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CERTIFIED DEEPTIME LEADERS 2022

The Deeptime Leadership program is a 9-month Certification program that cultivates Deeptime Leaders, individuals who have big picture perspective that is aligned with the well-being and benefit of their communities, ecosystems, and the entire Earth Community. Through this program they have developed the skills, perspectives, and practices to guide individuals, groups, and organizations into alignment with a larger sense of purpose and contribution. They have also honed their skills through developing and implementing a personal project that expresses their own contribution to a better world in their own unique way. We at the Deeptime Network fully support and recommend these Certificate recipients and invite you to be in touch with them about their work and their fields of interest.

For info about the upcoming DEEPTIME LEADERSHIP PROGRAM, click here!

Ambie Abano

Manila, Philippines

Primary Field of Application: Art and Education

Project: My project is a guided journey of discovery in a co-creative engagement with nature in the form of a hand-crafted book that invites the participant to a weekly rendezvous of story-telling, insight sharing and meditative art making. It will contain step-by-step instruction on how to use conventional mediums in art (like pencil, charcoal, ink, etc.) and will likewise give guidelines on how to explore non-conventional art materials and processes.

Bio: Although a licensed architect, she followed her allurement to the visual arts in the pursuit of finding space to express her curiosities about life, self and the nature of things. With an art practice that spans over thirty years, she continues to engage the creative adventure in printmaking, exploring both material and process to bring her content in expanded forms of woodcuts . She earned her MFA from the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts, where she has been teaching for the past 18 years. https://sites.google.com/view/ambieabano/home https://sites.google.com/view/day-one-group-exhibition/home

Cami Flake

San Rafael, CA

Primary Field of Application: Creating community through the arts

Project: An interview series exploring our relationship to Earth through the perspective of culture and religion.My intention and offering is to grow a deeper understanding of our relationship to Earth. I believe this is where we can start to act in new and gentler ways towards our planet and connect with our core beliefs towards our dream of the earth.My hope is to create conversation and community to help find a way through the climate emergency together. www.thehummingbirdfiles.com

Bio: Portrait photographer, filmmaker and painter, Cami Flake lives in Northern California with her husband, son and pup. Living most of her life in California, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Media Production with minors in Art History and Advertising. Her work has spanned TV production, documentary film, advertising, portrait photography and most recently acrylic painting and collage. www.camiflakestudios.com

Haseena Patel

Newcastle, South Africa

Primary Field of Application: Mind-body-spirit healing for self and Mother Earth (healing?)

Project: The Truth-Walker’€™s Journey Course: 8 Leadership Principles for healing self and Mother Earth. ~ Explore healing as an act of leadership,€“ UN-Become who you are not and claim your personal sovereignty through healing of mind, body and spirit.~ Access peace as a state of BE-ing using the 5 Building Blocks of UN-Becoming. ~ Know who you are and what you bring to our interconnected world.

Bio: Haseena Patel is a healing breakthrough coach, international speaker, yoga instructor, Akashic Records reader and teacher, poet and peace-builder from South Africa.She works with clients globally to heal themselves and their world through mind-body-spirit alignment, is co-founder of Leave No Girl Behind International, an organisation that empowers girls worldwide through leadership, and is also co-creator of the Bubbles Beyond Borders global empowerment campaign. Haseena is the author of 4 published books (2 are co-authored with her sister) and 1 soon-to-be-published book, titled: The Truth-Walker’s Journey: The UN-Becoming of Who You Are Not.https://haseenapatel.com/https://www.leavenogirlbehind.org/Email: hello@haseenapatel.comhttps://www.facebook.com/haseena.patel.5/

Argerie Vasilakes

in the Cuyahoga River Watershed near Cleveland, Ohio

Primary Field of Application: Our work of ecosystem restoration combines community education, design, entrepreneurship and research.

Project: CRCL (Cuyahoga River Community Lab) is a network of entrepreneurs, educators and artists exploring the contours of postcolonial ecosystem restoration in Northeast Ohio. Co-founders Argerie Vasilakes and Beth Blissman use a Deeptime perspective to weave practical justice, environmental awareness, equity, local food systems and human dignity into solutions intended to restore well-being to ourselves and to the 800+ square mile watershed that nourishes this part of Earth. As women of Euro-American ancestry based in the US, we are trying to decolonize our minds as we meet Earth with respect. We become lighter on our feet with each Lab experiment in restorative ways of being and working.

