Saturday, March 29, 2025, Westward Look Inn, Tucson AZ

Sacred Places, Living Lands and Memory
with Dilsa Deniz, Sarah Chandler, Constance Tippett and Dawn Work-Makinne
- Shamir (Diamond Toothed) Worm – Pacifist Slave or Anti-Prophetic Savior: Exploring Ancient and Modern Jewish Myths of Soil and Stone, Sarah Chandler
- Herda Dewresh – The Sacred Earth in Kurdish Alevi Tradition, Dilsa Deniz
- Moons at Serpent Mound, Constance Tippett
- Animism, Indigeneity and Memory, Dawn Work-Makinne
Dilşa Deniz, a Kurdish anthropologist with a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology and an MA in Women’s Studies. Her research focuses on gender, culture, mythology, eco-spirituality, and environmental challenges in Kurdish Alevi communities, addressing racism and internal colonization. In her book Shamaran: The Neolithic Eternal Mother, is one of the oldest Mother Earth Goddesses she introduces.
Kohenet Shamirah Bechirah aka Sarah Chandler is a Brooklyn-based Jewish educator, artist, activist, healer, and poet. She teaches, writes, and consults on issues related to Kabbalistic dreamwork, earth-based spiritual practices, mindfulness, and farming. She has been teaching Jewish eco-ritual weaving for over 20 years. An advanced student of Kabbalistic dream work at The School of Images, she also holds a M.A. in Jewish Education and a M.A. in Hebrew Bible from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a certificate in Non-Profit Management and Jewish Communal Leadership from Columbia University. As the CEO of Shamir Collective, she coaches high-profile and emergent artists, musicians, and authors to weave portals for the next stage of creativity. She has served on the ASWM board since 2020, both as outreach manager and acting treasurer, as well as a core volunteer since 2019.
Constance Tippett is best known for her “Goddesstimeline that shows 40,00- years of imagery of women and Goddess throughout history. She also makes museum quality clay replications of Goddess statues. She is now working on a project to try and decode the meaning of Serpent Mound, which is an astronomical monument made by the indigenous People of the Americans.
Dawn Work-MaKinne, Ph.D., is an independent scholar interested in animism, the sacred feminine and Germanic Europe. Her work has appeared in Goddesses in World Culture and in ASWM conference proceedings, and she completed the final content-editing of Patricia Monaghan’s last Book of Goddesses and Heroines. She lives, studies and teaches in a forest grove in Des Moines, Iowa.
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