2023 Program

Wednesday, November 8 - Sunday, November 12

6:30 - 7:30 AM

Breakfast on your own

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Registration Opens

7:30 AM

Board the van at the hotel for your field trip

3:00 - 6:00 PM

Registration Open

5:30 PM

Back to hotel

Dinner on your own

7:00 PM

Informal discussions and social time

7:00 - 8:00 AM

Movement Options:

7:30 - 8:30 AM

Breakfast on your own

8:00 AM - 7:00 PM

Registration Opens

12:00 - 1:00 PM

Lunch Break

Lunch is provided

3:00 - 5:00 PM

Wine and Cheese Welcome Reception

Location: near registration in the Westminster Foyer

5:00 - 5:30 PM

Welcome Ceremony

Location: Legacy Ballroom

5:30 - 6:30 PM

6:30 - 8:00 PM

Dinner

Location: In the Westminster

8:00 - 10:00 PM

Location: Lakehouse

8:00 - 9:00 PM

Book Signing with Liz Carlisle and Friends

Location: JPI Table

8:00 - 9:00 PM

Agriculture Course Reading

Location: Fireplace Seating Area in Hotel Lobby

7:00 - 8:00 AM

Movement Options:

Location: Legacy Ballroom

Location: Flatirons

7:00 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

Location: Westminster Ballroom

7:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Registration Desk Open

7:00 - 8:00 AM

The Spirit that Runs through Us

9:00 - 10:30 AM

10:30 - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 - 11:15 AM

General Session Welcome

Location: Legacy Ballroom

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Lunch

Location: Westminster

1:30 - 3:00 PM

Tracks
Eurythmy Rehearsal for The Grain as Big as an Egg
Biodynamic Movement during the Nazi regime
Amplifying Herbal Therapies with Biodynamics
Building Therapeutic Homes
Demeter 101 - Intro to Standards
Weaving Spirit and Matter
The Spiritual Foundations of Biodynamic Agriculture
Working with Healing Plants: One vertically integrated herb farm's journey
Biodynamics, Viriditas, the Quintivium, and Regenerative Economics ~ The Great Healing is Upon Us

3:00 - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 - 5:00 PM

Experience the Spiral of the Work That Reconnects
Fire Borne - The History of Biodynamics in America - Culture War 1950s- 1960s
Raising Resilient Bees
Amplifying Sales of BD Products
A Biodynamic School Garden
Condensing Aetheric Light – Scalable Solutions For The Increasing Damage Caused By Electro-Magnetic Frequencies Across Our Biospheres
Demeter 201 - Demeter Round Robin
What It's Worth: Tracking Ecosystem Enrichment for Small Farms
The Art of Biodynamics
Biodynamic Medicinal Botanicals: Production, Procurement, and Products

5:15 - 6:15 PM

Location: Westminster

6:30 - 8:00 PM

Dinner

Location: Westminster

8:00 - 10:00 PM

Location: Lakehouse

7:00 - 8:00 AM

Movement Options:

7:30 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 AM

10:30 - 11:00 AM

Break

11:00 - 12:15 PM

12:00 - 6:00 PM

Biodynamic Food & Wine Showcase

12:30 - 1:00 PM

Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 PM

Indigenous Agricultural Practices as a Source for Biodynamic Research
Partnership Breeding with Corn
Fire Borne - Anthroposophy in America - Biodynamic Cultural Influences Expand 1987 - PRESENT
Equisetum - Plant Study and Medicinal Uses
What Can You NOT Learn from These Two Totally Opposite BD CSA Farmers?
Soil Regeneration Through Permadynamics: Do's and Don'ts
Eurythmy: The Art of Etheric Movement
Morphology and Gesture of BD Preparation Plants
Evolving Land Trust Practices
Demystifying the Preparations
Applied Associative Economics

3:00 - 3:30 PM

Break

3:30 - 5:00 PM

Data: How Do We Measure?
Looking Back to Forge Ahead
Biodynamics in the Southern Hemisphere
A Therapeutic Encounter with the Land
Biodynamic Behind Bars: A case study in using biodynamic practices inside prisons
Beetcoin: Towards An Economy of Health and Peace
What is Biodynamic Veterinary Care?
Exploring Biodynamics on a Working Farm
How Spiritual Science Informs Biodynamics
Biodynamic Orcharding
Bio-Resonance and the Evolution of Biodynamic Farming

5:00 PM

Open Space and Sidewalk Consulting 

6:30 - 8:00 PM

Dinner

8:00 PM

Community Folk Dance with a live band and caller

Other Evening Activities TBA

7:00 - 8:00 AM

Agriculture Course Reading

Location: Fireplace Seating Area in Hotel Lobby

7:30 - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 AM

10:45 - 11:00 AM

General Session

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 - 1:30 PM

Lunch and Goodbyes