🌎👑 MEET THIS WEEK'S CLIMATE QUEEN!
Joanna Bowers is a screenwriter and filmmaker based in Hong Kong. Her first feature documentary film “The Helper” profiled the maternal sacrifices of Hong Kong’s migrant domestic workers. It had a three month sold-out theatrical run in cinemas and went onto international distribution. And her most recent film, “reFashioned” profiled Hong Kongers who are innovating solutions to the textile waste problems caused by fast fashion. It premiered at top international film festivals and went on to be released globally.
She also recently produced Green Queen's first podcast series “Green Queen In Conversation…"
💭 What drives you to do what you do?
I’m passionate about creating positive impact in the world through the film and television content I create.
#GreenQueen#innovation#sustainability#climatechange#climateaction#emissions
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Our Chief Sustainability Officer, Michelle Ryan, spoke on BBC Radio Jersey last Sunday, discussing all things sustainability and the inaugural Sustainable Business Conference Channel Islands. If you missed it, you can catch the interview on the link below — tune in from 1h 13 minutes.
"The misconception about sustainable finance is that people think it’s only about financial service organisations becoming more sustainable internally. However, the most significant impact a financial institution can make is through the money it deploys and the capital it manages. This includes fiduciary services and trust companies that administer wealth and provide corporate services. It’s about asking ourselves: Are we financing positive change, or are we continuing to fund actions that harm the planet and people? Every decision we make contributes one way or another.'"
https://lnkd.in/eiGqdyfi#sustainablefinance#sustainability#impactinvesting#ethicalinvestments#carbonfootprint#esg#sustainablebusiness#sdgs
A remarkable documentary about the South Korean Haenyo, female divers and the struggles they are facing because of climate change and toxic waste. A way of life vanishing, please watch.
Have you ever wondered what's it like to clean rivers from plastic pollution in an international cooperation? The Danube Transnational Programme Tid(y)Up (2020-2023) was exactly that. Doing important research and large scale river cleanups with an amazing partnership. See for yourself in this short documentary, what have we achieved! SUBTITLED IN ALL DANUBE LANGUAGES 😉
#dtptidyup, #interregtidyup
The Way Out Is In | Accelerating Systems Change From The Inside Out | Rapid Transformational Deep/EMDR/Power Coaching for Passionate Leaders In A World On Fire | Thrival Skills Workshops | Camino SoulJourneys
THE AS YET UNDERRATED *PSYCHOLOGICAL* BARRIERS TO CHANGE AND (SELF)LEADERSHIP: I don't think there is #leadership or #thoughtleadership without, at times, acute #discomfort. OR: Being willing to step into acute #discomfort is one of THE hallmarks of relevant #leaders/#leadership and #changemakers.
The fear of collective judgment - never more acute than when speaking on stage to be judged by thousands - is hardwired into our paleolithic brains and nervous systems. To our distant ancestors living in caves, collective judgment could mean expulsion from the group, which back then meant certain #death.
This #psychological#barrier to the #change we need in this 21st century is still woefully ignored and underrated.
This outdated program in our brains is one of THE main reasons why not more people become leaders/why leaders are not stepping up to the next level of visibility and impact.
Here's what we can do to overcome this psychological barrier:
👉 You can learn how to disrupt the outdated stress reactions in your nervous system. We now have tools that literally disrupt, block, and rewire the synapses in your brain that are required when automated stress reactions in your body get triggered.
Knowing how to get down from a 10/10 stress level to a 0/10 within minutes is an essential life- & (self-)leadership skill in today's #VUCA and #BANI world.
👉 Embrace #vulnerability, #authenticity, and #imperfection.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AN #EXPERT TO START TO LEAD!
The situation we're in - facing #climatechange, #biodiversityloss/mass extinctions, #AI, #war/political instability, etc. - is unprecedented. Asking powerful questions can be as potent as -or be even more potent than- promoting already accepted answers. Your expertise grows alongside the questions you pose.
The questions you are most afraid to ask are most likely the most relevant and potent ones.
👉 Connect to a sense of #purpose that is bigger than your worst fears. Purpose generates #courage. There is no change process without courage.
👉 Be willing to be uncomfortable and GET COMFORTABLE WITH BEING UNCOMFORTABLE almost ALL OF THE TIME.
If you are not ever squirming with discomfort, you are probably not yet moving and making any change happen.
Ask every single day: 'Am I uncomfortable yet?' as a new measure of your progress and growth.
👉 Recognizing and updating negative #self-beliefs that may be lurking in your unconscious mind. "I am not good enough" / "I am stupid" / "I am powerless" etc. are all beliefs driven by the outdated survival software in our brains.
They tend to be the #rootcause of your internal barrier to the change & leadership that you deep down know you *really* want. Making these deep shifts, work on the level of the unconscious mind.
When this happens, you shift to a new and powerful energetic state that is magnetic.
If you would like to accelerate & increase your impact -without working harder, more or faster!- get in touch.
This stuff is my jam! :-)
10 YEARS AGO this month, my Mainstage TED talk came out. It had been filmed a year earlier in Feb 2013 in what was one of the most terrifying experiences of my life.
Imagine arriving in LA for the first time and being surrounded by a few hundred celebrities and world leaders. You are a young Australian woman who had been hand-picked from several hundred submissions by the head of TED in a global talent search after being nominated by a former TED speaker.
At that time, the gender ratio was way off and there were not a lot of ladies roaming around the convention center halls. Also, the number of AU main stage speakers had been very few.
I went on stage after Amanda Palma sang, sat next to Neil Garman as I waited, and rode the elevator with Herbie Handcock and Sergey Brin. It's very very hard to express the intensity of this experience and the kind of self-composure (I don't even know if that is the right word?) you need to be in this very elite space and still stride up onto that stage and try not to fall off it. Physically and metaphorically.
To top it all off, Chris Anderson (the head of TED) had given me the highly coveted full 18 minutes on stage. This meant the pressure and expectations were very high, and I had more than one person ask me in the days before "what have you done to deserve to be here?" in a way that was more "why are you here" than "I'm interested in what you have to say?"
Honestly, I am still to this day surprised that I actually completed this talk and that the video was nowhere near as bad as how I had imagined it would be in my head for the year it took for this to come out.
One day I will share the full extreme experience of that week and the highs and lows of accomplishing things you set your mind to. But for now, I will just say that I am very very proud of this talk as it was a truly deep personal challenge to get up on this stage and deliver a speech about the need for change, the science we have to make it, and to impart some of my deep passion for sustainability in a way that would help others engage with the change.
https://lnkd.in/ghKr7Drg#reflection#lifeexpereinces#ted#tenyears#tedtalks#makechange#sustainability#systemschange#overcomingfear#publicspeaking
If challenges know no borders, neither do solutions. International cooperation, grounded in human rights, is crucial to designing sustainable solutions to today's massive challenges.
To enable dialogue, foster inclusive participation, address the roots of mistrust, & facilitate peace and development.
We must think longer-term and be the voice of reason, based on evidence and facts, for people everywhere. For future generations. And for our planet.
#SummitOfTheFuture: Human rights must be at the heart of implementing the Pact for the Future, taking us towards a more peaceful & prosperous future.
💡Is your #board ready for a new wave of #climate scrutiny?
🌱‘The European Court of Human Rights's ruling, in favour of the more than 2,000 Swiss women who brought the case, is expected to resonate in court decisions across Europe and beyond, and to embolden more communities to bring #climate cases against governments.’ #publicpolicy#sustainability#humanrights
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1moThanks so much Green Queen Media - honored to be included as a part of this series!