We have an incredible line up for this June you won’t want to miss! Your one time free registration allows you to attend all of our live webinars.

Please be sure to sign in early for our next webinar on Wednesday, June 3rd, as Zoom has a mandatory security update required by all users which can take a few minutes.

Learn a number of proven ways to reduce anxiety, boost your immune system and feel lighter and brighter with simple techniques provided by three professionals with many years of experience.

Author, Karen Ledger, a respected health educator and nurse therapist, who has worked in the fields of health, mental health and community development for over 40 years will share the effectiveness of the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), also known as tapping; and retired clinical counsellor/psychotherapist, Gene Furbee, will share personal insight and a fun look into what makes laughter the best medicine of all; and Somatic practitioner and musician, Greg Augustine, will provide some tips for avoiding and reducing back pain, plus share some musical moments.

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The Glass Isn’t Half Full or Half Empty… It’s Refillable!!!

Good News!!! Solutions exist for optimum health and wellness from both an individual and planetary perspective.

This month, we will continue to explore those solutions based on the premise that optimum health and wellness is inextricably related to:

1. Living in harmony with nature and one’s self;
2. Aligning our self-interests with planetary interests;
3. A global spiritual awakening by connecting the universe with the individual;
4. A caring, just and compassionate society rooted in an economy of kindness for all living things.

Popular speaker, author, futurist, Guy Dauncey, rejoins us for another power-packed punch of inspiration and wisdom. Joining Guy in this collaborative visual presentation is Creatively United founder and professional multi-media artist, Frances Litman.

More about our presenters:

Guy Dauncey is a futurist, anthropological economist, plus founder of the BC Sustainable Energy Association, and the author or co-author of ten books, including The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming and Journey to the Future: A Better World Is Possible. He is currently competing his next book on The Economics of Kindness. He is an Honorary Member of the Planning Institute of BC, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, and President of the Yellow Point Ecological Society.

Frances Litman is as an international award-winning photographer, community activator and multi-media producer. Her passion is bringing positive solutions that foster healthy, happy and resilient communities and people together. She has voluntarily coordinated one of North America's largest Earth Day festivals and sustainability showcases, and is the creative force behind CreativelyUnited.org and co-founded the Community Trees Matter Network.
Frances' big picture vision has resulted in her receiving a 2012 CRD Ecostar Community Award, a 2017 Victoria Community Leadership Award and a 2018 Honourary Citizen of Victoria Award.

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The second part of the Global Water Futures webinar (see the first show here) will feature two of the titans of contemporary climate science research in the world.

Dr. Trevor Davies, the force behind the creation of the Tyndall Climate Research Centre at the University of East Anglia in Britain, the first dedicated climate research unit in the world, and the scientist who also led the careful and thoughtful response of the global climate community to the Climategate crises that derailed climate action at the failed IPCC climate conference in Copenhagen in 2009, will discuss the history of sabotage of climate science.

Dr. John Pomeroy, who currently directs the largest water and water-related climate research program in the world, will then discuss how the world can transcend the mistakes of the past to ensure the scientific findings generated by leading edge contemporary research can inform evidence-based policy decisions in the future, not just in Canada but around the world.

This session will be moderated by award-winning author Bob Sandford, senior advisor on water policy and as the 20-year Chair of Water and Climate Security at the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.

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Economics is the driving force that dictates our lives – how we earn our living, how we operate as a society, how we treat the environment and the natural gifts given to us. Now the system is crumbling and it is clear we cannot return to business as usual. We are finally learning the secret – we are part of
nature, not apart from it. When we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves.

Enter Doughnut Economics, the brainchild of British economist Kate Raworth, currently turning the economic world on its head. To no one’s surprise, it is the environment that provides us the boundaries we need to live by. These are the parameters by which Wildwood Ecoforest has operated since 1945, thanks to previous owner Merv Wilkinson, who selectively logged the forest, always ensuring the ecosystems remained intact.

Wildwood, a rare and unique 77-acre ecoforest nestled along the shores of Quennell Lake just north of Ladysmith, British Columbia on Vancouver Island. It lies within the traditional territories of the Stz’uminus and Snuneymuxw Coast Salish First Nations. It is owned by the Ecoforestry Institute Society, a registered charitable society.

Join us as we explore how the Wildwood model fits snugly into Raworth’s doughnut model - how revenue and job creation embrace social justice, inclusiveness and equity, and how those values in turn tuck into the ecological boundaries that bind us all.

About Kathy Code:

After retiring from the BC provincial government as an economic development analyst, Kathy has continued her passion for social justice and economics in very tangible ways. Currently the Vice-chair and Communications Director of the Ecoforestry Institute Society, she is proud to be part of the team that saved Wildwood, keeping it in the public domain. She has since helped drive the strategy to operate Wildwood within ecological commitments while meeting social, cultural and financial responsibilities.

An avid learner, she follows the foremost thought leaders of our time, including Naomi Klein, Jeffrey Sachs, Thomas Piketty, Paul Hawken and Project Drawdown, and most recently, Kate Raworth. She is the founder of Juniper Community Solutions, a company dedicated to building community resilience and social justice for all. Kathy holds a BA in Political Science and Psychology, a Diploma in Criminology and a Masters in Environment and Management.

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Watch Our Previous Webinars

Thank you to everyone for tuning in to our 11 am to noon Wednesday Climate and Artists series and to those who sent letters to elected officials that we provided with a number of our videos in support of a new forest framework, ecological diversity and improved freshwater management.

To visit any of our previous recordings, please visit CreativelyUnited.org and/or subscribe to Creatively United on YouTube where you can see a multitude of videos.

Creatively United is proud to be a supporter of BC Project Drawdown. This volunteer-run organization offers a wonderful five-part free online course, that begins this Wednesday at 7 pm that explores ways we can all become part of the greatest solution in civilization. 

It’s recommend to take the Introduction to Drawdown first, offered online here.

About Creatively United & Our Partners

The Creatively United for the Planet Society is a registered non-profit society. Since 2012, we have brought together more than 10,000 people from throughout the region who care about happy, healthy, and resilient communities. We have done so through seven zero-waste sustainability showcases, numerous community events and educational talks, collaborative partnerships, a video series, and the CreativelyUnited.org free community information network, resource and solutions sharing hub. 

The Gail O'Riordan Climate and the Arts Legacy Fund supported by Tides Canada is dedicated to changing human consciousness towards global environmental change by combining science with the creativity of the performing arts.

The Ecoforestry Institute Society (EIS) is a registered non-profit, charitable society comprised of a volunteer Board and a strong core of community volunteers.  Together, we are dedicated to the principles and practices of ecoforestry – demonstrating that we can harvest trees and plants from the forest while maintaining healthy and integrated ecological systems.

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