These calls are designed to
bring together Pachamama Alliance
participants, leaders, and supporters who are actively engaged
in creating a shift in humanity to a worldview
that honors and sustains life
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By coming together and grounding in this vision, you will:
*Feel supported in your work.
**Be inspired and energized in your unique role in a worldwide
network committed to a new future for all.
***Strengthen your connection to like-hearted people and to the spirit
that has inspired Pachamama Alliance since its inception.
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GO TO: https://www.pachamama.org/events
to reserve your space for the conversation.
Fill out the online form and submit.
You will receive a confirmation email.
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Blue Deer Center 1155 County Route 6 Margaretville, NY 12455
(845) 586-3225
September 20 – 22, 2019
Fall Mushroom Retreat Fungi for food, health, cultivation and restoration
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Friday, 9/20, 6 pm to Sunday, 9/22 12 pm
Cost: $385 (includes lodging on Friday and Saturday, plus dinner on Friday through breakfast on Sunday)
A commuter rate of $225 per person includes meals as above and no lodging.
Please contact Linda at lindafelch@bluedeer.org with any questions about this program or registration.
Please plan to arrive at the Blue Deer Center between 4 and 6 pm on September 20th.
Transportation options can be found by clicking on the link on your registration confirmation or by clicking here.
We offer the option of special meals for those with certain dietary restrictions (gluten-free, dairy-free, gluten- and dairy-free). If you have other dietary restrictions, please email catering@bluedeer.org to discuss your needs.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation of your reservation more than 14 days prior to arrival entitles you to a full refund of tuition less a $25 processing fee. If you cancel 8 to 14 days prior to arrival, your program fee, less a $25 processing fee, will be held for you to use in another future program up to a year. If you cancel 2 to 7 days prior to arrival, your program fee, less a $25 processing fee and food costs, will be held for you to use in another future program up to a year. No refunds or credits will be issued for cancellations received less than 48 hours before a program’s start date. Refunds will be processed within 2 weeks of cancellation.
Learn About Our Center
Song Carriers Immersion
OVERVIEW
The Song Carriers Immersion is an initiatory experience for women called to awaken their natural wild essence and vitality through song and sisterhood. The immersion brings participants deeply into the way of the Song Carrier and provides guidance about how to gather, learn, hold, and offer sacred Earth Songs. Through a rich mix of communal singing, dancing and ritual along with solo visioning and wandering, women uncover the unique gifts of their voice and remember their original role as caretakers of life and dreamers of the mystery. The setting is the pristine wilds of Apache Canyon, NM where the music and medicine of nature powerfully present themselves and root the overall experience.
**The Song Carriers Immersion is a pre-requisite for the
Song Carriers Leadership Training.**
DATES & LOCATION:
Fall 2019 Song Carriers Immersion is
Tuesday September 24, 2:00 pm through
Sunday September 29, 1:00 pm at
Apache Creek Ranch near Santa Fe, NM
CORE ELEMENTS
- Nature Immersion
- Ancestral and New Song Lineages
- Dance as Prayer
- Earth-based Ritual
- Rhythm Making
- Solo Time in the Forest
- Sisterhood Weaving
- Conscious Visioning
THE HARVEST
- Enliven your wild essence
- Receive earth songs in original languages
- Awaken the gift of listening for and shaping songs from nature’s music
- Increase fluency with rhythm
- Deepen embodiment
- Develop ritual practices
- Cultivate relations with Mother Earth and beyond-human entities
- Enter a community of sisterhood
THE SETTING & ACCOMMODATIONS
Apache Creek Ranch is located 30 minutes from downtown Santa Fe and is surrounded by 400 acres of forest with a small creek that runs through the canyon. The breathtaking ranch has two sweet adobe casitas with loft spaces containing individual beds to share with two or more women and there is one room available with a king size bed to share with another woman. (This room is reserved for two women who are unable to climb a ladder into the loft spaces). Camping is also available for those that want more privacy. Each casita contains communal bathrooms with a shower. There is also a luxurious heated outdoor swimming pool. The retreat includes 3 nourishing meals a day, using locally grown and organic foods by our personal chef, Brigita Lacovara. (http://brigitaskitchen.com)
THE SESSIONS & SCHEDULE
The Song Carriers Immersion sessions will mainly take place outdoors with evening sessions indoors. Most days require an easy twenty minute walk to the forest for our gatherings. There will be one day devoted to a longer hike up the sacred mountain to make offerings and listen for nature’s songs.
