October 14, 2017 – John J. Higgins & Barb Adams, Our Best Hope | Becky Thompson, Teaching with Tenderness | Daniel Burrus, The Anticipatory Organization | Ken Goldstein, Standing Your Ground

In this moment in history, as polar bears stand on bathroom mirror size ice pieces, and school shootings have become de rigueur, as Islamophobia has become a well known word, and politicians throw punches and then laugh, a through line we are sadly witnessing is an erosion of tenderness. While numerous pundits have noted a decline in civility– a formal sense of respect offered in public settings–tenderness can slide in and out of the public sphere. It goes deeper than civility, helps us know that we belong to each other, and is essential to who we are as human beings.

Becky will discuss a lesson plan for bringing higher awareness to education. She offers a practical model for embodied teaching, where a classroom where painful realities like slavery, colonization, rape, and genocide can become the subject of fearless, or fear transcending, study.

Becky Thompson, PhD, is a scholar, human rights and anti-racism activist, cross-cultural trainer, writer, poet and senior-level yoga teacher (RYT-500). She has lectured on race, gender and class issues around the world. Since 2015, Becky has served as a human rights advocate on the front lines of the refugee crisis in Greece, where she has assisted people seeking asylum, documented human rights violations, and taught writing workshops for refugees. Becky has contributed thought-leadership, scholarship and consultation to various groups interested in organizational transformation, yoga principles, contemplative practices, trauma, healing and social justice. She has led cross-cultural training courses that focus upon yoga, poetry, and feminist writing for global audiences.

Becky is the author of several books including Teaching with Tenderness, Survivors on the Yoga Mat: Stories for those Healing from Trauma and Zero is the Whole I Fall into at Night. Becky’s writing and activism has been recognized with honors from the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association for University Women, the Ford Foundation, Political Research Associates, and the Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Books on Human Rights, and the Creative Justice Chapbook Press Poetry Prize. Becky’s current social justice projects include an anthology of poetry by and about refugees which she is co-editing with Palestinian poet and aid worker Jehan Bseiso.

For more information, visit http://beckythompsonyoga.com.

(3) Daniel Burrus

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Keynote speaker, business strategist, and global futurist Daniel Burrus joins the show during the third hour to discuss his new book, The Anticipatory Organization.

Technology-driven change is accelerating at an exponential rate, but moving fast in the wrong direction will only get you into trouble faster! Reacting to problems and digital disruptions, no matter how agile you and your organization are, is no longer good enough.

In his latest book, The Anticipatory Organization, Burrus will teach you how to separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen, allowing you to jump ahead with low risk and the confidence certainty can provide. Accelerate innovation and actively shape the future—before someone else does it for you!

Digital transformation has divided us all into two camps: the disruptor and the disrupted. The Anticipatory Organization gives you the tools you need to see disruption before it happens, allowing you to turn change into advantage. In The Anticipatory Organization, Burrus shows us that the future is far more certain than we realize, and finding certainty in an uncertain world provides a big advantage for those who know how and where to look for it.

Inspired by the dramatic results that organizations are experiencing from his award-winning learning system, The Anticipatory Organization offers a comprehensive way to identify game-changing opportunities. Using the principles of this proven model, you will learn how to elevate planning, accelerate innovation, and transform results by pinpointing and acting upon enormous opportunities waiting to be discovered.

Daniel will discuss some of his award-winning strategies as well as help you learn how to

• Separate the Hard Trends that will happen from the Soft Trends that might happen;
• Anticipate disruptions, problems, and game-changing opportunities;
• Identify and pre-solve predictable problems;
• Accelerate innovation (both everyday innovation and exponential innovation);
• Pinpoint and act upon enormous untapped opportunities; and
• Skip problems and barriers to succeed faster.