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It was nice to be again at Wisdom 2.0<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0once more, which returned to San Francisco<\/a>. An annual occasion we attended for years, this yr\u2019s occasion ran from<\/span>\u00a0April 27-29<\/strong><\/span>, 2023<\/strong><\/span> on the Yerba Buena Center. Some of this yr\u2019s highlighted audio system embrace Yung Pueblo, Gabor Mat\u00e9, Byron Katie, Jack Kornfield, Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Rhonda Magee, Alex Senegal, Mohammed Mohammed, Chip Conley,<\/strong><\/span> OpenAI\/ChatGPT\u2019s Sam Altman<\/strong><\/span>, MAPS founder Rick Doblin<\/strong> and plenty of extra.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s at all times nice to be within the presence of Spirit Rock\u2019s Jack Kornfield<\/strong><\/span> who’s a part of the Wisdom 2.0 staff. An American author and instructor within the Vipassana motion in American Theravada Buddhism, he skilled as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, and has taught mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. He moderated and was half of some panel discussions on the primary stage with lead producer and host of the occasion, Soren <\/span><\/strong><\/span>Gordhamer<\/span><\/strong>. (under)<\/p>\n

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Soren Gordhamer and Jack Kornfield on the primary stage<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Soren additionally interviewed Jennifer Siebel Newsom<\/span><\/strong>, who principally spoke of gender equality. She made a number of legitimate and compelling factors as a mom, as a mentor and as an entrepreneur. On the opposite facet of Covid, many individuals had extra time to spend with their households and Jennifer confirmed what they\u2019ve discovered via analysis, together with the truth that when males spend time with their youngsters, there may be much less despair. Other questions introduced included: What about unworthiness? How can we take care of it? What impression is expertise having on our youngsters?<\/p>\n

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Soren Gordhamer and Jennifer Siebel Newsom<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She says that we have to have a look at age acceptable design for expertise and in addition set boundaries on the place and when. During recess at college, youngsters aren\u2019t socializing as a lot once they spend your entire break wanting down at their telephones. When youngsters are extra remoted and fewer social, it may well have an effect on their psychological well being, together with however not restricted to consuming issues, anxiousness and despair. \u201cComparison leads to all unhappiness,\u201d says after which added, \u201cOur kids are beautiful mirrors for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Siebel Newsom<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While most individuals know her because the spouse of Governor Gavin Newsom, she\u2019s additionally an American documentary filmmaker, director, producer and actress. Jennifer was behind Miss Representation, which premiered within the documentary competitors on the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.<\/span> \u201cWe still devalue feminine power in our society,\u201d she says.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sounds True founder Tami Simon<\/strong><\/span> interviewed Dr. Jeremy Hunter<\/span><\/strong> on Managing Your Nervous System<\/em>, a subject that could possibly be helpful for all of us. After all, doesn\u2019t it really feel like we’re getting extra calls for? In the dialogue, they requested, \u201cCan we use business to provoke our evolution?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sounds True founder Tami Simon at Wisdom 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Using your life as a coaching floor, he mentioned how we will make a life regardless of all of the stuff hitting us regularly. In different phrases, how can we handle all of it whereas conserving our nervous system in examine? Jeremy says, \u201cThere\u2019s very little systematically that focuses on the inward journey, what\u2019s going on inside. What we\u2019ve left off the table is sensing, feeling and connecting. We need to evolve to see a much more expanded view of ourselves and step into it.\u201d He provides, \u201cWe have radically settled for what it means to be human.\u201d I couldn\u2019t agree extra.<\/p>\n

