Our Journey Together From Hardship to Hope

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Our Journey together from Hardship to Hope: A Values Conversation regarding our Shared Community on World Values Day

Time and Date: Thursday, 20 October 2022, 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM CDT

Cost: FREE

Place: Online

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About this event

On Thursday 20th October from 19.00 to 20.30 BST (UTC/GMT+1) or 1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. CDT (Canada) on Zoom, join the Wisdom of Hardship team in a 90-minute interactive session.

 

We will be exploring the current environment in our world and how the desire for peace needs to be an important element of our journey. We will look at how the opposing values around optimism and pessimism, positivity and negativity, and peace and war are actually playing out in parts of the world like Ukraine, Russia and China.

 

Our panel of Mihail Krikonov, Halyna Yarmolenko and Natalie Lottersberger will discuss their very personal journeys from hardship to hope, and how, by navigating through these opposite sets of values, hope can slowly emerge.

 

We will then have small-group discussions, bringing in those parts of our own personal experiences that we are comfortable sharing.

 

Peace is our context. Partnership is our methodology. Well-being is our personal outcome and results.

 

We will have additional opportunities to engage with each other. Your voices will be encouraged to connect your values to how you are now, as well as how you will be as you live these three goals in your life and within your community.

 

We always end our sessions by asking for your “CALL TO ACTION”, as a way to focus your attention on what matters the most to you.

 

Please come prepared to identify your personal values within the engagement. If you wish to identify your values, please go to the following link: https://www.valuescentre.com/tools-assessments/pva/

 

THANK YOU.

Biographies of the Panel

Mihail Krikunov

 

Ph.D., Professor, certified marketer (Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK, 1999), Certified Leadership Trainer (Development Dimensions International, USA, 2020). Dean of the Kyiv Business School, President and co-founder of Ukrainian Bildung Network. Lecturer, corporate trainer, adult education methodologist, management and marketing consultant and C-level manager, career and business mentor.

 

Mihail has more than 30 years of experience in management and teaching, research, business consulting, training in marketing, management, strategy development and executive training. He is the author of a number of popular online courses (Strategic Thinking, Social Marketing, Critical Thinking, and oth.). Specializes in strategic development, practical aspects of marketing and management, complexity theory in management, industry clusters, leadership development, effective thinking for managers, adult education and development. Author of experimental teaching methods based on experiential learning and arts-based learning.

Natalie Lottersberger

 

RN Registered Nurse and BSc Teacher of Health Care Professionals, founder and CEO of Care-Ring Home Care Services and Intensive Respiratory Care Natalie has more than 30 years of experience in nursing, health care and social work, she has experience in family-orientated case management, palliative and intensive care management as well as psychiatric care.

 

She is also a teacher in Nursing and is educating students in a 1:1 setting and is joining an intercultural care management Master’s Degree ongoing. She has developed the E-Care and Care-Tab solution, a web-based documentation system for home care. She is also a member of the Austrian Nursing Association for free-lanced Nurses and is involved in several strategic workgroups regarding integrated care.

Halyna Yarmolenko

MD, General practitioner, volunteer in the Ukrainian Bildung Network. Open-minded value-oriented enquiring mind.

  • What about the future? Imagine 20 years from now – 2042.
  • What will your life be like? What will life in your village, your town, your city, your neighbourhood be like?
  • How will communities change? What are our future perspectives? Our attitude? Do we look into the future with optimism? Are we pessimistic? Realistic? Should we take action? How? What can we do?
  • Let us talk about our hopes. What have we experienced that makes us hopeful human beings?
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