[S-C] Conference: Living More with Less - 4/30/05 - Oakland

[Kevin Shrieve]

http://www.metafoundation.org/simplicity/

Living More with Less Conference

Would you like to learn how to give up stress and gain time?  How to
rekindle joy?  Learn how to take time to appreciate life and live
with more depth and authenticity.  In this participatory conference,
you will gain ideas and tools to improve the quality of your life by
learning to live simpler, slower, and smaller.

Join  us for a day of conversation about living simpler, slower, and
smaller - in  our own lives and for the Earth.  Living simply, we
make conscious choices,  stripping away the inessential so the
essential shines through.  Living slowly, we  rekindle joy, taking
time to appreciate life and live with depth and  authenticity.
Living smaller, we reduce our ecological  footprint, reducing our
energy use, our waste, and our bills.  Most of all, we come together
to think, talk, and  take action.  We help each other resist and
reform the commercialization and corporatization of our culture  and
create a new, more joyful and responsible vision of the good life.

Featured Speakers will include

* Cecile  Andrews, author of "Circle of Simplicity";
* Duane Elgin, author of "Voluntary Simplicity";
* John DeGraaf, author of "Affluenza: the  All-Consuming Epidemic."
* Plus special guest Ernest Callenbach, author of "Ecotopia."

Cosponsored by Seeds of Simplicity, KPFA, Ecology Center, Post-Carbon
Institute, and EarthLight Magazine.

Date:  Saturday, April 30, 2005

Time:  9 am - 4:30 pm.

Location:  First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St.,
@ 27th St., Oakland.

Cost:  $12 in advance or $15 at the door.  To register online, go to
http://www.metafoundation.org/simplicity/ .

Info:  510-548-2220 x233, livingmorewithless at yahoo.com,
http://www.metafoundation.org/simplicity/.


     Schedule
     Saturday, April 30, 9 am–5 pm

     (This schedule is subject to last minute changes.)
     	
8:00-9:00 AM	Registration, Coffee and Bay Area resources tables

9:00-9:45	Simplicity and Happiness: Cecile Andrews, The Circle of Simplicity: 
Return to the Good Life

9:45-10:15	Why are you here? In small groups, share on what you have done to 
simplify

10:15-10:45	Voluntary Simplicity—Outwardly Simple and Inwardly Rich: Duane 
Elgin, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, 
Inwardly Rich

10:45-11:15	Leading a Richer Inner Life: Small groups respond

11:15-11:45	Take Back Your Time: John de Graaf, Affluenza: The All-Consuming 
Epidemic

11:45-1:15	Lunch and Simple Living Circles: Opportunity over lunch to explore 
a topic in more depth. Lunch Circles so far: Simplifying Food, Importance of 
Leisure, Slower Living for Families with Children, Clutter, Reducing your Auto 
Use, What's a Simplicity Circle Like?

1:15-2:00	Purposeful Work: Mark Gonnerman, Director, Aurora Forum, Stanford 
University; Beck Cowles, Berkeley Ecology Center; and David Room, Post Carbon 
Institute. The speakers will talk about their personal paths to meaningful 
work; and about how slow/simple living relates to their efforts toward social 
improvements, planetary health, and peace.

2:00-2:30	Personal Finances to Enable Simpler Living: Peter Mui, Financial 
Consultant; Laura Fletcher, M.D. Getting off the high-spending treadmill. 
Spending money to give the most personal satisfaction.

2:30-3:15	Building Community and Neighborhood organizing: Coleen le Drew 
Elgin, Sonoma County EcoVillage; Cecile Andrews, Phinney EcoVillage (Seattle); 
Michael Wesson, Oakland EcoVillage

3:15-4:00	Bay Area Local Neighborhoods: Opportunity to meet, talk and 
coordinate with like-minded people from your neighborhood, town or area

4:00-4:30	How We Got Involved in the Simplicity Movement: Stan King 
(Peninsula/South Bay Simplicity Circles), Jan Cecil (Berkeley Simplicity 
Forum), Carol Holst (Seeds of Simplicity)

4:30-5:00	Author Ernest Callenbach will close the Conference with where we are 
with Ecotopian ideals


Low cost lunches and drinks may be purchased on site, or bring your own lunch.