Finalized Vision Statement

Surrender is a gathering to bring together wild souls who express a love for Life by stewarding and merging with the Earth through the whole of their bodies, minds and spirits. Over the course of three days in a private oak and pine forest, Surrender will create space for deep grounding of participants with the land and in the sacred sensual prayer of life. Together, as we open our hearts to the Earth and to each other, we will grieve, support, connect, celebrate, listen, learn, inspire, imagine and create.

With the full moon as our witness, and the elements as our guides, we will participate in rites of initiation to affirm our role as ecosexuals*. Listening deeply to the land and each other, we will surrender to the deep consciousness of Nature in order to evolve towards a culture that is life positive, sex positive and ecologically sustainable.

All of Earth’s lovers are welcome.

(Co-created by Lindsay Hagamen & Teri D. Ciacchi and Adopted on 11/27/12 as the guide for Surrender: An EcoSexual Convergence 2013 an event they are co-producing)

The following will be used as a description on the website and to refer other to the origins of this event:

*EcoSexuality: A Definition, Herstory and Lineage
What is EcoSexuality? EcoSexuality is an artistic social change activism movement. EcoSexuality is a term created by Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle to express their relationship with their lover the Earth. These two women spearheaded the EcoSexual movement by producing the first two EcoSex Symposiums, writing the EcoSex Manifesto and creating the website SexEcology.org. EcoSex Symposium I took place on October 24, 2010 in Santa Monica, CA; EcoSex Symposium II took place on June 17-19,2011 in San Francisco.

Reverend Ciacchi of Living Love Revolution teamed up with Gabriella Cordova of The Lotus Heart Center to produce EcoSex Symposium Portland on June 29-July1st, 2012. www.ecosex.org

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio Professor of Humanities at Puerto Rico University and author of “Gaia and the new Politics of Love” gave a keynote speech at all three of the EcoSex Symposiums. She gives the following definition: “Ecosexuality is the new style of love that is beyond gender, numbers, orientation, age, race and species and embraces all of life as a partner with equal rights. Ecosexuals often consider love the ecology of Life.” Follow Serena’s work at: polyplanet.blogspot.com

Surrender: An EcoSexual Convergence is being co-created by Reverend Teri D. Ciacchi of Living Love Revolution and Lindsay Hagamen of www.myloverearth.org who is a resident of Windward Intentional Community & Sustainability Research Center