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Online Fireside Chat: The Opportunities in Unraveling

Kelly Kamaka'alohi Asato & Curtis Ogden

Things are unraveling. We can feel it in organisations, in communities, in the wider world. What if we can relate to this unraveling as an opportunity? What happens when we come to understand that comfort with impermanence is KEY to resilience? And what happens when we get more bold about reaching out and finding 'the others' with whom we can align to weave the better?

The Opportunities in Unraveling

Things are unraveling. We can feel it in organisations, in communities, in the wider world.

What if we can relate to this unraveling as an opportunity?  

What happens when we come to understand that comfort with impermanence is KEY to resilience?

And what happens when we get more bold about reaching out and finding 'the others' with whom we can align to weave the better?

Join us for this online fireside chat, to explore what it means to navigate profound change - personally, organisationally, and collectively - and how we might hold the thread of what matters most while everything around us shifts.

Topics we’ll explore include:

  • How embracing impermanence and uncertainty is foundational to resilience
  • The tradition Hawaiian concept of Pono: what does it mean to be in "right relationship" with Life - which includes change, in ourselves, our teams, and our systems?
  • How do we build the inner capacity of "deep and abiding love" to bear witness to unraveling without being consumed by it?
  • The merits of a design principle of permanence/control versus impermanence/loving what is
  • Practices to cultivate hope and self-trust amidst the unknown

Drawing on trauma-informed leadership, organisational and system change, network thinking, somatic and energy practice, social justice work, and cross-cultural wisdom traditions, this conversation bridges the inner work of individuals with the transformation of organisations and communities.

You are invited to join this online fireside chat and Q&A at 8:00am on Saturday 13th June NZDT, to connect with two thought-leaders who's ideas will support your resilience and effectiveness in times of change.

Event details
Saturday 13th June
8:00am - 9:30am (NZDT)

About the speakers
Kelly Kamaka’alohi Asato is a keiki o ka āina (child of the land), born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands. Growing up in a deeply multicultural community shaped her worldview and opened pathways to Eastern and Western teachings and practices, which she weaves into her work with the people and organizations she serves. She is a somatic leadership facilitator and executive coach with over fifteen years of experience partnering with Global 500 companies, U.S. government agencies, and mission-driven organizations.

Through years of intensive work with senior executives, Kelly has discovered that life shapes us in a way that distances us from our truth and our authentic self. She partners with leaders in rediscovering, remembering, and re-integrating what lies in their hearts, including vulnerabilities, strengths and longings while identifying points of incoherence that limit their potential for inspiration, connection, and influence. The result is greater awareness, resilience, choice, and joy through an embodied understanding of the Self and all its possibilities.

Kelly partners with socially conscious leadership organizations working toward cultural and systemic change—grounded in connection, healing, and the repair of historical and racialized trauma—to cultivate mutuality, belonging, and sufficiency. She is the former Director of Personal Mastery at Mobius Executive Leadership and now serves as a Senior Advisor to its Executive Retreat Practice. She is also a Senior Consultant with NextGen Leadership, an affiliate of Seven Stones Leadership, and a lead facilitator for Winning From Within, the leadership model developed by Harvard Law Lecturer Erica Ariel Fox.

Kelly lives with her Watertown ʻohana (family) in the Charles River Watershed in eastern Massachusetts.


Curtis Ogden  grew up in Flint, Michigan in the upper Midwest of the United States and benefitted from experiences living overseas in Libreville, Gabon, southern France and Harare, Zimbabwe. He is currently a Senior Associate with the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) and has spent the past two decades helping individual change agents, social sector organizations, communities and networks to better collaborate for justice and sustainability. Much of Curtis’ work entails consulting with multi-organizational networks and networked organizations to strengthen and transform food, public health, education and economic development systems at local, state, regional and national levels, while doing this work with an eye towards equitable wellbeing and belonging.

Curtis is also a member of the Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics (RARE) and teaches interactive courses on “energy systems science and practice” for just and sustainable communities. HeCurtis writes regularly for IISC’s blog and the Network Weaver blog.

Curtis holds a Master’s degree in theology from Harvard Divinity School and a Bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan. He lives in the Connecticut River Watershed in western Massachusetts in the US.

About Goodlife Collective

Goodlife Collective creates events for people who believe the world could be healthier - and want to help make it so. Based in Aotearoa, they bring together thinkers, doers, and curious humans to explore what it takes to rehumanise our systems and create a world we love. Expect good conversations and connections, horizon-expanding ideas, and moments that refuel your hope and agency.

