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Featuring keynotes by Jane Goodall, author of The Book of Hope
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November 4–7, 2021
November 4–7, 2021
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Welcome to the Activating Hope Summit
A once-in-a-generation online gathering aimed at sparking hope around the globe
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Welcome to the Activating Hope Summit
A once-in-a-generation online gathering aimed at sparking hope around the globe
This event begins in:
The Amazing Human Intellect
Opening Invocation
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall, PhD, DBE, is an ethologist and environmentalist, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, and a UN Messenger of Peace. Her research into the lives of wild chimpanzees of Gombe, Tanzania, began in 1960 and continues today. She has redefined species conservation to include people and the environment, and empowers young people of all ages to make a positive difference in their world through Roots & Shoots. Her brand-new book—a New York Times bestseller, The Book of Hope—is available now!
Learn more at janegoodall.global and rootsandshoots.global.
Corrina Gould
Corrina Gould is the Tribal Chair for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan/Ohlone. She was born and raised in Oakland, CA, the territory of Huchuin. She is an activist that has worked on preserving and protecting the ancient burial sites of her ancestors in the Bay Area for decades. She is the Co-founder and a Lead Organizer for Indian People Organizing for Change, a small Native run grassroots organization and co-founder of the Sogorea Te Land Trust, an urban Indigenous women’s community organization working to return and to Indigenous stewardship in San Francisco’s East Bay.
Ben McBride
Ben McBride, spiritual leader and longtime activist for peace and justice, is an expert at fostering belonging and serves as a national leader in reconstructing public safety systems and preventing gun violence. He has launched the Empower Initiative and the Fostering Belonging Initiative and served as codirector of Faith in Action California.
Workshop #1
What’s Your Story?: Finding Our Way Back to Hope
Please have a pen and paper on hand for this workshop.
Drawing from their new interactive book, What’s Your Story?: A Journal for Everyday Evolution, coauthors Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond create a powerful space for introspection, truth telling, and generating hope in this time of crisis and transformation. Join them for a deep dive into the relationship between hope, the amazing human intellect, and the stories we tell about ourselves, our communities, the earth, and our future. Guided by Jane’s four reasons for hope—with a focus on the capacity of the mind to rewrite the patterns of our lives—Rebecca and Lily will share the What’s Your Story? method, along with a series of writing prompts, including time to write, reflect, and integrate.
Session Highlights
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The power of the intellect to write the stories that shape our lives -
The ability to use that power to engage the promise and possibility of hope
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The potential for healing that is unleashed through the practice of writing new stories for our personal and collective futures
Rebecca Walker
Rebecca Walker (she/her) has contributed to the global conversation about race, gender, power, and the evolution of the human family for three decades. Since graduating from Yale, she has authored and edited seven bestselling books; written, developed, and produced film and television projects with Warner Brothers, NBCUniversal, Amazon, HBO, and Paramount; and spoken at over 400 universities and corporate campuses internationally, including Harvard.
Lily Diamond
Lily Diamond (she/her) is a wellness editor, writer, and activist harnessing the power of digital media to democratize wellness and empower women through storytelling, technology, and revolutionary acts of self-care within our earth and human communities. Her work is informed by two decades of study, certification, and international teaching in the art and practice of meditation, yoga, and psychosomatic therapies.
Workshop #2
Hope as Integration: The 9 Domains
Join Dr. Dan Siegel as he dives into the science and intellectual reasoning for integration and hope. Dan will lead participants through a movement practice including the nine domains of integration. In doing so, we may decrease stress, improve the immune system’s capacity to fight infection, improve cardiovascular function, decrease inflammation, and slow the aging process to help us move to a hopeful mindset and move to action.
Session Highlights
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Discover the importance of integrating the human intellect with the body
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Experience a movement practice through the nine domains of integration
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Move from a conceptual understanding to an embodied way of being
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Integrate the processing of information with the head, the heart, and the gut
Dan Siegel
Dan Siegel, MD, is a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the founding codirector of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA. He is also the executive director of the Mindsight Institute, which focuses on the development of mindsight and teaches insight, empathy, and integration. He has published extensively for both the professional and lay audiences and has five New York Times bestsellers.
Beacons of Hope
Your Brain on Hope
A scientific exploration of the role our brain plays in creating and maintaining hope in our everyday lives.
