Friday, August 15, 2014
10:00 AM to 4:30 PM Our spiritual retreat with Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
Preregistration is required. Complete details are provide under our retreat section.
Friday Evening, 7PM Rocking the Boat For Peace River Cruise Preregistration is required. Complete cruise info is in the top section "Rise Up! Resist! Transform Now! Rocking the Boat For Peace".
Saturday, August 16, 2014 Conference Schedule and Structure
Our conference, Rise Up, Resist,Transform Now - Rocking the Boat for Peace, is structured to encourage continuous flowing conversation amongst both presenters and attendees in a day of thoughtful and creative dialogue. We have invited our presenters to grapple with the serious core issues and major obstacles for peace and sustainability that confront us at this moment in human history. Our hope is that, in turn, this conversation will inspire maximum synergistic engagement, thoughtful reflection and a quantitate leap in inspiration and creativity in our approach to peace building.
These are ambitious goals! We invite you to help us achieve them.
To assist us, we are turning to inventor and futurist Buckminster Fuller to inspire our conversation. We are asking our presenters and our attendees to use his reflections below to frame and center the day’s conversation. We know this is a huge challenge; however we believe we are up to it.
- “In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller - “I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except dare to think. And to dare to go with the truth. And to dare to really love completely.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller - Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
Our speakers will join together in a series of three interconnected and sequential panels in which they will consider their own work and commitments within the light of these guiding reflections as well as within the context of of the evolving and intensifying world conditions and crises which confront us.
In each session all of the panelists will answer the guiding questions, responding from their own differing perspectives, insights and experiences. Conference attendees will have the opportunity after each panel to ask questions. Each panel will be moderated for time.
We see this conference as a life affirming challenge, as well as an opportunity for dynamic creativity, offered to both our presenters and attendees alike as we work together to imagine the world we wish to live in. When the day is over, we hope everyone will be ready to Rise Up and Rock the Boat for Peace.
Panel 1 - “Priorities, Engagements and Commitments" - In the light of the evolving and Intensifying crises which confront us, what new models are you imagining, working on or see developing which offer the possibility for a sustainable life affirming future.
Panel 2 "Daring To Think - To Be Truthful - To Love" - What are the major obstacles that stand in the way of building a peaceful, sustainable, life affirming society? What stands in the way of your own work psychologically/societally? How are you personally confronting these obstacles? What models of resistance seem effective to you?
Panel 3 " Sustainable Transformation" - What are the strategies and actions needed to move us forward toward what Fuller thought of as " beautiful solutions". What actions, commitments, work in our personal lives, our local communities, nationally , globally should take priority in order to successfully move people to rise up, revolutionize and create the new models which will ensure that we will be "the architects of the future rather than its victims".
Saturday, August 16, 2013
9:00 9:15 Welcome and Introductions by John Amidon and Maureen Aumand
Saturday, August 18, 2012
8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration & Coffee
9:00 - 9:15 AM Opening remarks: Maureen Aumand & John Amidon
9:15 - 10:00 AM Jill Stein
10:00 - 11:30 Panel 1- “Priorities, Engagements and Commitments"
Panelists: Jill Stein, David Swanson, Steve Breyman, Kristin Christman Moderated by
11:30 - 11:45 Break
11:45 - 1:00 Panel 2 - Panel 2 "Daring To Think - To Be Truthful - To Love" Panelists: Jill Stein, David Swanson, Steve Breyman, Kristin Christman Moderated by
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:15 Panel 3- " Sustainable Transformation" Panelists: Jill Stein, David Swanson, Steve Breyman, Kristin Christman Moderated by
3:15 PM Closing- Thank yous. Maureen Aumand and John Amido