore opportunities to bridge the massive gap between local and global markets, access to capital and other divides from East Oakland to East Africa.
7SS7.1: 21st Century Sustainable Cities - its time for a whole system redesign!
Kevin Danaher: "We Need a Sustainable Real Estate Model!", Tony Livoti (Monterrey Bay International Trade Association) presents his (soon to be) famous white paper on 21st Century Cities & 8 Technology/ Profit Centers with David Assmann, Deputy Director, San Francisco Department of the Environment.
7SS7.2: Social Business - The Latest Frontier of Muhammad Yunus with Holly Mosher +
Get the latest in Public-private Partnership and Social Business- across Asia, Africa and beyond with Film-maker for Change, Holly Mosher presenting clips from her latest work, Bonsai - the first film on Social Business; David Corson-Knowles, Associate Director of Slow Money; and CSAfrica Founder, Stephan McGuire sharing his new venture, DEEP.
7SS7.3: How to Be the Change and Embody your Vision with Dylan Newcomb
Gandhi's famous advice to 'be the change you wish to see in the world' is an invitation for us to be internally congruent with the external conditions we wish to create. If we can't be it ourselves, we can't create it for others! In this dynamic and inspiring workshop, Dylan Newcomb, founder of the UZAZU approach to mind-body integration, will show us how we can use our feelings to strengthen and sustain the forms we wish to create in the world. Prepare for whole-body, whole system integration!
7SS7.4: Transpartisan Upwising…A Grassroots Evolution! with Steve Bhaerman & Joseph McCormick
How can we create enlightening conversations nationally that bridge political divisions? How can we transform emotions like anger, fear, sadness, helplessness and hopelessness into dynamic power for the good? How can we unify around principle and not lose our individual or tribal identity? These are some of the questions political commentator and humorist Steve Bhaerman and conservatarian organizer Joseph McCormick will address in this experiential session intended to confront your assumptions, stretch your world view, give you practical tools for engaging “the other,” and inspire you to go home and begin walking the talk of political reconciliation in your community.
WHOLE SYSTEM = Sustainable Results. How do we know we have them?
- Local
Communities are socially empowered and economically integrated in the
global community.
- Dependence on foreign partners is reduced & social
benefits increase. It benefits non-profits in reducing duplication
through locally-led collaboration strategies.
- Emphasizing in-kind resources and use of what
stakeholders have, it is not dependent on funding to create solutions. In uncertain economic times, this local asset based collaboration system will help ensure
delivery of vital services.
Get 7SS Training and QUALIFY FOR THE SYNERGY FUND!
Participants taking one workshop in each of the 7 Stages at The Global Summit II will be certified Level One and thus be eligible for Synergy Grants. While a majority of The Global Summit II proceeds are dedicated to supporting it, The Global Summit invites individuals, foundations, and donor agencies to align with Synergy Criteria to build critical mass. Contact us to learn more.