The Findhorn Foundation, in collaboration with Findhorn College, is pleased to present the successful Bioneers movement from North America, bringing inspiration from 'the heart of nature' to Europe.

                     It’s all alive. It’s all connected. It’s all intelligent…

Founder Kenny Ausubel coined the word bioneers in 1990 to describe an emerging culture of social and scientific innovators who are mimicking nature’s operating instructions to serve human ends while healing nature. Bioneers take a "solve-the-whole-problem" approach: taking care of nature means taking care of people - and taking care of people means taking care of nature. For more than twenty years Bioneers have promoted practical environmental solutions and innovative social strategies for restoring Earth’s imperiled ecosystems and healing our human communities.

The Bioneers movement unites people from all walks of life, people of heart and mindfulness, inspiring the shifts to living on Earth in ways that honour the web of life, each other and future generations.

The network of innovators and activists that is the growing Bioneers movement and the work of the Findhorn Foundation community are natural allies – developing and demonstrating practical and peaceful solutions for the challenges facing our human society today.

We celebrate this first opportunity to work together, hosting a gathering focusing on effective, constructive and positive responses to our need to support sustainable and resilient lifestyles - for all the peoples of our planet.

We invite you to join us at Europe’s first Bioneers conference. Bring your own stories. Be inspired by the plenary speakers. Share your wisdom and experience in the afternoon workshops. Connect, so that we can build a strong Bioneers network in Europe.

If you feel the call, you are a Bioneer!

Income related price (click here for more information): £545 / £695 / £875
Price if paid for by your organisation: £875
Includes 4 nights accommodation and all meals.

Earlybird discount of £35 if booked and paid for in full by 30 July 2010.


Presenters

Kenny Ausubel and Nina Simons - founders of the Bioneers – creating effective, honest media and social movement innovations; (also - Dreaming New Mexico and Women’s leadership trainings). Website

Dr Vandana Shiva, author, scientist, director of Navdanya; a champion for Earth democracy, promoting Soil not Oil and food sovereignty; an eloquent activist and educator. Website

Ann Pettifor, economic analyst, consultant and researcher; founding director Advocacy International; key activist for Jubilee 2000 debt relief campaign; New Economics Foundation fellow; co-author of the A New Green Deal and other texts. Website

Maddy Harland, editor of Permaculture magazine. Website

Peter Harper, Head of Research and Innovation for the Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales: on low carbon adaptation. Website

Liz Hosken, founding director of Gaia Foundation – on Earth Jurisprudence and What the North can learn from the South. Website

Lady Diana Whitmore, author, and founder and CEO of Children our Ultimate Investment UK (COUI ); on reaching vulnerable socially excluded young people with a human potential orientated approach; ie Teens and Toddlers programme. Website

May East, educator, cultural change activist; CEO CIFAL Findhorn (UNITAR trainings for local authorities); and coordinator for grassroots ESD programme, Gaia Education; on principles of resilient systems in societal change. CIFAL Findhorn website Gaia Education website

Alan Watson Featherstone, founder of Trees for Life UK, and renowned photographer; on restoration of the Caledonian forest - and forests elsewhere. Website

Galen Fulford, director of Biomatrix Water, on ecological design and engineering solutions for bioremediation and wastewater treatment. Website

Tamera Solar Village research project (Tamera, Portugal): Barbara Kovats, leader of the Solar Village project; and Bernd Walter Müller, ecology and permaculture specialist, on innovative designs (socially and technologically) of appropriate scale for healthy low impact settlement. Website