Keynote Presenter: STARHAWK
WORKSHOP: Building Regenerative Movements Starhawk is a permaculture designer, teacher, and founder of Earth Activist Training, which teaches regenerative design with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. She is the author of thirteen books on earth based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on group dynamics and social permaculture, and her permaculture novels, The Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge. Together with director Donna Read Cooper, she has worked on five major documentaries, including the Goddess Trilogy for the National Film Board of Canada and Permaculture: The Growing Edge. Starhawk holds a double diploma in design and teaching from the Permaculture Institute of North America. She presently directs Earth Activist Training, teaches internationally, and is a voice for incorporating Social Permaculture into our movement and training. Her website is http://starhawk.org, and she is on Twitter @Starhawk17 and Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StarhawkAuthor/ |
Keynote & Workshop:
Workshop: Hearing the Story of Your Voice This workshop is a place for people in the community to fellowship around finding and expressing our voices. It’s a song circle, a meditation, a place to slow down and connect, to rethink ways to share our stories, poems, chants, grief, and dreams. To notice what it takes to find your messages and to be heard. Holistic Resistance will facilitate songs, stories, and simple settling practices supporting your voice and expression. (Limited to 45 people) Bio: Aaron Johnson is a facilitator, public speaker, and touch specialist who believes in using closeness to break down barriers between people. As the co-founder of Holistic Resistance and Grief to Action, Aaron holds the stories of black people around homophobia, transphobia, internalized racism, and those who are Chronically UnderTouched. He teaches others how to normalize thoughtful and mindful platonic touch for black bodies. Aaron created the Chronically UnderTouched Project, which uses basic strategies to bring a black body from being Chronically UnderTouched to a state of touch balance. This is part of the lifelong journey of interrupting oppressive systems that make touch balance a radical action. Aaron practices various methods of moving through trauma stories, such as communal listening, sound healing, meditation, and closeness to the earth. |
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HAZEL WARD
Hazel is a long time resident of the Southern Oregon/Mount Shasta bioregion first settling here in the early 70’s, and has been advising farms, stewarding forests, and teaching Environmental Sciences for more than fifty years. Their focus for this 21st century has been Social Forestry, restoring Oak/Pine Savannah in Little Wolf Gulch near Ruch, OR, demonstrating natural building, fuel hazard materials utilization, multiple products woods-crafting, wildlife support and desert forest water management. WORKSHOP: Shrink the Permaculture Design Course: A Rewrite of the Curriculum Can we transmute “design” to assessment, systems mapping and culture tending? Can we learn what the Mollisonian education model actually has accomplished and look to an expanded approach? What to do about professionalism and the franchise model? Can we shrink grandiose design to quick fixes and triage through nimble solutions while holding a vision of ultimate culture of place? And can we learn to accept feedback in big ways from small interventions? |
NWPCC Presents at the Convergence:
NW Permacultute Ethos: exploring how to embody feedback, healthy succession and regenerative organizational practices by design. This session is led by the NWPCC Board of Directors (Shealee, Julie and David) as a place to share about our work as a team to help this organization strengthen community connections that reinforce the application of permaculture principles. Learn about what we do, why we do it, our current project scope, and how to engage as a board member or community ally. Please nominate good and diverse people and join the vote using StarVoting for a new Board by community at the Convergence! Shaelee Evans, our outgoing president, has been on the Board since 2016, our longest board member in history! She advocates for equity in all she does, including her Sequim WA farm based business GoodnessTea. She will continue as a Board ally to support succession. David Ahlgren has been on the board since 2018. He advocates for keeping things simple as a NP organization and for non-violent communication and invites feedback always and often. David purposes to listen to land as he works around the world in different ecosystems as a restoration ecologist, water flow designer and permaculture educator. To promote this organization's succession, David will be stepping down and continue as a Board advisor and ally as needed in the years to come as he steps into the next chapter in his life work and doctorate studies. He hopes to return to pass on his trade blanket ceremony and to share his life work as needed in this community. Julie Wolf was a board ally for years (2018-2022, joined the board in 2022), as an active connector and community builder, sending the Newsletter, holding monthly community meetings, hosting monthly speakers, responding to community needs and inviting more participation and empowerment of the community to lead the next phase of how NW Permaculture Community can best be served by this organization with more People Care/Fairshare from its ancient origins. |