Can be taken as a one or two week course.
Participants will discuss visions of the world and how to deal with global crisis through Sacred Activism, sustainable wellbeing, environmental ethics and religion. Starhawk will teach skills and tools that will help participants to remain calm in stressful and chaotic situations, to hold a centre of peace amidst violence, to withstand conflict and to heal from trauma. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim will explore the problems and promise of religious involvement in environmental issues.
The course is intended both for those who have been or are on a spiritual journey and wish now to become socially active, and for activists who wish to develop spiritual wisdom and compassion to strengthen and inform the work they do.
Starhawk is the author or co-author of ten books including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess and is internationally known for reviving earth-based spirituality, bringing techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism.
Mary Evelyn Tucker is Professor of Religion at Bucknell University, USA and Co-Director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. She is author most recently of Worldly Wonder: Religions Enter their Ecological Phase.
John Grim is a visiting scholar at the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, USA and Co-Director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology. He previously taught courses in Native American and indigenous religions, religion and ecology, ritual, and mysticism in the world’s religions.
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“If your path is to be an activist, please be a ‘sacred activist.’ On this course you learn how to connect with the sacred and further develop spiritual wisdom and compassion, and this will help you to ‘be the change’ in the world, so desperately needed at this time.” Satish Kumar, Programme Director at Schumacher College, Editor of Resurgence Magazine and Presenter of the BBC2 documentary Earth Pilgrim.
