This conference will bring together many of those pioneering creative and effective solutions to the problems associated with Peak Oil and Climate Change. These include:

Joanna Macy teacher and author, is the creator of the Work That Reconnects. Drawing from Buddhist practices, systems theory, and love for life, her workshops empower environmental and social activists worldwide. Her many books include Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World; World As Lover, World As Self; Widening Circles, A Memoir; and translations of Rilke's poetry. www.joannamacy.net

Dorothy Maclean is a co-founder of the Findhorn Foundation and community and continues to dedicate her life to teaching and supporting others to make their own inner connection to God and to nature's intelligence.

Richard Heinberg is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost peak oil educators. He is a Research Fellow of Post Carbon Institute, a member of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and a core faculty member of New College of California where he teaches a programme on Culture, Ecology and Sustainable Community. Richard is the author of seven books including The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies, Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, and The Oil Depletion Protocol. His monthly MuseLetter was nominated in 1994 for an Alternative Press Award and has been included in Utne Magazine’s annual list of Best Alternative Newsletters. www.richardheinberg.com

Richard Olivier is Artistic Director of Olivier Mythodrama – a unique leadership development consultancy. He was a leading theatre director for 10 years and directed Henry V for the opening of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London in 1997. He has worked extensively in the fields of organisational and personal development. He works today at the leading edge of bringing theatre into the development of authentic leadership. Richard is the founding voice within Mythodrama - a new form of experiential learning which combines great stories with psychological insights, creative exercises and organisational development techniques to explore issues faced by modern leaders. www.oliviermythodrama.com

Richard Lochhead, MSP is Member of the Scottish Parliament for the constituency of Moray, where Findhorn is located. He is a former convener of the European and External Relations Committee of the Scottish Parliament. He currently holds the Scottish National Party's portfolios on Environment, Energy, Fishing and Rural Affairs in the Scottish Parliament.

Rob Hopkins is founder of Transition Town Totnes, the first transition town project in the UK, as well as the newly formed Transition Network. He publishes TransitionCulture.org, a blog exploring these issues. A teacher of permaculture for 10 years, Rob has built with strawbales and cob and has a particular passion for walnut trees. Transition Towns are an emerging approach to enabling towns to prepare for peak oil and climate change and act as catalysts for the community to explore how the end of the age of cheap oil will affect them, and what they can do to prepare. They are based on the simple assertion that life beyond cheap oil and gas could be preferable to the present, but only if we engage in designing this transition with sufficient creativity and imagination, and with a previously unseen level of engagement. www.transitiontowns.org

Megan Quinn is the Outreach Director of Community Service, Inc and has been writing and speaking on Peak Oil for more than four years. She served as Master of Ceremonies for the first, second, and third US conferences on Peak Oil and Community Solutions in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and at the Peak Oil and Environment conference in Washington DC in May 2006. Megan graduated with a degree in Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she studied Peak Oil and its implications for US foreign policy, and studied abroad at the University of Havana in Cuba. Megan co-wrote and co-produced her organisation's new documentary, The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil. www.communitysolution.org

Jonathan Dawson is a sustainability educator, teaching up to undergraduate level at the Findhorn Foundation ecovillage in Scotland. He is also President of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN) and Executive Secretary of GEN-Europe. Jonathan has spent much of his working life promoting community economic development in Africa and is the author of several books including the recently published Ecovillages: New Frontiers for Sustainability. He is also a gardener and a story-teller. www.gen-europe.org

The week begins by encouraging us to open to our creativity. Joanna Macy will lead a two-day exploration of deep ecology while Richard Olivier will lead a one-day workshop on Green Leadership using the themes in Shakespeare's As You Like It. We then transition in the second half of the week to look at the many positive responses that are already emerging from communities around the world.

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