Bio: Argerie Vasilakes brings together business, nature and art to restore and redesign conditions for flourishing human communities, enterprises and planet. She leads, consults and researches efforts in worldview and culture change using leadership development and living systems designs. Her collaborators — in neighborhoods, urban farms, local government, mission-driven and for-profit businesses — have restored faith in their capacity to generate more coherent communities and more life-giving results. www.facebook.com/groups/crclab/

Seema Shalini Lugun

India

Primary Field of Application: Building Intentional Community for Indigenous Communities

Project: Through my project of Intentional Community am trying to deep dive into communal intelligence, communal wellness, and community identity of indigenous communities and strengthen these aspects for these communities.

Bio: Am an Indigenous woman whose ethnic roots lie with the Munda tribe of India. Am an MBA grad who is curious about the human potential and the cultures they weave. I can be contacted at seema.bnh@gmail.com

Corinna Schwemer

Kronberg, Germany

Primary Field of Application: Creating Community through Arts, Guiding and ReSearching. And Fun!

Project: What supports a deeply needed and vibrant change in our consciousness in these times of crisis? While taking into account our very unique deep human nature? Following this Life-size question, I developed a tailor-made model to support groups and organizations to go through a creative, funny and heart touching renewal process. Cutting edge science meets the ancient wisdom of Sacred Play and Divine Laughter: please connect with me to take a bold Fools Leap for Life – – –

Bio: Corinna Schwemer is an economist, award-winning film maker, deep nature connection mentor, artist and clown who loves to expand consciousness to unknown and deeply creative edges. Reach out to: corinna@cosmicyurt.de and www.cosmicyurt.de

Odile Coirier

El Paso, Texas (US)

Primary Field of Application: Spirituality

Project: The course will explore the New Story for our times, a Cosmogenesis. The scientific breakthroughs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries open new horizons. Mystics and theologians such as Teilhard de Chardin,Thomas Berry and others challenge the traditional religious narrative of our Western Judeo-Christian tradition. Who are we in this evolving universe?

Bio: I am Sister Odile Coirier, member of the Institute of the Franciscan Missionary of Mary, an International catholic religious order. I am currently working with Interfaith Power and light New Mexico-El Paso region, whose mission is to organize, mobilize people of faith to take action on climate change and other related issues. info contact: odilefmm@gmail.com

Judith Keller

Southport, Qld AUSTRALIA

Primary Field of Application :
Spirituality and the arts.

Project: I am allured to the cosmic and contemplative art of deep listening and draw on music, poetry, and mindfulness practices. The question: what is earth community asking of us at this time of emergence, is central in my continuing emergence as a Deeptime Leader.

Bio: Judith Keller has a background in education, spirituality and the arts. Together with her training in Deeptime Leadership she has undertaken training in Laudato Si’ animation and in Awake in the Wild eco-mindfulness practices. She teaches eco-mindfulness practices, and poetry, to women, gardeners, nature journalists, to her spiritual direction community, to climate activists and to Earth creatives. kellsull@ozemail.com.au

Jenny Bowler

Melbourne, Australia

Primary Field of Application: Education

Project: The oldest ritual burials in the world are in Australia. 42,000 year old Mungo Lady and Mungo Man appeared in the sand dune to my father who was there researching ancient climatic changes. MUNGO EXPLORER is a curriculum for schools based on this discovery, intergrating scientific and Indigenous perspectives. A fascinating story.

Bio: Deep listening via music and imagery to engage wholeness has been a passion. Learning to understand we live in a ‘dreaming’ landscape and cosmology has taken me on many adventures. The creation of Mungo Explorer for schools is a result of this exploration and together with Cultural Infusion we created a digital platform to deliver this program for schools. Register for Free here to see the outline of content.https://learn.culturalinfusion.org.au

Liz Rees

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Primary Field of Application: Community education, retreats, contemplative spaces

Project: Contemplative Deeptime. I created learning content that draws on mystics, poets, astronomers, cosmologists, eco-activists and song-writers. These sessions combine wisdom and inspiration, contemplative practices, group discussion and outdoor invitations to embody the learning. Titles include: Eyes that See — Stepping into Deeptime, Zest for Life, Communion of Subjects, Kinship with the Cosmos, Allurement, Blue Planet, and Teilhard de Chardin – Pilgrim of the Future.

