zlotusmusic – The Convergence

Resetting the Dinner Table, Rebuilding our World

zlotusmusic — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 16:11:32 +0000

Learn all about cooking, preservation, fermentation, delicious nutritious traditional recipes, and more with a permaculture chef, Seth Peterson.

A home garden providing the benefits of eating locally and seasonally is a most revolutionary and transformative act. Using the intersection of agriculture and cooking to frame our physical world and daily lives, local chef and permaculturalist, Seth Peterson, discusses growing and eating our own food. Making the connection between garden and kitchen, this conversation offers practical tips and information on growing, harvesting, preserving and cooking your own food. It addresses everything from growing a simple herb garden to big picture considerations like redesigning our local food shed to support our farmers and environment, taking back our food system, and focusing on our individual and collective health.

People will learn what they can to eat better, buy local, and regenerate our communities and lands through regenerative agriculture on any scale.

Friday, Oct 6| 11am| Zocalo

Presented by Seth Peterson

The Third Ethic: Practicing Fair Share Permaculture

zlotusmusic — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 22:29:24 +0000

Intended to be an interactive and innovative experience, this workshop will challenge participants to consider the third ethic of permaculture, Fair Share, in new ways while exploring effective techniques, tools and resources for putting it into actual practice. The verifiable value of Fair Share – the sharing of earth’s bounty in balanced ways that benefit everyone – is mimicked beyond our gardens and reflected in our social relationships too. Its application can help to build bridges into community at a grassroots level, reaching the underserved and underrepresented we work with. As a real time example, Town & City Permaculture is an organization founded and run by Black folks, working and serving the same demographic. The Convergence has created a platform and shared its space so that we can teach and reach across what divides. We’re planting “seeds” to flourish in the future, for all. That behavior is FairShare permaculture in action and the return on creating and returning the surplus is replicable! Join us as we use actual garden/life problems and projects to brainstorm, find innovative solutions and devise effective tactics for a cross-cultural application in the world we are trying to grow.

TBA

Presented by Troy Horton and Sasha Shankar

Sue Bennett and Simon Mont

zlotusmusic — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:46:12 +0000

Sue’s insures the organization’s office space and internal operations contribute to the wellbeing of staff, and the effectiveness of Sustainable Economies Law Center’s programs .

Sue has spent 25 years working in the nonprofit sector in a variety of program and administrative roles and feels it’s her professional destiny to advance The Law Center’s mission. This feeling is fostered by her personal/political value alignment with The Law Center’s structure and this opportunity to develop and share the lessons learned by the Law Center’s practice of worker self direction and deep democracy . Sue’s community activism is rooted in understanding and minimizing the impact of class and classism and is based on the principles of feminism and anti-racism.

In a past life, Simon directed a high school marching band and taught middle schoolers how to play piano. After that, they landed at Berkeley Law where they stewarded the Restorative Justice Committee in their efforts to create a holistic law school culture and also bridge the gap between the ivory tower and the lived experiences of people impacted by mass incarceration. Their experience at the San Quentin Roundtable piqued their interest in the relationship between experience, identity, social structure, intentional gathering, and conflict transformation. Their restorative justice training provided them with a foundation in facilitating safe and equalizing spaces.

After brief stints at the Alameda County Public Defender’s and the Hayward Burns Institute, Simon decided to shift their focus from mass incarceration to the broader social and economic conditions that perpetuated and enabled it.

Simon is active in the Bay Area Jewish community and lives in a community house filled with exciting experiments in collaboration, art, and creativity. When they’re not nerding out on liberating structures, you can find them writing, performing spoken word, hugging trees, and acting as the managing editor of Tikkun magazine.

Simon researches, consults, and connects around the intersection between leadership, anti-oppression, management, compassion, and awe in order to support the development of holistic organizations.

Sunday Oct 8| 9:30-12:30| Bioregional Hub

Worker Self-Direction: Distributing Leadership for Just & Powerful Organizations

zlotusmusic — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:39:11 +0000

In order to create a just and sustainable world, we don’t just need to change what we do, we need to change how we do it. Organizational structures that use bureaucracy and rely on top down power can be replaced by deeply democratic collaborative processes that nurture whole beings; by organizations that support communities and individuals to grow, learn, and act. They will envision and support the development of organizations that embody radical political visions in the way they do their work. The workshop will share personal experiences, facilitate conversations, and provide specific strategies to build the organizations we crave.

