SOE SPEAKERS

SOE SPEAKERS

[Note:  Click on each NAME to email the Sister of Earth. Click on each TITLE for more description of program or retreat.]


SISTER OF EARTH SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS:


Sister of Earth Margie Abbott, RSM
lives in Australia
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Sister of Earth Bernadette Bostwick with other SOE Artists
lives in Pennsylvania, US
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Sister of Earth Anita Cleary, OP
lives in Springfield, IL
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Sister of Earth Imogene Drummond

lives in Garrison, NY

Presentation/Workshop Themes:

• Creating Cosmogenesis through Art—shares how my Art Sparks Cosmic Creativity and Well-Being Program ignites individual creativity, empowerment—and Cosmogenesis—in diverse educational settings with children and adults.

• Eco-Spirituality through the Eyes of an Artist Part II — focuses on the development of my Divine Sparks award-winning film that led to Art Sparks Creativity Program. This transformative art program combines Creativity, Self-Worth, and the Cosmos and has garnered significant therapeutic results.

• Art Sparks Creativity and Well-Being Program — shares the holistic pedagogical approaches and results of Art Sparks Creativity Program at a middle school in New York. (This is a shorter version of the presentation above.)

• Eco-Spirituality through the Eyes of an Artist Part I — explores my painting expeditions to sacred sites around the world and their influence on the development of my Cosmocentric art, including film and video.

• ACQUITS Communication Tool Kit — shares my toolkit of techniques to promote effective communication for groups online and in person.

• Walking and Wandering: An EcoSpiritual Journey — explores my 3-month pre-pandemic walkabout in Scotland and Spain.

• Art Sparks Creativity Program’s Guidebook — shares how Art Sparks Creativity Program’s innovative curriculum in a private middle school in New York resulted in a 10-year-old boy’s dramatic transformation from an anxious shy loner to a warm, relaxed student with significantly improved learning and social skills. His teacher now calls him “the poster child for Art Sparks’ therapeutic results.”

• Terra Incognita — shows nature’s inspiration on my creativity by connecting my early years creating work during international painting expeditions to my art created in New York’s Hudson River Valley.

• The Middle Years — focuses on the middle years of my art career.

• Memory, Myth and Cultural Transformation — retraces my first ten years of painting expeditions; shares the influence of nature, prehistoric art, and world religions on my art; and explores the relevance of my work in a larger social context.

For more info, see my website: http://www.imogenedrummond.com

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Sister of Earth Kathy Duffy, SSJ
lives in Glenside, PA
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Sister of Earth, Marya Grathwohl, OSF
lives in Billings, MT
Marya’s book, This Wheel of Rocks: An Unexpected Spiritual Journey will be published by Random House, for release in print and an audio version Nov 16, 2023.  It takes the reader on an inspiring and lyrical exploration of the heartfelt vocation to care for Earth. To order, Google 'Random House' and in the Search Box type the title and Marya Grathwohl.

  • Marya has resumed giving retreats, talks, and workshops on Earth themes, and Earth-care lifestyles as spiritual practice, as well as providing spiritual direction/companioning in person and by Zoom and phone.

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Sister of Earth Judith Keller
lives in Southport, Queensland Australia
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Sister of Earth Angela Manno (artist)
lives in New York NY
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Sister of Earth Linda Neil, CSJ
lives in Schenectady, NY
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Sister of Earth Gloria Rivera, IHM
lives in Detroit, MI
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Sister of Earth Joyce Rouse (musician, composer)
lives in Independence, VI
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Sister of Earth Mudita Menona Sodder RSCJ
lives in Mumbai, India
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Sister of Earth Margaret Swedish
lives in Milwaukee, WI
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Sister of Earth Maureen Wild, SC
lives on Gabriola Island, BC, Canada
Retreat/Program Themes:

  • Living Cosmology:
    - Cosmic Symphony of Love Unfolding
    - Cosmological Beings in a Sacred Universe_description.pdf
  • Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets: Hildegard, Teilhard, Thomas Berry
  • Hildegard of Bingen
    - Hildegard's Life and Times, Music, Visions, and Spirituality of Viriditas
    - A Spiritual Pilgrimage to the Lands of St. Hildegard
  • Teilhard de Chardin
    - Teilhard's Life and Mysticism
  • Thomas Berry:
    Themes within retreat:  To Love Our Sacred Earth
    - Hildegard's Viriditas meets Thomas' Spirituality of Earth
    - Francis of Assisi and Thomas Berry on Intimacy with Nature meet Suzanne Simard on New Ways to See and Know a Forest
    - Thomas on Guidance, and the Self-Healing of Earth, meets Janine Benyus on Biomimicry
    - Teilhard’s Mass on the World meets Thomas’ Cosmic Liturgy and Celebration
  • Laudato Si'
    - Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Laudato Si' ...You and Me
    - Laudato Si' in light of Cosmological Principles

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Sister of Earth Caroljean (Cj) Willie, SC
lives in Cincinnati, OH
Workshop/Presentation Themes:

  • Building Bridges: How to Have Hope in a Divided World
  • Climate Change
    - Climate Change, Poverty and Migration
    - The Realities of Climate Change (and how to understand and respond to climate change deniers)
  • Earth As Common Ground
  • The Earth Charter
  • Faith for Earth: A Call for Action (the collaborative program between the UN Environment Programme and the World Parliament of Religions)
  • Journaling with Nature
  • Laudato Si’:
    - Blueprint for the 21 st Century
    - Living Laudato Si’
    - Embracing God’s Creation: Listening and Responding to the Cry of the Earth and the Cry of the Poor
  • Eco Spirituality
    - Recovering a Sense of the Sacred: Ecospirituality for Our Times
    - God Creates the Universe (the Cosmic Walk)
    - All the World Is Sacred
    - Tread Lightly: Embracing Diversity, Interiority and Communion for Ministry
    - Called to Ecological Conversion
    - Praying All Ways with Nature
    - Spirituality and Sustainability
  • Sustainability
    - Sustainability: An Integral Dimension of Faith
    - The Sustainable Development Goals
    - The Sustainable Development Goals and Laudato Si’
    - Sustainability Initiatives around the World
  • Sacred Earth Knowledge: What Indigenous People Have to Teach Us

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Sister of Earth Gail Worcelo
lives in Greensboro, VT
Retreat Themes:

  • The Mysticism of Thomas Berry
  • The Spirituality of Earth
  • The Theology of the Fireball
  • Living in a Multispecies World: Strengthening Our Connections and Capacities

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Sister of Earth Sharon Zayac, OP
lives in Springfield, IL
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