Starhawk’s Winter Calendar
Starhawk’s Winter Calendar–Online Course, talks, workshops, Earth Activist Training
I was pleasantly surprised to find that Starhawk is a member of the Pagan Permaculture list that I joined this week. On her website, Starhawk describes herself as the “author of many works celebrating the Goddess movement and Earth-based, feminist spirituality. I’m a peace, environmental, and global justice activist and trainer, a permaculture designer and teacher, a Pagan and Witch. To see how it all weaves together, follow the many strands of my web.”
For many, many Pagans, reading Starhawk’s book The Spiral Dance, was the event that told them they were “home”–that there was a name for their spirituality and a community of people who believed as they believed. At Samhain last weekend, Starhawk was one of the leaders of the 30th annual Spiral Dance Ritual.
Some of her earth activist training classes are available online. Starhawk’s winter calendar:
Calendar at a Glance
Nov 9-Dec 20
online class: “Inner Compass”
Nov 14-15, San Francisco
Green Festival booksigning & talk: “Letting the Wildness In”
Nov 17, San Francisco
talk: “Power and Mystery”
Dec 3, Irvine, Calif.
talk: “Goddesses for the End Times”
Dec 4-6, Ojai, Calif.
public talk + weekend workshop: “Permaculture & the Sacred”
Dec 19, Sebastopol, Calif.
Yule Ritual
Jan 9-23, north California
Earth Activist Training course
Once More, with Details
(many more details are posted at www.starhawk.org/schedule)
November 9 – December 20
online course
“The Inner Compass: Finding and Holding the Vision”
Each of us alive today is here for a purpose. We each have a unique role to play in bringing about that transformation- our own gifts, our own vision. And the earth needs us each to be our most creative, compassionate and powerful self. But how do we find that vision, our purpose for being here, our true work? How do we step up to the challenge, and how can we hold a vision through times of adversity, and find the courage to overcome fears, blocks and challenges?
Enroll online at www.growingedgeinstitute.com (late registrations accepted during first week of class).
Cost $150. Some partial scholarships available, please see website.
Saturday & Sunday, November 14-15
San Francisco, California
booksignings and talk
Starhawk will be at the Green Festival. Stop by the Earth Activist Training booth to say hi.
Saturday: Booksigning at Mother Tongue Ink/We’Moon booth, publishers of her new book, The Last Wild Witch. 1 pm.
Sunday: “Letting the Wildness In”
Starhawk’s new eco-fable for children, The Last Wild Witch, is also a jumping-off point for adults to explore insights from both earth-based spirituality and permaculture that can help us weather times of rapid change and enormous challenges, and guide us toward a world that honors the wild.
Time: 2:00 p.m., booksigning follows at 3:00 p.m.
Location: San Francisco Concourse, 635 8th St (at Brannan St)
Cost: $15/day all events, various discounts.
For more information: www.greenfestivals.org
Tuesday, November 17
San Fransisco, California
One Taste hosts an evening talk with audience discussion.
“Power and Mystery”
Power-over, or domination, means oppression, a system where one person controls another, one gender dominates the other, one race holds the others down. To overcome oppression, we must tap a different kind of power: power-from-within, or empowerment. “Power” also means “ability”: our creative power to imagine, to bring to birth, to nurture, to transform. Power-from-within arises when we learn to listen to our intuition, to the lessons of nature, and to each other, let go of control, and embrace mystery.
Location: Bayfront Theatre at Fort Mason (Building B – 3rd Floor)
Time: 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Cost: $20
For more information and to register: www.onetaste.us/events
Thursday, December 3
Irvine, California
Goddess Temple of Orange County hosts evening talk for women and men
“Goddesses for the End Times”
The core insight of Goddess spirituality is that the Earth is alive, a being that we are part of. Yet we live in a time when assaults on the life support systems that sustain us have reached crisis proportions. Our social and governmental institutions seem unable to cope with global warming and environmental deterioration, or to respond effectively to catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans. Meanwhile, they wage an unpopular war unchecked by massive protests. What does the concept of the Goddess mean in such times? What aspects and images can inform us, sustain us, and give us healing and hope?
Location: 17905 Sky Park Circle, Suite A
Time 7:00 – 9:30 p.m.
Cost: $25
Information:www.goddesstempleof orangecounty.com/index.html
949/651-0564 or email: info@goddesstempleoforangecounty.com
December 4-6
Ojai, California
public talk + weekend workshop
“Permaculture and the Sacred”
Permaculture (”permanent-culture”) creates a practical model of abundance and beauty for all, a vision that’s both attainable and sustainable with present technology, a practice that works with nature instead of against her. Join Starhawk to explore ways to listen to the land, communicate with nature spirits, heal the scars of past land-abuse, and observe the wisdom of the wild.
Location for both events: The Ojai Foundation Council House, 9739 Ojai Santa Paula Rd
Friday lecture: 7:30 p.m., open to the public
Cost: $25
Saturday/Sunday workshop:
Cost: $300-$440. Some work trades available.
For more information and to register: visit: www.ojaifoundation.org or call (805) 646-8343
Saturday, December 19
Sebastopol, California
Starhawk leads a celebration of Yule. A benefit for the Earth Activist Training scholarship fund.
Location: Sebastopol Community and Cultural Center, 390 Morris St.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Cost: $10-50 sliding scale, work exchange available
For more information, email:
January 9-23, 2010
Cazadero, California
two-week course
Earth Activist Training, co-taught by Starhawk, Erik Ohlsen, and Charles Williams
Two weeks that can change your life and help you change the world!
A permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in earth-based spirituality, and a focus on organizing, activism, and social permaculture as well as urban and rural land-based systems. Learn how to heal soil and cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems, using a minimum of energy and resources and creating real abundance and social justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that can sustain our spirits. Participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of ritual, games, projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological design.
Cost: $1400-$1800 sliding scale. Work trade and scholarships available, apply early!
For more information: www.EarthActivistTraining.org
800-381-7940 (USA). email: earthactivisttraining@gmail.com