SUSTAINABILITY: Change, social
justice, and organizational systems
An HOD/ELC REGIONAL INTENSIVE
WORKSHOP
The 2nd
Dates: September 12-15, 2008 (Friday, 1:30
pm PDT to Monday, 11:30 am PDT)
Location: Islandwood learning center,
The Experience: This will not be a typical Fielding hotel or living room event. The
location reflects a community seeking to achieve ecological
sustainability. Meals will be on-site, using locally available
food. We have invited guests from the
local foods movement to discuss sustainable food chains.
Participants: Current ELC and HOD Fielding
students, faculty, staff, alumni, and potential students, as well as invited
guests. The event will have an HOD/ELC flavor, but is open to all Fielding
schools. If we need to limit participation, preference will be given to early
registrants and current students. We hope some participants will be deeply
involved in environmental sustainability and others will be complete novices or
skeptics.
Faculty members
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critical/creative inquiry.
Guests include Ben Klasky, Executive Director of Islandwood, who
will be at dinner on Friday or Saturday night to discuss the history and
mission of Islandwood as place aspiring to sustainable principles. Other guests include Mark Dubois, co-founder
of Friends of the River and International Rivers Network (http://www.ecospeakers.com/speakers/duboism.html)
and Mark Powell, Vice President of Sustainable Partnerships/Fisheries, Ocean
Conservancy (http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_staff)
Other guests are invited, and the schedule will be updated
regularly.
Also on the program is HOD student Jeff Leinaweaver, who will lead
the Pachamama Alliance's Awakening the Dreamer Symposium, which explores the link between three of humanity's most
critical concerns: environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual
fulfillment. Using video clips from some of the world's most respected
thinkers, along with inspiring short films, leading edge information, and
dynamic group interactions, the Symposium allows participants to gain a new
insight into the very nature of our time, and the opportunity we have to shape
and impact the direction of our world with our everyday choices.
We encourage you to be part of our conversations, exploring
critical topics in an event that may be pivotal in the evolution of
COST: $600 (US), includes
lodging for 3 nights (double occupancy) and 8 meals, Friday night dinner,
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday breakfast.
Note: For local participants who
do not need lodging, the fee is $400(US)
It is highly encouraged that local participants stay for meals, to
ensure group continuity and so that program events can be planned during meals.
Knowledge Areas:
This intensive is suitable as part of the overview work in the
following KAs:
HOD: KA 710: Ecological Systems and KA 703 Systems
Other KAs such as KA 713
Social Change, KA 753, Leadership
(709)
and Area of Specialization (704)
are also possible.
ELC: Forces of Motivation, Systems, Structural Inequality,
Social Change, Ecological Studies and Global Studies.
Registration
1) Complete the form on the next page and email it to
2) Make the check payable to Fielding
Graduate University. Send your check
to:
Register early—this is a first come, first serve sign up event.
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REGISTRATION FORM SUSTAINABILITY:
Change, social justice, and organizational systems An HOD/ELC REGIONAL INTENSIVE WORKSHOP The 2nd Location:
Islandwood learning center, Dates: September
12-15 (Friday, 1:30 pm to Monday, 11:30 am) |
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FULL
REGISTRATION……………………………………………….….TOTAL:
$600 v
Includes lodging for 3 nights and 8 meals, Friday night dinner,
Saturday, Sunday, and Monday breakfast
LOCAL
PARTICIPANT (no lodging)…………………………………….TOTAL: $400 Participants are expected to cover
their own travel costs to and from the Center. If you have any questions about costs or
the program, please email Katrina Rogers at krogers@fielding.edu. |
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REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS 1) Complete this form. 2) Copy and paste the form into an
email and send it to 3) Make your check payable to HOD Program Coordinator |
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Fielding Regional Event September 12-15, 2008
DRAFT
A reading list will be provided before the event.
