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Sophia Center for Culture and Spirituality - a wisdom center celebrating Earth, Art and Spirituality

Sophia Summer Institute 2013

The Mystery of Nature and Soul

Summer Institute
July 18 – 21

Post Institute Retreat
July 21 – 23

Please click here to register for the Summer Institute. If you prefer, you can register by phone at 510-436-1046 or by sending an email to Grace Larra at larra@hnu.edu.

Summer Institute — July 18-21

Thursday, July 18

7:00 pm — Brian Swimme & Barbara Holmes
Race and the Cosmos Redux

Friday, July 19

9:30 am — Stephen Dunn
Who’s Hanging Out With Annie Dillard at the Dance of the Seven Veils? Why?

2:00 – 4:30 pm — Brian Swimme and David Abram
An Earthly Cosmology?

7:00 pm — David Abram
Wild Wonder

Saturday, July 20

9:30 am — Paula D’Arcy
When the Stories Fall Away

2:00 – 4:30 pm — Interactive Dialogue Sessions:

John Fox — The Precious Word
Paula D’Arcy — A Path and a Small Light
Barbara Holmes — A Twenty-First Century Look at Cosmology and Politics in a Post Post-Obama Era

7:00 pm — Thomas Moore
Nature’s Soul: Walden and the Gospel

Sunday, July 21

9:30 am — Jim Conlon
Sacred Butterflies – Paying Attention to Other Modes of Understanding

11:00 am — Jim Conlon
Missa Gaia Celebration

post-Institute Retreat — July 21-23

Tapping into Nature’s Mysterious Power with Thomas Moore

By drawing on the mysterious powers of nature, we will Discover new sources of talent and intuition.

Presenters

bio-Moore_Thomas Thomas Moore
Author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and the arts.

bio-Abram_David David Abram
Author of Spell of the Sensuous and Becoming Animal is a cultural ecologist, philosopher and performance artist. He is the founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics.

bio-Swimme_Brian Brian Swimme
Cosmologist and faculty member at CA Institute for Integral Studies and coauthor of The Journey of the Universe with Mary Evelyn Tucker; The Universe Story, with Thomas Berry; The Universe is a Green Dragon and The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos; and video series including The Power of the Universe and Canticle to the Cosmos.

bio-Holmes_Barbara Barbara Holmes
President of The United Seminary of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis. She is author of several books including: A Race and the Cosmos: An Invitation to View the World Differently.

bio-D'Arcy_Paula Paula D'arcy Writer, playwright, retreat leader and conference and seminar speaker and the founder of the Red Bird Foundation, which supports the growth and spiritual development of those in need throughout the world, including men and women in prison.

bio-Dunn_Stephen Stephen Dunn
A long-time friend and colleague of Thomas Berry, and founder of the Elliott Allen Institute on Theology and Ecology at St. Michael?s College at the University of Toronto which embodies Thomas's vision and inspiration behind the award-winning, ecologically designed St. Gabriel's church in Toronto, Canada.

bio-Fox_John John Fox
Founder of the Institute for Poetic Medicine, and author of Poetic Medicine and Finding What You Didn't Lose. John is also an international presenter of workshops, retreats and professional programs.

bio-Berezan_Jennifer Jennifer Berezan
Singer and songwriter/producer and activist has developed and explored recurring themes with a rare wisdom in over ten albums. Her lifelong involvement in environmental, women's, and other justice movements as well as an interest in Buddhism and earth-based spirituality are at the heart of her music.

bio-Conlon_Jim Jim Conlon
Director of HNU-Sophia Center, facilitator and presenter of Spirituality and the New Story is an author of many books including recently published book and video, Invisible Excursions: A Compass for the Journey. (More about Jim Conlon)