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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2022
DESCRIPTION:Part 1: Imagination\, Creativity\, Dialogue\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: David Bohm and Philosophy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Bohm has been described as one of the most significant and original thinkers of the twentieth century whose interests and influence extend well beyond the field of physics to include philosophy\, psychology\, language\, religion\, art\, creativity\, thought\, and education. Underlying his innovative approach to these many different issues was the fundamental idea that beyond the visible\, tangible world there lies a deeper\, implicate order of undivided wholeness. \n\n\n\nDuring July and August the Pari Center is offering a unique opportunity to hear and dialogue with those involved in the many aspects of David Bohm’s work and to discuss the implications of his ideas for the future. All sessions include audience participation in the form of Q&A and discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 1: Imagination\, Creativity\, Dialogue\n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nJuly 9 – 10\, 16 – 17\, 23 – 24\, 2022 \n\n\n\n9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n6 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn this second year of our Beyond Bohm series\, we will emphasize three themes–one for each of three weekends in July. \n\n\n\nThe first weekend will explore imagination. How might we enter it? How might we inhabit it? On July 9 we will inquire into how David Bohm worked with imagination\, while improvising upon and extending Bohm’s approach. On July 10 we will explore Tim Ingold’s radical anthropology and his new book\, Imagining for Real\, while touching upon some of the linkages with Bohm’s “participatory consciousness.” We are delighted that Prof. Ingold will join us for this session. \n\n\n\nOur second weekend will take up questions of creativity and the artistic process. On July 16 and 17 we will engage with the work of four different artists\, and the way this work complements and illuminates the work of David Bohm. Themes will include wholeness and fragmentation\, the artistic movement from implicate to explicate\, the nature of perception\, and the relation of consciousness to the “art object.” \n\n\n\nOur final weekend has the theme of dialogue. On July 23 our roundtable will open up the many questions and concerns regarding the shift from ‘in person” dialogue to on-line dialogue during the time of Covid-19. We will also take into consideration some of the more general questions about the human-digital-technological interface. Finally\, on July 24 we will have our second annual Indigenous Dialogue\, facilitated by Leroy Little Bear. This year’s theme is “Walk in Beauty\,” and will consider various approaches to ecology\, the environment\, and the Anthropocene”–the time of the new human. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday July 9Imagining Imaginationwith Richard Burg\, Beth Macy and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday July 10Imagining for Realwith Tim Ingold\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSaturday July 16 and Sunday July 17Processes of Creation\, Part One and Twowith Steven Breaux\, Aja Bulla-Richards\, Sky Hoorne and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSaturday July 23Dialogue in the Age of Zoomwith Julie Arts\, Richard Burg\, Anna Factor\, Sally Jeffery\, Beth Macy\, Lee Nichol and David Schrum \n\n\n\nSunday July 24Indigenous Dialogue: Walk in Beautywith Leroy Little Bear\, Jeannette Armstrong\, Greg Cajete\, Amethyst First Rider\, Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Melissa Nelson\, John Briggs\, Harvey Locke and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: David Bohm and Philosophy\n\n\n\nwith Basil Hiley\, Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila\, Petteri Limnell\, Paavo Pylkkänen\, William Seager and Marij van StrienCurated by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nAugust 6 – 7\, 20 – 21\, 27 – 28\, 2022 \n\n\n\n9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n6 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm was concerned with providing a description of reality – at the quantum level\, and more generally\, a unified description of matter\, life\, and consciousness\, all adding up to a general concept of reality or a metaphysical theory. This concern with reality did not mean that he ignored the role of the mind (language\, perception\, etc.) in his attempts to describe reality. In other words\, he did not ignore epistemological issues or questions that concern the nature of our knowledge and the problems of justifying it. On the contrary\, his broad philosophical work includes extensive studies of various epistemic issues: physics and perception\, the notions of truth and understanding\, a view of science as “perception-communication”\, experimentation with the structure of language\, study of knowledge understood as process\, and discussions of topics such as communication\, creativity\, art\, religion and so on. This series discusses various aspects of Bohm’s philosophical thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday August 6Bohm and Philosophy: An Introductionwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 7Creativity and the Generative Orderwith Petteri Limnell interviewed by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 20The Role of Philosophy in Bohm and Hiley’s Research in Physicswith Basil Hiley interviewed by Petteri Limnell \n\n\n\nSunday August 21Consciousness\, Bohm and the Quest for Intelligibilitywith William Seager \n\n\n\nSaturday August 27Why Bohm was Never a Deterministwith Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nSunday August 28Aristotelian Metaphysical and Epistemological Reflections in David Bohmwith Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila
