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Last Updated July 1, 2009
June 21 - July
5
Unity, Maine
2-week course
Earth Activist Training taught by Starhawk and Charles Williams.
Two weeks that can change your life and help you
change the world!
A permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in earth-based
spirituality, and a focus on organizing, activism, and social permaculture
as well as urban and rural land-based systems. Learn how to heal soil
and
cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems,
using
a minimum of energy and resources and creating real abundance and social
justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our
visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that can sustain
our
spirits. Participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of ritual, games,
projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological
design.
Summer EAT session co-taught with Charles Williams,
permaculture designer, wilderness instructor, farmer, builder, activist
and teacher of magic and ritual.
Cost: $1400-$1800 sliding scale, includes all food and dorm accommodations
or camping. $250 surcharge for semi-private room. Work trade
and scholarships available, apply early!
For more information: visit www.EarthActivistTraining.org
call 800.381.7940 (within USA)
or email: info@earthactivisttraining.org
Wednesday &
Thursday, July 8-9
Glastonbury, England
two-day workshop plus evening ritual
Starhawk will present a training geared to the Transition Town movement,
open to public. Admission cost covers both.
July 8 - 9 workshop: "Crossing Stony Ground:
Renewing & Sustaining the Journey"
The work of personal, communal, and global transformation has been likened
to a journey. Many of us embark with joy and enthusiasm, but what do we
do when the first rush of energy wears off and the way begins to seem
long and hard? The truest gifts are often found on the other side of barren
plateaus, dark chasms, and hard climbs.
* How do we maintain enthusiasm, hope, and love through these times of
social and environmental breakdown, when the old answers—spiritual,
political, and emotional—no longer serve?
* How do we weather the conflicts and disappointments that inevitably
arise in our groups and communities of support?
* How do we hold a vision through all the hard work and frustrations of
bringing it to birth? Where are our growing edges, and how do we find
them, sustain ourselves to face their challenges, identify our next steps,
and find the courage to take them?
* And what feeds us? How do we nurture the deep sources of inspiration
and renewal in our lives? Miriam—an ancient Hebrew Goddess long
before she became a biblical figure—was said to have a well that
followed her wherever she went. We, too, can find deep sources of strength
and regeneration that can accompany us on our journeys. And in this crucial
moment of history, we are more than ever called to step into our full
power and creativity, to maintain hope and compassion, to hold our vision
and the commitment to make it real.
In this workshop, Starhawk will guide us across the stony ground using
the tools of ritual: meditation, trance, energy work, drumming, song,
movement, storytelling, group work, guided journeys, and altar building.
We will create sacred spaces where we can face our conflicts, loss, grief,
and despair and move through them to fresh springs of renewed energy and
inspiration.
Time: Wednesday 2:00 - 5:30 p.m.; Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Georges Room, Glastonbury Experience, 2-4 High Street
July 8 evening ritual: "Earth as
Teacher, Earth as Healer"
The Earth herself is our greatest teacher and healer, whether we want
to heal and transform our personal hurts, or heal the huge wounds our
society inflicts on the Earth and other human beings. The ancient Goddess
traditions had no sacred texts or dogmas, instead their mystics learned
to read the book of nature. Understanding how the Earth's cycles work,
how change occurs in nature, and how Mother Earth designs co-evolving,
interdependent systems can help us be better designers of the changes
we want to see in our own lives and the world. No matter what the outcome
of current political debates, the work of healing will continue for our
lifetimes, and our connection to Earth is our deepest source of hope,
renewal, and strength. This evening event, drawing on Starhawk's latest
book Earth Path, aims to connect us more deeply with the great transformative
powers of nature, and to bring those creative energies fully alive in
our lives, homes, and communities so that we can also bring healing, justice,
and balance into the world.
Time: 7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Location: Chalice Well Gardens
Presented by Transition Glastonbury.
Cost for both events: £70 (some concessions available)
To register: deposit of £25, chq made out to 'Sweet-track Counselling'
to: Glastonbury Natural Health Centre, 1 Hanover Square, Silver St, Glastonbury,
Silver St, BA6 8BT
For more information: www.glastonburynaturalhealth.co.uk/Starhawk.html
or ring: 01458 833382
July 11-26
Devon, England
2-week course
Earth Activist Training, taught by Starhawk, Andy Goldring, and Tomas
Remiarz.
A permaculture design course and more for activists! Learn the skills
to transform a piece of land, a community, and our political and economic
systems.
(UPDATE: registration for this EAT is now closed, with
long waiting list. January 2010 EAT registration is open, see below.)
