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Sync Leadership is a disabled-led programme exploring Deaf and disabled leadership, founded in 2008 by Sarah Pickthall and Jo Verrent, two disabled leaders based in the UK.
A joyful, well-attended Sync seminar in the final wonderful throes of @soundofffestival. Time spent with these brilliant Deaf Creative Leaders, reflecting on the individual impact that Sync has had since it started in Canada in 2020.
Discussions included the importance of collective, collaboration and developing young, vibrant, fresh Deaf leadership in different ways.
Next Sync Deaf Leadership steps in 2024 include online conversations with Sync Deaf Creatives in the UK, Singapore, Arabi and Australia, coming soon!
With thanks to these brilliant folks in the Zoom shot here: Connor Yuzwenko Martin (@temporalways), Dr Jenelle Rouse, Gaitrie Persaud (@enchante091216), David Bobier (@vibrafusionlab), Laurie Landry (@laurieartist), Jo-Anne Bryan (@joanne_anita), Alexa Hickox (@alexiza), Hodan Ismael, Natasha Bacchus (@couragebacchus ).
#SyncThinking #SyncThinking #DeafLeadership #Deafled #DeafCreativity #DeafLed
This Sunday, join us for `In Conversation with Sync Canada Deaf Artists` as part of @soundofffestival
It’s been 3 years since David Bobier of VibrafusionLab.com brought Sync Leadership with its unique disabled-led leadership thinking and coaching practice to Canada.
We`re delighted to be part of SOUND OFF 2024 to open up the conversation to explore, 9 months on, the state of Deaf Creative Leadership afresh in a two-hour Sunday Brunch conversation’ with D/deaf Sync Leaders including SOUND OFF’s very own founder/Director, Chris Dodd.
The conversation will have ASL, LSQ and captions.
Where: Online (Zoom)
Date: Sunday, March 10th, 10:00 AM MT / 12:00 PM ET to Noon MT / 2:00 PM ET
Cost: FREE (a free ticket is required to access this event)
Presenters: Connor Yuzwenko-Martin @temporalways and Jenelle Rouse
#DeafLeadership #Access #DisabledLed #DiverseCulture
We are so very excited to see who will be our final 8 - #SyncAtlantic folk for our @canada.council funded September online #SyncLeadership intensive. Why not apply this weekend and be in with a chance to really invest in your arts future through Intensive leadership learning & 1:1 coaching? Associate facilitators: @seanleelee1 @temporalways Deadline for Applications: Monday 14th September. www.syncleadership.com Image of Sync folk in a previous online session, Sync Ontario, 2020
Just over a week until we close the portal for applications for @canada.council funded SyncLeadership program 2023. You can apply in Word, mp3 or mp4 too by Monday 14th August. Catch our film on when you click through. www.syncleadership.com in ASL, LSQ versions. Hear from our Sync Alumni about what to expect and what it has meant to them. Make sure you get a letter of recommendation, and answer all our 5 questions too. There are 8 places, one could be yours but only if you apply. Be in with a chance to really change things. If you have questions or queries, then email us [email protected]. We are longing to hear from you, Sync Atlantic folks! #disabledleadership #Deafleadership #disabledled
We are running our 4th online Sync Intensive program in September
and there are 2 weeks left to be in with a chance of securing one of the 8 places. We`re looking for 8 exceptional arts and culture folks who have natural leadership flair and who are from the Canadian Atlantic region including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island. Leadership isn`t about a job but about style and drive. (There will also be 2 places earmarked for people wanting to be part of Sync from outside these areas)
It’s an easy enough application process but you will need to have a letter of recommendation and show that you’ve been active and have made impact in arts and culture for at least 3 years.