Replace top-down power and hierarchy within your organization with deeply democratic collaborative processes and structures that nurture whole beings.

This workshop is about building community. It is about how we organize ourselves to do what needs to get done. It is about how navigating the issues of power, personality, emotions, and identity that arise when we meet each other as peers and attempt to build a world that works for all of us. Its about how to remain mindful of he complexity of the world, the work, and each other and still make sure that we create and follow a budget and get the taxes done.

Conference participants will gain from understanding how values that they already hold, operate on, and attempt to build into their physical designs can be formalized into resilient organizational structures.

The workshop will use group activities, facilitated discussion, and storytelling to leave participants with:
(1) An appreciation of the value of worker self-direction;
(2) An understanding of the operations and management of worker self-directed organizations;
(3) A specific set of practices that can implemented in their organizations immediately;
(4) A vision for how they might embed more democracy in their organization regardless of barriers to change
(5) Resources to engage leaders in conversations about change

Sunday Oct 8| 9:30-12:30| Bioregional Hub

Presented by Sue and Simon

Sacred Healing Circle

zlotusmusic — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:15:24 +0000

The Ceremony is to cultivate intimacy and improve communication within one’s own Infinite Intelligence, the primal feminine aspect of self and the sisters of the community. This is also a space to release, burn and transform conditioning inherited and formed as well as a space to heal the life stream of the soul beyond space and time. A Ceremonial and safe space will be created through Gayanee’s ability to perceive and function in the subtle strata of creation for the healing portion. Will be using journeying, breathing and moving techniques as well as story telling to connect within and without. A special healing for the ancestors are called in to heal in a cellular level so the embodiment of ones highest intelligence withing the body is facilitated.

TBA

Presented by Gayanee KyGa deSilva

10th Element of Hip Hop Health & Wellness

zlotusmusic — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 23:25:38 +0000

Did you know that Hip Hop culture has 10 elements? The newest element, the 10th Element, is called Health & Wellness. Why did we add it to Hip Hop culture? What are the implications of this new element? How can we each play a part in developing this new phase of Hip Hop? How can it effect your life? Your community? And the World?

The 10th Element of Hip Hop is Health & Wellness and our Proclamation reclaims the original intent and purpose of Hip Hop culture by reinvigorating its transformative narrative, using the power and influence of Hip Hop to create a healthier community that will sustain and support future generations. Come build with founder of Hip Hop is Green, Keith Tucker, Ashel Seasunz, Hip Hop is Green’s strategist, and the 7 year old Chef DJ, St.Louis’ Hip Hop is Green Chapter rising star.

TBA

Presented by Keith Tucker

Michael Lott

zlotusmusic — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:31:40 +0000

Michael Lott is a visionary abstract artist whose work is heavily inspired by his travels, our relationship with nature and our movement towards spiritual integration, and by the worlds opened up to him via dreams and the collective unconscious. The unique style that Michael’s work takes on is inspired by synesthesia, a “neurological phenomena” in which Michael’s senses overlap and he perceives music and sound visually as a flowing, interwoven dance of colors and abstract patterns. Michael believes that his work holds rich subconscious symbolism, and that it can be seen as a foreign yet universally familiar language. For more of Michael’s work, check out www.MichaelLottArt.com

Community Resilience = Emergency Preparedness

zlotusmusic — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 19:12:14 +0000

How resilient is your community? How ready are you for the natural and man-made disasters and disruptions that inevitably accompany climate change? Did you know that our work in permaculture, homesteading, and building resilient community is also disaster preparedness work? Join this vibrant discussion about these overlapping fields, and explore ways of leveraging ‘crisis consciousness’ to enhance your efforts to build truly resilient community. Learn how to assemble your own “go bag,” receive great practical resilience and emergency-prep tips that could save lives, and share your wisdom and experience in this interactive workshop.

Is your community ready for anything? Join this workshop to explore the dynamic intersection between transition, permaculture, and emergency preparedness. Let’s get resilient!

