Saturday Pre-Conference Workshops
[$59 per Workshop/$150 for Saturday Pass]
August 14th, 2010 @ 9:00 AM-10:30AM
Time Traveling though the SEED Dialogues
Glenn Aparicio Parry
We will begin with the first question Little Bear asked in the original 1999 SEED dialogue. The question will help illuminate the divide between Western and Indigenous consciousness, and also show how the early SEED dialogues are related to the present dialogues. I will discuss dialogue itself and explain how the SEED dialogues are a hybrid of Native talking circle and Bohmian dialogue. I will poke some holes into the modern notion of progress, history and so-called historical consciousness and briefly outline different conceptions of time other than linear progressive time. I will show how notions of time are related to the unfolding of consciousness and demonstrate how as consciousness evolves, so does our view of time. I will offer my own interpretation of what Grandfather Secatero meant when he said "time is the fifth element" and then open up the floor for discussion of how this all relates to time travel.
Glenn Aparicio Parry, is the founder and immediate past president of SEED, and a writer, educator, psychologist and entrepreneur, whose passion is reforming education into a coherent, interconnected whole. He has organized the Language of Spirit conferences for the past decade, and published extensively on the subject of dialogue, including So What Now What: The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World in Crisis(Chapter Three, with Phillip H. Duran); SEED Thoughts on Dialogue (Revision); Native Wisdom in a Quantum World (Shift); and his doctoral dissertation (SEED Graduate Institute: An Original Model of Transdisciplinary Education Informed by Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Dialogue, among others.
August 14th, 2010 @10:45 AM-12:15 PM
Space-Time Unity and Kincentric Ecology: Using Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Western Science to Address Eco-Cultural Restoration
Dennis Martinez
From an Indigenous perspective, time is linked to travel with particular spaces and the life-forms within those spaces. Since spatial movement is now occurring faster than species can adapt, there is an urgent need for ecological restoration. We will discuss the spiritual principle of "All our Relations" and investigate how it can assist in finding practical ways to adapt to rapidly changing environments. We will discuss ecosystem-based adaptation and eco-cultural restoration in light of the spiritual principle to participate in the co-creation and renewal of the world. We will also address climate change and the need for utilizing both Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Western science in tandem to address this urgent issue. Our approach will be to seek complementarity between TEK and Western science even in the face of their radically different cosmovisions and understandings of nature.
Dennis Martinez, of Tohono O'odham/Chicano/Swedish heritage, is Founder and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples' Restoration Network of the Society for Ecological Restoration International, is Co-Director of the Takelma Intertribal Project, and serves on the Steering Committee for the global Indigenous People's Biocultural Climate Change Assessment Initiative (IPCCA). He has worked internationally with community-based Indigenous peoples on cultural rights, resource access and protection, climate change, forest restoration, and bridging Western Science with Traditional Ecological Knowledge for 40 years. He is a well-known speaker and writer, has received awards in restoration and social justice, and was an awardee in the Ecotrust-Buffet Award for Indigenous Conservation Leadership in NW North America.
August 14th, 2010 @ 1:30 - 3:00
Time Travel in the Cauldron of Human Experience
James O'Dea
James will offer reflections on how contemporary science-- both cosmology, neuroscience and biochemistry-- shape our experience of time. We will explore together the illusion of time's fixity and linear sequential nature. In the cauldron of human experience there are both graphic examples of communing with past and future as well as being trapped in time. We will examine how different states of being, and contrasting historical and cultural narratives shape our experience of time. We will also do experiential work together around time travel.
James O'Dea, author of Creative Stress: A Path for Evolving Souls Living through Personal and Planetary Upheaval, is a Fellow and immediate past President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a former faculty member of the Omega Institute. He is a former Executive Director of the Seva Foundation and a former Director of the Washington, DC office of Amnesty International. He is a member of The World Wisdom Council and currently collaborating with the Global Systems Initiatives.
