Presenter: Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond
Workshop Description
In this playful interactive workshop, participants join Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond to explore her Bridge to Thriving Framework© as an anchor for educational design. The six dimensions of thriving are examined in relationship to students, learning conditions, and the participants themselves. Attendees pay particular attention to human development and intersectionality as they consider a series of questions and examples. Together, participants are invited to dream through the activation of wholeness, visionary imagining, and practices of restoration.
Bio
Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond
CEO of Wise Chipmunk LLC
Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond, PhD, is author of the Bridge to Thriving Framework© and CEO of Wise Chipmunk LLC, an education and research firm. There she leverages over 25 years of work in education, research, and leadership to offer learning opportunities and advising to students, educators, organizations, and other entities including the Congressional Black Mental Health Brain Trust and the Congressional Black Caucus’ Suicide Prevention Taskforce whose work supported advancement of the Pursuing Equity in Mental Health Act. The Wise Chipmunk ethos is to do deep work through collaboration, affirmation, resourcefulness, joy, and ease.
Dr. Kia focuses on human development, transformative justice, and healing justice in her work. Her approach is grounded in the knowledge that design driven by those furthest from power improves everyone’s lives, so it centers the wholeness and wisdom of people experiencing complex oppression first. Her goal is to support people and organizations as they face their fears, cultivate abundance, and develop a principled, perseverant approach to getting free.
Dr. Kia’s diverse clients have included LeanIn, Bank Street College of Education, Brooklyn Friends School, Fetch Rewards, the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, Stanford New Schools, the National Black Justice Coalition, The Steve Fund, The Acosta Institute, Share our Strength, Camp Fire, and WE Teachers, as well as private individuals.
Dr. Kia speaks widely and has published in academic and popular press. You can follow her on LinkedIn @kiadarling.