45 MINUTES · INTERACTIVE · LIMITED TO 30–50 PARTICIPANTS
How does an idea become a movement?
Attendees with a full festival pass or daypass are given priority to select workshops at no additional cost. The workshops will then be free and open to all others on a first come, first serve basis.
How does compassionate concern become meaningful action? Through a facilitated wisdom circle, the founder and champions of Water By Women will share how an interfaith partnership grew into a powerful movement for justice, dignity, and access to clean water. Together, participants will explore practical lessons for building collaborative efforts that create positive change in their own communities while learning how dialogue can become action. Inspired by stories of courage, compassion, and collective impact, guests will be invited to reflect on the experiences, values, and callings that may spark their own “watershed moment.”
Come ready to listen deeply, imagine boldly, and discover what you might begin.
The thing is to stalk your calling in a certain skilled and supple way, to locate the most tender and live spot and plug into that pulse. This is yielding, not fighting.
– Annie Dillard
Facilitators
Sister Larraine Lauter
OSU — Co-Founder and Executive Director, Water By Women
Maha Kolko
PCUSA
Rabbi Beth Jacowitz Chottiner
Temple Shalom
Dr. Alexis Karageorge
Louisville Concierge Medicine, PLLC
Water By Women is a nonprofit organization based in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded in 2011, the organization’s mission is to empower mothers and young women as “Water Women” to deliver sustainable, lifelong clean drinking water to their families and communities where traditional water infrastructure does not exist or is unsustainable. Since 2008, the program has equipped over 240,000 Water Women across 49 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, including disaster-relief efforts in communities across Appalachia and among Native American communities.