Global Kinship: First Thursdays
Join Penny Andrews and Bob Isenberger at 4:00 PM ET, register here, for conversations that explore consciousness, struggle, and the deeper texture of our unfolding global community.
Global Kinship is a monthly webinar series inviting reflection on the Noosphere, spiritual depth, and our shared life in the world.
Speakers from all walks of life and spiritual and cultural traditions are invited to share the stories of their philosophies and spiritual and communal practices.
Monthly Webinars
Presenters: Penny Andrews, Bob Isenberger
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin proposed the concept of the Noosphere as the next layer in the evolution of the development of the Earth, after the geosphere (inanimate matter) and the biosphere (biological life). Together human reason and scientific thought have created, and will continue to create, the next evolutionary geological layer. This geological layer is part of the evolutionary chain.
Global Kinship webinars offer the opportunity to learn about ways in which the Noosphere is showing up in the world today. By learning of the work others are doing to address the ills and challenges of our world, we become encouraged and perhaps even inspired to continue and expand upon our own efforts.
Your hosts open and close the session with song, chant, poetry or other centering practices; our guests then utilize the remainder of the time to describe the work they do, the projects they're involved with and the results they and others have generated, and respond to audience questions.
““…while Earth is a single integral community, it is not a global sameness. It is highly differentiated in bioregional communities—in arctic as well as tropical regions, in mountains, valleys, plains, and coastal regions. These bioregions can be described as identifiable geographical areas of interacting life systems that are relatively self‑sustaining in the ever-renewing process of nature.”
“We are not talking to the rivers, we are not listening to the wind and stars… We have broken the great conversation.””
August 6th guest speakers Joe and Penny have taken up this challenge left to us by Thomas and dedicated their lives to help us see beyond city, state or even country……
Joe Brewer: Internationally respected regenerative designer, complexity researcher, and bioregional strategist. He is the author of The Design Pathway for Regenerating Earth and co-founder of the Design School for Regenerating Earth.
Penny Heiple: Co-founder of the Design School for Regenerating Earth, Penny integrates 25 years of experience in the healing arts with her skills in operations, strategy, and administration to support humanity's (re)connection and harmonization with the living earth.
The History of the Mississippi Watershed:
Long before the first canoe ever touched its surface — before any human hand shaped this land — the Mississippi River was being written into the stone and soil of a continent across spans of time almost too vast to hold in the mind.
Glaciers scraped and carved this landscape — walls of ice a mile thick that advanced and retreated over the past two million years, grinding ancient bedrock into the rich black loam that would one day become the most productive farmland on Earth. A great inland sea that preceded even the glaciers — the Western Interior Seaway, which from roughly 100 million to 66 million years ago stretched shallow saltwater from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic, leaving behind the limestone bluffs that still stand sentinel above the river today.
Catastrophic floods shaped the modern river around 11,000 years ago — the outburst of Glacial Lake Agassiz, a body of water larger than all the modern Great Lakes combined, whose sudden draining carved the Minnesota River Valley in a matter of weeks and sent a pulse of cold freshwater into the Atlantic that may have briefly thrown the entire Northern Hemisphere's climate into chaos.
The vast tallgrass sea formed the prairie that emerged after the glaciers retreated and stretched from Indiana to the Rockies for thousands of years, sustained by the same flat glacial till that now grows corn. Its deep-rooted grasses built the topsoil over eight to ten thousand years, while the bison herds that grazed it numbered sixty million, their hooves working the land like a slow and patient plow.
The Mississippi watershed drains forty percent of the continental United States. From the Rockies to the Appalachians, rainwater and snowmelt find their way, eventually, to this river. Every drop that falls on the heartland of a continent remembers its way home — just as it has for millions of years.
Join us as they share their stories from all over the US about the sacred nature of water and their work locally and planetarily.
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Dates
August 6th
November 5th
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