Introduction

The Emerging, Holistic Worldview

Awakening and Transformation of Consciousness

Reconnecting to Nature

Health and Healing

Socially Engaged Spirituality

Women’s Movements

Suppression of the feminine dates back several thousand years. It is only in the last 100 years that we have heard women’s voices articulating a different worldview. Even in the East the spiritual work has been and still is mainly formulated by males. This may be the biggest impetus of all for change.

The first wave of feminism in the late 19th century (red-stockings) saw women wanting the vote, better education and jobs and equal rights/pay. Equality has still not yet been reached anywhere even if the welfare state has come a long way. The result has been a high degree of institutionalization of what women earlier did for free.

The next wave, in the 1960s, saw women expressing what women’s culture had to contribute to society: other values, a different kind of personality making it possible to raise children in love, an informal economy, shadow economy, subsistence economy. Some women call it an economy of love or sunshine economy. Women met in groups and spoke from their hearts. Tantra and a different kind of sexual relationship between men and women emerged (Flying women, witches and Goddesses).

A third wave in the early 21st century could be a cooperation on equal terms between the sexes in creating sustainable communities. The ecovillage movement was from the start thought of as a way of solving women’s problems in cooperation with men: the yin/yang strategy. For 400 years society has been defined by technology and economy (yang). Perhaps the time has come to let yin (our relationship with other humans and the natural world) determine how we organize society. People creating ecovillages and transition towns are starting to do just that.

• The Holographic Universe
• New Paradigm Thinkers
• Other cultures
• Women's movements

Starhawk is an American writer, social activist, and self-described witch. She is one of the foremost popular voices of ecofeminism.
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First GEN-Europe Council. Declan Kennedy (chair; Lebensgarten, Germany), Christine, (Belgium), Agni (Lebensgarten), Memet,(Turkey), Lucilla (second chair; Torri Superiore, Italy) and Silke (Sieben Linden, Germany). Women play a strong role in GEN