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About The Event

Join an extraordinary group of 50+ speakers and teachers as well as leaders worldwide who care about the thriving of people, planet and our future to explore how to be a healing force amid the climate crisis.

  • What does nature and this time of global crisis call forth in us as leaders?
  • How do we connect with the healing power of nature and heal the world around us?
  • How can we be resourced in our work with heartfelt connectedness?

In the video below, Ginny Whitelaw Roshi, CEO of the Institute for Zen Leadership, gives an overview of the summit, its purpose and what might make it uncommonly helpful to you.

Discover the Benefits

Resource yourself with powerful tools, skills, practices, relationships, and connectedness with the natural world for essential wisdom and resilience.

  • Gain insights from experts in climate change and health, education, regeneration, and leadership around the work to be done and a felt sense of your place in it.
  • Awaken to the power of connectedness as your foundation for leadership, guided by nature, Zen, and Indigenous wisdom.
  • Get clarity on actions you can take, including ways to apply a perma leadership approach to something you’re working on.
  • Develop embodied practices from the stillness of meditation to the joy of dance and power of tai chi, to experience the healing power of one-withness.
  • Build relationships, join initiatives and connect with a vibrant community of practice that help you take action.
Who Should Attend?

Health professionals, educators, non-profit, public sector and business leaders, Indigenous leaders, community leaders, embodied practitioners, permaculture designers, ecologists, integralists, climate activists, inheritors of the climate crisis, and everyone who senses the suffering of the climate crisis and is committed to making a healing difference.

Join others from around the world and put yourself on the map of summit participants!

Daily Summit Themes

Check out the agenda for the daily flow of activities and reserve time on your calendar now to join us live. We’ll also release 4-5 videos each day from our lineup of powerful speakers that you can watch at any time throughout the 7 days of the summit, and indefinitely if you support the work with a caretaker donation. The video package may also be purchased separately.

WHAT TO EXPECT
  • Live, interactive sessions and pre-recorded sessions daily from 50 outstanding speakers.
  • Zazen (sitting meditation) in our virtual dojo several times a day.
  • Dedicated networking sessions where you can select conversations to join and/or find others of common interests using 'smart match' technology.
  • Transformative practice sessions live in our virtual dojo, plus pre-recorded sessions that can be viewed at any time during the summit.
  • Open blocks of time each day to watch recordings and/or explore our Virtual Gallery of resources.
  • Special Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
  • Please note, all listed times are in Central Time (UTC -6). Click here to convert the event schedule to your local time zone.

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions
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Most sessions will be recorded. Some practices will not be recorded. All recordings will be available in the video package, which may be purchased separately or is included for those who make a caretaker donation ($75 or more). We encourage as much live participation as possible during the summit, and the video package is intentionally priced low to enable later access to replays.
Yes, registration is required, even though the summit is free or by donation.
No. You do not need to download or install any software to participate in our summit. You only need to have access to the Internet.
The schedule is shown for the US Central Time zone, but you can also download sessions you plan to attend to your calendar in your own time zone.
The summit is designed to make it easy for you to connect with others in small groups, one-on-one networking or spontaneous chats. Check the schedule for daily opportunities for networking and breakout discussions. You can also set up or suggest a chat with anyone in the participant list.
Sessions will be hosted in English.
Please reach out to us at oneearthhealthwith@getvfairs.io if you have any technical difficulties.
Our goal is to ensure the Summit is accessible to as many people as possible. The majority of Summit costs have been generously covered by grants. Donations will support the remaining costs incurred by the host organizations and be put towards future opportunities (programs and events) that will carry forward and build upon our collective efforts and learnings that emerge from the Summit.
COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS

We’re pleased to be collaborating on this summit with organizations spanning our one earth

The summit is supported by a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and other funders like you