Friday Night Conversations with visiting Sophia Center faculty

Deep Tranition Intensive for Evolutionary Catalysts

Deep Transition is designed for those who recognize that our collective human predicament is very serious and urgent, and who also have an abiding sense of what is possible, a vision of a future that flies in the face of civilization's apparent entropic collapse, and a burning sense that somehow we are the ones who bear within us the very seeds of that future. Deep Transition is advanced work, designed to empower and support evolutionary catalysts—individuals who now find themselves called to an extraordinary level of service and contribution in response to converging global crises and to the profound vulnerabilities of our communities.

Lynette Hanthornis Executive Director of Transition Colorado, founded and directed the Center for Creative Justice in Ames, Iowa for more than 20 years, and is an accomplished conflict transformation facilitator and energetic healing practitioner.

Michel Brownlee of Catalyst for Transition Colorado was trained as a journalist and served as a writer, producer, and communication consultant in the corporate arena for many years.

Active Hope: The Work That Reconnects

To be in service to the healing of our world, we need to experience it afresh, as a living system in which all beings are connected. Interweaving silence and sound, interactive exercises and spiritual practices, the Work That Reconnects builds fearlessness, solidarity and creativity to face the challenges of our time and deepens our wellsprings of courage, creativity and active hope.

Joanna Macy, PhDis a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with four decades of activism.

Regenerative Design

We will explore practical solutions for living in balance and Harmony with the natural world. Penny will share techniques on how to restore land while providing for our needs and the needs of our non-human neighbors. Earth: Learning out to both build healthy soil and build with the Earth Air: learn techniques of listening to the land and learning.

Penny Livingston-Stark has been teaching internationally and working professionally in the land management; regenerative design and permaculture development field for 25 years and is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer and speaker.