Join Us!
This is a virtual conference! You can attend from wherever you are.
Over two days of interactive workshops and dynamic speakers, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow leaders, facilitators and teachers for a nuanced exploration of power in leadership and the collective experience.
Schedule
Friday, October 18th & Saturday, October 19th
Please note: All times are listed in Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Click on the title of the session to see the description and speakers.
On the day of the conference, the zoom link for each session can be found in the session's description. You will need a password to access the sessions which will be emailed to those who have registered at least 3 days before the first day of the conference.
Time | All - Mainstage | DEIB | DEIB-2 | General | Leadership | Leadership-2 |
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9:30 am | Plenary: A Special Celebration
Dr. Amanda Aguilera
Executive Director, Right Use of Power Institute
Dr. Cedar Barstow
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10:45 am | 15 min. Break | |||||
11:00 am | Internalized Capitalism: The Power of Getting Free
Laura Hartley
Life & Leadership Coach, Public Love Enterprises
| Developing the Body of a Leader: Somatics for Business
Pavini Moray
Somatic Coach & Author
| What would our ancestors say? Applying ancestral wisdom and power-sharing principles to a community art project
Sara Farooqi
Facilitator & Principal, Interdependence Lab
Shiva Roofeh
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12:15 pm | 30 min Break | |||||
12:45 pm | Keynote: (Re)Rooting Power as a Collective Endeavor
Dr. Loren Intolubbe-Chmil
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1:30 pm | ||||||
2:00 pm | 15 min. Break | |||||
2:15 pm | Healing the Hidden Scars: Understanding Internalized Oppression
Nora Alwah
Trainer and Coach, n'betweener
| From the Personal to the Universal: Many Windows into Universal Power
Maya Shaw Gale
Life & Leadership Coach, Creative Edge Coaching
| Sourced Leadership & Culture Building
Carolyn Reilly
Development Director, Springhouse
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3:30 pm | 15 min Break | |||||
3:45 pm |
Time | All - Mainstage | DEIB | General | General - 2 | Leadership | Leadership-2 |
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9:30 am | Plenary: Offers & Needs Market
Crystal Arnold
Director of Education, Post Growth Institute
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10:45 am | 15 min. Break | |||||
11:00 am | Ethical practice is a Collective Responsibility
Phoebe Garland
Course Leader, The Insitute for Relational Harmony Studies
Katie Sarra
Director of Training, The Institute for Relational Harmony Studies
| Parenting and Power
Karina Scott
Trainer and Coach, Freedom Inside: For Children, Parents, and Teachers
| Bible and Black Faith Community: An Ethical Conversation
Margaret Conley
Clinical Social Worker
| Caring for Conflict without Hierarchy
Lydia Hooper
Facilitator and Coach
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12:15 pm | 30 min. Break | |||||
12:45 pm | Keynote: It’s up to us: The purpose of power
Dr. Sherri Taylor
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1:30 pm | ||||||
2:00 pm | 15 min. Break | |||||
2:15 pm | Fractal Care for Interdependent Harm Reduction
Cee Wimmer
Dau Windwater
| The Power of Asking For What We Want
Jen Smith
| Authentic Leadership in the Moments that Matter
Susan Skjei
President, Sane Systems
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3:30 pm | 15 min. Break | |||||
3:45 pm |
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Sherri Taylor
Sherri Taylor, Psy.D. is a contemplative, teacher, end of life doula, consultant, and facilitator. She completed her undergraduate education in Feminist Studies at Stanford University and earned her master’s and doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology from the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California.
Her scholarship and research interests include contemplative leadership, dreamwork, the intergenerational transmission of benevolence and resilience, and the somatics of belonging and unbelonging. She is also the guardian of the soulstudiolab and Black Womxn’s Dream Lab.
The soulstudiolab offers relevant and meaningful group trainings, playshops, and workshops for community and professional audiences that integrate innovative approaches and practices from the contemplative traditions, expressive arts, and psychology, with a special focus on the psycho-spiritual importance of creativity and embodiment to inspire personal growth, interpersonal understanding, and social justice.
Dr. Loren Intolubbe-Chmil
Loren Intolubbe-Chmil, Ph.D. (she/her) is an educator and activist with over thirty years of experience in teaching and diverse educational contexts. Loren’s deepest interests encompass representative stakeholder engagement, education for change, and human rights-based decision-making. Loren’s work in the world is significantly shaped as a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma as well as the experience of completing K-12 education in multiple and divergent locations as the child of a parent in the U.S. military. As a reflection of commitment to a world that embodies dignity, belongingness, justice, curiosity, and interdependence, Loren has taught several courses – including study abroad programs in Nepal and southern Africa – and led a variety of workshops and trainings with those collective values at the center.
Loren has a BA in Sociology with a Minor in Women’s Studies from Mary Baldwin University, and earned an M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education at the University of Virginia. Loren is currently a Teaching Assistant Professor and Leadership Instructor in the Student Academic Success Center at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and is co-founder and partner of the educational consulting firm CoreCollaborative International.
CoreCollaborative International: https://corecollaborative.com/
Loren LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/loren-intolubbe-chmil-ph-d-98571939/
The Benefits of Sponsorship
At the Right Use of Power Institute (RUPI), we’ve served local and international communities for over ten years to help increase power consciousness and guide the uses of power towards ethical and equitable ends. We believe changing how we understand and use power is an urgent and necessary shift in the world. And, as a small nonprofit we are dependent on donor funds to further our mission.
With over 2,000 trainees and Right Use of Power facilitators in 19 countries, the conference will be well attended. Sponsorships are only $1000 and you get the following benefits:
- Your logo and/or organization name included in all promotional materials before, during and after the conference. (The sooner you sponsor the sooner you can be included in pre-conference promotions!)
- Get 2 VIP Access Tickets to the conference which includes:
- Extended Access to 2024 AND 2022 Conference Recordings
- A copy of two digital RUP Books
- Be the first to get the new book by Dr. Aguilera! We will put you on the pre-order list.
- Swag Store Gift Certificate