Keys to Holism: Birthing into a New Collective Paradigm

A special Circle of Return with Veteran Rites Co-Founder and Research Biologist Larry Hobbs and Trebbe Johnson, Wilderness Guide and Author of the movement to bring Radical Joy in Hard Times. 

The community is invited to gather and watch an important Earth Cafe Exchange interview with Larry and Trebbe and then reflect on how we cross this threshold together as one collective humanity and ecosystem.   Larry and Trebbe will be available for Q&A after the interview.   

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Larry Hobbs: Larry has been a marine mammal biologist, educator, guide and lecturer for over fifty-five years, during which time his work included serving as coordinator of research between Department of Commerce and Department of Interior in Washington, D.C. and serving as a principal research scientist at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in Seattle. During his research career he studied the behavior and population dynamics of many marine mammal species worldwide, including gray and humpback whales, spinner dolphins, manatees, sea lions and polar bears. He created a science program for Antioch University and taught there for 20 years. He first led expedition groups to the Antarctic in 1985 and has led groups to Baja California, Spitzbergen, Hudson Bay, Greenland and Iceland; Amazon and Orinoco Rivers; Northwest Passage; Indonesia; and all through the South Pacific and Indian Oceans ever since. Larry has spent the majority of his life observing and studying all aspects o fthe natural world and from his experiences, has developed a quantitative model of truly holistic, systemic human sustainability. In addition to 30 years of lecturing and publishing journal articles about sustainability, he is a professional wildlife photographer and has created modern-day Rites of Passage Programs for youth throughout the nation wide 4-H organization, for Veterans through
Veteran Rites, a Washington state non-profit, and for all ages through the School of Lost Borders in California.

Trebbe Johnson: Trebbe Johnson is the author of Radical Joy for Hard Times: Finding Meaning and Making Beauty in Earth’s Broken Places, and other books, as well as many articles and essays that explore the human bond with nature. She is also the founder and director of the global community Radical Joy for Hard Times, devoted to finding and making beauty in wounded places. Since 1993 she has been guiding wilderness rites of passage journeys in the eastern and western U.S. and in Scotland, Ireland, Germany, and the Sahara Desert of southern Algeria. Trebbe speaks four languages; had camped alone in the Arctic wilderness; studied classical Indian dance; and worked as an artist’s model, a street sweeper in an English village, and an award-winning multimedia producer. She has led contemplative programs for hurt places in a clear-cut forest in British Columbia, Ground Zero in New York City, a Civil War battleground in Georgia, and other places. She lives in Ithaca, New York. 

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