It was nice to be again at Knowledge 2.0 once more, which returned to San Francisco. An annual occasion we attended for years, this 12 months’s occasion ran from April 27-29, 2023 on the Yerba Buena Heart. A few of this 12 months’s highlighted audio system embody Yung Pueblo, Gabor Maté, Byron Katie, Jack Kornfield, Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Rhonda Magee, Alex Senegal, Mohammed Mohammed, Chip Conley, OpenAI/ChatGPT’s Sam Altman, MAPS founder Rick Doblin and lots of extra.
It’s all the time nice to be within the presence of Spirit Rock’s Jack Kornfield who’s a part of the Knowledge 2.0 staff. An American author and instructor within the Vipassana motion in American Theravada Buddhism, he skilled as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, and has taught mindfulness meditation worldwide since 1974. He moderated and was half of some panel discussions on the principle stage with lead producer and host of the occasion, Soren Gordhamer. (under)
Soren Gordhamer and Jack Kornfield on the principle stage
Soren additionally interviewed Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who largely spoke of gender equality. She made a number of legitimate and compelling factors as a mom, as a mentor and as an entrepreneur. On the opposite aspect of Covid, many individuals had extra time to spend with their households and Jennifer confirmed what they’ve discovered by means of analysis, together with the truth that when males spend time with their youngsters, there’s much less despair. Different questions offered included: What about unworthiness? How will we cope with it? What impression is expertise having on our youngsters?
Soren Gordhamer and Jennifer Siebel Newsom
She says that we have to take a look at age acceptable design for expertise and likewise set boundaries on the place and when. Throughout recess in school, youngsters aren’t socializing as a lot once they spend the complete break wanting down at their telephones. When youngsters are extra remoted and fewer social, it could have an effect on their psychological well being, together with however not restricted to consuming issues, anxiousness and despair. “Comparability results in all unhappiness,” says after which added, “Our youngsters are stunning mirrors for us.”
Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Whereas most individuals know her because the spouse of Governor Gavin Newsom, she’s additionally an American documentary filmmaker, director, producer and actress. Jennifer was behind Miss Illustration, which premiered within the documentary competitors on the 2011 Sundance Movie Pageant. “We nonetheless devalue female energy in our society,” she says.
Sounds True founder Tami Simon interviewed Dr. Jeremy Hunter on Managing Your Nervous System, a subject that might be helpful for all of us. In spite of everything, doesn’t it really feel like we’re getting extra calls for? Within the dialogue, they requested, “Can we use enterprise to impress our evolution?”
Sounds True founder Tami Simon at Knowledge 2.0
Utilizing your life as a coaching floor, he mentioned how we will make a life regardless of all of the stuff hitting us frequently. In different phrases, how will we handle all of it whereas conserving our nervous system in verify? Jeremy says, “There’s little or no systematically that focuses on the inward journey, what’s happening inside. What we’ve left off the desk is sensing, feeling and connecting. We have to evolve to see a way more expanded view of ourselves and step into it.” He provides, “We have now radically settled for what it means to be human.” I couldn’t agree extra.
Jeremy asserts that we have to evolve our personal private working system. He spoke of his personal experiences in life and the way beginning early on in our lives, we attempt to normalize what we have now skilled as youngsters. In different phrases, we normalize our trauma as a result of we don’t see it as trauma. He says that we should “heal our trauma and take it severely.” Put one other manner, folks all too usually need to take a look at too quickly. We might embark upon the therapeutic, however we will’t surrender or let go too quickly. “It’s not simply remodeling the wound, however it’s additionally eradicating the concern,” he provides.
Dr. Jeremy Hunter on stage with Tami Simon
Talking of trauma, world famend trauma skilled Dr. Gabor Maté kicked issues off on the opening night time. The bestselling creator of 4 books printed in over thirty languages, Gabor is an internationally famend speaker extremely wanted for his experience on dependancy, trauma, childhood growth, and the connection of stress and sickness. He’s additionally co-developer of a therapeutic strategy, Compassionate Inquiry, now studied by a whole lot of therapists, physicians, counselors, and others internationally.
Soren Gordhamer and Dr. GaborMaté
Slightly than providing quick-fix options to those complicated points, he weaves collectively scientific analysis, case histories, and his personal insights and expertise to current a broad perspective that empowers folks to advertise their very own therapeutic and others. After his Friday night fireplace chat, he returned on Saturday to reply questions casually with others on-site, which is the place I had a chance to attach with him.
