BOLD IDEAS!: "A Conversation with Erin Cochrane - Thursday November 11, 2021 @ 6:30-8:00pm EDT

BOLD IDEAS!: "A Conversation with Erin Cochrane - Thursday November 11, 2021 @ 6:30-8:00pm EDT

CALUMET AND STONG COLLEGES invite you to attend BOLD IDEAS!:

Bold Ideas serves as a platform for citizens, activists and leaders to share their personal, career and life experiences and challenges with the community, and how they negotiated their life paths around these challenges. Non-conformists are welcome.

We believe in the power of ideas, actions and experiences. We believe that humans are catalysts for a better world. We believe each experience is unique and can elevate the consciousness of others.

Bold Ideas is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary. It is where extraordinary people share extraordinary ideas that challenge our perspectives of what is possible, what is not possible and what is certain.

Please join us at our upcoming Bold Ideas session:

Session Title: "The Queendom of Fungi; Lessons on Healing Self, Community and the Environment from Plant Allies and Mycelial Networks"

Presenter: Erin Cochrane


Session Summary:
We have co-evolved alongside our allies in nature; plants, herbs, animals, mushrooms, throughout our existence. Mushrooms are agreed to be one of the oldest recorded living organisms on this planet. After being around for so long, there are a few things we could learn from their wisdom.

Humans are now consciously evolving at an exponential rate. But what often happens during evolutions or transformations, are series of breakdowns, breakthroughs and leaving old ways behind. Erin shares her experiences with loss and grief, exploration of unconventional ways of living, and healing through community and the teachings of fungi. She looks into what challenging normative systems and learning from and modelling “modern life” after intentional communities, and the fungal queendom could be like. And our opportunity through radical vulnerability and authenticity to achieve higher service to ourselves and others.

 

Date/Time: Thursday November 11, 2021 @ 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Zoom Meeting ID: 952 1789 5246

Presenters' Bio: Erin is a a holistic wellness and mycology specialist with education and experience spanning health sciences, mushroom cultivation, environmental sustainability and various alternative and community-based healing modalities. Since her mother passed away when she was a young child, she has dedicated her life to learning about holistic wellness; how the body, mind and spirit interact within ourselves, and with our environments.

In search of alternative healing methods and perspectives on ways to live in symbiosis with the natural world, she spent time abroad across Latin America, exploring and studying intentional communities, permaculture farms and diverse teachings on spiritual wholeness, ceremonial practices and plant medicines. After discovering the world of medicinal mushrooms, their ancient history and their powerful benefits, she has studied the diversity of mushrooms in various applications; medicinally, soil and forest health, bioplastics and much more. She is now applying her experiences as Co-founder and Director of Product with Gwella Mushrooms and as a Co-founder and co-facilitator of Healing While Healing support network.




Registration is free. Advanced registration is mandatory to get Zoom password.