Accessing Our Sources of Knowing

u-lab 2x: Application Opening this Week, Explore Stories from 2x Teams

u-lab 2x is designed to help teams apply their learning from u-lab 1x to bring about change in their communities and organizations. Participation is no-cost and through application only. This is a four-month, online and offline innovation journey that includes systems mapping, collective sensing, and rapid cycle prototyping to help to bring about system transformation.

u-lab 2x is for teams and runs every year from February to May.

Explore stories from 2x teams here.

Making Music Together:

Generative Sound in Hawai'i

Experimenting with sources of knowing, Edinson Castaño, Antoinette Klatzky and Antonio Moya-Latorre explore a Generative Sound workshop with the community around the Hawai’i leadership forum in Honolulu.

"We were equally convinced that music’s distinct quality — the concatenation of sounds as a form of non-verbal communication and expression — could open up new experiences and raise questions on how social arts can contribute to building teams and forging new leaderships."

Becoming Unfrozen: Seeing, Sensing, and Presencing to Better Respond to Ecological Crises

Glen Cousquer explores theories, practices, and practitioners of ‘interdependence’ to reflect on the interplay between pedagogy and ecology, and how we might transform both in a time of global crisis.

"My hope is that our students do not have to wait till retirement to be fully integrated — and that, through an emphasis on seeing (curiosity), sensing (compassion for self, other, and nature) and presencing (calm courage), we can nurture the wisdom that will allow us to better respond to the planetary crises we face."



Cultivating Emotional Intelligence, Social Awareness and Mindfulness in Youth

Deborah Barrientos explores the second generation of the MindGen talks in Spain, developing emotional intelligence, social awareness and mindfulness in teenagers. 

"We are all doers in the process. We all practice," writes Deborah. "This is the key to equity and paramount for creating both communities and leaders. My teenagers said that they felt my guidance but that I was part of the group too, I wasn’t an outsider delivering content. We were all learning by doing together. We were all co-creating the space."