Cultivating Connections Recommends
June 2011
Upcoming Events for Metro Louisville
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Louisville Sustainability Forum
Wednesday, June 1, 12 - 1:45 pm
Passionist Earth and Spirit Center
(located in the Barn behind St Agnes Church 1924 Newburg Road)
20 Minute Presentation
Howard Mason - Thriving in Chaos
The pace of change has never been faster and the environment for change leaders more volatile and unpredictable. Most of us have never had the opportunity to learn the way chaos works and how to lead successfully in environments of rapid change with high levels of diversity and disagreement.
Thriving in Chaos is about learning to live and work in the space where order meets chaos to create transformation and breakthrough innovation. It covers:
Where chaos comes from. And why there is more of it now and even more coming.
What is changing at the most fundamental levels.
Chaos = complexity: three ways complexity shows up.
Anarchy, chaos, order and control: what they are and how we relate to them.
Working where chaos and order meet.
Why business as usual doesn't work with chaos and complexity.
What it takes to get to new solutions when working with chaos and complexity.
Nine tools for leading in chaos.
5 minute PresentersAngela Jackson-Brown - G.I.V.E. G.I.V.E. Organic Gardening Summer Enrichment Camp 2011 is designed to create an informal "edu-taing" (educational and engaging) learning experience for youth ages 8-13 and third to eighth grades. Through the art of organic gardening and rain gardening, youth discover how to be positive stewards of our biosphere and green youth ambassadors for green sustainability. Michael Drane - New Roots New Roots leads Food Justice Leadership Development courses for anyone interested in learning about the present state of our local food system and how to organize for change, and Healthy Eating classes to share information on avoiding diet-related illnesses through cooking from scratch with fresh food. New Roots also seeks to provide nutrition education, conduct health research, and spearhead policy campaigns that will improve the disparities currently present in our food system. Food & drink:
Heine Bros. provides us with Heine Bros. coffee. Feel free to bring a bag lunch, but know that the Barn opens its doors to us at 11:30 a.m. -- no earlier. If you'd like to prepare extra food or drink to share with others, that is always welcome!Now in its Fourth year the purposes of the Louisville Sustainability Forum are:1. We hold and promote the intention of sustainability for Louisville.2. We establish and nourish relationships that strengthen community and create change.3. We create a space for discussion that inspires, motivates and deepens our ability to catalyze social change.Please park in St. Agnes Church lot and walk back behind the church
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Sunday, June 12 11 am
Mark Steiner, speaking during Sunday Services, presents
From Me to We: Finding Our Way Into the Future
Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church
2231 Payne Street · 502-895-3189 · www.cliftonuu.org
From Me to We: Finding Our Way Into the Future The next great movement in evolution is going to be a shift of consciousness within the human species from a focus on the individual to a focus on the larger earth community including other species. The shift from a "me" focus to a "we" focus is already picking up momentum as more and more humans are opening their hearts and minds and engaging their hands to help create a socially just, environmentally sustainable and spiritually fulfilling world. This presentations explores this, the biggest movement in human history and invites us to join the evolution! Mark Steiner has facilitated classes, workshops, ceremonies, and lectures on Creation Spirituality, Environmental Spirituality and the Universe Story since 1992. He has presented at a wide variety of venues including: the University of Creation Spirituality, the EarthSpirit Rising Conferences, The Earth Charter Summit, and various local houses of worship. In addition, Mark serves as a facilitator for the Pachamama Alliance's Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream Symposium and deep ecologist Joanna Macy's Work that Reconnects. Mark is a cofounder and director of Cultivating Connections, a Louisville, Kentucky grassroots not-for-profit with a focus on "Nurturing and Celebrating Our Connections with Each Other and with Our World".
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Friday, June 17 7:00 pm
Monthly Drumming Circle
at The Earth and Spirit Center
(located in the Barn behind the Passionist Monastery 1924 Newburg Ave)
Ho Drummers,
Join us for a community drum circle to make in-the-moment music. No musical experience necessary! Bring your percussion instruments. Co-operation and collaboration are the glue to a community drum circle. The results can be those magical musical moments where one powerful voice is crafted out of the many. Dancers are welcomed too!
When we as a community drum together, sharing our spirit in the form of rhythm, it changes our relationship for the positive. As we play together, we give ourselves a rhythmical massage, an emotional release and a healing!
Ample parking is available in a parking lot just to the left of the monastery. Alongside the monastery, take the sidewalk which will lead behind the monastery to the large red-brick barn with green awnings.