Many people — even those who have never heard of permaculture — are interested in building community resilience. They just call it by another name: “emergency preparedness.”

This is an interactive workshop that will explore the vital relationship between community resilience and emergency preparedness. In it, participants will gain knowledge and information about how to apply the disaster preparedness lens to our work in building resilient community. In addition to learning practical skills like assembling a “go bag” and creating community emergency response plans, participants will unlock the power of emergency preparation as a great unifier that can amplify our work in community. We “transitioners” and “permies” can scale up the impact of our work in building resilient community by building a bridge to the extensive, more mainstream world of people working on disaster preparedness. By applying the emergency-prep lens to our work, we can attract more funding, community partners, and other resources to our movement. We may even save some lives in the process.

Friday Oct6| 2pm| Solar Panel

Presented by Nils Palsson and Lesley Moore

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds, and Sovereignty

zlotusmusic — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:40:23 +0000

Abundant Land follows a group of Hawaiian residents on the island of Moloka’i as they oppose the biotech industry’s use of their land to test genetically engineered seeds and work to restore an integrated food system based on ancient Hawaiian farming practices and permaculture.

http://abundantland.com/

Saturday Oct 7| 9pm| Yurt

Healthy Community Connections: How Plants Communicate

zlotusmusic — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:35:17 +0000

Healthy plant ecosystems are connected in many ways and through many allies, including through sharing of essential water, minerals, sugars, and more. There is also the expression of warnings to others about pests and disease, and direct defenses against those, with an immune response of phytochemical substances that can also stimulate our own human health. Learn how common permaculture practices can encourage these healthy relationships in our own bodies, gardens, farms and wild places.

Science is catching up to explaining some of the complex beneficial relationships embedded in natural ecosystems, some of these hidden productive exchanges have been revealed, and can be supported by common permaculture practices. Presentation of ideas, discussion, questions and answers shared with participants.

Friday Oct 6| 3:30pm| Solar Panel: Red Talks

Presented by John Valenzuela

John Valenzuela

zlotusmusic — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:32:22 +0000

John Valenzuela is a gardener, consultant and educator specializing in fruit tree care and productive perennial polycultures, by way of Cornucopia Food Forest Gardens. He is active with the California Rare Fruit Growers, volunteering as Orchard and Fruit Tree Nursery Manager at the Indian Valley Organic Farm and Garden College of Marin, and serves on the board of the Felix Gillette Institute which preserves heritage fruit tree varieties of the Sierra.

Friday Oct 6| 3:30pm| Solar Panel: Red Talks

Healthy Community Connections: How Plants Communicate

Herb Spiral Garden

zlotusmusic — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:29:23 +0000

Join Bloom and Anahata, co-founders of Blooming Biodiversity, in the Solar Living Institute’s Spiral Garden to build a beautiful Herb Spiral!

Herb Spirals stack many functions, and are a key ingredient in the Permaculture garden. Some plants grow best with more sunlight; others like to chill in the shade. Some plants like to grow at higher elevation, others like to be closer to the ground. We will discuss the Social and Environmental integration of the relevant Permaculture principles embedded in Herb Spirals, including: “Integrate rather than Segregate,” “Use & Value Diversity,” “Design from Patterns to Details,” “Catch & Store Energy,” and “Use the Edge & Value the Marginal.” As our teacher, Starhawk, loves to say: “It’s not truly Permaculture unless you have an herb spiral!”

We will teach and sing many plant songs as we build. As Starhawk says: “Communities who sing together, stay together!” Join us in the garden to build community, build an Herb Spiral, and plant up the Regenerative Paradigm!

Learn more about our Permaculture work and journey at www.BloomingBiodiversity.org

And taste our music at www.BloomSounds.org

Saturday, 10:30am – 12pm

Presented by Bloom and Anahata

Dr. Kevin Danaher

zlotusmusic — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:13:41 +0000

Dr. Kevin Danaher is a Co-Founder of Global Exchange, FairTradeUSA, the Green Festivals, the Environmental Service Learning Initiative, and the Green Guardians. He has played a major role in Global Exchange’s 28-year record of merging social enterprise with human rights activism. His 1983 PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz was based on his dissertation, The Political Economy of U.S. Policy Toward South Africa, which allowed him to synergize his academic work and his international activism in the anti-apartheid movement. He has travelled widely in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, China, Europe and all 50 U.S. states. He is the author or editor of 12 books on the global political-economy, including his two latest, “The Green Festival Reader: Fresh Ideas from Agents of Change”; and “Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots.” He has appeared on hundreds of radio and television shows, and he has spoken at colleges and community organizations in 47 states and many foreign countries. Described by The New York Times as the “Paul Revere of globalization’s woes,” He teaches at Feather River College in Quincy, California.

