EWiT: Addressing the Shame that Kills Innovation, Connection and Well-Being

Join Anakha Coman as she shares both her personal and corporate experience of the shame that kills innovation, connection and well-being. Her presentation will support participants in:

–Learning about the scarcity epidemic in corporate culture of “never enough” and the shift from a shame-based culture to a culture that thrives with innovation, connection and well-being.
–Understanding the correlation between shame and the risk-taking and vulnerability that create cultures of innovation, connection and well-being.
–Becoming aware of the universal shame triggers and creating shame resilience through the practice of vulnerability and empathy.

Anakha speaks, teaches and consults with leaders and organizations worldwide. Her clients include Intel, Nike, Seattle’s Children Hospital, Microsoft, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mindfulness as Medicine National Initiative, Save the Children and Parker Hannifin. She designed and co-authored the foundational curriculum for Intel’s corporate mindfulness program in 2011, then co-founded and launched Awake@Intel, a successful initiative to realize the potential of employee and corporate intelligence.  She created and facilitates Awake at Work, a mindfulness based program aimed at increasing employee engagement, creativity, insight and wellness.

With an emphasis on mindful presence, relational and collective intelligence, and dynamic innovation, Anakha’s expertise is in organizational and leadership development. She holds a Masters in Organizational and Leadership Development, a Masters in Consciousness/Divinity, and a professional certificate in Spirituality, Health and Medicine. She is a certified Expressive Arts therapist and an ordained interfaith minister.

Anakha is the author of The Proof: A 40-Day Program for Embodying Oneness (Hay House 2009); and The Law of Emergence: Living Your Soul’s Blueprint for Brilliance; and Awake at Work™, an online mindfulness program available through Sounds True. She is a leader within the Global Oneness Movement in conjunction with the United Nations and Humanity’s Team. She successfully designed and deployed a transformational justice program for incarcerated women at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Oregon, entitled The Miracle of a New Beginning.