Ep 176 Interview Sessions with Alina Grenier-Arellano

<p>Friends, we have a new website! Please visit <a href="http://www.abty.co.uk/">www.abty.co.uk</a> to connect with us at a heart level and see whether our heartwork may serve you better.</p> <p>On episode 176 I am joined by Alina Grenier-Arellano, founder of Alegoria Game. Alina began her journey into social innovation with her studies of international development and economics at McGill University. She there discovered the potential for social entrepreneurship to solve the world’s most urgent issues and pursued her Master’s of Science in Entrepreneurship at the University of Amsterdam and Vrije Universiteit to research collaborative creation.&nbsp;</p> <p>Alina specialises on identifying, promoting, and implementing the necessary conditions and culture that make people shine through, thrive and create together for the greater good.</p> <p>Since then, Alina founded Alegoria Game, the trilingual board game for connection and belonging, published her research on Maker Ventures twice, and led international Open Source Pharma collaborative initiatives.</p> <p>Alina co-founded Alegoria Game to support groups suffering from social stress and disconnect among groups in the mission towards a world where connection isn’t so scary and each person can feel like they can belong and thrive.</p> <p><br></p> <p>In this episode you will hear:</p> <p>01:30 social entrepreneurship and collaborative creation</p> <p>03:00 helping people become unburdened and connection no longer scary</p> <p>04:00 why people find connection scary</p> <p>07:00 the courage to be seen, heard and understood</p> <p>09:30 adopting a totally different mind frame in the workplace</p> <p>13:30 the Alegoria game</p> <p>19:00 the ripple effect of team connection</p> <p>24:00 invention is a by product of collaboration</p> <p>26:00 a safe space without judgment</p> <p>27:00 willingness comes from a regulated nervous system</p> <p>28:45 Alina asks Ryan a question from the Alegoria game</p> <p>31:00 it’s us who makes sense and meaning of things</p> <p>33:00 a new