Participants are expected to write and share a one-page
description of KA work,
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Events will generally be low-tech and
will involve a combination of indoor and outdoor activities |
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Friday
Afternoon (Sept 12) 1:30 pm ·
Welcome, Intro. |
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Opening
prayer/ceremony/ritual Four Arrows, Fred, Christine,
Katrina, Alice and Jeff Exploration: Walking the talk of the
spiritual connection by bringing in the invisible world and a sense of
focusing our collective energies toward giving help to all sentient beings on
the planet. |
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3:00-5:30 |
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Sustainability:
conceptual frameworks and controversies Christine Ho (HOD faculty member):
world systems, Fred Steier (HOD): complex systems, Katrina Rogers (HOD):
sustainable development, environmental policy (western frameworks), Four
Arrows Jacobs (ELC): challenge the western notion of sustainability and
contrast with traditional environmental knowledge—TEK—to make the argument
that until land/water are respected for their own sake, we will never be
“successful” in sustainable development. Nexus of social justice, ecological
sustainability, and spirituality will be seen to be mandatory. |
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6:00,
dinner 7:30-9:30 |
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Dinner with guest, Ben Klasky,
Executive Director of Islandwood. Topic:
History and mission of Islandwood |
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Saturday
Morning (Sept 13) ·
9-11:30 Workshop facilitated by Jeff
Leinaweaver and others (community members invited) |
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Awakening the Dreamer Symposium – Co-Sponsored by the Pachamama The Symposium explores the link between three of humanity's most critical concerns: environmental sustainability, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment. Using video clips from some of the world's most respected thinkers, along with inspiring short films, leading edge information, and dynamic group interactions, the Symposium allows participants to gain a new insight into the very nature of our time, and the opportunity we have to shape and impact the direction of our world with our everyday choices and action. The aim of the Symposium is not merely to learn more about the
world, but to grapple and come to grips with the very assumptions that
underlie the way we ourselves see the world and our place in it, and with
what each of us can do - both individually and cooperatively - to move the
world in this new direction. |
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11:30-1:30 pm Includes lunch break |
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Creating a sustainable community
(Sightline Institute, invited, http://www.sightline.org/get_involved/sightline-speakers) |
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Saturday Afternoon Fielding-Community
panel ·
1:30-3:30 |
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Politics and Sustainability—a
discussion Guest,
Jay Rep.
Inslee serves on the Resources & Energy and Commerce Committees. Community
members welcome |
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3:30 – 4:30 |
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Reflective walk, break |
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4:30-6:30 ·
7:00, Dinner |
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Sustainable
issues and macro environmental problems Mark Powell, VP, Sustainable
Fisheries, Ocean Conservancy Mark DuBois, International
environmental activist, co-founder of International Rivers Network |
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Saturday Evening 8:00 |
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Movie: The End of Suburbia, Discussion on
sustainable future |
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Sunday
Morning ·
9-11 |
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Traditional
Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Model Four Arrows –Continue with TEK model,
interactive dialogue about how cognitive dissonance and cognitive consonance
must be key targets in our scholarly and daily activities as they relate to
the contradictions we all embrace regarding “sustainability” and with the
difference between “taking from the land” and giving to it. |
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11:15 – 12:30 |
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Short presentation and conversation
about local sustainability movement, community members invited |
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Sunday Afternoon ·
1:30– 3:30 ·
4:00-6:00 ·
6 pm dinner |
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Civil society, sustainability, and public
engagement (Fran Korten, Yes
magazine staff, invited) 4:00-6:00, yoga, with Christine or
free time The
Sustainable Table, with guests from the local & slow foods movement |
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Sunday Evening 7:00 – 8:30 pm |
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Sustainability: Implications for the
scholar-practitioner (ELC/HOD faculty)
Knowledge area, approach and contract
options |
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Monday
Morning ·
8:30 – 11:30 |
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Building local solutions to global
environmental problems: Examples and lessons learned (faculty, students,
local participants) Wrap up |