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Feeling caught between what has been and what is becoming? Learn to lean into the new story at Prairiewoods’ Spirituality in the 21st Century event!

The 2019 Spirituality in the 21st Century (SP21C) will be all about delving into the chaotic and mysterious uncertainty of living in between two stories, the elder one replete with separateness, hierarchies and imbedded dualisms, and the new one which celebrates inter-connection and inter-being. The transition, as we know, is anything but simple. Charles Eisenstein (author of The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible) and Bayo Akomolafe (These Wilds Beyond Our Fences) will serve as our courageous navigators as we set sail in turbulent waters, and musician-of-the-earth Sara Thomsen will help us rock the boat! We look at this not so much as a conference but as a retreat in the best sense, where we celebrate and set aside a liminal space for reflection, connection and embodiment of an emergent spirituality. All aboard for an odyssey of spiritual depth and renewal!

Restoration efforts in the world are already substantial and there is a lot of experience and knowledge to draw on.

The Global Earth Repair Conference is an exchange of information between earth repair practitioners. The conference addresses both the technical and social aspects of planetary regeneration. International participation via internet.

We anticipate having practitioners in all of these topics and resultant syntheses.

TRACKS/TOPICS Include:

* Broad-based, popular movements
* Funding earth repair
* Earth Repair in the Global South
* Indigenous People’s Earth Repair
* Youth & Earth Repair
* Earth Restoration Camps
* Ecosystem restoration
* Reforestation and afforestation
* Soil regeneration,
* Ecological agriculture
* Remineralization
* Biochar
* Myco-remediation
* Erosion control
* Bioengineering
* Grassland regeneration and grazing
* Reversing desertification
* Water harvesting,
* Native plant biodiversity
* River, stream, riparian repair
* Coral Reef restoration
* Marine restoration
* Mangrove restoration
* Ethnoecology
* Agroforestry
* Permaculture

JOIN US IN A REVOLUTION OF THE HEART!

By the lake in Maine we gather to continue the work of nourishing the soul and lifting the spirit through story, poetry, art, music, movement, and reflection.

Climate Change & Consciousness: Our Legacy for the Earth, April 20-26 2019, will be a collaborative and participatory investigation into how we can steward a sustainable future on what has already become a radically changed planet Earth. We have travelled to this ‘new’ planet on a burst of carbon dioxide. A new planet requires new ways of living.

The conference will bring together eminent scientists, wisdom keepers, business people, activists, artists, entrepreneurs, young people and others, to envision and begin to inhabit our joint future. It will be an international, inter-generational and multi-disciplinary gathering. This is the principle of ‘the big tent‘, borrowed from party politics, whereby diverse viewpoints, backgrounds and interests (the ‘voices in the room’) are brought together to engage and dialogue.

Believing that “the best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better,” the New Story Festival seeks to lead us into a better story – one that encourages growth and liberation, healing and harmony; a story where the downtrodden are uplifted and everyone is included. We will gather artists, activists, teachers, practitioners for spiritual/emotional health & wholeness, along with numerous other social innovators to share their creativity, practices, and stories at a three-day (Friday afternoon to Sunday evening), outdoor festival of several thousand people on the campus of Huston-Tillotson University, right in the heart of historic east Austin and just blocks from downtown. There will be music, art and stories, speakers and workshops, conversations both formal and spontaneous, helping us step into a better story – one with the potential to transform both Austin and the world.

The shift of the ages is unfolding on planet Earth. Change is happening at such a rapid pace it’s hard to make sense of it all. Decisions made today are determining the very survival of future generations. The Imagine Convergence is gathering changemakers, intellectuals, innovators and cultural creatives to explore cross-disciplinary solutions to these global complexities. Together we are weaving narratives for a future paradigm.

Unfortunately it is sold out, but you can livestream it: