The Physical and Spiritual Intelligence of Plants with Rocio Alarcon
Join us for this exciting webinar that looks deeply at the vast intelligence of the plant world, including plants and trees that heal us, guide us, and feed us. You have probably heard the expression “master plants” and immediately think about psychotropic plants. In this paradigm-shifting webinar we will explore the idea that All plants are master plants and if approached and treated in a sacred manner, have the ability to open doors of perception, heal us at a core level, and nourish us optimally.
Partnering with Nature for a Vibrant Future-Planting Seeds of Hope
As we celebrate ONE’s anniversary, we come together in the present to tend to the future. We heed the occasion of our 10th anniversary as a call to action—join the conversation as we vision a living blueprint for the next ten years and beyond. Our panelists will identify what, from their perspectives, are critical areas that we are in a position to address, where the compost is ready for new seeds to grow, and how we can most effectively turn our vision—a future where people and nature are co-creative partners and all life has the right to thrive—into reality.
Building with Nature with Sigi Koko
Join natural builder, Sigi Koko, as she shares about working with Nature to create inspired architectural designs and construction from natural materials.
Kinship with Mountains with Dr. John Hausdoerffer
Join Dr. John Hausdoerffer as he shares his vision and experience of deep kinship with Nature and talks about how good life can be when we are in a meaningful relationship with our landscapes. We will honor Mountains in our discussion as wise Elders who can help guide us in being the ancestors we want to see in the future.
Propagating Black Joy with Dr. Chris Omni, Michelle Gunn and Ashley Powell
Join Dr. Chris Omni in celebrating and growing Black Joy! Dr. Omni will share her “Kujima (pronounced koo-gee-mah) Theory of Collective-Self Motivation”. This three-pillar model reimagines and renews the worlds within and around us and blends fundamental principles found within the African American celebration of Kwanzaa (pronounced “kwahn-zuh”).
As I Tend the Garden, the Garden Tends Me with Lisa Estabrook
“As my understanding of the flowers, and the interconnectivity of all of nature deepens, so does my understanding of myself. Understanding myself is empowerment.”
The Live webinar is 12:00 PDT/3:00 EDT on Tuesday, August 8th
Join us in conversation with Lisa Estabrook, artist, author and creator of Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck as she shares her journey with her plant spirit mentors. We will explore the power of intentions, living body wisdom, restoring imagination as a super sense, and conscious creation with the elemental realm.
It has always been Lisa’s intention to grow herself which means that the plant spirits have continually helped her stretch her comfort zone! Over the last year or so her gardens have been calling for a new “blueprint" and she is leaning into that and what it can mean for our work in the world.
Feeling empowered and listening to and following the wisdom of our own hearts is an ongoing thread that Lisa is sharing with others as she remembers with the help of the plants. Lisa encourages us all to give ourselves permission to create a life from the inside out rather than the outside in, as so many of us have long been conditioned to do.
Lisa Estabrook is an artist, mother, way shower, author, home herbalist and plant whisperer who has spent the last 30 years figuring out how to live a meaningful, heart-led, healthy and joyful life. The creation of the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck was the result of a two-year long personal journey of self-discovery and healing which also launched her heART based Soulflower business with a growing range of products intended to support and inspire connection with ourselves and our planet. Lisa's belief is that the more we learn about ourselves, and take responsibility for our own healing (wholing) journeys, the more we will empower and support ourselves and by extension our families, our communities and ultimately the Earth herself. The founder of the online CommUNITY Garden, Lisa lives in Yarmouth, Maine.
You can learn more about Lisa’s work at her website: www.mysoulflower.love and at CommUNITY Garden Mighty Network: communitygarden.love
Truffle Talk with William Padilla-Brown
Join William Padilla-Brown as we discuss the fascinating relationship between truffles and mammals, and how this connection may have played a key role in the evolution of intelligent life on Earth.
Slow is Good: How to Create Regenerative Racial Justice by Learning from the Earth with Dr. Amanda Kemp
Dr. Amanda Kemp guides us to look to Earth for guidance on having open-hearted conversations, consciously using our power, and practicing compassion to cultivate racial justice and authentic community.
Communicating with Plants: Heart-Based Practices for Connecting with Plant Spirits with Jen Frey and Lillian Edwards
Author, and teacher, Jen Frey will give us a taste of the synergistic process of communicating with Plants and how they can help us heal and teach us to trust, forgive, and embrace self-love. Jen will be joined by botanical illustrator, Lillian Edwards, who will additionally share her process in visually bringing forward the essences of plants.
Wisdom Weavers of the World with Ilarion Merculieff
Join Unangan Elder, Ilarion Merculieff, as he invites you to explore a new way of living, guided by our hearts, with each and every unique heart beating together in the great song of creation.
