We will share information for interested women for the WE-CAN Women Empowering Climate Action Network (www.earthregenerative.org/wecan/) upcoming year-long mentored support certificate program and social
incubator for women's community climate action projects. We are
currently accepting applications.
Prospective participants, mentors, and
community supporters are invited. We will watch "Arise: The Movie"
which features example grassroots projects in ecofeminism action from
around the world, including inspiring words from Vandana Shiva and
Winona LaDuke.
We will discuss these inspiring examples, the nature of
the upcoming program, how to apply and get involved, opportunities to mentor, and inspire women's
projects in community climate action. Open Q & A format too. Meet
women committed to innovating projects for climate resilience and earth
connection. Herbal tea will be served. All women are welcome.
More information on our Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/477995702360970/
The Institute will soon begin accepting applications for the WE-CAN program in Gaian Leadership and Climate Resilience. Please contact the Institute for application materials.
The Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies develops programs at the convergence of
creativity, cultural and ecological restoration, and the living wisdom
traditions. We are dedicated to nurturing women as leaders,
facilitators, and healers through embodied, integrated action. WE-CAN is
a project of the Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies. Supported by
a training fellowship from the EE Capacity, Civic Ecology Lab, the
North American Association of Environmental Education, and the EPA, we
are designing and unfolding the first year-long program in community
climate resilience.
The WE-CAN Program year offers a
dynamic, interactive learning and action context for community-based
climate change resilience projects. Whether you are interested in
increasing community-based organic gardening or food forests, want to
bootstrap a public-benefit enterprise in transition skills, or want to
increase community involvement through large puppetry or murals, We nurture Gaian thriving, in learners' growing vision, along multi-disciplinary dimensions. Our mentor match program is excellent.
Circles of Mentors and Acceleration
- Meet regularly with the cohort with guest presenters and demonstrations
- Meet monthly with your project mentor
- Meet monthly with the entire circle of action learners and mentors
- Custom design your project inside a circle of support
- Field trips and site visits as well as intensives for immersive learning
Mentoring one-on-one and the Mentor learning circle bridges
generations of successive waves of contribution, talent, and creativity.
All this with the intention of creating planetary thrivability.
More information is available at the WE-CAN website. Application materials will be published later in March and will be due by May 15, 2015.
Inspired by the idea that our communities are already well-resourced with brilliance, determination, and creativity, the Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies is innovating a certificate program to catalyze community-based climate resilience. The first cohort, targeted for a Fall 2015 start, will bring together a dozen women, including queer women, in an activist, experiential learning cohort to engage in mentored projects for climate change, climate action, and climate justice. The program is envisioned as a cross-collaboration of arts-based activists, ecopreneurs, and permaculture - regenerative designers.
The program in Women Empowering Climate Action Network (or WE-CAN) will feature research-based and culturally responsive vibrant practices for learning and collaboration, including regenerative creativity inspired by biomimicry and fractal patterns from nature and bioculture as well as sustainability education, complex living systems, and ecoliteracy combined with approaches for environmental justice. Cohort members will also study and practice agile project management and collaborative leadership. The project hopes to nurture each learner with a project mentor, internships, and accelerator-style resources and micro-investments in project start-up. The Pacific Northwest women's community will be an amazing hothouse of support and social incubation for these practical visionaries.
We are currently soliciting project mentors, potential partners, internship sites, investors, and supporters, as well as prospective cohort participants. This program has already been honored with a training fellowship in community climate change action from the Cornell University Civic Ecology Lab, EE Capacity, the North American Association of Environmental Education, and the EPA.
The Institute for Earth Regenerative Studies is a learning organization for Gaian thriving at the intersection of creativity, ecological restoration, and the living wisdom traditions in the Pacific Cascadia bioregion. The living Earth system is our first teacher.
We look forward to collaborating with you to bring this and other amazing projects to life here in the heart of Cascadia.
