Integrating Altered States in Decision-Making

Jenny Elissen (Founder, Giant Leapers), Bennet Zelnner, PhD (Associate Professor, University of Maryland), Rollin McCarty, PhD (Executive VP and Director of Research, HeartMath Institute), Dr. Peter Merry (Co-founding Chief Innovation Officer Ubiquity University) | Moderated by Barry Popma

Thursday 31 October, 8PM CET (7PM GMT, 3PM EST, 12PM PST)

Online via Zoom

We face significant societal challenges that require us to expand our perception and understanding in order to access the fullest range of available information. This event aims to support policymakers, executives, workers, and students in enhancing their capacity for sensitive decision-making and future awareness.

The event will explore the potential for leadership and personal growth through various modalities such as psychedelics and plant medicine, heart coherence and breathwork, and quantum science and practice.

Before diving into frameworks like Theory U and Daniel Kahneman’s Systems 1 and 2 thinking, it’s essential to be open to “entering other fields”—embracing traditional wisdom and techniques that are now more accessible to us.

These approaches, while established in personal development, are still relatively new in professional settings, particularly when applied to decision-making processes that align with future demands.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERs

Jenny Elissen is a creative strategist, ‘waste warrior’ and founder of consultancy agency Giant Leapers. Entrepreneur and impact investor in new system innovations. In the past, she was CEO of TBWA Amsterdam and supervisor at Bunq. She is now active in the RVC at Pymwymic and Transavia, among others. Author of the book From Big Ideas to Giant Leaps and chairman and director of various NGOs and companies that strive for Giant Leaps. As an impact investor, she is involved in young, quantum creative companies and wants to contribute to a new, better balanced world.

Jenny Elissen is one of the biggest names in the marketing industry and is among the top female entrepreneurs in the Netherlands. She worked for 25 years in branding, new business development and marketing intelligence.

Bennet A. Zelner, Ph.D. researches, teaches, and advises on regenerative economics, psychedelics, and leadership. Current projects include ongoing work on the Pollination Approach, a regenerative economic approach to delivering psychedelic-assisted mental health treatment; and the Connected Leadership Study (with Rachelle Sampson), which examines the effects of psychedelic experiences on decision-making by organizational leaders.

Bennet currently serves as Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He also serves as a director or advisory board member for Usona Institute, Brooklyn Psychedelic Society, Global Psychedelic Society, Nautilus Psychedelic Medicine Institute.

Bennet is a frequent speaker, conference panelist, and podcast guest. He has most recently appeared at South by Southwest 2024 in Austin, INSIGHT 2023 in Berlin, and MAPS Psychedelic Science 2023 in Denver.

Rollin McCraty ia scientist, psychophysiologist, executive vice president and director of research at HeartMath Institute, a professor at Florida Atlantic University, member of the Global Coherence Steering committee and project coordinator of GCI’s Global Coherence Monitoring System.

McCraty is a psychophysiologist whose interests include the physiology of emotion. One of his primary areas of focus is the mechanisms by which emotions influence cognitive processes, behavior, health and the global interconnectivity between people and Earth’s energetic systems. McCraty and the members of his research team have worked in joint partnership with research groups at Stanford University, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center in Saudi Arabia and the University of Lithuania among many others.

Dr. Peter Merry is co-founding Chief Innovation Officer at Ubiquity University.

He is one of the world’s top experts on transformative leadership, working in and across different sectors, training government ministers, CEOs and civil society leaders. His experience includes facilitating integral change processes in multinational corporations, and government ministries and in multistakeholder initiatives with global stakeholders. He has also spent many years in the not-for-profit sector.

He is a recognised expert in the field of futureproof learning, evolutionary systems dynamics and integral leadership. He had his first book published in English and Dutch (Evolutionary Leadership, 2005) a second one in 2019 called Why Work? on designing work for people and planet, and a third one in November 2020 called Leading from the Field.

He has a PhD from Ubiquity’s Wisdom School on volution theory.

Barry Popma is the founder of the company Flink which is committed to realizing impact in (healthcare) organizations; beyond walls, egos and systems. He has a MBA in healthcare management), a post doc in boedhhist psychology and mindfulness, is a certified management consultant (CMC) and is a PhD candidate in integrative psychedelic healing (AWE – Ubiquity)

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