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Last Updated 1-5-09
January 3-17
Cazadero hills, Northern California
2-week course
Earth Activist Training taught by Starhawk and Erik Ohlsen.
Two weeks that can change your life and help
you change the world!
A permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in earth-based
spirituality, and a focus on organizing, activism, and social permaculture
as well as urban and rural land-based systems. Learn how to heal soil
and
cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems,
using
a minimum of energy and resources and creating real abundance and social
justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our
visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that can sustain
our
spirits. Participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of ritual, games,
projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological
design..
Location: Black Mountain Preserve, Cazadero, California
Cost: $1400-$1800 sliding scale, includes all food and dorm accommodations
or camping. $250 surcharge for semi-private room. Work trade
and scholarships available, apply early!
For more information: visit www.EarthActivistTraining.org
call 800.381.7940 (within USA)
or email: info@earthactivisttraining.org
February 2 - March 29
eight-week online course
"Earthly Delights: True Abundance In a Time of Scarcity"
Come join a magical experiment: how do we create true abundance when all
around us systems are crumbling? The meltdowns we’ve been experiencing,
from Wall Street to Greenland, are a result of faulty thinking, of basing
our institutions on false ideas and flawed stories. What are the ideas,
the new stories, that can become a basis for real abundance, justice,
and ecological balance? Over these eight weeks, we’ll explore eight principles
derived from the earth-based spirituality of the Goddess and the practical
approach of permaculture to ecological design. 1) Abundance Springs from
Relationships; 2) Take Root; 3) Feed What You Want to Grow; 4) Build from
the Ground Up; 5) Waste Is Food; 6) Value Diversity; 7) Sink In; and 8)
The Gift Multiplies. We’ll explore what they mean in systems that range
from gardens to political strategy, and through exercises, meditations,
and practices, we’ll apply them to our lives, and see what happens. The
course is light on reading; the major work will be self-reflection, journaling,
forum discussions, and Starhawk will post trances and new lectures. As
we tell ourselves new stories, as we take delight in the true gifts of
the earth, our lives and our work will flourish like a plant growing in
healthy soil.
Course hosted by Growing
Edge Institute. Enroll at this web site.
Cost $150. Some partial scholarships may be available, please contact
administration at GEI.
Thursday -
Friday, February 12-13
Seattle, Washington
conference
Starhawk will take part in the 17th Annual Women of Wisdom Conference.
This year's theme: "Building Bridges for Global Community Through Social
Activism." Conferernce also features Libby Roderick and Ubaka Hill. WOW
membership is optional, $35, gives discount to events.
For more information and to register, visit www.womenofwisdom.org
Thursday, Feb 12: opening keynote address: "Women Take Action:
Using the Insights of Feminism to Change the World"
War, global violence, environmental degradation, social injustice... these
are hard times for women, children, and all who hold compassionate and
caring values. Nurturing and many other qualities and activities associated
with women are devalued, while force and violence are held up as models
of strength. But women represent a different vision of strength. Women-initiated
and women-led actions have a special energy and power. That power comes
not from excluding men--we welcome men as participants--but because of
the joy and visionary potential that arise when women work together to
fiercely defend the values of life. In this talk, Starhawk speaks from
her experiences as an organizer with Code Pink: Unreasonable Women for
Peace; her work with Jewish and Palestinian women in the West Bank and
Gaza; and her many years as a leading innovator in the Goddess revival
and eco-feminist movements. How can the insights of feminism help us out
of the mess we're in today?
Booksigning to follow.
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Seattle Unity Church
Cost: $15 WOW members, $20 non-members
Friday, Feb. 13: day-long workshop: "Let it Begin Now: Another
World is Possible!"
"Another world is possible!" is the rallying cry of the Global Justice
movement, and it is also the inspirational belief of those who seek to
create a society based on compassion, balance, and love for the earth
from a spiritual as well as a political base. How do we envision that
world, and what are the tools and insights we need to bring it about?
Can we be active in the political arena without losing touch with our
spirit? Can we learn to bring healing, joy, celebration, and empowerment
into the realm of action? And for those who have been activists, how do
we feed our spirits, avoid burnout and despair, and renew our courage?
We explore the tools of magic, "the art of changing consciousness at will,"
and use ritual and celebration to help us link the worlds of contemplation
and action.
