This Year's Conference Theme:
Taking Hold of The Wildcat's Fur
Join us as we gather once again to nourish the soul of the world as well as the wild soul within us. Now in its 36th year, the Great Mother Conference has always nourished the gifts of beauty, eloquence, and community. This year we will once again consider traditions both mythological and poetic, seeking the laughter in ancient wisdom and the grief held in the ocean's deep song. Please gather with us in the wildness of spring to remember what it means to live fiercely and love ferociously.
During these ten days we will have a taste of what it is like to live in a community of women and men who have already raised their voices in acts of resistance, through painting, poetry, thought and storytelling. The Conference will once again give thanks to many who are gone, including William Stafford, Etheridge Knight, Marie Louise von Franz, and Joseph Campbell. Children are welcome. We have teachers who work specifically with projects for children and teens.
Conference participants who work with the visual arts will have an opportunity to show their work in a Conference gallery.
Visit again soon for updates and a detailed description of this year's conference theme.
Rumi wrote:
What was said to the rose
that made it open
was said to me
here in my chest.
(translated by Coleman Barks)
Read the complete poem,
and see Coleman Barks perform a recitation of it!