HR!Day402 - Humanizing: A “Growing Up Learning Tale” of Two Elders

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Learn about resilience, the power of community and human transformation from two women elders who grew up in the aftermath of WWII and have lived through decades of economic, social, emotional, cultural, institutional, technological, industrial, commercial, civic and media upheaval.

“How have you changed over the past 70-80 years while living on purpose, dedicated to empower peace in your lifetime?”  That is the question posed to Irene Morgan and Barbara Leger.  This session is about learning resilience, the power of community and understanding human transformation over decades of great change. Both of these women grew up in the 40’s in the aftermath of WWII, have lived through economic, social, emotional, cultural, institutional, technological, industrial, commercial, civic and even media domination over generations of upheaval. What have they learned about living successfully, while staying true to their vital center core beliefs as their destiny unfolded?     

Throughout their lives, as generations expanded, they have been dedicated to empowering others and actively bringing peace to the planet – mothers, partners, business women.  What has been their learning journey about how people work in communities naturally?  How have the experiences of their lives changed their beliefs, ideas, their narrative of humanity, altered their worldviews, taught then to adapt to changing times? They will share their inner wisdom, the wisest knowledge they can share with others that will help us individually, and us as community elders to navigate the challenges ahead.

Presenters

  • Irene Morgan, Founder of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition (RCC) has invested her life in understanding peace, humanity and nature.  Irene has lived on her farm for 75 years, where she and her family ran a slaughter-on-the farm business as she raised a family.  She initiated the State of Esteem project with the WA State Legislature, started personal self-empowerment work, wrote the Joyous Discovery of Self in 1992.  Irene became a counsellor and therapist, then developed spiritual healing modalities called From Ordinary to Original.   Over the past 40 years, Irene learned from, coached, mentored and volunteered in social service non-profits such as Whatcom Crisis Center, Northwest Youth Services, Evergreen Aids Foundation, Sean Humphrey House.  All along she researched productive programs and promoted peace, emotional resilience and Restorative Justice.   In 2006 Irene took a stand for transforming justice by founding the Restorative CommUnity Coalition where she developed community-based reentry, recovery and life rehabilitation programs for people who have been arrested and their families. She added Case Interception, Court Navigator, Conflict Intervention and Life Skills Trainings as knowledge accumulated. These programs can be taught and implemented in small towns across the nation, as they are being turned into online programs and will serve as the foundation for her vision – to build a housing, employment, and service hub where we can network needs into a community restoration and revitalization location, where we can continue to improve programs.  The focus is on keeping people out of the jail and justice system because they are happier and they are mentored in being healthy and productive in life.
  • Barbara Leger was raised on a pioneer-built Quebec farm, with a love of outdoors, power of nature’s cycles and responsibility of working the land became clear. Seeds of inequity were sown:  she was a member of protestant, English, more wealthy, large landowning community who hired poorer catholic and less abundant French farmworker community who worked the farm. She joined US Civil Service and went to an isolated Air Force base, married and became a green-card-carrying-alien. Learning, growing, changing and sharing are the main roads of her life. Joys and responsibility of children and single parenthood brought pivotal lessons. Years of self-employment prepared the way for the awaiting shift.  A major injury, the loss of her house painting company, physical and financial limitations shoved the shift.  Vocational rehab brought her to New Dimensions Radio. The path of possibility and responsibility were clarified, and her future trajectory was set with their Vision: “It is only through a change of consciousness that the world will be transformed” She co-founded a PBS television station, formed business & organization consulting firms, YES Productions and LEGER Internationale, Co-founding non-profits: Sister City in Ukraine, Routes for Youth, World Affairs Council, North Bay World Trade. She was on boards of Catholic Charities, Leadership Santa Rosa (chamber program), Sonoma County Press Club and volunteered in countless causes for youth, homeless individuals and served clients in California and globally. In June of 2000, she, and her son and daughter, graduated from institutions of higher education in their chosen fields: Consciousness, Natural Science and Education. This led Barbara to Ukraine.  She founded New Thought community there and it all led to now. The New Ukrainian Schools / New Leaders focus emerged.  For this opportunity, the California DBA ‘Golden Path of Peace’ was born as a non-profit project and ‘WE Stand for the Future’ joint venture partner was created in Ukraine and together we developed ‘The Understanding PEACE Project’. Four pilot projects reached 5,000 students and in November.  The 1st non-pilot project served 2,000 students, 98 teachers and 45 schools.  This program is to understand the innate reality of peace born within, the power of choice to support it and skills to use all experiences showing us the stepping stones to becoming a peaceful person. Her intention is to be Happy and Healthy to age 100 and beyond.  Her Vision: PEACE on Earth grows as we learn to live responsibly, prosper in peace as we know war as an obsolete method of settling our differences. We choose to cultivate harmony, respectful of our different cultures and ways of self-expression; we learn to work side by side to solve the global problems with solutions that require the best of us to rise up and be the model of HumanKind.

Facilitator:

  • Joy Gilfilen, presented Humanity Rising #301 – Standing Up with Power; then hosted the Intentional Change Series #375, #376, and #377 in December.  Her goal with this series is to “Humanize Communities in 2022” by demonstrating how small pods of people can start intentional movements that naturally spiral out through the community, and then show how other generations expand the work, and how elders are necessary to build foundations that are vital.  As a civic leader, Joy is President of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, podcast host of iChange Justice and JoyTalk and the convener of the Intentional Change Network.  Joy founded the Civic Joy Academy to teach Intentional Change philosophies, and is providing her flagship product Flipping the Joy Switch – Introducing the Fear to Joy Triangle Model free for the public.  Go to http://JoyGilfilen.com for more.

Convener:

  • Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University

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