As the planet continues to rapidly urbanize there is a growing sense that a new model of cities is needed: one that overcomes the physical (and mental) disconnect between humans and nature. Beatley believes that contact with nature is not something optional but it absolutely essential for leading a happy, healthy, and meaningful life.

This Dialogue with ecologist and artist, Dr. Rene Henery will explore pathways toward the simultaneous healing of systems in nature and of our own internal systems, hearts, minds, and spirits. In the process, Rene will share some of his experiences, as a scientist pivoting from an emphasis on the application of science and mind to “fix” the world to an emphasis on relationship and heart, to heal, to catalyze greater connection with others and alignment with nature, and to be guided by what emerges from that connected place.

We are delighted to be hosting Mary Reynolds – Reformed Landscape Designer and Nature Activist, as part of our Sacred Earth Activism teleseminar series. Mary will be sharing her story of working-playing with the Wild. Within this she will be speaking about how we can all connect and co-create with our small treasures of Earth and local community spaces.

Join and O.N.E. and Phyllis Hogan as she shares her insights from being involved in several different successful "stands" to save sacred waters and lands.  She has worked deeply for many years with the Navajo and Hopi, helping preserve sacred traditions and medicine ways.

Join O.N.E. and Dr. Rosita Arvigo, renowned author and healer, for the Macal River teleseminar as part of our Rivers of Life Series.  Dr. Rosita will share about this river which was the life-blood of an ancient Mayan civilization and still important to the people there today.  It was also in the skirt of this river that Rosita studied with mentor, healer and shaman Don Elijio Panti and established the Ix Chel Research Center.

Clare Dubois is a founding member of TreeSisters, a global network of women who work/donate for the restoration of our tropical forests as an expression of planetary care.  Clare is an Earth loving social entrepreneur and inspirational speaker who worked internationally for 18 years facilitating groups, coaching business leaders and creating behaviour change processes within the personal growth sector.

In this teleseminar Pam will share the teachings and wisdom of White Pine, the tree of peace.  White Pine has been a main ally of Pam’s for two decades and is an elder among trees who helps to initiate humans into what it means to be truly human. Pam will share with you stories from the White Pine Initiation to be held in September.

Herbal gardens offer sanctuary for pollinators, people and elemental beings. Flowering plants and trees, hedgerows and pathways, arbors and benches, altars and bells add magical dimensions into a healing garden. A diversity of plants, blooming throughout the gardening season encourages a diversity of pollinators and birds. Hedgerows and bells are friends to Elemental beings. The biodynamic approach we use at Avena Botanical gardens helps create a sacred environment for all beings that enter the gardens.

Sea Turtles are one of the most ancient, widespread, fascinating, mysterious species on Grandmother Earth. They occupy all our planet’s oceans except the polar regions, and are both fundamental to and indicators for the health of marine ecosystems. All 7 extant sea turtle species are currently endangered or threatened. Turtles embody central roles of honor in the cosmological and creation stories of many world cultures, and sea turtles in particular act as gatekeepers for liminal portals – the “thin” places between sea and land, unseen dimensions, and levels of consciousness.