For further enquiries about EAT UK, email: earthactivisttraining@riseup.net
Monday, July
27 & Thursday, July 30
Glastonbury, England
Starhawk will take part in the Glastonbury Goddess Conference and pre-festival
Fringe
July 27: one-day workshop: "Walking
the Edge: Deepening our Magic"
In nature, edges, where one ecosystem meets another, are the places of
greatest dynamism, energy and creativity. Where the meadow meets
the forest or the ocean meets the shore, we find the most diversity, and
also the most stress. In this workshop, we explore our own edges. How
do we walk between worlds? When have we been outsiders, marginalized--and
what unique vision arises from the boundaries? How do we challenge our
own edges? What boundaries are healthy, and which constrict us unnecessarily?
How do we push our own creative edges, taking more risks, pushing our
work, our rituals, and expression further into excellence? The tools
of ritual--sacred space, meditation, trance, ecstatic drumming and dancing,
help us deepen our practice and expand the borders of who we can be.
July 30: morning talk and spiral dance:
"Times of Hope and Chaos"
We live at a pivotal moment in history, when the tides of hope are rising,
but the systems that sustain us, environmental, social and financial,
are crumbling all around. How do we navigate through the storm, and bring
ourselves and our world to a place of harmony, balance and beauty? We
need both the tools of spirit—grounding, deep connection and celebration—and
the skills of organizing and mobilizing—vision, passion, courage
and commitment. And we need the ideas and principles that can help us
shift our culture from an obsession with things to a focus on relationships.
Starhawk explores the images and myths of the Goddess that can help us.
What should our role be as a Goddess movement? How do we help guide the
world onto the good road, the road of justice, peace and abundant life?
July 30: 3-hour afternoon workshop: "Times
of Hope and Chaos: the Inner Compass"
A workshop further exploring the themes of Starhawk's morning talk.
For exact locations, times, more information, and to enroll in the workshops,
please visit: www.goddessconference.com
August 3-7
Tamera, Portugal
Starhawk will take part in Tamera Community's 15th Annual International
Summer University (full session is July 29-August 7). This year's theme
is "Global Grace Village," supporting the Peace Research Village
(www.prv-association.org) project to Israel-Palestine in the next year.
The plan is to create a new community of Israelis, Palestinians and internationals
in the Middle East that will combine social, ecological, spiritual and
political work.
Location: Tamera Peace Research Center, Monte Cerro, Portugal
Cost: sliding scale €320-640, some partial scholarships for youth
For more information: www.summeruniversity.tamera.org/su09/
phone: +351 283 635306, or email <office@tamera.org>
Saturday-Sunday,
August 22-23
San Francisco, California
weekend college class
Starhawk will offer a class at the California Institute of Integral Studies,
Women's Spirituality Program. This will be a 15-hour class for 1
unit of academic credit. Open to the public.
"Nature As Sacred Text"
Whether we are looking to heal and transform our
personal hurts or the huge wounds our society inflicts on the earth and
other human beings, the earth herself is our greatest teacher and healer.
The ancient Goddess traditions had no sacred texts or dogmas; instead,
their mystics learned to read the book of nature. Understanding how the
earth's cycles work, how change occurs in nature, and how mother earth
designs co-evolving, interdependent systems can help us be better designers
of the changes we want to see in our own life and the world. Our connection
to earth is our deepest source of hope, renewal, and strength.
This course weaves together readings, lecture,
and experiential practices from earth-based ritual traditions with insights
from permaculture and nature awareness, to open our ears to nature's communications,
help us connect more deeply with her great transformative powers, and
bring those creative energies fully alive in our lives, homes and communities.
Enrolled CIIS students have registration priority;
however interested individuals may audit the class for fee of $255. Non-CIIS-affliated
persons must register as a "special student" by filling out
this application form:
https://pathway.ciis.edu/ics/icsfs/special_student_application.pdf?target=895648b1-95f8-4162-a2f5-3c0165b2557a
Bring lunch potluck to share; Starhawk says: "lunch is part of the
experience."
Time: Saturday 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m., Sunday 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Location: California Institute of Integral Studies, 1453 Mission Street
For more information:
www.ciis.edu, 415-575-6198
UPDATE 6-18-09: class enrollment is full but place on waiting list may
be possible.
