Emergence-To-Action  

7-Week Post-Bioneers Action & Community Telecourse

Announcing a profound, new kind of sustainability experience – a virtual multi-media telecourse, featuring world-class leaders in sustainability, that:

• deepens your understanding of all major global issues and their interconnections -- offering the biggest-picture view imaginable
• immerses you in a conscious community that shares your values
• engages your head, your heart, and your hands
• supports you in taking positive action toward planetary healing

SPECIAL TELECOURSE GUESTS!  

Randy Hayes, founder, Rainforest Action Network
Sharif Abdullah, founder, Commonway Institute
Steve Bhaerman, aka Swami Beyondananda - cosmic comedy and evolutionary upwising
Karen Jaenke, Director, Ecotherapy Certificate Program, JFK University

 

If you're taking in the annual Bioneers experience -- whether in-person or virtually -- chances are you'll emerge from it inspired.  And then you'll return to your daily life, where the power of old habits and the trance of dominant culture will likely to take the wind out of your sails.

But if we are to truly change direction on this planet, every one of us must translate this inspiration – this "Emergence" (the title of this year's Bioneers conference) -- into action!  We all need support, challenge, and thoughtful sustained effort. And sometimes a little push…

The Sustainable World Coalition offers you seven weeks of virtual post-conference support (whether you attended the Bioneers or not!) with a group of similarly inspired people who, like you, are ready to put their shoulder to the wheel and help co-create a world that works for all.  

• Flesh out and apply specific learnings gleaned during the 2012 Bioneers Conference.
• Explore essential elements of co-creating a thriving world across several domains:  environment, economics, energy, social justice, and the power of community.
• Recognize, clarify, and step into “what is mine to do.”
• Experiential exercises during weekly teleconferences and in the weeks between.
• Work creatively with “breakdown-to-breakthrough” upheavals gripping our world, local communities, personal lives, and psyches. 
• Engage in edgy experiential adventures during our eight weeks together …

Cost: $97 (limited financial-need scholarships available)

Orientation call: Monday, October 29, 5pm

Weekly Teleconferences: Thursdays 5-6:30 pm (Pacific)

 

  

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COURSE OVERVIEW

 

LAYING THE FOUNDATION

• Oct 29^th (5-6pm) – Orientation Teleconference
• Who are we? Course logistics, technical support (easy!) and review of activities.
•  Setting our goals as a learning community and pairing up as buddies.

Week One: SETTING THE CONTEXT—Getting Clear about our Purpose

• Read Chapter One. Do Explorations. Contemplate Guiding Questions. Buddy Call. 
• What does sustainability mean to me? Opening to “hearing the call.” What is mine-to-do?
• Daylong (or half-day) Medicine walk.
•  Nov. 1^st (5-6:30pm) Teleconference, Guest: Randy Hayes

Week Two: ENVIRONMENT—Healing the Web of Life

• Reading & Explorations. Contemplate Guiding Questions. Bold Action Plan. Buddy Call. 
• What is actually happening to the earth’s oceans, fresh waters, animals, and forests?
• The art and practice of accountability as a path of healing, ecologically & interpersonally!
• Nov. 8^th (5-6:30pm) Teleconference, Guest: Karen Jaenke

Week Three: ENERGY—Toward a More Efficient and Life-Friendly Future

• Reading & Explorations. Contemplate Guiding Questions. Bold Action Plan. Buddy Call. 
• What truly energizes each of us & what traps us in old paradigms of “dirty energy?”
•  Transmuting frenzied fear into efficient (and passionate) action.
• Nov. 15^th (5-6:30pm) Teleconference

Week Four: A JUST SOCIETY—A World that Works for Everyone

• Reading & Explorations. Contemplate Guiding Questions. Bold Action Plan. Buddy Call. 
• What is social justice? Who is social justice for?  Why do we need social justice?
• Exploring the growing edges of diversity in our lives—and neighborhoods.
• Nov. 29^th (5-6:30pm) Teleconference, Guest Sharif Abdullah