Jeremy asserts that we have to evolve our personal private working system. He spoke of his personal experiences in life and the way beginning early on in our lives, we attempt to normalize what we now have skilled as youngsters. In different phrases, we normalize our trauma as a result of we don\u2019t see it as trauma. He says that we should \u201cheal our trauma and take it seriously.\u201d Put one other manner, folks all too usually need to try too quickly. We might embark upon the therapeutic, however we will\u2019t hand over or let go too quickly. \u201cIt\u2019s not just transforming the wound, but it\u2019s also removing the fear,\u201d he provides.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Jeremy Hunter on stage with Tami Simon<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Speaking of trauma, world famend trauma skilled Dr. Gabor Mat\u00e9<\/span><\/strong> kicked issues off on the opening evening. The bestselling writer of 4 books printed in over thirty languages, Gabor is an internationally famend speaker extremely wanted for his experience on dependancy, trauma, childhood growth, and the connection of stress and sickness. He can also be co-developer of a therapeutic method, Compassionate Inquiry<\/em>, now studied by tons of of therapists, physicians, counselors, and others internationally.<\/p>\n

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Soren Gordhamer and Dr. GaborMat\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rather than providing quick-fix options to those advanced points, he<\/span>\u00a0weaves collectively scientific analysis, case histories, and his personal insights and expertise to current a broad perspective that empowers folks to advertise their very own therapeutic and others. After his Friday night fireplace chat, he returned on Saturday to reply questions casually with others on-site, which is the place I had a chance to attach with him.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been a fan of Byron Katie\u2019s work for years. Ironically, she calls her work The Work.<\/a> One of the distinctive issues about her appearances at Wisdom 2.0 (and infrequently different locations), is that she\u2019ll work immediately with folks within the viewers, which she did once more. One of the issues we introduced up as a collective, was unworthiness \u2013 it comes up in all places doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

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She requested the viewers, \u201cNotice what comes into your body when you think of moments in your life as unworthy.\u201d It\u2019s after we are in our small ego self that we don\u2019t notice our energy. She provides, \u201cI experience ego as a terrified, frightened child. Rest is the absence of ego, for ego doesn\u2019t sleep.\u201d No surprise meditation and silent moments along with your Higher Self kick ego to the door. This is how Byron Katie<\/span><\/strong> explains it:<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you allow time and space before ego comes into the space, there is light and freedom. The ego comes in to name it. The ego doesn\u2019t sleep because it\u2019s terrified of being nothing. We\u2019re always looking for the answer to \u2018Who am I?\u2019 In other words, the ego is looking for a home. When you sit in self-inquiry, the ego is noisy. But its respectful to listen to a terrified child, so compassion and empathy are needed. Observe: what is trying to emerge? Ask the wounded, terrified child about a belief system she holds. Is it really true?\u201d<\/em> -Byron Katie<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Then she requested, \u201cWitness how you react when you believe a thought or belief. Notice how you react and be witness to it. Get in touch with the situation.\u201d If anger emerges, its helpful to do not forget that you can’t be offended except you’re prior to now or the long run. Try to get offended within the current second \u2013 it\u2019s not attainable is it? When you\u2019re really within the current second. Later, she says \u201cNo one would ever harm another human being if they weren\u2019t asleep to themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

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One of the issues I really like about her teachings, is that it requires you to be current. When you\u2019re prior to now or future, it\u2019s as if there\u2019s an egoic play going forwards and backwards, like being caught within the dream of a previous\/future play. But if you sit in silence and authentically inquire from that place, you miss nothing. Anticipating is really the struggling.<\/p>\n

Diego Perez<\/span><\/strong> additionally joined us (under on the appropriate). <\/span>He is the poet and thinker behind the pen identify Yung Pueblo<\/strong><\/span>, which suggests \u2018young people\u2019 and it reminds him of his Ecuadorian roots and activism. He says, \u201cevery time we take in new stuff, we are always conditioning the mind; it happens continuously after age seven. Each of us are wired so differently that we need to find whatever works to unwire that conditioning.\u201d He asks the viewers, \u201cWhat meets my conditioning where it\u2019s at?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Left, David Simas and proper, Diego Perez<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