Bio: Liz is trained in eco ministry and guides contemplative practices and retreats. Reach out to Lizreespeace@gmail.com

Luningning Alvarado

Kiblawan, Davao del Sur, Philippines

Primary Field of Application: Mission

Project: Learning Organic Agriculture Production offered by one of the Agency in our government in the Philippines was one of my project which I believe I can practice it slowly in the house of my family and hopefully I can share it to others ( Friends and with the people of my next place of assignment as Lay Missionary). The other project I have is a join forces with my friends in mission which we call ” We Visit, We Plant” that means when we visit the houses of our friends and the families of our co- missionaries, we bring some tree seedlings and we plant with the family. We decided also to collect seeds to plant through the fruits that we eat at home .

Bio: I am Lay Missionary of Foreign Mission Society of Quebec. I been in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil for 10 years.

Penny Andrews

Wisconsin, USA

Primary Field of Application: Spiritual Formation during the Great Turning

Project: New Cosmology: Our Common Story as a Way of Knowing is a 7-week survey course of the sweeping information we have learned from Teillhard DeChardin to Physicist Peter Russell’s Consciousness theory and Brian Swimme’s human brain research. Prepared for the Creation Spirituality Communities Certificate Program, the course was offered in the summer of 2022.

Bio: Penny Andrews is a retired chaplain and ordained Interfaith minister. She co-hosts a monthly webinar, Creation in Crisis, does workshops on the Universe Story, Consciousness and Creativity, and is a facilitator of the Work the Reconnects.

Catherine Maresca

Washington DC

Primary Field of Application: Religious education.

Project: Research and write essays on modeling the integration of faith and science in one’s life for parents and teachers of young children. These will be the basis of talks, workshops, conference presentations, publications and materials on this subject.

Bio: Director of the Center for children and Theology, www.ctheo.org, exploring the theology of children and offering programs and resources to nurture their spiritual life. Author of DoubleClose, the Young Child’s Knowledge of God, Violence and Nonviolence in Scripture, When You Were Baptized, Sing with Joy, Songs of Love. MARS from Howard University, connecting liberation theology to children.

Lisa Verni

Point Pleasant Beach, NJ

Primary Field of Application: Wellness, the Arts, Consulting

Project:  “Dancing with the Pain,” www.dancingwiththepain.org,  is an artistic offering of gratitude and lived wisdom. It is meant to inspire hope and understanding through embodiment and expression of a Deeptime Perspective.

Bio: Lisa Verni, LCSW is a seasoned psychotherapist, consultant, writer, artist, and dancer who loves helping people live their authentic lives. Contact: lisaverni@comcast.net; www.dancingwiththepain.org; www.psychologytoday.com

M.J. Zimmerman

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Primary Field of Application: Ecotherapy, healing, and earth-focused spirituality.

Project: One part will be teaching the theological implications of the new cosmology to adults at the Albuquerque Mennonite Church. Another part, still in development, will be offering rituals out in nature that use the universe story as a healing story, similar to the Dineh Blessingway Ceremonies.

Bio: M.J. Zimmerman, Phd, is a teacher and therapist who studied the new cosmology with Brian Swimme at CIIS and Dineh cosmology with Dineh elders Leon Secatero, David Begay, and Nancy Maryboy. She has also studied and practiced Michael Harner’s version of shamanic journeying and Bill Plotkin’s soulcraft work. She is interested in how we can now integrate indigenous ways of knowing with modern ways of knowing to better live in harmony with our local ecosystems. mjzim@hotmail.com

Mary Ann Wamhoff

Crozet, Virginia

Primary Field of Application: labyrinth facilitation and Creation Spirituality

Project: I co-presented a one-day in-person workshop entitled Finding Presence in the Labyrinth: Connecting with the Circles of Life. I also presented a four-part online workshop entitled Creation Spirituality on the Labyrinth: A Dance of Four Powerful Paths. I weave deeptime into labyrinth walks whenever I facilitate.

Bio: I’m a retired educator, musician, and massage therapist who practices Reiki daily and sometimes teaches T’ai Chi Chuh! My husband and I love to visit labyrinths when we travel. I am enjoying introducing our new community to the beauty of this ancient tool for moving meditation. Email cslabyrinth@outlook.com.

Tara DeNuccio

Menlo Park, CA

Primary Field of Application: Community Living and Development

Project: Deeptime Living Communities are those in which the vitality and expression of life, in all forms, is supported and encouraged to flourish in an ever-evolving universe. As communities of the future, they will be shaped by collective consciousness that is embodied in awareness of and commitment to the principles of Deep Time. Deeptime living allows us to draw on the intelligence of the 13.8 billion year old universe and wisdom of understanding that will guide our way forward with greater relational unity and coherence.

