Learning Lab Library
From Stress to Strength: Collective Healing for Community Impact (Part 2)
December 13, 2024
From Stress to Strength: Collective Healing for Community Impact (Part 1)
December 6, 2024
In part 1 of this two-part series, we’ll explore how chronic stress from social justice work impacts health and leadership. Through practical strategies—mindfulness, movement, nutrition, and resilience practices—we’ll reclaim balance, supporting personal and collective well-being. Together, we’ll foster a ripple effect of vitality, empowering our communities with renewed strength and clarity.
What It Takes To Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change The World
November 12, 2024
Now more than ever, we must learn to heal ourselves, connect with one another, and embody our values. In the revolutionary book, What It Takes to Heal, Prentis Hemphill shows us how. In this life-affirming framework for the way forward, Hemphill shows us how to heal our bodies, minds, and souls—to develop the interpersonal skills necessary to break down the doors of disconnection and take the necessary risks to reshape our world toward justice.
The Spiritual & Energetic Dimensions of Equity-Embedded Systems Change™
November 8, 2024
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Strategies for Equitable Hiring
October 18, 2024
Tara & Kehsi Iman will be presenting from the Equitable Hiring Guide on topics such as: common retention and hiring issues, interviewing etiquette, candidate stewardship, mitigating bias, accessibility, trauma-informed hiring, readiness assessments, and more!
Leadership Transition Planning Using A Racial Justice Lens
June 12, 2024
A learning lab about how to plan for a healthy and inclusive leadership transition. Participants will learn about trends in the area of executive leadership that are impacting recruitment processes and learn about promising practices for countering racial bias in the recruitment, interviewing and selection processes. Participants will also learn onboarding strategies that help position new leadership for success.
Pause & Play: A Transformative Tool for Enhanced Leadership & Wellbeing
May 15, 2024
Discover the Pause and Play approach: a model designed for nonprofit leaders to heighten self-awareness, refine decision-making, and synchronize professional and personal spheres. This lab explores self-inquiry and highlights its application for fostering compassionate leadership.
Learning to Pause with Leslie Avant-Brown
January 26, 2024
Leslie Avant-Brown presents a workshop on the need for intentional pauses in your life and about healing-centered coaching tools to support yourself and your communities.
Becoming a New Saint: Exploring the Path of Emerging as Warriors from Our Broken Hearts
November 9, 2023
Lama Rod shares personal stories, spiritual teachings, and instructions for contemplative and somatic practices from his newest book, The New Saints, that reinforces the truth of our interdependency—allowing us to be of service to the collective well-being, and to call on the support and strength of the countless beings who share our struggles and hopes.
Necessary Armor & The Pursuit of Liberation with Chichi Agorom
October 27, 2023
Chichi Agorom discusses the Enneagram, a system of archetypes we can use to see how we interact with the world and the recognize the psychological armor we have developed to protect ourselves. But while protective while we are in danger, armor can just as easily encumber us when we are safe. What does it look like to create space between self and armor in order to experience freedom?
🥳 Book Party for Leading with Joy with authors Akaya Windwood & Rajasvini Bhansali
October 10, 2023
Authors Akaya Windwood & Vini Bhansali join us for an informal interview about their fantastic new book. The book takes the form of a series of vignettes about the authors’ insights and stories, with reflection questions at the end of each one. Their stories address topics such as workplace triumphs and lessons, family relationships, and illuminate different aspects of leadership, such as humility, forgiveness, and kindness, and invite leaders to respond to the current moment.
Calming the Nervous System: A Deeper Dive Into EFT/Tapping with Maria Elena Pérez
May 19th, 2023
Certified EFT practitioner, Maria Elena Pérez, presents the second part of the Calming the Nervous System series, where she delves deeper into what EFT/Tapping is, and the science behind it. More importantly, you'll learn how to tap for reducing stress and anxiety, as well as for deeper healing.
Learning from Conflict, Embracing Transformation: Being with Complexity, Compassion & Change with Richael Faithful & Julia Metzger-Traber
April 13, 2023
Conflict is a vital energy for change in all living systems, including organizations. As leaders, understanding how to stay grounded, authentic, and listen for the wisdom in the storm is a crucial capacity. Richael Faithful & Julia Metzger-Traber discuss how to meet conflict with resilience and an openness to meaningful learning and change.
Designing Organizational Strengthening Strategies with Rapheal Randall and Joia McManus
April 6th, 2023
Rapheal Randall, co-author of Doin' the Work, returns to Leadership Reimagined with his colleague Joia McManus to share individual and collective emotional intelligence practices that will enhance one's ability to navigate challenging times.
Building Healthy Leadership Transition Practices with Elsa RĂos, Lisa Garrett and Shella Brenner
March 31, 2023
If managed well, a leadership transition can inspire! Transition processes can spark new thinking and innovation, galvanize stakeholders, and propel organizations to achieve even greater impact. This Learning Lab explores the essential steps for planning a healthy executive leadership transition.
Calming the Nervous System, An Essential Practice for Healthy Movements with Maria Elena Pérez
January 20, 2023
Maria Elena Pérez will teach you about your nervous system and practical methods to increase your resiliency and ability to regulate stress.
Building Emotional Intelligence Within Our Organizations with Rapheal Randall
December 15, 2022
Rapheal Randall, co-author of Doin’ the Work, shares promising practices on how to develop emotional intelligence within organizations.
🥳 Book Release Party for Healing Justice Lineages with authors Cara Page & Erica Woodland
December 9, 2022
An informal interview with Cara Page & Erica Woodland about their new book, Healing Justice Lineages. In this anthology, Black Queer Feminist editors Cara Page and Erica Woodland guide readers through the history, legacies, and liberatory practices of healing justice—a political strategy of collective care and safety that intervenes on generational trauma from systemic violence and oppression. They call forth the ancestral medicines and healing practices that have sustained communities who have survived genocide and oppression, while radically imagining what comes next.