A central aspect of permaculture is designing so that needs can be met in healthy, regenerative ways. Human needs and wants, and our ways of trying to get them met, are extremely complex and powerful ecologies, and affect almost all of our permaculture design work. Developing awareness and skill in emotional literacy, and being able to read human needs and patterns in the ‘Zone 00’ of others and ourselves, supports us in being more response-able permaculturalists. This interactive workshop will give powerful insight into human ecologies and help us lift up emotional intelligence, which is much-needed as we transition into the next age of consciousness and we grow a more wholistic understanding of permaculture landscapes & practices.

Presented By: Jillian Hovey

A sacred men’s council to co-create deeper connection and embodiment through vulnerability, accountability, courage, and listening.
Men will be given the opportunity to share, to be challenged, and to support one another in finding a deeper groove in authentic connection and witnessing/acknowledging the impact of our choices to the Life around us.
Technologies that will be woven into the council will include breathwork, authentic relating, shadow work, and conflict resolution.

Presented By: Jason McKenzie

Bloom and Anahata have travelled globally with their organization, the Blooming Biodiversity Permaculture network, living at and visiting a rich diversity of Eco-villages, intentional communities, indigenous farms, and Permaculture projects. Through their slideshow presentation, you will have the opportunity to dive into their journey and experience vibrant photos and videos of the Permaculture gems they have been to. They will share best practices, innovative inventions, inspiring models, and paradigm shifting lessons they have learned from the multitudes of positive impact centers, followed by an open solutionary discussion counsel and action plans.

Presented By: Robin Liepman & Anna Simone Combi

This men’s circle is a safe space to honor and express the complex web of grief and other emotions that come up as we do the work of building regenerative systems. The ecological crisis calls us to listen to our hearts and hold space for our emotions as we witness Mother Earth’s pain and work towards solutions. Together we can hold space, witness, empower, and inspire one another.

Presented By: Ojan Mobedshahi

Community and personal resilience begins with you. Be prepared for when the lights go out and the grid goes down. Practical, educational and attitude skills to survive and actually help your family or neighbor in the event of major disasters, when the usual industrial infrastructure is off-line, for shorter or longer times. Basic tactics and tools for owning your own light and electric, no matter what the circumstance. Applicable for individuals and small community groups, no matter the disaster situation or social breakdown.

Presented By: Chaz Peling

Despachos are an ancient ceremonial tool that are practiced by many South American cultures to release prayers, express gratitude, ask for assistance and promote healing. This particular Despacho Ceremony will utilize the process taught in the Pachakuti Mesa Shamanic Tradition.
After ritualistically “opening” the five directions, participants will use natural and man-made objects to create a beautiful prayer-filled nature mandala. The Despacho is then bundled, used for ritualistic cleaning of the participants and “released” through burning, burying or placed in flowing water.

Presented By: Alaina Hernandez

Regenerative and collaborative Leadership as a means to support full purpose realization for all participants of a system.
What the world needs is people who have come alive ~Howard Thurman.
Unpacking concepts from Systems Theory (Bowens emotional nuclear systems, Social Dominance Orientation, Systemic oppression), trauma recovery and spiritual technologies, consent and council, methods of facilitation and modes of creative thinking (divergent, convergent, and emergent), as well as learning styles and needs assessments.

Presented By: Sahar Muhsin

You’ve heard that these times are dire and urgent, right? So isn’t it time we had some fun? Back due to popular demand, this hands- hearts- and bodies-on workshop returns for the second year to explore play and sacred clowning as tools for social permaculture. Endless urgency and intellectual seriousness are symptoms of a mechanistic, burn-out activist culture. Social sustainability requires different skills than those practiced within the Western capitalist paradigm. Forget those creepy clowns from childhood nightmares – come learn how to use the craft of clowning and play to bring life and joy into our movements. Play facilitates honest cultural critique and creates space for creative alternatives. And, it’s very fun. Notes: No experience necessary. Come especially if you have no experience.

Presented By: Annie-Rose London

Our wombs are a powerful and sacred space. Using our wombs as our cauldrons, we will journey into the highest timeline of the Earth, share our deep visions for what we see in the New Earth that we are birthing together. It is time to come together consciously to focus our attention to what we all want- happiness, peace, and a world living closer to ourselves and all that is.

Presented By: Stephanie Chin

Yoga is a practice that was traditionally taught one-on-one, yet today we find close to 20 people in a typical one-hour class. How can you expect to make gains in your practice with such little attention given to each individual? In this workshop we’ll discuss and practice the fundamental techniques and tools necessary for continuing growth in your yoga practice. We’ll work on alignment, breathing, flow, and more to help you advance in each pose, in each class, and in your overall practice, whether at home, or in a studio. Come with a mat, flexible clothes, and an open mind!

Presented By: Adam Vaughn

We live in the Kali Yuga: the age of quarrel and hypocrisy. With so much external stimuli and illusory distractions bombarding our everyday surroundings (maya), we often forget to listen to the inner voice that resides within our Being. Through this interactive course, we will examine the seven elements of music through the chakra system so we can become in tune with our Higher Selves. We will dive into the teachings of Bhakti Yoga; discovering our purpose, and hearing the stories and pastimes of Hindu demigods so we can learn to become instruments of the Divine.

Presented By: Jamil Apostol

Join us for an engaging conversation as we explore the skills and practices to empower and sustain your leadership in an increasingly complex, interconnected world. We believe leadership starts within. By practicing self care and living aligned with one’s purpose and values, we can have a transformative effect that ripples out from our lives and organizations into our broader community, moving us towards the systems change our world needs.

