We're thrilled in welcome Jo Ann Prompongsatorn Farrant and Saima Husain to gs staff!
Please also note that applications for Embodied Leadership in Durham, NC are due on March 19th.
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Dear generative somatics (gs) community,
This new decade began with indescribable climate disasters and threats of global war. Many of us also entered 2020 in major life and work transitions, full of both grief and joy. As we face into all of it, we at gs extend wishes for ground and center, and hopes for a year that brings political power and liberatory victories.
Today, we have exciting news!
We are delighted to welcome Jo Ann Prompongsatorn Farrant as our Interim Executive Director, and Saima Husain as our Resource Development Manager. Jo Ann will be doing critical work with our staff and board, preparing us for our next permanent leader and phase. Saima will support the overall resourcing of gs, with specific focus on foundation fundraising.
Please read more about Jo Ann and Saima below and join us in welcoming them to gs.
With gratitude,
gs staff, senior leadership, & board
(Aja, Chanda, Chris, Danielle, Mahfam, Raquel, RJ, Staci, Yashna)
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I am both ecstatic and humbled to join the gs community as the Interim Executive Director. It is a true honor to be invited into this role. The upcoming months will be critical in setting the stage for a successful transition for permanent leadership. As a super fan, donor, and supporter of generative somatics, it is a dream come true to bring my executive expertise to the organizational work of this very special community. I look forward to sharing my talents and learning with all of you.
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Jo Ann Prompongsatorn Farrant
integrates her doctorate studies in inclusive leadership for social justice, as she engages executives, staff, and board members to investigate the complex ways power and injustice manifest in organizations. Prior to gs, Jo Ann held roles as the Interim Co-Executive Director at TransForm, an Oakland nonprofit, and the Chief Operating Officer at Learning for Action, an SF consulting firm. She is a graduate and apprentice teacher of Practice in Transformative Action at the East Bay Meditation Center. Jo Ann is also a medical qigong therapy practitioner and life coach. Jo Ann incorporates a healing approach to support her group and one-on-one work with social justice activists, advocates, and change-makers. Jo Ann's approach recognizes that personal transformation requires an inherent link to social justice and systemic change to be effective. And, true systemic change is not fully effective until individuals engage to heal from personal trauma.
Jo Ann loves to inspire the playful spirit of others through her humor, the colors and textiles of her everyday fashion, her costume collection, dance moves, and memories captured on her camera phone.
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Saima Husain
joins the gs staff team as the Resource Development Manager with over 20 years of experience in social justice movements. Saima has worked in a variety of capacities from research and writing to direct services, organizing, and fundraising in the areas of human rights, gender justice, and immigrant rights. In addition to her paid work, Saima organizes with LA COiL (Communities Organizing for Liberation). Saima took her first gs course (SOEL!) in 2014 and joined teacher training in 2018. Saima was born in Pakistan and raised in four countries. She calls many places home but has lived in Southern California the longest - 13 years. Saima is also a mama to a feisty toddler, Amaliya, together they enjoy belly laughs, impromptu kitchen dance parties, and discussing the expansive night sky.
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Learning and practicing with gs has had a profound impact on my life, leadership, work, parenting, and relationships and I've seen it transform people and organizations I care about. I'm thrilled to be working with gs to ensure
that more people have access to somatics for their individual healing and transformation and so our social justice organizations and movements can be more powerful and aligned with our values and so we win!
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The application deadline for
Embodied Leadership is
March 19th. Please consider applying or pass these opportunities along to others who are a good fit.
Embodied Leadership in Durham, NC
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