Indigenous land management practices and the food systems they uphold are more sophisticated and advanced than commonly understood. Join us for this free Noetic Global Gathering with IONS NextGen award winner, Lyla June, PhD, as she shares her doctoral research on the regional scale foodscapes cultivated by First Nations and the ways in which these impact our lives still today. We will explore how, through these practices, human beings can become a benevolent, and even essential, agent within the food webs and ecosystems that surround us.
Noetic Global Gathering
Humans as a Keystone Species:
Learning From Indigenous Land Management, Food Webs, and Ecosystems
July 22, 2020
11:00am – 12:30pm
About the Speaker
Lyla June, PhD, is a poet, musician, human ecologist, public speaker, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. She is a co-founder of The Taos Peace and Reconciliation Council, which works to heal intergenerational trauma and ethnic division in the northern New Mexico. She is also the founder of Regeneration Festival, an annual celebration of children that occurs in 13 countries around the world every September.
She graduated with honors from Stanford University with a degree in Environmental Anthropology, holds a masters degree from the University of New Mexico with a concentration in American Indian Education, and has recently earned her PhD from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Claire Lachance serves as the CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she has championed strategic clarity, healthy culture, and operations grounded in integrity and best practices. Claire earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA magna cum laude in Economics from Tufts University. Representing IONS around the world, Claire is passionate about the expansion of Noetic Leadership as a vital tool for addressing the profound opportunities and challenges of our times.
Alan Briskin, PhD, co-founder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative is a consultant, artist, and researcher. His co-authored book, The Power of Collective Wisdom, won the 2010 Nautilus Award in the category of Business and Leadership. Alan is a leading voice in the field of organizational learning and development. His first book 
Dianna Wilusz is the CEO and Founder of The Pendolino Group. Guided by the belief that the capacity to create powerful change resides within each one of us, Dianna works with entrepreneurs, corporations, and nonprofit organizations to develop and deploy leading-edge people management solutions and HR systems. Dianna received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Maryland and an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix.
Sarah Peck has offered spiritual service, launching and leading spirit, mind, and body programs at Teachers College, Columbia University for the last 10 years. She is the former director of the Spirituality Mind Body (SMBI) Master’s Degree Program, October 2013-17, and was Co-Founder and Co-President of the Mindfulness and Education Working Group, September 2010-14. She taught six graduate courses, including Pilgrimage to Mata Amritanandamayi Devi in Kerala, India and Pro-Seminars in Leadership Development on Self-Awareness Training for 400 students within the Summer Principals Academy. She successfully defended her dissertation, a qualitative case study examining the role of mental imagery for 30 spiritual healers trained by Ron Young, who saw clients with serious illness each week for nine months. She examined the comparability across different constructions, experiences, and expressions of mental imagery, finding distinct and overlapping themes and sub-themes among healers within each case, and between the healers and their clients.
Emanuel Kuntzelman is a social entrepreneur, writer, motivational speaker and environmentalist. He founded the non-profit Greenheart International in 1985 and is also a founding co-creator of the 
Anita Sanchez, PhD, is a published author, consultant, trainer and executive coach who has worked with tens of thousands of global leaders and teams around the world. She specializes in indigenous wisdom, diversity and inclusion, leadership, culture and promoting positive change in our world.
Azim Khamisa serves as the Vice Chair of the IONS Board of Directors. Hailed by dignitaries such as the Dalai Llama, Bill Clinton, and Al Gore, Azim is a renowned international speaker, delivering his inspirational message to a world in desperate need of forgiveness, peace, and hope.
Gale West, MA, MFA, is an internationally-known speaker, consultant, coach and business intuitive. For years, she’s helped conscious entrepreneurs, creatives, and executives link the soul of their business to the business of their soul so they can experience the joy, adventure and financial expansion from of having a greater impact in the world—including guidance to transform their relationship to money and success.
Mark Gober is a Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley, a former New York investment banker with UBS, and former Princeton University tennis team captain. He is the author of An End to Upside Down Thinking and host of the Where Is My Mind? podcast. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a major in Psychology and wrote his thesis on Prospect Theory, a Nobel Prize-winning theory in the field of behavioral economics.
Denis Greene began working in the nonprofit fund development field in 1981. His undergraduate and graduate studies are in organizational development and he was awarded the CFRE professional designation by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. He has helped over 200 nonprofits across the USA raise more than $200,000,000. Greene is the author of The Stewardship System, Stewardship-Based Capital Campaigns, and How To Ask For Donations.