He asserts that slowing down is essential to that unwiring. Rather than consistently plugging into our expertise and social media, he suggests:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBe present and just absorb things. We\u2019re not critically thinking about the subjects we browse through. Be okay to say \u2018no,\u2019 and don\u2019t always have an opinion. When you slow down, you allow yourself space and time to fully understand the topic, get the answers from within and just observe.\u201d<\/em> -Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo)<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He continued to share his classes, you recognize\u2026the elemental issues we attempt to educate youngsters however collectively fail at, reminiscent of being type to one another, selecting up after your self, not hitting each other, saying optimistic issues (not detrimental issues) to others and treating the planet properly. Hear hear. These are certainly fundamental and elementary finest practices. He says, \u201cYour first reaction is your past, your intentional reaction is your present.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Lyla June Johnston<\/span><\/strong> (aka Lyla June) additionally graced the Wisdom 2.0 stage this yr. She is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and group organizer of Din\u00e9 (Navajo), Ts\u00e9ts\u00eah\u00e9st\u00e2hese (Cheyenne) and European lineages and I\u2019ve heard her converse (and sing) in a number of others locations, together with the IONS Conference (Institute of Noetic Sciences). We captured a few of her efficiency on video, so be sure you try the abstract video on the backside of the article.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lyla June Johnston<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Her messages concentrate on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, conventional land stewardship practices and therapeutic inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. <\/span>Right after Lyla, Dr. Yuria Celidwen<\/span><\/strong> spoke on the primary stage. She is from Indigenous Nahua and Maya descent, born right into a household of mystics, healers, poets, and explorers from the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. I really like the best way she speaks as a result of it\u2019s poetic and synergistic, largely influenced by her elders\u2019 songs and tales which enthralled her childhood. She says, \u201cThey enhanced my mythic imagination and emotional intuition, which became the fertile soil where the seeds of kindness, play, and wonder dig their roots.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Yuria Celidwen<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In her discuss, she spoke about how her grandparents obtained their data of therapeutic from the earth. Yuria says, \u201cthey listened to the chants of the wind and the gossip of the birds. In the forest and starlight night, she learned about transcendence and contemplative life. She has learned over the years how to transcend her narrow identity and expand into something much more, where she has learned how to care for all life on our planet. It is integral to her ancestors\u2019 teachings.<\/p>\n

\u201cFinding home has been a lifelong journey, so it has been a constant inquiry,\u201d she says. \u201cDreaming is\u2026time without time, where we set ourselves free. In the face of impossibility, we learn that we can fly.\u201d Her slides present how the advantage of indigenous sciences is at all times for the well-being of the planet, not for particular person acquire. It\u2019s at all times concerning the collective acquire.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Yuria Celidwen\u2019s slide<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She additionally spoke concerning the ethics of belonging. Kin relationality is about embracing all of existence. Mother Earth is a nurturer. \u201cEcological belonging,\u201d she says, \u201ctakes Mother Earth into consideration and her ability to thrive. There\u2019s no such thing as a human being flourishing unless Mother Earth flourishes first.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Yuria Celidwen on the main stage<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWe want transcendence, not transactions. We need to bridge and create a sense of belonging for everything on our shared existence. Being participants means having an ethics of belonging for all living things. It\u2019s weaving mystery and inquiry and leave a sense of sacredness.\u201d<\/em> -Dr. Yuria Celidwen<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Rick Doblin,<\/span> <\/strong>who’s most generally known as the founder and govt director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), additionally took middle stage to speak about psychedelics. <\/span>Fostering the psychedelic Renaissance, he joked about his bar mitzvah. He says he was hungry for the following degree expertise at age 13. Forward wind the clock to current day, his son stated to him after his first expertise, \u201cNow I understand why you want to make this a medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dr. Rick Doblin<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rick says, \u201cwe need an evolution of the spirit. Beyond PTSD, people long for a deeper spiritual experience, to quiet the mind and calm the soul.\u201d That longing is definitely displaying up world wide proper now. We must personal our personal stuff \u2013 our traumas, our shadows, our triggers \u2013 all of it.<\/em><\/p>\n