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SUMMARY:Imagining Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/oESEtsX_iC8?si=viacKy-JvlKZq-T7\n\n\n\n\n\nImagining Imagination \n\n\n\nwith Richard Burg\, Beth Macy and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday July 9\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn 1978\, as David Bohm was bringing forth his vision of the implicate order\, he pointed out that\, rather than being a new model\, “I regard the implicate order as a new form of imagination.” There are many potential lines of inquiry bound up in this statement. Among those that we will take up are: What did Bohm mean by “a new form of imagination”? How might this differ from a model? We tend to think that descriptions and models are either literal or metaphorical – but are there aspects of imagination that are neither of these? Could a renewed and revitalized imagination itself the key to this inquiry? \n\n\n\nTo illustrate how these questions regarding imagination can have practical applications\, the second portion of this session will consider a two-year experiment into Bohm’s notion of “holoflux.” At the core of this process is an approach to embodiment called rheosoma\, the flowing body – itself an experiment in “Bohmian” imagination. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Burg – In 2003 I retired from consulting\, my fourth career (IT\, potter\, Continuing Medical Education research). Simple Idea worked with corporate leaders to integrate human values and productivity in a constantly changing environment – engaging with teams and individuals to build relationships within the organization that nurture the humanity in everyone\, even as they work together to achieve audacious goals. \n\n\n\nIn 1990 a friend sent me a transcript of a talk given by David Bohm at MIT. In my organization development practice – focused on changing corporate cultures – group work was a built-in aspect of the process. Bohm’s dialogue experiment was thus enticing\, and I discovered a Bohmian dialogue group in the San Francisco Bay Area\, which I attended weekly for the next eight years. Stemming from that group\, Lee Nichol and I designed a nine-hour\, multi-day introduction to Bohm’s experiment at the first National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation in Washington DC. I have since engaged in dialogue in many different contexts – most recently\, like many\, in online dialogues\, before and during the covid pandemic. \n\n\n\nEarly on in my dialogue work\, I received permission to transcribe the little pamphlet\, Dialogue: A Proposal (D. Bohm\, D. Factor\, and P. Garrett) and post it online via colleagues at MIT. It is still available\, in multiple “versions\,” some with several addenda/commentaries. \n\n\n\nRichard is a contributor to the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy\, PhD\, organizational consultant\, Bohmian dialogue practitioner \n\n\n\nThe common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues:  organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\nBeth is a contributor the the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movment/Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. Lee lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.
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SUMMARY:Imagining for Real
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/cwtFTrIY2rc?si=SWt0zE9E5upeg3IY\n\n\n\n\n\nImagining for Real \n\n\n\nwith Tim Ingold\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol\, Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSunday July 10\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nWhat does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off from our imagining of it? It was not always thus\, and in his latest book\, Imagining for Real\, Tim Ingold sets out to heal the break between reality and imagination that is at the heart of modern thought and science. \n\n\n\nIngold’s work in anthropology is as radical in its field as that of David Bohm in physics and Christopher Alexander in architecture\, and has been brought to fruition through a five-year research project\, “Knowing from the Inside.” As Ingold describes it\, he was determined “to develop a way of study\, or a method\, that would join with the people and things with whom and which we share a world\, allowing knowledge to grow from our correspondences with them.” \n\n\n\nIn this session we will have an extended conversation with Prof. Ingold\, exploring the multiple layers of his extensive body of work – and the numerous correspondences this work has with David Bohm’s inquiries into participatory consciousness. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Ingold\, FBA\, FRSE\, is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland\, and has written on environment\, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North\, on animals in human society\, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology\, archaeology\, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000)\, Lines (2007)\, Being Alive (2011)\, Making (2013)\, The Life of Lines (2015)\, Anthropology and/as Education (2018)\, Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018)\, Correspondences (2020) and Imagining For Real (2022). \n\n\n\nhttps://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/people/profiles/tim.ingold \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California\, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University\, she now teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability\, Global Futures Laboratory. From 1993 to 2021\, she served as the founding executive director and CEO of the Cultural Conservancy. She now serves as their president emerita. Melissa is the Bundle Holder for the Native American Academy. