Conference for Global Transformation
Poster Videos YouTube Playlist
Our posters this year can be viewed on YouTube. Embedded in the name of each poster video listed below is a link to each YouTube video.
| # | Presenter & Title | Summary |
| 1 | Anna Sun Choi – Will You Sing For Us? | In the realm of singing, what if you dared to suck? How might your voice be unleashed? Enjoy this journey writing and recording a song. |
| 2 | Charles Crawshaw and Blessing Joshua – World Peace As the “Fabric of Society” – No Matter Where You Are! | Playing with Public Persona and Living as a Created Self, we capture responses from our tag game “World Peace Now,” a game of universal collaboration! |
| 3 | Dan Proud and Don Roden – Using the Arts to Help Veterans Heal From the Trauma of Their Service | We all have an artistic expression inside of us. We will show how using woodturning and music can help veterans heal through the arts. |
| 4 | David Hakan – Carbon Footprint Eating | Learn how to lower your carbon footprint by the foods you choose. Find out how to get the complete protein you need from plant-based sources. |
| 5 | Diana Page Jordan and Enrico Pozzo – From Trauma to Thriving | Looking at the universality of traumatic experiences and how we deal with them, discovering we’re the source of our continued suffering, something new becomes possible. |
| 6 | Diane Warren and Melanie Trent – Climate Restoration – Right Now! | What is climate restoration and greenhouse gas removal? The good news is we are already on the path to restoring it. What can we do? |
| 7 | Dondon Bales – Creating a World of Belonging Through Purposeful Travel | A 15-month trip around the world and an invitation to discover how purposeful travel could lead to creating a world of belonging. |
| 8 | Eloise Bruce and David Keller – What Poetry can Teach us About Belonging | An inquiry into Brian Regnier’s writing in Landmark Insights about listening creating speaking. Explore poetry’s access through the heart rather than the head. |
| 9 | Erin Meyer – Neurodiversity: A Parallel Life in a Three-Dimensional Spectrum | An interview with people who learned as adults that they have always been neurodiverse. |
| 10 | Fay Abrams – Feel to Heal: My Journey from Numb | I experienced being fully human and belonging wherever I am when I began to feel all of my feelings, especially grief |
| 11 | Franziska Trauttmansdorff – Going Once, Going Twice, Gone | A conservation photographer’s journey to encourage wildlife protection through beauty. As we discover what’s in our neighborhood, we become more inclined to protect it. |
| 12 | Georgie Paikea and Kathryn Sears – Nō Whea Au? Where I am From is Where I Belong | Create your peheha, an introduction that establishes identity and heritage. This is how New Zealanders share where we belong and how we are connected. |
| 13 | Ginette Goulet – What Not To Wear, 20 Years Later and how It can Create a World of Belonging | What we know about the fashion industry today and its impact on the environment. |
| 14 | Irene Graham and Karen Nair – A Scot and a Canadian Walk into a College in Bangladesh: A Week of Creating Belonging | What happens when two not-so-young-anymore women are invited to participate in an international conference on education in the north of Bangladesh? Will they ever belong? |
| 15 | Jacqueline Scully – Three World Religions Come Together | An interview with a priest, a rabbi, and an imam. |
| 16 | Janet Craven – Golf Programs in Schools: Making the Outside “In” | Sharing “Golf Programs in Schools” mission: to introduce students to valuable life lessons and lifelong benefits of golf, bring families together, and preserve community assets. |
| 17 | Jessica Leigh Graves – Leadership, Language, and Belonging | Deaf leaders sharing the work of transformation created in American Sign Language, bringing a new realm of possibility to the hearing. |
| 18 | John Hewson and Lori Watkins – Voice and Drum (Temporarily Unavailable) | The Coast Salish people, living on Canada’s West Coast for thousands of years, in harmony with nature, are healing the past and forgiving all. |
| 19 | Joy Kuebler – Creating a World of Belonging: Play as Empowerment | Integrating team building and play into the traditional world of architecture and design builds trust, elevates community perspectives, and empowers both communities and designers. |
| 20 | June Lucarotti – Awaken Peace, all Writers are Heard | An inquiry around achieving peace through storytelling. |
| 21 | Karen Junker – Restorative Practices: Building Belonging in K-12 Classrooms | Restorative practices are an effective alternative to traditional school discipline; aiming to build classroom community, leverage belonging to intervene where students and teachers need resourcing. |
| 22 | Karen Nair and Irene Graham – World Academy for the Future of Women, Bangladesh: Three Years Later | The World Academy for the Future of Women, in Bangladesh from 2018 to 2020, has caused women leaders who are “bringing it” to their communities! |
