Leadership is for Everyone
Leadership Development and Networking Event
LIFE 2022 - Reimagining and Revitalizing our Future: Equity- and Justice- Centered Leadership
This event took place on Friday, April 29, 2022 from 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. via Zoom videoconference
This annual leadership development and networking opportunity took place virtually in 2022. This was NOT a webinar, but rather the kind of interactive learning and networking experience people have come to know and expect from this event - since 2004! As always, the program was OPEN to the PUBLIC.
MORNING SESSION
Reimagining Our Systems and Structures: What's Going on in Communities?
This panel discussion will open the door to community-based perspectives on the positioning of funding from systems and structures of power towards new, defining practices of justice and equity. Panelists will discuss the value drivers, leadership practices and methods utilized by community-based organizations for their transformational efforts in environmental justice, restorative justice, and health equity. Panelists will offer their reflections on the personal or community healing practices that are integral to this work. Through the panel and small breakout discussion, participants will come away from this session with:
- The role of small, local community nonprofits in driving systemic change.
- Perspectives surrounding the engagement and collaborative practices that are transforming community impact.
- Individual and organizational restorative practices that keep teams and communities together.
FACILITATOR: Rich Marquez
Colorado Director for Justice Programs, Latino Coalition for Community Leadership (LCCL)
PANELIST: Shannon Francis
Executive Director, Spirit of the Sun
PANELIST: Rossina Schroeer-Santiago
Founder/Therapist, Therapists of Color Collaborative
PANELIST: Wendy Talley
Program Director, Latino Coalition for Community Leadership
AFTERNOON SESSION
Reimagining Resiliency and the Pressure to Power Through
In this session participants and panelists will journey together and begin to explore, deconstruct, and reimagine the importance of self-care and resilience for leaders during challenging times. As leaders it is our responsibility to show up as our full authentic selves so that we give others permission to do the same. Together, let’s move beyond commercial self-care and explore what it means to create personal and professional environments that care for our physical, emotional, and mental well-being. The panel will invite you to move beyond sick days, massages, & baths and develop the tools necessary to create habits of good for long term self-preservation and begin to reimagine and create lives that are just, and well. We will focus on how we use our authentic and compassionate selves to become better leaders. Participants will walk away with:
- Tools and takeaways for designing healthy professional and personal environments
- The tools to identify when we are not caring well for ourselves
- Self-examination to explore if/when inadequacy of our own self-care impedes and impacts the self-care of others
FACILITATOR: Shontel Lewis
PANELIST: Elizabeth Battle
Social Worker and Advocate
Elizabeth Battle's Biography
PANELIST: Beverly Grant
Founder, Mo' Betta Green MarketPlace and Food Activist and Educator
Beverly Grant's Biography
PANELIST: Destiny Hardney
Co-Founder, Dream Create Inspire Tour
Destiny Hardney's Biography
REVITALIZING OURSELVES SESSIONS
Our best work happens when we are revitalized, refreshed and empowered. Throughout the day, leadership coach, Susan Skjei will guide us in helpful practices for strengthening our personal power and resilience, stepping fully into our role power and recognizing how to work with our status power and privilege in ways that are beneficial to ourselves and others.
PRESENTER: Susan Skjei, PhD
President, Sane Systems
AGENDA
9:00AM - 3:30PM
| 9:00am | Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Introductions |
| 9:30am | Revitalizing Ourselves Susan Skjei |
| 10:15am | Reimagining Our Systems and Structures: What’s Going on in Communities? Rich Marquez, Facilitator Shannon Francis, Panelists Rossina Schroeer-Santiago, Panelists Wendy Talley, Panelists |
| 12:00pm | Lunch and optional Virtual Networking |
| 12:45pm | Revitalizing Ourselves Susan Skjei |
| 1:00pm | Reimagining Resiliency and the Pressure to Power Through Shontel Lewis, Facilitator Elizabeth Battle, Panelists Beverly Grant, Panelists Destiney Hardney, Panelists |
| 3:00pm | Revitalizing Ourselves Susan Skjei |
| 3:15pm | Closing Remarks |
PLATFORM
Zoom Videoconference
This event took place using the Zoom meeting platform.
Sessions included speaker presentations, large group interactions, and breakout groups.
ABOUT THE LIFE EVENT
LIFE is an annual program that provides leadership development and networking opportunities for the Rocky Mountain region. The goals of the event include:
- Developing leadership skills & competence
- Stimulating dialog and reflection on leadership issues and concepts
- Encouraging networking
- Building and strengthening the community of professionals connected to public and environmental health in our region
Who should attend?
This event is OPEN to the PUBLIC, and draws people from a variety of diverse sectors and communities. It is primarily intended for those who work to create and sustain the health and well-being of people and the environment, and for those who are interested in developing and refining their leadership skills. It is NOT limited to members of the host organizations or their graduates.
History of the Event:
In 2004, the Regional Institute for Health and Environmental Leadership (RIHEL) began Autumn in Aspen as an annual continuing leadership education event for friends and alumni of our institute. This 19th annual event continues that tradition under the event name Leadership is for Everyone (LIFE), and for the tenth time includes co-hosts, this year the Colorado Environmental Health Association (CEHA).
For nearly all of the past nine years, this event has sold out at or near a capacity of 150 participants. The event draws encore attendees as well as a strong showing of attendees who are new to and/or unaffiliated with the co-hosts and the event.
CONTACT FORM
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