August 14th, 2010 @ 3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
American Indian Well-Being Model
Shawn Secatero, PhD
As travelers in our time, well being is essential for building a purpose in life. The American Indian Well Being Model is a holistic model that is designed for individuals who seek to balance their lives and maintain harmony with Mother Earth and Father Sky. In this workshop, we will discuss the eight pillars of well being which include spiritual, cultural, physical, environmental, social, professional, mental, and emotional pillars. All eight pillars must coincide in harmony to ensure life in balance. Individuals will further identify resources, strengths, challenges, and a plan of action. The ultimate goal of the well being model is for individuals to identify a life symbol that encompasses all eight pillars to attain their life endeavors.
Shawn Secatero PhD, president of Source for Educational Empowerment and Community Development (SEED Graduate Institute), an educational organization whose mission is to bring Indigenous and other ways of knowing together in dialogue. Secatero is the son of Leon Secatero, the late Headman of the Canoncito Band of Navajo and former advisory board member of SEED. Secatero has a PhD in Language, Literacy and Socio-cultural Studies from UNM, and did his doctoral research on the empowerment of Native American Students in higher education.
Sunday Keynote Talks
[Cost included in with Conference Registration]
August 15th, 2010 @ 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Listening to Future Selves, Reviewing Our Pasts
Cynthia Sue Larson
Cynthia Sue Larson invites us to imagine how it feels to be influenced by the future, guided by our future selves... and how it feels when viewing past events through various lenses of perception. The concept of bi-causality, in which we influence both future and past events is considered from an experiential point of view.
Cynthia Sue Larson MBA/B.S in Physics, is author of the books, "Aura Advantage," "Reality Shifts" "Shine With the Aura of Success," and "Karen Kimball and the Dream Weaver's Web." Cynthia has been featured in numerous magazine articles, television and radio shows. Larson publishes a monthly ezine at www.realityshifters.com
August 15th, 2010 @ 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM
Time Traveler's Book of Grammar
Matthew Bronson, PhD
Time travel appears to many to be an exotic (im)possibility at first glance. Upon closer inspection, it becomes obvious that we are all time travelers, to some extent, every time we speak, think or write in a language. In the vehicle of contrastive grammar, we will journey together across the multiple ways that indigenous and Indo-European languages construe tense, aspect, and modality. I propose that such ethnolinguistic inquiry and practice using alternate systems can free us from the straitjackets of monolingualism and monotemporalism. They can serve as an antidote to the "Time Disease" which currently characterizes the grammatically induced trance that we know as late modernity.
Matthew C. Bronson, Ph.D., a linguist, is an associate professor of social and cultural anthropology and director of academic assessment at the California Institute of Integral Studies and a teacher educator at the University of California, Davis. His publications include a volume (co-edited with eco-psychologist, Tina R. Fields) "So What? Now What the Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to World in Crisis," book chapters on integral education, indigenous language revitalization, language socialization and sociolinguistics and five special issues of ReVision journal, including a special two part issue 26(3-4) based on the Albuquerque Language of Spirit dialogues.
August 15th, 2010 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Ways of Being and Knowing
Pat McCabe
In this beautiful gift of Life on this sweet Mother Earth, a world of energy, Light, motion, of interrelatedness and interdependence, David Bohm sent out a voice describing an Implicate Order, a description of this phenomenon, that arose out of his life experience, his culture, all of his tools of perception. The Medicine Wheel describes an order in motion as well and is a vision held in common by many Peoples born out of their life experience, cultures and their tools of perception. In the Language of Spirit Dialogue we, the Five-Fingered Ones as Grandfather Leon Secatero used to call us, have been describing a spectrum of ways of perceiving this phenomenon of Life in Motion. As a knowing arises at this time that suggests we are all tied to a common fate of science of the Right Relations becomes critical and this spectrum of ways of knowing becomes ever more relevant. Warning: The topic of this discourse subject to evolution without notice!
Pat McCabe is an International Speaker, Navajo Artist and Writer whose paintings are tools for individual and global healing.
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