Watch the film of those who have already done the program and find out what changed for them through Sync! www.syncleadership.com
#Disabled-led #Leadership #BreakingthroughGlassCeilings
Well hello!! Calling all Canadian Deaf, disabled, neurodiverse arts & culture folk wanting to make some serious professional moves. Why don’t you take some time this w/e to think about what you want to shift, change and lead in your life by applying for one of 8 places on our September #SyncAtlantic programme. Our promotional videos share @focusonabilitylife @thealexbulmer @multilen5 @temporalways reflections on the programme. There’s an AD version and ASL/LSQ too. A straightforward application process, written or on video. All you need is to be free to do all the designated 6x3hr sessions in Sept and have someone to recommend you! We sort ALL the access so you can focus on being you! #canadacouncilforthearts #artsnovascotia Deadline:14th August. Go to www.syncleadership.com and click through..#SyncAtlantic has 6 places earmarked for people living in the Canada Atlantic region and 2 beyond. Image description. A still image of Connor wearing a burnt orange T-shirt smiling and signing an ASL hello with Hodan signing hello in an LSQ sign bubble n the top left of the frame. There is a Sync Leadership logo in the top left! The caption unsurprisingly reads ‘hello’!
Our Sync Leadersip intensive in Canada this September is for 8 leaders wanting to further their authentic influence and impact in arts and culture. 6 places for those from the Atlantic region: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and 2 from out of province. Straightforward application by 14th August: written or signed with a letter of recommendation. Click through for more info www.syncleadership.com
3 weeks until our 14th August deadline for our signature @CanadaCouncil funded online accessible intensive leadership and coaching program #SyncAtlantic for Deaf, disabled, neurodiverse arts and culture folks in Canada wanting to make radical change in their lives and the lives of others. #Disabled-led #DeafLeadership. Facilitated by @sarahpickthall @joverrent Guest tutors include @seanleelee1 @temporalways
#SyncSummerSessions Day2 - making our promo for our upcoming Sync Atlantic intensive and a deep dive into Deaf-led creativity and leadership. Working alongside Deaf filmmaker Alexa Hickox, we explored the passion, the potential the pitfalls and strategies to take the space and share the load. Beyond brilliant to meet Connor Yuzwenko Martin at last and work with my beautiful friend Jenelle Rouse and pioneer David Bobier again, Pics of @multilen5 @temporalways being filmed at Tangled Art + Disability
That deliciously warm feeling when things go well and they really did for our first #SyncSummerSession @tangled_arts. #SyncShorelines was designed to explore the qualities and potential in blind and low vision leadership for us all working alongside @thealexbulmer @fekkledfudge @focusonabilitylife and with @y.k_kong recording our burbles. And thankyou @bzlocke for these pics of our 3 contributors and myself facing camera smiling on a sofa and around a table with Yousef’s mics putting the world to rights. #vulnerability #fear #abundance #SyncLeadership #disabledleadership #blindleadership #flossing
So great to catch the extraordinary preview of Perceptual Archaeology @crowstheatre written and performed by the superlative @thealexbulmer #fireandrescueteam with @bzlocke @rachaelwalker01 @focusonabilitylife and the joy of #Sync #SyncCanada #SyncAustralia together in person in Toronto and our journeys and our power and our creative and compelling #interdependence and joy!
Delighted to launch this new Sync programme for 2023. Reposting with correct url! Please share widely.
So ta da - here is SYNC TWILIGHT an exciting stretch of a programme launches this week!
Why i would facilitate this epic collaboration at midnight between 24 Sync folk, 12 from Australia and 12 from Canada? Well, because why wouldn`t I? I am so passionate about the power of coaching as an intrinsic part of leadership and Sync Leadership, it`s what makes it and it makes the leadership theory real.
With Canada Council for the Arts and Australia Council for the Arts, we`re training 8 people in Action Learning facilitation and we`ll be huddling in groups over 6 months to do this particular form of group coaching so we`re all skilled up in it but also talking about Deaf, disabled and neurodiverse leadership today in our societies, creating a powerful force field for change.
