Detailed Schedule

SATURDAY, 9:00 am - 9:40 am
Morning Café and Poster Sessions

Baba Yaga as Shaman
Jacqueline Freeman

Eris: Sister Outsider and Shadow Other
Rebecca Farrar

Healing the Lineage through Cultural Practice: Traditional Tattoos as Therapeutic Tool for Collective Trauma
Vesna Westbrook

 SATURDAY, 9:45 am - 11:00 am
Panels            

Matriarchal Politics and the Vision of a New Society

• Joan Cichon,
• Genevieve Vaughan,
• Heide Goettner -Abendroth,
• Ericka Starks
• Letecia Layson. “Babaylan - Matriarch and Culture Bearer in the indigenous communities in the Philippines and Filipino communities in Diaspora”

Restoring Sacred Relationship: Visions of Post-Patriarchal Food Systems

• Alka Arora
• Lauren Ornelas
• Michelle Boyle
• Kasia Pereira

Women’s Spirituality in Education  

• Jeanette Kiel
• Jessica Bowman
• Gina Rizzo
• Jennifer Ortiz
• Deborah Santana’s film, Women in Higher Education

Workshops

Feeling Yes & No in the Body
Jacqueline Freeman

Sit at the Table or Be on the Menu: Women in Leadership
Chandra Brooks

 Lecture/Presentation

Creating Goddess Art and Activism
Max Dashu and Cristina Biaggi

Rituals

Grove of the Wild: Renewing and Reweaving Relationship with our Tree Kin through Sacred Dance and Story
Patti O'Luanaigh and Anna Knox

Resting in the Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Shabbat as Radical Practice
Kohenet Cedar Ranney and Kohenet Yael Schonzeit

SATURDAY, 11:00 am – 11:15 am

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SATURDAY, 11:15 am – 12:30 pm

Keynote Speaker Sherri Mitchell

 

SATURDAY, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch break:  Food for thought networking tables, food provided.  Or, free time.

(see program for lunch rooms)

 

SATURDAY, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Panels

Heeding the Call: Contemporary Women Retrieving and Reclaiming Ancestral Traditions for Our Current Times.            

• Arisika Razak,
• Brenda Salgado
• May Elawar
• Shylah Hamilton
• Inhui Lee
• Leilani Birely, "The Spirit of Aloha: How I Bridge the Worlds".

Crafting the Story of the Feminine in the Media

• Cindy Ma
• Julia Maryanska
• Sara Moncada Madril

Women’s Ancestral Wisdom, Witches, & Spiritual Connections to Nature

Drawing from the folk wisdom of our Ancestors, ancient traditions, historic rituals, and magical realms, in relationship with all of nature, our panel recalls and calls forth voices and visions, serpent energies and elements of nature to embody healing and imagine possibilities for a better future in communion with the Earth.

• Mary Beth Moser, "Old Wives Tales: Women's Wisdom & Ancestral Values in the Folk Stories of the Italian Alps"
• Monica Mody, "Remantling Serpent Energies for the Healing of Post-Patriarchal Possibilities for the Body, Intimacy, and Futurities"
• Patti O'Luanaigh, "The Celtic Connection: Vision Journeying with the Faery Folk"
• Elizabeth Sikie, "Sacred Female Communions with Nature: Stories of Glaciers"*
• Marguerite Rigoglioso, “Bridging Worlds with the Fae & Sidhe: Personal Reflections on Humanity’s Ancient Future”

 

Workshops

Supporting Muslim Women in Their Struggle to be Free of Patriarchy
Rabi’a Keeble

Goddess Oratory and Public Speaking
Z. Budapest

The World is Your Oracle: Empowering Women to Empower Themselves
Nancy Vedder-Shults

Lecture/Presentations

Rise Up! Living Boldly from the Sacred Space of Authentic Self-Expression
Rev. Sunshine Michelle Coleman

Women's Sacred Practices at the Center of Old European Civilization
Joan Marler

Rituals

Enheduanna's Birthday Celebration
Judy Grahn, Dianne Jenett, Evelie Posch

 

SATURDAY, 3:30 pm – 3:45 pm

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SATURDAY, 3:45 pm - 5:00 pm

Panels

Black Feminist Research Warriors: A Successful University Collaboration

• Denise Boston
• Rachel Bryant
• Adeeba Deterville
• Lynesha Kately

She Can Be Silenced No More! Sacred Drama as a Tool to Transform the World and Bring Goddess Alive 

• Joan Cichon
• Jade Kelly
• Alexandra Cichon

Women's Visionary Arts & Culture

• Mara Lynn Keller
• Arisika Razak
• Shah Noor Hussein
• Mary Mackey
• Cristina Biaggi
• Irene Plunkett
• Shah Noor Hussein

