Jean's Schedule for 2012

Dear Good People—Friends, Signers of 5WCW petition:

2012 is a very active year re 5WCW advocacy at the UN. I’ll also be keynoting women’s conferences in Seattle and San Luis Obispo, CA, leading residential workshop retreats at Omega (New York), Kripalu (Massachuesetts), and Feathered Pipe Ranch (Montana), giving lectures and workshops in Santa Fe, Chapel Hill, Swtizerland, and in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Seattle, WA - February 15, East-West Bookstore: Talk & Booksigning
Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet

Seattle, WA - February 16-17, Women of Wisdom Conference: Keynote and Workshop
February 16, Keynote: Gaia the Living Earth, Goddess, Archetype and Mother of Us All
February 17, Workshop: Grail, Goddesses, Circles and the Sacred Feminine

New York City - February 27–March 9, UN Commission on the Status of Women
February 27, Panel: Wise Like a Tree: Ecological Wisdom, Maternal-Feminist Activism, NGOs, 5WCW.
March 1, Panel: Need for a UN 5th World Conference on Women (5WCW)
(panels open to public)

San Luis Obispo, CA - March 10, Circle of Grace Symposium
Keynote: Women of Wisdom: Midwifing Conscious Change

San Francisco, CA - March 30-31, California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS)
March 30, Lecture: Trees and Tree People: Greening Ourselves, Saving the Planet
March 31, Workshop: Grail, Goddesses, Circles, and the Sacred Feminine

Palo Alto, CA - April 7, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Keynote: Awakening and Aging: Act III of Your Life (ITP graduate students)

Chapel Hill, NC - April 20–21, C.G.Jung Society of the Triangle
April 20, Lecture: Trees and Tree People: Saving the Planet
April 21, Workshop: The Sacred Feminine: Grail, Goddesses & Circles

Santa Fe, NM - May 4-5, C.G. Jung Society of Santa Fe
May 4, Lecture Trees and Tree People: Greening Ourselves, Saving the Planet
Workshop, May 5, Grail, Goddesses, Circles and the Sacred Feminine

Rhinebeck, NY - May 25-28, Omega Institute for Holistic Studies
Residential Workshop, Your One Wild and Precious Life: A Deepening Gathering for Women

Zurich, Switzerland - June 25-28, C. G. Jung Institute Summer Semester Program
Goddesses in Everywomen: Archetypal Patterns as Sources of Meaning (public lecture)
Gods in Everyman: Archetypal Patterns as Sources of Meaning (public lecture)
Six seminars for students and analytic candidates

Stockbridge, MA - July 27–29, Kripalu Center
Residential Workshop: Archetypes, Angels, Ancestors and Trees

Helena, MT - August 25–September 1, Feathered Pipe Ranch
Residential Workshop for women, Women’s Wisdom, Pregnant Darkness
With Monika Wikman, co-leader

Big Sur, CA - November 16-18, Esalen Institute
Residential workshop for Women: Your One Wild & Precious Life

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Book Collage

Books by Jean—For more information or to order (click here).

The Millionth Circle:How to Change Ourselves and The World is about circles with a spiritual center, a slender book that inspired the formation of the Millionth Circle Initiative through which I first came to the UN CSW and was appalled and inspired to become a grassroots activist and the author of Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women: Save the World and Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet.

The last words in The Millionth Circle:How to Change Ourselves and The World

There is no “always was, always will be”
in human affairs.
Something like a teeter-totter effect happens
at certain points in time.
Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Field Theory is enacted
and history changes.
When a critical mass — the hundred monkey,
or the millionth circle—tips the scales,
a new era will be ushered in
and patriarchy will be over.

A UN 5WCW is not an end in itself but a huge step in raising consciousness, empowering women and inspiring compassionate action.

With love, hope, and perseverance—in the belief that ordinary people can change the world.

Jean Shinoda Bolen Signature

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD

for a U.N. Sponsored 5th World Conference on Women

For 5WCW information and documents: http://5wcw.org