C20/G20 2023 WORKING GROUP

Education and Digital Transformation

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted SDG4 (Quality Education), yet it spurred significant progress in online educational technologies. Education can advance G20's goals of unity and knowledge sharing across countries, even in inaccessible or conflict-affected areas and gender-biased regions. Affordable and effective education, supported by monitoring and feedback, must reach all, including marginalized communities.

This Working Group aimed to explore global heritage, understand diversity and indigenous philosophies, promoting harmony and compassion in education. It suggests equitable and accessible skill development and education models for underdeveloped, developing, and emerging economies, considering digitalization's impact on society and the environment. Digital transformation, based on inclusivity and open principles, can foster socio-economic change, fight poverty, and address diverse needs. This Working Group also studied digitization models, data gathering, and emerging technologies, providing policy recommendations for global challenges, funding implications, and measurable outcomes.

The policy recommendations in Education and Digital Transformation considered global challenges, best practices, funding implications, and measuring the translation to policy change and outcomes at the global and country level.

Watch Fyera's presentation during the
Communication in Emergencies side event

Final Policies The Fyera Foundation contributed to in the G20 Leaders' Declaration pertaining to this working group:

Delivering quality education

30.We are committed to inclusive, equitable, high-quality education and skills training for all, including for those in vulnerable situations. We recognize the importance of investment in supporting human capital development. To this end, we:

  1. Recognize the importance of foundational learning (literacy, numeracy, and socio- emotional skills) as the primary building block for education and employment.

The Fyera Foundation contributed language and evidence for this ratified policy. To read and watch the full scope of our contribution to this working group scroll down.

Click image to download the Final G20 Leaders Declaration which includes the policies that were embraced and ratified by G20 Leaders.

Goals of our policy submissions:

  • Cultivate a global mindset that sees and treats all life on earth as one interconnected family, interdependent and thriving through mutual respect, honor and love.

  • Education accessibility is more than just ubiquitous access to teachers, schools, devices and the internet, but requires first and foremost learner readiness for engagement, innovation, and education tailored to individual needs: our policy aims to universally provide tools and skills to optimize brain function and minimize the debilitating effects of trauma and stress to achieve true accessibility across all diverse populations.

  • Decrease population stress and trauma, increase mental clarity and mental, emotional and physical resilience for learners, educators and families during and after crisis or disaster, to foster learner readiness and educator capacity in order to stabilize education in emergencies.

  • Stabilize education in emergencies by fostering learner readiness and educator capacity through reducing population stress and trauma, enhancing mental clarity, and boosting mental, emotional, and physical resilience for learners, educators, and families, during and after the crisis or disaster.

  • Empower marginalized groups and promote equity in the education system by making emotional self-regulation training an essential and universally accessible skill, fostering heart intelligence, and dismantling emotional and structural barriers that perpetuate discrimination and inequality.

  • Create right human relationship with digital devices, gaming, and internet, with pattern interrupting tools for emotional self regulation and impulse control that reduce or eliminate conditioning to violence as a learned behavior and addictions to internet, gaming and devices, to make way for a digital world that enhances rather than compromises core values, principles, compassion, inclusivity, and progress towards the SDGs.

SARAH

Youth Board Member

Sarah Syed

Sarah is an 18-year-old climate activist and innovator. She is a Youth Board Member at The Fyera Foundation, a fellow at The David Suzuki Foundation, and a climate education workshop facilitator/community and social media manager at Starfish Canada. Sarah is passionate about leveraging her passion for tech to research and design equitable climate-tech solutions. From bioplastic research made from food scraps to her most recent project that spanned over two years, a biodegradable sorbent made from polymers, biomass, and polysaccharide aerogels that have the efficiency of removing 98% of oils, organic compounds, and heavy metal compounds. Sarah is currently working on leveraging nanomaterials to design a rotating and semi-transparent solar cell and an IoT water sensor to reduce water wastage in agriculture. Her efforts have been recognized by distinguishable honors such as MP Dan Albas, NDP Critic for Environment and Climate Change Laurel Collins, and The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell during the Ontario Junior Citizen award ceremony. She has also been named a Top 25 Under 25 Environmentalist in Canada, Ontario Junior Citizen, and 1 of 3 young women making a mark on climate change by the Weather Network, National Nature Inspirational Youth, and Future Mind Under 25.

