The gathering will be facilitated by N. José Acevedo and Suzanne Hawkins from the Rockwood Leadership Institute.
Suzanne Hawkes has been focused on strengthening the voice of civil society organizations in Canada and overseas for over fifteen years. As a facilitator, workshop leader, coach and campaign consultant, she has worked with hundreds of non-profit organizations in that time. Suzanne is driven by a passion for supporting the inherent power, skills and wisdom in social change leaders and organizations. She is a volunteer trainer with the Women’s Campaign School, and the co-founder of Organizing for Change, a movement-level environmental initiative focused on building public and political salience in British Columbia. Suzanne is a principal with Convergence Strategies, and sits on the Board of Smart Growth BC and three modern dance companies. She lives with her partner and their two boys in Vancouver, Canada.
N. José Acevedo is president of New World Consulting and an expert in facilitating the development of leadership skills and the creation of high-performing organizations. José has spent the last 25 years working with a broad range of organizations to help them become higher-performing teams that function innovatively in pursuit of specific mission-critical results. José is currently the lead trainer for The CORO Immigrant Civic Leadership Program. José has also designed and taught special programs on team learning skills, communicating for action and cultural change, both in English and Spanish, for organizations throughout the world. José spent three years as an attorney for a large union in New York City. He also spent two years on the staff of Landmark Education, a training group specializing in personal effectiveness. He received his BA from The City College of New York, and his JD from New York University.
Suzanne and José will be joined by Staci Haines, the developer of Generative Somatics and the Somatics and Trauma courses. Somatics is an integral approach to change looking at how we “embody” what it is we practice. Her work emerges from the Somatics tradition of Richard Strozzi Heckler integrating Polarity Therapy, Gestalt, Vipassana meditation and Aikido. Staci integrates her extensive study in personal and social change, trauma and resilience and Neuro-Linguistic Programming into this unique and powerful work. She is a senior teacher in the field of Somatics and a core organizer of the Somatics and Social Justice National Collaborative . She has been working and teaching in the field of Somatics for the last 15 years. Staci is also a founder of generation FIVE. |
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