EDWARD TICK

The psychotherapist who has been working with survivors of war, violence and trauma for over 30 years, surveys the true extent and costs of modern technological warfare, its resulting spiritual and ecological crises, and the possibility of healing individuals, nations and the planet through spiritual, cultural and community transformations.

A Special Presentation of the Tides Foundation. A small vanguard of accomplished activists/thought leaders is building a body of work that makes transparent those structures that inhibit our ability to be a healthy, diverse society with high standards of accountability. Structural race analysis provides a framework for thinking about how racism is perpetuated in our society and how, by changing and rebuilding these structures, we can create greater opportunities and fairness for all. Join leading thinkers in a two-part workshop that will include both analysis and an exploration of opportunities we all have to act in a more conscious and just way. With: Maya Wiley, Center for Social Inclusion; Colette Pichon Battle, Moving Forward Gulf Coast Inc.; Gihan Perera, Miami Workers Center; Van Jones, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Manuel Pastor, Center for Justice, Tolerance & Community, UC Santa Cruz. Note: This is a double session. (A3)

Race, Class and Power: Structural
Analysis and Fairness – Part 2
(See Friday, 2:45, A3 for more info.)

How can we apply the wisdom of the Iroquois “seventh generation” principle to contemporary public policy and politics, and radically re-imagine our laws, communities and personal actions? With: Tom Goldtooth, executive director of Indigenous Environmental Network; Precautionary Principle leader Carolyn Raffensperger of the Science and Environmental Health Network; renowned philosopher/activist Joanna Macy; and psychotherapist Edward Tick. Moderated by Patrick Reinsborough of smartMeme. (A4)

THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF 13 INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS
was formed around a common vision to unite the Earth’s First Peoples in a
global alliance dedicated to peace, the healing of the Earth and the preservation
of indigenous ways. At the 2006 conference, Bioneers participated in an
historic satellite “spacebridge” dialogue with the Grandmothers as they gathered
in Dharamsala, India. This year, the grandmothers join us in Marin for
daily council sessions, panel presentations and a screening of the film that
was made during the spacebridge last year. The councils will be held around
the themes: Healing Our Relations, Healing Ourselves and Healing Our
Planet. Each council will be an opportunity for participants to offer their
dreams, visions and prayers, and express their concerns and questions. See
the brochure schedule for details.(A10)

First Peoples have long used key sacred plants as powerful healing tools and to communicate with the “mind of nature.” Bioneers associate producer and editor of Visionary Plant Consciousness, J.P. Harpignies and ethnobotanist/artist Kat Harrison are honored to host deeply experienced practitioners of sacred plant traditions from the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, including Mazatec Elder Julieta Casimiro; Maria Alice Campos Freire, a Madrinha in Brazil’s Santo Daime Church; traditional Cheyenne dance leader, sculptress and writer Margaret Behan Red Spider Woman; and Bernadette Rebienot, Omyene healer and master of the Iboga Bwiti Rite. (B6)

Making peace requires healing the soul traumas of gender violence and war, as well as pursuing a never-ending quest for justice. Hosted by Akaya Windwood, director of leadership development at the Rockwood Leadership Program; with Marlowe Sam, Native American peacemaker; Aqeela Sherrills, peacemaker from South Central L.A.; women’s rights defender Eve Ensler; and psychotherapist and veterans mental health expert Edward Tick. (A14)

The grandmothers are both women of prayer and women of action. Their traditional ways link them with the forces of the Earth. Hear the Grandmothers speak on the prophesies that have guided them, the council they have formed, and their mission for healing the Earth. Moderated by Cynthia Jurs, Buddhist practitioner and teacher. (A18)

What are the conscious and unconscious attitudes toward race that keep us bound to old paradigms? Is the healing of the planet possible without restoring the vitality of the human spirit? Do we need a “Truth and Restorative Justice Commission” in the U.S? Come explore these crucial, fundamental questions with host Aqeela Sherrills, renowned Watts peacemaker; healer and human development expert Orland Bishop; environmentalist/youth activist Ocean Robbins; Zen priest and social activist angel Kyodo williams; and attorney and community activist Salomon Zavala. (B13)

The voices and visions of North America’s First Peoples can remind us of the “original instructions” for how to live sustainably on this land for the long haul. Hosted by the executive director of the Cultural Conservancy and professor of American Indian Studies, Melissa Nelson; with program director of Honor the Earth, Winona LaDuke from the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota; Evon Peter, on the executive board of the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council; Dune Lankard, Athabaskan Eyak activist, social entrepreneur and founder of the Eyak Preservation Council; and Clayton Thomas- Müller, chair of the IEN’s Native Energy Campaign Advisory Committee. (B14)

THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF 13 INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS was formed around a common vision to unite the Earth's First Peoples in a global alliance dedicated to peace, the healing of the Earth and the preservation of indigenous ways. At the 2006 conference, Bioneers participated in an historic satellite "spacebridge" dialogue with the Grandmothers as they gathered in Dharamsala, India. This year, the grandmothers join us in Marin for daily council sessions, panel presentations and a screening of the film that was made during the spacebridge last year. The councils will be held around the themes: Healing Our Relations, Healing Ourselves and Healing Our Planet. Each council will be an opportunity for participants to offer their dreams, visions and prayers, and express their concerns and questions. See the brochure schedule for details.(B16)

Enjoy local cuisine and meet the farmers and chefs. Reception followed by a dinner honoring Farms Not Arms, a group of activist farmers protesting the Iraq war and providing farming jobs for war veterans. Hosted by the Marin Farmers Market Association. (C2)

Critique without vision is complicitous with dominance, but if we can compost tyranny into rich nutrient for growing a culture of reverent ingenuity, then we have a nearly inexhaustible source of renewable energy. (C3)

Extraordinary waves of social and technological innovations may yet save the matrix of planetary life and the storehouse of its greatest biodiversity — our mother ocean. Hosted by Ocean Conservation Research Sciences Advisor Michael Stocker; with one of the world’s greatest experts on marine life and most effective activists to save the seas, Wallace J. Nichols; and Stanford University researcher and strategic thinker, George Shillinger, who addresses international marine conservation issues at the intersection of science, business, policy and journalism. (A22)

THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF 13 INDIGENOUS GRANDMOTHERS was formed around a common vision to unite the Earth’s First Peoples in a global alliance dedicated to peace, the healing of the Earth and the preservation of indigenous ways. At the 2006 conference, Bioneers participated in an historic satellite “spacebridge” dialogue with the Grandmothers as they gathered in Dharamsala, India. This year, the grandmothers join us in Marin for daily council sessions, panel presentations and a screening of the film that was made during the spacebridge last year. The councils will be held around the themes: Healing Our Relations, Healing Ourselves and Healing Our Planet. Each council will be an opportunity for participants to offer their dreams, visions and prayers, and express their concerns and questions. See the brochure schedule for details. (A28)

What is our relationship and responsibility to our fellow sentient beings on this planet? What does our treatment of them tell us about ourselves? Does the plight of endangered species offer us a warning sign about our own fate if we don’t change our ways? Bokara Legendre, television host and journalist, interviews Mark Bekoff, author of many books including The Emotional Lives of Animals and co-author (with Jane Goodall) of The Ten Trusts: What We Must Do to Care for the Animals We Love; animal activist Camilla Fox, author of Culling the Wild; and James Deutsch, head of the African Program of the World Conservation Society, one of the largest worldwide animalsaving organizations. (B18)