She is also the founder of You Are the Change, a youth-led organization dedicated to helping youth become changemakers in their community. She enjoys sharing her story and ideas in hopes of inspiring other youth and ensuring that action is taken now on the life-threatening climate crisis. Sarah has spoken at many conferences including the United Nations Water Conference Offical Side event, UN Science, Technology and Innovation Forum, Eco Impact, HWY H2O, Electricity Transformation Canada, AWE USA, University of Toronto, and McGill University, among others.

PHOENIX RISING

Wildfire Relief

Phoenix Rising Has Provided Support to Many Individuals Facing Wildfire Recovery, as well as grants to:

Wildfire Protectors Corps

Additional Support provided by:

ENDING HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Operation Big Sister

What if human slavery could end in our lifetime?

What if all it would take is for people like you and me to get involved?

Mediators Beyond Borders Partnership

We are a proud member of Mediators Beyond Borders International and participate in their United Nations and Sustainable Development Goals working groups while also partnering with them in Nicaragua and other zones of civil unrest to bring dialogue in place of violence. 

Resilience Training for
Red Cross Staff + Volunteers

To learn more about the Red Cross, click HERE

Regina Shuvanova

The universe that we all call home is made up of amazing energy accessible to all of those who are willing to see it and embrace it. This energy can make any dream a reality. It has been my life journey and passion to help those who are distracted and unable to see clearly, find their path. This energy is everywhere and present in everything we do, from basic daily short term activities, to long term complex life discoveries. I was born in Tashkent Uzbekistan, a product of 2 Russian parents. I am bilingual in Russian and English. Having moved from Uzbekistan to Russia, and then to the United States, I have always wanted to bring people of the world together, to learn from each other, to grow, and to harness that energy. I received a Masters degree in Diplomacy & International Relations from Seton Hall University. I worked on developing international business relationships and cooperation through my role with the Mid-Atlantic Eurasia Business Council (MAEBC/MARBC) in Philadelphia, PA. With my career moving forward, a wonderful gift was given to me midstream. I became a mom. Life moves in mysterious ways and has its own path at times, yet, this energy I speak of is found in all things, at times, where you least expect it. I relocated from the West Coast and now live in San Diego California. I am currently in a leadership role with Caesars Entertainment, live with a loving husband, and a beautiful son. Without a doubt, being a mom has taught me more than I could have ever imagined, and has helped me in my own journey to find that energy.

REGINA

Board Member

U.N. Commission On The
Status of Women

The Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) is a global organization dedicated to promoting gender equality and empowering women. It plays a vital role in advocating for women's rights, shaping international standards, and discussing progress and challenges in gender equality. Representatives from UN Member States, civil society organizations, and UN entities gather annually to discuss and agree on actions to accelerate women's empowerment. The CSW contributes to the implementation of the Beijing Declaration, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and reports on gender perspectives to other intergovernmental bodies. Overall, the CSW is instrumental in advancing gender equality worldwide.

SANDRA

Chief Medical Officer, Treasurer

Sandra Solano

M.D., M.S. 

Sandra is a healthcare professional with more than 20 years of experience as a Healthcare Executive and consultant and now has her own Holistic Wellness practice in New Albany, Ohio. Dr. Solano successfully implemented large scale transformational projects in the private and public sector and was recognized as a successful disruptor and change agent. Through her career, Dr. Solano experienced personally and professionally the detrimental impact that stress and lack of emotional regulation has in productivity, communication and efficacy in the work place and family life. Through her practice, she works with individuals, teams, groups and organizations to bring evidence-based tools and skills that empower the individual to develop emotional fitness and stress management. 

While she enjoyed a successful and fulfilling career in public health, Dr. Solano felt disconnected and unfulfilled. She continued studying alternative health modalities and how they could improve wellness. After extensive research and training, Sandra chose a combination of methods that facilitate the regulation of emotions and management of stress as the foundation of her holistic wellness practice. Dr. Solano is a certified trainer of HeartMath’s Resilience Advantage™ program; certified practitioner Shuniya Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing©; a Reiki Master; and a practitioner of Holographic Memory Resolution©.