Bio: In practice as an Integral and Somatic Coach over the last 20 years, my personal and professional interests have led to depth work in the areas of human growth and development, and embodied spirituality – with a focus on healing individual and collective trauma. By shining a light on the costs to humanity, the Earth and our collective future when traumatic impacts remain hidden and unacknowledged, we can, together, undertake the work of healing and restoration, releasing new possibilities for the future. Orienting from the wisdom of Deep Time, the primacy of relationship and community is held as essential for evolution of the highest good.

 

Clifford Berrien

Albuquerque, NM

Primary Field of Application: My primary application of Deeptime leadership will be at the intersection of Education & the Arts.

Project: My project is a course tentatively called: An invitation to view the world in the spirit of relationality and reciprocity. It is a deeptime inquiry into decolonial responses offered to heal the wound of separation from the universe, other humans and the planet Earth. This will be a practice-course integrating cognitive, affective, relational, contemplative and somatic practices offered to deepen our ability to make meaningful connections for the flourishing of the whole.

Bio: Cliff Berrien has over 50 years of experience as a drummer, percussionist, dj and music educator focused on the rhythms and music of the African Diaspora and many other global music traditions. He has used his degree in psychology and a substantial interest in the healing and wellness of body, mind and spirit to focused on studying cultural expressions of collective joy as transformative ways to develop creativity, cultural dexterity and contemplative-somatic awareness. His current dedication to deeptime studies began with an introduction to the work of his friend and mentor, Dr Barbara A Holmes ,through her book “Race and the Cosmos: An Invitation to view the world differently.

 

Brian E. Tucker

West Trenton, NJ USA

Primary Field of Application: Technology and Global Consciousness

Project: My allurement has arisen from my work of the past 40 years in Technology and Spiritual Direction. I have a vision that technology can be used to support the flourishing of life on this planet and help to usher in the Ecozoic era. I’m interested in collaborating with others who share in this vision. By spending time listening to the wisdom of the Cosmos (the greater context in which we are all embedded), I’€™ve learned to incorporate the four €œDeep Time Mindsets into my technological work and begin focusing on the fifth element of Continuum (evolution towards Global Consciousness)

Bio: As a Systems Analyst technology professional working for the past 16 years for a large Human Services Non-profit serving the Greater Philadelphia region, New Jersey and Delaware, I’ve also been consulting in my spare time with other non-profits whose missions align with my values  (The DeepTime Network, The Guild for Spiritual Guidance, The David Paladin Archives, Bharat Sevashram Sangha, NJ in Kendall Park, The Cuyamungue Institute in Santa Fe, NM, JEVS Human Services in Philadelphia and the Global Consciousness Project with Author and TechCast CEO Bill Halal). Please visit https://ecozoic.live to learn more.

 

Katrina Fabish

Aotearoa New Zealand

Primary Field of Application: While I have been called to leadership I have a deep interest in expressive arts and spirtiuality which leads to right actions. I cannot separate culture, justice, action and deep sprirituality and so have sought to offer experiences in all, and especially for those who do not have opportunities. I lived in our Mercy refuge for women for ten years and so feel impelled to keep reaching the edges. My background is in education and facilitation. My Deeptime Leadership is evolving the dream of the centre, teaching expressive arts, facilitating spirited conversation (bringing in visionaries) and develop transforming rituals,which may be in public spaces as witness.

Project: To create a Centre for Contemplation and Action using the Deeptime Network Principles within the Universe in the spirit of our Mercy Tradition and Values within the context of Aotearoa and our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. (vision statement further elaborates our vision. On Earth Day 24 April, we had the opening blessing for Hou Mana Wai Mercy Wellsprings. Core to our new development is our commitment to Te Tiriti o Waitangi- indigenous and from its ‘dreamtime’ we have consulted with Maori thoru every step from the blessing of the land, naming of the centre and leading our opening ceremonies.

Bio: I am a sister of Mercy who in 1992 studied with Mathew Fox at the “Culture and Creation Spirituality” graduate programme in San Francisco. This was transformational and influenced my further directions and decisions in the many Leadership roles I have had. Among these is the establishment of a community development centre dedicated to Women, Children and Earth-restoration of wetlands on site and Papatuanuku ki Taurangi Earth Promise -a community around a garden who grow food for the local poor and employ those who have challenges in life. We have not yet launched our new website. Please contact katrinafabish25@gmail.com.