Hummingbirds: Honoring Pollinators and Earth Day with Deb Soule and Pam Montgomery
“Remember, you are not alone as you gather herbs. Birds, butterflies, insects, other animals, and elemental beings may be nearby, sometimes visible and sometimes not.”
In this webinar, Deb Soule shares her journey following the southern migration of the ruby-throated hummingbird, and what inspired her.
Deb and Pam also discuss how herbal gardens offer sanctuary for pollinators. Flowering plants and trees, hedgerows and pathways, arbors and benches, altars and bells add magical dimensions into a healing garden. A diversity of plants, blooming throughout the gardening season encourages a diversity of pollinators and birds.. The biodynamic approach that Deb uses at Avena Botanical gardens helps create a sacred environment for all beings that enter the gardens.
Let us humans be respectful and welcoming to pollinators whose presence in our gardens and woodlands and the world bring harmony, balance, abundance, and joy.
Participate in the Pollinator Gratitude Ceremony from your home and in your landscape on April 29th as people from around the world will come together across the ethers to celebrate and express their appreciation for Pollinators!
Hummingbird Resources
“Beauty stops us in our tracks. It is a mental solvent that dissolves something else, melting it into radiance.” -Peter Schjeldahl
“Hummingbirds of North America (Peterson Field Guide)” by Sheri. L. Williamson
“Field Guide to the Hummingbirds” by Miles McMullan
“Hummingbirds of North America” by Steve N. G. Howell
“Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species” by Michael Fogen, Marianne Taylor & Sheri L. Williamson
“Ruby-throated Hummingbird” by Robert Sargent (out of print, look for used copy)
“The Forgotten Pollinators” by Stephen L. Buchmann and Gary Paul Nabhan
“Attracting Native Pollinators: Protecting North America’s Bees and Butterflies” (information on creating Pollinator-friendly habitats, unfortunately doesn’t include info on hummingbirds but a valuable resource) by The Xerces Society
“A World on the Wing: the Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds” by Scott Weidensaul
“The Healing Garden” by Deb Soule
Banding Coalition of the Americas - founded in 2020, federally licensed neotropical migrating bird banders) www.bandingcoalition.org
zugeunruhe: the experience of migratory restlessness
www.rubythroat.org Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History is an active bird banding station in the Southeast
BirdLife International
Deb Soule is an herbalist, gardener, teacher, and author of The Woman’s Handbook of Healing Herbs, How to Move Like a Gardener, and The Healing Garden. Deb began organic gardening and studying the medicinal uses of herbs at age 16. Her faith in the healing qualities of plants includes a desire to make organic herbs easily accessible to women and families living in rural areas. In the fall of 1985, with her first mail-order catalog and a small selection of herbal extracts and teas, Deb launched Avena Botanicals, an apothecary that now serves thousands of customers. Deb has a special connection to the hummingbirds and has traveled part of the migratory path.
Pam Montgomery has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades. As an author, teacher, and practitioner she has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for the plants who are guiding us in our spiritual evolution. She is the author of Partner Earth; A Spiritual Ecology and the best selling Plant Spirit Healing; A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness. She teaches internationally on plant spirit healing, spiritual ecology and people as Nature Evolutionaries. Her latest research is on the light and sound of plants which are foundational means of communication in the biological world. Pam is the founder of ONE. She has dedicated herself to co-creative partnership with all of life and feels the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries is a way to make this partnership manifest.
Building Disability Community and Justice in the Outdoors with Syren Nagakyrie
Disabled Hikers is an entirely Disabled-led organization. We celebrate disabled people’s experiences in the outdoors. We help facilitate those experiences with information, resources, and events, including trail guides and group hikes. We are also committed advocates for justice, access, and inclusion, and work with parks, organizations, brands, and more. We challenge the dominant narrative of who is considered to be valid and which experiences matter in the outdoors.
Connecting to the Elements and the Rhythms Within and Without: A Celebration of the Spring Equinox with Nancy Phillips
Join Nancy Phillips as she shares about connecting to the seasons and natural rhythms of the earth. We will explore how these offer us a path to spiritual wisdom and a sense of groundedness and peace. Embracing the energy of Springtime can be a catalyst for nurturing our own growth.
Sacred Earth ~ Sacred Self with Sharifa Oppenheimer
Join us in discussion with renowned teacher and author, Sharifa Oppenheimer about the reflection of Sacred Earth and Sacred Self, mirroring our inner and outer worlds. We will explore this connection especially in deepening our kinship with Nature.
Nature, Culture & the Sacred with Nina Simons
Nina Simons, Bioneers’ Co-Founder and author of Nature, Culture and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership, joins us to talk about leadership, Nature, and how we can all cultivate resilience and liberation.