After personally experiencing and practicing these tools, Dr. Solano feels connected with her authentic self and feels a sense of hope and peace that she wants to share with others. Learning about and experiencing these techniques brought her a new understanding of health as a state of balance and wholeness. Her concept of health sees every person as a fundamentally perfect being. Her passion is to help others to find that connection, authenticity, peace, and hope that she is now able to experience

MATTHEW

Board Member

Matthew Mitchell 

Matthew Mitchell has over 30 years experience in sales, business development, and relationship management. He is an international speaker and consultant specializing in high performance and human potential.  He gives people the tools and guidance necessary to eliminate the limiting beliefs and behaviors that hold them back so that they can achieve excellence in their personal and professional lives.

Matthew received his Masters of International Management from The American Graduate School of International Management in Phoenix, Arizona and his MBA at ESADE, (Escuela Superior de Administraccion y Direccion de Empresas) in Barcelona, Spain.

Matthew’s diverse career has spanned a number of industries. He spent ten years doing finance deals for large corporate clients with US Leasing and GE Capital. He made a career change in the early ‘90’s by going to work for Lucasfilm Ltd. in the Entertainment industry.  He headed their electronic editing systems division and represented their proprietary technology to the major studios and production companies.

Matthew later served as VP of Television sales for two top post-production facilities in Los Angeles, once again cultivating relationships with studio heads, and independent film companies.  He spent several years in the Communications industry with Qwest Digital Media being one of the first to sell the ability to deliver content over the Internet.

In 2004, he began his own consulting practice specializing in teaching high level skills to the fortune 100. 

At present, Matthew is a keynote speaker, an expert in “Negotiation Skills”, “Organizational Savvy”, “Power Messaging”, and “Executive Presence” skills.  He travels nationally conducting public seminars in negotiation skills.  He has consulted and trained some of the biggest companies in the world.  Current and former clients include: UPS, VMware, EMC, GE (multiple divisions), Honeywell, Tektronix, Ciena, Fujitsu Networks, Pratt & Whitney, Exxon Mobil Chemical, Microsoft, ATT, Sprint, Yahoo, Earthlink, Oracle, Cisco, HP, Intel, AMD, Aetna, Prudential, Siemens, Owens Corning, Cardinal Health, Care Fusion / Becton Dickenson, Autodesk, Caremark, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Abbott Labs, Wellpoint, United Healthcare, Optum Health, Ingenix, Hersheys, Applied Materials, Kronos, Ceridian, Unisys, Intelsat, Colgate Palmolive, and Medela.

CAROLD

C.O.O - Nicaragua Region

Carold Garcia

16 years overseeing the operations of our programs in Nicaragua while raising her 16 year old daughter Lidia.

I am Carold García Castillo, Nicaraguan, graduated in Business Administration (UNAN-MANAGUA) with training in the HeartMath techniques and Regional Director for Fundación Fyera Nicaragua. I was born in January 1979 in Managua. I come from a family of limited resources and numerous, I am divorced and single mother of a lady of 15 years. I have vague memories of bittersweet childhood, my crib was the arms of my parents, my food the hope of my humble family and a people afflicted to see a new sun until the end of the Sandinista popular revolution of 1979-1990. In 1991 I heard Sheva’s name for the first time, her influential person formed in me a firm spirit, an integral character, a strength, and a deep desire to face everything. My life mission is at the service of families, to make a difference in the beating of their hearts.

