Brandi currently is the National Director of The Butterfly Movement  where we are committed to healing the wounds of our Soul (through Rebuilding and Re Framing our emotional selves), planting a Seed of faith as we Regenerate and Reconnect our hearts and our hands to the earth, leading ultimately to manifestation in the Soil of our Reactivated lives!

Currently, Brandi serves on the following boards:  The Northern America Permaculture Magazine ,  Northern California Resilience Network and the Northern California Women in Permaculture.

2018 Convergence Keynote: Designing for Resilience

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Her work in progressive movements spans over 30 years. She has organized, trained protesters, and been on the front lines of antinuclear actions at Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Nevada Test Site, among others. She traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace in 1984 and made two trips to El Salvador to give ongoing support for sustainability programs. She continues to be a witness for peace on the front lines of the Palestine/Israel war, working with Palestinian and Israeli peace activists.

A main focus for the last several years has been the global justice movement; Starhawk has taken part in many of the major actions, including those in Seattle, Washington DC, Quebec City, Genoa, New York City, Cancun, Mexico, and Miami. She co-founded RANT: Root Activists’ Network of Trainers, and teaches non-violent direct action trainings for groups throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Palestine, and South America. She is active in the revived American peace movement, and works with Code Pink. Starhawk also works on countless environmental and land use issues, and is a founder and active member of the Cazadero Hills Land Use Council in western Sonoma County.

Starhawk consulted on and contributed to a trio of popular films, the Women’s Spirituality series (directed by Donna Read). Starhawk and Donna Read formed their own film company, Belili Productions. Their first release is “Signs Out of Time” (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar whose discoveries sparked the Goddess movement.  Watch Starhawk’s short videos on Permaculture –  Tabor Tilth: Permaculture in the City, and Permaculture Principles at Work. Starhawk and Donna are at work on her next film, an Introduction to Permaculture. Starhak is currently working on a screen play and film for the film for her visionary best selling book – The Fifth Sacred Thing. http://fifthsacredthing.com/

Starhawk lives part-time San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in Cazadero, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens, and writes.

2018 Pre-Convergence Workshop: Social Permaculture Day Long Intensive

Thurs, Sept 20| 10:00am – 5:00pm| Hops Tipi

• Pre-Registration Required
• REGISTER HERE

2018 Convergence Main Stage Panel: Rooted in Love, Rising in Action

Friday Sept 21| 7:45pm| Main Stage

2018 Convergence Workshop: Social Forestry

2018 Pre-Convergence Workshop: Music as Medicine Day Long Intensive

Thurs, Sept 20| 10:00am – 5:00pm

Founder of the New Earth Vision Portal, Anchor The Dream, Visionary Stewardship, and Energetic Activism, Chiraya’s curricula have a place in the “Invisible Structures” category of Permaculture, and helps organizations and individuals leverage the etheric power of thought and vibration to make creating new earth realities more graceful and smooth.

A proponent of self-responsibility and the reclamation of our innate innocence, Chiraya Dharma is a vision holder, emissary and practitioner for the complete healing of all beings.

Her books available on Amazon include the bestselling “Fall In Love with the Beloved Within”, “Unlocked & Unleashed: The God Within You”, and more.

Formerly an event producer known as Laura Fox, Chiraya has produced, co-produced and executive produced numerous events since 2007.

Also a Branding expert, Chiraya offers Brand Coaching to visionaries, world servers, and heart centered entrepreneurs.

2018 Convergence Workshop: Anchor The Dream

2018 Convergence Workshop: EcoKosm

Professional Experience includes: Water design and purification systems in New Mexico, California, and Costa Rica. Holistic rainwater systems: recycling of water, purification systems, filtration, leach fields, compost toilets, sewage and waste disposal systems. Energy and renewable power systems: solar installations, wind power, and hydro and sustainable power solutions. Clean water system projects: river turbines, reverse osmosis, structured water, pipe bursting and upgrade designs, storage tank design, new water pipeline systems and well construction. Spirulina pond system design, research, growth and engineering of specifications for hydroponics and village utility, water and sanitation designs.

Karuna received formal engineering education at Northwestern University, in Evanston IL receiving a BS Degree in Civil Engineering (BSCE), with a specialty in Environmental Science and later an advanced degree from Florida International University, in Miami FL with a Master’s Degree in Engineering Management and MBA in 2006.

Outside of the office, you can find Karuna in nature, practicing yoga, dancing, playing djembe and congas, meditating , reading, hiking, praying at the river, oceans or lakes.

2018 Convergence Workshop: Supporting the Cycle – Sustainability Practices that Encourage Community Resilience and Repair the Water Cycle

2018 Convergence Workshop: Water Harvesting Design Principles

2018 Convergence Workshop: Diversity of Participants, Diversity of Ideas, Diversity of Solutions from Around the Globe: Come Learn About the International Permaculture Convergences

2018 Convergence Workshop: Earth Art Sculpture, Palletable Cobin Cobversation