The Bay Area Regional Leadership Learning Exchange, “Ecology of Action,” was a professional development opportunity for teachers and principals. Sixty-five participants met at Oakland’s Jack London Aquatic Center. The participants included school personnel, students, parents, teachers, principals, and assistant superintendents. Participants were invited to engage in dynamic mindfulness with Niroga Institute’s BK Bose and each other in small group discussions, gracious space, meals, learning walks, and planning sessions in order to cultivate and tell stories of radical hope. After practicing leadership learning exchange protocols and dynamic mindfulness, they left rejuvenated, and ready to use these processes in their schools and organizations to inform an ecology of action. As one principal noted, “It was one of the most inspiring learning experiences I have had.” LEARN MORE…
