The Perils of Polarization and How Self-Liberation Transforms Leadership
Through candid accounts of stereotypically vilified individuals—a jihadist, gang member, and white supremacist—as well as additional interviews with people who have been equally cruel and those who have experienced profound victimization, we learn how rigorous inner work can shift even deeply polarized social issues for the better. Piercing the often unconscious and destructive patterns that arise from a legacy of abuse gives rise to a clear leadership methodology, one that heals individuals across racial, political, social, and cultural divides.
These stories of reckoning with trauma, pain, and socialized identity reveal how inner change can affect societal reconciliation; how it in fact directly transforms community, workplace culture, and society as a whole.
Through a combination of personal experience, relational dynamics, research, experimentation, and profound revelations, Gareth Gwyn has come to see how the world’s unrest is fueled by the unrest within us as individuals. This offers us a window to view how and where we can personally make a difference.
She studies how polarizing social topics trigger our internal work, and how change sourced from within is the most effective and lasting change. The intersection of the self-realization journey, divisive social issues, and the unknown generates an interdependent and restorative foundation for the transformation of our inner and outer worlds.
Gareth facilitates cross-cultural integrated leadership experiences using films as realization catalysts through the process of reflective dialogue and provides leadership development workshops through igniting self-realization through story-sharing. In addition, she is creating community and space for stories about change-generators on these journeys.
Gareth collaborates with others on a variety of topics, including:
• Leadership development that leverages storytelling and inductive community-centered dialogue
• The self-realization journey in the context of social and polarized issues
• Shadow work and realization of human wholeness
• Consciousness and technology
• Science and other experiments that make the unseen world visible
• Exploring oppressor-victim dynamics
• Intrapersonal tools for handling complex emotion
• Consciousness and activism
• Translating consciousness philosophy into everyday living
Her recent work as Founder and Director of Let’s See Labs includes producing and directing several short films:
• Something to Give
• Let’s See Labs Impact Series
• Let’s See Labs 2019 Overview Reel
• When You Find Yourself You Can See Everybody Else
• TheIdentityofBeingHuman
• Debb: A Journey in Realizing Wholeness
• Abundant Peace
• The Power of Movement
• Sourcing Change from Within: The Role of Self-Realization in Societal Change
• What My Heart Wants To Say
Gareth won Best Director at the Global Impact Film Festival 2020 for the short film: “Something to Give.”
Holding a Master’s Degree in Digital Communication from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, she is a graduate of Nine Gates Mystery School and Esoteric School and Luminous Awareness Institute, and has studied across extensive international contexts. Her experience includes over seven years working in communications, program design, and change management at one of the world’s largest multinational contract research organizations.
Gareth lives in Asheville, North Carolina and practices yoga, water skiing, and aerial silks. She enjoys connecting with spiritual communities and exploring the mountains with her dog, Byron.