I’ve been a fan of Byron Katie’s work for years. Satirically, she calls her work The Work. One of many distinctive issues about her appearances at Knowledge 2.0 (and sometimes different locations), is that she’ll work straight with folks within the viewers, which she did once more. One of many issues we introduced up as a collective, was unworthiness – it comes up in every single place doesn’t it?
She requested the viewers, “Discover what comes into your physique if you consider moments in your life as unworthy.” It’s once we are in our small ego self that we don’t understand our energy. She provides, “I expertise ego as a terrified, frightened baby. Relaxation is the absence of ego, for ego doesn’t sleep.” No marvel meditation and silent moments along with your Larger Self kick ego to the door. That is how Byron Katie explains it:
“Whenever you enable time and house earlier than ego comes into the house, there’s gentle and freedom. The ego is available in to call it. The ego doesn’t sleep as a result of it’s frightened of being nothing. We’re all the time searching for the reply to ‘Who am I?’ In different phrases, the ego is searching for a house. Whenever you sit in self-inquiry, the ego is noisy. However its respectful to hearken to a terrified baby, so compassion and empathy are wanted. Observe: what’s making an attempt to emerge? Ask the wounded, terrified baby a few perception system she holds. Is it actually true?” -Byron Katie
Then she requested, “Witness the way you react if you imagine a thought or perception. Discover the way you react and be witness to it. Get in contact with the state of affairs.” If anger emerges, its helpful to do not forget that you can’t be offended until you might be up to now or the longer term. Attempt to get offended within the current second – it’s not attainable is it? Whenever you’re actually within the current second. Later, she says “Nobody would ever hurt one other human being in the event that they weren’t asleep to themselves.”
One of many issues I like about her teachings, is that it requires you to be current. Whenever you’re up to now or future, it’s as if there’s an egoic play going backwards and forwards, like being caught within the dream of a previous/future play. However if you sit in silence and authentically inquire from that place, you miss nothing. Anticipating is actually the struggling.
Diego Perez additionally joined us (under on the appropriate). He’s the poet and thinker behind the pen identify Yung Pueblo, which suggests ‘younger folks’ and it reminds him of his Ecuadorian roots and activism. He says, “each time we soak up new stuff, we’re all the time conditioning the thoughts; it occurs repeatedly after age seven. Every of us are wired so in a different way that we have to discover no matter works to unwire that conditioning.” He asks the viewers, “What meets my conditioning the place it’s at?”
Left, David Simas and proper, Diego Perez
He asserts that slowing down is vital to that unwiring. Slightly than always plugging into our expertise and social media, he suggests:
“Be current and simply soak up issues. We’re not critically serious about the topics we flick thru. Be okay to say ‘no,’ and don’t all the time have an opinion. Whenever you decelerate, you enable your self house and time to completely perceive the subject, get the solutions from inside and simply observe.” -Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo)
He continued to share his classes, …the elemental issues we attempt to train youngsters however collectively fail at, akin to being variety to one another, selecting up after your self, not hitting each other, saying constructive issues (not unfavorable issues) to others and treating the planet effectively. Hear hear. These are certainly primary and elementary greatest practices. He says, “Your first response is your previous, your intentional response is your current.”
Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) additionally graced the Knowledge 2.0 stage this 12 months. She is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and neighborhood organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages and I’ve heard her converse (and sing) in a number of others locations, together with the IONS Convention (Institute of Noetic Sciences). We captured a few of her efficiency on video, so you’ll want to take a look at the abstract video on the backside of the article.
Lyla June Johnston
Her messages concentrate on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, conventional land stewardship practices and therapeutic inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. Proper after Lyla, Dr. Yuria Celidwen spoke on the principle stage. She is from Indigenous Nahua and Maya descent, born right into a household of mystics, healers, poets, and explorers from the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico. I like the way in which she speaks as a result of it’s poetic and synergistic, largely influenced by her elders’ songs and tales which enthralled her childhood. She says, “They enhanced my mythic creativeness and emotional instinct, which turned the fertile soil the place the seeds of kindness, play, and marvel dig their roots.”
Dr. Yuria Celidwen
In her discuss, she spoke about how her grandparents bought their data of therapeutic from the earth. Yuria says, “they listened to the chants of the wind and the gossip of the birds. Within the forest and starlight night time, she discovered about transcendence and contemplative life. She has discovered over time the right way to transcend her slender id and increase into one thing far more, the place she has discovered the right way to take care of all life on our planet. It’s integral to her ancestors’ teachings.
