Presented by Women’s Earth Alliance

Around the world, women are taking action and raising their voices with one resonant message: Community-driven women’s leadership can guide the world toward sustainability and balance. Drawing upon facilitation and leadership techniques from grassroots activists worldwide, the Women’s Earth Alliance team members and partners will guide us on a leadership journey that will help inform and inspire each of us in our own projects and our own leadership.

Experiential.

Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun

Facilitated by Yeshi Neumann of Rockwood Leadership Institute.

This experiential session explores how, through courage, kindness and taking responsibility, we can grow to be more effective white allies in dismantling unjust social systems and becoming “beloved community” across divides of race, ethnicity, class and gender. All are welcome.

Experiential. Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun

With Dr. Daniel Wildcat (Yuchi Member of the Muscogee Nation), Haskell Indian Nations University, author of Red Alert! Saving the Planet with Indigenous Knowledge; Dr. Anthony Madrigal (Desert Cahuilla), Director of Cultural Resources, San Manuel Band of Serrano Indians; Tom B.K. Goldtooth (Dinè/Dakota), Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network

Across the world, Indigenous Peoples are discussing how we will create institutions and policies that reflect what our traditions have long recognized — the natural life of our planet exists as relatives, not resources. An Indigenous paradigm is re-emerging that grants equal rights to nature based on the idea that humans do not have a natural right to destroy the natural environment, but have an ancient responsibility to care for the natural world. As Indigenous Peoples, we accept the responsibility to share our Original Instructions and prophecies to ensure harmony with the rest of Creation. The time has come to put our minds together to discuss how we can shape tribal, state, national and global policies for wellbeing of our Mother, planet Earth.

Indigenous Forum | 2:45pm, Sun

This organizing and strategizing session will focus on how to launch a women-led rights movement for future generations of all species. We’ll explore visionary new tools, policies and institutions from the local to the international level in a session that pulls together wisdom traditions, the bottom-up organizing of Occupy Wall Street, and new environmental policies.

With: Carolyn Raffensperger, Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network; others tba.

Hosted by Margaret Golden, Dominican University.

With Kate Lipkis, who teaches traditional Council methods in the L.A. Unified School District; Alan Webb, whose P2PU (Peer to Peer University) and Citizen Circles are creating innovative forms for peer learning; Megan Cowan, whose Mindful Schools teach mindfulness practice to thousands of youth throughout the San Francisco Bay Area; Gary Martin, whose Global Environments Summer Academy annually cultivates 18 exceptional graduate and professional-level individuals to become environmental leaders.

Both within existing systems and by innovating new ones, education is changing, thanks to the perseverance, courage and commitment of dedicated and visionary teachers and learners. In an emergent conversation, come discover new methodologies and vehicles for raising-up, informing and equipping tomorrow’s leaders.

Autodesk Atrium | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun

Hosted by Arty Mangan.

With Penny Livingston, Co-Founder of the Regenerative Design Institute; Trathen Heckman, Director of Daily Acts Organization and Board President of Transition U.S.

Permaculturists have been innovating low-tech accessible ways to take nature’s solutions to scale and answer the question: How can we live on this precious planet in a way that meets humanity’s and nature’s needs? From gardens to governance, front-yard farms to public food forests, wide-scale collaborative action and the Transition Town movement, we’ll take a tour of eco-efficacious solutions and models with leading homegrown leaders who will share their personal practices and community engagement strategies.

Showcase Theater | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sun