Tuesday, Sept. 24
2pm-3pm Arrival & Registration
4pm-6pm Session
6pm Dinner
Wednesday, Sept. 25
8am Breakfast
10am Opening Ceremony
1pm Lunch
2pm-5pm Session
6pm Dinner
7pm-9pm Session
Thursday, Sept. 26
8am Breakfast
9am-4pm Pilgrimage to sacred mountain
6pm Dinner
7pm-9pm Session
Friday, Sept. 27
8am Breakfast
9am-1pm Session
1pm Lunch
2pm-5pm Session
6pm Dinner
7pm-9pm Session
Saturday, Sept. 28
8am Breakfast
9am-1pm Session
1pm Lunch
2pm-4pm Session
5pm-7pm Closing Water Lodge
7:30pm Feast
Sunday, Sept. 29
8am Breakfast
9am Check-out
10am-12:30pm Song Carriers Women’s Community Circle in Santa Fe
GUIDE
Madi Sato is a singer and women’s community leader of Japanese Ainu and Celtic roots. She is devoted to raising women’s voices for the benefit of all life. Madi has guided hundreds of women in awakening and empowering their authentic voices through the self-designed Song Carrier method of gathering in community. From a young age, she was immersed in indigenous ceremony and drawn to the feet of traditional grandmothers. She continues to compose original songs & chants consonant with nature’s music and is a lifelong dancer versed in an array of traditions and styles, both old and new.
Madi and her husband, poet Timothy P. McLaughlin, are co-founders of PRAISING EARTH, an organization devoted to rewilding the human heart through the traditions of song, story, dance and ritual to enliven all people’s essential belonging to Earth. She is the creative mother of the organization’s Singing Waters programs, which include Song Carriers Women’s Circles, Basket of Seeds Grandmother’s Alliance, Song Carriers Immersion, Song Carriers Leadership Training, and the 13 Moons Song Archive. She lives in Santa Fe with Timothy and their three children.
PraisingEarth.org
COST
$1600, includes all meals and shared lodging
$1475, includes all meals and camping
Song Carrier Immersion
Application
Thank you for your interest in the Song Carrier Immersion! This application allows you to articulate your desires and intentions for this program and helps us get to know you.
Before applying, please ensure you are able to commit to living on-site and fully engaging in every day of the immersion.
(Type into the spaces beside/beneath each question. Use whatever space you need. When complete, save and send to: Info@TheSingingWaters.org)
Name:
Address, Telephone, Email Address:
DOB:
Heritage(s):
Languages spoken or sung:
Health/Fitness Condition:
Express what draws your soul to the path of the Song Carrier.
Describe your connection and experience with song & wilderness.
What is your ceremonial background?
Are you comfortable in the elements and with hiking and spending solo time in the wild?
Please state your lodging preference. Loft bed, shared king bed, or camping?
Please list any food preferences or restrictions—
WECAN Birth to Three Conference – 2019
Registration for this conference is being processed by WECAN (Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America)
COST TO REGISTER:
WECAN Individual Member: $180
WECAN Institute Member: $190
Non-Member: $200
Housing Information:
If you have questions around housing or would like suggestions, please contact Katherine Scharff at katherine@sophiashearth.org.
Register By:
About this Event
????Festival of the Child is a completely FREE event and takes place ONLINE, from Nov 14th-20th, featuring experts and change-makers working tirelessly for the good of children everywhere.
????Supporting a paradigm shift in learning, we are reimagining education.
????Join us and add your voice to the collective.
????Learn directly from visionaries, storytellers, teachers, activists, doctors, psychologists and more to get the latest insights in how to grow today’s child for tomorrow and restore wellbeing now.
????So many of our children suffer from mental health issues that directly result from ways in which they are being educated and a system that is failing to look at their developmental needs.
????Learn tried and tested strategies that support YOUR child to grow up healthy, happy and full of hope for the future.
????Now more than ever we have an incredible opportunity to shift the learning paradigm into one that supports ALL of our children to truly thrive.
????It is time to be bold in our vision and brave in our footsteps as we re-imagine what learning looks like in the 21st century.
????We know that you want your children to grow up with a connection to themselves a strong sense of self and personal identity, empathy and care for others and full of creative solutions to transform humanity as this crucial time in our collective evolution.
