A Little History of Gaia Centre

Incorporated in 2005 -at the launch of the United Nation's International Decade of Sustainability - we're making history.  

Gaia Centre Mosaic Sign A Not-For-Profit organization with charitable status - we work like we don't need the money!

A co-creative community - includes a Board of Directors,  Executive Director, Regional Connectors, Volunteers, Members, Program Leaders and, to date,  946 participants. 

About our name 

Gaia comes from Greek mythology and refers to Earth as home of the sacred and our sacred home. Today we have words like geology and geography based on the common prefix that once referred to the spirituality of the Earth.

Gaia Centre emphasizes that what's needed at this time to aid the shift to a more resilient future is to make the health and welfare of Earth central to our society, economy, and spirituality. 

World leaders in the environmental movement and spiritual revolution that we've hosted include:

  • Miriam MacGillis, O.P. co-founder Genesis Farm, teacher, activist
  • Matthew Fox, theologian, priest, author, father of Creation Spirituality
  • Barbara Marx Hubbard, founder of Foundation for Conscious Evolution, author, futurist
  • Drew Dellinger, spoken word poet, professor, student of Thomas Berry
  • Carolyn McDade, sung word poet, song writer, composer,
  • Brian Swimme, cosmologist, author, from California's Centre for Integral Studies
  • Diane Longboat - Mohawk Elder, international teacher 
  • Kenmo Drolma, 1st Buddhist Abess in North America 
  • Jeannette McCullough, R.N., Teacher, Shaman
  • Alanna Mitchell, Author Journalist
  • Bob Willard, educator and author of the Sustainability Advantage
  • Bruce Sanguin, U.C. minister and author of Darwin and Dancing with the Divine
  • Rebekah Hart, Montreal, doing Joanna Macy's The Work That Reconnects
  • John Seed, Australian environmental activist
  • Anne Simmonds, U.C. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
  • Bob Willard, author of The Sustainability Advantage and Sustainability, The Next Wave

 The Gaia Centre is a part of a larger circle of communities including Creation Spirituality Communities. http://originalblessing.ning.com/

Gaia Centre sign was designed and created by Judy Breau, www.versatilemosaics.com

In 1970, scientist, James Lovelock wrote The Gaia Theory and called humans to see the planet as "a single living system".

 

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