Parliament of Worlds Religion 1993 Chicago IL

Author(s): Parliament of the World’s Religions
Publisher: USA Parliament of the Worlds Religions

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Tuesday, August 31. Seminars & Lectures
and graduates on the theme of Spiritual companionship. Team members represent various Christian denominations. Elizabeth G. Edwards Director of the Institute of Spiritual
Companionship, Christian Laity of Chicago; Doctor of Ministry; master's in Adult and Continuing Education, master's in Pastoral Studies; spiritual companion to others and does pastoral psychotherapy which includes body work.
Each panel member will speak of his or her tribal roots and the teaching of Spirituality as a basis for maintaining the strength of extended family network. Thomas Banyacya-Hopi, Traditional Spiritual Leader, Interpreter of
Hopi prophecies. Pemina Yellow Bird Three Affiliated Tribes, Lecturer, Writer,
Advocate for Native American Reburial issues. Marilyn Benton-Wisconsin Ojibwe, Traditional Woman, Spiritual
teacher, consultant to Lac Court Oreiles Institute on Alcohol and
Drug Abuse. Naomi Russell-Wisconsin Winnebago, Granddaughter of Mountain
Wolf Woman; Winnebago Tribal Aging Advisory Board. Burton Pretty On Top-Crow Nation; spiritual leader and pipe carrier.
2:00 PM–3:30 PM LaSalle Wing #3 "The Ribbon Project" Justine Merritt; Diane Grams In this workshop, Justine Merritt will encourage participants to use their compassionate imaginations and creative energies to thread their lives through meditation and prayer to the lives of others like themselves around the Earth. Through creating Ribbon segments, as per The Ribbon Project, participants seek to attain personal peace and to join with others in seeking peace worldwide. She demonstrates how to employ the Ribbon segments as a unifying element to express the need for peace and understanding. The workshop will transcend the boundaries of faith traditions. It is an opportunity to honor the diversity and celebrate the unity on our individual journeys toward the Transcendent. Justine Merritt- creator of many Ribbons, and the founder of The Ribbon
Project; invented the idea of creating the Ribbon segments to attain personal peace and to join with others in seeking peace worldwide.
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Montrose Wing #2 "Addressing the Critical Issues in Your Own Country" Dr. Gerald O. Barney; Ann Foltz; Dr. Katharine C. Esty Opportunities abound for national action on the critical issues of the 21st century. If these issues are to be addressed we must each leave the 1993 Parliament with real commitments and specific plans for action in our own countries. This workshop will provide practical suggestions on how to get started" when we return home. Discussions focus on methods of grass-roots activities franging from hands-on work projects to national strategic studies. Dr. Gerald O. Barney--Executive Director, Millennium Institute;
Director for the Global 2000 Report to President Jimmy Carter,
author, Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do? Ann Foltz-M.A.; Coordinator, Collegiate 21st Century Studies
Program, Millennium Institute; previously 13 years in staff relations,
World Bank; 9 years experience in radio broadcasting in Ethiopia. Dr. Katharine C. Esty-Founding Partner and President, Ibis
Consulting Group; social psychologist with over 15 years experience with issues of innovation, management of large systems change, gender and growth; currently working in area of managing diversity and the work-family interface.
2:00 PM–3:30 PM LaSalle Wing #4 "Religion in the Emerging Era of Electronic Orality" L. Keith Williamson This workshop will discuss three major media and religious eras and how the communication of the era affected the belief system. The first of these eras is primary orality, or the face to face human world of speaking and listening. The next is the literary era, which began with the advent of writing, and accelerated with the development of the phonetic alphabet and later the printing press. The final era is the emerging media era of secondary or electronic orality. The implications of electronic orality for religion will then be discussed. L. Keith Williamson-Assistant Professor in the Elliott School of
Communication at Wichita State University, and a United Methodist clergyman; co-author of several communication textbooks; research interests are in the areas of media and religion, and the history of rhetoric and communication.
2:00 PM–3:00 PM Montrose Wing #3 "Differing Beliefs About International Population Growth: Where the Disagreements Are and Why" Martha Campbell This workshop introduces five schools of thought that are influential in international population policy, with their respective beliefs, policy choices, and primary interests. Discussion will include the nature of belief (defined as what is accepted as fact), given the differing beliefs on population growth. Martha Campbell-founder and director of Population Speakout, a non
profit program focusing on communication problems connected to population issues; degrees from Wellesley College and the University of Colorado (M.A., political science); completing her Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado.
2:00 PM–3:30 PM LaSalle Wing #5 "Native American Spirituality in Mind, Body, and Spirit" Jennie Joe; Michael Yellow Bird; Alfred Yazzie; Arvol Looking Horse This session will address the issues of combining Native Traditional Spiritual healing practices with Western synthetic medicine. Discussions from three different perspectives, including the United States and Canada. Jennie Joe-Navajo, RN, MPH, Ph.D.; Associate Professor of Family Medicine; Director of Native American Research and Training
Center, University of Arizona. Michael Yellow Bird-Three Affiliated Tribes, Ph.D. Asst. Professor,
School of Social Work, University Vancouver, Canada Alfred Yazzie-Navajo, Healer, Spiritual leader. Arvol Looking Horse-Lakota; Keeper of the Sacred Pipe.
2:00 PM–3:30 PM Montrose Wing #4 "Conserving the Wisdom of the World's Elders" Steven McFadden For two years The Wisdom Conservancy has been gathering the wisdom of learned elders from around the world. The Workshop will discuss what they have learned and how people can actively cultivate wisdom in their own lives. Steven McFadden-Director of The Wisdom Conservancy, National
Coordinator for the Council Circles Project for Earth Day 1993; author of Profiles in Wisdom, Native Elders Speak about the Earth, and others.
2:00 PM-3:30 PM Montrose Wing #1 "The Strength of the Native American Extended Family Network" Thomas Banyacya; Pemina Yellow Bird; Marilyn Benton; Naomi Russell, Burton Pretty On Top
2:00 PM–3:30 PM Montrose Wing #5 "Service to Humanity Beyond the Boundaries of Religion" Hanuman Marur
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