Session Highlights
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Explore how intellect and spirituality go together in our brain
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Integrate daily experiences of awe and hope in the midst of suffering
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Understand the importance of keeping hope at the front of our minds
Rachel Neumann
Rachel Neumann (she/they) is a nationally published writer, editor, and meditation teacher whose work focuses on bringing more beauty, joy, and justice into the world. She is the author of four books and was the primary collaborative writer for Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. Rachel is a partner, chief strategy officer, and senior literary agent at Idea Architects, focusing on developing culture-shifting narrative nonfiction. Rachel grew up on the Salmon River (Karuk territory) and currently lives in the Bay Area on Xučyun, the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo Ohlone.
Dacher Keltner
Dacher Keltner, PhD, is the founding director of the Greater Good Science Center and a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Dacher is the host of the Greater Good Science Center’s award-winning podcast, The Science of Happiness.
Lisa
Miller
Lisa Miller, PhD, is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is the founder and director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology.
Amishi Jha
Amishi Jha, PhD, is director of Contemplative Neuroscience and professor of psychology at the University of Miami. She leads research on the neural bases of attention and the effects of mindfulness-based training programs on cognition, emotion, resilience, and performance in education, elite sports, and corporate, first-responder, and military contexts.
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Wonderful, useful presentations! I am beginning to see that it’s a privilege to live in these tumultuous times of awakening!
What was most hopeful to me was Lisa Miller’s concrete sugestion, echoed by others, of going out of the house and reaching out to others. Helping. Loving neighbor (perhaps even stranger and enemy) as self. Developmental depression as inner signal and opportunity was extremely helpful to hear. Thanks to all.
Thank you, Lisa, for stating that helping “a neighbor” is the best way to activate the Awakened Brain. It has long served the Recovery Community and every spiritual community I have had the privilege of being a part of. Just doing something helpful for another human being, an animal or the natural world helps us heal ourselves.
Thank you, Sounds True, for helping so many of your “neighbors” with your ongoing programs.
Love it ❤️ brilliant brothers and sisters! Great minds united with each other, and our Matriarch of Enduring Hope, Sweet Jane!
What I learned today reminded me of words written by Erich Fromm in his book The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness in the Epilogue: On the Ambiguity of Hope – ” The attitude of the majority is neither that of faith nor that of despair, but, unfortunately , that of complete indifference to the future of man. With those who are not entirely indifferent, the attitude is that of “optimism” or of “pessimism”. The optimists are the believers in the dogma of the continuous march of “progress.” They are accustomed to identifying human achievement with technical achievement, human freedom with freedom from direct coercion and the consumer’s freedom to choose between many allegedly different commodities.”
I don’t think that being an optimist means one has to believe in the March of progress according to those terms. Rather one can understand that we have within us the potential to remember our connection and unity with all of life and find new ways of living and being on the planet that don’t destroy parts of it in order to fulfill an emptiness that cannot be fulfilled by the consumption of more goods.
I think that Roots and Shoots is such a brilliant program to foster change and so glad that it is in over 60 countries. It is this kind of program that gives me hope for our future. So grounded and practical to build a better planet. I feel our educational curriculum in American public schools needs a complete overhaul and this kind of program should be integrated in every school.
I hope Dr Goodall lives a very long life to see that happen.
Sounds true, you have done it again – what an amazing beginning. All were phenomenal but I especially connected with Lisa Miller saying depression is a built in coming of age and in another sentence something like it’s a break through to something deeper. Thereby giving positive to something I had always though negative. Much much gratitude divine one
I took away many wonderful nuggets, but Loved hearing that the capacity of Awe has deep and far reaching positive outcomes that benefit All Beings.
Sounds True, you are truly a treasure. Thank you for once again sharing such wisdom, it is greatly appreciated. Hope is something that has been in short supply in my world. Nothing “surprised” me, but mostly everything inspired me. The only suggestion I offer for today, was that the piano music behind Jane Goodall, was distracting. I look forward to the rest of the summit!
What a treat this day has been for me, starting with the invocation, listening to and feeling Jane Goodall’s kindness and then wrapping it up with Dan Siegel’s wonderful practice.