Kenneth Steven Miller

7 Highlands Rd , Manahawkin NJ, 08050

Primary Field of Application: Presently I would be open to education consulting, or the arts in applying Deeptime Leadership, because I never had any professional experience in any of these fields . Leadership that engages unknown situations is very important and could be practiced in all l three of these fields . Our world faces many,” Gap” situations.

Project: My Deeptime Leadership project is on Life Long Learning .Originally I thought of this as always learning, in order to keep ones mind and brain sharp,and about things that one never had time to learn about before . While taking this course and developing my project, I realized that there was so much more to it . One example is that as one gains knowledge, the unknown also grows, thus begins a journey.

Bio: While I was taking this course Deeptime Leadership and Personal Empowerment Program I discovered that I was a Life Long Learner from the time I started 1st Grade . Public school taught formal subjects that were very important, but when class was not in session, recess, lunch time, assembling to go home on school busses, were situations that were very informal. They were not supervised leaving the student in a situation of not knowing exactly what to do. I learned that Deeptime Leadership had a term for this,” The Gap,” leadership is very unique from traditional leadership, because it deals with the unknown. rds47@optonline.net Ken Miller

Orla O’Reilly Hazra

Sarasota, Florida

Primary Field of Application: Philosophy of education, pedagogy, religious education, spirituality and addiction

Project: At this time I am completing a rewrite of my PhD dissertation (2009) into a book entitled “Back to Roots: Radical Education of the Mythopoetic Kind”. It is a tracing of our somatic journey of alienation, awakening and return, through the fourfold wisdom conversation of science, religion women and Indigenous peoples. This awareness and understanding of being bound (re-ligare) together in a collective Deep Time web of creative emergence offers lessons daily. Through story and shared dream experience, and aligned with the Universe as teacher, Deeptime pedagogy and leadership gives witness to the Great Work of our time, laying the foundations for Ecozoic living, freed from the spell of Cartesian ways of knowing and being.

Bio: The book is autobiographical but also a reflection of a larger cultural pathology. I began to address this pathology earlier in life as an addictions counselor but felt the profession was not addressing our trauma of separation from aspects of self, oneanother, Earth and Cosmos. From 2008-2019, I shared my findings while living in India, sharing the Story at retreats, teacher education programs and college courses. The discoveries and experiences along the way can now be shared more widely through the book and hopefully make their way into “educational” settings, especially teacher training and formation. As a founding board member of the Deeptime Network, I have shared the educational model, as well as presented it within Jesuit circles to renew their pedagogy. ohazra@aol.com

Jennifer Morgan, president and founder of the Deeptime Network, is an award-winning author, storyteller, and educator inspired by the work of Teilhard de Chardin, Maria Montessori, Thomas Berry, and Brian Swimme. Her Universe Story Trilogy — Born With a Bang, From Lava to Life, and Mammals Who Morph — are used in classrooms around the world, particularly in Montessori schools as part of the Cosmic Education Curriculum, and have received the Teachers Choice Award, Nautilus Semi Finalist, highest ratings from AAAS and endorsements from Jane Goodall, Neil de Grasse Tyson, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme and others. She is Vice President of the American Teilhard Association. Her life inspiration is to foster emergence by helping to link a planetary nervous system of people immersed in this radical new understanding.

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Stephan Martin is an astronomer, educator, and author who has taught astronomy, physics, and consciousness studies at colleges, universities, and learning centers across the US for over twenty-five years. Between 2003-2008 he studied directly with Brian Swimme and others at the California Institute of Integral Studies, out of which came his first book Cosmic Conversations, in which he held dialogues with scientists, spiritual teachers, and cultural creatives on the nature of the universe and our role in it. Since then he has led workshops on the New Cosmology at seminars and retreat centers across the US and Europe and has been active in exploring multidisciplinary approaches to exploring the universe. He is currently adjunct faculty in the Consciousness and Transformative Studies graduate program at John F Kennedy University where he teaches a course on “Cosmology and Consciousness.” Steve is also a co-director of the continuing care program at the Center for Spiritual Emergence in Asheville, NC where he assists clients in living more conscious lives from an expansive perspective.

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Brian Thomas Swimme is director of the Third Story at the Human Energy Project, which seeks to disseminate the cosmology of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. He is professor emeritus at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. A specialist in gravitational dynamics, his work for many years has been to bring the context of story to our understanding of the 13.8 billion year trajectory of the universe. Such a story, he feels, will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community. He is the author of several well known and influential books and is co-author with Thomas Berry on The Universe Story and with Mary Evelyn Tucker on the award-winning book and film Journey of the Universe. His latest book is Cosmogenesis.

