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New Constellations: Glimmers of Hope

Thursday, April 15, 2021

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Interactive Workshop

Session Description

For millennia, across cultures and continents, we have used the stars to navigate when we are lost. In this moment of transformation, in which everything is in flux, we are locked onto old stars that are pulling us in a perilous direction. We need to discover new possibilities, new stars, and reset our course towards a better future.

Join us to see the first glimmers of new constellations we can reorient towards. This experiential session will combine storytelling, sound, reflective and embodied practices, and original audio contributions from adrienne maree brown, Dr Angel Acosta, Audrey Tang, Hilary Cottam, Yo-Yo Ma and other pioneers whose thinking and practice shines light on the way ahead.

This session is curated in partnership with New Constellations.

Time & Location

Time:
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Thursday, April 15, 2021 BST
Location:
Virtual
Speakers
  • Gemma Mortensen
    Speaker
    Founder and co-creator, New Constellations, Crisis Action
    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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  • Lily Piachaud
    Speaker
    Co-Creator, New Constellations
    Lily is passionate about building meaningful and unusual connections between people to unlock positive change. She focuses on the practical, developing systems and processes rooted in care, trust and kindness that create the conditions for new possibilities to emerge. Her background is in partnerships, operations and campaigns in the international development sector.
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  • Jo Barratt
    Speaker
    Co-Creator, New Constellations
    Jo works with sound pushing the boundaries of how it can be used to to create spaces for reflection and social change. He is the co-founder of Farmerama Radio. His work includes radio, podcasts, audio content and sound design for exhibitions. He also has a background in working with governments and organisations using technology, education and advocacy to promote open data, open knowledge, data literacy and open science.
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  • Iris Andrews
    Speaker
    Co-Creator, New Constellations
    Iris weaves strategy, creativity and the sacred to build hope and action for the better world she knows is possible. She creates campaigns, stories and spaces that engage both heads and hearts to grapple with the big questions of our time. Iris’s work draws on over 15 years as a campaigner and cultural strategist, working on major social and environmental challenges with a diversity of international NGOs and businesses, high profile artists and influencers, and grassroots groups. It is equally informed by a decade’s yoga teaching, a lifetime’s personal development and her ongoing enquiry into how we can heal our relationships with ourselves, each other and nature.
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