TBA

Creating a Resilience Innovation Center

Michael Sean Brown

zlotusmusic — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:19:56 +0000

Michael Sean Brown is Co-Founder of Delphi Southern Nevada and Delphi Village’s Chief Executive Officer. Sean is the visionary and social architect behind Delphi Village. He has thirty-years experience in aviation, real estate, and start-up ventures. He was the Chief Operations Officer for an aviation training company that lead to a key management role during the 1994 start-up of Frontier Airlines. Sean received training and experience through Occidental Arts & Ecology Center (Starting and Sustaining Intentional Communities) and Living Mandala (Transition Town Training).

TBA

Delphi Village

Leah Grant

zlotusmusic — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:17:38 +0000

Leah Grant is Co-Founder of Delphi Southern Nevada and Delphi Village’s Chief Marketing Officer. She owned a marketing consulting firm in San Francisco and an event production company in Los Angeles. She owns and runs an international consulting, coaching and training firm that focuses on business growth, innovation, collaborative teaming and process development.

TBA

Delphi Village

zlotusmusic — Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:15:14 +0000

Delphi Village is an emergent technology showcase built as the infrastructure for a permanent festival grounds and music festival theme park. Cal-Nev-Ari is a 520-acre town in Southern Nevada that we are acquiring to transition into a regenerative community. We have a plan for over 5000 acres of land in the Southern Nevada area to create as a conscious business and regenerative showcase. This is an extensive plan incorporating regenerative technologies for water and power, time banks, next-level composting, community design, conscious business practices, multi-stakeholder cooperative, and a Non-Profit Project.

Delphi Southern Nevada is assembling over 5000 acres for the purpose of establishing regenerative communities using emergent technologies and new paradigm business principles such as multi-stakeholder cooperatives as the foundation.

TBA

Presented by Leah Grant and Michael Sean Brown

Margie Bushman & Wes Roe

zlotusmusic — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:52:01 +0000

Margie Bushman & Wes Roe are co-founders of the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, an educational non-profit founded in 2000 that has sponsored hundreds of workshops and events about permaculture and sustainability to Santa Barbara region. Margie was also the Program Coordinator for the Santa Barbara City College Center for Sustainability.
Wes Roe served as board member & President of the Permaculture Credit Union. Both have served as a volunteer coordinators for the International Permaculture Convergence Support Group since its inception in 2005, that later evolved into the Friends of the International Permaculture Convergences (FIPC) & the International Permaculture Convergence Council (IPCC).

Saturday Oct 7| 9:30am| Willow Grove

Diversity of Participants, Ideas, and Solutions from Around the Globe: Come Learn About the International Permaculture Convergences

zlotusmusic — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:48:49 +0000

The International Permaculture Convergences (IPCs) are the lifeblood of the global permaculture movement. Started in the early 1980’s when permaculture was still relatively unknown, IPCs are now a bi-annual event hosted by a different permaculture organization in a different country and region each time. We learn in the deepest way what our fellow global citizens and permaculturists are experiencing in their regions as societies around the world enter in an era of interconnected challenges. Participants from many parts of the world come ready to share their skills, projects & knowledge. With as many as 70 countries attending there is a diversity of participants, for a diversity of ideas, resulting in a wonderful diversity of solutions. Who knows where these much needed solutions will come from, could it be East Timor, the highlands of Zimbabwe, the Negev desert? Or possibly India, where they are celebrating 30 years of Permaculture, by hosting the next IPC in 2017. Come learn how these grassroots global convergences are organized, what the challenges are for host organizations, and contribute your ideas of how to keep them strong and resilient in the future.

International Permaculture Convergence’s Unite the Global Permaculture Community – what are they, how are they organized, how you can participate.

