LEAD,BEYOND BELIEF: ONE FAMILY
ECKO
ALECK
MARK
BRAND
TINA
OVERBURY
JAMES
GARDINER
MARK
MARSOLAIS-NAHWEGAHBOW
NICOLETTE
RICHER
WILLOW &
BEN SMITH
LEAD, Beyond Belief: One Family
A LOCAL-to-GLOBAL VIRTUAL GATHERING OF INTENTIONAL LEADERS
Hosted on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the shíshálh and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Nations.
APRIL 15, 2021 OPENING NIGHT ARTIST OF IMPACT, TinaO, presents O MY GOD
APRIL 16 & 17, 2021 FireCircle mornings of group listening and wisdom gathering
Our April 2021 FireCircle begins a nine-year journey of eighteen intentional FireCircles where conscious leaders gather to collect the wisdom we need to realize the 2030 global sustainability goals and vision we have.
We can't wait to be with you for our semi-annual FireCircle event! Get ready to engage in an intimate and interactive experience where we practice deep listening, whole-self leadership and gathering collective wisdom. Together we will ask the questions of today for the future of tomorrow.
PowHERhouse gratefully acknowledges PRESENTING IMPACT PARTNER:
Charlene SanJenko
Tina Overbury
Christina Benty
Sharon Marshall
Amanda Rae Storteboom
Ticia Heward
Hillary Samson
Tanis Frame
Carolyn Nesbitt
Kelly Beattie
Kari Klein
Kathryn Thomson
Gail Stepanik-Keber
WHAT TO EXPECT
ARTIST OF IMPACT OPENING NIGHT PERFORMANCE
Thursday evening, April 15
7:00 pm Pacific Time Welcome, land acknowledgment, introductions
7:15 pm Pacific Time Performance, O MY GOD, a one-woman show by Tina Overbury
A mythical tale about the witches we burned, the children we buried, the Gods we worship, and the reconciliation we need.
8:00 pm Pacific Time Artist talk-back session
8:15 pm Pacific Time Closing
FIRECIRCLE ITINERARY
Presenting Impact Partner, Hilti (Canada) Corporation
Friday morning, April 16
8:00-8:15 am Pacific Time
Coffee & Connection time - optional networking
8:15-8:50 am Pacific Time Coffee & A Conversation
Artists of Impact! A morning conversation to discuss leveraging our change-making efforts by shifting the narrative with the power of media
This optional pre-FireCircle session welcomes Artists of Impact, Naomi McDougall Jones, Storyteller, Changemaker, Future Doula, and Sarah Springer, Creative Development Producer, Director, and Advocate for Inclusion in Media. Naomi is an award-winning filmmaker, actress, author, speaker, and women in film activist. Sarah is the Co-Founder of One Story Media Group. One Story is a collective of media professionals who excel in creative storytelling that unites communities, challenges points of views, and moves people to action. Together, this dynamic duo - and many Artists of Impact like them - is out to reimagine the world we want by 2030 and use their creative gifts, multi-layered talents, and expansive sphere of positive influence to get us there.
9:00 am Pacific Time Welcome, land acknowledgment, and opening artistic performance by Ecko Aleck, Sacred Matriarch Productions
Healing Our Families' Future Now
Ecko is a trained digital media and performing artist who specializes in the creation of safe spaces to empower sacred creativity. She works through the disciplines of singing, spoken word, rap, writing, speaking, music, sound, film, and sacred space/empowerment facilitation. She began presenting to her peers as a youth in 2002 through speaking and performance and has since dedicated her career to empowering the next generations through culture and art.
Conversation-Starters Guest Panel: James Gardiner (host) with father/daughter duo, Trainer Ben Smith & Willow Smith of The Goliath Foundation
Panel Partner, NationTalk
3 Questions ... What is How Healing Happens?
Why do we need to Move Past Pain, and How?
Who are you working with and what is the process to heal ourselves for our families both now and in the future?
Stretch break, deep-breathing, & movement
Facilitated small-group discussion pods and listening circle
11:45 am Pacific Time Closing Circle
Noon Pacific Time Networking Lunch (optional) tba
FIRECIRCLE ITINERARY
Presenting Impact Partner, Hilti (Canada) Corporation
Saturday morning, April 17
8:00-8:15 am Pacific Time Coffee & Connection time - optional networking
8:15-8:50 am Pacific Time Coffee & A Conversation
Sourcing Lift-Off! A morning conversation to discuss lighting a fire underneath our efforts to date to best ignite collective energy possible now and moving forward from here.
This optional pre-FireCircle session welcomes Ashley Richard of WEKH, the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub, and Sara Wolfe of the Indigenous Innovation Initiative for a conversation to Source Lift-Off as we continue to walk further into all that is possible in innovation, impact, and entrepreneurship as intentional change-making vehicles.
9:00 am Pacific Time Welcome, land acknowledgment, introductions
9:15-10:00 am Pacific Time Fireside Chat with Mark Brand, Advocate Agitator Accomplice | A Better Life Foundation
Healing US, the Humans of this Planet: Our Local-to-Global Role & Responsibility for the World We Want By 2030
Mark Brand is a pioneering chef and entrepreneur in the field of Social Impact and Community Development. Along with overseeing the 5 organizations under MB Inc, Brand leads his A Better Life Foundation in Canada, the United States, he is a Stanford fellow, Professor of Innovation and Design Thinking, and has served as executive chef for the American Refugee Committee and Pope Francis's Climate Challenge. Brand has recently been appointed to the United Nations Catalyst team focusing on food waste, poverty, and the impacts of current systemic structures on the most marginalized. At the root of everything he works on, his belief is that the solutions are all attainable with deep cooperation and the understanding there is no “Us and Them, only Us.”
Conversation-Starters Guest Panel: Ticia Heward (host), Nicolette Richer, Mark Marsolais-Nahwegahbow
Panel Partner, NationTalk
3 Questions...How are you leading beyond belief towards the world we want by 2030?
How does your work help to heal the humans of this planet and what do you need us to know about it?
What's next for you that we can place our focus, attention, and energy on to support?
Stretch break, deep-breathing & movement
Facilitated small-group discussion pods and listening circle
11:45 am Pacific Time Closing Circle
Our common goal is a deeper connection to our own human expansion, one whole leader at a time.
We are a House of Leaders for Global Impact. A place to gather, prepare and amplify the impact you are here to make. Media is the beat of our drum.
PowHERhouse intends to be a global leader in the impact media space. We re-imagine a sustainable take care economy by changing the narrative for HER, Human Expansion Realized. We convene like-minded leaders to accelerate the gathering of collective wisdom using a collaborative model, all for systemic change.