Weekend Schedule - (click for pdf)

_Women’s Permaculture Gathering 2012– Schedule. Workshops take place simultaneously and are a 'her or her' option.

Thursday
4–5:30 PM registration
5:30–7 PM dinner
7:30–9 PM opening ceremony/getting to know each other

Friday
7– 8 AM movement
8–9 AM breakfast
9–9:30 AM opening circle
9:45– 12:15 AM panel
12:30–1:30 PM lunch
1:30–2:30 PM open time/story salon
2:45–4 PM participant stories (7 min. each, 8 total)
4:15–5:30 PM workshops - Starhawk and Pandora
5:30–7 PM dinner
7–8:30 PM  keynote speaker - Vicki Robin
8:30–10 PM fire/songs

Saturday
7–8 AM movement
8–9 AM breakfast
9–9:30 AM opening circle
9:30–12:30 PM open space
12:30–1:30 PM lunch
1:30–2:30 PM open time/story salon/ organizers meeting for next gathering
2:45–4PM participant stories (7 min. each, 8 total)
4:15–5:30 PM workshops Marisha and Maud
5:30–7 PM dinner
7–8:30 PM equinox ritual
8:30–10 fire/songs

Sunday
7–8 AM movement
8–9 AM breakfast
9–9:30 AM opening circle
9:30–11 Carmen Gonzales
11–12:30 PM Deborah and Jacqueline

If you want a copy on-hand, please print out a copy and bring it with you!

Workshops

Friday
Starhawk - Social Permaculture:  Cultivating Healthy Groups
Based on her  book The Empowerment Manual, the workshop will cover power and communication issues in groups, being a leader in 'leaderless' organizations, and how to build trust and cohesion.
OR
Pandora Thomas - "The P word" Tools for engaging diverse communities around permaculture!
How can we create learning communities that allow permaculture
principles to flourish and support all people to access the resources
necessary for our existence? Just as permaculture calls us to
integrate rather than segregate, use and value diversity, edges
and the marginal, we will look at tools and techniques for applying
these principles into our social and cultural lives and experiences.
In this multimedia and interactive workshop you will not
only be a participant, but also a co-creator, as we weave together a
new story that will expand the opportunities for all of us to flourish
and grow together!

Vicki Robin - Natural Consumption; Surfing the Waves of Wanting, Having & Giving
It's natural to consume - we live in the dynamic hum of life, all of us taking, giving, needing, having, celebrating, struggling. In the middle of all this - and in the middle of this far out of balance consumer culture - how do we navigate between not enough and too much.   Seven principles - purpose, pleasure, pattern, presence, proportion, practice and power - help us to find that exquisite balance of "enough" in daily life. Whether it's food, money, stuff, time - these principles for enoughness provide a way to observe, discern, and engage.



Marisha Auerbach - Dancing with Life: How You Can Participate in Preserving Biodiversity
Global biodiversity is becoming thinner as more of humanity rely on the market to provide for their needs.  Marisha Auerbach will share tales of preserving biological diversity and skill-building in both urban, rural and transient settings.  The cast of characters represented will range from the insect kingdom to the plant world.  If you find inspiration, each scenario may be replicated by you in your home community!

Jacqueline Freeman - The Spiritual Role of the Honeybees
Fostering the relationship we have with honeybees and the natural world, how deep knowledge of mutual caring is embedded in the world we share, and how best we can bring ourselves to this relationship.

Deborah Eden Tull - Personal Sustainability: Sustainable Design as an Attitude of Mind
How we treat our world and how we treat ourselves are one and the same. Just as permaculture design begins with observation, this workshop begins with a process of observation and compassionate inquiry that allows us to participate even more skillfully, heartfully, creatively, and courageously in the regeneration and self-healing of our world. This workshop weaves together the practice of compassionate awareness with the process and principles for sustainable design, so that we can cultivate sustainability from the inside out. This workshop is for those who wish to go deeper in living from ecological consciousness, which is essential for the practice of sustainable design.
This workshop includes meditation, writing, relational mindfulness, and group discussion, and stories from the facilitator's personal experience of 7 years as a Zen Buddhist monk and years studying sustainable communities and living as an organic farmer and permaculturist.
Some of the areas we will explore include: how to do the inner work and outer work at the same time and applying nature's wisdom to ourselves, daily practices for personal sustainability, daily practices for interconnection and going beyond the mind of separation, how to be more effective and efficient in how we use our energy, with less effort and more ease, how to fully celebrate our personal gifts of edge and diversity, and more!

AND AN EVENING GATHERING:
The Work That Reconnects (originally created by Joanna Macy) Truth Mandala. A facilitated experience, related to council, for honoring our pain for the planet, and it's powerful and healing.



Maud Powell - The Story of the Siskiyou Sustainable Cooperative
Nine farmers wisdom who have learned to work and grow together to provide CSA boxes for 180 families in the Rogue Valley and Northern California. The session will cover working cooperatively, thinking about group dynamics and collaborations as human "guilds", and looking toward a future of greater interdependence. Will cover details about her farm Wolf Gulch, which was designed using permaculture principles.

Jeanette Acosta - Indigenous Perspective: Thinking The Highest Thoughts & Our Good Mind
Seeking life and becoming complete… Historically, this was and is the mindset and worldview that guided the thought and behavior of Indigenous Peoples. Choosing a life of seeking life is the central message of Indigenous cosmologies, and reflects the deepest aspects of human nature.
THINKING THE HIGHEST THOUGHT:
Means:
    Thinking of One’s Self
    One’s Community
    One’s Environment Richly
    A Spiritual Mindset in which one thinks in the highest
        Most Respectful
        Most Compassionate Way
Thus systematically influencing the actions of both
    Individuals and Community.
It is a way to perpetuate a “GOOD LIFE”
    A respectful Life
    A Spiritual Life
    A Dynamic Wholeness

Carmen Gonzales - When Magic Wakes Up: A journey to transform personal and collective trauma into an inspiring new vision of sustainability in native country.
Reflection of her personal path and permaculture, the broader experience of trauma suffered from the disconnection to family from the Navajo res and about how the historical trauma of the boarding school era has directly had an impact on the disappearance of traditional ecological knowledge (I’m half Navajo (Dinė) and half Mexican). The more this story is shared with native and non-native peoples, the more it seems to be a shared story. All of us have suffered a disconnection from our roots.There is something magic that wakes up when we start talking about it with each other, we start to remember our call to be connected to the earth, and each other. This fuels the work she brings through permaculture to the tribes in Northern Nevada.

Louise M. Paré , Ph.D. - Improvisational Movement: Daily morning series
Offers her extensive background in hatha yoga, meditation, enneagram and holistic stress management that enriches her shamanic Sacred Movement work to us each morning at the Gathering.