 

Workshops

Healing & Owning Your Activism: A Guided Energy Healing Meditation
Rev. Alice D. Martin

Indigenous Prophecy & the Role of Women’s Circles in Co-Creating and Visioning the New World
Brenda Salgado & circle-mate

Lecture/Presentation

Pancha Kanya:  Five Inspired Heroines of Hindu Mythology
Aishwarya Subramanian

Wise Hands: Art as Sacred Practice
Rose Frances

Rituals

Ma Yoni at Womb Yoga: Embodying the Kemetic Goddess
Mysty Moon

SATURDAY, 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm

Dinner Break

SATURDAY, 6:00 pm  – 7:15 pm

Artists and Authors Reception. Artists in the Once and Future Goddess art exhibition, curated by Tricia Grame and Mara Lynn Keller, and 100 new authors Women’s Spirituality Book Awards

 

SATURDAY, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

A Celebratory Concert Ritual with Jennifer Berezan and Friends ~ Evelie Posch, Women Master Drummers Carolyn Brandy and Barbara Borden, Adwoa Kudoto, and Sena Kugbeg

SUNDAY, 9:00 am - 9:40 am

Poster Sessions and Morning Café

Icons of Ancestral Mothers
Max Dashu

The Patriarchy and our Ancestors: Healing our Wounds and Moving Forward
Erin Sweeney

Personal Empowerment is an Act of Love and the Key to Our Collective Evolution
Lisa Young

Returning to the Temple of the Luminous
Jessica Weappa Spring

Women’s Leadership and PoWR, the Parliament of the World’s Religions
Mara Lynn Keller and Elizabeth Ursic

SUNDAY, 9:45 am -12:15 pm

Workshop

Take the Dream and Make it Real
Starhawk

Film

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.
Film Screening and Discussion with Joy Tomchin, President of Public Square Media, Victoria Cruz, and Michelle Marzullo, CIIS Human Sexuality chair

 SUNDAY, 9:45 am - 10:45 am

Panels

Ancient & Contemporary Goddess Spirituality  

• Anne Key
• Constance Tippet
• Anique Radiant Heart
• Hallie Iglehart Austen
• Max Dashu

Birthing and Mothering for Post-Patriarchal Lives

• Chandra Alexandre
• Nane Jordan
• Elisabeth Bolaza
• Mariam Tazi-Preve

Spiritual Art as Prayer and Activism

• Batya Weinbaum
• Gail Williams
• Annette Williams
• Natasha Redina’s film, The Crossing of a Threshold

Sexual Healing and the Sacred Female Body 

• Emiko Yoshikami
• Mandy Benson
• Karen Villanueva

 

Lecture/Presentation

Chicana ‘Her-Story’: You’ve Heard ‘History’: Now Hear Hers
Maria Ramirez

 

SUNDAY, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Panels

Navigating Death and Loss from a Spiritual Feminist Perspective

• Diane Martin
• Emy Tafelski

Womanist/Feminist Voices & Activism 

• Kimberly Davis
• Keyona Lazenby
• Beverly Scott
  

Workshops

Publishing Women’s Spirituality ~ Roundtable

• Mara Lynn Keller
• Anne Key
• Mary Macke
• Helen Hye-Sook Hwang

 

Lecture/Presentation

The Non-Toxic Masculine & the Archetype of the Green Man
Rachael Vaughan and Jack Gescheidt

Rituals

Praise Singing Ritual for Female Orishas
Gail Williams

 

SUNDAY, 12:00 pm – 1:15 pm

Lunch break:  Food for thought networking tables, food provided.  Or, free time (see program for lunchrooms)

 

SUNDAY, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Poetry Circle Open Mic
Patti O’Luanaigh

 

SUNDAY, 1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. 

Eahr Joan Legacy Lecture.  ReGenesis ~ Three Million Years of Sacred Female Iconography
Eahr Joan

 

SUNDAY, 2:15 pm - 2:30 pm

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SUNDAY, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Plenary Panel: “New Visions for a Post Patriarchal World” 

• Alka Arora. Telling the Truth and Opening our Hearts: Women & Men Unlearning Patriarchy Together"

• Ladale Benson
• Eri Johnson
• Starhawk
• Genevieve Vaughan

 

SUNDAY, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Life-time Achievement Awards for Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum and Eahr Joan

Closing Ceremonies 

Annette Williams, Spirit-Dancer Arisika Razak, Singing Circle with Melanie DeMore.  Gratitude to Lisa Christie and the Women Rising! conference team. 

 

 We hope to see you again in two years!