MANY TO MANY 66

Issue 66
December 1998
Healing Ourselves, Healing Each Other, Healing the Earth

Healing Ourselves, Healing Each Other, Healing the Earth

The above is the theme and title of a week-long deep ecology intensive workshop, planned to take place from 29 January – 4 February 1999 at Te Moata on the Corromandel, New Zealand.

This workshop will be facilitated by Ruth Rosenhek, an environmental activist, organisational consultant and performance artist, working in partnership with John Seed, founder and director of the Rainforest Information Centre, Australia. John Seed wrote, together with Joanna Macy, Pat Flemmings and Professor Arne Naess, the book "Thinking Like a Mountain – Towards a Council of All Beings" (New Society Publishers).

The fees from this workshop will go to the conservation of rain forests in Ecuador (details of their involvement in this project can be found on http://forests.org/ric/). The following excerpts are taken from a flier which explains some of the steps and stages of the workshop:

The pollution of the earth and the pollution of the mind are one and the same. To be effective in healing the planet, we must heal ourselves of disempowerment and hopelessness.

The event will begin with a 2-day Council of All Beings workshop, a series of re-Earthing rituals created by John Seed and Joanna Macy, designed to re-connect modern people with the Earth... Many people intellectually realise that we are inseparable from Nature.. These rituals enable us to deeply experience our connection with Nature, in our hearts and our bodies.

Then, using both cognitive and experiential processes, we examine internal barriers and cultural practices that keep our psyches locked into an illusion of separation from Earth...

Finally we move from deep ecology to deep time with ceremonies and rituals which enable us to y the breathtaking epic of our own evolution...

For more information on this workshop, contact: Tara, Te Moata, Box 100, Tairua, New Zealand, or shiva@xtra.co.nz

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