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We’ve got two great wisdom circles coming up in the next two weeks.
We’d love to have you join us for either or both of these! The information and RSVP links are below. Please let me know if you have any questions, or anything you’d like to add to our calendar or next newsletter. In gratitude.
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Upcoming Wisdom Circles
Feb. 14 OWL Global Wisdom Circle: Bonita Banducci
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Global citizens everywhere, supporting a course change for humanity by supporting each other. |
How Changing Roles of Women are Changing the World
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Bonita Banducci — coach, consultant, author, trainer, mentor, and professor — has committed her career to changing the world by changing the way women and men relate to each other in businesses, organizations and communities. She brings four special gifts to conversations about gender. First: a wellspring of genuine caring about the well-being of women and men at work, wherever they may be. Second: well-honed skill at offering opportunities for people to shift the mind-sets through which they see and experience each other — and therefore behave with each other — in the workplace. Third: rare insight into how — and why — workplaces and communities thrive when women are fully empowered as workers and leaders. Fourth: as an activist on gender issues on the global stage, including her involvement with the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, she has deep knowledge, understanding and experience in how changing roles of women are changing the world today. |
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In 2014 the Silicon Valley Business Journal honored Bonita as one of the 100 Silcon Valley Women of Influence.
Bonita teaches Gender and Engineering, a Core curriculum course, for the School of Engineering Graduate Program at Santa Clara University. She is a founding Board member of the Santa Clara University Global Women’s Leadership Network, first sponsored by the Leavey School of Business, and a faculty member and coach for the Women Leaders for the World Program. She offers coaching, assessment and workshops to business, non-profit, and educational organizations through her firm, Banducci Consulting.
Bonita is one of the founding members of the OWL community.
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Sunday, February 14, 2016, 9:00 – 10:30 AM Pacific Time.
You can find your corresponding local time at Time and Date.
If you’d like to participate in the videoconference, please RSVP below and we’ll get back to you with details!
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February 21: 7th Interfaith Wisdom Circle
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Opening to spiritual wisdom — a global video conference circle of people who seek to share the sacred and serve the world. |
Remembering Spiritual Guides Who Walked With Us Along the Way
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Professor Dr. Ibrahim Farajaje, a dear friend and spiritual mentor to many people of diverse faiths, races, and backgrounds in the Bay Area and around the world, left this world on February 8, after a massive heart attack. Those of us who had the blessing of knowing him are in mourning. In Ibrahim’s honor, the theme of this month’s Interfaith Wisdom Circle is remembering our spiritual guides who walked with us along the way. Rev. Charles Gibbs will moderate the conversation. |
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Ibrahim Baba was a pioneer in building bridges across bountaries that usually separate people. Deeply learned in Islam and Sufism, in Judaism and Jewish mysticism, in Christianity and Buddhism, fluent in 16 lauguages, equally at home in Istanbul, Turkey and Berkeley, California, he travelled the world for decades, leading studies, producing videos, and delivering papers, on the interrelatedness of the world’s spiritual traditions as they play out through the rich diversity of the world’s cultural contexts. In recent years he was Provost and Professor of Islamic Studies at Star King School of the Ministry, whose mission is “is to educate people for Unitarian Universalist ministry and for progressive religious leadership in society.”
We’ll begin the circle by viewing Ibrahim Baba’s opening sermon at Star King’s Symposium 2012.
You can preview the part we’re discussing — the first 8 minutes 38 seconds — here:
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Sunday, February 21, 2016, 9:00 – 10:30 AM Pacific Time.
You can find your corresponding local time at Time and Date.
To participate in the videoconference, please RSVP and we’ll get back to you with details! We’re limiting the circle this month to 25 RSVPs.
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