September 14
- October 25
online course
"Unveiling Creativity: Writing for Ritual and Spirituality"
This online course explores writing both as a spiritual practice and as
a key to freeing our creative voice. In a supportive atmosphere, we'll
write chants, liturgy, poems, songs, and short essays or journal posts,
using the process as a way to affirm our power of self expression, defang
our critical inner voices and transform them into helpful editors. We'll
learn how to give and receive constructive critique, and hone our work
to a higher standard of excellence. Starhawk will offer her special tips
for chant-writing for the musically impaired. And we'll create wonderful
new material to enrich our spiritual communities.
Week One:
Observing and blessing nature
Opening the creative flow; establishing a personal practice
Week Two:
Chants that raise power
Identifying critical voices
Week Three:
Devotional poetry
Constructive critique
Week Four:
An essay or blog post
Transforming negative voices
Week Five:
A song or hymn
Calling on the inner editor—rewriting, rewriting, rewriting!
Week Six:
Your own liturgy.
Celebrating and sustaining your creative voice.
Course texts: Truth
or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority and, Mystery (Harper
& Row, 1988), plus posted writings. (If you don't already own a copy,
please consider purchasing from Starhawk's online bookseller, 100 Fires,
via link above.)
Course hosted by Growing Edge Institute.
Enroll online at www.growingedgeinstitute.com
(late registrations accepted during first week of class).
Cost $150. Some partial scholarships may be available, please contact
administration at GEI.
Monday, September
21
Northern California, Sierras region
two workshops plus spiral dance
Starhawk will teach and lead a spiral at the Symbios Gathering on Monday,
the International Day of Peace. Look for a booksigning, also. Details
in process, please check back.
For more information: www.symbiosisgathering.com/2009/
Wednesday, September 30
Victoria, BC, Canada
talk
" Letting the Wildness In"
"Once there was a perfect town, in a perfect world, where there were
rules for everything and a right way and a wrong way to do everything,
and nobody ever broke the rules…except sometimes." So begins Starhawk’s
new eco-fable for children, The Last Wild Witch. When the wind
is in the west, and the last wild Witch is brewing her magic brews and
singing her magic songs, some of the wildness might get inside you! As
adults, how do we let the wildness in—to our lives, to our vision of what
community means? How do we recover our sense of being part of the natural
world, and let nature’s own patterns inform the way we meet our human
needs, so that we can heal and regenerate the world around us? Starhawk’s
story is her jumping-off point to explore insights from both earth-based
spirituality and permaculture that can help us weather times of rapid
change and enormous challenges, and guide us toward a world that honors
the wild. Talk segues into short ritual on the green.
Booksigning to follow.
Time: TBA
Location: University of Victoria, room TBA
Cost: TBA
For more information: Lisa 250-514-4731 www.lisamortimore.com
or email lisamort@shaw.cabr>
Thursday,
October 1
Salt Spring, BC, Canada
talk
"Making the Transition"
Climate change calls us to make an enormous transition very rapidly-changing
our economy, our energy systems, our food growing systems, our patterns
of work, socializing and play-and doing it now, not sometime in the vague
future. To do this, we need a shift in consciousness as well as technology.
We can draw on the core insight of earth-based spirituality and Goddess
religion: That we are part of nature, part of a living being who is the
earth, that all life is interconnected and interrelated. Starhawk also
talks about the principles of permaculture design, which offer the practical
application of the idea that the earth is sacred. She'll discuss how we
can apply these principles to organizing and to visualizing the transition,
and share examples of movements and communities that are doing it, from
the Transition Town movement in Britain to City Repair in Portland to
inner city urban areas. How do we make the transition to a world that
is abundant, balanced, sustainable and just?
Booksigning to follow.
Presented by Eco-Reality ecovillage.
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Fulford Hall
Cost: $25 CND advance (at Salt Spring Books), $30 CND at the door
For more information:
http://www.EcoReality.orgwww.EcoReality.org
or phone +1 250-653-2024
Friday, October
2
Vancouver, BC Canada
talk
"Frontline Spirituality"
What is spirituality for? A spiritual practice and community can bring
comfort and healing, and be a refuge from a harsh world. But if it remains
only that, it loses depth and integrity. Engaged spirituality is about
challenge as well as comfort, confrontation as well as healing. Creative,
transformative powers are most needed in places of deep conflict, oppression
and violence. Starhawk tells tales of magical activism, from actions
in the peace and global justice movements, and from her work with the
International Solidarity Movement, which does nonviolent intervention
in occupied Palestine.
