Mobilizing a Movement: More in Common
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Session Description
For many of us, the world feels upside down. Fault lines appear to be deepening and widening, between countries and within the communities we call home. How will we stop working against each other and begin to come together? “We are far more united and have far more in common with each other than that which divides us,” said the late MP Jo Cox. In this workshop, we’ll collaborate to identify scalable solutions for more inclusive societies that look past our differences and embrace our common humanity.
Time & Location
Time:
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, Wednesday, April 5, 2017
BST
Location:
Classroom 2 (WW)
Speakers
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Facilitator
Gemma is an award-winning thinker and practitioner in transformative, systemic change. She is founder and co-creator of New Constellations, which exists to help people envision and create futures of human and planetary flourishing. New Constellations creates immersive experiences for diverse groups to explore transformation in specific places, specific systems and for their own personal leadership. She is a co-founder and chair of More In Common and sits on the advisory council of Yale University’s International Leadership Centre. She was previously Chief Global Officer at Change.org and CEO of Crisis Action – an organisation that won the MacArthur Award and Skoll Award for its innovative systems model.
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Facilitator
Co-founder, Purpose Europe, Purpose
Tim Dixon is the co-founder and managing director of Purpose Europe, based in London. Since 2015 he and Brendan Cox have been building an ambitious new initiative focused on changing hearts and minds in Europe and globally around the refugee crisis through opinion research, message development, popular movement-building and campaigning to reach mainstream audiences to counter the rising tide of xenophobia and nativism. The first initiative they have co-founded is More In Common, a grassroots community-building movement in the UK.
Purpose is a home for building movements that harness technology to engage large numbers of people and help make progress on major global problems. Tim has led projects in more than 20 countries since joining Purpose’s New York office in 2011, including projects as diverse as the Syrian crisis, modern-day slavery, gun control and economic reform. In 2014 he co-founded The Syria Campaign, a leading advocacy organisation for Syrians.
Before joining Purpose, Tim worked for two Australian Prime Ministers as senior economic adviser and chief speechwriter between 2007 and 2010. He has a professional background as an economist and as an attorney at global law firm Baker & McKenzie. He is the co-author of the two best-selling economics textbooks in Australia, where he grew up, and the founder of Leading Edge Education, a publishing business acquired by Pearson in 2004.
