Time
Thursday, September 19, 2024, 7 - 10 pm
Friday, September 20, 2024, 9 am - 5 pm
Place
The Polyopportunity Evening (19th): SYPartners, 395 Hudson St 8th floor, New York, NY 10014
The Polyopportunity Gathering (20th): Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027
Ticket
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$475, including food and beverages
OR
Become a member of the House of Beautiful Business and attend THE POLYOPPORTUNITY for free! Annual membership fee is 475 Euro (approx. $530) and includes many other benefits.
Join the Acosta Institute and the House of Beautiful Business in New York City during UN Week to write a powerful counter-narrative to the polycrisis: THE POLYOPPORTUNITY.
With a select group of leaders, experts, creatives, and changemakers, we’ll explore how to amplify positive trends across disciplines and communities, how to nurture and develop the links between these trends, and how to build the foundation for a future that we want.
THE POLYOPPORTUNITY will feature dynamic panel discussions, artistic performances, playful collaboration, and communal brainstorming sessions. You will leave inspired, connected, and ready to reframe your understanding of the current moment.
Tickets cost $475. Or become a member of the House of Beautiful Business (for 475 Euro per year) and attend for free (in addition to enjoying many other member benefits).
WAKANYI HOFFMAN
Indigenous knowledge scholar
D. GRAHAM BURNETT
Historian of science, curator/writer/editor, attention activist
GAYA HERRINGTON
Wellbeing economist, vice president of sustainability research at Schneider Electric
DAVE & HELEN EDWARDS
Researchers, co-founders, Artificiality
FRANCESCA HOGI
Love coach
BRANDON VAIDYANATHAN
Sociologist, professor, founder, Beauty at work
CHRISTINE CHOI
Brand expert, partner, M13
DR. YOLANDA SEALEY-RUIZ
Poet, writer, professor
AMÁNDA EFTHIMIOU
Psychedelic wellness advocate, founder, Integra
LAURA FRANÇOIS
Socio-environmental impact strategist, founder, Awe Exchange
JESSICA ORKIN
Business transformation leader, CEO, SYPartners
ORLANDO VILLARRAGA
Poet, musician, artist
DR. ANGEL ACOSTA
Healing-centered educator; founder and chair, Acosta Institute
TIM LEBERECHT
Author, curator, and co-founder and co-CEO, House of Beautiful Business
Thursday, September 19, 2024, 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
⬤ THE POLYOPPORTUNITY EVENING
Hosted by SYPartners, 395 Hudson St 8th floor, New York, NY 10014
7:00 - 8:00 pm
Drinks, snacks, and mingling
8:00 - 9:00 pm
Business Romanticism, Curation, and the Life-Centered Economy
Tim Leberecht, curator, author, and co-founder and co-CEO of the House of Beautiful Business, in conversation with Dr. Angel Acosta, pioneer of healing-centered education, founder and chair of the Acosta Institute
Special guests: AI thinkers Dave and Helen Edwards; neuroscientist and wellbeing expert Amánda Efthimiou; indigenous knowledge scholar Wakanyi Hoffman; sociologist and Beauty at Work founder Brandon Vaidyanathan; brand and communications innovator Christine Choi; love coach Francesca Hogi; poet and educator Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz; awe and climate action researcher Laura Francois; and business transformation leader Jessica Orkin.
9:00 - 10:00 pm
Even more mingling
Friday, September 20, 2024, 9:30 am - 5:00 pm
⬤ THE POLYOPPORTUNITY GATHERING
Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027
9:30 am
Doors open
10:00 - 10:15 am
Welcome by the hosts
Dr. Angel Acosta (Acosta Institute) and Tim Leberecht (House of Beautiful Business)
Musical performance by Orlando Villarraga
10:15 - 10:45 am
Becoming cultural doulas: nurturing a new epoch
How can we expand our ways of thinking and being to embrace the polyopportunity in front of us? What role can we play as midwives to this new cultural paradigm?
In this collaborative exercise, we explore the concept of becoming cultural doulas—guides who help societies reframe our approach to the challenges of our times.
10:45 am - 1:30 pm
THE OPPORTUNITIES & POWERS
Personal and Collective Wellbeing
Gaya Herrington – Limits
D. Graham Burnett – Attention
Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz – Racial Literacy
Francesca Hogi – Love
Flourishing through Transcendence
Laura Francois – Awe
Brandon Vaidyanathan – Beauty
Amánda Efthimiou – Integration
12:30 pm
Lunch break and somatic exercise with Amánda Efthimiou
1:00 pm
Uplifting AI
Dave and Helen Edwards – Adaptation
Wakanyi Hoffman – Wisdom
A More Conscious Business
Jessica Orkin – Leadership
Christine Choi – Story
1:45 - 3:30 pm
Deep work in groups led by the speakers
3:30 - 4:00 pm
Coffee break
4:00 - 5:00 pm
CLOSING TOWNHALL
Speakers groupwork share-out and plenary discussion
Closing ritual
Musical performance by Orlando Villarraga
5:00 pm
END
