Rick Hanson, PhD

Individual Resilience

Psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and NY Times best-selling
author of six books including Buddha’s Brain

Dr. Rick Hanson discusses how we can tap into and grow our inner strength through positive
neuroplasticity, and turn our experiences into lasting changes inside our brain. He shares insights from
his new book “NeuroDharma” and touches on some of the 7 steps of awakening within all of us.

Dr. Rick Hanson also shares:

 Practices for tapping into our inner strength to transform positive states into traits.
 

 “The green zone” and why, unlike humans, zebras don’t get ulcers
 

 How taking care of our needs authentically and taking in the good experience of our needs being
met, can help you be more resilient and in the green zone
 

 The value of mind-training practice and how not only being with the mind but working with the
mind can lead to resilience

Thema Bryant, PhD

Relational Resilience & Healing Trauma

Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University, President-Elect of American Psychological Association,

Author of Thriving in the Wake of Trauma and Homecoming

Dr. Thema Bryant discusses the concepts from her new book, Home Coming, and how trauma
disconnects us from ourselves and others. She explains the importance of honesty, truth telling,
reciprocity, and authenticity to create more resilience.

Dr. Thema Byrant also shares:

 How resilience is not about being strong or unbothered but rather about being authentic to self
 
  How allowing ourselves permission to be human helps us deal with trauma
 

 How clinging to certain roles can hinder our ability to be resilient

 

 How to cultivate the right relationships and find your people

Thomas Hübl

Community, Cultural & Societal Resilience

Spiritual Teacher, International Facilitator, Trauma Expert, Founder — Academy of Inner Science, Author
of Healing Collective Trauma

Thomas Hübl speaks about individual and collective trauma and how the “Collective Trauma Integration
Model” can help make individuals and society more resilient through an integrated history.
 

Thomas Hübl also shares:

 How healing from collective past trauma keeps us related to future challenges and enables us to
respond to them in a more resilient way
 

 The importance of structures/facilities to assist with collective trauma, and the role we can play
in working together to heal collective trauma
 

 Why healing trauma solely on an individual level can stagnate healing and how collective trauma
work can assist in detoxification of collective, ancestral, and often “muted trauma”

Sarah Queblatin 

Climate Change & Climate Resilience

Regenerative Designer, Disasters, Displacement, and Development; Founder, Green Releaf Initiative and
Living Story Landscapes Project; Member, Global Ecovillage Network, Re-alliance, and Permaculture for
Refugees.

Sarah Queblatin speaks about her positive vision and work in regenerative design and leadership for
building resilience at many levels for climate change. She openly speaks about her fears of climate
change and the move from the head to the heart to create sincere and authentic change.
 

Sarah Queblatin shares:

 Her hope but also her fears about climate change, and how she finds hope in the relationship
between creativity and chaos
 

 How the individual work of reclaiming belonging and cultivating moral imagination from a place
of intuition can build resilience collectively
 

 The importance of leadership in climate change action, finding empathetic ways to engage and
embrace our true self and wholeness and having a sincere/authentic change process rather than
ambition
 

 How there are so many solutions to climate change, but how dealing with the complexity of
implementing those solutions still needs work

Diane Musho Hamilton

Sensemaking & Resilient Systems

Zen Teacher, Professional Mediator, Founder of Two Arrows Zen, Author of Everything is Workable and
The Zen of You and Me

Diane Musho Hamilton speaks about Integral Theory (one of the most inclusive meta perspectives) and
offers its application in relevant examples for how to manage these challenging times.
 

Diane Musho Hamilton also shares:

 Her insights on the new normal, the degradation in our civil conduct and polarization, and why
there is still hope
 

 The false sense of safety in separateness and how commonality and belonging is soothing to the
nervous system

 How cultivating the right kind of meaning-making and having sense of purpose in our own lives
can make us more resilient
Manny and Renee Iron Hawk

Listening to the Earth through Indigenous Voices

 Manny Iron Hawk

An Ikce Wicasa or a common man of the Oglala and Howozu within the Oceti Sakowin, the Seven Council
Fires of the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota nation, Science Teacher, Lakota Language and Culture Preservation
Advocate

Renee Iron Hawk

Writer, Facilitator, Musician and Meditation Teacher, Cultural Commentator at Rebel Wisdom &
Founder of Open Meditation

Manny Iron Hawk & Renee Fast Horse-Iron Hawk speak about how so much of the culture and traditions
of indigenous groups have been lost due to forced cultural assimilation and how reviving it has been a
journey of struggle and hope.

Manny and Renee also share:

 Their journey of re-learning their Lakota language, and the importance of making it more
familiar and comfortable to speak for generations to come
 

 The importance of ceremony in creating connection and harmony with animals and the earth
again
 

 Living a more ceremonial life through gratitude, humility, and compassion

 

 How the reality of our death makes us less egocentric, keeps us grateful, and reminds us of our
commonality and relationality to the earth and all beings, all our relatives