MAI

BOARD MEMBER

Mai Shbeta

Lawyer, Mediator, Project Manager and Group Facilitator

Mai is a peace activist, human rights lawyer, mediator, and group facilitator. She was born and raised in Wahat al Salam-Neve Shalom (Oasis of Peace), the only intentional Jewish-Arab village in Israel. Her mother is Jewish and her father is Palestinian and her dream is to be a bridge between the two people. Since she was young, Mai has been active in programs that promote peace, leadership, and human rights in different organizations like Global Changemakers, Creativity for Peace, V-Girls (V-Day) and UNESCO’s Young Peace Ambassadors Workshop. She is a board member of the Fyera Foundation and is primarily working on a project that seeks to end human trafficking (the project includes a feature film, documentary film and online platform). In 2011, when she was 19, she participated and gave a speech about her work at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Mai completed her legal internship at Michael Sfard’s human rights law office in Tel Aviv. She studied mediation and is seeking to give workshops and mediate between people in different conflict zones. Right now she is working as a project manager at the “Elmina” Jewish-Arab theatre in Jaffa and at the Center for Multiculturalism and Diversity at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and she is also developing a mediation project between Israeli and Palestinian leaders and politicians.

Cheryl Geoffrion

Cheryl Geoffrion is certified as a trainer, facilitator and coach by The Institute of HeartMath and The International Center for Attitudinal Healing.  She has facilitated one-on-one coaching, support groups, and workshops for more then 24 years utilizing these principles and practices as well as many other transformational life techniques.  She has also worked with Fortune 100 companies, Non-Profits, and individuals as an expert negotiator, facilitator, and coach in sales and negotiation skills, leadership development, interpersonal communication and conflict resolution.  She is a published co-author of The Three Value Conversations, How to Create, Elevate, & Capture Customer Value at Every Stage of the Long-Lead Sales with a feature article of the same theme in Top Sales World Magazine.  An international motivational speaker, teacher, and former TV talk show host, Cheryl brings experience, compassion and vision to her work.

For more than two decades, Cheryl has been highly sought as a keynote speaker and consultant to a wide variety of public, private and educational institutions. Her experience, passion, sense of humor, and ability to drive high-impact performance execution enable her to be both entertaining and remarkably effective at producing transformational results.

Additionally she has the unique privilege to specialize in comprehensive international and domestic sport sponsorship and corporate hospitality programs working with the Olympics and FIFA World Cup implementing programs for Top Sponsors in Asia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, Mexico, South Africa, and the United States.   She also served as the Managing Director of the Avon Breast Cancer 3-days and the National AIDSRides during which time she was responsible for many multi-million dollar charitable events nationwide.  Cheryl’s global experience ensures a strong cultural awareness.

Cheryl started her professional career as an Air Traffic Controller (ATC) for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) where she honed a skillset that enabled her to achieve great success as one of the youngest certified in ATC nationwide. She went on to pioneer unique performance enhancing coaching programs for Air Traffic Managers and Supervisors.

Affiliations:
-Fyera Foundation
-Institute of HeartMath
-The International Center for Attitudinal Healing
-CMCM T.V./Talk Show Host
-Summer Olympics: Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro
-FIFA World Cup, South Africa
-Winter Olympics, Vancouver

CHERYL

Chief of Staff & Communications Officer

Robert Browning

Director of HeartMath Healthcare and Consultant to / Trainer with Fyera; Co-Vice President of United Nations Peace Messenger Organization ‘Pathways To Peace’

Robert Browning, PhD (h.c.) is Co-Director for HeartMath Healthcare and a Senior Master Trainer. For over 25 years with HeartMath, he’s trained more than 20,000 individuals in heart-based living and leads programs at: Stanford, U.C.L.A., Brigham & Women’s and Kaiser Permanente. He oversees HeartMath’s strategic healthcare alliances focused on self-care, human caring and wholeness healing. In April, 2015, Robert received an Honorary Doctorate in Human Caring and Caring Science from Dr. Jean Watson, Founder and Director, Watson Caring Science Institute and Dean Emerita-University of Colorado, Denver, College of Nursing. It was given “to honor devotion to the betterment of humankind through human caring – heart centered teachings and practices.”

He holds a faculty position with the Esalen Institute and Watson Caring Science Institute and adjunct faculty with the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus, College of Nursing. Robert graduated from U.C.L.A., Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in Communications.  His passion and 20 year focused inquiry on the power of the heart, care and healing has informed the depth of his work, practice and message.

