Theme: Ecological Medicine
Friday, October 18th
How do we tune in to the Earth for guidance on how to partner with nature to live sustainably on our beloved planet? Come explore the medicine under our feet as we practice some simple, everyday ways of tuning in and listening to what the Earth has to teach us.
October 18th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm | Meet at the Bioneers Info Booth Near the Central Lawn
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Our body is a walking library, filled with knowledge, memories and insights, but when intense experiences go “undigested,“ our wellness can be imperiled and our focus impaired. Come discover powerful processes that help connect us to our bodies and self-knowing and that provide fertile soil for mutual support, collaborative relationships and sacred visioning. With: Ruby Gibson, Th.D., Executive Director, Freedom Lodge, international trainer, developer of Somatic Archaeology™; Ana Sophia Demetrakopoulos, facilitator/trainer, Gaiacraxia.
October 18th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm | Sausalito Room
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Modern Western genetics and Traditional Indigenous Knowledge share common ground in their understanding that the traits and tendencies we inherit from our ancestors can affect our health in both positive and negative ways. However, our genes are not our destiny. We can engage in activities that mediate the expression of both troublesome and beneficial genetic variants. In this session we will explore how traditional Indigenous lifestyle practices can improve our genetic plasticity and move us away from victimhood and poor health to wellness. Presenters will share somatic and mindfulness-based techniques based in Indigenous ways of knowing that can help us cure our historical amnesia, deepen our self-awareness, boost our self-reliance, and restore our power to consciously manifest our unique destiny. With: Dr. Michael Yellow Bird (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara); Dr. Ruby Gibson (Oglala Sioux).
October 18th | 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm | Indigenous Forum
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The greatest opportunity for a future in which human health and ecosystems flourish may rest on our plates. We will need to nourish 9 billion people by 2050: what humans eat and how it’s produced will be one key determinant of the future of life on Earth. The food systems currently in place are totally unsustainable (as recent fires in the Amazon so clearly highlight), but this grand challenge is also one of the greatest opportunities in human history to take an evolutionary leap in reshaping our relationship to food. Researcher, entrepreneur, and activist Christiana Musk, founder of Flourish.ink, a platform for catalyzing conversations on the future of food, and former Executive Director of Food Choice Taskforce, will draw from the wisdom of the audience and her own insights to explore with us how we can transcend the battleground of competing food worldviews to accelerate solutions for a flourishing future.
October 18th | 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm | Women's Tent
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In this deeply interactive workshop with highly experienced facilitator, researcher and social innovator Ana Sophia Demetrakopoulos, we will explore how to use the Resiliency Map/Storytelling Blanket, a powerful process to support embodied communication and mutual visibility in groups that originated in Canada in an intercultural collaboration of community-based activists to help organizations and individuals working to help those with HIV/AIDS provide better peer support and deepen their collaborative capacity.
October 18th | 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
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Saturday, October 19th
Introduction by Lisa Hoyos, Director of Climate Parents at the Sierra Club
For years, “environmentalists” have been typecast as white, tree-hugging vegetarians who care more for whales than southside Chicago or rural Mississippi. But the fact is that not only are poor and vulnerable populations, especially communities of color, environmentally aware, they are the most at risk from the impacts of climate change. Heather McTeer Toney will address how we must embrace climate action as the social justice issue of our time, and tear down old stereotypes so that we can build sustainable and resilient alliances to fight effectively together and affirm our common humanity. Heather is currently National Field Director of Mom’s Clean Air Force. Previously she served as the first African American, first female, and youngest-ever mayor of Greenville, Mississippi, and as a prominent leader in the Obama-era EPA.
October 19th | 9:20 am to 9:45 am | Veterans' Memorial Auditorium (VMA)
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Russell and Suki Munsell have forty years’ experience in a wide range of mind-body modalities, movement disciplines, and somatic therapies. Join them in this outdoor workshop as they share their Dynamic Vitality Method, a unique full-body experience for all ages and fitness levels. You’ll learn Dynamic Walking, a biomechanically based method to create balance between your mind, body and intention. Embody a more vibrant, graceful presence as you move through your life.
October 19th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm | Meet at the Bioneers Info Booth Near the Central Lawn
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How can conscious engagement with plants, with which we’ve co-evolved since the dawn of our species, support healing in the physical, emotional and spiritual realms and help mend our separation from nature? Three brilliant herbalists/botanists, long on the cutting-edge of re-empowering the plant-human bond, share their insights. Hosted by Kathleen Harrison, plant person extraordinaire, President of Botanical Dimensions. With: Pam Montgomery, world-renowned herbalist, educator, spiritual ecologist, founder of the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries (O.N.E.), organizer of the Green Nations Gathering, author of Plant Spirit Healing and Partner Earth; Jolie Elan; founding Director of Go Wild Institute, deep ecologist, ethnobotanist, and global educator; Kami McBride, author of The Herbal Kitchen, with 25 years’ teaching experience, longtime leader of the beloved Earth Connection herb walks at Bioneers.
October 19th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm | Showcase Theater
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Sunday, October 20th
In this deeply interactive workshop with highly experienced facilitator, researcher and social innovator Ana Sophia Demetrakopoulos, we will explore how to use the Resiliency Map/Storytelling Blanket, a powerful process to support embodied communication and mutual visibility in groups that originated in Canada in an intercultural collaboration of community-based activists to help organizations and individuals working to help those with HIV/AIDS provide better peer support and deepen their collaborative capacity.
October 20th | 2:45 pm to 4:15 pm