Regenerative Conclusion

Co-creating the future

Hi people,

Thursday is the last live session of our webinar, Building Our Regenerative Future. The response to the course has been terrific. When it is over, we will take the material and consolidate it to produce an “evergreen” version, permanently available through the website. So if you missed the webinar, there will be more opportunities to catch up. Below is the theme and description for our Conclusion, plus our roster of Guest Speakers. Of course, you can still join us for it and catch the earlier sessions on replay, if you want.

Conclusion: Co-creating the Future

How do we unify our human family behind a shared mission and vision?

 When we unite with our purpose as catalytic agents of system change, it brings us deep satisfaction and helps us find our super powers. By collaborating with others in our immediate networks, we form activated communities engaged in regenerative projects. How do we collaborate and co-create to build an even greater, global movement? Can such a movement drive the creation of a new regenerative civilisation, regardless of any collapse scenario that may be looming? 

We review the movement-building tools and techniques that can help bring about the systemic changes necessary for our future survival, then outline next steps. 

Guest Speakers

Margaret Klein Salamon

Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD, is a clinical psychologist turned climate warrior whose work helps people to face the deeply frightening, painful truths of the climate emergency and transform their despair into effective action. She is the founding director of the Climate Mobilization Project and the author of "Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth", a radical self-help guide for the climate emergency. www.FacingTheClimateEmergency.com. You can find her on Twitter @ClimatePsych.

Tiokasin Ghosthorse

Tiokasin Ghosthorse is a member of the Cheyenne River Lakota Nation of South Dakota and has a long history with Indigenous activism and advocacy. Tiokasin is the Founder, Host and Executive Producer of “First Voices Radio” (www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org) for the last 28 years in New York City and Seattle/Olympia, Washington. In 2016, he received a Nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize from the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy. Other recent recognitions include Native Arts and Cultures Foundation National Fellowship in Music (2016), National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Nominee (2017), Indigenous Music Award Nominee for Best Instrumental Album (2019) and National Native American Hall of Fame Nominee (2018, 2019). He also was recently nominated for “Nominee for the 2020 Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities”. He was also awarded New York City’s Peacemaker of the Year in 2013. Tiokasin is a “perfectly flawed human being.” 

Skeena Rathor

Skeena Rathor, 43 is a Co - Leader of Extinction Rebellion responsible for its Guardianship and Visioning Team.  Skeena has been a social activist and activator since the age of 15.  She is a teacher and teacher trainer of; Raviv Brain Development training, Pilates, Yoga, Feldenkrais,  Energy Medicine, trauma release restatement, breath restoration, heart codes and heartfull-ness practices.  A District Councillor,  Founder of the Politics Kitchen - a space for heartfelt listening and Compassionate Stroud a growing network for community togetherness and collaboration  -  her dream and present full time occupation is for a world birthing co-liberation and deep collaboration.  A practicing Sufi from a working class muslim heritage. Married into a Jewish family she is the mother of 3 very noisy girls and lives in Stroud,  England, the birth place of Extinction Rebellion.

Thomas Ermacora

Thomas Ermacora is a city futurist and impact investor working to leverage the tools of the 4th industrial revolution and novel urban strategies to solve some of humanities most pressing problems with a focus on climate adaptation and community wellbeing. Award winning humanitarian and regeneration architect by background, he has pioneered a number of impact projects and experiments looking to redefine the way cities and neighbourhoods self-organise through participatory processes. In particular, he founded the tactical urbanism non profit agency Clear Village, the independent cultural incubator Limewharf Studios, the first impact Maker Space Machines Room, and authored the Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures (Routledge 2016). Ermacora has consulted and worked with and advised a wide range of organisations and cities including the G7 on AI, the Xprize, the Clinton Global Initiative helping launch Cities Rise for urban mental health, the World Economic Forum where he sits in the future of human rights council, the European Commission on Blockchain for Good, the LA Cleantech Incubator with the C40 on transportation electrification and NASA on an experimental biomimicry campus. He also co-founded a refugee education platform with MIT, a last mile technology incubator at the Vatican, and supports many young disruptive startups such as Square Roots, Up, Apparent Energy, RegenVillages, Inhabitat, WasteFuel, and Moon Express. Ermacora has been featured in numerous publications and has spoken at over 100 venues including TED, Near Future and the UN General Assembly. Recently he was the guest curator acclaimed London Design Museum exhibition about 'Moving to Mars’. 

Sergio Magaña

Sergio Magaña (Ocelocoyotl) is a world-renown mystic, healer, and teacher of the Nahuatl tradition. Although raised in a traditional Catholic home in Mexico, Magaña was surrounded by ancient Mexican spiritual practices from the time he was a child. Later, he was initiated into the 5,000-year-old lineage of Mesoamerica as well as the Toltec dreaming oral tradition, which has been handed down for 1,460 years.For many years, Magaña has used his gifts to help others heal from all kinds of conditions. His books include Dawn of the Age of the Sixth Sun and Caves of Power: Ancient Energy Techniques for Healing Rejuvenation and Manifestation, his latest. By embracing our own hidden darkness, we bring forth the light needed to heal ourselves, our relationships, and others, According to Magana, this allows us to “actively participate in the evolution of human and planetary consciousness now, and live from a place of grace and unity.”

Tasha Blank

Tasha Blank is a kinetic force of truth, glee & fury. An international dj + dance floor instigator since 2010, she’s the founder of NYC’s wildest dance party The Get Down, and creator of the viral dance manifesto we came to dance. Known for ferocious live performances that sweep crowds into their rawest, sweatiest expression, Tasha's original music invites listeners on a hypnotizing ride into even deeper, juicier territory. As a writer, coach & teacher, she combines a background in neuroscience, ontology, psychology and somatics to catalyze personal + collective paradigm shifts towards healing.