Organized by:

Global Wo.Men Hub-GWMH (international non-profit association that promotes gender equality, balanced representation in the private/labor spheres, co-responsibility, respect for gender particularities, combating stereotypes and interculturality).

Keynote speaker:

Dr. Koncha Pinos -politologist, contemplative psychotherapist, writer, researcher in neuroesthetics; founder of Devuelven Planet, present in 49 countries. Her work integrates science, spirituality, emotional health, art and ethical education.

Moderator:

Christine Marlet, Board Member of GWMH

Date and context:

Performed live (recorded for YouTube and network clips). Koncha spoke from the Holy Land (Israel), on a peace mission about “how women write hope”.

Introduction and General Context

• Current crisis of leadership: Linked to toxic masculinity, loss of ontological link (heaven-earth order), “broken” modernity (vs. Beauvoir: “broken woman”).
• Opportunity of the 21st century: Drawing inspiration from contemplative leaders to rethink power from the feminine, without losing femininity or soul.
• Invitation to interiority: Leadership not by likes/followers, but by meaning, awareness and depth.
• Key question: What concept of leadership defines our interiority?

Three Inspirational Women: “Daughters of Abraham” (Jewish, Islamic and Christian Traditions)

• Common: Did not complain, measured results by service to God/divinity. Incarnação divine presence; leadership from silence, intuition and conscience. Weaved relational networks, reconfigured power, were visionary and uncomfortable. Contemplation = ethical action (not passive stillness).
• Modern diseases to avoid: Manipulating identity, becoming violent, ignoring feminine essence.

• Identified contemplative leadership styles:
  1. Archetypal (Jung): Mother (nurturing), Wise (introspective), Warrior (active), Mystic (transcendent), Creator (of suffering).
  2. Relational: Weavers of networks, mediators in conflicts.
  3. Reconfiguring power: Ethical reformers, uncomfortable, visionary.

Elements for Contemporary Contemplative Leadership

• Contemplative/ethical practice + aligned action (thought-emotion-action).
• Coherence (e.g. Gandhi: do not ask for what is not done).
• Creativity and service (not ego, business plans or marketing; God speaks in 1000 forms/names).
• Landscape/configuration: Travel, desert, Europe in crisis shaped his visions.
• Inclusive: Does not exclude men; integrates femininity in both genders.

Q&A and Practical Conclusions

• Banality of evil (Arendt): Responsibility by omission; not thinking = consenting to injustice. Current example: book ban (e.g., Trump vs. Garcia Marquez/Allende) → limits plurality.
• Concrete actions
  1. Diverse friends: With diverse and sometimes opposing traditions/beliefs (Christians, Jews, Muslims, atheists) to have other points of view and be able to grow.
  2. Ask for forgiveness daily: To the other, to humanity for damages done (even unconscious); it releases burden.
  3. Conscious engagement: Create dialogue/reading circles (anywhere); plurality.
• God today: Revisit concept; materialize with attributes (compassion, mercy). Expanded consciousness (quantum physics: observer modifies observed). Naming = see/change perspective.
• Closing: Women’s leadership + new masculinity = day/night. Invitation to future sessions (e.g., women for peace in Israel).

Duration: ~1 hour. Exciting, profound and practical; emphasizes truth without fear, being over having, and contemplation as ethical civil disobedience.