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Penny Andrews, D.Min, MA, has had a lifelong interest in spirituality, creativity and consciousness as paths to intuition and deeper knowing. This passion led to the study of forms of art as meditation at the University of Creation Spirituality. She is an ordained interfaith minister, and during her career as a hospital chaplain applied a variety of healing modalities in her work with patients and family caregivers of all spiritual backgrounds. A retreat leader and Earth activist, Penny been actively involved in Creation Spirituality, The Work that Reconnects, the Earth Charter and DeepTime studies. Currently, she guides a weekly Work that Reconnects meditation, offers a monthly webinar with Gail Ransom called Creation in Crisis, serves on the board of directors of Creation Spirituality Communities, is a regular speaker at a local Unitarian Universalist congregation, and provides spiritual companioning for others. She is co-creating a food forest on the drumlin in Wisconsin where she has lived for 30 years. She’s a certified Deeptime Leader with the Deeptime Network.

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Lisa Verni, LCSW, is a seasoned psychotherapist, deeptime consultant, writer, artist, and dancer who loves helping people live their authentic lives through alignment with the Universe. Stephan Martin sees her as a ‘cosmic lamplighter’ because of her particular gift of reflecting back people’s radiant energy to develop their allurements. Lisa holds degrees in Business/Marketing and Clinical Social Work from NYU, and is a Certified Deeptime Leader. In completing her Emergence Project, Lisa created an artistic and therapeutic offering called “Dancing with the Pain”. It is meant to inspire hope and understanding through the embodiment and expression of a Deeptime Perspective. It can be found at www.dancingwiththepain.org. Lisa lectures on topics such as ‘Applying A Deeptime Perspective to Psychotherapy’ and ‘On Creative Process’, and will be joining us throughout the program to share her Emergences. Please feel free to contact her directly at lisaverni@comcast.net for mentoring and Deeptime Conversation.

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Gerardo López-Amaro joins us from Mexico where he engages in activist scholarship around Buen Vivir, ecopedagogies and practices of re-existence. He explores ways to highlight the experiments to co-create viable alternatives to the current system and address the global challenges of our times. He is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and Social Change by the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) of San Francisco, where he wonders about the possibilities for the emergence of the pluriverse even in dense liberal societies learning with grassroots movements. He is also part of the Steering Committee of the Ecoversities Alliance.

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Orla Hazra, PhD currently lives in Sarasota Florida after recently returning from ten years in Mumbai, India. While in India she developed a curriculum to renew the Ignatian (Jesuit) Pedagogical Paradigm, applying it at St. Xavier’s College and at Tarumitra, an ecoliteracy center in Patna. Her academic formation in recreation leadership, addiction counseling, and spiritual direction, led her into a PhD program in Religious Education, from Fordham University; her research becoming a model for educational reform considering the fourfold wisdom conversation suggested by Thomas Berry — science, religion, women and indigenous peoples. She is a founding board member of the Deeptime Network and is delighted to be witnessing the model in practice, healing our trauma of separation.

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Kacey Amrita Carmichael, MA, MEd, sees the Universe unfolding as YOU! She delights in helping you experience this directly, through embodied creative and meditative arts. To this she brings the dynamic synergy of her experience as an expressive arts psychotherapist; ordained interfaith minister, ritual leader and spiritual counselor; Certified Deeptime Leader; Waldorf educator; mindful yoga and meditation teacher; mother; cosmos lover; and lifelong mystic, writer, and dancer. Grounded in her rigorous education at Harvard and Yale as well as decades of artistic and contemplative practices in several modalities and traditions, she’s known to help people enter into deep creativity and intuitive knowing. She works with individuals and groups, creating community and together celebrating the creative ecstasy of the 14 billion year brilliant beloved unfolding we are. She has some availability for expressive arts-based deeptime/spiritual counseling, movement and writing groups, or retreat, ritual and ceremony leadership at TheUniverseShinesForth@gmail.com. In the 90’s Kacey wrote a book called Going Direct, on the writing that emerges from the practice of Authentic Movement. In decades of practicing and teaching AM, she has developed this into a Deeptime Cosmogenesis practice.