Week Five: ECONOMICS: Valuing Life

• Reading & Explorations. Contemplate Guiding Questions. Bold Action Plan. Buddy Call. 
• Exploring economic trends and local solutions. What is happening near you?
•  If oikos (semantic root of eco-logy and eco-nomy) were a currency… What counts?
• Dec. 6^th (5-6:30pm) Teleconference, Guest Steve Bhaerman, aka Swami Beyondananda

Week Six: COMMUNITY: Growing and Nurturing Strong Communities

• Reading & Explorations. Contemplate Guiding Questions. Bold Action Plan. Buddy Call. 
• In practical terms, what does it mean to be a truly sustainable community?
• Host or instigate a community-building event from where you are NOW.
•  Dec. 13^th (5-6:30pm) Teleconference

Week Seven: GETTING PERSONAL: Keeping it REAL and ALIVE!

• Our choices matter! Developing ecological self-esteem and life-centered confidence…
• Reflect upon (and honor) the sustaining spiritual foundation of your ecological work.
•  Sharing our favorite Bold Action Plans, identifying obstacles, and setting forth.
• Dec. 6^th (5-6:30pm) Teleconference. Guest: SWC’s Steve Motenko & coaching!

  

Facilitator/Instructor: Renée Soule has been a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology for over 25 years. She engages environmental crises as a positive, though challenging, evolutionary force for human and cultural development. Renée teaches Nonviolent Communication at San Quentin Prison, is adjunct faculty at California Institute of Integral Studies, and teaches part-time at San Francisco State University.

 

About the Sustainable World Sourcebook: The Emergence-to-Action Telecourse is based on the 2011 International Book Award-winning Sustainable World Sourcebook.  The Sourcebook is a “one-stop shop” to get readers up to speed quickly on the most essential information needed to alter our perilous global trajectory of resource depletion, species extinction, and extreme societal inequities.

 

TESTIMONIALS

 

This course provides sacred information indispensable for the survival of our species. Please support it in any way you can.

Andrew Harvey, mystical scholar

Founder, Institute for Sacred Activism

 

I highly recommend this course, whether you are just learning about sustainability or are looking for a way to refresh and refocus your deep green activism. It is an excellent, succinct, practical guide to the interconnected problems facing our society, and the alternative, possible solutions on both a personal and societal level. The fantastic speakers, thought-provoking explorations, and in-depth discussions deepen and enrich the experience.

Beth Remmes, Founder of Zolagoods.com

 

The course sheds new and important light on the concept of sustainability.  Rather than staying at surface levels, the sessions invite participants to go deeper, questioning the very nature of society. The course contributes to the notion that lies close to my heart: that, together, we can create a world that works for all beings.

Sharif Abdullah, Director, The Commonway Institute

author, Creating a World That Works For All

 

There was a wonderful sense of community created by the course – and this is what I had hoped for. My buddy discussions were a highlight for me, bringing new insights and deepening my contemplation.

Cynthia Frisch

My deepest gratitude for all your love and wonderful facilitation of this course. It was truly enriching!

Jesus Nebot

 

I broadened my experience of connecting with a small group and hearing from people all over the world who were committed to their own education and awareness around issues that most of the world is closing their eyes to. The love and courage and community was palpable on every call. The buddy calls added joy and purpose to my day. And the content was just great – I liked how I could do as much or as little as I had time for, but I always ended up doing way more than I thought I would.

Gabrielle Sundra

I appreciated so much about this course:  the wealth of resources offered in the form of videos, articles, blogs, etc.; having the opportunity to work through the Sustainable World Sourcebook in its entirety; sharing the experience with others on this path; using different techniques/ways of processing the information during the calls; the buddy system. The role playing was really helpful as I realized taking on the role of an activist will be a work in progress.

Elaine Lengyel

I broadened my awareness about sustainability and very much enjoyed the course and the participation of the group. The group discussions and the role plays were fantastic learning tools.

Elizabeth Weinberg

Presented by talented and knowledgeable facilitators, this course begins with a deep exploration of the context within which we find ourselves, addressing the essential questions of where we are, how we got here, what’s possible for the future and where we can go from here. The conference calls, online forums and buddy meetings anchor a weekly focus that stretches from this base of understanding into exploring possibilities to heal the web of life.

Natalie Janovak