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Staying Centered in Times of Change with Trathen Heckman and Julia Bystrova

We are living in a time of unprecedented change. These changes can impact us in many ways, affecting our relationships, work, financial stability, home, and our physical and mental health. Meanwhile, there is a new paradigm emerging from under the crumbling structure of the old. What are the corresponding perceptions, models and practical tools we need to adapt and thrive in opportune times?

In this mini-workshop/presentation we will discuss ways to find our ground and keep our center amidst the significant changes occurring within and around us. Come explore empowering ideas and tools that help you access inner power, aligned with your culture, values and beliefs. In this way, you can hone your inner compass to navigate change while building and nurturing personal resilience and inspiration. 

Location:
St. Stephens Church
500 Robinson Way, Sebastopol

Trathen Heckman is the founding director of Daily Acts, publisher of Ripples Journal and a backyard farmer. He is the former director of Green Sangha and serves on the board of Transition US. With an emphasis on reverence for life, Trathen inspires, educates and collaborates with communities, business and municipal leaders to harness the power of nature and inspired action to restore the health of our lives and communities. He lives in the Petaluma River Watershed where he grows food, medicine and wonder while working to compost apathy and lack.

Julia Bystrova is an ordained interfaith minister, writer/performer, intuitive health counselor and bodyworker. She has been producing events and classes in the area of consciousness and transformation for 20 years. Her life long research and education has been in understanding the relationship between science and spirituality and how this helps us to build bridges in our thinking, cultivate discernment and lead us to a more heart-centered way of living. A long time resident, she is currently working with Transition Sebastopol, nurturing both the Heart and Soul and the Healthcare group.

Come help us organize the Reskilling Fair in November!

Tuesday September 28th, 7 pm

St Stephen's Church
500 Robinson Road

For more information, please contact Sara at 829-5234.

Join us at this special Food, Farming, and Environmental Justice Movie Night at the French Garden Restaurant
with special guests – filmmakers Deborah Koons Garcia, John Antonelli, and Will Parinello

Featuring seven short films from The Mill Valley Film Group's The New Environmentalists
and Deborah Koons Garcia's Soil in Good Heart, along with discussion with the filmmakers

Wednesday, September 29
7:00 - 9:00pm
Please arrive on time!
Come early and enjoy dinner! 

Location:
The French Garden Restaurant
8050 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol
Google map: http://tinyurl.com/frenchgardenmap

Food and Farming in Motion

For the first time, Bioneers and two local Transition initiatives are partnering to create a very special program. Bioneers is pleased to present a sneak-peak of the Bioneers Conference’s Moving Image Festival—a highlight of the conference each year that showcases world-class documentaries and short films on social and environmental issues impacting people and the planet. Designed exclusively for Transition participants, the evening will feature seven short films from The Mill Valley Film Group’s The New Environmentalists, and Deborah Koons Garcia’s Soil in Good Heart—works that shine a lens on food, farming and activist heroes fighting for environmental justice.
Enlivened with dialogue from the filmmakers themselves, including John Antonelli, Will Parinello and Deborah Koons Garcia, as well as local CSA farmers, the evening will ignite discourse on the current issues that are impacting our food supply, and the Earth.

For more information on the Moving Image Festival and the Bioneers 21st Annual Conference taking place in San Rafael October 15-17th, 2010, visit www.bioneers.org. Register now for 10% off the listed price on the website, or become a Bioneers member and get 15% off the 2010 conference fee. To register: http://www.bioneers.org/conference.

BIONEERS MOVING IMAGE FESTIVAL MOVIES:

Soil in Good Heart
Directed by Deborah Koons Garcia (The Future of Food), Soil in Good Heart is a short documentary focuses not only on how land-based food is dependent on sunlight, water and soil, but seeks to awaken the public to the importance of preserving and rebuilding this foundation of sustainable agriculture.
The New Environmentalists

Narrated by Robert Redford, Global Focus VII, The New Environmentalists , is an Emmy Award winning series featuring portraits of passionate and dedicated activists. Their goal is to safeguard Earth's natural resources from shortsighted exploitation and unbridled pollution while fighting for environmental justice in their communities. We will be featuring the stories of Lynn Henning in the USA who exposed the polluting practices of CAFOs; Humberto Rios Lambrata in Cuba who promoted sustainable agriculture by working with farmers to increase crop diversity; and Malgorzata Gorska in Poland who led the fight to protect one of Europe's last true wilderness areas.

