What on Earth Talk Series: Earth

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What on Earth Talk Series

EARTH

"All religions have spiritual practices. These practices help to connect people with each other and with forms of consciousness beyond the human level" - Rupert Sheldrake

In symbolic terms the element of earth represents the final expression of manifest materiality, an idea that seems symbolically implicate in a large number of primal cosmologies from many disparate parts of the world.

Using the symbolic motif of the elemental cycle of creation, Anna and Colin have been exploring questions of how, as both individuals and a collective, we might respond to the mounting crisis of a deeply troubled relationship between us humans and the rest of the natural world.

Enveloped within an increasingly predominating cosmological narrative that is both ardently and seemingly exclusively rooted in scientific materialism, we ask the overarching question, What on Earth? Enfolded in this question are a myriad of others pertaining to a shared belief that our current so-called modern scientific cosmology has discarded some of the most vital components of what being truly human might actually mean. That is, what it might mean if understood within the context of dynamic and symbiotic relationship with the rest of the natural world.

Join us for Earth, the fourth and final dialogue in the elemental series with Anna Breytenbach and Colin Campbell  

What on Earth Talk Series

As a way of loosely ordering the What on Earth talks, individual discussion events will be titled in accordance with the age-old image of the elemental cycle of creation. The talks will be categorised under the headings: Air, Fire, Water and Earth respectively.  

TIMES:

Doors open at 19h00 for tea/coffee in the lounge before the talk which will start promptly at 19h30

Ends 21h30

Note: The ticket price of R260 includes tea

About Anna:

Anna Breytenbach is a South African-based professional interspecies communicator qualified with the Assisi International Animal Institute in California, USA. She’s been practicing for 18 years in on several continents and is currently on sabbatical from international touring, making only the occasional public appearance on the Cape coast.

Born and raised in South Africa, she holds a degree in Psychology, Economics and Marketing. Trained in tracking and mentoring at the Wilderness Awareness School (USA), she also mentors children and adults in nature awareness based on the ways of the Native American and San Bushmen peoples.

Anna is a qualified and experienced master training facilitator, focusing on bringing forth participants’ skills through coaching and mentoring in a practical manner. She consults exclusively with wildlife and offers workshops and interventions around southern Africa, Europe, Australia, the UK and USA. Her work includes wild dolphin and whale research and protection, leading retreats and safaris, interspecies projects at organic and reforestation initiatives and numerous public appearances globally. Her pro bono work focuses on conservation projects such as elephant management, anti-poaching assistance, baboon rehabilitation and predator conservation. She is also the subject of the feature documentary movie "The Animal Communicator" on interspecies communication.

Anna's goal is to raise awareness and advance the relationships among human and non-human animals, on both the personal and spiritual levels. In her communication and conservation work, she guides people to deepen their connection with all species in an honouring manner, and is inspired by being a voice for the animals and natural environments.

About Colin:

Colin Campbell grew up in rural southeastern Botswana, the son of a renowned anthropologist and a creative healing mother. His grandmother was a famous healer, whom people voyaged to see from far afield. On formative childhood travels with his father he slept under stars, learned from traditional San people and ways of the desert, awoke beside lion paw prints, and regularly fished cobras out of his bedroom drawer. At the age of eleven he was diagnosed as having the illness of calling, which ultimately led to his being trained and initiated as a traditional doctor and sangoma. Through the time of his upbringing he acquired a deep knowledge of Tswana culture and its traditional medicinal and spiritual practices.

Colin is currently a practitioner of traditional African medicine, based in Cape Town, South Africa and the U.K. He receives clients from all over the world, and facilitates international group processes relating to natural law, transformation, healing and personal power, sacred sites, and cross-cultural cosmology. His work bridges major world cities with ancestral homelands and forgotten wilderness, taking him from the Amazon Basin to Los Angeles, the sacred sites of Venda to the urban grit of Johannesburg, and remote Ethiopia to the City of London. Colin co-founded and co-runs a training school in Botswana for traditional doctors and sangomas with his brother Niall Campbell. He is also a lifelong artist and musician, his style once again bridging the traditional with the contemporary, the timeless with the timely, and the sounds of the sacred with the lyricism of electric rocking funk.

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