Goodlife Collective operates under charitable status through the Gift Collective.

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https://events.humanitix.com/opportunities-in-unraveling

Kelly Kamaka'alohi Asato & Curtis Ogden

Kelly Kamaka’alohi Asato is a keiki o ka āina (child of the land), born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands. She is the former Director of Personal Mastery at Mobius Executive Leadership and now serves as a Senior Advisor to its Executive Retreat Practice. She is also a Senior Consultant with NextGen Leadership, an affiliate of Seven Stones Leadership, and a lead facilitator for Winning From Within, the leadership model developed by Harvard Law Lecturer Erica Ariel Fox. Curtis Ogden is currently a Senior Associate with the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) and has spent the past two decades helping individual change agents, social sector organizations, communities and networks to better collaborate for justice and sustainability. Curtis is also a member of the Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics (RARE) and teaches interactive courses on “energy systems science and practice” for just and sustainable communities.

Online Fireside Chat: The Opportunities in Unraveling

Kelly Kamaka'alohi Asato & Curtis Ogden

Things are unraveling. We can feel it in organisations, in communities, in the wider world. What if we can relate to this unraveling as an opportunity? What happens when we come to understand that comfort with impermanence is KEY to resilience? And what happens when we get more bold about reaching out and finding 'the others' with whom we can align to weave the better?

The Opportunities in Unraveling

Things are unraveling. We can feel it in organisations, in communities, in the wider world.

What if we can relate to this unraveling as an opportunity?  

What happens when we come to understand that comfort with impermanence is KEY to resilience?

And what happens when we get more bold about reaching out and finding 'the others' with whom we can align to weave the better?

Join us for this online fireside chat, to explore what it means to navigate profound change - personally, organisationally, and collectively - and how we might hold the thread of what matters most while everything around us shifts.

Topics we’ll explore include:

  • How embracing impermanence and uncertainty is foundational to resilience
  • The tradition Hawaiian concept of Pono: what does it mean to be in "right relationship" with Life - which includes change, in ourselves, our teams, and our systems?
  • How do we build the inner capacity of "deep and abiding love" to bear witness to unraveling without being consumed by it?
  • The merits of a design principle of permanence/control versus impermanence/loving what is
  • Practices to cultivate hope and self-trust amidst the unknown

Drawing on trauma-informed leadership, organisational and system change, network thinking, somatic and energy practice, social justice work, and cross-cultural wisdom traditions, this conversation bridges the inner work of individuals with the transformation of organisations and communities.

You are invited to join this online fireside chat and Q&A at 8:00am on Saturday 13th June NZDT, to connect with two thought-leaders who's ideas will support your resilience and effectiveness in times of change.

Event details
Saturday 13th June
8:00am - 9:30am (NZDT)

About the speakers
Kelly Kamaka’alohi Asato is a keiki o ka āina (child of the land), born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands. Growing up in a deeply multicultural community shaped her worldview and opened pathways to Eastern and Western teachings and practices, which she weaves into her work with the people and organizations she serves. She is a somatic leadership facilitator and executive coach with over fifteen years of experience partnering with Global 500 companies, U.S. government agencies, and mission-driven organizations.

Through years of intensive work with senior executives, Kelly has discovered that life shapes us in a way that distances us from our truth and our authentic self. She partners with leaders in rediscovering, remembering, and re-integrating what lies in their hearts, including vulnerabilities, strengths and longings while identifying points of incoherence that limit their potential for inspiration, connection, and influence. The result is greater awareness, resilience, choice, and joy through an embodied understanding of the Self and all its possibilities.

Kelly partners with socially conscious leadership organizations working toward cultural and systemic change—grounded in connection, healing, and the repair of historical and racialized trauma—to cultivate mutuality, belonging, and sufficiency. She is the former Director of Personal Mastery at Mobius Executive Leadership and now serves as a Senior Advisor to its Executive Retreat Practice. She is also a Senior Consultant with NextGen Leadership, an affiliate of Seven Stones Leadership, and a lead facilitator for Winning From Within, the leadership model developed by Harvard Law Lecturer Erica Ariel Fox.

Kelly lives with her Watertown ʻohana (family) in the Charles River Watershed in eastern Massachusetts.


