Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Yurt

– Instructed by Max Meyers

• Pre-Registration Required: $75 – $195 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Ready to Green Your Grow?

Are you interested in learning how to grow clean and green Cannabis? Would you like to improve the quality of the cannabis you grow by moving beyond organic? Want to learn how to produce it using more sustainable, even regenerative practices? Well then, join us for this one of a kind class and learn how to Green Your Grow! This introductory class will help you improve your cannabis growing methods so that they are not only better for you and your pocket book, but for the consumers and the environment as well.

Workshop Description

Many problems facing this fast growing industry relate to the wasteful amount of non-renewable resources being used everyday in the production of the cannabis plant. From the common practices of using chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides, to the destruction of forest systems and waterways, California’s booming new industry in recreational Cannabis must also become more sustainable, clean and certified Organic. The successful changes we are helping to spread will help the state to become a leader in clean green cannabis, which is not only better for the consumers, but better for the environment. In this 1-day Intro workshop Master Grower Max Meyers will teach you the basic concepts of growing Cannabis using ecological design.

Some Key Benefits to Greening your Grow!

• Learn How Nature Can Provide the Solutions to Most of the Challenges Facing Cannabis Growers on the Farm or in the Garden
• Use Up to 75% Less Water Than Other Growing Methods
• Reduce Nutrient Needs and Eliminate Need for Buying Extra Bottles
• Go Beyond the Traditional Understanding of Healthy Soil Systems
• Saves Money, Time and Resources
• Model Plant Communities After the Most Successful Examples in Nature
• Learn How to Go 100% Organic and Beyond!
• Increase Marketability of Your Crop
• Join the Largest and Fastest Growing Segment of Cannabis Production
• Learn from Sustainable Cannabis Experts
• How Using Observation and Good Permaculture Design Can be a Huge Benefit to Growers
• Self-sufficiency = Good for the Planet & Good for Your Wallet
• Localized, Site Specific Advantages that Can’t be Bought in a Store or Nursery
• Design to Maximize Production Area While Minimizing Wasted Space
• Your Chance to Apply what you Learn From this Unique Sustainable Cannabis Growing Class!

Whether you have been growing for years or just getting started, this class will help you grow more sustainable cannabis, using less money, resources and can even help you produce more with less time and labor!

Learn from a well-known expert in Cannabis and Ecological Design the successful tips and tricks you need to reduce electrical usage if growing indoors and how to dramatically reduce your ecological footprint!

This class is perfect for garden managers, growers, owners and operators.

Max Meyers

 Max Meyers is an experienced Ecological Designer, Permaculture Teacher, Consultant, Registered Aquaculturist, Aquaponic System Designer/Installer, Rainwater and Greywater System specialist, Farmer, and the Executive Director of the Mendocino Ecological Learning Center a nonprofit educational organization and ecological reserve offering green job training and sustainable living skills to the public. Through his work as an instructor of Permaculture and Ecological Design he has successfully trained over a thousand students from more than 40 countries world wide. In addition to the work at MELC, Mr. Meyers provides Ecological design services to the public, organizations, and schools through Osiris Designs and Nor Cal Aquaponics. He is passionate about all things related to a more just and sustainable world. Most recently Mr. Meyers helped write the guidelines for the newly formed  California Fish and Wildlife Aquaponics subcommittee. He has been studying, practicing and teaching Permaculture and Ecological Design for 18 years.

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Yurt

• Pre-Registration Required: $75 – $195 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Hops Tipi

– Facilitated by Starhawk & Malik Coburn

• Pre-Registration Required: $45 – $95 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Workshop Description

Social permaculture looks at the people-care aspects of permaculture. Vegetables are the easy part—people are the challenge! All groups struggle with issues of power, conflicts, and the need to make decisions. Collaborative groups may be healing, nurturing, and inspirational—or they may founder on the rocks of conflict and poor communication.

In this one-day intensive, we’ll look at regenerative patterns for human interaction. How do we come together across barriers and create spaces where we are welcome in the full complexity of who we are? We’ll explore how to structure our groups for maximum group health, how to share power fairly, improve our communication skills, mediate conflicts and facilitate group processes.

The foundation for this workshop is based on tools and practices from Starhawk’s book, The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups.

Starhawk is a committed global justice activist, organizer, speaker, teacher, and the author or coauthor of ten books. Starhawk is founder of Earth Activist Training, and travels internationally teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism for diverse groups, communities and audiences. Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. Besides her inspiring, much-read books, she is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community. Her works include The Spiral Dance, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing. A personal favorite is award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Starhawk’s latest book is The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. Starhawk’s books have been translated into many languages, while her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Her writing is influential and has been quoted by many hundreds of other authors, from magazines to trade and academic press. Her books are often used in college curriculums.

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.

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Hops Tipi

• Pre-Registration Required: $45 – $95 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Oct 5th, 10am- 4:30pm

– Co-Facilitated by Jeff Clearwater and A. Keala Young

• Pre-Registration Required: $45 – $95 suggested donation (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
• Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Workshop Description

All over the world there are modern day ‘Villages’ emerging with a multiplicity of forms and a common intent, to become the imaginal cells, the pioneer crucibles that can develop the solutions that humanity needs. The work is of immense value to us all as they model sustainable lifestyles, develop tools, technologies, processes that demonstrate that a Regenerative path is not only a dream but a true potential. Each of these versions of Village offers a story, a leading vision and fulfilling future for humanity.

Our interactive Village Design Workshop will allow you to learn the blueprints of a Regenerative Community directly with people passionate about juicy and high quality conscious community and Whole Systems Design.

