A Free Online Event

Riffing on seriously crazy times

Making sense of the Capitol insurrection (and our experiences since) 

and reimagining America


Thursday, January 28

10:30am - 12pm PST, 1:30pm - 3pm EST


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Join us as we


  • Reflect in small groups on our first-person experiences with curiosity and compassion 
  • Expand our capacity to take multiple perspectives on complex and surreal events
  • Reframe the insurrection as an interplay of status loss, racialization, unmetabolized trauma, and other cultural and systemic dynamics
  • Create generative narratives that see American identity in new ways 
  • Remember our virtues, deep life commitments, and capacity to improvise

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Greg Thomas and

Jewel Kinch-Thomas

Jazz Leadership Project


Amiel Handelsman

Executive coach 

Author of Practice Greatness



"JLP's use of jazz as an analogy, a metaphor, a technique for working together is broadly applicable to any type of leadership role where the success of the organization is dependent on effective teamwork."


Duane Hughes

Former Managing Director,  JPMorgan Chase

"Amiel, Greg, and Jewel offer a nuanced approach to one of the most urgent issues of our time—a refreshing alternative to simplistic blame, guilt and denial. I have passed around Amiel’s papers and am grateful these fine people are leading the way."


Jennifer Garvey Berger

CEO of Cultivating Leadership

Author of Simple Habits for Complex Times