When somebody goes via PTSD, their mind isn\u2019t sorting info usually. When folks have a MDMA expertise, he says, the concern alerts from these reminiscences are diminished. It will increase a connection inside the hippocampus and releases helpful issues like oxytocin. When they\u2019ve performed research on mice, they\u2019ve been capable of see that the MDMA will increase neuroplasticity which in people, could make psychotherapy simpler. Rick says, \u201cThe MDMA brings memories to the surface but in a way that makes them safer and not so traumatic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

This shouldn’t be an extraordinary remedy<\/span> expertise and the classes are lengthy<\/span>. Consider 42 hours or longer of remedy<\/span> with two therapists \u2013 in his case<\/span>, they do the classes with one feminine and one male therapist. They name it The Archeology of Trauma<\/span><\/em>. In their Phase 2 research<\/span>, folks<\/span> obtained higher over time on their very own with out the drug as a result of \u201cthey\u2018ve<\/span> learned<\/span> how to release the trauma<\/span> in their bodies and the effects are durable.\u201d The progress has been staggering when you consider how fast it is being implemented and increasingly accepted.<\/p>\n

The topic of teenagers came up and their overuse of video games<\/span> and social<\/span> media as well as <\/span>how to raise drugs with them. Rick<\/span> asserts that the key<\/span> is \u201cteaching responsible<\/span> use and accountability<\/span>. Teach them that there\u2019s a accountable<\/span> solution to work together<\/span> and have a relationship<\/span> with regardless of the \u2018thing<\/span>\u2018 is, whether its video games<\/span> or a drug. Kids need<\/span> honest<\/span> drug education<\/span>.\u201d They need<\/span> to learn<\/span> things<\/span> in a way that makes them feel<\/span> safe and also how they can navigate it without getting kicked out of their social<\/span> peer group<\/span>. Rick<\/span> reminded us that there\u2019s one factor<\/span> that folks<\/span> concern greater than demise and that\u2019s getting kicked out of a tribe.<\/p>\n

We are forging forward although and acceptance is occurring. Adoption is occurring. And therapeutic is occurring. It doesn\u2019t imply that every one trauma disappears in a single day, however it does imply that we will work to scale back it one step at a time.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe want a world of net zero trauma. It doesn\u2019t mean no trauma. It means we\u2019re not adding to it.\u201d<\/em> -Dr. Rick Doblin\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Dr. Rick Doblin<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Although I didn\u2019t see each session, a favourite was john powell,<\/span><\/strong> who purposely spells his identify with a small j and a small p. He does this as a result of he shares the idea that we must be \u201cpart of the universe, not over it, as capitals signify\u201d. He is an internationally acknowledged skilled within the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy in addition to the Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute on the University of California, Berkeley, a analysis institute that brings collectively students, group advocates, communicators, and policymakers to determine and remove the boundaries to an inclusive, simply, and sustainable society and to create transformative change towards a extra equitable world.<\/p>\n

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john powell on the Wisdom 2.0 stage in April<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

We additionally have been graced by the presence of Rhonda Magee<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0who I am keen on. As a Professor of Law on the University of San Francisco, she has studied mindfulness, its underlying origins in Buddhism, and its potential advantages and purposes on this planet for greater than twenty years. A prolific writer, she attracts on regulation and authorized historical past to weave storytelling, poetry, evaluation and practices into inspiration for altering how we expect, act and reside higher collectively in a quickly altering world. A daring transfer, she obtained up on stage and led us in tune. (see the video under to get a peak of it). It was soul inspiring, genuine and I\u2019d add, enjoyable.<\/p>\n

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Rhonda Magee leads the viewers in tune <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The closing discuss was extra of a fireplace chat between Soren Gordhamer, Jack Kornfield<\/span><\/strong> and the founding father of OpenAI Sam Altman<\/span><\/strong>. Jack and Soren had questions however the motive that the room was packed was as a result of everybody had so many questions on how AI goes to impression our lives and the place ChatGBT is headed. What will it imply for society? How will it disrupt different industries? How will it have an effect on humanity and our trajectory as a species?<\/p>\n

