With: Vicki Robin, co-creator of the Conversation Cafes, a simple dialogue method used widely in cafes and conferences worldwide; and Bob Stilger, Ph.D., Vice President of New Stories who uses dialogue to support people around the world in building healthy and resilient communities.

Join master world café facilitators Vicki Robin and Bob Stilger for dynamic conversations with other bioneers about how to create resilient communities.

World Cafe | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat

With Kami McBride

Kami McBride has inspired thousands to use herbs in their daily lives for health and wellness.

Sun Stage | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat

Hosted by Sharon Shay Sloan, Council trainer/community steward

With Kate Lipkis; Laura Weaver, Passageworks Institute;  John McCluskey, Colorado Center for Council Training; Casey McCarroll, Leadership Council, Stepping Stones Project

We’ll explore how Council practice can be applied in educational settings to support the social and emotional learning environment, and how Council can support your role as an educator or student by engendering attentive listening, authentic expression and creative spontaneity.

Council Circle | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat

With: Elisa Parker, Co-founder and President of See Jane Do, a social change multimedia organization that redefines media for women and the power of story to create positive change; Mary Elizabeth Young, founding member of Gather the Women Nevada County, activist, writer and speaker.

Women leaders of the environmental and social justice movements: YOU are the solution! Whether you are a seasoned or newbie activist, this hands-on workshop is designed for you. Gain tips, tools and resources to activate the activist within each of us. Network with purpose with other women who are leading the way, and help formulate a plan that puts your passion into action. Come join us, because when women come together there is no stopping us in moving forward!

Interactive, experiential.

Moonrise Tent | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat

With Shaunna Thomas, UltraViolet; and Shanelle Mathews and Adriann Barboa, Forward Together.

Come and learn about two innovative efforts to build power for women and their communities. We will explore strategies that Strong Families and Ultraviolet are using to create new movements, change policies and organize communities on behalf of women and reproductive justice and rights.

The Tent of Inspiration | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat

Hosted by Anneke Campbell

With Carolyn Finney, professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at UC Berkeley; Bonnie Nixon, Executive Director of Sustainability Consortium; Erin English, Associate Engineer at Natural Systems International; Lynda Grose, fashion designer, consultant, associate professor at California College of the Arts

A sustainable society is one that aligns our products, processes and politics in ways that are life-affirming and regenerative. Increasingly women are stepping into leadership roles in the sustainability movement, bringing practices that are often associated with the feminine — increased cooperation, intuition, reaching across differences, and community-based values.

How might this kind of orientation reshape the qualities of the sustainability movement? What might women uniquely bring to environmental and social organizing? Join an emergent conversation with women at the leading edges of sustainable innovation, business and organizing to explore what women may be bringing to how we green society for the benefit of all.

Embassy Suites Ballroom | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat

Hosted by: Deb Nelson, Executive Director, Social Venture Network. Co-led by Ted Howard and Gar Alperovitz.

In recent years across the nation there has been an explosion in the growth of innovative, environmentally sustainable and economically inclusive community-based businesses, financial institutions and democratic workplaces. The fast developing “New Economy Movement” has also spawned an increasingly sophisticated discussion of what it may mean to “change the system” in a democratic and ecologically meaningful way. We will focus first on one of the most significant community wealth building efforts in the country – the Evergreen Cooperative Initiative of Cleveland. Evergreen-inspired replications have been spawned in cities as diverse as Atlanta, Washington DC, Pittsburgh and Amarillo. We will then move to a discussion of how some of the principles involved in this and many other democratizing models may form the basis of a new vision and a step-by-step path to a systemic transformation that can deal with some of the largest domestic and global economic and ecological challenges of our time.

Santa Rosa Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat

Hosted by Matthew Dillon, Seed Matters

With John Navazio, Senior Scientist at Organic Seed Alliance and Sara McCamant of Seed Matters.

The great treasure of plant diversity is being lost to seed industry consolidation and the privatization of seeds via hybrids and genetic engineering. Only 20 percent of organic farmers use organic seeds owing to the lack of supply. Come hear about a two-fold strategy for reclaiming seed stewardship that includes the development of a commercial-scale organic seed supply and the training of gardeners in seed saving skills. This session will include a seed-saving demonstration.

Manzanita Room | 2:45pm-4:15pm, Sat