BIOGRAPHIES:

Deborah Koons Garcia, independent filmmaker
Deborah Koons Garcia’s film The Future of Food (2004) has won awards and been shown all over the world in theaters and was chosen by the Oscar Screening Committee as one of the best documentaries of the year. Garcia's other film credits include Grateful Dawg, a documentary featuring her late husband, Jerry Garcia, of the Grateful Dead. She is now working on Symphony of the Soil, a film about soil and fertility.

John Antonelli, filmmaker and producer, The Mill Valley Film Group
John Antonelli’s recently completed Sam Cooke Crossing Over was broadcast on the acclaimed PBS series American Masters and the feature length documentary Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats which has played around the world. For the past seven years, Antonelli has been producing, directing and writing segments for Global Focus: The New Environmentalists - a half hour program narrated by Robert Redford that is broadcast on PBS stations and The Sundance Channel.

Will Parrinello, filmmaker and producer, The Mill Valley Film Group
Parrinello’s credits include Dreaming of Tibet, an intimate portrait of three Tibetan exiles, which received an Audience Award at the Amnesty International Film Festival. His series Global Focus: The New Environmentalists, narrated by Robert Redford, profiles international grassroots activists. Parrinello co-produced and edited the feature-length documentary Kerouac, which was broadcast on PBS, A&E and The Learning Channel. He also shot and edited In the Light of Reverence, a film about Native American sacred lands.

About Bioneers
Bioneers (www.bioneers.org) is a nonprofit educational organization that highlights breakthrough solutions for restoring people and planet. Since 1990, Bioneers has acted as a hub of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges. A celebration of the genius of nature and human creativity, Bioneers connects people with solutions and each other. Its acclaimed annual national and local conferences are complemented by extensive media outreach including an award-winning radio series, book series, and role in media projects such as Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The 11th Hour.

Transition Sebastopol and St Stephens Church cordially invite you to attend our first Annual Harvest Community Potluck on 10/10/10 to pledge our commitments to reducing our carbon footprint and to celebrate the harvest of our gardens and farms.

10/10/10 is an international day of action to reduce global warming organized by 350.org. We, along with people and communities all over the world will be participating in projects and activities that make a difference to this cause. We invite you to join in with friends that day to work on a project that makes a difference, and then come to our Local Food Potluck to enjoy the harvest of our abundant gardens.

Bring yourselves, your families and friends, a potluck item, and (if you have it) something to share from your summer garden. We will trade our homegrown goods, be entertained by music from live band The Role Models, share stories, press all the apples you bring, and laugh! So definitely bring all the apples you can, and we will press them into a Transition apple blend for you, and everyone to enjoy.

Remember to bring your own dishes. We look forward to seeing you there.

When:
Sunday, October 10, 2010
2-5 pm
2:30-4:30 pm: Live music played by the band "The Role Models": classic rock in the party music vein; Bon Jovi, Stones, Fu Fighters, Clash, etc.

Location:
St Stephens Church
500 Robinson Road
Sebastopol, CA 95472
(see map)

For additional information: Call Angel @ 477-4564

Larry Robinson will be the guest speaker to discuss Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) for Sonoma County. It will be informative on multiple levels, and we wantdiscover if the Energy group can help with this process.

This meeting links to one of the TS Energy Group's top priority goals and is the first step in partnering with others throughout the community to make changes on the energy front.

Location:
St Stephen's Church (classroom)
500 Robinson Way
Sebastopol

Join us for our last Movie Night of the year at the French Garden Restaurant for "What Would Jesus Buy?" This is a film by Reverend Billy & the Church of Life After Shopping, a satire on holiday consumerism, just as the season begins to gear up for it. Father Phil Roundtree of St Stephens Episcopal Church will be the guest speaker after the film for group discussion.

Wednesday, October 27
7:00 - 9:00pm
Please arrive on time!
Come early and enjoy dinner! 

Location:
The French Garden Restaurant
8050 Bodega Avenue, Sebastopol
Google map: http://tinyurl.com/frenchgardenmap

The movie:
Produced by Morgan Spurlock and directed by Rob VanAlkemade, this docu-comedy follows our trials and triumphs across the country as we preach and sing to help holiday-abused Americans find a new Christmas without products.

The film takes the viewer into the homes of families as they max our their credit cards to live up to the Consumer Ideal of Christmas, while also telling personal stories from those who remember the holidays as a simpler, less commercial, and more joyful time. Interviews with labor rights experts, historians, and spiritual leaders reveal how the consumerization of the holiday season over time taught Americans they can only show love for their children by purchasing toys made by other children in overseas sweatshops.

This film has played throughout the US, bringing Fair Trade activists and Evangelical Christians together in darkened movie theaters, emerging with new tools to BUY LESS and GIVE MORE!

 Visit the movie website here.