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Annual North American Rewilding Conference
January 26-28, 2024 Portland, OR
Hybrid – In person or Online
The Annual North American Rewilding Conference is a hybrid conference with the majority of it taking place online with some in-person meetups and watch parties. The conference is one part Speakers and one part Open Space. It is a think tank of some of the continent’s most inspiring rewilders and rewilding projects, as well as a social networking opportunity for rewilders. Here you will find individuals and grassroots organizations collaborating on a range of rewilding-related fields including ancestral technology, decolonization, wildlands restoration, ethnobiology, reintroduction of species, social and environmental justice, traditional ecological knowledge, and much more.
Climate Consciousness Summit Online
December 1-10, 2023
Join us as we grow a trauma-informed approach to healing our climate and initiate the inner and outer transformation needed for true climate action to emerge.
The Pocket Project is developing the annual Climate Consciousness Summit for the coming cycle of 7 years until 2030. We aim to initiate the inner and outer transformation needed for true climate action to emerge.
We bring a trauma-informed approach to climate consciousness and action, acknowledging that trauma lies at the root of our inaction in the face of Climate Change. Trauma symptoms of numbness, apathy, hyper-activation and fragmentation dramatically slow down our ability to respond adequately and implement climate agreements. Our lack of relationship to the crisis is part of the crisis.
From Board Member Ellen Barlow
September 24, 2023 – Voices of Vision and Hope (In Person and Online)
A DAY OF INQUIRY AND DIALOGUE ON THE STATE OF OUR PLANET, OFFERING GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES INFORMED BY UNITED NATIONS INITIATIVES, POSSIBILITIES FOR ENGAGEMENT INSPIRED BY THE LAUDATO SI’ ACTION PLATFORM, AND WISDOM OF THEOLOGIAN THOMAS BERRY FOR AN EMPOWERING ECOLOGICAL SPIRITUALITY.
INFORMATION HERE
Resilience In The Anthropocene
3 Days | 3 Keynotes | 9 panels | 3 Contemplative Practices
We invite you to join us for a 3-day FREE online summit that brings together researchers, academics, experts from communities most impacted by environmental devastation and climate change, clinical psychology practitioners, and contemplative leaders to discuss eco-anxiety and climate distress within a framework of inner, community, and planetary resilience.
Sponsored by The Loka Initiative, an interdisciplinary platform at the University of Wisconsin – Madison that builds capacity and partnerships with faith leaders and culture keepers of Indigenous traditions on environmental and climate issues.
Hi Constance,
Thanks for weighing in on this! The categories you have delineated are very similar to those in the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices “Embodying Eco-Consciousness: Somatics, Aesthetic Practices & Social Action”, Vol 13, Dec 2021. This introductory article gives an overview: link here
I am hoping to curate a series of conversations exploring all of the dimensions you indicated. Is there a particular focus in all of those that you might want to develop more?
Jamie
Hi Caryn,
Nice to see you here. Can you say more about your activity in this area? I would appreciate your input!
Clare, this is wonderful. I followed the link, and then continued to the page from the photographer Pamela Singh, who wrote this:
“This is how I came upon the Chipko movement of the Himalayas that took place in the early 90’s. Chipko literally means to embrace or to hug. I previously had an idea of the spiritual protection of forests and animals by villagers in northern India as I had been in areas where the first Chipko movement had taken place in a village called Khejarli in 1730 AD in the Jodhpur district of Rajasthan. In this instance, the villagers of the Bishnoi community led by Amrita Devi had sacrificed their lives while protecting green khejri trees considered sacred by the community by hugging them.”
The photographs are very touching! https://www.sepiaeye.com/pamela-singh-chipko-tree-huggers-of-the-himalayas
Thank you. I have a few ideas for helping this forum expand once I get back from my European sojourn. Stay tuned! 🙂
Thank you Ellen. It is why I named my photographic art – NatureBeingArt! It’s right there, all around us in the natural world. Here is a visual meditation you might enjoy: https://vimeo.com/501651143
This is the direction I have been going in – the still images becoming movement, highlighting impermanence and interconnectedness.
Enjoy,
Pilgrim Jamie
Environmental Arts & Eco Somatic Residency (sponsored by Intercultural Roots)
Isle Martin, Scotland 6 – 10 September 2023Fully or partially funded – deadline for application: JUNE 7, 2023
All information here
Environmental Arts & Eco Somatic Residency (sponsored by Intercultural Roots)
Isle Martin, Scotland 6 – 10 September 2023Fully or partially funded – deadline for application: JUNE 7, 2023
All information here
Yes, 2 wonderful resources to contemplate – Kimmerer and Abrams.
I am very fond of Andreas Weber and his work as well. In fact, in this short essay, he acknowledges both of them!
The weaving of the past into the present – and how we can actively participate with place through many lenses – is very exciting to me.
