Autopoetic Movement

About Autopoetic Ideas

Inspire and be inspired

Conscious and awakened people have inspiring ideas that light up and enthuse the rest of the world. We believe strongly in the power of a great idea, especially when it comes from a place of passion, presence and profound connection with the essence of our being. Ideas bring forth thinking; but great ideas inspire and have the potential to change lives, perception, and the world, in an instant.

Autopoetic Ideas supports the organic process of creation through inspiration. Its mission is to inspire deep understanding, increased wellbeing, shifts in consciousness, and positive change within and throughout our world. Through presentations, conversations, and experiences the Festival creates opportunities for participants to awaken to their own essence and to propel them forward with purpose on their path.

Dr. Anne Berube Founder and Director

Anne Bérubé is the founder of Autopoetic Ideas, an organization that creates opportunities for inspired living, increased wellbeing and shifts in consciousness through interactive seminars. She holds a PhD in Comparative French Literature from the University of Bordeaux 3, a BEd from Queen’s University, a photography degree from Dawson College and teaches at Acadia University, Dalhousie University and Mount Saint Vincent University in Nova Scotia. Her research interests focus on the concept of autopoiesis as it relates to art, people, transformation and healing. She is also a teacher and a practitioner of Huna, the ancient Hawaiian art of healing and a certified WEL-Systems NLP Practitioner . She has extensively studied meditation and Vedic wisdom with Deepak Chopra at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad California. She facilitates Creativity and Meditation Workshops around Canada and she also coaches on an individual basis. She is originally from Baie-Comeau, Québec and now lives in Halifax with her husband and two children. She can be reached at (902) 449-7856 or anne@ideasfestival.ca 

Paul MacInnis is a producer and director of marketing and sponsor relations with the Autopoetic Ideas Festival.  An award winning entrepreneur, a small business mentor, and a speaker.  Winner of the 2000 Y.E.S. Regional Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and finalist for the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year.  And the recipient of several awards of excellence and distinction in the hospitality industry. 

Paul’s mission is to inspire as many people as possible to take care of themselves through mediation, exercise,  and healthy eating.  He is studying to become a primordial sound meditation instructor at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing.

He can be reached at (902) 449-7856 or paul@ideasfestival.ca