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Elena Pardo: Educator, cultural manager and promoter of intra- and intercultural education in urban and rural areas of the Cusco Region, Peru. She is director of CEPROSI and speaker at conferences, forums and events at regional, national and international levels. Promotes the Watunakuy (international seed event) that has been held for 19 years at the Raqchi Ceremonial Center, an international meeting for the exchange of collective healing and the exchange of seeds. He is a member of the Watunakuy Ayllu Network and the Ecoversities Network.

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MARY CONROW COELHO has a background in both science and theology. She has an MDiv degree from Union Theological Seminary and a PhD from Fordham University. She is the author of Awakening Universe, Emerging Personhood: The Power of Contemplation in an Evolving Universe. She has been a watercolor painter for many years. She has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Friends Committee on Unity with Nature, is on the board of The American Teilhard Association and founder with others of the New Story Group at Friends Meeting at Cambridge and a similar group in New York City. She has led a number of workshops on the integration of the epic of evolution and the Western contemplative/mystical tradition. She brings her theological studies, her background in science as a biology teacher and her excitement about our transformed worldview to her work as a water painter of images evoking the new cosmology. A few of her paintings and some accordion books are on her website: http://newuniversestory.com. Mrs. Coelho is a signature member of the Northeast Watercolor Society, exhibiting her paintings in the northeast.

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Sarbmeet Kanwal, PhD is an award-winning educator and a pioneer in novel ways of teaching quantum physics and astronomy. He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the California Institute of Technology. His aptitude for explaining intricate scientific concepts in everyday language, has made him a sought after speaker among both science and non-science communities. He recently gave a TEDx talk on our new cosmic story, titled “Chaos to Cosmos”. Sarbmeet is a follower of the Sikh religion and a long time board member of the Monmouth Center for World Religions and Ethical Thought where he helped initiate several interfaith projects including the cofounding of an award winning youth leadership program called MOSAIC. In the last two years he has assisted with instruction for Deeptime Network courses.

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Ezekiel Fugate is the co-founding director of Deep Belonging (Deep Belonging),an educational platform dedicated to catalyzing the transformation of human consciousness. He is also a doctoral candidate in the Philosophy Cosmology and Consciousness program at CIIS where his research focuses on Autocosmology and Cosmogenetic Experience.

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Anthony Robert Zelle, Esq., Tony is an Earth lawyer. While serving as Chair and President of the Earth Law Center, following 30 years in private practice trying cases and arguing appeals, he served as lead editor and author of the only comprehensive book on the subject: Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law-A Guide for Practitioners. Developed for law school curricula, and now part of developing LLM programs internationally, the book has also become the primary reference source for practitioners.

The focus of Tony's current work is developing Earth law in practice and creating revenue-generating opportunities for Earth lawyers.

Learn more about Tony’s journey from a recent Boston College Law School Magazine profile.https://lawmagazine.bc.edu/2025/02/voice-for-the-earth/

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Maisie Paddon, Maisie is spearheading the advancement of Earth Law by integrating its principles into transformative policies and business strategies that resonate with Earth-centric practices and Nature's patterns. At the helm of Project 2040, she seeks to revolutionize financial systems, foster circular economies, and develop regenerative food systems. Her extensive experience in top-tier management consulting, with roles at Ernst & Young and Capgemini, showcases her ability to lead complex innovation programs and engage with C-suite leaders. With a solid foundation in Philosophy and Climate Science, Maisie is deeply committed to beneficial systemic change. She champions the inclusion of Nature's voice in discussions that tackle the multifaceted crises of today's modern world, while aligning her efforts with global frameworks like UN SDGs, ESG principles, and ISO standards. Her holistic and emotionally intelligent approach underscores her pursuit of sustainable and equitable solutions.

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Kerry Hudson, Hudson works as an activist and public interest lawyer with a focus on social justice, and an academic and employment history addressing heirs' property reform and protections of the Florida aquifer. He served as co-founder and manager for a medical practice that focused on Environmentally Acquired Diseases, and the effects of that most macro of human phenomenon—climate change, on the most granular, personal issues—individual health and the chronic and intractable maladies brought on by changing climate. He has served as Education Director for Rights of Nature and eco-centric education, creating informational content addressing topics such as environmental protections and property law, and the Public Trust Doctrine, and creating supplemental educational content for the law school textbook Earth Law: A Practitioner’s Guide. He holds an MFA in writing, has a publication history with both fiction and non-fiction, and has authored funded grants examining strategies to mitigate generational heirs' property abuses. He holds a J.D. with a focus on Environmental Justice, social equity, and restorative justice and has created informational and educational content addressing the intersection of environmental and legal issues such as the one-percenters' climate change preparations. Currently based in London, He works on a long-form manuscript addressing the importance of property law, social justice, and the climate change crisis.