Booksigning to follow.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
Cost: TBA
For more information: Pat Hogan, soundsfuries@shaw.ca
or 604-253-7189
Saturday,
October 3
Vancouver, BC, Canada
workshop
"Times of Hope and Chaos"
We live at a pivotal moment in history, when the tides of hope are rising,
but the systems that sustain us, environmental, social and financial,
are crumbling all around. How do we navigate through the storm, and bring
ourselves and our world to a place of harmony, balance and beauty? We
need both the tools of spirit—grounding, deep connection and celebration—and
the skills of organizing and mobilizing—vision, passion, courage
and commitment. And we need the ideas and principles that can help us
shift our culture from an obsession with things to a focus on relationships.
Starhawk explores the images and myths of the Goddess that can help us.
What should our role be as a Goddess movement? How do we help guide the
world onto the good road, the road of justice, peace and abundant life?
Booksigning to follow.
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
Cost: TBA
For more information: Pat Hogan, soundsfuries@shaw.ca
or 604-253-7189
Sunday - Friday,
October 4-9
Cortes Island, British Columbia, Canada
6-day retreat
"Vision and Action"
In these times
of environmental and economic uncertainty, we need a clear vision for
a future of peace, justice, abundance and balance. Explore new tools to
help you in the coming transformation and discover how to thrive in an
era of change. The future offers opportunity, and it demands to be shaped.
Explore your role in creating it. Set out on the path to a positive future,
and learn to hold fast to your vision despite the challenges that arise.
Anchor to the wisdom of your inner core through experiences with spirit,
nature, imagination and magic. Use trance, deep meditation and sacred
space to access the insight of earth-healing spirit allies. Come away
clearer, stronger, and energized for the next stage of the journey.
Presented by the Hollyhock Retreat Centre.
Cost: $545 CDN (meals & accommodation extra, 5 nights. See rates and
options at http://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/page1594.cfm
, including application for 50% tuition scholarship.)
For more information: www.hollyhock.ca
call (800) 933-6339 or (250) 935-6576 (outside North America)
email: registration@hollyhock.ca
Friday, October
9
Courtenay, BC, Canada
talk
"Future Harvest: Let’s Begin"
"Another world is possible!" is the rallying cry of the Global Justice
movement, and it is also the inspirational belief of those who seek to
create a society based on compassion, balance, and love for the earth
from a spiritual as well as a political base. How do we envision that
world, and what are the tools and insights we need to bring it about?
Can we be active in the political arena without losing touch with our
spirit? Can we learn to bring healing, joy, celebration, and empowerment
into the realm of action? And for those who have been activists, how do
we feed our spirits, avoid burnout and despair, and renew our courage?
We explore the tools of magic, "the art of changing consciousness at will,"
and use ritual and celebration to help us link the worlds of contemplation
and action.
Booksigning to follow.
Presented by Comox Valley Unitarian Fellowship and the World Community
Association.
Time: 7:30 to 9:30 pm
Location: North Island College (Stan Hagen) Theatre
Cost: $20 CND
For more information: email fox1973@shaw.ca
Saturday, October
10
Denman Island, BC, Canada
talk
"Starhawk Tales"
Starhawk speaks informally of over three decades of Goddess and earth-based
spirituality, writing, and social activism, telling stories from her travels
and broad range of interactions. Catch her perspective on world events,
and her personal tips for making sense of the mess this planet is in,
whether it's our backyards or across the globe.
Booksigning to follow.
Presented by the Denman Moon Circle.
Time: 7:00 p.m. (doors open 6:30)
Location: Community Hall, Denman Island
Cost: donations $10-$20 CDN, a benefit for Eco-Witch Camps
For more information, phone 250-335-0164
Saturday, October
31
San Francisco, California
ritual
Starhawk will be part of the Spiral Dance, the Reclaiming Community's
annual public celebration of Samhain, the Witch's New Year. This year's
event will be the 30th anniversary of the Spiral Dance ritual (and book).
As the darkness closes in, come dance the spiral
that renews the world.
Join us when the veil is thin between the worlds of the living and the
dead. We gather to remember our ancestors, our beloved dead, and all those
who have crossed over.
Event benefits the Reclaiming Community. Volunteers
invited, please see web page for info. Children are welcome—childcare
not provided. Wheelchair accessible. This is a drug- and alcohol-free,
family-oriented ritual.
Location: Kezar Pavilion near Haight and Stanyan Streets
Time: Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Ritual starts at 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $20-$100+ sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Elders (60 & over) and Youth (15 & under) $10 and up. Advance
ticket purchase recommended.
For more information:www.reclaiming.org/rituals
November 9
- December 20
online course
"The Inner Compass: Finding and Holding the Vision"
In the ancient, pre-Christian Goddess traditions of Europe and the Middle
East, the earth is sacred: a living being that all of us are part of.