ROBERT

Vice President

MELINDA

Secretary

Melinda Dewey

Board Certified Coach. Trainer. Speaker. Mentor. Operations Officer. The Fyera Foundation Board Member and Secretary

Following a successful 17-year business career in roles as a Corporate Controller, Project Manager and bank Loan Officer, Melinda now combines her business expertise and passion for health, empowerment, and resilience as Operations Officer in addition to her private practice as a certified Life and Breath Coach and HeartMath Coach and Trainer to individuals and groups. Some of her related certifications, training, and 30 years of full-time wellness-related experience include:

  • Licensed HeartMath® Coach and HeartMath Certified Trainer
  • C.O.O. of Fyera! Inc since 2010
  • C.O.O. of HeartMath’s HeartMastery online learning program since 2011, managing and leading HeartMath Course Group Coaching Calls for students from around the world
  • Certified Mindful Change Life Coach, with Wellness Coaching specialty training At the Institute of Life Coach Training
  • Employee Wellness Coach to Fortune® 100 employees cross the Nation for over five years
  • Board-Certified Coach Credential
  • Owner, manager of InnerLight Healing Arts in Costa Mesa, CA for 10 years, with chiropractic and allopathic physicians and practitioners of various holistic modalities and group class offerings.
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Communication

 

It is also my privilege to serve as a board member and secretary of non-profit The Fyera Foundation since 2011.

It is my joy to engage in awakening authenticity, potential and heart intelligence with the power of the heart to generate inner and outer peace.

SHEVA

Founder, CEO, President, Executive Director

Sheva Carr

Sheva Carr is a visionary, humanitarian, creator, lover of life, author, speaker, doctor of Oriental Medicine, Board Certified Polarity Therapist and Registered Polarity Educator, and expert HeartMath trainer and coach. She loves to help people find fulfillment and peace within the power of their hearts! She is the founding CEO of Fyera! Inc and Heart Ambassadors, a global network of endeavors sharing a common purpose of creating measurable social ROI to transform the world’s story with heart. Under the umbrella of that mission she is the architect of HeartMath’s www.heartmastery.com program, the founding Executive Director of the Fyera Foundation and Sunflower SunPower Kids, and Co-Vice President and Head of UN Delegations for the United Nations Peace Messenger Organization Pathways To Peace www.pathwaystopeace.org . The author of “Being the Source of Love” and “Where the Sky Meets the Earth,” she is featured as a “love luminary” in Marci Schimoff’s New York Times bestselling book “Love for No Reason.” She cofounded (with Global Womens Empowerent Network and The Representation Project) the annual Women Illuminated Film Festival. She is also the founding visionary behind www.operationbigsister.org designed to enroll a Civilian Army to contribute to efforts to end sex trafficking and modern day slavery. She mentors teens from Israel and Palestine in peace dialogues with www.creativityforpeace.org under the motto “An enemy is a friend whose story you have yet to hear.”

She has created her own trauma relief interventions with her knowledge of the autonomic nervous system, and has been published in respected medical journals as “Perspectives in Biology and Medicine,” and other publications including “The UN Special.” She has trained and mentored medical staff from C-level executives to bedside nurses at distinguished medical centers, including Mayo Clinic, Harvard, Stanford, Cedars Sinai, Kaiser Permanente, and more. She also founded the first HeartMath hospital patient education program at Earl Bakken’s Heart-Brain Institute. She co-authored HeartMath’s Stopping Emotional Eating Program with Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman and was the coach and manager of the participants involved in the study done on that program. Previously on the Faculty of Alternative Medicine at University of Minnesota, and a professor of Oriental Medicine at Emperor’s College, she has worked as a coach and consultant to leading cardiologists, heart-brain researchers, and physicists. She has also trained United Nations staff and numerous international government agencies, and soldiers preparing for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.

She did her undergraduate work in fine arts, cross cultural international studies, Spanish, and premed at Carnegie Mellon Universty, Yale, Friends World College, and Dalhousie University. She received experiential credits for her work in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Holland, England, and Canada. Her Masters Degree is in Traditional Chinese Medicine from Yo San University. 

Sheva speaks to people all over the world on how to access heart intelligence and peace of mind, in order to receive the benefits of the heart’s impact on their relationships, health, performance, creativity, contribution, legacy, social change, and the building of a global culture of peace. 

