Jennifer Morgan: Books & Programs
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BlogThe Universe . . . Mystery Unfolding, Retreat in Northern IrelandJuly 11, 2011
I'm at the Drumalis Retreat and Conference Center in Larne, Northern Ireland preparing to co-lead a four day retreat titled: The Universe . . . Mystery Unfolding. Day 1 - The Universe Story; Day 2 - What's emerging now?; Day 3 - New Images of God; Day 4 - Art as a way to tune into the self transcendent impulse of (more…)
Earthrise Farm Creates BORN WITH A BANG Story PathJune 30, 2011
Earthrise Farm in Madison, MN, created large plaques of the spreads (illustrations and text) from Born With a Bang for an incredible journey of the universe walk in the woods. Here's a message I just received from Kay and Annette Fernholtz about the opening day walk:
Dear Jennifer and Dana, Just want to let (more…) Cosmic Story Cards and Timeline now available!March 31, 2011
This last weekend, Cosmic Story Cards and a Timeline based on Born With a Bang were released by Wasecabiomes.org and enthusiastically received at the AMS (American Montessori Society) conference in Chicago. The Cosmic Story Cards and Timeline package contains:
1. A large card set for the teachers to tell the story with the picture on (more…) Teacher Training at The Barrie School, Silver Spring, MDJanuary 31, 2011 
With elementary student teachers at The Barrie School
Teaching Element Formation Through Storytelling at Fraser-Woods Montessori SchoolJanuary 14, 2011
Chemistry is so often taught in a way that is duller than dishwater when it's so easy to make it exciting . . . thrilling actually . . . when you teach chemistry through storytelling. Teaching inside the context of a story makes all the difference . . . through the drama of evolution we see how once there were no elements and (more…)
Telling the Universe Story at the Littleton LyceumJanuary 9, 2011
Gave a program at the Littleton Lyceum in Littleton Massachusetts on a frigid snow threatening Friday. The Littleton Lyceum in the oldest continuously run Lyceum in the US and if you don't know what a Lyceum is -- as I didn't - the name comes from the garden where Aristotle held forth and educated (more…)
Befriending Creation, Friends Meeting at Cambridge, MADecember 6, 2010
The latest issue of Befriending Creation, a newsletter put out by the Friends Meeting At Cambridge, MA, includes a review of the Universe Story Trilogy. (See the link to the right.) In October, at the invitation of dear friend Mary Coelho (author of Awakening Universe and a member of that community), I gave two programs for (more…)
"Journey of the Universe" Movie Soon to be Released!December 1, 2010
Lots happening, from giving programs in Maine to now writing in California and meeting with colleagues here in the Bay Area (and hanging out with my son who is a student at Stanford). Had lunch yesterday with Judi Bauerlein, former president of the American Montessori Society and someone who loves cosmology as much as (more…)
Storytelling Upon a Fossil ReefSeptember 3, 2010
Isle La Motte, Vermont, the northern most island in Lake Champlain sits on top of the oldest diverse fossil reef in the world, the Chazy Reef, once a 1,000 mile-long reef formed 480 million years ago along the continental shelf of North America when it was in the southern hemisphere where Africa is today. Linda Fitch, a (more…)
Growing Your Own Food . . . Square Foot Gardening With the NeighborsJuly 16, 2010
My Mom, Maureen Morgan -- a musician of extraordinary creativity and an environmental advocate involved in a number of causes -- has always been at the forefront of new ideas and ways of living. Rather than simply talk about our concerns re the food system, she's actually doing something I've talked about for a (more…)
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Drumalis Retreat and Conference Center
Opening of the BORN WITH A BANG Story Path at Earthrise Farm
BORN WITH A BANG Story Path at Earthrise Farm
Cosmic Story Timeline. Students sequence cards that tell the cosmic story along the mat size spiral timeline. To purchase contact Wasecabiomes.org at 866-546-8833.
Student teachers at The Barrie School acting out the story.
Teaching element formation through storytelling at Fraser-Woods Montessori School, Newtown, CT.
Fraser-Woods Montessori School.
With Judi Bauerlein (former president, American Montessori Society) and Iliano, owner of Baklava, a restaurant in Palo Alto where we had lunch. (11/30/10)
Telling the Chazy Reef Story on Isle La Motte, VT
Linda Fitch on piano and Claire Durand on flute for the Chazy Reef Story
Telling the Chazy Reef Story on Isle La Motte, VT
My Mom, also known as Maureen Morgan, in the garden.
With Suzanne Guthrie in the herb garden at Community of the Holy Spirit
Preparing brunch in the farm kichen at the Community of the Holy Spirit
Page from Barbara Morgan's notebook on the need for a cosmology for our time.
At the World Science Festival with Dr. Chad Orzel, author of How To Teach Physics to Your Dog.
With Dr. Andrew Zwicker, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
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