Dr. Simona L. Brickers is an intuitive Leadership Development Consultant and Process Designer who innovates within constraints; an expert Business Strategist Project Manager that reframes organizational paradigm shifts to maximize leadership proficiencies; and an AntiRacism Practitioner that reconstructs policies, practices, and protocols to enhance the culture and team-building dynamics to build sustainable collaborations that produce organizational successes.
She builds dialectic-based processes to support strategic decision-making for better understanding and to deconstruct complex challenges. She works with leaders that desire to develop regenerative solutions. This work is informed by analytical approaches to presencing, sense-making, and decision-making; collective intelligence theories and organizational development; complexity theories and science functionality.
Chronically Over- and Under-Touched in Education
Presentation
One glaring consequence of the pandemic exposed a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Global citizenship education (GCE) sparked the need to reexamine attachment and social theories within the context of how we got here. The unforeseen eruption of education magnified the harsh truth about social inequities uncovering the shroud of traditional education steeped in disciplines of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments.
The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House.
(Audre Lorde)
On the surface, the illusion of an educational panorama appeared to evolve; while simultaneously steadfast in social, political, and economic systems that followed the description and prescription theories of change. There are no quick fixes or solutions, “Chronically Under and Over Touched in Education” will invite a discussion on educational accountability that coalesces with practicing consent, respect, and reciprocity. The focus will challenge patterns of the complicity with people in education and the relational dynamics between the global north and south.
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
(Albert Einstein)
This is an exploration into the competing facets and entangled prisms that fuel social injustices and is
pertinent to highlight the original landscapes that were largely agrarian-based. School systems and curricula designs supported the needs of an agrarian society yet disrupted the foundation to cultivate a quality of life. The undercurrent of this presentation will be to propose a vaster meaning of touch, emotional, psychological, and a connection of learning in a realm higher than the physical one.
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