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Closing Ceremony Notes Pacific Symposium 09
Closing Ceremony Notes
from Pacific Symposum 09.
Date: 11/10/2009 12:08:08 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1164 times
8:11 AM
November 11, 09
This PlANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
has the Closing Ceremony Notes I
intended to deliver at the PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM,
as well as my evaluation below it
of what actually happened.
INTENDED NOTES
Uploaded here
10:06 AM
November 10, 09
CEREMONY
It’s a yearly tradition at Pacific Symposium for Leslie Goldman, Our Conference Enchanted Gardener, do a brief closing ceremony. Leslie tends our Conference Altar where he invites each of us to root our deepest Seed Dreams and gain confidence that we can grow our own food and medicines Once unable to walk, his life expresses a collaboration between the finest of Western Surgeons, acupuncture, and more than 8000 years of plant wisdom. Let’s warmly welcome, Leslie.
FYI BIO (if you want to include):
He inspired the book THE ULTIMATE Gardener, authored by Charlie Nardozzi, who helped Michelle Obama plant the white house organic farmer. A popular internet writer, the Plant Your Dream Blog has more than 1.5 million page views.
CLOSING CEREMONY NOTES
PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM ’09
I want to affirm this morning not what is possible between us but what we can imagine is impossible for us.
Last night, when our keynote speaker, oplanted her Seed Dreams at our conference Altar, she asked me to create a healing garden for her Scripps Integrative Medical Center. The garden will include
TCM Herbs.
I want to thank Sifu Keep the Beet Media
Star, The World’s First talking beet plant,
for rooting for this collaboration.
Let’s warmly give a hip, hip hooray
to SIFU MASTER KEEP THE BEET.
Hip, Hip, Hooray!
For years, my dear friend JACK MILLER
has afforded me a few minutes to encourage you
to plant your own TCM herbs in American soil.
This morning, let’s warmly welcome BILL TALL of the
local organic CITY FARMERS NURSERY.
Bill will answer any questions you may need to know to gain
confidence that you can grow food and your medicines this lunchtime and afternoon. He will also begin growing TCM herbs locally,
The seed dream is that his local nursery
will work hand in hand with our PCOM faculty and students
who can learn to grown together our own medicines.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ORGANIC FARMER
THROUGH JOINING A CSA and SHOPPING
THE FARMERS' MARKET
It is time today to root new dreams.
It is time now for each of us to know our
Grower. This means growing a beet in a pot,
shopping your local Farmers’ Markets.,
and joining Community Supported Agriculture--CSA’s
where you live.
This, my friends, is crucial for your success
that we each get in the bed with our local,
organic farmers. We cannot bank on the
economy as it is now, but we can bank
on compost to support us.
Look around the room. Feel the capacity
within you now to root your deepest dreams.
Know that when you grow a simple beet seed
and repot grown beets you get from your local farmer,
that you are a gardener.
One Pot+one Person, you are a gardener.
Be the return of the beet. Know that as your beet grows,
you are regaining your beat with nature for you and for our medicine.
Keep the beet. Eat the Beet Greens.
This Sufi Master Keep the Beet Media Star,
asks of you today.
As I look around this room, I see great
dreams over your heads, that want to be
rooted with beet seeds before you leave
our city. Do this and you will help bring rain
here to our farmers and their plants.
Imagine, or hold a beet seed in your hand
and repeat with me these words.
BEET KEEPERS, Return!
Come Root Your Dream.
This is the Art that will be gifted to
our local PCOM campus, thanks to
conference sponsors.
Let’s say this words together:
GRATITUDE AND THANKS:
Maria Lopez, for starting the CSA
at PCOM.
JR organic for donating flowers each week
to our clinic and for years to our conference.
THe local San Diego beet keeper
beet growers.
La Milpa
Sage mt farm
JR organic.
Deb Davis, an incredible bright light and smile.
who I know will bring a model healing center to San Diego PCOM.
To Tiffany Hansen....our beloved program
director....
To jack Miller... the world’s greatest
successful entrepreneurial president
a movement could have imagined.
To Stacey Gomes, for her loving
and intelligents hands on our doctors
program.
