RSA US | Friday Fellows Skillshare: Elder and Intergenerational Wisdom

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<H3><STRONG>Join us for January's Friday Fellows Skillshare! </STRONG></H3>
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<DIV>Join our first <STRONG>Friday Fellows Skillshare</STRONG> with FRSA <STRONG>Erica Dorn</STRONG>, who will be sharing about elder and intergenerational wisdom, helping us to learn and discuss the role these concepts play in a living future.</DIV>
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<DIV>Erica will be hosting with Elder and <A HREF="http://www.thesoulofplace.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Soul of Place</A> author Michael Jones, and Indigenous and living systems educator and facilitator, Erin Dixon. There will be a short introduction to learn about this concept followed by a facilitated group discussion on how to integrate elders and intergenerational relationships in life and work.</DIV>
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<DIV>Suggested pre-reading ahead of the skillshare: "<A HREF="https://medium.com/@ericadorn/eldering-and-relational-wisdom-118014ae963b" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Eldering and Relational Wisdom</A>" by Erica Dorn [Blog post on Medium]</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><STRONG><A HREF="https://www.linkedin.com/in/edorn" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Erica Dorn</A></STRONG> - </SPAN>Erica is a voice above the clamor of big business and advocates for the Local Living Economies movement.  Erica is a co-founder of Good Work Institute (launched by Etsy), where she's built regional communities through transformational programs for entrepreneurs, placemakers, and community leaders.  She teaches and facilitates communities around the world to shift from competition to collaboration. </DIV>
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<DIV>Erica helped launch the microfinance platform Kiva in the US and ran business lending at Accion in NYC. She is a Fellow at The Royal Society of Arts in London, serves as Board of Directors for Third Millennium Alliance, is Coro Civic Leader in NYC, and promotes the notion of ‘deep scale’ through her ‘Renewed Economy’ consulting practice. Erica believes that uplifting the wisdom of elders and indigenous principles of human relationship to earth is essential to our future. By distributing, sharing, and sometimes forgoing ownership, she believes we can all contribute to building inclusive and compassionate economies made up of appropriately-scaled, collaborative and place-based enterprises.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><STRONG><A HREF="http://www.thesoulofplace.com/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Michael Jones</A></STRONG> - </SPAN>Michael Jones is an evocative writer and storyteller, a thoughtful and inspired speaker, a conversation catalyst and widely recognized pianist /composer. His most recent book The Soul of Place; Re-imagining Leadership Through Nature, Art and Community (Friesen, 2014) is the third in a series on re-imagining leadership. It offers a refreshing and richly textured exploration of our relationship with place in nature, art and community and how this connects us with the core underlying patterns of life and living systems. For over 20 years, he has enchanted his audiences through integrating his music and stories in a variety of national and international leadership forums. <BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV>In addition he has been engaged in a variety of place – based initiatives focused on helping communities and organizations find the soul and story of their place. His work has been described as “… intelligent, open, genuine and transformational.” By asking the question:” Who will play your music if you don’t?” Michael creates a place for leaders to discover their own true nature as well as shaping a story of the future in which the primary challenges will be both generative and ecological.</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><STRONG><A HREF="https://www.banffcentre.ca/people?page=30" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Erin Dixon</A></STRONG> - </SPAN>Walking with vision and all of life in mind, Erin shares her Otipemisiwak-Métis heritage and passion for life – from Indigenous science through to living systems transformation.  Erin is faculty for Banff Centre, currently supporting Indigenous Leadership and Management Development and Reconciliation and Right Relations programs. Erin has worked locally and globally, with every type of organizing structure – cultivating patterns of openness, connection, and reciprocity for collective impact. <BR><BR>Erin carries a BA in Law and Environmental Studies, a MA in Global Leadership from Royal Roads University, with Post Graduate studies in Eco-psychology – land based nature reconnection programs.  Erin is at home and naturally walks between and bridges different worlds, braiding pathways towards what is possible, and the essence of what is being called to life.</DIV>
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<DIV><EM>RSA US Friday Fellows Skillshares are short online presentations that Fellows give to share a skill, best practice, or methodology to the rest of the Fellowship. They are built to provide an overview of the skill or concept and leave plenty of room for attendees to ask questions about how what was learned can be applied in their lives. Join a skillshare to learn something new from the wealth of knowledge contained within the RSA Fellowship!</EM><SPAN><BR></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><SPAN><STRONG>To access the log-in details to join this free event, please register in advance. </STRONG></SPAN></SPAN></DIV>

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