| 23 | Kathryn Sears – Creative Expression of “Where I am From is Where I Belong” | Using mixed-media fabric art, I created my visual representation of my pepeha, how I introduce myself in Māori, an expression of where I belong. |
| 24 | Kay Keeler and Lori Watkins – A Penny for Your Thoughts | Last summer, I opened a “Listening Cafe” at the local farmer’s market and gave people a penny if they would let me listen to them. |
| 25 | Larry Adams – Escape Velocity: A New Longevity | Harvard researchers have shown that aging can be reversed or accelerated by manipulating epigenome, providing evidence that epigenetic changes are the main cause of aging. |
| 26 | Leslie Agron and Lori Watkins – Four Aspects of Belonging | Connection causes the experience of belonging; however, people think of belonging in several ways. This video explores four of these ways. |
| 27 | Leslie Agron and Lori Watkins – It’s a Whack-a-Mole World | A look at solving problems with the same mindset with which they were created and an examination of “doing bias.” |
| 28 | Linda Le Breton – The Smile Video: If You Smile, You Will Be A-OK | Smiles are free. If you give one to me, I will give one back to you! |
| 29 | Lynnie Sterba – Affinity | Art creates space in the conversation to address our shared humanity. There are things communicated through art that can’t be communicated any other way. |
| 30 | Mai Duong and Brigitte Livingstone – Growing Healthy Communities | Vertical aeroponic growing, a sustainable way of growing food in large cities. It serves many communities including schools, seniors’ homes, and food banks. |
| 31 | Mark Blumler – Transforming How We Are in Groups | Evolutionary psychology shows we have evolved characteristic, often highly irrational behaviors and thoughts. Awareness of these characteristics might transform our ability to produce global transformation. |
| 32 | Nicholas Holden – Let’s Explore Shared Ownership in Small Groups | Exploring the possibility of shared ownership for small groups, this kind of ownership is worth investigating how it might enhance our lives. |
| 33 | Oreeia Mizrahi – The Space Beyond Death and Birth: Discovering Life as a Breathtaking Game | What if life and living are an opportunity and the space in which Self gets to be fully expressed!? |
| 34 | Osa Schulte – Barrier-free Housing that Promotes Barrier-free Living | What if you were temporarily or permanently disabled? Imagine being faced with “housing displacement?” The disconnect from your community complicates your best recovery outcomes. |
| 35 | Paul Freyermuth – Would You Give Your Life for Your Promise/Commitment for the World? | How committed are you to the fulfillment of your commitment for the world? Do you say “all people?” How are you going to get to “all people?” |
| 36 | Rachel Barwell – A Regenerative Future as an Access to a World That Works for Everyone | Food security has become an issue in many countries. Explore examples and possible regenerative and restorative futures for humanity from southern Africa and New Zealand. |
| 37 | Renee Beth Poindexter and Ana Marcos – Intergenerational Learning in Community Enhances Belonging | Providing support for youth through reciprocal, intergenerational, and organic learning processes, we generate solutions for parents, growth-minded teachers, forward-thinking businesses, our planet, and future leaders. |
| 38 | Rose Grant – Glitter: That’s the Rub! | In 2023, unexpected outbreaks of glitter were observed around the world. This glitter is correlated with people transforming conflict, misunderstanding, and causing a bright world. |
| 39 | Smadar Yaish – Self-Love and Self-Honoring as a Source of Belonging and Fulfillment | An inquiry into our relationship to self-love and self-honoring and an exploration of our capacity to generate belonging and fulfillment. |
| 40 | Susan Hoskins and Melanie Trent – The Flourishing of Humanity | The flourishing of humanity is a mosaic of expressions and manifestations of life. It is profoundly personal as well as being a collectively binding creation. |
| 41 | Tatiana Tilley – Dragon Lily Versus the Fence | One of the ways art and play helped me create the experience of belonging for myself as a child and later again as an adult. |
| 42 | True Shields – Sasha’s Travels: Belonging to a Neighborhood | How my super-friendly, adventurous cat has connected me with neighbors, downtown business owners, and local middle school — and taking me out for daily walks. |
| 43 | Vicki Thorpe – Who or What Says I am Part of This Family? | Grapple with four of my extended family members as we explore belonging in family, from our wiring at birth to our ever expanding through life. |
| 44 | Wren Kingsley and Tonilee Hanson – Creativity and Belonging | Creativity longs to be expressed through everyone. What is your creative expression? Enjoy this interview inquiring into the relationship between creativity and belonging. |