Ways You Can Help Make the Conference a Success
Registration
- Pre-register for the conference personally (www.brownpapertickets.com/event/183067).
- Support one friend or family member through the process of preregistering.
- Consider gifting a conference admission to a friend or family member.
Sharing by Email
- Send a personal email (could copy the sample letter below) to interested family or friends.
- Get the word out to your network if you have a community newsletter.
- Message community leaders you trust to see if they can share about the conference.
Facebook
- Go the event page for Honoring Spirits of Place (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132587833488537), look on the top left of the page for "Select Guests to Invite", and click there to invite people you feel may benefit from the conference.
- Post on your wall any of the info about the conference, encouraging folks to attend.
In-person Support
- The day of the conference, we have some work-trade available (inc. early arrival and help with breakdown) for those who need a registration discount to be able to attend.
Even if you're not able to join us in person this year, we welcome your prayers and positive intent that this gathering be a big success and that our offering benefits not only the humans present but that we also show up in inspiring and healing ways with our larger web of relations.
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Sample Letter for Sharing About the Conference
Dear _________,
Greetings! I'm writing to share with you about an upcoming conference that I thought you might want to know about. The focus is Honoring Spirits of Place, and it's the second annual conference of the Earth Medicine Alliance this Oct 22-23rd in San Francisco. Here is the description from the organization:
"Spirits of place are our closest neighbors in the larger web of relations, those whom we most impact and are most impacted by. In addition to our human kin, they include animal and plant relations, mountains and rivers, ancestors of the land, the elders who bring rain and storms, stone people, elementals, local deities, nature spirits, and other strange old powers whose bodies we perceive as the natural world.
We invite you to join nearly 20 ceremonial leaders and teachers of diverse backgrounds for a full weekend of embodied learning, interfaith dialogue, and co-creative ritual focused on this theme of honoring spirits of place.
On Saturday we'll gather from 9:30am to 6:00pm at the Unitarian Center in San Francisco and on Sunday we'll circle at one of four locations on the land in and around the City (San Bruno Mountain, Baker Beach, Kirby Cove, and Oakland Shoreline) for inclusive, earth-honoring rituals led by our conference presenters. For our full conference program including presenter bios and descriptions of day two circles see: www.earthmedicine.org/2011_EMA_Conference_Program.pdf.
Registration is $75. To register see: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/183067 or you can pay at the door. We hope you can join us!"
I'm excited to be attending and especially looking forward to _________. If the cost is a concern, there are some work trade opportunities on the day of the conference.
I hope it works out for you to attend. Thanks!
Sincerely,
Your Name
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