Pic: circles of Sync Alumni involved in our Sync Twilight programme smiling against a light mint green grainy striped background with the shape of Canada in green and the shape of Australia in brown. Logos of Australia Council for the Arts Canada Council for the Arts, Sync logos, SarahPickthall.com
Oh and if you`re an Australian resident, you can now apply for our intensive 2 week programme 8 places up for application. 4 weeks to apply: syncleadership.com Deadline: Tues 18th October. #Justsayin
Sync Canada applicants, check out the impact of #SyncLeadership as Sync facilitator @MorwennaCollett shares her thoughts on reconnecting with #SyncAus
published on the website now. sync leadership.com
"So my ‘ah ha’ moment during Sync 2021 was that leadership is not a destination that one arrives at, nor something that is set in stone. It can ebb and flow and has really been more of a continuum for me, and I hope it continues in this way." Morwenna Collett
Apply for Sync Canada B.C. by 28th Feb @auBritish #UKAUSeason @BCArtsCouncil @caBritish @CanadaCouncil
Thinking of applying to Sync in Canada and want to find our more from previous Sync participants?
Go to www.syncleadership.com and check out #ThinkSync pieces.
"Doing the Sync Leadership programme was life changing for me. Being a part of a group that centred disabled leadership changed how I saw myself. Just being in a place where we are heard and seen – and held in a gentle open space for us as disabled people with all our trauma and intersections – this was life changing. I always feel so restless, anxious to being exposed – but suddenly I felt like I could be still and be seen. It was unlike any experience I had ever had."
Liz Cooper Sync Aus Alumni
@auBritish #UKAUSeason @canada.council @sarahpickthall
Have great ideas but need a peer group and coaching to shape your leadership vision in the arts? Watch a video with @multilen5 @auriclus @temporalways at www.syncleadership.com to find out more.
Apply for Sync BC deadline 28 Feb #ASL #LSQ #InclusiveLeadership #ArtsLeadership #CanadaArts #BCArts #VancouverArts #VictoriaArts #IndigenousArts #IndigenousBC
@azimuth_theatre @stirvancouver @urbaninkVAN @puentetheatre @banffcentre @theatrealberta @intrepidtheatre @pushfestival @cripsie @embraceartsf
Are you a Deaf or disabled artist, curator, or manager working in the arts sector and want to develop ways to influence, shape, and strengthen your career? Take the next step in your growth with Sync Leadership, a program designed by and for Deaf and disabled leaders!
Six intensive sessions, three hours each. PST 10-1pm
Starting March 28. Deadline to apply February 28.
Apply at www.syncleadership.com
#ASL #LSQ #InclusiveLeadership #ArtsLeadership #CanadaArts
#BCArts #VancouverArts #VictoriaArts #IndigenousArts #IndigenousBC
A fair few in person moves for ‘22 already shifting to online so spent this Saturday munching macarons to find the right taste and texture for an online May 1st event for Sync, for Alex Bulmer’s CoMotion Festival ‘22. Image: a mouth open and inside you can see crushed baby pink n pistachio green macaron.
"Sync Coaching changed my approach to being a better leader, helping me to know myself better through practicing active listening, and asking, or allowing others to ask me, questions" @canada.council @britishcouncilcanada @vibrafusionlab #Deaf #Disabled #DisabledLeadership #Disabled-led #Deaf-led #Coaching #Leadership #Canada #Quebec #AccessibleLeadershipLearning #InclusiveLeadership. IMAGE: B.Paul Tshuma conducting the United Tribulation Choir
As one Sync course closed in sunny Adelaide, Australia 5 years ago, @joverrent & I are still here, opening a new Sync space this Monday in the Fall of Quebec, Canada. Such strange surreal times for us to #SyncThink our way into a more representative arts and culture future & more #Deafled #Disabledled strategic thinking #Coaching #leadershipcoaching #leadershipdevelopment @britishcouncilcanada @canada.council @vibrafusionlab @sarahpickthall @pickthall_coaching www.syncleadership.com