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also a contributor and the editor of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008). She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movment/Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. Lee lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester Reeve is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. Her practice encompasses live art\, drawing\, sculpture\, poetry\, philosophy and ‘dialogue’ (as set out by David Bohm): Art is not viewed straightforwardly as a tool of communication or form of personal expression\, but more as a complex kingdom that is continually attempting to establish itself through human thought and action. \n\n\n\nHester’s work has been shown internationally including at former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago\, LIVE Biennale Vancouver\, BONE Performance Festival Switzerland\, Tate Britain\, Yorkshire Sculpture Park\, Halle G Vienna and\, most recently\, Nirox Sculpture Park\, South Africa. \n\n\n\nHester is a contributor the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing 2022) \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/hester-reeve\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.hesterreeve.com/
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMWhew3KOM4\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Dr. Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday July 139:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThe dialogue will be in a lively and spontaneous format of approximately 45 minutes up to an hour and we will then open up for questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nOur social rituals in academia alternate between “coffee breaks” (to get us going) & “beer hours” (to get us loose). The former pumps our analytical mind when it is time to work\, the latter inhibits it when it is time to mingle. And yet\, our minds remain unchanged. However\, psychedelic substances –whose etymology means mind-manifesting– are a well-known but still rather-unexplored catalyzer of the human potential. A brief history of notorious psychedelic explorers\, such as Humphry Davy or William James\, attests their stamp on human thought. After all\, it may not be a coincidence that there are so many aged pioneers\, whose minds were expanded in the 60s by their use before their stigmatization. Today\, the psychedelic world is undergoing a revival\, if not a revolution. We will discuss psychedelics at the intersection of science and philosophy\, and also address the historical route that led to their prohibition (together with the decline of religious traditions in the West\, the rise of the New Age disconnected from analytical thought\, and the dominance of British idealism and current physicalism). Sacred plants are not mere recreational drugs\, but mind-expanders towards other “modes of sentience”; a candidate remedy for the malaises of our civilization. The so-called ‘altered’ states of consciousness provide a fertile ground of inquiry whereby not only the mind can be recast as a different “object” of study but also afford a transformation of the very mind of the subject that studies it. The scientist and the mystic can meet within the same body. The future scientist will probably be a shaman. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is philosopher of mind and metaphysics who specialises in the thought of Spinoza\, Nietzsche\, and Whitehead\, and in fields pertaining to altered and panpsychological states of consciousness. He is a research fellow and associate lecturer at the University of Exeter where he has co-founded the Philosophy of Psychedelics Exeter Research Group\, the ambit of which includes taught modules\, conferences\, workshops\, and publications. Peter is the author of Noumenautics\, Modes of Sentience\, editor of Bloomsbury’s Philosophy and Psychedelics volume\, the TEDx Talker on ‘psychedelics and consciousness’\, and he is inspiration to the inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero\, Karnak. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
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SUMMARY:Processes of Creation
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/XDP6Quiqo2Y?si=pPufF3aUROIdPeuf\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/QN3nvuz2cWs?si=OCzTvHRoYY9gKfgm\n\n\n\n\n\nProcesses of Creation \n\n\n\nwith Steven Breaux\, Aja Bulla-Richards\, Sky Hoorne and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSaturday July 16 and Sunday July 17\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\nTwo 2-hour sessions \n\n\n\nThese sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nMost artists\, most artisans – really\, anyone who creates – go through some process of envisioning…formulating…gestating…imagining. There are\, as well\, processes of intending\, expressing\, embodying\, disclosing. And then further\, manifesting\, revealing\, exhibiting. Some of these processes may operate prior to the threshold of conscious awareness. Some of them may move in a grey area. Some may be\, or may become\, overtly intentional. These various processes – and many others not named – may loop back on one another\, interpenetrate one another\, fuel or negate one another. For many who create\, there is an element of mystery\, of uncertainty\, a dance of the unexpected and unforeseen. \n\n\n\nWith four artists over two days\, we will explore the dynamic nature of these processes\, which have multiple resonances with David Bohm’s implicate and explicate orders\, and with his notions of wholeness and fragmentation. Each artist will present and discuss selections of their work. They will then further discuss their work in conversation with the three other artists in the program\, before opening their segment to audience comment and participation.  \n\n\n\nJuly 16    Steven Breaux\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a painter I have always believed that the paint in a brushstroke is encoded with the mental states of the artist during the process of its making\, and that in the analysis of the work of art by a “viewer” these states could be accessed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI propose that during the creative art-object process a “field” or subtle structure is formed and sustained by the artist’s qualitative states and consciousness – and that this field exists as a hidden aspect of the material art-object. Revealing distinguishing features between a traditional painting and other mediums including digital (algorithmic) work\, I propose that this field or subtle structure is dynamic\, viable and accessible to the artist and the viewer. \n\n\n\nHighlighting my artistic process\, exploration and discovery I will focus on how these are influenced by aspects of David Bohm’s ontology. \n\n\n\nJuly 16   Aja Bulla-Richards\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy giving form to unseen and latent qualities and processes we open up the possibility of new ways of relating to the world around us and within us. As a designer\, making latent natural systems and cycles visible is part of my creative process\, one that involves collaborating with these movements in and on the earth.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis way of working is a a response to the urgent environmental crisis we are facing – a crisis that necessitates a shift out of a mechanical worldview that sees nature as resource\, and towards an exploration of our participatory relationship with a living world. In this presentation I will outline and illustrate how this process of bringing forth the “implicate” aspects of natural systems works in practice\, and how all of us can shift our vision to more fully see “into” the natural world. \n\n\n\nJuly 17     Sky Hoorne\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA lens-based\, photographic way of perceiving the world has become deeply embedded in\, and come to dominate\, fundamental aspects of human consciousness. This mode of perception more often than not leads to fragmentation and subtle alienation\, which then becomes reflexive in our relationship with the world. Through different mediums I try to counterbalance this photographic and object-oriented “error” by turning to our imaginative potential\, which can reveal the world to us in new ways.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNature – both human-impacted and the wild remnants – is not to be “transcended” and sublimated to mental objects\, but rather to be “inscended” – to be stepped into and fully experienced in all of its richness\, beauty\, ugliness\, and power. In this presentation I will illustrate some of these limits on our perception\, and how these limits might be opened. The body forms an integral part of this process: the subject matter is not only perceived visually\, but also psychologically\, emotionally\, and by imagining “into” the processes observed. \n\n\n\nJuly 17    Hester Reeve\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough engaging with David Bohm’s understanding of creativity\, I have had to question whether I really am creative or not – such questioning opens up a complicated but rich terrain and Bohm’s perspective has confirmed my intuition that the task is as much philosophical as artistic. There is an important line to wonder and wander along in creative unfurling\, exercising a balance between being a creative creature in my own life with some sort of experimental outward stretch to enable larger\, often incomprehensible processes to fulfil some sort of potential of existence.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI love to think about such things as much as I love the smell of turps in an art studio\, but my real excitement is how such mental gymnastics ‘knead’ out the cultural habits and personal assumptions from my brain-body\, clearing the way for attunement to fresh possibilities – in how I behave\, in the forms I make\, or how I might work with others. For this presentation\, I will lead with examples from my art practice that engage these various philosophical and artistic interests. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2022-2/Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Breaux\, BFA\, MFA\, Florida State University\, is retired (2020) Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he taught Art and the Computer\, Conceptual and Formal Development\, Advanced Drawing\, and 2d. Design. For 25 years he has worked both as a solo artist and in collaboration with his wife and partner\, Kathy Reed\, in a variety of media including process art\, printmaking\, painting on silk\, computer animation/video\, photography\, and painting often in combination. He has researched the nature of the art process as it relates to differences between painting and digital (algorithmic) artwork for over 25 years. In 2011\, his research led to the ideas and concepts in quantum physics\, David Bohm in particular\, which helped to shift his private research into a more public arena that included lectures and presentations. \n\n\n\nIn 2015 Steve was invited to present the research behind his abstract\, Waking Space: The Emerging Art Object\, Quantum Theory\, and Algorithmic Art at the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference in Helsinki\, Finland. The abstract can be found