The Great Turning Un-Conference

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Maureen Jack-Lacroix:

Producer, CEO, Jack of Hearts Productions Inc.

Maureen has enjoyed a few careers spanning the past four decades.  She was a successful band manager, TV producer, and managed Canada’s response to African hunger relief in the 80’s: Tears Are Not Enough. She then became known in Vancouver as the creator/producer of large, annual events such as the Music West conference & festival and Slam City Jam, the North American skateboard championships.

During this time she received
•       Ethics in Action Award, 1996, Ethical Decision Making
•       40under40 Top Business Achievers, 1993.
•       Exceptional Contribution Award, 1985, UNICEF Canada

Also a student and leader of group process in humanistic and cognitive psychology for 15 years, Maureen enjoys being a group facilitator for businesses, providing leadership training and team building coaching for executives.

For the past ten years, Maureen has focused on environmental concerns. After completing a Masters degree in Creation Spirituality and Eco-Psychology through Naropa University, and facilitator training with Joanna Macy and the Pachamama Alliance, Maureen founded the non-profit society Be The Change Earth Alliance. This organization has developed a citizen engagement program and materials that help people make sustainable lifestyle changes. It is applied in communities, in schools and in the work place, and most recently is being adapted to a Facebook application.

Maureen is the Creative Director and Producer of The Great Turning Un-Conference.

Kate Sutherland – Kate Sutherland is a community and organizational development consultant. She specializes in custom design and facilitation of game-changing processes for organizations, programs and communities. She is also the author of Make Light Work: 10 Tools for Inner Knowing, a new book dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and personal sustainability of change agents

Speaking Topic at The Great Turning Un-Conference:
*Consciousness*
“Intention, Intuition, and Integrity: A Session on Living Life Consciously” – For many situations and decisions, the best answers come from within. Join Kate for an introduction to “inner work,” ways of working based on intuition, perception, intention and consciousness. We’ll explore simple tools for accessing the insights and inner wisdom that enable us to work on the Great Turning in personally sustainable ways.

Nickolas Grabovac: Nickolas Grabovac has been a passionate student of permaculture for over 15 years, formally receiving his Permaculture Design Certificate in the Spring of 2009.  In 2009, he founded the Vancouver Permaculture Meetup Group, which now has almost 400 members, to facilitate the local sharing of permaculture skills and knowledge.  Most recently, he has designed the school garden for Trafalgar Elementary School and is designing a garden for Maple Grove Elementary School.  Nickolas has degrees in Ecology, Botany and Computer Science from the University of British Columbia.

Speaking Topic at The Great Turning Un-Conference:
*Innovation*
“Permaculture: Design for Sustainability” – Permaculture is a system of design for sustainability, underpinned by the ethics of earth care, people care and the reinvestment of surplus.  In this talk, we will explore some of the key design directives within permaculture and show how they can be applied in a (sub)urban setting to improve the sustainability and resilience of our communities.

Karl Perrin – Speaking Topic at The Great Turning Un-Conference:
*Action*
“Pilgrimage to Burns Bog” – May 1 will be the fourth Pilgrimage to Burns Bog. We have declared it a sacred site. We clean it, dam its drainage ditches, fight the truckin’ freeway on it, study it…we love it.  This year we will bless it with Bach and seek its blessing.  “In wildness is the preservation of the world.” H.D.Thoreau

Zamir – Organizer/Producer of “The Quickening”

Navigating The Great Turning: An Un-Conference to Be The Change
www.bethechangeearthalliance.org/tgt/2011

Join hundreds of change agents and 40 community leaders at The Great Turning Un- Conference on Saturday April 30th to explore how we can create a sustainable future.
Now is a time of great change and opportunity. Joanna Macy called this time of transition ‘The Great Turning,’ where every person has a vital role to play. Building on her wisdom, there will be three streams of dialogue to honour the many ways we are being called to awaken and express: ACTION to slow down the destruction & waste of precious resources, INNOVATION to explore alternate ways & systems to build resilient community and CONSCIOUSNESS to explore values and practices and embrace our radical interconnection with all life

At the un-conference engage with leaders from Greenpeace, Transition Town, Oxfam circle dialogues on all the ways we can build community resilience.
There are many pieces to the puzzle of our emerging future, and your role is pivotal. Come join us and Be The Change at the Great Turning Un-Conference!

Saturday, April 30th
9:00am to 5:30pm (Yoga, registration, and coffee starts at 8:00am)
Maritime Labour Centre (1880 Triumph Street, Vancouver)

For more details and ticket information go to www.bethechangeearthalliance.org

The Quickening: A Cosmic Journey Through The Four Paths of Transformation
www.bethechangeearthalliance.org/tgt/quickening

Following The Great Turning:

Social and planetary shifts are calling all earth citizens to move to a new vibration of power. The Quickening is a cosmic celebration of this transformation through music, dance, spoken word and visual narratives. Following the Great Turning – where hundreds of change agents and over 40 passionate community leaders explore how we can create a sustainable future through action, innovation, and consciousness – The Quickening will raise the energy through the roof!

Featuring:
•    Shine Edgar – Dreamtime Didj
•    Jackie Essombe – Igniting Village Spirit
•    Navaro Franco & Nyamakupa Kurai – African Tribal Bliss
•    Buckman Coe – Lyrical Hope Propaganda
•    Naad – Sonic Mystics
•    Desiduous – Ambient Sound Selections
•    ShaMANoiD – Tribal, World, Progressive Electronica
•    Maya LaMonde – Creation Spirituality Ritual Leader

The evening will be structured to take participants through four paths of transformation:
•    Via Positiva – Experiencing the awe and mystery of creation
•    Via Negativa – Embracing the pain of our earth and of our separation from source
•    Via Creativa – Celebrating the union of light and dark and our connection to the Mother
•   Via Transformativa – Embodying our new vision of self and our role in the unfolding cosmic story

“You can never really teach a warrior with
words about the unknown;
we must embody it.
Let the music of the
night quicken us like
a river heading to the
rapids; letting go of
attachments, we move to a
stronger vibration of power”

Doors open at 8:00pm, journey begins at 8:30.

For more details and ticket information go to www.bethechangeearthalliance.org/tgt/quickening