| Facilitating Social Intelligence: A Woman Thing? | Learning Event | 16-07-2008 |
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 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? Limited places, BOOK NOW on http://socialintelligence.eventbrite.com Ruth Churchill Dower (Isaacs Uk – and Early Arts - UK) *** About Ruth Churchill Dower: Video Weblink from Sheffield : TOPIC : Motivating confident, individual thinkers through creative learning environments. ‘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.’ 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.*** 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 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. www.sustainableeducationproject.com *** About Rizwan Tayabali Urban Survival Project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Where? the hub | 5 Torrens Street | London | EC1V 1NQ *** People who attended the previous Oguntê Learning Lounges said: It was a great event, really helpful and positive." Araceli Camargo-Kilpatrick - MD of Nuba Star.
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