here: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://stevebreaux-kathyreed.com/pdfs.html\n\n\n\n\nSteve’s work has been accepted regionally\, nationally and internationally for inclusion in galleries\, museums\, catalogues and exhibitions. \n\n\n\nhttps://stevebreaux-kathyreed.com/section/188730.htmlhttps://stevebreaux-kathyreed.com/section/258261-COLLABORATIVE-WORK.html \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAja Bulla-Richards is an architectural and landscape architectural designer\, public artist\, and educator. She works at the intersection of social\, ecological\, and conceptual systems and everyday experience. As the Creative Director at Watershed Progressive\, Aja is responsible for managing and designing resilient landscape projects and educational programs throughout California. As a Lecturer in the landscape architecture and urbanism graduate program at University of Southern California\, she leads design studios that address adapting our constructed world to shifting natural and sociocultural forces. Aja’s ongoing research questions our dominant cultural narratives\, and explores multiple forms of knowledge formation and co-creation. Her projects explore how we can re-imagine and transform monofunctional systems into resilient socio-ecological cycles that engage and re-enchant everyday experience\, promote alternative cultural practices\, and uncover latent ecological processes. \n\n\n\nAja is a contributor to the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing 2022) \n\n\n\nhttp://www.watershedprogressive.com/M.S. Architecture\, Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury UniversityM.L.A.\, University of Virginia\, School of DesignM.Arch\, University of Virginia\, School of DesignB.A.\, Architecture\, University of California at Berkeley \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSky Hoorne holds a MS in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and attended LUCA School of Arts Ghent. She is a graphic artist\, creator of comic strips\, and a dedicated scholar of the work of David Bohm. Currently she is focused on ceramic sculptures\, drawings\, paintings\, and on making complex issues digestible to a broader\, non-academic public. \n\n\n\nRooted in her life philosophy of ‘active context’/’contexting’\, Sky attempts to make ‘inscendental’ works of art\, in which the viewer is invited to step into the subject by appealing to their primal imagination and subtle participation. This approach involves free play with clichés\, perspectives\, and polarities. Despite her background in IT\, her main interests include psychology\, eastern philosophy\, science of mind\, no-nonsense metaphysics and kiko/qi gong. \n\n\n\nSky is a contributor to the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing 2022) \n\n\n\nhttps://www.antihype.be/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester Reeve is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. Her practice encompasses live art\, drawing\, sculpture\, poetry\, philosophy and ‘dialogue’ (as set out by David Bohm): Art is not viewed straightforwardly as a tool of communication or form of personal expression\, but more as a complex kingdom that is continually attempting to establish itself through human thought and action. \n\n\n\nHester’s work has been shown internationally\, including at former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago\, LIVE Biennale Vancouver\, BONE Performance Festival Switzerland\, Tate Britain\, Yorkshire Sculpture Park\, Halle G Vienna and\, most recently\, Nirox Sculpture Park\, South Africa. \n\n\n\nHester is a contributor the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing 2022) \n\n\n\nhttps://hester-reeve.squarespace.com/https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/hester-reeve
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SUMMARY:Dialogue in the Age of Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/bLlTWvifB-0?si=Zn3plc9IpimUy9Ik\n\n\n\n\n\nDialogue in the Age of Zoom \n\n\n\nwith Julie Arts\, Richard Burg\, Anna Factor\, Sally Jeffery\, Beth Macy\, Lee Nichol and David Schrum \n\n\n\nSaturday July 23\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIt is impossible to overstate the effects of Covid-19 on the manner in which human beings interact. High on the list of these effects is a massive shift to online interaction for work\, social engagement\, and personal interaction. Dialogue in its many forms – Bohmian or otherwise – has also been significantly impacted by this online shift. In this session we will draw on the experience of seven people who have deep roots in various aspects of dialogue\, both before and during the Covid pandemic. At the forefront of our inquiry will be the many variances that occur between in-the-flesh interaction on one hand\, and interaction through the medium of streaming video on the other. What experiences are gained through the digital milieu? What experiences are lost? Is the future of dialogue – and conversation more generally – being re-shaped in accord with technology? As Covid-19 becomes endemic\, will groups still gather face-to-face? What are the implications of these many changes? \n\n\n\nOur roundtable will also take up more general questions regarding the cultural impact of social media and the human-digital interface. In what ways does the milieu of these technologies shape our awareness? What new skills of critical thinking can guide us as the digital world becomes omnipresent? At multiple junctures\, we will invite audience members to engage with us on all of these questions. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Arts is currently on a sabbatical from being a senior faculty member and consultant with the Presencing Institute (PI)\, an organisation founded in 2006 by Otto Scharmer and colleagues\, to support action research and leadership development for systems change and societal transformation.Julie is an economist by training and has worked as a senior consultant\, designing and hosting multi-stakeholder transition processes and ecosystem leadership programs such as the UN SDG Leadership Lab and many in-house leadership programs for companies and NGOs. Julie is also a board member of Meg Wheatley’s Berkana Institute. She lives in Mechelen\, Belgium and in Pari\, Italy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Burg – In 2003 I retired from consulting\, my fourth career (IT\, potter\, Continuing Medical Education research). Simple Idea worked with corporate leaders to integrate human values and productivity in a constantly changing environment – engaging with teams and individuals to build relationships within the organization that nurture the humanity in everyone\, even as they work together to achieve audacious goals. \n\n\n\nIn 1990 a friend sent me a transcript of a talk given by David Bohm at MIT. In my organization development practice – focused on changing corporate cultures – group work was a built-in aspect of the process. Bohm’s dialogue experiment was thus enticing\, and I discovered a Bohmian dialogue group in the San Francisco Bay Area\, which I attended weekly for the next eight years. Stemming from that group\, Lee Nichol and I designed a nine-hour\, multi-day introduction to Bohm’s experiment at the first National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation in Washington DC. I have since engaged in dialogue in many different contexts – most recently\, like many\, in online dialogues\, before and during the covid pandemic. \n\n\n\nEarly on in my dialogue work\, I received permission to transcribe the little pamphlet\, Dialogue: A Proposal (D. Bohm\, D. Factor\, and P. Garrett) and post it online via colleagues at MIT. It is still available\, in multiple “versions\,” some with several addenda/commentaries. \n\n\n\nRichard is a contributor to the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna and her husband\, Don Factor\, were longtime friends and supporters of David Bohm and the process of dialogue he envisioned. Don had first met Bohm in the 1970s in London\, and the two continued their friendship from that time on. It was their early acquaintance that led to inviting Bohm to be interviewed by Don at the Human Unity Conference – a large gathering of people from many different spiritual traditions – held at Warwick University\, in March of 1983. Following the enthusiastic response to this interview\, Bohm was invited to present more of his thinking at a weekend conference held in Mickleton\, England. It was during the ensuing weekend that what is considered to have been the very first Bohmian dialogue occurred. The transcript of the weekend has been preserved by Don Factor in the book\, Unfolding Meaning. \n\n\n\nFollowing that weekend\, Anna and Don began offering their home for dialogues among those who had been so inspired by the initial dialogue idea\, and along with Peter and Jenny Garrett and David and Saral Bohm\, they organized public dialogues at many locations across western Europe\, Scandinavia\, and Israel during the late 1980s. Stemming from these early dialogues is the well-known publication by Bohm\, Don Factor and Peter Garrett\, “Dialogue\, A Proposal” which still is considered a cornerstone description of Bohm’s intention for dialogue. \n\n\n\nLooking back\, Anna remembers David Bohm:  “He was a dear man. He really was so very kind and had a lot of humanity. I found him – and still find him – an inspiration…a lovely\, lovely man.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSally Jeffery was introduced to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti while a young undergraduate in Sociology. Through involvement with his international school in England\, she met and was deeply impressed by David Bohm (a founding trustee of the school) and\, later\, his proposals for dialogue. Over three decades\, she has taken part in dialogue in many settings\, including prisons and her local (Lancaster) dialogue group. Involvement in two online dialogue groups began in 2018/19\, but since the pandemic and through the Lancaster group website\, others have been in contact\, expressing interest and wanting to start new ​online groups to explore David Bohm’s thinking in practice.  During this same period\, Sally was employed as a body work therapist\, including over 20 years working with people who’d had a cancer diagnosis\, along with their families. A leaning to such work might suggest she would take less readily to online dialogue\, missing the physical presence of the other participants. After initial hesitation\, this has proved not to be the case. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy\, PhD\, organizational consultant\, Bohmian dialogue practitioner \n\n\n\nThe common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues:  organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\nBeth is a contributor the the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movment/Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. Lee lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Schrum received his PhD in quantum theory at Queen’s University\, following which he spent two post-doctoral years with David Bohm at Birkbeck College. Here\, he entered Bohm’s world of creative and subtle philosophical approaches to physics and his enquiry into consciousness and what may lie beyond. \n\n\n\nDavid Schrum continues in these explorations\, in physics developing a new approach to relativistic quantum theory and\, through the dialogue process\, going into what it is to bring to light that which lies enfolded within our individual and collective consciousness.
