/ About this event
We are living through rapid shifts in how we work, lead, relate, and make decisions. AI is accelerating some of those changes, but the deeper questions are human ones.
What do we want technology to make easier? What kinds of judgment, care, creativity, responsibility, and relationship do we want to protect? And how might the systems we build change when we treat those human capacities as part of the infrastructure, not as an afterthought?
In this interactive session, we’ll explore those questions through four elemental lenses: earth, water, fire, and air.
We’ll begin with a guided practice designed to help participants experience each element within themselves and notice the emotions, instincts, and ways of relating that emerge.
From there, participants will work in small groups to respond to a shared systems-change challenge. Each group will approach the same problem through a different elemental lens.
As we work, we’ll pay attention to how we feel, listen, disagree, influence one another, make decisions, and respond when different values or perspectives come into tension.
We’ll explore what becomes possible when a system is shaped by multiple ways of being rather than a single perspective.
You’ll leave with:
-A deeper language for understanding how emotion shapes decision-making and change
-Four practical lenses for recognizing different relational strengths, needs, and ways of solving problems
-Tools for creating healthier emotional and relational conditions within teams and organizations
Co-facilitated by Chelsea Borruano and Nima Imani.
Chelsea is a nonprofit founder, strategist, and facilitator whose work sits at the intersection of emotional awareness, organizational design, community-building, and systems change.
Nima is a founder and ICF-certified leadership coach who works with founders, leaders, and teams navigating uncertainty, difficult decisions, conflict, and the human side of change.
This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
🏛 About The Commons
The Commons is a community-based "Fourth Place" that catalyzes each member's path to authenticity, full self-expression, and aliveness - rooted in the belief that community is essential to that journey. Located in the heart of San Francisco, we are redefining what it means to gather, work, and connect. By day, we're a playful co-working space; by night, a vibrant community meeting house.
🚪 Arrival Info
The Commons is located at 550 Laguna St, San Francisco (corner of Hayes & Laguna).
Enter via the stairway under The Commons sign at the basement level.
It is a shoe-free space and slippers are provided. This event is a part of #SFTechWeek —a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.