Yes, you all have let me feel more hopeful and I will surely do my best to carry it further and ripple it out.
Thank you, thank you, thank you 🧡🙏
Blessings to you, Dr. Jane; and grateful again to you, Dan, for making the complicated understandable & the movements doable!!
Lovely. Each session, right on. I didn’t know that Dan Siegel integrated Qi gong, loved it.
Thank you.
Thank you Rebecca and Lily for a very beautiful, heartfelt workshop! Moving and inspiring. It even felt as if we were in the same ‘room’, sharing (heart)space. 🙏❤
I appreciated Jane and all presenters in this Day 1 series. You helped me have so many more ways to think about and activate hope in my life.
Thank you for bringing this to us. I marked my calendar and signed up just to watch Dr Goodall. She speaks of mind and heart being connected, and she truly has mastered it. The moment she appears I see her compassion in her eyes and feel it. She is without airs. So rare.
Inspired and hopeful.
True harmony cannot be achieved until we recognize the importance of our “belongingness”. How our interpersonal thoughts, feelings and actions, along with our connectivity to our family, friends and nature, can give us hope, that together we can create a better future for our selves and the next generations. Thank you!
Interpersonal neurobiology . . . Shortly after those words jumped out at me, I realized that I should have known about them long ago, but I did not until now. Yet, I have known the concept of the meaning and importance of those words for many years.
The notion that the human being is one with the planet. We are a unity and separateness is an potentially fatal illusion,
We are magnificently made! If only we could remember this fact!a
In my ongoing battle with depression and the hunger for a meaningful life, everybody’s words today have given me HOPE! Thank-you!
It is a very uplifting first day of the Summit on Hope! informational, integrative. So clear everything what is shared and discussed about by all this great scientists. What a broad and divers presentations. I am looking forward to day 2. Thank you so much of making it happen and make this able to follow it for free.
I am enjoying how Activating Hope is beginning with us as a person in this intraconnected world. As we guide ourselves, become present and mindful and connect with the world around us, we become more hopeful. I am grateful for all the speakers and am looking forward to incorporating what I have learned today into my daily life and work. I am enjoying the information on mindfulness and am excited to find and share Wonder.
Is anyone else having trouble viewing, “What’s Your Story” ? All the others are working fine for me, but that one pauses itself as soon as I try to play it.
Hope as a way to motivate us into action towards our common goals.
By our intra-connectedness mwe are integrated with our earthiness.
Thanks Dr. Siegel!
What surprised me was that there is not only a growing body of science on the topic of hope, awe, awakened brain, integration for health but also such a commitment to keep growing it and making the understanding more acceptable and accessible. Thank you
I really like how science is looking at our natural environment as a source of inspiration when analysing how we are all connected. From the animals who have individual personalities, to the trees and their life source to all their surrounding environment and beyond. Loved these lectures!
An excellent talk,loved the concept of shifting the attention focus outwards to the neighbour to create positive hope through altruistic acts.in relation to hope is it not an extension of eros life force in the true Freudian sense(not limited to sexual drive but whole life force)-this would account for,regardless for faith belief/no belief qe all have the capacity for hope?also hope appears to be similar to neitzche s approach to being authentic in respect to the individuality of the self from the herd in current social society of pessimistic litigious society. Thank you most enjoyable
I’ve very very grateful for what Dan Siegel learned us about intra connectedness and MWE!! And THE beautiful exercises!!! That’s Love!! Thanks with all my heart to him! Gerrie
I really enjoyed the movement connection and the message given by Dan Siegal. All of the speakers today really complimented one another in their own framework of how to connect with oneself, one another, the planet, and to gain a real sense of self-awareness for reducing stress and building our capacity to hope. Thank you.
I have not been able to access sound. I can see people speaking but not a word to be heard. Very disappointing.
This summit is restoring my hope that awareness of mind, body, spirit connection can be the healing power that unites universal humanity, empathy and compassion.
So interesting and beautiful conferences! THANKS 😊
On myside, I found that is very important to shift from creative thinking and sharing to give hope.
I found it very helpful to use my breath in coordination with Dan Siegel’s body movements. Very powerful and beautiful. Thank you Dan.
