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Take Heart Now Online Series: Aziza Hasan and Andrea Hodos

Online via Zoom

Spiritual Tools for Centering and Compassion Our speakers for this session are Aziza Hasan and Andrea Hodos.  To learn more about each of them, click on their name to read their bios. Dr. Lo Sprague will be joined by Aziza Hasan and Andrea Hodos, Executive Director and Associate Director of NewGround: A Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change. In this past year, Aziza  Hasan and Andrea Hodos have been asked repeatedly by news media and multiple organizations to address The War in Israel/Palestine.  They have listened deeply to the voices of their communities raw with grief and utter desperation. They have responded with compassion and thoughtfulness, even as they too, have been impacted. Personally. Painfully. When we reached out to them at our Annual Guibord Center Dinner a year ago, not just as our advisors but as our friends, we wanted to hear about them. How were they?  their children? their families? their friends? How are they today, one year later? and is it even possible to find centeredness and compassion amid the unrelenting heart-break of war?   We are deeply grateful to Aziza and Andrea for their willingness to open their hearts in this important conversation. We hope you will join us. Are […]

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Take Heart Now Online Series: Errol Gerson

Online via Zoom

Spiritual Tools for Centering and Compassion Errol Gerson is a Strategic Management consultant, professional coach and mentor, and has been a professor at the renowned Art Center College of Design in Pasadena for the past 53 years. He just authored a new book called “50.”  Errol was raised in South Africa where his Jewish father, South African mother, and their family endured and fought against the cruelty and oppression of Apartheid. He brings this life experience to his coaching and teaching, drawing from his own deep spirituality and faith. Gerson came to the United States at age 20 to escape the danger is South Africa and attend college. After graduating from USC with an undergraduate Degree in Accounting and an MBA in Finance of Taxation, he worked in public accounting and consulting. In 1978 he founded a business management and accounting company focusing on creatives and music industry performers. He sold the company in 1992 to his partners, and then co-founded ‘cow’, the first Interactive Design firm in the US. He subsequently sold the company in 1999. Gerson then joined Creative Artists Agency as Director of New Media until he was recruited to become the COO of the National Lampoon […]

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