“Discovering dwelling has been a lifelong journey, so it has been a continuing inquiry,” she says. “Dreaming is…time with out time, the place we set ourselves free. Within the face of impossibility, we study that we will fly.” Her slides present how the good thing about indigenous sciences is all the time for the well-being of the planet, not for particular person achieve. It’s all the time concerning the collective achieve.
Dr. Yuria Celidwen’s slide
She additionally spoke concerning the ethics of belonging. Kin relationality is about embracing all of existence. Mom Earth is a nurturer. “Ecological belonging,” she says, “takes Mom Earth into consideration and her skill to thrive. There’s no such factor as a human being flourishing until Mom Earth prospers first.
Dr. Yuria Celidwen on the principle stage
“We would like transcendence, not transactions. We have to bridge and create a way of belonging for every thing on our shared existence. Being contributors means having an ethics of belonging for all dwelling issues. It’s weaving thriller and inquiry and go away a way of sacredness.” -Dr. Yuria Celidwen
Dr. Rick Doblin, who’s most referred to as the founder and government director of the Multidisciplinary Affiliation for Psychedelic Research (MAPS), additionally took heart stage to speak about psychedelics. Fostering the psychedelic Renaissance, he joked about his bar mitzvah. He says he was hungry for the following degree expertise at age 13. Ahead wind the clock to current day, his son mentioned to him after his first expertise, “Now I perceive why you need to make this a drugs.”
Dr. Rick Doblin
Rick says, “we want an evolution of the spirit. Past PTSD, folks lengthy for a deeper non secular expertise, to quiet the thoughts and calm the soul.” That longing is definitely exhibiting up all over the world proper now. We have to personal our personal stuff – our traumas, our shadows, our triggers – all of it.
When somebody goes by means of PTSD, their mind isn’t sorting data usually. When folks have a MDMA expertise, he says, the concern alerts from these reminiscences are diminished. It will increase a connection throughout the hippocampus and releases helpful issues like oxytocin. After they’ve achieved research on mice, they’ve been capable of see that the MDMA will increase neuroplasticity which in people, could make psychotherapy more practical. Rick says, “The MDMA brings reminiscences to the floor however in a manner that makes them safer and never so traumatic.”
This isn’t an extraordinary remedy expertise and the classes are lengthy. Think about 42 hours or longer of remedy with two therapists – in his case, they do the classes with one feminine and one male therapist. They name it The Archeology of Trauma. Of their Section 2 research, folks bought higher over time on their very own with out the drug as a result of “they‘ve discovered the right way to launch the trauma of their our bodies and the consequences are sturdy.” The progress has been staggering when you think about how briskly it’s being applied and more and more accepted.
The subject of youngsters got here up and their overuse of video video games and social media in addition to the right way to increase medication with them. Rick asserts that the key is “educating accountable use and accountability. Train them that there’s a accountable approach to work together and have a relationship with regardless of the ‘factor‘ is, whether or not its video video games or a drug. Youngsters want trustworthy drug training.” They want to study issues in a manner that makes them really feel secure and likewise how they’ll navigate it with out getting kicked out of their social peer group. Rick reminded us that there’s one factor that folks concern greater than loss of life and that’s getting kicked out of a tribe.
We’re forging forward although and acceptance is going on. Adoption is going on. And therapeutic is going on. It doesn’t imply that each one trauma disappears in a single day, however it does imply that we will work to scale back it one step at a time.
“We would like a world of web zero trauma. It doesn’t imply no trauma. It means we’re not including to it.” -Dr. Rick Doblin
Dr. Rick Doblin
Though I didn’t see each session, a favourite was john powell, who purposely spells his identify with a small j and a small p. He does this as a result of he shares the idea that we must be “a part of the universe, not over it, as capitals signify”. He’s an internationally acknowledged skilled within the areas of civil rights, civil liberties, structural racism, housing, poverty, and democracy in addition to the Director of the Othering & Belonging Institute on the College of California, Berkeley, a analysis institute that brings collectively students, neighborhood advocates, communicators, and policymakers to establish and eradicate the limitations to an inclusive, simply, and sustainable society and to create transformative change towards a extra equitable world.
john powell on the Knowledge 2.0 stage in April
We additionally had been graced by the presence of Rhonda Magee who I like. As a Professor of Legislation on the College of San Francisco, she has studied mindfulness, its underlying origins in Buddhism, and its potential advantages and purposes on the planet for greater than twenty years. A prolific creator, she attracts on regulation and authorized historical past to weave storytelling, poetry, evaluation and practices into inspiration for altering how we predict, act and stay higher collectively in a quickly altering world. A daring transfer, she bought up on stage and led us in tune. (see the video under to get a peak of it). It was soul inspiring, genuine and I’d add, enjoyable.
