Steven McFadden
Author, Keynote Speaker, Workshop Leader

Steven McFadden.

Steven McFadden is a skilled keynote speaker, group facilitator, and workshop leader. His depth and his spirited approach have touched audiences from coast to coast.

Over his career he has spoken with high success at conferences, workshops, seminars, and in banks, insurance companies, investment houses, government agencies, colleges and high schools. He is skilled at informing, enlivening, and uplifting audiences from all walks of life.

As a certified yoga instructor, he is qualified to bring movement, stretches, and breathwork to any presentation or conference, to help keep participants mentally and emotionally energized, and positive.

A veteran journalist, Steven is the author of eight non-fiction books, including: Legend of the Rainbow Warriors; Profiles in Wisdom; The Little Book of Native American Wisdom; Teach Us To Number Our Days; Farms of Tomorrow; and Farms of Tomorrow Revisited.

He is also the author of the true saga, Odyssey of the 8th Fire (2006-07)

Steven founded Chiron Communications in the 1980s, but rested the enterprise in the 1990s while he served as National Coordinator for the annual Earth Day Celebration (1993) and later as director of The Wisdom Conservancy.

He maintains an active interest in farming in general, and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in particular; he has reported on the growth and development of CSA in America since its inception in 1986.

To inquire please send  e-mail

Here are some representative topics. I shape every presentation for the specific audience that is gathering.

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Odyssey of the 8th Fire:
Our Epic Pilgrimage in an era of Earth Changes

There are distinct phases on the individual pilgrimage of life, as well as in the larger planetary pilgrimage that we are all participating in. In a circle, with respect and using storytelling, classic developmental exercises, and the root traditions of North America, we will engage the heart of the pilgrimage questions with our highest integrity.

One archetypal story we will consider in relation to our own journeys, is the Sunbow 5 walk across North America. The walk was inspired by an Algonquian Indian spiritual tradition, but involved people of all colors and faiths walking together for the earth.

Steven McFadden guides this soulful and respectful exploration via both talks and workshops. He is a dynamic group leader with long experience.

Read Odyssey of the 8th Fire

Your Food, Your Family, Your Farms:
The Fundamental Link

The best way to insure that you and your family are stying physically and mentally healthy is by eating clean, healthy food, and by knowing the people who grow your food and how they do it. That's a fundamental link.

In the last 20 years thousands of U.S. and Canadian families who live in cities and suburbs have starting doing this in partnership with farmers, and in the meantime establishing oases of environmental vibrancy in the places where they live.  Thousands upon thousands more people can do this to benefit their families, their communities, and their planet, says Steven McFadden, co-author of the highly influential book, Farms of Tomorrow Revisited.

The government is now allowing, without labels to inform consumers, foods that have been genetically altered, cloned, fertilized with municipal sewage sludge, and sprayed with petrochemical insect poisons. "That is not what the public thinks of as clean, healthy food," McFadden says.

Farms of Tomorrow Revisited outlines all these problems, but mainly explores in detail how a positive new movement called Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) has taken root in America.

CSAs have brought over 100,000 US families into direct relationship with the over 2,000 local American farms who grow their food.

"The movement is continuing to grow," McFadden says. "People who care about their food, their children, and their environment ought to take a close look at CSA and what it can do for them and the community where they live."

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                                        Agriculture in the Year 2020

What farms and food may look like in the year 2020, and how we may get there. We have just marked the twentieth anniversary of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in America. Steven McFadden reflects on the last 20 years, and also reaches forward to paint a vision of what is possible and worthwhile for agriculture in general and CSA in particular in the years ahead. 

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Work Safety 101:
Yoga for Yeomen and Yeowomen

A yeoman is a farmer, or other worker, who diligently cultivates the land, working constantly with his or her body, and also with the forces of nature, and machines.

A farmer’s body must be properly cared for over the years – for it is the most valuable piece of farm equipment, and it eventually absorbs tremendous wear and tear. In this experiential workshop, we will talk about basic body safety for farmers, then learn and practice gentle stretches to keep our bodies strong, limber, and uninjured while we attend to farm and garden chores.

To inquire please send e-mail: Steven McFadden