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Here's a list of some upcoming online and Rogue Valley, in-person, eco-spiritual activities that may interest you. Check back as this post will be updated during May as we get additional information, and a new calendar listing will come out in June.
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May 2, 2024, at 1-2:30 p.m. PDT - Global Kinship is presenting a virtual webinar with science ambasador J.D. Stillwater: One Song: The Science of Unity. "For millennia mystics and prophets have told us that “All is one” and yet we feel ourselves surrounded by separation, antagonism, and isolation! With help from some intrepid dung beetles, science ambassador JD Stillwater takes us on a tour of findings from mainstream science that reveal an underlying wholism in everything from human bodies to ecosystems to the very fabric of space-time. In short, science agrees: “All is one.” Registration is required: Register here.
May 4, 2024, from 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. PDT - Ecumenical Ministries and Oregon Interfaith Power & Light are organizing a Statewide Community Climate Vigil for the Right to a Healthy Environment, at the State Capitol Mall in Salem, Oregon. RSVP here.
ProSocial World also offers a variety of online seminars this spring:
May 3, 2024, at 3 p.m. PDT - Shigeru Miyagowa: Quest for Fire and ChatGPT: AI from the Perspective of Human Evolution
May 10, 2024, at 9 a.m. PDT - Barbara Oakley: The Empathy Commons: The Risks of Caring Without Clear Boundaries
May 17, 2024, at 3 p.m. PDT - Blair Gross and David McAleavey: Leveraging the UK Household Longitudinal Study to Explore Social Baseline Theory
May 24, 2024, at 9 a.m. PDT - Heinrich Volmink: Ubuntu and the Noosphere: Exploring Insights for Collective Consciousness and Prosociality
June 3 to 7, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. PDT - David Sloan Wilson: Transforming Business and Education- Leading towards Flourishing
May 6, 2024, at 1 p.m. PDT - The Oregon Environmental Council is offering a virtual webinar taking a closer look at This Year's State Legislative Session. Their guest speaker is Senator Janeen Sollman, Senate Energy and Environment Committee Chair. She played a pivotal role as an environmental champion this session, including passing Oregon’s landmark Right to Repair legislation. Register here.
May 6, 2024, at 3:30 p.m. PDT - Third Act is presenting a webinar: Welcome to Third Act: Let’s Get Started. Join Third Act's volunteers and learn about campaigns, Working Groups, and how you can plug into our growing network. Bill McKibben is the founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of sixty for progressive change, and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. Read Bill's April 25, 2024 article The Biden Administration’s Plan to Make American Homes More Efficient. Register here
May 9, 2024 - FIC is starting a 6-week online course: Communication and Relationship Building in Community. "Learn how to speak your mind, discern your thoughts, and be a better listener." Learn more and register here.
May 15, 2024, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. PDT - Citizens' Climate Lobby will be presenting: Race, Climate, and Culture Conversation. Free. Register here.
May 16, 2024 - The 6th annual Creativity Conference at Southern Oregon University will kick off Thursday, May 16, and run through Sunday, May 19. The four-day event features a dynamic, global lineup with over 100 presenters, including five keynote speakers. See the conference website for a full listing of this year’s program.
May 16, 2024, from 7-9 p.m. PDT - Southern Oregon public hearing, in the Jackson County Auditorium, 7520 Table Rock Rd., Central Point, OR, for Groundwater Allocation rule-making (about strengthening standards for acquiring groundwater water rights) with written comments due May 31, 2024.
May 18, 19, 25, and 26, 2024 - The Guild for Spiritual Guidance, and the Human Energy Project are co-sponsoring a webinar series with Dr. Emily DeMoor Intersubjectivity and the Noosphere: Love, entanglement, and Convergence. Register here.
May 23, 2024 - Process & Faith, in collaboration with The Cobb Institute, is offering a six-session course: 12 Universal Spiritual Principles to Freedom and Intimacy Solving Life's Problems throughTransreligious Spiritual Principles. Karl Y. will link these 12 principles to the writing of Alfred North Whitehead to understand them in transreligious spiritual ways that are compatible with process-relational thought.
Learn more & sign up: https://buff.ly/3wfucQU
May 24-25, 2024 - Claremont ECO Forum is having an in-person forum: The Great Turning: Towards an Ecological Civilization Aiming at the Common Good of Humanity and Nature at Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, This will be the 17th International Forum on Ecological Civilization and the 6th International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization. Register here.
May 28, 2024, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. PDT - SOCAN's Monthly Meeting will take place in the large meeting room of the Medford Public Library, 205 South Central, Medford, OR. The topic this month is: Why do we need the Oregon Coalition for an Environmental Rights Amendment?
This calendar is sent only once-a-month by email, and does not include other interesting articles from this past month: