These challenging times call for resilience that is beyond our individual ability to bounce back or adapt to changing conditions.
We need deep resilience that is unshakeable–grounded in love, connection, and our universal nature.
Join with 20 expert guides in discovering pathways,
practices and communities to deepen your resilience.
Welcome to Living and Leading with Deep Resilience!
MORE CONNECTED, MORE HEALING, LESS FEAR
In these times of destabilized climate, ecosystems, society, and geopolitics, we’re facing an unprecedented scale of disruption and loss. As social inequities and health issues grow, so do fear-based reactions. How can we live and lead as joyful, connected, loving human beings? We need resilience that can hold up under extreme conditions. We need Deep Resilience.
Join us May 10-11 & 17-18 to deepen your resilience:
Face individual and collective suffering with love and healing
Lead with clarity amidst wild uncertainty
Engage your dual nature: matter and energy, local and whole
Unite with nature as a source of renewal and inspiration
Be nourished by practices from Zen and Indigenous wisdom
“Resilience flows from our relationship with reality. It deepens collectively. And becomes bottomless as we touch our true nature.”
Ginny Whitelaw Roshi
Founder and CEO, Institute for Zen Leadership
What to expect:
Be immersed in 4 days of 3-4 hours of live programming, starting at 10:30 am CT (check here for local time) on two Fridays and Saturdays. Enjoy some breathing room between the 2 weeks to let practices soak in or watch recordings of sessions you missed. But you won’t want to miss a day!
WEEK 1:
May 10: Deep Resilience & Nature
May 11: Deep Resilience & Loving Responses
WEEK 2:
May 17: Zen, Indigenous & Intergenerational Wisdom
May 18: Deep Resilience & Futures
Be inspired by world-class guides, some familiar and perhaps some new to you, each illuminating different pathways to deep resilience, and drawing from diverse wisdom traditions. Thirteen live, interactive sessions.
Be refreshed by a Zen Toolkit of pre-recorded practices that you can return to time and again. Cultivate deep resilience through 1-Breath, 2-Sides, 3-Centers and 4-Energy Patterns. Released one per day during the 4 days of the summit, with a live introduction to each practice.
Be part of and nourished by a growing healing movement - a global community of practice joining you during the summit, and communities you may wish to stay connected with well beyond the event.
Be surprised by insights beyond the conventional and opportunities to experience interbeing and your dual nature, both matter and energy, both local and universal.
Meet Your Guides
Explore deep resilience with these experts, including Indigenous Elders, resilience researchers, physicians, community leaders, collapse-aware facilitators, trauma healers, guides to nature-inspired leadership, and Zen masters.
Kelly Bannister
(Summit Co-host)
What Does Resilience
Mean To You?
Elder Iya Tahirah Abubakr
Opening Ceremony and Indigenous-led Circle for Ancient Resilience
Amanda Blake
Experiential Interconnectedness for Greater Resilience
Lisa Gordon
Embodying and Enabling Loving Responses to our Predicament
Richard Strozzi-Heckler
Deep Resilience and Awakening the Heart
Yael Zeligman-Merculieff
Indigenous-led Circle for Ancient Resilience
Rebecca Ryan, APF
Futures, Disruption and Resilience
Maria Kukhareva
What Does Resilience
Mean To You?
Maile Auterson
Building Community Resilience and Health Through Relationship
Rev. Terry LePage
Embodying and Enabling Loving Responses to our Predicament
Heather Meikyo Scobie
Approach the Future with Present-mind
Kosha Anja Joubert
Resilient Movements for Healing Our World
Ilarion 'Kuuyux' Merculieff
Putting Relationships First
& Indigenous-led Circle for Ancient Resilience
Michele-Lee Moore
What Does Resilience
Mean To You?
Kristi Crymes
Building community resilience and health through food and relationship
Ginny Jiko Whitelaw
(Summit Co-host)
The Hidden Side
of Deep Resilience
Selene Manga
Indigenous-led Circle for Ancient Resilience
Sabra Kauka
Indigenous-led Circle for Ancient Resilience
Ella Martindale
Resilience shaped by intergenerational knowledge and deepened by relational connections
Angel Kennedy
Resilience shaped by intergenerational knowledge and deepened by relational connections
Hosted by The Institute for Zen Leadership
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