THE ECHO MANIFESTO
"We're activists of emotional intelligence, lovers of revolutionary stories and above all, life enthusiasts. We believe in the power of empathy and deep human connection as the first steps towards a paradigm shift from scarcity to abundance. We embrace diversity and reject hierarchies. At ECHO, leaders step outside their comfort zone to build the bridges towards their best individual and collective versions."
ECHO is 72 hrs of radical workshops + extraordinary talks = a new you.
2017 SPEAKERS
Christiana Figueres is the world's most influential advocate on global climate change. She was the head negotiator of the Paris COP 21 Climate Change Agreement (which might just save our planet).
I love creating companies and leveraging them as a force for good. Over the last 10 years I have founded and built over a dozen technology companies, and I have had nine company exits. I’ve been honored be featured as a top entrepreneur in Inc Magazine and be an INC 500 Company Founder.
After a lifelong friendship and failed traditional careers, we founded a digital agency which took us on an unexpected entrepreneurial journey. Together we built the company, then closed it when it was thriving.
Henri Scars Struck is a New York based French music composer, pianist & Grammy Award-winning producer. For the last 25 years, he has written, produced and recorded music for artists, films and dance performances, as well as art installations and corporations.
I have been sharing my life online for over 20 years including 2 years in a webcam house with 27 cameras running 24/7. I have shared more of myself online than almost anyone. This journey of radical public expression and transparency has taught me a few things that I love to talk about and share
José André is a pioneering medic leading the movement towards a more efficient organ donation system in Mexico. His stories will make you cry, laugh, and have a renewed hope in humanity.
2017 WORKSHOPS
From Bioenergetics and TRE (tension releasing excercises) we propose a trip to yourself to release tensions and have more energy available to enjoy life. At the end of the workshop you can take techniques for your daily life that helps you release stress or tension and self-regulate yourselves. It will be 90 minutes of listening to you with love, respect and releasing what you no longer need today.
An experience of integration of energy fields through vibrational instruments such as didjeridoo, Tibetan bowls, dyembe, flutes, shruty box, and the voice to open the sensitive perception of energy in the body.
Putting it to flow, to circulate and to grow through the corporal movement from Tai Chi. Increasing flows of energy and activating the creativity from the intuition and the instinct to generate processes of healing.
Today, it seems that many of us share the feeling that we have lost the connection between our nature and nature itself, living in materialistic, socially driven economies and leading increasingly fast-paced, distracted and isolated lives
This workshop will inspire each participant to easily and quickly recapture health, tap into massive emotional abundance, empower them to be able to help others in need, and to have confidence that love can conquer all.
An introductory workshop to Theory U, an MIT social innovation methodology that shows how to update the operating code in our societal systems through a shift in consciousness from ego-system to eco-system awareness. We will take a ride thru the three phases of the U: Sensing, Presensing and Prototyping. If you have a project or idea that you want to take to a next level here’s an opportunity.
I'm passionate about helping women discover their inner light, giving them the tools to re design themselves, to be abundant and to share it. By creating communities of women aware of the enormous inner potential and their magnetic power of attraction, we will balance the world's energies healing the masculine too
Directing people's attention to what you have to say is hard yet decisive in your professional and personal journey. Furthermore, the stories we tell ourselves can define our reality.
Do you live in the past or in the future? Do you get somewhere and notice you missed the entire journey? Do you listen to a loved one while anticipation what you will do next? So often, our minds are everywhere but in the present moment. We live in autopilot, missing the beauty and the vulnerability of the present moment. The only real moment we live on.
Offering a practical approach for envisioning and enacting new stories of ourselves and our communities, this workshop leads participants on a transformational journey through social permaculture - exploring sustainable avenues of connection for decolonizing our minds and deepening our commitment to living a new paradigm by building and strengthening our personal and community economies.
In this workshop we will learn how to make complex decisions from a place of deep self-connection and integrity, using the principles of Non Violent Communication to consider the needs of the different voices that guide us and want to be heard and taken into account. We will learn how to "mediate" ourselves so that we can progress without sacrificing our essence.
2017 PERFORMANCES
A Pilgrimage of EmBODYment is a deep dive into the human journey of agonizing pain and powerful purpose. It is uncensored truth, radical honesty and a fearless expression of the life of a broken child turned broken adult. It is a raw, edgy story of grit and grime, suffering and salvation.
I explore acting and theater to better know myself and the world. I met a host of characters in the process, (Kings, Gods and Fools). Through story and songs these beings look forward to sharing their insights with you.
An experience that will take you on a journey from Earth to Heaven, from the roots to the crown, a class where yoga, tai chi, chi kung, kundalini, dance and meditation meet.
It was a classic "love at first sing” situation. Music is a huge gift in our relationship and one we enjoy sharing with others. Though the Nathan and Ada music project typically takes a back seat to our filmmaking endeavors with Northern Flicker, we sing because it is core to who we are and because it brings us joy.
ECHO IN NUMBERS
What our tribe has to say about ECHO
The place where real changes emerge.
ECHO is an awakening experience. A deep conversation with wonderful souls in the best setting possible.
ECHO is the most free and open I’ve felt since my first Burning Man.