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Watch and
listen to some of the world’s leading visionaries in conversation as they explore some of our most pressing global challenges
while sharing a vision and passion for building a better world.
Circles of Transformation: Finding Our Way in the 'Great Work'
by the Transformative Learning Centre Spirit Matters Collective
ISBN 1-4120-8916-6 / 2006 / 74 pp. / three DVDS/ $49.95
The conversations were
filmed at the Spirit Matters conference, held by the Transformative Learning Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education at the University of Toronto http://tlc.oise.utoronto.ca/conf2004/theme.html "Spirit Matters" was the
first in the series of Spirit Matters Gatherings.
Consists of:
- DVD Set: Six hours of DVDs with some of the world's leading visionaries in conversation
- Accompanying book with a preface by Thomas Berry & reflective essays by Marilyn
Daniels, Anne Goodman, Edmund O’Sullivan & Heather Reid.
The DVDs feature:
David Abram, Maliha Chisti, Larry Daloz, George
Dei, Jorge Ferrer, Matthew Fox, Laara Fitznor, Ursula Franklin, bell hooks, Satish Kumar, Michael Lerner, Chief Oren Lyons,
John Mohawk, Edmund O’Sullivan, Vandana Shiva, Suwanda Suganasiri, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Genevieve Vaughan, Paulo Wangoola,
Cindy White, and Marion Woodman
From the preface by Thomas Berry:
"As
I page through these essays, I am deeply impressed by the understanding shown the issues I have dealt with over the years.
It awakens anew my hope that the twenty-first century will evoke a new, mutually beneficial period in our human-Earth presence
to each other."
One
Earth Community: Sharing Our Stories
produced by Transformative Learning
Centre
four high-quality DVDS/ $30.00
These timely conversations were filmed
at One Earth Community: Sharing Our Stories, the second in the series of Spirit Matters Gatherings, held by the Transformative
Learning Centre at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto in April of 2007. http://tlc.oise.utoronto.ca/gathering2007/theme.html
The DVDs feature:
Abelardo
Brenes, Adeboyega Najeem, Anne Goodman, Deborah Barndt, Diane Longboat, Edmund O'Sullivan, Eimear O'Neill, Jeannette McCullough,
John Barry, Jorge Ferrer, Jose Zarate, Laara Fitznor, Marilyn Daniels, Maude Barlow, Moema Viezzer, Moema Viezzer, Njoki Wane,
Renee Linklater, Satish Kumar, Starhawk & Zenobia Barlow
One Earth Community consisted
of six plenary councils:
Council 1: Sharing Our Stories: In the first council we share
our personal and collective stories and acknowledge our separate and shared journeys so that we may come together in
understanding and to build a common understanding and vision. (Ed O’Sullivan in conversation
with Abelardo Brenes, Laara Fitznor &, Njoki Wane)
Council 2: Facing
Our Challenges: In the second council we acknowledge what disrupts, fragments and keeps us numb from the realities
of our interconnection in One Earth Community. How do we creatively confront realities such as genocide, war, ecological
devastation, species loss, abuses and injustice, violence and the widening gap in access to resources between peoples?
(Eimear O'Neill in conversation with Renee Linklater, Satish Kumar, & Adeboyega Najeem)
Council 3: Moving from Grief into Vision: In the third council we move through deep
grieving into a re-orientation towards a larger, more complex, participatory worldview and a framework of emancipatory and
grounded hope. (Jeannette McCullough in conversation with Zenobia Barlow, Jorge Ferrer, Diane Longboat and Jose
Zarate)
Council 4: Moving from Vision to Action: The fourth council asks
the question: How do we move our vision for a better future into concrete actions within specific contexts? (Marilyn
Daniels in conversation with Deborah Barndt, John Barry, Satish Kumar and Moema Viezzer.
Council
5: Calling Forth One Earth Community: The fifth council integrates the themes of the previous councils, invites
the emergence of visions and projects, and asks the question: What do we need to teach and to learn? (Anne
Goodman in discussion with Ed O’Sullivan, Eimear O’Neill, Jeannette McCullough and Marilyn Daniels)
Council
6: Water and Women of Action: A Teach-In on the Sacred Rights of Water: As the world is running out of water
corporations and governments are privatizing water resources. In this post-conference teach-in three major women activists
discuss and lead a teach-in on the sacred rights of water and what needs to be done. (with Satish Kumar, Maude
Barlow, Starhawk, & Moema Viezzer. |
About Spirit Matters... the
event recorded on Circles of Transformation
The Spirit Matters conference was an event combining an uncommon diversity of luminous minds with
a compassionate and celebratory exuberance on behalf of our fellow species and the animate earth that enfolds us all.
—DAVID ABRAM, author of Spell of the Sensuous
More than a conference, Spirit Matters was a gathering of kindred
spirits passionately committed to bring forth a finer world—a nourishing feast for the soul, the mind, and the senses.
I will always remember this gathering with special warmth and care.
—JORGE
N. FERRER, PH.D., author of Revisioning Transpersonal Theory
Spirit
Matters was truly a celebration of Earth Democracy—of the sacredness of life in its magnificent diversity—of the
sacredness of our human diversity as a condition of peace and human harmony.
—VANDANA SHIVA, author of Earth Democracy
Months
later the Spirit Matters conference still resonates. The new insights gained, contacts made, conversations generated—all
continue to deepen and fan out through our many fields of work. That conference will be remembered as one of the vital nodes
in the steady transformation of our culture.
—L.
A. PARKS DALOZ, The Whidbey Institute |
