Events & Appearances
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Relational Attunement Workshop
Never Done Before Festival Friday, November 15, 2024 | 5:00 - 6:45am (CET) . Facilitated by Liya James, Cofounder of CDSD, and Shannon Stott, Improv On and Off the Stage
When two or more people come together, an invisible group nervous system is formed, whether we are aware of it or not. This group nervous system is shaped moment by moment by the individual nervous systems of each participant. As facilitators, the ability to tune into this invisible landscape, along with the ability to notice our own responses to it, is a crucial skill. This "Jedi-level" skill enables us to address invisible disturbances and restore psychological safety and flow within the relational space.
In this session, Liya James, co-founder of the Center for Deep Self Design, and Shannon Stott, founder of Improv On and Off Stage, will lead participants in exploring the neuroscience and evolutionary psychology behind this phenomenon. Attendees will also engage in improv games and experiential activities to experience how to attune, sense, and respond to shifts in both their own and the group's nervous system.
How to Befriend Yourself for Greater Personal Power
Sun’s interview on the Entrepreneurs On Fire podcast is Live. Tune in to learn more about why Inner Work matters for entrepreneurs, creatives, leaders, and human beings in general. And how Deep Self Design supports people on an entrepreneurial journey and how to lead with deeper confidence.
Seeking Play Podcast
Our Founder Sun appeared on episode 12 of the Seeking Play podcast with Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy, co-founders of the service design studio How Might We. In this conversation, you will find Sun traversing so many topics, from overcoming adversity and resilience to parenting and play and primitive ancestral wisdom of play, the value of being present, facing the unexpected, embracing chaos for creativity, designing systems for collaboration, softening separation, and so much more.
Recent Appearances & Replays
Making Friends with All of You - Live Q&A
For the inaugural crew of the Inner-Science curious
June 25, 2024, 1 - 2PM CST
After a combined 30 years of research, testing, design and application, Liya James and I are at last doing what we were born to do, teaching what we were born to teach: The What, How, and Who Cares?! as it relates to #InnerWork and the InnerWorld. With warm hearts and open minds, we hosted our first Live Q&A for an Intro Workshop coming up and were unexpectedly gifted this marvelous infodoodle + animation from one of our favorite collaborators, Wade Forbes. 😍
At CDSD, we use visual thinking and multi-sensory facilitation to help learners do brave work - work that leaves both YOUR world and THE world better than you found it.
We have only just begun.
Live infodoodle of our Q&A with interested and curious learners, from collaborator and visual practitioner, Wade Forbes.
Deep Self-Design: An Empathy-Based Practice for Working with Clients and Organizations
Healers & Helpers Summit
February 15, 2024, 5:30 PM EST
Our Founder, Sunni Brown, is presenting at the Healers and Helpers Summit alongside 30+ other luminaries, top thinkers, teachers, and best-selling authors, sharing ideas and insights that push us to understand better who we are and fuel us with the confidence to surface our talents and life purpose. In other words, to self-actualize as we find our way in the world and create ourselves. This FREE five-day event is brought to you by our friend Jonas Koffler. We are so glad to be a part of and support such an empowering community.
Relational Attunement Workshop
At the Voltage Control Facilitation Summit
February 06, 2024, 11-12:30 PM CST
Our Cofounder Liya James will be leading a workshop at the Voltage Control Facilitation Summit. In this interactive session, she will unveil some of the latest frameworks from CDSD to help you activate your relational intelligence and improve your skills in listening, understanding, and mutual responsiveness in any collaboration setting.
A Joyful Life is One Continuous Mistake
Episode 154, the Conspiracy of Goodness Podcast.
Sun recently appeared on this wonderful podcast hosted by Dr. Lynda Ulrich. Enjoy this enlightening conversation!
Chicago Tent Talk
February 12, 2024 5:00-6:00 pm EST
Join us in this dialogue with the fantastic Russ U about the Deep Self Design method - how it's a tonic for things you long for and an antidote to things you don't.
Deep Self Design with Sunni (Sun) Brown | Femme Futurists Society
Episode 31, Femme Futurists Society Podcast
In this conversation: Deep Self Design, The Doodle Revolution, inner engineering, Gamestorming, collaboration fluency, being a best friend to yourself and Sun’s life motto: shoshaku jushaku (one continuous mistake).
These are just some of the directions the conversation takes. Enjoy!
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