We are a global society, and more than any other time in history, in order to be resilient, need the diversity of ideas from all cultures, to survive.
For more than 40 years Permaculture has been leading the way with innovative, planet and climate friendly design strategies, that are just now being fully recognized by the rest of the world as the answer to some of our most pressing problems. IPC’s reach into every corner of the world, local to global, to bring forth and share these ideas.Workshop:

• Brief overview of International Permaculture Convergences
• Present Organizational Structure of IPC’s, with discussion Future of IPC’s
• Engage participants in brainstorming exercises for ever evolving model

Topics might include:
• How can permaculture strategies feed up from local to global, arrive at IPCs ready to share?
• What organizational constructs would help make IPC’s most effective and resilient?
• Money! How to Finance
• Language, what creative ideas to prevent barriers in sharing
• Multiculturalism, how to learn the most from each other, when we express ourselves quite differently, in manner, gestures
• Technology constraints
• Ideas for sharing & exchange capacities
• How to make sure what’s learned at IPC’s return home, or disseminated to local permaculture organizations?

Saturday Oct 7| 9:30am| Willow Grove

Presented by Margie Bushman & Wes Roe

The Balance of Polarities

zlotusmusic — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:20:12 +0000

This hour-long workshop is about balancing masculine and feminine energies in context of the microcosm (human being) and the macrocosm (the universe). The workshop explores these dual energies as they appear in foods, astrology, yoga, ancient Indian texts of Shiva and Shakti, and modern society. It includes in group share-outs, brief personal writing time, relevant yoga poses, a check in, and a check out.

Balance feminine and masculine energies through yoga, foods, and more.

Saturday Oct 7| 11am| Mediterranean Garden

Presented by Jada Imani

“Natural” Beekeeping a Holistic Approach

zlotusmusic — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 22:07:51 +0000

Yasir will share excerpts from Soul Flower Farms Intro to Natural Beekeeping class. Challenging the commercial beekeeping practices, which breeds disease, that many backyard and permaculture beekeepers have adapted and Yasir will offers solutions for more sustainable beekeeping.

Shared excerpts from Soul Flower Farms Intro to natural beekeeping classes. Challenging the commercial beekeeping practices, which breeds disease, that many backyard and permaculture beekeepers have adapted and offers solutions for more sustainable beekeeping.

60-70% of all food which feed Resilient Communities come from the pollination which Bees perform. This Workshop is geared to raise the consciousness of better Beekeeping methods so the permaculture community can assist in reducing the decline of the Bee populations worldwide.

Friday Oct 6| 11am| Hops Tipi

zlotusmusic – The Convergence

Resetting the Dinner Table, Rebuilding our World

Presented by Seth Peterson

The Third Ethic: Practicing Fair Share Permaculture

Presented by Troy Horton and Sasha Shankar

Sue Bennett and Simon Mont

Worker Self-Direction: Distributing Leadership for Just & Powerful Organizations

Worker Self-Direction: Distributing Leadership for Just & Powerful Organizations

Presented by Sue and Simon

Sacred Healing Circle

Presented by Gayanee KyGa deSilva

10th Element of Hip Hop Health & Wellness

Presented by Keith Tucker

Michael Lott

Community Resilience = Emergency Preparedness

Presented by Nils Palsson and Lesley Moore

Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds, and Sovereignty

Healthy Community Connections: How Plants Communicate

Presented by John Valenzuela

John Valenzuela

Healthy Community Connections: How Plants Communicate

Herb Spiral Garden

Presented by Bloom and Anahata

Dr. Kevin Danaher

Creating a Resilience Innovation Center

Michael Sean Brown

Delphi Village

Leah Grant

Delphi Village

Delphi Village

Presented by Leah Grant and Michael Sean Brown

Margie Bushman & Wes Roe

Diversity of Participants, Ideas, and Solutions from Around the Globe: Come Learn About the International Permaculture Convergences

Diversity of Participants, Ideas, and Solutions from Around the Globe: Come Learn About the International Permaculture Convergences

Presented by Margie Bushman & Wes Roe

The Balance of Polarities

Presented by Jada Imani

“Natural” Beekeeping a Holistic Approach

Presented by Yasir Cross