We will work with the skills of reflection, self-renewal, and the power of choice as the first ripple in strengthening one’s personal leadership. Participants will discuss and reflect on how to apply one’s values and strengths to affecting more potent and inspired change in the world. We’ll discuss what emergent leadership looks like, how we can foster environments for co-creation, and what key competencies are needed to model truly collective leadership for a just and sustainable future. At Daily Acts, we believe that every choice we make matters and that personal transformation is essential to affecting transformation in our lives, communities and world. We also recognize the critical importance of healthy, sustained leadership given the immense challenges of our time. We are excited to offer this workshop as a way to share the insights from our Leadership Institute for Just and Resilient Communities 10-month training program.

Presented By: Trathen Heckman & Kerry Fugett

Anchoring The New Dream of Earth
Since 2005

ANCHORING THE NEW DREAM OF EARTH is a large group visionary stewardship process that activates us into our bliss and sense of connection with one another and all of life so that we can create new “blueprints” for earth Life.

From this place of harmony and mutual cooperation. People from all walks of life and religious traditions are invited to participate, with the understanding that we are celebrating our Unity in our Diversity, and connecting with the Universal Power and Presence of Love in non-religious yet intrinsically “spiritual” ways that are non-exclusive.

THE PROCESS FOLLOWS PARTICIPANTS’ PASSIONS ABOUT PARTICULAR EARTH-LIFE TOPICS, FOR EXAMPLE:

• How could our children’s education be the most loving, empowering, confidence building, joy inducing experience possible for them?
• Could politicians be World Servers?
• What do you want the environment to be like?
• How do people get well?
• Can all corporations become Earth Stewards, creating with sustainable technologies?
• Can all our technologies to be sustainable?
• What does it look like? What does it feel like?
• How could government be in its highest aspect based on harmony and love?
• How could international relations be at their highest level of harmony and mutual sustainability?
• And more.

The group discovers their passion for topics of earth life that are most alive for them at that present moment of the workshop.

WHAT’S YOUR VISION FOR THE BEST OF THE BEST POSSIBLE FOR LIFE ON EARTH?

Participates learn to retrieve Source Sanctioned Visions for Life on Earth and/or their Organization or Community in this Visionary Stewardship Playshop. Accolades for the experience have come in since its inception in 2005. Pods co-create a visionary theater piece to express this new vision for earth life, with the most fun ever! Dynamic, synergistic Reality Creation at its best.

Presented By: Chireya Dharma

Michael Wellman is a doctoral student in the Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Revolving at the intersection of resistance, reskilling, and rewilding, his research encompasses the cultures of radical land defense, tending the wild, and traditional healing, where he is interested in what it means to embody the ecowarrior spirit in these times of the Great Turning. He currently resides on traditional mountain Maidu lands in the South Yuba watershed.

This is an open a discussion and council on what it means to be an “Ally” in today’s day and age. This is more than race or color, sex, gender, orientation, faith, nationalism, ability, classs, beliefs… this is about all of that AND a deep desire to dissolve that which separates us by being heard, seen, and empathized with. When we come together in the shared space of council we see the experiences that unite us, we connect through differences, we empathize with challenges, and we support and resource one another in ways we couldn’t do on our own, because we’re not alone in our efforts to create change. This intensive will offer tangible dos and don’ts, tools and wisdom to walk away and step into the inner and outer actions needed to be a ally, which is really just doing the right thing.

Presented By: Luna Love

Come join Town and City Permaculture as they facilitate another interactive and invigorating workshop. That will implore participants to really delve into the question “What is Permaculture?” and how can the community use it a diverse and dynamic tool for building ecological economies of environmental equality.

Presented By: Sasha Shankar & Troy Horton

Fast-paced, production-oriented time around us will ask us daily to dishonor our bodies and push past our limits. In this class we will look at the real impacts of this on our bodies and discuss ways that we can come back to a body-centered way of living which supports the vitality of all of life. We are dynamic, cyclical beings and we have so much to learn about regeneration from our own bodies.

Presented By: Marissa Correia

Urban Healer’s Ceremony for Male Vulnerability is an opportunity for mvn (men+vulnerability) to create deeper bonds of emotional support through the healing power of sharing vulnerability. In this workshop Jewel Love, the Creative Director of Urban Healers, will give each mvn an opportunity to express the parts of himself that are hidden, repressed, and denied, in a supportive way. His goal is to support immediate bonds of brotherhood that help reset the definition of manhood for participants in a more inclusive and nurturing way.

Presented By: Jewel Love

This experiential and interactive workshop will have you learn about, experience, and embody the “New Masculine.” We will cover powerful perspectives and frames that will give you access to new ways of seeing and experiencing yourself, being in relationship to your growth, and expanding your potential for leadership and influence in your family, communities, the world. You will leave the workshop with tools, processes, and structures that will directly impact your confidence, embodiment, influence, purpose, direction, and level of communication, that will radically alter the way you live and express yourself.

Presented By: John Taylor

Our human form is experiencing very similar imbalances as the earth itself. If we can learn to listen to the elemental symptoms of our bodies, perhaps we can better support the environment around us.
Why reinvent the elemental health wheel, when so many amazing cultures have already figured it out? Let’s back up and look at how we are all brilliantly designed maps, unique in nature, and be willing to listen to ourselves and act accordingly for the sake of balance and shared space.

Presented By: DeAnna Batdorff