????Come join the education revolution. Be heard. Have your say. Be a part of this important conversation.
????Completely free to sign-up. ????
But only available to registered participants.
Get your FREE eventbrite ticket then head on over to our website www.festivalofthechild.com to REGISTER.
It’s the only way to access the videos – as all links will be sent out by email.
Can’t wait to see you all on the other side!
Led by Starhawk, Charles Williams and friends.
Dates: January 5 – January 19, 2020: two-week intensive residential course
Location: Black Mountain Preserve and Golden Rabbit Ranch, Western Sonoma County, CA
Sliding scale:$1800-2300*
*includes all instruction, lodging, meals, and materials
WORK TRADE positions are currently full. Please feel free to apply for a spot on our waiting list ~ Limited Diversity Scholarships still available
Who is this training for?
We firmly believe that everyone can benefit from learning the tools and insights of permaculture to apply toward the broad goal of earth regeneration. Permaculture has solutions not just for landscapes and agricultural systems, but also for social design, public policy and survival strategies for these challenging times.
Topic and Projects Covered:
Hands-on projects vary with weather and needs, but may include mapping, water harvesting structures, graywater or roof catchment, compost, compost teas, sheet mulch, plant propagation, planting trees and shrubs, seed-starting, introductions to natural building concepts (including cob, straw-clay or plastering) and a collaborative design project. Our projects can be tailored to students of varied levels of physical ability and diverse ages and previous experience.
Our students include:
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- Young people looking for a career oriented around sustainability
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- People in mid-life looking for a new direction for existing or new work
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- Retirees wanting new fields to explore
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- Established professionals wanting to broaden and deepen their knowledge of sustainable alternatives
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- People involved with intentional communities, co-housing and eco-villages, or those who want to start or join one
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- Gardeners, farmers, ranchers, and land stewards of all kinds
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- Green business entrepreneurs who want to have a broader understanding of the possibilities
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- Teachers, environmental educators, and youth workers
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- Anyone involved in gardening, especially school gardens and community gardens
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- Architects and landscape designers
- Artists, musicians, poets, writers and dancers, and anyone who collaborates creatively
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- Community organizers and activists from many movements, including environmental justice, food justice, global justice, anti-oppression, human rights workers, and others
- Dreamers, visionaries, and more…
pictured above: Brooke Medicine Eagle
www.Spiritual-Wildfire-Summit.
com Joan D’Argo
I’m thrilled to invite you to a FREE global online Summit that starts Feb. 2-7 called:
Igniting the Worldwide Spiritual Wildfire We Need Now: A Call to Action
LINK TO: https://www.spiritual-wildfire-summit.com
I’ll be participating with 23 other featured speakers including Sandra Ingerman, Andrew Harvey, Nina Simons, Cynthia Jurs, Steve Farrell and Lyla June Johnston and I’d love for you to join us! Each of us will be offering inspiration, healing, and empowering practical tools to anyone who is ready to courageously use their own light to help ignite a worldwide spiritual wildfire.
The Spiritual Wildfire Summit is organized to address the fact that we live in epic times. In fact, we are experiencing nothing less than the reinvention of civilization. Yet as we dive into uncharted waters and move closer to a critical tipping, we see a worldwide awakening beginning to catch fire. The Spiritual Wildfire Summit offers inspiration, healing, and empowering practical tools to anyone who is ready to courageously use their own light to help ignite a worldwide spiritual wildfire.
To register for this free event click here. Link to: https://www.spiritual-wildfire-summit.com
Together we can create a new world based on compassion, wisdom, justice, and joy!
During this FREE 6-day global online summit, together we will experience & integrate profound ways to restore the Story of Our Awakened Hearts.
This transformational event is FREE to all registered attendees! You do need to RSVP in order to receive all of the info you need to participate in this unique and never before seen gathering of visionaries!
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Pittsburgh Earth Day 2020
APR22
24-Hour Youth Climate Strike on Instagram
Public:
Hosted by Pittsburgh Earth Day 2020
MissionPittsburgh is marking the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day by reigniting our dedication to our planet, to each other and to our collective future here on Earth. We call on everyone to unite, stand and act for a healthier, safer, more just and sustainable world. |
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TODAY.
Where have we been?
Where are we going?
What might be possible together?
https://peopleshub.org/
https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesHub-1695905997109684/
The Circle may be over but the workshops are coming up!
It’s time to sign up!!