Booksigning to follow.
Time: 9:00 am - 4:30pm
Location: North Seattle Community College
Cost: WOW members $95, $135 non-members
Sunday &
Monday, February 15-16
San Jose, California
Starhawk will take part in the Pantheacon conference.
Short workshop: Sunday, 1:30 p.m., Oak Room: "Holding Power
Well"
This
workshop explores issues of power and leadership. How do we take
our power and own it as a life-giving force? How do we recognize
when we do
have power, and use it in ways that empower others? How do we nurture
and
support leadership in our groups, while also holding our leaders accountable?
This is a workshop for anyone who has struggled with these issues in
relationships or groups. All of us have internalized models of power
as
domination, which often interfere when we attempt to form new structures
based
on power-from-within. We will consider power within sacred space,
and through
ritual, trance, and energy work develop the tools we need to transform
destructive patterns into energies freed for change.
Panel discussion: Monday, 1:30 p.m: "International Paganism"
Discussion
among teachers who travel internationally to discuss the place of Paganism
in the world.
Also
look for a booksigning with Starhawk at the Ancient Ways bookstore booth.
Information on Pantheacon and registration for conference is at www.pantheacon.com/09/
Thursday, March 5
Hartland, Vermont
one-day workshop plus evening event
Please check back for details. Presented by the Sustainability Institute.
Friday - Sunday,
March 6-8
Rowe, Massachusetts
weekend workshop
"Walking the Edge: Deepening Our Magic"
In nature, edges, where one ecosystem meets another, are the places of
greatest dynamism, energy and creativity. Where the meadow meets the forest
or the ocean meets the shore, we find the most diversity, and also the
most stress.
In this workshop, we explore our own edges. How
do we walk between worlds? When have we been outsiders, marginalized—and
what unique vision arises from the boundaries? How do we challenge our
own edges? What boundaries are healthy, and which constrict us unnecessarily?
When the old answers—spiritual, political, and
emotional—no longer serve, how do we weather the conflicts and disappointments
that inevitably arise in our groups and communities of support? In this
crucial moment of history, we are more than ever called to step into our
full power and creativity, to maintain hope and compassion, to hold our
vision and the commitment to make it real.
How do we push our own creative edges, taking
more risks, pushing our work, our rituals, and expression further into
excellence? Using the tools of ritual—meditation, trance, ecstatic
drumming and dancing, storytelling, group work, guided journeys, and alter
building, we will create a sacred space. In this space we can deepen our
practice and expand the borders of who we can be.
Hosted by the U.U. Rowe Conference Center.
Cost: $190 - 290 sliding scale, plus cost of meals and housing (choice
of options). Some work-exchange/barter available, please contact Rowe
Center.
For more information and to enroll online:www.rowecenter.org
April 4, workshop at the Southeastern Women's Studies
Association (SEWSA) conference, at Appalachian State University, Boone,
North Carolina
Sunday, June
14
Santa Rosa, California
festival
Starhawk will speak, teach a short workshop, and chat and sign books,
at the 31st Annual Harmony Festival — entire festival is June 12th-14th.
Topics to include re-localization and community resilience.
Location: Sonoma County Fairgrounds, Hwy 12
Cost: included with admission
For more information: www.harmonyfestival.com
June 21 - July
5
Unity, Maine
2-week course
Earth Activist Training taught by Starhawk and Charles Williams.
Two weeks that can change your life and help you
change the world!
A permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in earth-based
spirituality, and a focus on organizing, activism, and social permaculture
as well as urban and rural land-based systems. Learn how to heal soil
and
cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems,
using
a minimum of energy and resources and creating real abundance and social
justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our
visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that can sustain
our
spirits. Participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of ritual, games,
projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological
design.
Cost: $1400-$1800 sliding scale, includes all food and dorm accommodations
or camping. $250 surcharge for semi-private room. Work trade
and scholarships available, apply early!
For more information: visit www.EarthActivistTraining.org
call 800.381.7940 (within USA)
or email: info@earthactivisttraining.org
July 11-26
Devon, England
2-week course
Earth Activist Training, taught by Starhawk and Andy Goldring.
