Lonnie Gamble is a founding faculty member in the four-year Sustainable Living program at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa. His interests include renewable energy, food and agriculture, sustainable economics, alternatives to economic globalism, permaculture design, and sustainability and the built environment. He has been involved in founding a number of for-profit and non-profit sustainability ventures, including Abundance Ecovillage and the Sustainable Living coalition. In 2009, he and John Ikerd developed and taught an undergraduate Sustainable Economics course at Maharishi University of Management. He has been teaching, developing sustainability curriculum, and mentoring students at a variety of venues since 1996.

David Oates writes about nature and urban life from Portland, Oregon. He is a poet and the author of City Limits: Walking Portland's Boundary (Oregon State 2006), and Paradise Wild: Reimagining American Nature (Oregon State 2003). He regularly hosts Wild Writers Seminars and teaches writing at Clark College (Washington) and at Marylhurst University (Oregon). As a writer and educator, David is continuously looking for ways to convey the new story of our environmental moment. His current work explores Resurrection Biology—biology+spirituality+practical hopefulness and gittin-to-work! David sees Resurrection Biology as the joyous, determined environmentalism that will respond to the damaged world of the coming century. He has designed this workshop to help others join the movement.

"Social Artistry helped inform my approaches at work and in the community. I believe it is already made me more mindful and present in my interactions as well as my day to day life," University of Wisconsin-Madison Social Artistry Study Group Participant.

Social Artistry is an emerging discipline in leadership development. Social Artistry taps inherent human capacities for greater imagination, compassion, and resolve. The discipline integrates science and intellectual development, using multiple styles of thinking, expanding skills for contemporary leadership challenges, and applying these skills to complex social issues. The Social Artist is trained to be aware of four levels of understanding and consciousness, and to consider each of them when approaching any situation or condition. These levels include: the physical/sensory realm, the psychological/historic realm, the mythic/symbolic realm, and the integral/unitive realm.

We look forward to journeying with you as we inspire, engage, reflect and manifest our ability to create change in ourselves and our communities.

"We are living in a time of global system transition. We are in a condition of interactive change that affects every aspect of life. But many current leaders live out of a limited vision, using too little human resourcefulness. Leadership needs to be reinvigorated to meet the challenges we face."
Dr. Jean Houston, International Institute for Social Artistry

About the Workshop Facilitators:

Janet Sanders, founder of PEOPLEnergy, an organizational and community development consultancy that serves a diversity of clients from corporations to non-profits and government Agencies. She also teaches Social Artistry™ programs internationally. She combines Social Artistry™ leadership curriculum with development themes, including HIV/AIDS, governance, community development and indigenous wisdom. Jan brings extensive expertise as a facilitator, program designer, project manager and trainer with 20 years international experience with the Institute of Cultural Affairs where she helped pioneer methods of wholistic community development, including twelve consulting assignments with United Nations Development Program.
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Marian Farrior is the Earth Partnership Field Manager at University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Arboretum, where she teaches how to lead and implement ecological restorations. Her passion is co-creating and apprenticing with nature and helping people connect with their ecosystems. She is also a consultant for environmental and sustainability organizations, is on the advisory team for MRSCE, and the design team for Madison Area Network for Innovation and Collaboration (UW MANIAC). She has taught workshops in Permaculture, Forest Gardening, Patterns in Nature, and Spiral Gardens. She attended the Social Artistry Leadership Institute in 2009 and Train the Trainers in 2011. She has a B.A. in Anthropology, a M.S. in Sustainable Systems, and extensive training in Permaculture, all of which she applies to her projects. Contact Marian at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Erin Schneider facilitates abundance for orchards and communities. She balances her career as an organic farmer and co-owner of Hilltop Community Farm, LLC a small-scale diversified CSA farm and market garden, and as a Fellow and Facilitator with the UW Madison Office of Human Resource Development. Currently, she is developing Just Fruit: Food Systems Development, a multi-faceted business that includes teaching and facilitating groups for food sovereignty, designing orchard and agroforestry systems, co-designing international grower exchanges, and conducting research on assessing the sustainability of growing uncommon yet marketable fruits in Wisconsin. She is also working with on launching the Abundance Project and, in addition to Social Artistry, helps coordinate the efforts of UW MANIAC, MRSCE, and the Wisconsin Local Food Network. Contact Erin at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .