Charles Eisenstein

Go deep with international authors Charles Eisenstein and Bayo Akomolafe before SP21C!

Prairiewoods’ annual Spirituality in the 21st Century (SP21C) event (April 12–13) will feature international authors Charles Eisenstein and Bayo Akomolafe. Earlier that week, you have an opportunity to wade through the deep waters with Bayo and Charles before the big event!

This two-day retreat at Prairiewoods (120 East Boyson Road in Hiawatha) is a safe place for exploring awkward questions, offering bold new insights and claiming our dis-illusions, con-fusions and gradual awakenings before SP21C sets us all on fire!

Join Charles and Bayo for a retreat about living authentically between stories. The days will feature a hot breakfast; gentle tai chi movement; topics such as “The Call of the Compost,” “Making Sanctuary” and “Inter-Being”; a delicious Prairiewoods lunch; an afternoon Tea and Garden Crawl and a “De-Composition Circle” in which everyone has the grace of sacred space to listen and reflect back on the fullness of the day. Come wade in the waters!

Naropa University welcomes participants with disabilities. Persons with questions about accessibility or who require disability accommodations should contact Kristin Anderson-Bohan at 303-546-3593 or kbohan@naropa.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

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.