Wren Tuatha

Takoma Park, Maryland, United States

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Value-Based Consensus interrupts privilege and oppression in groups.

Communities bio: Wren Tuatha has been an activist, consultant and member in the Intentional Communities movement for 17 years, based at Heathcote Community in Maryland. She moderates the internet group TRIBE: Choosing Intentional Community. Wren created and facilitated the consensus-based Heathcote Homeschooling Open Classroom. Wren joins her community experience and 30 years of experience as an alternative educator to C.T. Butler’s teaching of Value-Based Consensus. Her lifelong experiential education contributions have included team teaching mixed age groups at the University of Louisville, teaching and directing in preschools and childrens’ shelters, serving 3 Unitarian-Universalist congregations as Director of Religious Education and developing Open Classroom, consensus workshops and Social Technology Toolbox Summer Camp at Heathcote. Wren is also a ZEGG Forum facilitator.   Most recently, Wren and C.T. Butler traveled for nearly a year on their Direct Democracy Tour, teaching consensus, facilitation, agenda planning, Intentional Community, Food Not Bombs, and more to Occupy groups across America.   Wren is also an award winning writer and widely published poet. She currently chronicles her travels at HippieChickDiaries.com, “Wren Tuatha’s Complicated Adventures in Simple Living.”   The teacher bio: Wren developed and facilitated Heathcote Community’s Homeschool Open Classroom. She’s worked with kids, infants through teens, for thirty years. She team-taught mixed age groups at University of Louisville’s Child Care Center, supervising nursing, psychology and education students. She worked with at-risk children and families at Louisville’s Home of the Innocents and as a welfare caseworker for the State of Kentucky. She’s served 3 Unitarian-Universalist congregations as Director of Religious Education. Wren’s work with adults has focused on “toolbox” skills for Intentional Communities and activist groups. Wren teaches Value-Based Consensus with partner C.T. Butler and facilitates ZEGG Forums. Wren studied education at University of Louisville and film at Towson University. The writer/filmmaker bio: Wren Tuatha was Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Center. Her poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, The Loch Raven Review, Digges’ Choice, The Baltimore Women’s TImes, The Green Revolution and the anthology Blood and Tears. She received a Young Authors Award in Poetry from The Courier Journal. She is a founding member of Baltimore’s Sunday Salon critique group. She wrote a stage play from her poetry, This Is How She Steps on Snakes, which she performed in Baltimore and at Towson University, thanks to grants from TU’s Women’s Center and Office of Diversity. The journal Grub Street awarded her first prize for slam poetry. Wren is principally a screenwriter, under the banner Curio Coast Productions. She wrote the feature scripts Bacca Blooms, Strands of Emily, This Is How She Steps on Snakes and My Second Simone. She studied poetry, as well as Electronic Media and Film, at Towson University and education at University of Louisville. Her short films, “Totems of a Road-Colored Goat” and “Sparrow, Like Everyone,” are poem treatments.

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