Beloved Futures

What does it take to steward the Earth and our communities through times of profound change?  How do we balance the urgency of the meta-crisis with the hope of regeneration?  In this episode of Beloved Futures , host Aubrey Morgan Yee engages in a powerful conversation with Matthew Monahan, a visionary leader, regenerative farmer, and founder of the global initiative Ma Earth. Matthew Monahan is a...

How do we reconnect with the land and pave the way for a just and regenerative future? What does it mean to rematriate the Earth and hold space for future generations? In this episode of Beloved Futures, host Aubrey Morgan Yee sits down with Abi Huff, a visionary committed to community care, land rematriation, and creating systems that honor the Earth and all living beings. ... Abi Huff is a force...

Alnoor comes from a Sufi lineage and writes about the crossroads of politics and spirituality in troubled times. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, Fast Company, Kosmos Journal, New Internationalist, and the Huffington Post among others. Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, systems thinking, structural change and narrative work. He is t...

Linguist, author and film maker, Helena Norberg-Hodge is the founder and director of the international non-profit organisation, Local Futures , a pioneer of the new economy movement, and the convenor of World Localization Day . She is the author of several books, including ‘Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh’ , an eye-opening tale of tradition and change in Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”. Together w...

Hi beloveds, I’m trying a new thing that’s a little out of my comfort realms, a solo cast to share some of the thoughts that have been moving through me as I feel my way through these turbulent times. I hope it brings you a feeling of connection, of being seen and held. We are woven and weaving. Always. I love you. FOLLOW AUBREY'S WORK  Website: www.ourbelovedfutures.com Instagram: @aubrey.mo...

Ebyän is a visual storyteller and poetess of Somali-Italian descent . She is the founder of Mother Tongue and teaches at the intersection of decolonization, eco-sensuality, and feminine mysticism. Ebyän’s offerings are deeply inspired by the animist spirituality of her Nubian ancestral heritage , weaving us closer to the enchantment that is available in all Life. She is my dear friend and I am so...

Rutendo Ngara is an African Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner and transdisciplinary researcher. I am so blessed to know her as a dear friend and earth traveler.  She traverses clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, socio-economic development, mathematics, leadership and fashion design; to the interface between science, culture, cosmology and paradigms of healing. She has a...

Anu Gupta is a scientist, educator, lawyer, and the Founder of BE MORE with Anu. He is also my dear friend, and a fellow seeker of peace within and with-out. We met at Brave Earth last year during our time in the Reworlding Fellowship. Together we tackled the wetiko mind-virus within, delving with vulnerability into places of authenticity and truth in our shared quest to birth more Beloved Futures...

Layla El Khadri is an author, artist, dancer, international speaker and mentor, deeply committed to inspiring humanity to wake up and rise! Layla works with the Yin principles of feminine leadership to help women and men access their full presence and potential in this lifetime. Merging ancient wisdom with cutting edge studies, Layla’s work is some of the most transformational and activating leade...

Chris Thorsen is a calm presence and a masterful elder who has advised senior leaders for more than 50 years. He is a pioneer in the application of Aikido, The Art of Peace, and Bohm’s Dialogue to the embodiment of leadership mastery, team synergy, and organizational strategy. Chris has developed a practice for helping humans intentionally generate and sense the energetic fields that support creat...

Lynn Murphy is a strategic advisor for foundations and NGOs working in the geopolitical South. She was a senior fellow and program officer at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation where she focused on international education and global development. She resigned as a “conscientious objector” to neocolonial philanthropy. She holds an MA and PhD in international comparative education from Stanford...

What does it look like when we reimagine learning separate from the structure of ‘school’? When we admit that schooling is more about normalizing dominant culture than it is about seeing the children for their uniqueness, we can begin to reimagine the structures and containers of learning that serve more Beloved Futures.  From Chevanni Davids, my dear friend and founder of Reimagined Learning: “Ou...

Simi Shea has been practicing natural therapies and astrology since a soul awakening trip to Ireland in 1999. These lands awoke her to her healing potential and abilities, and so began her journey of rememberance. Starting with Remedial massage, over the last 20 years Simi has created a very specific tool kit to assist her and her clients return to their soul’s calling. She practices 13 sign astro...

Dr. Zachari Cahn has been a dear friend and brother of mine for just about 3 decades. We met as young adults and have continued and deepened our friendship across space and time. A highly accomplished functional medicine doctor, he is also deeply committed to men’s work through the Mankind Project and holistic healing of relationships through counseling and coaching that brings together wellness m...

Seraina Duveen is a Mystic, Transformational Mentor, Peace Artist, Eros Temple Holder, Community Weaver and my dear friend. In this conversation we begin with the radical statement that “Peace on Earth is possible” and weave our way through how to access and work with Eros, what it means to make peace in world of chaos and violence and how to begin to move out of emotional stuckness into the natur...

Justine Kiva Epstein is an organizer, facilitator, writer, naturalist, tracker, rites of passage guide, ad-hoc ritualist, council carrier, and bird enthusiast attending to the cry of the earth and people for ancestral healing, cultural renewal and systemic reimagination. In her own words... "I am descended from an expansive mix of peoples from the European continent, most prominently the Brit...

Kamuela Enos is the director of the Office of Indigenous Innovation at the University of Hawai'i System. He was formerly director of Social Enterprise for MAʻ O Organic Farms, a farm that understands the ways that land feeds beyond just providing food. He was born and raised in Waiʻ anae on the island of Oʻahu. Kamu is a radical thinker and bridge builder, helping to translate the incredible...

My dear friend Alnoor is one of the most intelligent, articulate, prescient and generous humans I have had the privilege to know. He is an activist, journalist, political strategist, community organizer, Sufi mystic and psychic-architect of big dreams for our transition to post-capitalist, life-affirming futures of interdependance and grace.  From 2012 to 2019 he was the co-founder and executive d...

Chris Block is currently the Chronic Homelessness Initiative Director at Tipping Point Foundation. Previously, he was the CEO of American Leadership Forum (ALF) Silicon Valley. In all things he is a systems transformer and radical change maker. Armed with pure presence and an ability to move with ninja like grace through some of the stickiest systems, like homelessness, Chris helps us understand t...

Bio taken from the Kahakulei Institute : Aunty Puanani Burgess is a poet, priest, aunty, and friend to many. She has been a community activist in the Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement for over fifty years. As the designer and facilitator for Building the Beloved Community - a process that brings ceremony, storytelling, and circles of trust and respect - Aunty Pua has shared Native Hawaiian prac...

Ashanti is an activist poet, decolonial dialogue facilitator, published writer, my partner in facilitation at the Culture Hack Labs Rhizome Fellowship and the founder of Learning 2 Unlearn  - a decolonial narrative consultancy. She was a prominent student leader at Stellenbosch University during the 2015/2016 #FeesMustFall student movement in South Africa. And following the 2020 #BlackLives Matter...

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For this first episode of the Beloved Futures podcast, Aubrey talks with her dear friend Yael Marantz. Yael is a strategist, systems-thinker, biomimicry practitioner and community builder. She has over a decade of experience in communications, design-thinking and innovation. As she awakened to the intelligence and solutions found in Nature and launched Mimetika , a biomimetic-led consultancy pione...