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Virtual Rites of Spring 2020
We gather in May for our 42nd time to celebrate the sacred Earth and the turning of the seasons in the mountains of western Massachusetts.
Join us online, (and in person in September) – as together we:
Weave the web of community;
Share in ancient traditions and new rituals;
Look forward to what we can become;
Learn through workshops and dialogue;
Light the Sacred fire;
Feel the rhythms of life in our drums and dance to raise our spirits;
Form lasting friends and see families grow as we come together in community – learning, sharing music, celebrating with ritual, and fueling our joy.
Register now for virtual Rites of Spring programming!
We are terribly sad not to be able to be together for the first time in 42 years, but we are excited to be able to still offer a substantial program. Zoom links and program details will go out to everyone who registers.
Please spread the word!
Virtual Rites of Spring 2020 – EarthSpirit
We gather in May for our 42nd time to celebrate the sacred Earth and the turning of the seasons in the mountains of western Massachusetts. Join us online.
Saturday
- 8 – 8:30 AM Family Program – Seasonal Stories and Creative projects with Andrew Coate, and Sarah Rosehill
- 11:00 AM Workshop: Pagan Perspective Permaculture Primer with Martin Bridge
- 3:00 PM Web Ritual
- 8:00 PM Bardic Circle Sign Up Sheet
- 11:00 PM DJ Meow Meow
Sunday
- 8 – 8:30 AM Family Program – Seasonal Stories and Creative projects with Andrew Coate, and Sarah Rosehill
- 11:00 AM Workshop: Anamanta: a Pagan Practice for Troubled Times with Andras Corban Arthen
- 3:00 PM EarthSpirit FUNdraising Kickoff with Billy Bardo, Anya, Arianna (and maybe Patrick)
- 6:00 PM The Feast at home
- After Feast: DJ Dawn Dance Party! with Dawn Flatt
Monday
- 11:00 AM Closing Ritual with Deirdre and Andras Arthen
Plus Recorded Programs on YouTube
- Healing Ritual
- Building a Sacred Shrine
- Maying!
- Preparing your own Feast
Register Online
If you are registered and paid for Rites of Spring 2020 (May or September), please follow this link to get your virtual Registration number. This program is an included add-on to your registration.
To register if you are not already signed up for Rites of Spring: Admission for the week is a sliding scale $50 – $100. Please pay what you are able, to help us keep going through this time of crisis. No one will be turned away for serious financial hardship, as long as you pay something. Additional contributions are appreciated.
Once you are registered, close to the date of the virtual events, you will receive a registration code, an accessible link and password for the Zoom sessions, and a link to the Facebook Virtual Dining Hall. Please save that registration number for access to the Virtual Dining Hall or for any questions on your registration.
We look forward to seeing you all online.
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Interested in joining us in 2020? Fill out our early interest form and be the first to know when registration opens and save $50 off your registration. We’ll make sure you’re the first to know when registration opens for our August 7-9, 2020 ILI in Chicago. Bonus: you’ll receive $50 off when you register!
See the ILI in action
The Interfaith Leadership Institute (ILI) is the largest gathering of students and educators with a commitment to American religious pluralism. Each year, hundreds of people who care about the future of our religiously diverse society converge in Chicago to learn, train, share, and get inspired to bring the movement for interfaith cooperation back to their campuses and communities. Over the course of three days, participants learn to bridge divides and forge friendships across lines of religious and worldview differences. Come to the ILI with the passion to bring people together and leave equipped with the knowledge and skills to make it happen.
Interested in joining us in 2020? Fill out our early interest form and be the first to know when registration opens and save $50 off your registration.
Training Tracks
Introductory and advanced training tracks are designed to support those new to this work by laying the foundation for interfaith leadership, and providing advanced skills in topics ranging from strategic planning to navigating tricky challenges and more.
Plenary Sessions
Plenary sessions will feature conversation with experienced leaders and their stories of engaging religious difference and disagreement in American life. During the Unconference, attendees will have the power to guide these conversations by choosing discussion topics and important questions at the beginning of the gathering.
Discounts & Scholarships
As we do not want cost to be a hindrance to engaging with interfaith leadership, we have a number of discounts, as well as registration scholarships available.
Learn more about out discounts and scholarships
Interfaith Youth Core
141 W. Jackson Blvd, Suite 3200, Chicago, IL 60604
Phone: (312) 573-8825
Email: info@ifyc.org