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April Elizabeth Finlayson, April Elizabeth Finlayson is an “Edu-neer” dedicated to designing holistic and transformational learning experiences. She has a fervent commitment to reimagining education, promoting lifelong learning and creating uniquely curated, humanizing educational experiences for youth, and the young at heart. This has led to the development of nearly a dozen innovative schools and numerous educational programs in the K-12, after-school learning, adult development and Higher-Ed spaces.

April’s style of leadership and service is rooted in making space for learner voice, agency and empowerment. She believes that the best teaching and learning is reciprocal, interwoven and interchangeable. April asserts that “if a learner knows that they are seen, affirmed, “in-powered” and protected while learning, they will feel loved, and will henceforth thrive!”

April's students and graduates have gone on to international and national renown in philanthropy, entrepreneurship, professional athletics, entertainment, and being great, enjoyable people. April was cross culturally raised and educated between The Bahamas, the USA and Canada. She completed her undergraduate degree in International Development Studies, Political Science and Management from McGill University, and earned both her Master's Degree in Mind, Brain and Education and her Doctorate Degree in Education Leadership from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Tara A. Pierce, Tara holds degrees in painting, the humanities, a J.D., and an LL.M. in Oceans, Environment, & Sustainability. This transdisciplinary background enriched her legal studies and contributed to the successful publication of several papers on Earth Law and Restorative Ocean Farming. Her latest thesis synthesised her entire academic and hands-on experiences into an approach to transforming the law into a healing practice. Tara regularly guest lectures on Ocean & Coastal Law developments for various institutions in the United States and Europe.

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Cat Haas, Cat Haas is the Director of the Eco Jurisprudence Monitor (EJM), where she oversees the research and development of the world’s most comprehensive database of ecological jurisprudence initiatives globally. Since 2022, she has led efforts to document and analyze the global evolution of Earth-centered law, with a particular focus on the Rights of Nature movement, ecological law, and Indigenous ontologies. Cat holds an M.A. in Global Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where her research explored the influence of Indigenous cosmologies and pluriversal ontologies on the development and globalization of the Rights of Nature movement.
She also serves on the Steering Committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) Academic Hub, an interdisciplinary network of scholars specializing in ecological law and governance.
With a background in environmental education, Cat is passionate about fostering awareness and advocacy for sustainable, equitable legal frameworks that address the climate crisis and center ecological well-being

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Ava Roche, Ava is currently a pre-law focused senior at Columbia University studying Political Ecology, conducting her senior thesis on the socio-political effects of deep-sea mining in the Cook Islands. She is attending Columbia University’s Climate School next fall, and aspires to be an earth lawyer, with experience as the student director of the Earth Law Centers, “Earth Law: Emerging Ecocentric Law- a Guide for Practitioners” course last summer. She is an avid scuba diver who is passionate about protecting earths vital oceanic ecosystems, and is interning at Columbia Law Schools, "Sabin Center for Climate Change Law” this coming summer under Michael Gerrard. Above all, she can’t wait to TA with Earth Law Practice and work in such an impactful environment.

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Joseph O’Brien, Joseph recently graduated from Brown University with a concentration in environmental studies. At Brown, he organized an experimental climate negotiation simulation featuring non-human, non-state, and state actors. With a background in regenerative agriculture, political theory, and contemplative education, he is excited to support this year's cohort jump into the chaotic, beautiful, and generative world of Earth Law.

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Janet Marley is completing an MA in Ecopsychology at Naropa University. She is currently researching styles of governance in traditional indigenous societies of Turtle Island and how such wisdom ways can positively influence modern ecocentric regenerative residential communities and bioregional initiatives. She has a BA in Religious Studies from Brown University. Janet is a community organizer with an abiding interest in designing and co-creating intentional living and learning centers that model and teach connection, communication, and reciprocity with the natural world. Her gifts and roles include Teacher, Naturalist, Healer, Event Producer, and Facilitator of ceremony, council, rites of passage, vision quests, ecotherapy, and trauma integration work. She is a Montessori-trained educator and mom of two young children. She currently serves as a board member for The Circle for Change Initiative and is the Director of Programming and Events at the Manitoulin Eco Park, an indigenous-led nature connection facility in Ontario, Canada.

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