[WiLT] Facilitating Social Intelligence: A Woman Thing? Learning Event on 16-07-2008

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Facilitating Social Intelligence: A Woman Thing? Learning Event on
16-07-2008

An OGUNTE Learning Lounge session - for Women AND men!

16th July 2008. 6:00pm - 8:30pm - BOOK NOW
http://socialintelligence.eventbrite.com/

An Interactive Workshop in Social Awareness and Social Facility

Recently, popular science writer Daniel Goleman has drawn on social
neuroscience research to propose that social intelligence is made up
of Social Awareness (including empathy, attunement, empathic accuracy,
and social cognition) and Social Facility (including synchrony,
self-presentation, influence, and concern).

How can we best produce a healthy and intelligent community ? Are
women better at facilitating social intelligence? Is it a gender
neutral issue? (And does it matter.). How do you from learn and
collaborate the best with your stakeholders?
The audience will have the opportunity to listen to practitionners'
short interventions and actively take part in experience-based
discussions and challenges.

The session is aimed at social innovators wishing to improve their
commnication mastery when working with various stakeholders, various
audiences, gaining their interest, and collaboration. It is a
valueable workshop for women working in voluntary organisations, but
also in campaigning, networks of all sectors, as well also social
businesses, as well as the fact that when those women do meet members
of other sectors, they accelerate their learning and leadership
skills.

Limited  places, BOOK NOW on http://socialintelligence.eventbrite.com

Where?  the hub | 5 Torrens Street | London | EC1V 1NQ
When? Wednesday 16th July- 6:00pm to 8:30pm
BOOK NOW: http://socialintelligence.eventbrite.com/ (soon on-line)
Contribution workshop and refreshments: £25


Speakers :
* Ruth Churchill Dower (Isaacs Uk - and Early Arts - UK)
* Tommy Hutchinson (I-genius - Equator Media - UK)
* Marilyn Donahue (The Sustainable Education Project - UK- EUROPE)
* Rizwan Tayabali (Urban Survival Project - UK)
* Servane Mouazan (Ogunte UK - BOCA - Brazil)


About Ruth Churchill Dower: Video Weblink from Sheffield :

TOPIC : Motivating confident, individual thinkers through creative
learning environments.

Ruth will reference the Earlyarts network and the mass of female
professionals that it supports in order to take their practice on to
the next level, giving them the creativity and resilience to cope in
the workplace which is often within very regimented environments with
male dominated leadership and management structures - even in early
learning!

'Healthy societies are built around people who can imagine, think
creatively, accept and understand differences by making sense of
themselves in the world, make lateral as well as linear connections,
bring creative solutions to problems, develop ideas and skills, and
are able to express themselves competently and confidently.'
In : Searching for Meaning, by Ruth Churchill Dower and Canterbury
Nursery School and Centre for Children and Families, Bradford.

Ruth Churchill Dower is the Director of Isaacs UK, a creative learning
consultancy with a remit to pioneer learning networks across the
cultural and educational communities. Ruth has published work on the
impacts of arts and culture on learning processes, shared learning
networks, professional development, international research and
evaluation.

http://www.earlyarts.co.uk/ | http://www.isaacsuk.co.uk/


About Tommy Hutchinson (CEO and Founder I-Genius)

Topic: Instinctive intelligence and learning from other cultures.

Tommy Hutchinson is founder & CEO of i-genius - world community of
social entrepreneurs with members in over 90 countries. Recently he
hosted the 1st i-genius World Summit for a new generation of social
entrepreneurs in Thailand, March 2008. Tommy is also director of
social marketing agency, Equator Media Ltd and previously worked in
the City of London for 10 years where his career ranged from being a
aerospace analyst and later, political adviser to NatWest. Tommy is
widely travelled and his great passion is history and culture around
the world.
www.i-genius.org


About Marilyn Donahue (The Sustainable Education Project)

Topic : About the Sustainable Education Project: Learning Through
Doing.

Founded by Marilyn Donahue-Schiller, SEP is a social enterprise based
in South London, helping schools, NGO's, local government and
businesses to develop hands-on projectson sustainability issues,
encouraging all people to take part in environmental audits, and
activities. SEP provides the necessary information, networks, and
encourages partnerships and collaboration. Recently SEP has co-founded
the Say No to Unwanted Bag campaign in East Dulwich and advised on the
NESTA Big Green Challenge.

Marilyn Donahue-Schiller has been running the Sustainable Education
Project for the past 3 years. She has, among others, helped teachers
to develop school eco-clubs, supported NGOs, wrote Southwark Council's
schools' action plan on sustainability. Before moving to London,
Marilyn lived for three years in Europe, working for UNICEF Belgium
and the Czech National Volunteer Centre. In a previous life she
founded and ran a successful design business in San Francisco, and was
a research scientist (PhD equivalent) at the University of California.

Marilyn is a recent Common Purpose graduate, an UnLtd awardee, and an
RSA fellow.

www.sustainableeducationproject.com


About Rizwan Tayabali Urban Survival Project.

Topic: Socialising Knowledge-Transfer & Crowdsourcing Support

"Just because you aren't involved in tech research doesn't mean that
you aren't innovating." R. Tayabali.

Rizwan is a management consultant specialising in Strategy, Business
Transformation, Brand, Customer Experience, Web2.0 and Social
Networking for the UK's Top Retailers. He is also currently developing
a virtual volunteering website that is accessed through social
networks like Facebook and aims to bolster the support system for
inner-city kids.

http://www.urbansurvivalproject.org/