MEDIA RELEASE
Wednesday September 6th 2022
Media Contact:
Zoe Gray
PowHERhouse
social@powherhouse.com
A Case for Support to Heal Our Systems
SEPTEMBER 6th 2022, PowHERhouse Relational Leadership Accelerator and their 3000 strong active community of changemakers and social impacters announces FireCircle 2022 - Healing Our Systems September 22nd - 24th.
FireCircle 2022 - Healing Our Systems is a three session over three days, virtual gathering for relational leaders to harvest the questions, concerns and collective wisdom from public and private sectors that impact us the most: Health, Finance and Banking, Business and Capitalism and Politics and Governance. At the conclusion of the three day inquiry based exploration, PowHERhouse with their partner, Impact Arts will pull together a comprehensive case for support using the relational data harvested over the three days as part of their activation campaign to support the realization of the UN2030 Global Sustainable Development Goals.
PowHERhouse is a community of practice for diverse leaders, changemakers and social impacters ready to walk a path of relational leadership for future generations.
The FireCircle Model is a three step tool developed by PowHERhouse based on the Indigenous practice of ‘wisdom gathering’. It’s an intentional practice of deep listening in circle, followed by inquiry based break-out sessions and concluding with a group harvesting session of our collective wisdom. It’s a model where every voice can be heard in response to a single ‘challenge’ or inquiry, deliberately weaving diverse stakeholder voices together to bring forward themes and collective next steps.
Healing Our Systems 2022 features four conversationalists:
Patricia Crowe - Indigenous Business Consultant, Saskatchewan Economic Development, Morris Interactive
Kamala Todd - Indigenous Relations for the City of Vancouver, Community planner, filmmaker, and adjunct professor at UBC and SFU
Kari Johnston - Community Strategist, Municipal councilor and Yukon First Nations COVID Communications Lead
And Shannon Pestun - Métis Entrepreneur, Ceo of Pestun Consulting and Senior Advisor, Business and Finance for the Women Entrepreneurship Knowledge Hub.
“Imagine an invitation to bring your whole self into a complex conversation where you are encouraged to engage in a brave conversation. Imagine an interactive and integrated un-conference with less definitive answers and more re-imagining and inquiry; where there are less presentations and more presence; without powerpoints and instead, brave, heart-led conversations facilitated by hope-fueled truth tellers who encourage everyone to stay in the room. Imagine listening and harvesting answers to what seems impossible. This is a FireCircle, and 2022 our theme is Healing Our Systems.” - PowHERhouse
The FireCircle - Healing Our Systems Program
Thursday Sept. 22nd - 6:30pm - 8:30pm (pdt) STORIES HEAL, an opening night celebration featuring reGEN media. Meet reGEN’s first slate of regenerative media projects hosted by PowHERhouse Founder and Impact Producer Charlene SanJenko.
Friday Sept. 23rd - 9am - noon (pdt), HEALING OUR SYSTEMS, a morning of collective inquiry and reimagining to explore what we collectively know, what we want to understand, and what is possible beyond the impossible. Hour 1 - The Inquiry featuring guest conversationalists Patricia Crowe, Kamala Todd, Kari Johnston and Shannon Pestun. Hour 2 - The Conversation, an hour of break out sessions to connect, design-think and engage in collective visioning and solution finding. Hour 3 - The Harvesting, a final hour to track the intersections of repetitive clues, statements and invitations that came from each conversation and inquiry session.
Saturday Sept. 24th - 9am - 10:30am, WISDOM CIRCLE, a come as you are morning designed to support the integration of the previous day’s learning through connection, listening and reflection.
The three day event is facilitated and moderated by The Braid of PowHERhouse:
Strategist, Good Governance and Civic Leader performance coach, Christina Benty
Indigenous Entrepreneur and LEO of DEVA training and staff solutions, Sharon Marshall
PowHERhouse Managing Director and Storyteller, Tina Overbury
PowHERhouse founder and Indigenous Impact Producer of reGEN media, Charlene SanJenko
“Be willing to ask hard questions. Be ready to hear challenging truths. Stay open and courageous enough to stay in the room when it looks like we’ll never get there, and listen again. The next steps are waiting for us to remember.”
-Tina Overbury, Managing Director of PowHERhouse
HEALING OUR SYSTEMS is the fourth FireCircle in a series of ten cross-sector gatherings hosted to advance the 2030 UN-SDG agenda of a more sustainable future for all people and the world by 2030.
September 22nd - 24th, you can be part of the circle and contribute your voice to PowERhouse's Healing Our Systems case for support when you attend FireCircle 2022. For more information and to register for this three session event, visit PowHERhouse.com