This ReInhabiting the Village intensive is an exploration of essential principles for revitalizing the ethos of Village culture and re-aligning ourselves with the intelligence of the Living Earth.

Leveraging Thinking Global, Acting Local perspectives we consider the consciousness shift and culture shifts necessary in order to empower collective engagement in meaningful action towards a more regenerative society.

During this interactive deep dive experience, we will work with best practices, tools, frameworks, dialogue and useful exercises for growing our capacity for cooperation and stewardship within our communities while considering our place in the greater web of life.

Topics of Focus:

To ground a Village Vision, Core Values and agreements and how to obtain and develop land.
The architecture of leadership, how to grow a circle of cohesive powerful community supported by a dynamic governance system.

• Community-Based Approaches to Transforming Conflict.
• Collective Intelligence principles that enable harmony, traction and Impact.
• Wisdom Driven Community Economics – well-being, sharing power and systems that generate wealth for the community.
• Whole Systems Design ( social, political, economic, eco-tech).
• To develop capacity and framework to support individual and collective learning.
• To develop and deepen connection, trust & intimacy while having fun!\

Co-Facilitated by Jeff Clearwater and A. Keala Young

Jeff Clearwater

Jeff has been a leader in whole systems regenerative design for over 40 years with a special passion for intentional community, ecovillage design and applied new paradigm economics.

Jeff has played a major role in the sustainable and regenerative communities movement – having co-founded the Ecovillage Network of the Americas (ENA) and Living Routes Ecovillage Study Abroad in 1997 and as Ecovillage Director at Sirius Community until 2001. Jeff has provided integrated systems and renewable energy design, consulting and installation in rural villages, businesses, governments and sustainability projects all over the world since the 1980s.

Jeff’s prime passion is to illuminate a new paradigm in economics. Grounded in a long cultivated understanding of sacred economics and numerous initiatives in creating Commons, Jeff works closely with the Metacurrency Project and recently developed a revolutionary model for collective wealth co-creation and stewardship – the Wealth Stewardship Pattern.

Jeff co-founded VillageLab in 2012 whose talented team is now busy building the RegenSolutions process and framework for the systematic research, development, demonstration, replication and dissemination of regenerative best practices for communities of purpose, practice and place.

When not actively engaging in regenerative community work, Jeff tends to find himself in wilderness – tuning into life amongst the woods, rivers and beaches of northern California and Oregon or the mountains of the Southwest.

A. Keala Young

Keala is a whole system designer​,​ regenerative practitioner ​and permaculture teacher ​with a background in the healing arts. His rich study of permaculture and ecovillage design includes certificate programs from Findhorn Foundation to Esalen Institute and is complimented by experiential learning in co-production of multiple design courses and intensives. Keala is a co-founder of Atlan Living and Learning Center near the Columbia River Gorge in Central Cascadia, is a co-author and contributing editor of ReInhabiting the Village and is Co-Director of VillageLab’s RegenSolutions Initiative.

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30pm| Solar Panel

-Pre-Registration Required – $45 – $95 sliding scale (Discounts for FULL Convergence Tickets)
-Includes delicious vegetarian lunch

Oct 5th, 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm

– With Maria Owl

• Pre-Registration Required
• $45 – $95 suggested donation (Included with FULL Convergence Tickets)

Workshop Description

Have you ever felt like you are here to participate in something big? Like you are a piece of a larger, intelligent whole that is on the verge of waking up? Do you ever wonder what your role is in the “Great Turning”? Many of us are sensing an inner-calling to rise up and be a leader in our communities, in a whole new way than has ever existed on the planet before. We long to be impeccable, aligned to our Soul Mission, and in service to others in a way that truly makes a difference. If we’re going to birth a just, sacred and sustainable new culture on Earth, we must face our fears, come into emotional balance and know that we have the power to transform our self-doubt, fear, and confusion.

Maria Owl invites courageous bridge-people, earth-healers and leaders to join her in exploring and activating your inner-Light-Leader. Maria believes that now more than ever, our sovereignty as individuals and as a planet can now be embodied. During this 4-hour deep dive, she will guide you through a reclamation process to meet your empowered multi-dimensional Self; the Awake, Timeless You who knows how to thrive, “reality-create”, heal, transform and love unconditionally.

Pulling from Universal Law, Quantum Physics, Energy Medicine and Indigenous Wisdom, Maria offers an experience one doesn’t easily forget.

In this workshop you will learn how to:

• Embrace and consciously choose the power of transformation, rather than fear it
• Release old patterns of self-sabotage and self-abandonment
• Step into your most empowered, authentic voice and calling as a leader
• Shift your “resonant field” through intention, sound, meditation and connection to nature.
• Anchor in new neural pathways of new self-chosen empowering beliefs
• Collectively envision a liberated human future and thriving Earth, and through the power of group intention – make it so!

This workshop will culminate in an hour-long Activation Ritual, where we will anchor in our new “resonant fields” and the new resonant field of our future/now Mother Earth.

Guided by Maria Christina Owl Gutierrez

Maria Christina Owl is an international speaker, spiritual mentor and ceremonial leader. She has offered workshops and rituals in Israel, New Zealand, Canada and the US. She is a clairvoyant medium and author of the forthcoming book “The Great Mother Transmissions: Midwifing the New Earth”. Maria founded Sacred Future School in 2012 as a safe and grounded training ground for healers and leaders ready to align with their innate gifts and calling. Maria holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and is a Master of Intuitive Medicine and scholar of Indigenous Science and Healing. www.sacredfuture.org

Thurs, Oct 5| 12:30 pm – 4:30pm| Bio-Regional Hub

• Pre-Registration Required
• $45 – $95 suggested donation (Included with FULL Convergence Tickets)