Please see Sheva Carr’s full bio HERE

And CV HERE

Participating in and donating training and resources to William Ury’s 3rd Side Design Sprint for Peace in the Middle East

KEVIN

Chief Gratitude & Giving Officer

Kevin Crowe

Kevin is an innovative senior executive who brings expertise in philanthropy, communications, non-profit management, and organizational development. Most recently he held a national philanthropy position focused on providing education to physicians and clinicians on the science of gratitude and building an organizational culture of gratitude within a national non-profit health system. He is an international speaker and consultant, and as a certified trainer of HeartMath’s Resilience Advantage™ program, Kevin has facilitated individuals and teams all over the world in creating heart focused personal change initiatives.

In addition to 29 years in healthcare administration and overlapping with 18 years in philanthropy, Kevin’s career has included hospitality management and higher education. He is passionate about institutional culture transformation and over the years and in several roles, has led multiple initiatives in his organizations that focus on service, satisfaction, and gratitude. Kevin has served on multiple boards including The Board of Visitors of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Nursing and The Board of Directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Chicago Chapter.

Kevin holds a Bachelor of General Studies in organizational management and leadership from North Park University in Chicago and is certified by The Institute of HeartMath and the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance. He is also a certified trainer and facilitator of multiple culture change and operational efficiency programs. He is a Reiki Master and Reiki Master trainer and an Akashic Records consultant. Kevin uses a combination of these modalities with mindfulness and resilience practices in bringing his best self forward to be present and in service to others.

WATER PROJECTS

The Fyera Foundation aims to bring 10,000 people clean drinking water every World Water Day, March 22

Including grants to one of our partners:

SPECIES CONSERVATION

MAX'S FUND

HELPING DELIVER VETERINARY CARE WHERE IT IS MOST NEEDED AND LEAST AFFORDED

Sponsoring Safari West's Species Diversity and Conservation efforts

Max's Fund includes support to Safari West

Sponsoring Safari West's Species Diversity and Conservation efforts

MAX'S FUND

Helping deliver veterinary care where it is most needed and least afforded

MEDICAL AID PARTNERSHIPS

Bringing Life Giving Surgeries
To Those In Need With Our Partner

WOMEN'S VOICES IN MEDIA

Women Illuminated
Film Fest

Commission on the Status of Women in Media 2018

Rebuilding Homes in Nepal Post Earthquake ...with Heart!

Acupuncturists
without borders Partnership

Partnering with Acupuncturists Without Borders to embed resilience training in their disaster relief clinics.

partnership with Creativity for Peace

now called
"TOMORROW'S WOMEN"

Bringing applied heart intelligence to peace dialogues between teens from Israel and Palestine under the motto, “An enemy is a friend whose story you have yet to hear” with our partner Creativity for Peace. Fyera Foundation provided university scholarships to young women peace builders.

GIVE

WELCOME LETTER TO THE WORLD'S REFUGEES

There are more displaced people in the world today than there have ever been in human history, due to climate change, violent conflict, and oppression. The average person who flees their country will spend 18 years in a refugee camp before being welcomed to a new home. Now more than ever it is important that we come together as a human family and global citizenship, living into the motto that home is where the heart is and the earth is our shared home.

Download and distribute WELCOME LETTERS
BY SELECTING A LANGUAGE BELOW

International Day Of Peace

Fyera Foundation is honored to collaborate with Pathways To Peace, a co-founder of the International Day of Peace, and other peacebuilding organizations to emphasize the measurable changes that happen in the earth's field when a large percentage of humanity is focused on peace. Watch the video to learn more!

Fyera Foundation is an authorized provider of Amma’s IAM Meditation Instruction, taught to thousands of people around the world at no charge.

WeProvidePPE

Outer & Inner PPE COVID 19 PPE Support

Collect "OUTER" PPE Donations

Collect monetary support to purchase “outer” PPE and donate to frontline organizations most in need.

DISTRIBUTE "INNER" PPE MESSEGES

Distribute messages of gratitude from the public to frontline workers, boosting moral and emphasizing appreciation.

NEW SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS

Work to facilitate new supply chains and creative solutions for facilities with funding but expended resources.