Witches, shamans, and Pagans draw on the balance of life for knowledge,
renewal and healing.
But right now, at this crucial moment in time,
that balance is threatened by global warming, social and environmental
breakdown. Our society is faced with a huge challenge—the necessity
for fundamental changes in our way of life. Each of us alive today
is here for a purpose. We each have a unique role to play in bringing
about that transformation—our own gifts, our own vision. And the
earth needs us each to be our most creative, compassionate and powerful
self.
But how do we find that vision, our purpose for
being here, our true work? How do we step up to the challenge, and how
can we hold a vision through times of adversity, and find the courage
to overcome fears, blocks and challenges?
For some of us, it's hard to see the vision clearly.
Others may need support to take new steps and dare new paths. Some of
us may already be on the road, but need help to sustain our energy and
enthusiasm when obstacles loom and setbacks appear. The greatest gifts
are often found after hard climbs on twisted paths.
Magic, "the art of changing consciousness at will," offers us tools. In
this six week online course, Starhawk will guide us through a process
of discernment and reflection, to find and identify our big vision, and
develop the grounded spiritual practice that can be our base as we dare
to make it real.
Using readings, meditations, directed exercises,
journaling and discussion, we'll find the inner compass that can guide
our choices, connect to the allies that can support us, find the courage
to face challenges and overcome fears, and the strength to take our vision
out into expression and action.
When we put our lives toward the service of the
sacred, powerful allies and great powers of regeneration and renewal work
through us.
Course texts: Truth or Dare:
Encounters with Power, Authority and Mystery (Harper & Row,
1988), and The Twelve Wild Swans,
with Hilary Valentine (HarperSanFrancisco, 2000). If you don't already
own copies, please consider purchasing from Starhawk's online bookseller,
100 Fires, via links above.
Course hosted by Growing Edge Institute.
Enroll online at www.growingedgeinstitute.com
(late registrations accepted during first week of class).
Cost $150. Some partial scholarships may be available, please contact
administration at GEI.
Sunday, November
15
San Francisco, California
talk
Starhawk will be at the Green Festival this weekend. In addition to talk,
below, look for booths of Earth Activist Training booth and Mother Tongue
Ink (aka We'Moon), publishers of her new book.
" Letting the Wildness In"
"Once there was a perfect town, in a perfect world, where there were
rules for everything and a right way and a wrong way to do everything,
and nobody ever broke the rules…except sometimes." So begins Starhawk’s
new eco-fable for children, The Last Wild Witch. When the wind
is in the west, and the last wild Witch is brewing her magic brews and
singing her magic songs, some of the wildness might get inside you! As
adults, how do we let the wildness in—to our lives, to our vision of what
community means? How do we recover our sense of being part of the natural
world, and let nature’s own patterns inform the way we meet our human
needs, so that we can heal and regenerate the world around us? Starhawk’s
story is her jumping-off point to explore insights from both earth-based
spirituality and permaculture that can help us weather times of rapid
change and enormous challenges, and guide us toward a world that honors
the wild.
Time: 2:00 p.m.
Booksigning follows at 3:00 p.m.
Festival location: San Francisco Concourse, 635 8th St (at Brannan St)
Cost: $15/day all events, discounts for seniors, students, bus
and bike riders; kids under 18 free.
For more information: www.greenfestivals.org
Tuesday, November 17
San Fransisco, California
talk
One Taste hosts an evening talk. Please check back for details.
January 9-23,
2010
Cazadero, California
two-week course
Earth Activist Training, taught by Starhawk and Erik Ohlsen.
Two weeks that can change your life and help you change the world!
A permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in earth-based
spirituality, and a focus on organizing, activism, and social permaculture
as well as urban and rural land-based systems. Learn how to heal soil
and cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems,
using a minimum of energy and resources and creating real abundance and
social justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to
make our visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that
can sustain our spirits. Participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of
ritual, games, projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum
in ecological design.
Winter EAT session co-taught with Erik Ohlsen,
permaculture designer and teacher, owner of Permaculture Artisans (a regenerative
landscape design business), activist, and organizer.
Cost: $1400-$1800 sliding scale, includes all food and dorm accommodations
or camping. $250 surcharge for semi-private room. Work trade and scholarships
available, apply early!
For more information: www.EarthActivistTraining.org
800-381-7940 (USA). email: earthactivisttraining@gmail.com
- If your organization wishes to invite Starhawk to teach and/or speak, please visit our Contact Page for information on making a proposal.