A permaculture design course and more for activists! Learn the skills
to transform a piece of land, a community, and our political and economic
systems. Permaculture is a system of ecological design. Spend two weeks
in rural Devon learning:
* Nature and wilderness awareness * Diversity in ecosystems and social
movements * Solutions that exist: alternative energy; organic farming;
natural building; bioremediation and restoration * Soil and woodland ecology
* Ecological economics * How to collect, conserve and clean water * Direct
action principles and practices; movement building and strategy * Consensus
process, facilitation and conflict transformation * How to transform fear,
rage, grief and frustration into creative action * How to stay grounded
and centered in challenging situations * How to create ritual and weave
magic into action... ... and more! On completion participants will receive
a permaculture design certificate.
Selection criteria: As there are only limited
places available on this course, it is necessary to have a selection criteria
rather than accept people on a first come, first served basis. Priority
will be given to people who are: * Involved in activism * Involved with
local groups and who will make a commitment to share what they learn with
their own communities and groups * Active in the UK and Europe. We do
not have a restrictive definition on what 'activist' is and invite people
to give us their own definition as part of their application. The closing
date for applications is 15th March, 2009.
The food will be vegan/ vegetarian, organic and
local as far as possible. Camping
accommodations only.
Location: Landmatters Permaculture Cooperative
Cost: £200 -
£650 sliding scale according to income (includes tuition, accommodation
and all meals).
Application form: http://www.landmatters.org.uk
For postal applications call Rooh on 07966988976
For further enquiries email: earthactivisttraining@riseup.net
Monday,
July 27 & Thursday, July 30
Glastonbury, England
Starhawk will take part in the Glastonbury Goddess Conference and pre-festival
Fringe. For more information and to enroll in the workshops, please visit:
www.goddessconference.com
July 27: one-day workshop
"Walking the Edge: Deepening our Magic"
In nature, edges, where one ecosystem meets another, are the places of
greatest dynamism, energy and creativity. Where the meadow meets
the forest or the ocean meets the shore, we find the most diversity, and
also the most stress. In this workshop, we explore our own edges. How
do we walk between worlds? When have we been outsiders, marginalized--and
what unique vision arises from the boundaries? How do we challenge our
own edges? What boundaries are healthy, and which constrict us unnecessarily?
How do we push our own creative edges, taking more risks, pushing our
work, our rituals, and expression further into excellence? The tools
of ritual--sacred space, meditation, trance, ecstatic drumming and dancing,
help us deepen our practice and expand the borders of who we can be.
July 30: morning talk and spiral dance
"Times of Hope and Chaos"
We live at a pivotal moment in history, when the tides of hope are rising,
but the systems that sustain us, environmental, social and financial,
are crumbling all around. How do we navigate through the storm, and bring
ourselves and our world to a place of harmony, balance and beauty? We
need both the tools of spirit—grounding, deep connection and celebration—and
the skills of organizing and mobilizing—vision, passion, courage
and commitment. And we need the ideas and principles that can help us
shift our culture from an obsession with things to a focus on relationships.
Starhawk explores the images and myths of the Goddess that can help us.
What should our role be as a Goddess movement? How do we help guide the
world onto the good road, the road of justice, peace and abundant life?
July 30: 3-hour afternoon workshop
Please check back for details.
Sunday - Friday,
October 4-9
Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada
6-day course
"Vision and Action"
In these times
of environmental and economic uncertainty, we need a clear vision for
a future of peace, justice, abundance and balance. Explore new tools to
help you in the coming transformation and discover how to thrive in an
era of change. The future offers opportunity, and it demands to be shaped.
Explore your role in creating it. Set out on the path to a positive future,
and learn to hold fast to your vision despite the challenges that arise.
Anchor to the wisdom of your inner core through experiences with spirit,
nature, imagination and magic. Use trance, deep meditation and sacred
space to access the insight of earth-healing spirit allies. Come away
clearer, stronger, and energized for the next stage of the journey.
Presented by the Hollyhock Retreat Centre.
Cost: $545 CDN (meals & accommodation extra, 5 nights. See rates and
options at http://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/page1594.cfm
, including application for 50% tuition scholarship.)
For more information: www.hollyhock.ca
call (800) 933-6339 or (250) 935-6576 (outside North America)
email: registration@hollyhock.ca
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