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Dialogue: Walk in Beauty
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/PNhCLFrgXK8?si=pcMbssGQtAznkEUA\n\n\n\n\n\nIndigenous Dialogue: Walk in Beauty \n\n\n\nwith Leroy Little Bear\, Jeannette Armstrong\, Greg Cajete\, Amethyst First Rider\, Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Melissa Nelson\, John Briggs\, Harvey Locke and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nFacilitated by Leroy Little Bear \n\n\n\nSunday July 24\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn Memory of Rose Imai \n\n\n\nThe concept of “ecological niche” has gained much traction since the early 20th century\, with many hundreds of plant and animal species now thoroughly assessed\, analyzed\, and categorized under this rubric. But what is the ecological niche of homo sapiens – of us\, human beings? We know that\, like any other species\, humans exist in a very narrow band of specific conditions within which we can live and flourish. With the onset of the Anthropocene – the “new human” era – those specific conditions have increasingly come under assault\, threatening the well-being not only of homo sapiens\, but of all life\, of the entire planet. \n\n\n\nIn this dialogue we will question whether utilitarian conservation – an approach that subtly or overtly emphasizes the benefit of conservation for humans – is sufficient to address the many implications of life in the Anthropocene. We will consider the prospect of relational conservation\, which is innate to indigenous worldviews. In relational conservation\, all of existence is considered animate\, and the intricate web of connections between “all my relations” is not a metaphor – it is the fundamental reality that must be steadily held in view. \n\n\n\nWhile exploring the implications of these different approaches to conservation\, our dialogue will also examine the tacit infrastructures of the currently dominant “western paradigm.” Through such examination\, we may come to a clearer understanding of wholeness and fragmentation\, and perhaps see a way forward to fundamental shifts in our underlying metaphysics. We may begin to see glimmerings of what our Navajo brothers and sisters mean when they say\, “May you walk in beauty.” \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear\, PhD. Blackfoot Native—Professor Emeritus University of Lethbridge\, Canada. \n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear was born and raised on the Blood Indian Reserve (Kainai First Nation)\, approximately 70 km west of Lethbridge\, Alberta. One of the first Native students to complete a program of study at the University of Lethbridge\, Little Bear graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1971. He continued his education at the College of Law\, University of Utah\, in Salt Lake City\, completing a Juris Doctor Degree in 1975. \n\n\n\nFollowing his graduation\, Little Bear returned to his alma mater as a founding member of Canada’s first Native American Studies Department. He remained at the University of Lethbridge as a researcher\, faculty member and department chair until his official retirement in 1997. \n\n\n\nIn recent years Little Bear has continued his influential work as an advocate for First Nations education. From January 1998 to June 1999 he served as Director of the Harvard University Native American Program. Upon his return to Canada\, he was instrumental in the creation of a Bachelor of Management in First Nations Governance at the University of Lethbridge—the only program of its kind in the country. \n\n\n\nIn the spring of 2003\, Little Bear was awarded the prestigious National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Education\, the highest honour bestowed by Canada’s First Nations community. Little Bear is the recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Lethbridge and the University of Northern British Columbia. Along with his wife\, Amethyst First Rider\, Little Bear brought about the historic Buffalo Treaty between First Nations on both sides of the USA-Canada border in 2014. Little Bear was inducted into the Alberta Order Excellence and the Order of Canada in 2016 and 2019 respectively. \n\n\n\nAfter a lifetime of educational service\, Little Bear remains a dedicated and dynamic teacher and mentor to students and faculty at the University of Lethbridge. He continues to pursue new research interests including North American Indian science and Western physics\, and the exploration of Blackfoot knowledge through songs\, stories and landscape. \n\n\n\nWhile his educational achievements are remarkable\, Little Bear’s contribution to the First Nations community extends well beyond the classroom. He has served as a consultant to local and national organizations including the Blood Tribe\, Indian Association of Alberta and the Assembly of First Nations of Canada. His notable reputation has also earned him a place on numerous government commissions and boards including the Task Force on the Criminal Justice and Its Impact on the Indian and Metis Peoples of Alberta (1990-91). Little Bear’s legal advice is widely sought on such significant issues as land claims\, treaties\, and hunting and fishing rights. \n\n\n\nDr Little Bear is the co-author of several books on self-government and Aboriginal rights\, including Pathways to Self Determination\, Quest For Justice\, and Governments in Conflict. His credits also include a variety of influential articles such as\, ‘A concept of Native Title\,’ which was cited in a Canadian Supreme Court decision. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeannette Armstrong\, Syilx Okanagan\, is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Okanagan Philosophy at UBC Okanagan Campus. She is a fluent speaker and teacher of the Nsyilxcn Okanagan language\, and a traditional knowledge keeper of the Okanagan Nation.  She is a founder of En’owkin\, the Okanagan Nsyilxcn language and knowledge institution of higher learning of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Ethics and Syilx Indigenous Literatures. \n\n\n\nJeannette is the recipient of the Eco Trust USA Buffett Award in Indigenous Leadership\, and in 2016 received the BC George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an author whose published works include poetry\, prose and children’s literary titles\, and academic writing on a wide variety of Indigenous issues.  She currently serves on Canada’s Traditional Knowledge Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Jeannette was recently named to the class of 2021 as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada. \n\n\n\nSome of her publications include: \n\n\n\n\nSlash. Theytus\, 1987; revised edition\, 1998.\n\n\n\nWhispering in Shadows. Theytus Books\, 1999.\n\n\n\nBreathtracks. Theytus\, 1991.\n\n\n\nEnwhisteetkwa; Walk in Water (for children). Theytus\, 1982.