Hidden Springs and Sacred Life Boats Presents

Seeding the Gift Culture
September 16-20, 2009
Buckhorn Springs, Ashland, Oregon

Bill Kauth and Charles Eisenstein

You are Invited

From September 16 – 20th two dozen of us will gather at Buckhorn Springs near Ashland, Oregon to actively co-creating something that is still unknown.

Gift Community is what we have been waiting for, preparing for and now, in these times, actually needing.
We are awakening to our need for each other, not just on a physical level, but on a heretofore unknown spiritual level. We are on an evolutionary journey from "Everything you need is within you" to a new truth: spiritual interdependency. It is a journey to a depth of intimacy on the community level that we can barely imagine today, though we have long yearned for it.

As we transcend our social-cultural individuation, a new and ancient form of community is evolving. In a Gift-Community, everyone is fully capable of giving and receiving. We orient toward "What can I give" in any situation, even as we open to fully and fearlessly receive. Then, a miracle happens: something greater than any of us creates itself through our community, drawing on our gifts and gifting and expanding us in return. We easily and naturally “live the give-away” because that is who we have become.

Because this is a first time event and we have room for 20 participants we are inviting those whom we already know and have traveled well along this invisible path. We already see our circle, radiant and alive with generous co-creators. If you can feel yourself there, please join our company for this auspicious event.

Co-creative blessings,
Bill, Zoe, Chuck, Rod & Will

APPLICATION: To request a place in this event please call or write: Zoe Alowan or Bill Kauth 541-482-2335 or e-mail: zoealowan@mind.net, bkindman@mind.net.

Charles Eisenstein audio program

OUR INTENTION:

Experience of unity with other beings.
A touchstone to practical social reality.
Learning how to actually create community.
Know the Gift as expanding the self.
Create an experience that forever alters our sense of what is real and what is possible.
Learn easily self-replicable skills and structures so that the living the Gift movement spreads quickly.  

SUGGESTED READINGS AND LINKS:

By: Charles Eisenstein

http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/living-in-the-gift.php
http://www.realitysandwich.com/money_and_crisis_civilization
http://www.realitysandwich.com/gathering_tribe

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DATES & TIMES: September 16-20, 2009. beginning Wednesday the 16th at 5:00 PM and running until noon on Sunday the 20th.

RETREAT STAFF TEAM:
Charles Eisenstein, University teacher (Penn State & Goddard) and author the Ascent of Humanity ,
http://www.ascentofhumanity.com/author.php
Bill Kauth, Social inventor, co-founder of The ManKind Project, Warrior Monk and author of A Circle of Men.
http://www.sacredlifeboats.com/about-us.html
Rod Newton, Visionary and social entrepreneur, founder of Hidden Springs Wellness Center http://www.hiddensprings.org/
Will Wilkinson, writer and futurist.
Zoe Alowan, Singer, dancer, story teller and resonance weaver.

APPLICATION: To request a place in this event please call or write: Zoe Alowan or Bill Kauth 541-482-2335 or e-mail: zoealowan@mind.net, bkindman@mind.net.

MONEY & FINANCES: Our “hard costs” at Buckhorn Springs are $90.00+taxes per night, or $381.60 for full room and board. Beyond that we intend to live in the spirit of the gift. We will hold an opportunity for each person to contribute in the way that feel right, or give their gift in a way that supports us all.

PLACE: We will gather at Buckhorn Springs several miles outside of Ashland. http://www.buckhornsprings.org/ . The site is very beautiful and the food is wonderful. We prefer that all participants stay on-site, however we may make a few exception for Ashland.