(Please do not park in front of the Barn, use one of the big lots out front by the monastery. thanks)
Doug Van Houten
502.472.6563
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Monday, June 20, 6pm
Social Change Book Club 4.0 Poke the Box by Seth Godin
Heine Bros. Coffee Chenoweth
Social Change Book Club 4.0 An independent gathering furthering learning on social change. Seth Godin wants us to be uncomfortable. He wants us to question why we do what we do. And more importantly, why we don't do what we don't do. In his new book, Poke the Box, Godin wants us to knock down the walls to the container that keeps us in the status quo. He wants us to test, prod, poke. To see what's real and what's not. Better yet, he wants us to act. To take initiative and move ideas out of your head and into the world. Whether we're right or wrong matters less than whether we are moving and acting. Once we are in motion, if we are paying attention, it's fairly easy to correct course. But, it all starts when we stop thinking about doing and start doing. That's the core message of Poke the Box and from his joint publishing endeavor with Amazon, The Domino Project. Both the book and The Domino Project are examples of the book's message. Stepping away from a long career as a mainstream author to launch a next-gen publishing venture with the goal of making it easier to buy and share ideas is an experiment. The Social Change Book Club is open to everyone who is interested in understanding, participating, leading, or supporting social change. Each month we select a book and get together to discuss. Selections rotate among three themes: social changes, how we work with others to make change happen, and the inner qualities needed to bring change into the world. People just show up if they are interested--no RSVP, commitment, etc. It is great when people have read the book, but that is not a requirement to come and discuss. |
Tuesday, June 21st
7:00 pm
Summer Solstice Sacred Celebration
Sacred Celebrations are designed to offer an opportunity to strengthen our awareness of the sacredness of creation and to nurture our connections to each other, to other species, and to the planet as a whole.
We will commemorate the summer solstice, this time of sun standing still, the day of greatest light with sacred ceremony, deep sharing, story and song.
Sacred Celebrations are a cooperative effort by artists, spiritual leaders, and activists to offer relevant, nurturing and experiential celebrations to the broader community. These collaborators work together to co-create unique, enjoyable, reverent gatherings rooted in a sense of deep spirituality and connection.
Tuesday, June 21 7 pm
Unity of Louisville 757 S Brook St
Sacred Celebrations are
Free and Open to the Public.
Donations are appreciated.
Sponsored by  cultivatingconnections@insightbb.com · 502-897-2721 · www.cultivatingconnections.org |
Tuesday, June 21 at 7:00 pm
Greater Louisville Sierra Club June General Meeting
Tim Darst, Kentucky Interfaith Power and Light
Clifton Center
This program is free and open to the public.Please join us Tuesday, June 21 for an engaging program with Tim Darst, Director of Kentucky Interfaith Power & Light. KIPL works to mobilize a religious response to global warming through conservation, efficiency, and alternative energy. Tim's topic will be "Engaging People of Faith to Protect and Restore the Environment." Tim Darst recently gave up his career in accounting and dedicated his life to care for God's creation. Tim and his wife live in a solar-powered house, grow a lot of their own food, and are regular bicycle and bus commuters. He is a founding member of the Company of St. Angela, a contemplative congregation of the faithful associated with the Ursuline Sisters of Louisville. Tim is active with Project Warm, the Coalition for the Advancement of Regional Transportation, Food Literacy Project, St. William's Church Environmental Concerns Committee, and the Passionist Earth & Spirit Center. Our program begins at 7:00 p.m. at the Clifton Center, off Frankfort Avenue at the corner of Clifton Avenue and Payne Street.
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5th Annual Louisville Sustainable Living Fair
June 24th 5 pm - 9pm Rastetter Street (between Payne Street and Frankfort Avenue) in conjunction with the Frankfort Avenue Trolley Hop. The fifth annual Louisville Sustainable Living Fair will promote sustainability and make hard choices easier by exposing participants to the wide variety of local environmentally friendly businesses, organizations and technologies in a street fair environment. Among the more than 50 participants vendors and exhibitors are: groups supporting the local and vegetarian food movement; groups supporting change around climate and energy consumption; groups seeking to create a more resilient and sustainable city; and groups working for conservation as well as green retailers and local manufacturers. The Fair includes free workshops around Sustainability in the garden, in the home and on the road at 6:00 pm, 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm. The workshops will be hosted at Clifton Unitarian Church, 2231 Payne Street, Louisville. The Louisville Sustainable Living Fair is cosponsored by Clifton Universalist Unitarian Church, Cultivating Connections, GreenList Louisville, and SunWind Power Systems Inc. with Waste Management. The Louisville Sustainable Living Fair is free and is open to the community. See www.cliftonuu.org or call (502) 895-3189 for more information.
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Rally for the Rivers - Saturday, June 25th! Whether it's Pikeville or Paducah, there's a coal mine or a coal ash dump sending toxic pollutants into our water --- potentially making us sick. Kentuckians deserve better. Rally for the Rivers, June 25 and help protect Kentucky's waterways from toxic pollutants! Recently, supporters of big business have been threatening the EPA for trying to keep our water clean and our communities healthy. That's why Governor Beshear and the Kentucky Division of Water need to hear from us that we want them to step it up and strongly enforce the Clean Water Act. On June 25 volunteers across the state will host events on our waterways to show our elected officials we are serious about clean water. Events will range from a flotilla down the river to a picnic by the lake. Take a fun, light-hearted stand by hosting an event near you or help someone else with their local event. Don't miss out - Rally for the Rivers with the Sierra Club on Saturday, June 25. Sign up to host an event today! Here are the details: WHO: You, family, friends and neighbors. WHAT: Rally for the Rivers - A statewide day of action to urge our elected leaders to protect our waterways from toxic coal pollutions. Events range from a flotilla down the river to a picnic by the lake. WHEN: Saturday, June 25th WHERE: A body of water near you! Questions: Contact Lauren McGrath, lauren.mcgrath@sierraclub.org, 859.309.0214 RSVP:online 
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