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THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS DEEP ECOLOGY WORKSHOP Held from 6.30pm Friday evening 19th November to 4.30pm Monday afternoon 21st November 2005 Venue to be announced |
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WHAT IS A COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS? The Council of All Beings is a three day, intensive residential workshop, created by the Deep Ecologists and Activists Joanna Macy and John Seed. This unique workshop explores and affirms our fundamental interconnectedness with each other and with all life. It weaves together four important themes - Trust Building, Mourning, Remembering and a "Council of All Beings" where we discover how to speak from the perspective of another life form. The workshop is an opportunity to gather with a shared intention, in a safe environment, to assist us to heal our separation from our own inner nature, each other and the Earth. You will open to your own buried resources of courage, compassion and creativity that become available to us all, as we experience deep integration and wholeness with all life. WHAT IS DEEP ECOLOGY? "Deep Ecology" is a movement involved in o social and environmental activism o education, spiritual and daily practice, and o the development of harmonious lifestyles that connect people more with their environment. It asks deeper questions than than those approaches which deal with only the surface symptoms of our ecological crisis. The apathy and sense of paralysis, which many suffer, Deep Ecology argues is a product of our shallow shrivelled sense of self A Deep Ecological perspective would examine, question and try to change the underlying value systems and world views which are the ultimate cause of the environmental crisis. Our relationship to the Earth is that of a leaf to a tree. We have no separate individual existence. The fate of the Earth is our fate. The sap in the leaf comes from the tree, and returns to the tree. The philosophical basis of Deep Ecology is the belief in the intrinsic value of all life, rather than its value only for human use. When our strategies are formed and informed on behalf of a larger, deeper ecological Self - with the authority of more than four billion years of our planet's evolution behind us, then we are filled with new determination and perseverance. With the Council of All Beings people experience a deepening identification with the Earth, and a renewal of energy to work for our healing.
John Croft has been involved in community building and environmental activism both personally and professionally for the last 25 years at different levels including - teaching: previously at Edith Cowan and Curtin Universities, and in a variety of formal and informal settings - training and consultancy: for youth, women, community building and environmental action programs in Australia and overseas. - community building and environmental action practice with non-government organisations. government and other agencies. John is Co-Founder of the WA Gaia Foundation, an activist organisation that has successfully conducted over 493 projects, since it started in 1987, His current interests include approaches that integrate personal growth and empowerment, community building, community economics and environmental action within the new paradigm of "deep ecology" and has written and published widely in many fields. Helen Lynes worked as a long term volunteer for Gaia in the 1980s in the Environment Centre, for the Hills Branch of the Campaign to Save Native Forests, for the Nuclear Disarmament Party, and for the Greens. Helen was part of the group organising the first of Joanna Macy's visits to Australia in 1984, and she lucky enough to be at the inaugural Council of All Beings that year in Sydney. Helen currently works as the Community Resource Co-ordinator, City of Swan, where she undertakes community development initiatives. Until recently, she managed Social Enterprise and Pathways Programme, Ruah Community Services, managing 'The Big Issue' (a community newspaper for the unemployed). Before that, she carried out capacity building in Mongolia, and was a Resource Worker at the Federation of Housing Collectives. This workshop is dedicated to the memory of Deep Ecologist and Activist, Vivienne Elanta, Co-Founder of the Gaia Foundation of Western Australia. Vivienne pioneered this work in Western Australia, training many thousands in the "Work that Reconnects" and bringing the leading practitioners of this work internationally to this state. Proceeds of this workshop go to the Vivienne Elanta Memorial Fund, to support Social, Political and Environmental Activism in WA. Phone: Gaia House (09)470 5334 for inquiries |
REGISTRATION FORM Name: ..……………………………………… Address: ..................…………………………... ……………………………... Post Code: ........... Contact Phone Numbers: (Home) .................... (Work) .................... Transport - Payment Details: Full cost $120 (Revision $80)(non refundable deposit $30.) Please make cheques or money orders payable to "Gaia Foundation". Bookings essential (12 places only available) Please detach this form and mail with deposit or full amount to: John Croft, Council of All Beings C/- P.O. Box 1417 East Victoria Park WA 6981 Phone Vivienne on (08) 9470 5334 for inquiries. Any profits from the weekend go towards the Gaia Foundation's Vivienne Elanta Memorial Trust Fund for the support of social, political and environmental activism. DIRECTIONS : to be announced WHAT TO BRING
Phone: John (08)9470 5334 for inquiries |
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