TO all of you...for being here today
and next year.
To sufi Keep the beet.
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7:47 AM
November 11, 09
These are my Closing Ceremony notes
for the PACIFIC SYMPOSIUM '09.
The Closing Ceremony was held
the final day of the conference before
the morning panel.
I was up until 3 AM the night before
writing up a mock press release
about the extraordinary invitation
to create a healing garden
at the SCRIPPS CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE.
This invitation happened following the
keynote talk November 7, Saturday evening
when ERMINIA GUSRNARI, M.D., F.A.C.C.,
Medical Director, joined the
BEET KEEPERS and planted her deep SEED DREAMS.
I was up early Sunday morning between 6-7 ish
writing these notes.
I arrived at the CATAMARAN RESORT HOTEL
around 10:15 AM.
BILL TALL of CITY FARMERS NURSERY,
one of my main sponsors,
helped me carry some props and Sacred Objects
for the ceremony up to the
front of the speaker area.
My delivery of the notes here was flawed.
Moments before I spoke JACK MILLER came up
and reminded me to keep it to two minutes.
He says that every year. The ceremony runs around
5-7.
At the same time, I lost sight of BILL TALL, who I wanted
to introduce as part of the ceremony. I was concerned he
was not in the room. I was about to cell phone him, when
the M.C., GINA from New York, who I had never worked with
called the meeting to order.
We generally do a raffle before I speak,
then, the special words, and then the main speaker.
This time, she introduced me first unexpectedly,
receiving a message from TIFFANY HANSEN at the last
minute.
That was not my preferred order.
On top of this, my anchor for the CSA and Farmers
Market portion of the Closing Ceremony did not show up.
He would have been my alert in my state of "auto Pilot,"
I never saw a whole page of my notes!
I left out all the words about the CSA and planted
new dreams for now. That page was crucial.
I also left out the paragraph, where I gift
the Artwork to the college. The cost of the artwork
was around $100.00. This sentence is vital
for both getting sponsors, and associated me
with the Conference Art, and also planting a seed
that they could get a copy of the art for their own
offices.
The main funding I receive from the approximate
100 or more hours it takes to do the set up
of my time and the time of others, comes back in sponsorships
valued at $200.00 each. I generally get about three
of these sponsorships, and this will put me in the black.
The sponsorships come at the conference
and come out of my interactions one on one
as inspired. I generally do not know who the sponsors
will be each year.
HEALTH CONCERNS and its founder the elegant
and joyful ANDREW GAEDDART, is my anchor among
the yearly sponsors. His participation in the SEED DREAM
ritual and his renewal each year, is also a vital healing moment
for me. This year that quality time took place
on Saturday, thank God. I would not have had time
to ground his contribution on Sunday. Too much was going on.
That little movement of my ally not realizing how
importance his presence was at the Closing, may have
cost about $1000.00 ideally.
The move of not seeing Bill, who I would have wanted
seated to my left, influenced the quality of my delivery.
I am going to bring up to Jack, the president of the college,
that giving me that communication, a minute before I speak,
also impacts my delivery.
In the future, I would like the Brief Closing Ceremony to be
in the Program Guide, I also will ask that my bio note for the
work I do to hold the Sacred Space of the Conference be listed
in the Program along side the other speakers.
I did not see the listing of the ENCHANTED GARDEN
in the program with the other exhibitors as I had turned in.
This was likely timing. I do not turn in conventional
exhibitor materials, but communicate directly with Tiffany who
is my dearest of friends and ally.
As far as overall materials in the program,
Tiffany came through for me big.
Jack wanted to sell the inside front cover as ad space
valued at around $600.00. The last two years, I have
had that space. Tiffany had told me I would have the inside
back cover this time. I was surprised to see the art in its
normal place. I also had the inside back b/w page listing
the SIFU KEEP THE BEET PROGRAM. I would have preferred
the outside b/w page.
Next year I am going to use this page more with those I talk
to. I did not use this page effectively or call its presence in the book
to too many people. A shepard is needed to connect both
the Artwork in the front of the book, and the page that explains
what I am doing there to the delegates.
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