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Soren Gordhamer and Jack Kornfield on the final panel of the day with Sam Altman of OpenAI<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Excited concerning the collective knowledge from the lots for AI, Sam says, \u201cThis is going to be a massive change to society, so we need as many people involved as possible. We need developer cooperation and a framework from humanity about the values people respect and need.\u201d How a lot will it develop into a part of our lives, you surprise? Sam says, \u201cI think AI will just be part of society.\u201d<\/p>\n

Soren requested Sam, \u201cHow do you see the role of identity in your own life? And what\u2019s the role of tech and AI?\u201d Sam says, \u201cAnything that gets you to question is good. It\u2019s interesting to watch people try to understand if AI can have a real identity. I think it\u2019s important to release this and allow people to adapt. I am somewhat worried but we will discover how to integrate this into our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sam Altman, Founder of OpenAI<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

As for the magnitude of this sociological and technological shift, Sam says that he thinks it is going to be \u201cbigger than a technological revolution. It will be closer to a societal revolution. It will happen on a societal level really fast but I think we should also take pride that society has come together to do incredible things in such a short period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

They finally moved onto ChatGBT<\/span><\/strong> for apparent causes. It has exploded and rapidly. You would possibly say that ChatGBT has had a quicker adoption than the rest within the expertise business. Compare it to Instagram and different apps or instruments that took off in a short time. In the dialogue, they addressed the why<\/em>, which led to issues rising as a result of it\u2019s helpful, however I\u2019d argue that\u2019s not at all times the case. ChatGBT can also be surreal, has an awe element and its outerworldly in numerous methods.<\/p>\n

But what about ChatCBT\u2019s capacity to be taught by itself and determine issues out? Sam responded with a query, \u201cWill this be one giant brain in the sky? I think it will be more like the all that contributes to the wisdom in the sky.\u201d He added, \u201cwe will need to move beyond capitalism to handle humanity and where it\u2019s going. As we evolve, we will need to move beyond it.\u201d<\/p>\n

We all appear to agree that humanity must develop a connection to the next consciousness and embody it. Consciousness is already there. The million greenback query is: will AI assist with this in a optimistic manner?<\/p>\n

Jack piped in and stated, \u201cI only appreciate collective wisdom. Let\u2019s learn together on how we shepherd and steward this.\u201d Jack additionally added his personal perspective into staying grounded and tending to your interior life as an entrepreneur. He says, \u201cWe need to get quiet enough to listen deeply to our own wisdom and insights, so we can have a spaciousness and a graciousness to make better decisions.\u201d Hear hear Jack.<\/p>\n

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Jack Kornfield<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Aside from discuss, panels and fireplace chats, there\u2019s experiential time. Many of the audio system additionally went into deeper dive discussions with folks in smaller break-out rooms. And in fact, there\u2019s networking with fascinating folks from world wide, all of whom are all for consciousness, expertise, science, enterprise and spirituality.<\/p>\n

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The principal stage<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Gabor Mate chats with folks outdoors<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lyla June Johnston<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rhonda Magee<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Soren Gordhamer with Rick Doblin<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Wisdom 2.0 staff<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Wisdom 2.0 staff<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The lounge the place folks may sit, community and watch the primary stage walks on display.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A l\u2019il connection time<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Other sitting areas to talk and join<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A breakout dialogue on AI and the place it\u2019s headed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jenee Johnson of Sankofa Therapy<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At our Birds of a Feather dinner dialogue consciousness, weaving in one of the best from science and spirituality.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Watch a Highlight Video right here <\/a>to get a taste for the occasion should you\u2019ve by no means been, in addition to our transient abstract video under from this yr\u2019s occasion. We hope to see you subsequent yr.<\/span><\/p>\n