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Arawana Hayashi
The personal connection with Arawana was first made in the summer of 2006 where she delivered Embodied Presencing Practice (EPP) in Otto Scharmer's workshop on ‘Presencing’ in Nova Scotia. Since then, we have furthered the connection through workshops and visiting Arawana in NY.
Beyond being a good teacher, it is Arawana’s authenticity and her embodiment of gentleness and compassion that is most inspirational. We are delighted she wishes to be involved with our work, happy to support it and to ‘contribute in whatever way' to the projects we choose to undertake.
Arawana is a dancer,
choreographer, and movement teacher with roots in Asian and Western
arts. She began her dance training in classical ballet, culminating in
studies with Nina Fonaroff in New York, and later trained at the Merce
Cunningham Studio….She was on the faculty of the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts School, the Massachusetts College of Art, and was Co-Director of
the Dance Program of Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She is a
student of Suenobu Togi, formerly of the Japanese Imperial Household
Agency Music Department in Tokyo and is one of the foremost performers
of bugaku today. Throughout her career she has been involved in
interdisciplinary, ensemble improvisation. She has been on the Creative
Process faculty of ALIA’s Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership
in Halifax, Nova Scotia since 2000 where has presented programs with
Peter Senge, Peter Block, Bill Joiner, Julio Olalla, Mark Gerzon and
Michael Jones'
In 1974, Arawana began studying and practicing Tibetan Buddhism with the Venerable Chogyam Trungpa has been named an acharya (senior teacher) in the Shambhala Buddhist organization by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. She was Teacher in Residence at Karme Choling Meditation Center in Vermont and remains on the teaching staff of the Mukpo Institute, a residential study and practice program at Karme Choling. She teaches courses on Buddhism, Shambhala Art and Shambhala Training, a secular meditation program for developing the human potential for awakened confidence.
Arawana is a co-founder of the Presencing Institute where she is currently developing Social Presencing Theater.’
http://www.arawanahayashi.com/
Napier Collyns
Napier understands how authentically creative people operate, how
free-flowing and meandering conversations work to create real value. He
has the capacity of noticing what is most relevant, being sensitized to
information from the storm
circumnavigating the globe, weaving new connections between people,
emerging projects and new ideas.
He spent his career with oil
giant Royal Dutch Shell where he was brought in as a senior member of
the original group which created the modern discipline of scenario
planning with its leader Pierre Wack. In a world of jostling and
erstwhile stars, Napier
takes the 'background' role of a skilled theatre director, operating
behind the scenes.
We originally met in 2007 in London, co-initiating a new global
business. We now meet whenever the opportunity presents itself, either
at my home, at Napier's or in Oxford, where he is an Associate Fellow at
Green Templeton College.
In respect of his remarkable personal network, within the group GBN
he is often jokingly referred to as “Global Buddies of Napier”. A
network connected only by open and generous exchanges of ideas,
"out-of-the-box" thinking, and ruthless curiosity.
We make Napier think, ....and he informs our creativity which
we then share with our partners and clients, helping them to tap into
otherwise unavailable resources that unlike oil, need never run out.
http://www.gbn.com/
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