Monthly Archives: September 2016

Hope for a More Inclusive World

img_5895Submitted by Linda Hill

After participating in so many life-enriching events this week, I feel like a poster child for optimism. Every day last week, Inclusive Leaders were co-facilitating one or more inclusive team building or community building workshops.  Leaders in business, government, non-profit organizations, and schools explored diversity with open minds and hearts – guided by our values of safety, respect, equality and joy. As a Grade 5 student in one of our workshops said, “If everyone in our school becomes an inclusive, cooperative leader, we will become a very courageous school community.”

No wonder I’m feeling so hopeful!

For more information about bringing an Inclusive Leadership workshop to your workplace, school, or community setting email: inclusiveleaders@gmail.com

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Daring to be Different: Learning from Marta Becket

Submitted by Linda Hill

marta-becketMarta Becket is a unique Inclusive Leader who is one of my role models for the skill of daring to be different. Forty years ago, in 1967, Marta Becket re-claimed and re-opened a long-empty theatre in the remote California Ghost Town of Death Valley Junction. She steadfastly performed vaudeville ballet on the Armagosa Opera House stage three evenings each week whether anyone showed up to watch her or not. In the early years when she was mostly dancing to an empty theatre, she painted an audience on the walls.

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Gradually, travellers noticed what she was offering and her theatre become an inclusive and welcoming Death Valley destination. In 2012, Marta passed her ballerina torch on to ballerina Jenna McLintock. Jenna now offers Marta’s vaudeville ballet performances to the world and the inclusive and welcoming magic of ballet in desert continues.

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World Peace Day

Submitted by Linda Hill

Each year, on September 21, the International Day of Peace is observed around the world in many different ways. What peace-building challenges are you choosing at home, at school, at work,  in community groups, as well as regionally, nationally and globally?  We invite you to share your news about building welcoming, inclusive, peaceful communities by email at inclusiveleaders@gmail.com or by posting on our facebook page.

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This year, the Cowichan Intercultural Society’s Multicultural Leadership Group made Peace Flags to give to the community Peace Pole Project.

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The Inclusive Power of MUSIC and LOVE

submitted by Linda Hill

Mbira Spirit 1A number of years ago, I was with a group of young people from across Canada, exploring interconnections between social diversity and biodiversity, when we made a surprising discovery. What we found during our Participatory Action Research was that two powerful magnets for bringing people together in harmony with each other and with nature are MUSIC and LOVE. Continue reading

Inclusive Leaders Spotlight! – Katie & Gillian

Every week we shine a spotlight on one of our Inclusive Leaders and ask: “What is Inclusive Leadership to you?”

“Calmly stay grounded while connecting hearts.” (Katie Sayer, President of Leadership Vancouver Island. Gillian Berry, Teacher and Counsellor)

“Calmly stay grounded while connecting hearts.” (Katie Sayer, President of Leadership Vancouver Island. Gillian Berry, Teacher and Counsellor)

“Calmly stay grounded while connecting hearts.” (Katie Sayer, President of Leadership Vancouver Island. Gillian Berry, Teacher and Counsellor)