John Seed: Wild Heart, Wild Earth

Shifting our perception can empower us to bring our full hearts and spirits to the work of defending wild places and local cultures. To skillfully address the profound challenges that are emerging throughout the world, fresh skills and expanded vision will be increasingly crucial.

Join us for a remarkable one-day workshop retreat midway up Larch Mountain, high above the Columbia Gorge. Legendary Australian rainforest defense activist John Seed will offer this full-day opportunity to explore material developed in collaboration with alternative globalization activist Vandana Shiva earlier this year.

Cost: $65 includes a vegetarian dinner (please bring your own lunch).

Proceeds benefit Rainforest Information Centre’s international rainforest defense projects. Space is limited; advance registration is required. A registration form in PDF format is available here. Limited scholarship support and work study opportunities are available; please contact us for more info.

About John Seed

John Seed has been a well-loved and honored leader in forest defense communities around the world for many years.

When chance participation in an anti-logging protest led him to place himself in front of industrial logging machinery advancing on Australia's aboriginal rainforest, John experienced a profound shift in his awareness. Sensing himself not as a "forest defender," but as a recently emerged part of the forest now defending itself, his activism shifted both subtly and radically. Since that time he has wholly committed his incredible skills, energy, and creativity to rainforest defense and education efforts around the world.

John co-authored the environmental classic, Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings, with Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess (New Society Publishers) and was instrumental in developing the concepts of deep ecology.

The founder of the Rainforest Information Centre in Australia, in 1984 John helped initiate the Rainforest Action Network in the US; he also founded the World Rainforest Report. All proceeds from John's workshops are dedicated to rainforest protection.

With his partner Ruth Rosenhek, JohnSeed has offered workshop retreats and presentations in Australia, North and South America, Japan, India, Thailand, and Europe. His workshops in the US have been hosted by the Esalen Institute, the Omega Institute, Naropa University, the California Institute of Integral Studies, and numerous non-profit organizations. He also lectures widely at mainstream universities in the U.S., Australia, Europe, and Asia.

More information about John and his work can be found at http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/