Alliance director David Abram teaches, lectures, and consults widely around the world. Listed below are a few of his public events.  If you are interested in inviting David to offer a keynote or to lead a training, kindly use this form.


An Evening With David Abram

Presented by California Institute of Integral Studies Public Programs

May 19, 2022

Join CIIS philosophy faculty Matt Segall for an inspiring conversation with David on the wild intelligence of our bodies, the ecological depths of our imagination, and the ways in which sensory perception and wonder inform the relation between the human animal and the animate Earth.

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Exploring Wonder and Urban Wildness with David Abram

Presented by California Institute of Integral Studies Public Programs

May 21 & May 22, 2022

How can we open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between humankind and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing planet? At this liminal moment, when so many ecological boundaries are being breached by a civilization largely oblivious to its embedment within the biosphere, how can we activate a collective recognition of our thorough interbeing with the animate Earth?

Wandering the terrain of San Francisco’s splendid Presidio, stopping to linger and delve deeply, David guides participants in a series of experiential practices and exploratory exercises for binding our individual nervous systems into the wider ecosystem. Ponder together the entwinement of place and poetics, wondering what role the built environment plays in our dialog with the more-than-human Earth.

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Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder

A six-day workshop with David Abram at the outrageously beautiful Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, British Columbia

July 31 – August 5, 2022

hollyhockbeach-3_5b872-1At a moment when so many ecological limits are being breached by a civilization largely oblivious to its own embedment within the biosphere, how can we swiftly catalyze a collective recognition of our thorough dependence upon the animate earth? How to open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between humankind and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing commonwealth?

Back for the first time since the summer of 2019, David Abram will lead another extraordinary, six-day workshop with a small group of folks on wild Cortes Island in British Columbia (at one of the most ecological diverse and soulful retreat spaces in the world), from July 31st – August 5th.  The workshop is called Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder, and it promises to be a powerful event. Come join us!

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From the Archives


Depth Ecology and Wild Ethics: Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth
A new three-part learning intensive with David Abram – starting in late May 2019, near Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Alliance for Wild Ethics and the Broken Bard School is excited to announce a yearlong learning program with cultural ecologist, storyteller and geophilosopher David Abram. Entitled Depth Ecology and Wild Ethics: Between the Human Animal and the Animate Earth, the three-part program is an investigation into the reciprocity between our creaturely senses and the earthly sensuous, between storytelling and the powers of place, between wildness and shadowed wonder, between our imagination and the dreaming land.

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Wildness and Shadowed Wonder: Norway, Aug. 1-3, 2019

A rare workshop in Norway with cultural ecologist, geo-philosopher, and storyteller David Abram.

This will be a small and intimate gathering, a chance to interact closely with the renowned author of The Spell of the Sensuous, and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology.  August 1-3, 2019, at the Small Earth Institute

Spaces are very limited: To reserve a place in the workshop, please contact Martin Lee Mueller: beingsalmonbeinghuman@gmail.com

 

 

 


Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder

A six-day workshop with David Abram at the outrageously beautiful Hollyhock, on Cortes Island, British Columbia

August 9th-14th, 2019

hollyhockbeach-3_5b872-1At a moment when so many ecological limits are being breached by a civilization largely oblivious to its own embedment within the biosphere, how can we swiftly catalyze a collective recognition of our thorough dependence upon the animate earth? How to open a fresh and unshakeable solidarity between humankind and the other animals, plants, and elemental forces that compose this breathing commonwealth?

In the summer of 2019, David Abram will lead an extraordinary, six-day workshop with a small group of folks on wild Cortes Island in British Columbia (at one of the most ecological diverse and soulful retreat spaces in the world), from August 9th-14th.  The workshop is called Falling Awake: The Ecology of Wonder, and it promises to be a powerful event. Come join us!

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Mountain Confluence:
Launching the International Alliance for Wild Ethics

In August, 2006, four colleagues from different lands and diverse backgrounds hoisted their backpacks and hiked into the wild mountain backcountry to spend ten days honing their audacious insights in conversation with the rivers and the forests, and to formally inaugurate the Alliance for Wild Ethics. Although they practice in different cultures, and in different spheres of endeavor, all four were committed to a new form of human solidarity with the Earth. Each had already been working for many years, in his respective culture, to transform collective ways of imagining and of interacting with the living land. And all four were fathers of young children.

They listened close to the many-voiced silence of the forest, feeling their way toward new ways of seeing, and of speaking, that might spread like a benevolent contagion through the human population. If a new mythos, a new modality of the sacred is struggling to be born at this difficult moment in the world’s unfolding, then what is its shape?

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United Nations Keynote
In the summer of 2005, AWE director David Abram was asked to deliver the final keynote address for the United Nation’s “World Environment Week” in San Francisco, to 70 mayors from the largest cities around the world. David’s speech was given under the towering redwood trees at Muir Woods, at the very spot where the United Nations charter was originally signed into being sixty years earlier.

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Animate Earth
How can the earth sciences serve to awaken a new and deeply felt solidarity between ourselves and this breathing planet? Can we translate the rapidly growing body of facts regarding the metabolic functioning of the planetary biosphere into a storied language — a way of speaking that is not just analytically precise, but also sensorially and intuitively resonant? A film about the work of AWE founding member Stephan Harding tackles these questions directly.

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