Curtis Ogden  grew up in Flint, Michigan in the upper Midwest of the United States and benefitted from experiences living overseas in Libreville, Gabon, southern France and Harare, Zimbabwe. He is currently a Senior Associate with the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) and has spent the past two decades helping individual change agents, social sector organizations, communities and networks to better collaborate for justice and sustainability. Much of Curtis’ work entails consulting with multi-organizational networks and networked organizations to strengthen and transform food, public health, education and economic development systems at local, state, regional and national levels, while doing this work with an eye towards equitable wellbeing and belonging.

Curtis is also a member of the Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics (RARE) and teaches interactive courses on “energy systems science and practice” for just and sustainable communities. HeCurtis writes regularly for IISC’s blog and the Network Weaver blog.

Curtis holds a Master’s degree in theology from Harvard Divinity School and a Bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan. He lives in the Connecticut River Watershed in western Massachusetts in the US.

About Goodlife Collective

Goodlife Collective creates events for people who believe the world could be healthier - and want to help make it so. Based in Aotearoa, they bring together thinkers, doers, and curious humans to explore what it takes to rehumanise our systems and create a world we love. Expect good conversations and connections, horizon-expanding ideas, and moments that refuel your hope and agency.

Goodlife Collective operates under charitable status through the Gift Collective.

Kelly Kamaka'alohi Asato & Curtis Ogden

Kelly Kamaka’alohi Asato is a keiki o ka āina (child of the land), born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands. She is the former Director of Personal Mastery at Mobius Executive Leadership and now serves as a Senior Advisor to its Executive Retreat Practice. She is also a Senior Consultant with NextGen Leadership, an affiliate of Seven Stones Leadership, and a lead facilitator for Winning From Within, the leadership model developed by Harvard Law Lecturer Erica Ariel Fox. Curtis Ogden is currently a Senior Associate with the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) and has spent the past two decades helping individual change agents, social sector organizations, communities and networks to better collaborate for justice and sustainability. Curtis is also a member of the Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics (RARE) and teaches interactive courses on “energy systems science and practice” for just and sustainable communities.

Online Fireside Chat: The Opportunities in Unraveling

Kelly Kamaka'alohi Asato & Curtis Ogden

Episode: 

Things are unraveling. We can feel it in organisations, in communities, in the wider world. What if we can relate to this unraveling as an opportunity? What happens when we come to understand that comfort with impermanence is KEY to resilience? And what happens when we get more bold about reaching out and finding 'the others' with whom we can align to weave the better?

The Opportunities in Unraveling

Things are unraveling. We can feel it in organisations, in communities, in the wider world.

What if we can relate to this unraveling as an opportunity?  

What happens when we come to understand that comfort with impermanence is KEY to resilience?

And what happens when we get more bold about reaching out and finding 'the others' with whom we can align to weave the better?

Join us for this online fireside chat, to explore what it means to navigate profound change - personally, organisationally, and collectively - and how we might hold the thread of what matters most while everything around us shifts.

Topics we’ll explore include:

  • How embracing impermanence and uncertainty is foundational to resilience
  • The tradition Hawaiian concept of Pono: what does it mean to be in "right relationship" with Life - which includes change, in ourselves, our teams, and our systems?
  • How do we build the inner capacity of "deep and abiding love" to bear witness to unraveling without being consumed by it?
  • The merits of a design principle of permanence/control versus impermanence/loving what is
  • Practices to cultivate hope and self-trust amidst the unknown

Drawing on trauma-informed leadership, organisational and system change, network thinking, somatic and energy practice, social justice work, and cross-cultural wisdom traditions, this conversation bridges the inner work of individuals with the transformation of organisations and communities.

You are invited to join this online fireside chat and Q&A at 8:00am on Saturday 13th June NZDT, to connect with two thought-leaders who's ideas will support your resilience and effectiveness in times of change.

Event details
Saturday 13th June
8:00am - 9:30am (NZDT)

About the speakers
Kelly Kamaka’alohi Asato is a keiki o ka āina (child of the land), born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands. Growing up in a deeply multicultural community shaped her worldview and opened pathways to Eastern and Western teachings and practices, which she weaves into her work with the people and organizations she serves. She is a somatic leadership facilitator and executive coach with over fifteen years of experience partnering with Global 500 companies, U.S. government agencies, and mission-driven organizations.

Through years of intensive work with senior executives, Kelly has discovered that life shapes us in a way that distances us from our truth and our authentic self. She partners with leaders in rediscovering, remembering, and re-integrating what lies in their hearts, including vulnerabilities, strengths and longings while identifying points of incoherence that limit their potential for inspiration, connection, and influence. The result is greater awareness, resilience, choice, and joy through an embodied understanding of the Self and all its possibilities.