I loved Jané’ s Goodall’s inspiring and thought provoking and heart opening speech.It’s such a shame that it didn’t have any captions . I was surprised that the last 4 speakers had no captions either. I hoped that my deaf daughter will be able to watch it all too.
I feel the same way- I was looking for close captions so my mother could follow it. It excludes a large audience. If there is a way to pull up closed captioning please let us know. thanks
Hi, I just viewed it very late in the evening. I had started it earlier and there were no captions, but there are now! Someone must have heard and responded!
Hi, I just viewed it very late in the evening. I had started it earlier and there were no captions, but there are now! Someone must have heard and responded!
An illuminating discussion. It was a powerful reminder of my own power in shifting perceived reality from doom to creative thinking possibilities. Awe ..ahhhh!
thank you so much for your messages of hope, so far it has been very inspiring!
the piano “music” behind Jane Goodall is an example of sound pollution-just another kind of pollution in our environment and totally unnecessary. Is it an attempt to sweeten the bad news? Sentimentality is not the way to underline a message of HOPE
Jane’s frank introduction, moves into hope, and Dan expounds integration…perfect progression.
Jane Goodall,
I just have to say I love your gentleness, your strength, your passion, your commitment. If there were more of you, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are today. Thank you for years of enlightenment.
If I view another open tab or scroll off the video it stops playing. Any ideas how to fix t his?
I found this frustrating as well. I hope it can be fixed. Although it forces attentiveness rather than multitasking, lol
Agreed. The piano beneath Jane’s talk is distracting.
agreed. she doesn’t need background accompaniment. I just wanted to hear her words.
I didn’t her any background music… hmmm?
I did not notice any background music… hmmm?
There was no music while Jane was speaking on my computer. Sorry you were experiencing the distraction.
Hello! How are you? I have not been able to open the videos, they do not load, and my internet works very well at this moment, it starts to load and they stay stopped, could you please help me? I don’t want to miss it.
Thanks!
Thank you for this beautiful talk Jane Goodall.
Wonder if we could have access to the transcript of this talk for better comprehension?
I had the same thought!
I have been surprised that times were not put on Thankgoodness I tried jane Goodall’s… being in Sydney Australia I would have been disappointed if I missed her talk
I am glad they were pre-recorded. I was able to see them all.
Please have closed captioning on every talk! Jane Goodall’s talk and the conversation about Your Brain on Hope are not accessible for people with hearing loss. This is a wonderful summit. We need to be able to participate fully too! It’s utterly disappointing not to be able to know Jane’s message!
Hi, I just viewed Jane’s talk very late in the evening. I had started it earlier and there were no captions, but there are now! Someone must have heard and responded!
Who on earth came up with the fatal idea to put these endless piano tunes under soft spoken Dr Godall’s talk?! It’s absurd! If English is not your mother tongue, you listen with deep concentration, not to miss a single word of her marvelous and important speech. It really does NOT need piano bar tunes to enhance it. This banal piano playing instead is utterly disturbing. Can you please eliminate it and have Dr. Godall’s voice – and her voice alone – fill the air. Thank you for this wonderful program! Though I do hope the piano player gets a rests during the other speeches…
Right spelling is of course Dr Goodall. – Another aspect to enhance my critic: I see it as a lack of respect to add these disturbing piano tunes to her speech. She is a scientist, not a feel good guru who needs that sort of thing!
Please relax.
You said it well! Such an amazing person – we all wanted to hear every word. Music marred the experience.
I focused on her talk without noticing any background music!
Indeed, Dagmar, the utterly inappropriate tinkling underlying her speech is so-o-o insulting -as if her speech needs to be ‘livened up’ to entertain us. Musical drivel has become part and parcel of just about all
narratives these days -even accompanying the most disturbing news items. Seems those in charge of such things are under the impression that words are just not enough and we need inane musical noise to hold our attention. Like you, I hope it’s not going to be part and parcel of the other talks
Thank you so much for providing the opportunity to hear these inspiring people supporting Dr. Jane Goodall’s call to action to work together and activate HOPE. I firmly believe that we can and will have success because of this summit. Thank you.
Loving the speakers and loving the topics, but the schedule doesn’t have times.. just dates… am I missing something? Hmmmmmm
Ditto!
I believe they’re recorded so you can watch them at your convenience on the date given.
the Davos crowd getting enthusiastic