\n\n\n\nNeekna and Chemai (for children)\, illustrated by Barbara Marchand. Theytus\, 1984.\n\n\n\nwith Douglas Cardinal. The Native Creative Process: A Collaborative Discourse. Theytus\, 1992.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGregory Cajete is a Native American educator whose work is dedicated to honoring the foundations of Indigenous knowledge in education. Dr. Cajete is a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo\, New Mexico. \n\n\n\nDr. Cajete is a practicing ceramic\, pastel and metal artist. He is extensively involved with art and its application to education. He is also a scholar of herbalism and holistic health. Dr. Cajete also designs culturally-responsive curricula geared to the special needs and learning styles of Native American students. \n\n\n\nHe worked at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico for 21 years. While at the Institute\, he served as Dean of the Center for Research and Cultural Exchange\, Chair of Native American Studies and Professor of Ethno- Science.  He is the former Director of Native American Studies (18 years) and is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Language\, Literacy and Socio Cultural Studies in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico.  In addition\, he has lectured at colleges and universities in the U.S.\, Canada\, Mexico\, New Zealand\, Italy\, Japan\, Russia\, Taiwan\, Ecuador\, Peru\, Bolivia\, England\, France and Germany. \n\n\n\nDr. Cajete has authored 10 books: “Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education\,” (Kivaki Press\, 1994); “Ignite the Sparkle: An Indigenous Science Education Curriculum Model”\, (Kivaki Press\, 1999); “Spirit of the Game: Indigenous Wellsprings (2004)\,”  “A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living\,” and “Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence” (Clear Light Publishers\, 1999 and 2000).   “Critical Neurophilosophy and Indigenous Wisdom\,” Don Jacobs (Four Arrows)\, Gregory Cajete and Jongmin Lee) Sense Publishers\, 2010.  “Indigenous Community: Teachings of the Seventh Fire\,” (Living Justice Press\, 2015). His most recent books are edited volumes entitled: “Native Minds Rising” and “Sacred Journeys” (John Charlton Publications\, 2020). Dr. Cajete also has chapters in 36 other books along with numerous articles and over 350 national and international presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmethyst First Rider is a member of the Kainai Nation\, Blackfoot Confederacy\, Alberta\, Canada and married to Leroy Little Bear. She is a leader in the performing arts community for more that 20 years\, producing and directing plays depicting Aboriginal stories and culture. Her experience in the arts has included dance productions\, consulting for the University of California\, Berkeley’s planetarium\, as well as narration and production in the National Film Board’s documentary: Kainayssini Imanistaiswa\, The People Go On.  She co-conceived Iniskim an immersive puppet lantern performance celebrating the reintegration of Bison into the natural ecosystem of Banff National Park. She is central to the development and success of The Buffalo: A Treaty of Cooperation\, Renewal and Restoration signed by over 30 First Nations and Tribes in Canada and the USA.  It is the biggest modern Treaty amongst First Nations.  Its purpose is to “one again welcome the Buffalo to live among us” and it recognizes “Buffalo as a wild free-ranging animal and as an important of the ecological ecosystem.” She is also a founding-advisor to the Kainai Ecosystem Protection Association. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobin Wall Kimmerer is a mother\, scientist\, decorated professor\, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom\, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants\, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book\, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses\, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing\, and her other work has appeared in Orion\, Whole Terrain\, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology\, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment\, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. \n\n\n\nAs a writer and a scientist\, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities\, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF\, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology\, bryophyte ecology\, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. As a writer and a scientist\, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities\, but restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York\, tending gardens both cultivated and wild. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California\, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University\, she now teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability\, Global Futures Laboratory. From 1993 to 2021\, she served as the founding executive director and CEO of the Cultural Conservancy. She now serves as their president emerita. Melissa is the Bundle Holder for the Native American Academy. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also a contributor and the editor of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008). She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Briggs\, PhD\, taught for 25 years at Western Connecticut State University. He has taught aesthetics\, journalism\, and creative writing and served as co-chair of the English Department; he was one of the founders of the Department of Writing\, Linguistics and Creative Process and one of the principal developers of the MFA in Professional and Creative Writing. He is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSU. Among his many publications are three books he co-authored with David Peat\, Looking Glass Universe (1984)\, Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (1989)\, and Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (1999). He lives in the New England town of Granville\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Harvey Locke is a conservationist\, writer and photographer who lives in Banff National Park\, Canada. He works on protecting the natural world and humanity’s relationship with nature at all scales from local to global. He has a particular interest in both the patterns and processes of nature and in shared narratives that genuinely engage both western science and other knowledge systems to build an equitable\, nature positive and carbon neutral world. He is a co-founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative\, the global Nature Needs Half Movement and the Nature Positive global goal for nature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movment/Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. Lee lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.
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