Rhonda Magee leads the viewers in tune
The closing discuss was extra of a hearth chat between Soren Gordhamer, Jack Kornfield and the founding father of OpenAI Sam Altman. Jack and Soren had questions however the cause that the room was packed was as a result of everybody had so many questions on how AI goes to impression our lives and the place ChatGBT is headed. What’s going to it imply for society? How will it disrupt different industries? How will it have an effect on humanity and our trajectory as a species?
Soren Gordhamer and Jack Kornfield on the final panel of the day with Sam Altman of OpenAI
Excited concerning the collective knowledge from the lots for AI, Sam says, “That is going to be an enormous change to society, so we want as many individuals concerned as attainable. We’d like developer cooperation and a framework from humanity concerning the values folks respect and wish.” How a lot will it turn out to be a part of our lives, you marvel? Sam says, “I believe AI will simply be a part of society.”
Soren requested Sam, “How do you see the function of id in your individual life? And what’s the function of tech and AI?” Sam says, “Something that will get you to query is sweet. It’s attention-grabbing to look at folks attempt to perceive if AI can have an actual id. I believe it’s essential to launch this and permit folks to adapt. I’m considerably fearful however we are going to uncover the right way to combine this into our lives.”
Sam Altman, Founding father of OpenAI
As for the magnitude of this sociological and technological shift, Sam says that he thinks it will likely be “greater than a technological revolution. Will probably be nearer to a societal revolution. It would occur on a societal degree actually quick however I believe we must also take delight that society has come collectively to do unimaginable issues in such a brief time period.”
They finally moved onto ChatGBT for apparent causes. It has exploded and shortly. You would possibly say that ChatGBT has had a sooner adoption than anything within the expertise business. Examine it to Instagram and different apps or instruments that took off in a short time. Within the dialogue, they addressed the why, which led to issues rising as a result of it’s helpful, however I’d argue that’s not all the time the case. ChatGBT can also be surreal, has an awe part and its outerworldly in numerous methods.
However what about ChatCBT’s skill to study by itself and determine issues out? Sam responded with a query, “Will this be one large mind within the sky? I believe it will likely be extra just like the all that contributes to the knowledge within the sky.” He added, “we might want to transfer past capitalism to deal with humanity and the place it’s going. As we evolve, we might want to transfer past it.”
All of us appear to agree that humanity must develop a connection to a better consciousness and embody it. Consciousness is already there. The million greenback query is: will AI assist with this in a constructive manner?
Jack piped in and mentioned, “I solely admire collective knowledge. Let’s study collectively on how we shepherd and steward this.” Jack additionally added his personal perspective into staying grounded and tending to your interior life as an entrepreneur. He says, “We have to get quiet sufficient to hear deeply to our personal knowledge and insights, so we will have a spaciousness and a graciousness to make higher selections.” Hear hear Jack.
Jack Kornfield
Except for discuss, panels and fireplace chats, there’s experiential time. Most of the audio system additionally went into deeper dive discussions with folks in smaller break-out rooms. And naturally, there’s networking with fascinating folks from all over the world, all of whom are interested by consciousness, expertise, science, enterprise and spirituality.
The primary stage
Dr. Gabor Mate chats with folks exterior
Lyla June Johnston
Rhonda Magee
Soren Gordhamer
Soren Gordhamer with Rick Doblin
The Knowledge 2.0 staff
The Knowledge 2.0 staff
The lounge the place folks might sit, community and watch the principle stage walks on display screen.
A l’il connection time
Different sitting areas to talk and join
A breakout dialogue on AI and the place it’s headed.
Jenee Johnson of Sankofa Remedy
The primary stage
At our Birds of a Feather dinner dialogue consciousness, weaving in the perfect from science and spirituality.
Watch a Spotlight Video right here to get a taste for the occasion should you’ve by no means been, in addition to our transient abstract video under from this 12 months’s occasion. We hope to see you subsequent 12 months.
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