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Convergence Gathering 5 - An invitation to be involved in & develop this country together
SATURDAY 24 April 2021 ● 8pm-9.45pm ● LIVE ● Submit Q’s/Pre-book below ● We have chosen the online format, so that everyone can be heard
updated 07.4.21 | 30.03.21 | 03.03.21Nadine McCarthy • 🕊 BIO: Nadine is the Founder and Director of Be The Best You Can Be (Bí chomh ildánach is atá ar do chumas), an Irish based leadership development consultancy supporting visionaries who are destined to lead and drive change. By integrating radical and contemporary leadership principles with timeless ancient wisdom, leaders, creative entrepreneurs and change makers are supported to clarify and claim their sovereign leadership purpose and become the driving force for the future they wish to create.
Nadine also has a deep grá (a deep passion) for enabling Ireland’s highest collective future and has contributed to many national projects including the iteration and development of the Wellbeing Curriculum for the junior cycle in secondary schools; integrating transformational leadership skills and tools from the work of Otto Scharmer and Theory U, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) into the Future Leaders Programme for Transition year which has reached over 15,000 students across Ireland; and co-hosting Irelands first ever Firestarter Festival, a societal change and leadership development initiative, which partnered with the Scottish government to ignite a movement of change makers and leaders in Ireland and Scotland to design projects to create a better future for all. In addition, Nadine runs a yearly Programme called The Celtic Leader, which activates Ireland as an alchemical force for igniting inspirational leadership and a positive vision for change for people, community, country and planet.
Luke Eastwood • 🕊 BIO: Luke is a Druid, living and working as a horticulturist in Ireland, he was born in Scotland and lived in UK until aged 29, when he moved to Ireland. He learned Druidry from the mid 90s onwards, from many practitioners, mostly in Ireland and also studied the 3 grades within OBOD. Luke has worked in journalism, graphic design, IT and gardening and also part-time in the arts as well. He has written several books on spirituality, environmentalism and poetry. His latest book is “The Druid Garden” is published by Moon Books. Luke is also regional coordinator for Extinction Rebellion Kerry. You can see more of Luke’s work at lukeeastwood.com
Anna Kavanagh • 🕊 BIO: A mother of adult children, a retired secondary school teacher, an activist and a citizen journalist
Tuan Soluna O’Callaghan • 🕊 BIO: Tuan is a 29 year old musician and activist who grew up in East Clare among the rolling hills overlooking Lough Derg. He graduated from a HND in Contemporary Music Performance in BCFE in 2013 and is now in his third year of an undergraduate degree in Commercial Modern Music in BIMM Dublin. He is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist and has had a strong interest in politics and environmentalism since childhood. In recent years he was involved with Extinction Rebellion. His other main interests are in natural health, spirituality, philosophy, mythology and skateboarding. Over the last year his primary concern is how to transform consciousness and create a paradigm shift by holding the tension of seemingly oppositional view points.
Seán Og • 🕊 BIO: Seán is lead singer with world music, folk-rock band Tau. Sean is a song catcher who's recent compositions are deadly rooted in the land of Eriú. I think this is a good time to share some music intended to get to the heart of things and lift the spirits.
Ellowen (L-O-N) • 🕊 BIO: Ellowen is an Irish musician, poet, priestess and warrior of Love, with a devotion to the darkness, to everyday creativity and ordinary magic. Her spiritual path has taken her as far West and as far East as she could wander away from Ireland, to gather fruits to return home with. She is here in service to the turning of the tides, the emergence of a new way of living on earth, and to the landing of temples and projects that support this transition that we're in. She inspires and initiates others into living with earth-as-lover, body-as-earth, and earth-as-temple. Find her offerings at www.ellowen.life / @thisisellowen
Seamus Maye • 🕊 BIO: is highly respected for his work in the area of competition economics, competition law, company law, banking and white-collar crime. He works tirelessly in the area of political reform and is an outspoken critic of corrupt practises and
Legal Corruption. He blames Legal Corruption in large part,
for Ireland’s banking collapse and for the disparity in market power between SME’s / Farmers and large corporations. He runs his own consultancy business specialising in these areas.
Seamus is also a Director of Brussels based Cartel Damage Claims SA, a subsidiary company of CDC Group. CDC specialises in the recovery of damages for individuals and companies that have suffered losses arising from the activity of corporate price-fixing/market sharing cartels and abuse of dominance. Seamus also works as a consultant to CDC Group.
In addition, he is a competition consultant to the British Aggregates Association [BAA], the body representing independent quarry, concrete and asphalt producers, throughout the UK and has represented BAA at the UK Competition Commission and at the E.U.’s Directorate General for Competition.
For more than 20 years, Seamus’s family business Framus Ltd has been engaged in competition litigation against eight major cement/concrete companies, including CRH Plc, Roadstone, Readymix Plc (CEMEX) and Kilsaran Concrete. The case concerns allegations of price-fixing, market sharing, abuse of dominance and predatory pricing.
Seamus is founder of International Small Business Alliance and has regularly addressed international audiences, most recently at a Moscow conference in May 2015, where he spoke on Competition Regulation and the Structures and Behaviour of the Global Quarry, Concrete, Asphalt and Cement sector. He is a long-time member of Transparency International Ireland and of the Public Banking Forum of Ireland.
Seamus holds a Batchelor of Commerce Degree from University College Dublin together with a National Certificate in Agriculture and he has studied Competition Economics at Kings College London.
Seamus lives in county Sligo, Ireland, with his family.
Declan Hammond • 🕊 BIO: Declan is co-founder and former director of The Irish School of Homeopathy, a homeopath, transpersonal therapist and shamanic practitioner.
His life and work has been a passionate search for the most effective healing tools for himself and his patients. This journey has taken him all over the globe studying Eastern and Western approaches to healing, tantra yoga and traditional shamanic practices.
Declan has developed a unique synthesis of these ancient and modern healing techniques and works with individuals and groups to empower deep personal growth and spiritual transformation.
Thank YOU
Past #FutureIreland Voices THANK YOU: Rónán Ó Snodaigh ● Lorie Ladd ● Huna Flash ● The O’ Neill Sisters ● Enda Mary Donnellan ● Dolores Whelan ● Davóg Rynne ● Oisin O’Neill ● Jin Sandhu ● Elaine Máire Brigid Ní Chiardha ● Paul Congdon ● Maria Masha ● Michelle Shannon ● Julie Ruane & Michael McKeever ● Ruth Murphy ● Jeba & Una ● Ray Nangle ● Paul Murphy ● Stephen Corcoran ● O Durkin ● J Lawless ● Annette Morris & David (thank you for your poetry, music & #FutureIreland visions & on-going momentum input - you rock!!)