Kelly partners with socially conscious leadership organizations working toward cultural and systemic change—grounded in connection, healing, and the repair of historical and racialized trauma—to cultivate mutuality, belonging, and sufficiency. She is the former Director of Personal Mastery at Mobius Executive Leadership and now serves as a Senior Advisor to its Executive Retreat Practice. She is also a Senior Consultant with NextGen Leadership, an affiliate of Seven Stones Leadership, and a lead facilitator for Winning From Within, the leadership model developed by Harvard Law Lecturer Erica Ariel Fox.

Kelly lives with her Watertown ʻohana (family) in the Charles River Watershed in eastern Massachusetts.


Curtis Ogden  grew up in Flint, Michigan in the upper Midwest of the United States and benefitted from experiences living overseas in Libreville, Gabon, southern France and Harare, Zimbabwe. He is currently a Senior Associate with the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) and has spent the past two decades helping individual change agents, social sector organizations, communities and networks to better collaborate for justice and sustainability. Much of Curtis’ work entails consulting with multi-organizational networks and networked organizations to strengthen and transform food, public health, education and economic development systems at local, state, regional and national levels, while doing this work with an eye towards equitable wellbeing and belonging.

Curtis is also a member of the Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics (RARE) and teaches interactive courses on “energy systems science and practice” for just and sustainable communities. HeCurtis writes regularly for IISC’s blog and the Network Weaver blog.

Curtis holds a Master’s degree in theology from Harvard Divinity School and a Bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Michigan. He lives in the Connecticut River Watershed in western Massachusetts in the US.

About Goodlife Collective

Goodlife Collective creates events for people who believe the world could be healthier - and want to help make it so. Based in Aotearoa, they bring together thinkers, doers, and curious humans to explore what it takes to rehumanise our systems and create a world we love. Expect good conversations and connections, horizon-expanding ideas, and moments that refuel your hope and agency.

Goodlife Collective operates under charitable status through the Gift Collective.

Online Fireside Chat: The Opportunities in Unraveling

Kelly Kamaka'alohi Asato & Curtis Ogden

Kelly Kamaka'alohi Asato & Curtis Ogden

Kelly Kamaka’alohi Asato is a keiki o ka āina (child of the land), born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands. She is the former Director of Personal Mastery at Mobius Executive Leadership and now serves as a Senior Advisor to its Executive Retreat Practice. She is also a Senior Consultant with NextGen Leadership, an affiliate of Seven Stones Leadership, and a lead facilitator for Winning From Within, the leadership model developed by Harvard Law Lecturer Erica Ariel Fox. Curtis Ogden is currently a Senior Associate with the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) and has spent the past two decades helping individual change agents, social sector organizations, communities and networks to better collaborate for justice and sustainability. Curtis is also a member of the Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics (RARE) and teaches interactive courses on “energy systems science and practice” for just and sustainable communities.

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Whakarongo

Why is poetry making such a huge come-back? I think it is because our souls need more than the shallow to absent meaning-making of mainstream media. Poems are a reminder of what we hold within us. I am honoured to feature this poem by Dr Art Nahill. How did I come to connect with Ant? It goes back to a conversation with a wonderful, wise wahine, Aphra Green. She suggested Dr Glenn Colquhoun as a potential speaker for a Goodlife event, to speak of his book, 'Holding the ACEs'. We did host that event, which you can read about elsewhere on this website. What a humbling reminder Glenn's talk was. You might even describe him as a bit of a, 'Gabor Mate of Aotearoa'. At his youth health clinic in Levin, he continuously, courageously, humbly, painfully - turns towards what so many of us want to - and have the privilege to - just turn away from. But, when we do, we all keep this world small, we perpetuate the disconnection that erodes our collective potential. He reminded us that, 'we need to stop growling each other. To stop pointing the finger of blame at other parts of the system, and turn our attention toward what we CAN do. We need to WITNESS. We can all make a difference if we choose. It opened something in the hearts of everyone there, we held space for something deeply vulnerable. It melted away performative public personas and we shared feelings, childhood stories, and felt the healing of being witnessed in those stories. Just coming together in a group, has a magical power unto itself. And we acknowledged ofcourse who was missing from that room. Which is something I'd like to address in 2026. Glenn shared with us that he was organising a 'hikoi for health' with his friend, fellow medical doctor and poet, Dr Art Nahill. And that is how I connected with Art and how his poetry came to be here.

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