Join us for our final “Kinship” Webinar for 2025, when we are joined by Dido Dunlop who will present a special 'Deep Imagination Workshop' to help us explore new ways of coping with and healing, our 'inner and outer' climate.

"Our present system of capitalist, colonising patriarchy is causing climate catastrophe and environmental degradation. To heal the climate and ourselves, we need to make a major paradigm shift, to a life-supporting way of living and cooperating with Mother Nature. While Indigenous Peoples continue ancient practices grown from their deep relationships with the non-human world, modernity and capitalism have separated many of us from deeper connections and imaginative lives. How can we transform our values and beliefs, in our whole heart, so we can create a healthy world for the future?" - Dido Dunlop

Dido will draw on methods from Tibetan Buddhism, which connect with deep creative imagination, and share exercises that make these methods easy to engage with.

ABOUT THE KINSHIP SERIES

Our Webinar Series: “Kinship: exploring human-nature connections” features speakers from around Australia and around the world, who share their insights into how they connect with and celebrate ‘nature’. Human beings are (of course) part of nature, but by reflecting on the cultural, bioregional, linguistic and practical ways that humans engage with, celebrate and care for ‘nature’, we can enrich our understanding of what it means to be part of the Earth community.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER

DIDO DUNLOP

Dido has been teaching Tibetan Buddhist meditation since 1978, and has longstanding groups in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Deep concern about climate chaos inspires her to foster social change, through meditation and building community. She is also a Transition Towns Trainer, and uses this framework for the inner Heart and Soul work in her workshops. Dido is involved in creating intentional community, in permaculture ecovillages and other settings and is engaged in activism aimed at reducing climate catastrophe.

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WEBINAR HOST
DR MICHELLE MALONEY

Dr Michelle Maloney is an Earth lawyer and advocate for ecocentric governance. She is recognised for her work advocating for Earth centred law and governance, including First Laws and the Rights of Nature. Michelle is Co-Founder and Director of the Australian Earth Laws Alliance (AELA), and Co-Founder and Director of Future Dreaming and the New Economy Network Australia. Michelle holds a Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and History) and Laws (Honours) from the Australian National University and a PhD in Law from Griffith University.

ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN EARTH LAWS ALLIANCE (AELA)
AELA is a not-for-profit organisation working to increase the understanding and practical implementation of Earth-centred (ecocentric) governance, with a focus on systems change across law, economics, education, ethics and community participation in Australia. AELA's work includes education programs and project support for people, communities and organisations working to create ecocentric systems change.

For more information, visit our website: www.earthlaws.org.au or email us anytime: aela@earthlaws.org.au

ABOUT THE UTS TRANSDISCIPLINARY SCHOOL

Transdisciplinary School is a world-leading pan-university unit at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Transdisciplinary thinking seeks to build bridges between fields of study and expertise, so diverse perspectives can intersect, ideas can be shared more fluidly between industries, and people can thrive through exposure to new ways of thinking in order to find novel approaches to the challenges of our time.

For more information: https://www.uts.edu.au/about/t...

ABOUT FUTURE DREAMING

Future Dreaming Australia is a not-for-profit, Indigenous and non-Indigenous partnership organisation that works to share cross cultural ecological knowledge to build a better future for all of us.

For more information: www.futuredreaming.org.au

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE KINSHIP SERIES

If you have questions, or would like to suggest future topics or speakers for the kinship series, please email us anytime: aela@earthlaws.org.au-
Updates about the kinship series will be shared on AELA's website - https://www.earthlaws.org.au/o...