Past Events & Recordings
October Moon WOP Circle
How to Find Ground in the Eye of a Storm?
What is the storm?
When you're pulled every which way - what keeps you centered?
Is the ground always under you?
What's between Grounding and Earthing?
September Moon WOP Circle
Fear anyone?
Who's afraid of (whatever you're afraid of)?
What's the blessing in fear?
What has fear taught you?
How do you face fear? Do you overcome it?
What does your fear mean to you?
WILD12 - 12th World Wilderness Congress
GCILL is proud to co-organize WILD12 alongside The WILD Foundation and the Congress host: the Sicangu Lakota Oyate Treaty Council. Featuring Indigenous Leadership in the plenary, Global Indigenous Sessions, Indigenous knowledge exchange, and ceremonies & exhibitions, hundreds of people from around the world will participate in resolutions and outcomes to influence worldwide wilderness preservation that respects and honors Indigenous stewardship.
Transformative Learning Foundation Presents: Being a Real Human Being, in partnership with Wisdom Weavers of the World
Transformative Learning Foundation (TLF) is proud to host an Elder’s Wisdom Share with the Wisdom Weavers of the World, an initiative of The Global Center for Indigenous Leadership & Lifeways (GCILL).
Join us online to hear Indigenous leaders from many cultures speak on the urgent need to create relationships that sustain Life for future generations. Their presentation will be followed by a Q&A session with questions from the audience.
This is a give-what-you-can event (no one turned away for lack of funds).
August Moon WOP Circle
What Do We Trust?
How do we know what to trust?
Which wisdom to listen to: that of wish, or that of fear?
How do we discern what is true?
July Moon WOP Circle
Our Women Wisdom Keepers will go on a live exploration of Going For It vs Letting Go, exploring what Surrender and Victory mean to them, letting Spirit move them as they speak.
Wombs of Peace for World Peace and Prayer Day
Wombs of Peace (WOP) is joining forces with World Peace and Prayer Day (WPPD), on Summer Solstice and the full moon, in a WOP circle dedicated to the Holy-Land:
For WPPD, we'll hold a WOP circle looking at the Holy Land from a different perspective: we will NOT look through the immediate "Now" lens. Rather, we will cast a broad, tectonic look at the magnitude of magnetic energies that the Holy Land holds, attracts, and can birth.
A Kaiāulu Event: June Solstice Ceremony
Join our sister organization, Kaiāulu, for a June Solstice event with Indigenous Elders.
June Moon WOP Circle
What is time?
Is time linear? Is time a construct? Is time necessary?
Who invented time, and who does it serve?
Can we save time? Waste time? Spend time?
Can we create time? Stop it? Go back in time? Accelerate time? What is it Time for...?
Post-Traumatic Growth Global Summit 2024
Explore Transformation through the Power of Post-Traumatic Growth #posttraumaticgrowthglobalsummit through healing trauma for psychological growth, physical well-being, spiritual evolution, awakening, and more… 6 days starting June 11
May Moon WOP Circle
Language shapes our experiences for better and for worst.
How are Creation Stories shaped by Language: The language of creation and the creation of language...
Virtual Premiere of The Power of Ceremony
Catch Ilarion in the the virtual world premiere of Earth & Spirit Council's new film. The Power of Ceremony: Earth Teachings for Future Generations, will stream online this Tuesday evening!
Living and Leading with Deep Resilience
Free Online Summit: In these times of destabilized climate, ecosystems, society, and geopolitics, we’re facing an unprecedented scale of disruption and loss. As social inequities and health issues grow, so do fear-based reactions. How can we live and lead as joyful, connected, loving human beings? We need resilience that can hold up under extreme conditions. We need Deep Resilience.
A Kaiaulu Event: Synchronized New Moon Ceremony
Join our sister organization, Kaiaulu, for a Synchronized New Moon Ceremony.
WOP April Full Moon Ceremony
Do we Need Ceremony? And does Ceremony Need us?
Who does Ceremony serve?
What's between intention, prayer, ceremony, ritual?
What is a memorable ceremony you were a part of?
Power of Ceremony Film Screening
This film features eight elders and stunning images, reminding us that if we go back in time far enough, we all come from a culture of ceremony.
April Moon WOP Circle
Do we Need Ceremony? And does Ceremony Need us?
Who does Ceremony serve?
What's between intention, prayer, ceremony, ritual?
What is a memorable ceremony you were a part of?
March Moon WOP Circle
Are Prayers Meant to be Answered?
Is prayer a living practice? A tradition? An anachronism?
Interview with Gabor Maté
To explore, respectfully, mutual perspectives about truth, war, occupation and trauma.
February Moon WOP Circle
Sun & Stars: What is our relationship with the universe?
After visiting our relationship with the Moon in January, we expand our curiosity and exploration to all corners of the universe. How do we relate to the vastness within which our lives unfold?
Arctic Clash: Climate and Geopolitics - USC Arctic Symposium
Arctic Clash: Climate and Geopolitics
USC Arctic symposium
The Critical Social Worker PodcastEpisode #42: Heart Wisdom and Talking Circles | A Dialogue with Ilarion Merculief
The Critical Social Worker: A Revolutionary Storytelling Podcast, hosted by Christian Ace Stettler, assistant professor of social work at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, is profoundly honored to feature Ilarion 'Kuuyux' Merculieff.
Interview with Elder, Ilarion Merculieff, "Messages from the Earth" with Eco-Somatics
Interview with Elder, Ilarion Merculieff, "Messages from the Earth"
This interview is hosted by Dr. Azra Bertrand, founder of Biomancy University, as part of the Eco-Somatics Project - "Our Ecological Body".
January Moon WOP Circle
Ever Changing, ever Turning, ever Returning, the Moon is our closest celestial teacher. We are influenced by her as human beings, and even more so as woman-beings.
Wisdom Weavers Solstice Elders Council
The Wisdom Weavers of the World Elders Council invites you to witness stories and messages from our Elders to help guide us into the new year and a new cycle.
Dec Moon-WOP: How do wombs of peace move us? How do YOU envision being a Womb of Peace?
What movement would you like to have in the world? What does a womb of peace mean to you?
How does it / can it translate into your reality? What may it become?
Nov 2023 moon-WOP circle: A time for lives to be taken? to be healed? to be witnessed?
Am I in the right species..?
So much pain, loss, trauma, fear, anger, distrust, and worse... How can one cope with all of that around us and in us?
Rise of Wise Women’s Prayer
The vision of women praying together is a vision that many of us see, hold and walk.
This is an urgent call to bring this vision to life, since the situation here, in the holy land, and in other places in the world, has reached a chaos that has no words.
Feminine Keys for Peace in Times of Crisis & War
Quite a few requests have come our way since this war in the middle east broke. Many places in the world have wars. Not sure why this one seems to wake people up to the nightmares of war, but more than ever before, we've been asked to bring the Elders' wisdom on peace in this time of crisis & war. So we did. Promptly.
Moon-WOP circle: Earth.
Given the past few Moon-WOP circles we've been looking at: Water, Fire & heat, Air & the unseen, feels like it's time to and a look at Earth.