Downtown Credo Summit
April 20-21, 2012
a two-day event open to the public
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Downtown Credo’s Summit is a two day experience designed to show you how to affect change in our city and our world by living out a CREDO of meaning, impact and community. You will be challenged, inspired and equipped to impact our city in transformative and sustainable ways. We are bringing in 3 speakers from around the US to speak into these issues. This is an incredible Orlando event you do NOT want to miss!
Sean Carasso:
An avid adventurer, Sean has spent much of his life pulling diverse communities together. After starting a number of small companies and grassroots initiatives, he traveled the world with an entrepreneur turned philanthropist, while volunteering alongside Invisible Children and TOMS Shoes. In late 2007, he journeyed into the Democratic Republic of Congo on what was meant to be a short stop. It was there he heard of children too small to carry a gun, who were sent to the front lines of war armed with only a whistle. The Falling Whistles campaign was born in response to a small journal entry he wrote that night. For the Credo Summit Mr. Carasso will talk about how a network of meaning, impact and community in a city is benefited by partnership across traditional dividing lines: socio-economic, religious, geographic, or business and non-profit. These sorts of networks are often built and sustained by focusing on serving their cities well.
Chris Heuertz:
As founder of Word Made Flesh, Heuertz is an activist, author, visionary and public speaker. He has traveled with his wife, Phileena, through nearly 70 countries working with the most vulnerable of the world’s poor—Roma (gypsies), children with AIDS, prostituted women and girls, recovering drug addicts, children on the streets and refugees. For the Credo Summit Mr. Heuertz will share what he has learned about how authentic community among drastically different people can make a profound impact on individuals and cities.
Phileena Heuertz:
As co-director of Word Made Flesh, Heuertz has focused on child advocacy, community care and leadership development. Through that work she has developed the conviction that union of action and contemplation is crucial to ongoing personal growth, healthy community life, and sustainable, authentic social justice efforts. For the Credo Summit Mrs. Heuertz will work to help us understand and share that conviction so that we learn how a life of meaning, impact and community can be both communally and individually sustainable.
Schedule:
The summit will kick off with a large opening event Friday evening. The heart of this first evening is Sean Carasso’s presentation. This talk will be followed by a Q and A panel of all three presenters, facilitated by Ben Hoyer, director of Downtown Credo. Saturday evening Chris Heuertz will lead off with his feature presentation and will be followed by Phileena Heuertz. The evening will conclude with a Q and A panel of the speakers, and Downtown Credo Division directors.
Credo Summit Committee:
Ben Hoyer – Downtown Credo Director of Ideas and Development
Angela Griner Ed.D. – Director of Educational Programming for Asbury University
Aaron Moore – Director of Solace Counseling
Jack Elkins – Technology Project Manager Orlando Magic
Nick Nanton Esq. – CEO Dicks & Nanton Celebrity Branding Agency
Sam Barns – Multicultural Affairs at Rollins College
Andrea Shindler – Founder Executive Director of The Foundation for Human Potential
James Reginald Colimon – Neighborhood Outreach Coordinator Office of Communications & Neighborhood Relations City of Orlando
Yasmeen Qadri Phd. – Professor and Education Coordinator for Valencia College
Oneka Burnett – Balthazar Facility Manager, Jackson Center City of Orlando