How well do we know water?

A trilogy of talks

Fascinating insights are bubbling up around the fringes of our collective awareness in relation to water, challenging our knowledge of and assumptions regarding this fundamental presence in our world. This new webinar series with host Peter Yeo asks the question, how well do we know water? Considering the meaning of elemental – embodying the powers of Nature – is it more accurate to think of water as a Who, rather than an it? Join guest speakers from around the world to explore the new and ancient depths of our watery world and how the revelations therein can profoundly inform our individual and collective realities.

Tuesdays, 7.30–9pm BST

18 June: ‘The divinity of water’ – Veda Austin, water researcher and author

25 June: ‘Restoring harmony with Earth’s ocean and rivers’ – Don Jacobs, also known as Wahinkpe Topa, a Lakota term translating as Four Arrows

2 July: ‘Drinkable rivers: how the river became my teacher’ – Li An Phoa, founder of Drinkable Rivers

A ticket to attend all three online talks is £20. A ticket to attend an individual online talk is £8. The talks will be recorded for viewing later.

Please note that you can still sign up for the whole series even after one or two of the talks have passed, as you will then receive a link to recordings of all three once the series is over. Recordings are for ticket holders only.

All ticket prices include a booking fee.

This is a series of Zoom webinars with interactive Q&A sessions. If you would like to submit a question before the event, please email events@resurgence.org

The talks will be hosted by Pete Yeo. With past chapters involving horticulture, landscape architecture, environmental activism and philanthropy, Pete is now focused on serving his long-standing passion for plants, working with them to draw attention to our ecological relationships and inviting greater coherence within and without. As a reconciliation ecologist and Nature mentor, he gives talks, guides walks, engages in consultancy, writes and broadcasts in this spirit. You can find out more about him at www.futureflora.co.uk

Veda Austin is a water researcher, public speaker, mother, artist and author. She has dedicated the last 10 years to observing and photographing the life of water. She believes that water is fluid intelligence, observing itself through every living organism on the planet and in the universe. Her primary area of focus is water in its ‘state of creation’, the space between liquid and ice. It is through her remarkable crystallographic photos that water reveals its awareness not only of creation, but also of thought and intention, through imagery.
www.vedaaustin.com

Four Arrows’ work has been endorsed by notable figures such as John Pilger, Vandana Shiva, Noam Chomsky, Thom Hartmann, Vine Deloria, Jr., and Jeremy Lent. He is renowned for his scholarly contributions to wellness and education. His book Teaching Truly: A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education was selected by the Chicago Wisdom Project as one of the top 20 all-time progressive education books, and his co-authored text Restoring the Kinship Worldview was selected by UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center as one of the most “thought-provoking, inspiring and practical books of 2022”. He is currently a core faculty at Antioch University, a former Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College, and a faculty member in the School of Leadership Studies at Fielding Graduate University. He was invited to present at the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
www.teachingvirtues.net

Li An Phoa works towards a world with drinkable rivers, and she founded the charity Drinkable Rivers to raise awareness and to weave this together with mobilising people for action. She organises river walks, citizen science and action communities such as Mayors for Drinkable Rivers. Li An walked over 18,500km for drinkable rivers, and a documentary film has been made of her 1,000km walk along the Meuse River. The book Drinkable Rivers: How the River Became My Teacher was published in English in September 2023. Recently Li An completed the Thames Walk, a 4-week journey from the river’s source in the Cotswolds to the mouth in the North Sea. www.drinkablerivers.org

This event will raise funds for the Resurgence Trust, an educational charity (no. 1120414) that seeks to connect people to Nature, to each other and to themselves.

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