Grounding in Vision and Purpose - Transformative Leadership in a Time of Rapid Change

Professor Shawna Wakefield will facilitate Grounding in Vision and Purpose. This experiential workshop will be a welcoming space for students to contemplate their vision and purpose, offering two embodied practices for returning to center as a core ingredient for transformative leadership. Participants will get the most of this experience if they are able to attend all three sessions, but it is not required.

Workshop Overview:
Light lunch served: 12:30pm-1pm
Session begins: 1pm-2pm

Presenter Bio:
Shawna is a professor, facilitator, consultant and advocate who has worked on gender, racial and economic justice for over 20 years. She accompanies social justice leaders and their organizations to develop capacities for feminist leadership and organizational cultures of care, justice, equity and inclusion. She was Oxfam International’s Senior Gender Justice Lead, collectively leading organizational strategy, learning, advocacy /campaigns, humanitarian, organizational culture and accountability initiatives on women’s rights. She was Oxfam’s Regional Gender Advisor in East Asia, Gender Researcher with the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit in Kabul and Program Specialist with UN Development Fund for Women and organized with immigrants and refugees in the US.

Presenter's Bio link:
https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/communities-connections/faculty/shawna-wakefield

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Co-hosted with: SIPA Office of Student Affairs, SIPA DEICE Committee

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