Day Three of the Summit | Monday, April 22
Day Three of the Summit is the most popular with registrants so far, and offers a rich exploration of our relationships to nature and our communities. Featured events include a streamed Keynote from Charles Eisenstein, a talk by Judy Wicks, our Pipeline Panel, and ‘Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects’.
Day-Passes are available here.
8:00 | Morning begins with an optional sitting meditation and gentle yoga.
9:00 | Following regular registration and breakfast, we will prepare for the last full day of the Summit. Check in with your Homegroup to welcome newcomers and share about your experience and insights thus far.
10:00 |Streamed from FINDHORN, SCOTLAND |Charles Eisenstein
(image) Charles Eisenstein is an extremely popular philosopher, author and internationally renowned speaker and program facilitator. His books include The Ascent of Humanity, Sacred Economics and most recently, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible. His most recent book, Climate—A New Story, makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our journey to heal from ecological destruction
“Humanity is meant to join fully the tribe of all life on Earth, offering our uniquely human gifts towards the wellbeing and development of the whole.”
“The path of service is a path of self-realization.”
“Our salvation must come from recovering a direct relationship to what is alive in front of us.”
11:15 | Presenter, Judy Wicks
(image) Judy Wicks, Cofounder and Board Chair Emeritus of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), is an entrepreneur, author, speaker and mentor working to build a more compassionate, environmentally sustainable and locally-based economy. BALLE, originally focused in the Northeast USA and in particular Philadelphia, the network now supports localist initiatives around the country. Judy is also a board member of Kosmos Associates.
12:00 | Pipeline PANEL | Lessons learned from Standing Rock, Onwards
Malinda Harnish Clatterbuck | Co-Founders Lancaster Against Pipelines
Eve Miari | Founding member of the Middletown Coalition for Community Safety and Advocacy Coordinator at Clean Air Council.
George Alexander | Del-Chesco United for Pipeline Safety, President of the Faith Alliance for Pipeline Safety
2:30 – Sound Healing with Roksana Filipowska
3:00 | The Work that Reconnects, Moving from Despair to Joy
Draw Strength & Courage From the Web of Life, with Lynne Iser and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling
(image) We are at a moment in history when many of us feel both the great love that we have for our amazing, beautiful world – and our profound despair about the state of this same precious world.
This dynamic, interactive workshop is based on the teachings of Joanna Macy, who has inspired many thousands of people to engage wholeheartedly in working for a life-sustaining society, turning despair in the face of social and ecological crises into constructive, collaborative action. We will use exercises and practices drawn from deep ecology and systems theory to explore our gratitude, grief, and curiosity along with our own unique gifts to help us reconnect with all life, Earth and others on our planet — to sustain our activism and give us hope.
Lynne Iser, MPH is a local elder activist & organizer who teaches deep ecology, conscious aging, and community building as she works with others to create a thriving and just world for future generations.
Rabbi Mordechai Liebling is founder and director of the Social Justice Organizing Program at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College; and leads workshops and retreats on the intersection of sustainability, social justice, and spirituality.
4:00 | Homegroups | Deep processing and takeaways of the day.
5:30 | Happiness Hour at Iron Hill Brewery.
7:30 | Evening Events TBA