Nature Evolutionaries

Join us in conversation with Nadine Canter Barnicle, a professor of the practice and community engagement specialist at Middlebury College in VT as we discuss deepening our relationship with nature by approaching sustainability from the roots through unlearning and re-learning.  At Middlebury College students may choose a course of study that goes beyond the traditional academic. Through community...

To see images that correspond to this episode please see the complete video on our website at https://www.natureevolutionaries.com/teleseminars-1/2021/hummingbirds-with-rocio-alarcon Hummingbirds have long captured the hearts and imaginations of people worldwide.  Many Indigenous communities have celebrated Hummingbirds as messengers and teachers, particularly helping us celebrate the joy of life....

During this episode, Jen Frey shares her experiences of working co-creatively with Nature to create Heart Springs Sanctuary. Her stories include the occasional struggles as well as the joy of being guided by nature and learning to deeply listen. In May 2017, Jen Frey moved to a place, which would become known as Heart Springs Sanctuary, with the intention of working with the Nature Spirits to co-c...

In this episode, Zigola talks about how co-creative partnerships are the foundation in the community where she lives, Damanhur, and how co-creation with nature plays a role in her work as a singer, teacher, and practitioner. Damanhur is a federation of Communities in Northern Italy with a focus on living in harmony with all that lives. Ecology, art, spirituality, and co-creation with nature are ke...

This episode features Jen Costa, Herbalist, Critical Care RN, BS, EM-CST and creator of ElderMoon School of Herbs & Earth Medicine.  Our dialogue in this special teleseminar is  rooted in the ways that COVID has highlighted a need to develop our personal and collective connections for healing. We’re each faced with developing our ability to cooperate among ourselves and with Nature in order to...

When the outer world feels uncertain, we are called inward to find deeper meaning, connection, and faith.   What is the role of prayer in crisis? Does it actually make a difference? We will explore answers to some of the oldest questions of the spiritual path;  What is your relationship to the Divine?  What is prayer? What is it for?  How do you pray when you are not religious? When god is not a p...

As the planet continues to rapidly urbanize there is a growing sense that a new model of cities is needed: one that overcomes the physical (and mental) disconnect between humans and nature. Timothy Beatley believes that contact with nature is not something optional but it is absolutely essential for leading a happy, healthy, and meaningful life. Beatley will review the many ways in which cities ar...

In this episode, Hilary Giovale, shares her experiences with ancestral apology, decolonization, and finding our indigenous heart-ways. Apology is a catalyst for healing and forgiveness which helps to build our capacity for wholeness and restoration. When we ask for forgiveness, we engage in authentic relationship and open the possibility of healing for all peoples, the Earth, and all beings (seen...

Jerry Tello believes that essential to true health and healing is our scared interconnectedness to all our relations. In this seminar, he will share teachings from his indigenous culture that allow us to acknowledge and understand the significance of this medicine way and the ramifications of not respecting the teachings of dis-ease and imbalance. He will also share significant aspects for Recover...

Explore the possibilities of living and leading from the embodied worldview of interbeing with Claire Vanderplank. Claire is a shamanic practitioner and nature guide who works with individuals and teams to become forces of creation through cultivating a direct connection with the fundamental creative power and principles of life. We are in a time when many of us have had individual waking up exper...

Is your kitchen ‘herb-ready’? Kami McBride can help! With the widespread increase in chronic and infectious diseases, having the antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant power of your herbs working for you at maximum capacity is what’s needed now. Setting up an effective herbal kitchen is the foundation for making sure you get the daily dose of herbs you need if you really want a pro-activ...

As we navigate through our changing times, many of us are experiencing grief. Some of what we grieve we can name and recognize, perhaps we grieve the loss of connection, the absence of touch, the loss of work, the destruction of Nature, the passing of our Loved ones, or the life paths we’ve taken. There may be other times when we feel grief or perhaps sadness or anger and are unable to identify th...

 Jolie Elan shares her experience of tapping into the wisdom of the oaks for guidance in hard times. Many Indigenous people say that plants reveal their medicine via dreams and visions. What if these types of relationships are within everyone’s reach? How do we go about building mutually beneficial relationships? On a decade long adventure to eat acorn food, ethnobotanist Jolie Elan became so inte...

A special episode highlighting the importance of connecting with Nature during this unprecedented time.  By connecting with Nature, we feel calmer, more grounded, and more resilient, which helps us be of service to our family and community with grace and patience. In fact, the deep truth is that many of us have been preparing, even training in a way, for this moment when our mother, the Earth, wou...

Ann Armbrecht, an anthropologist, is the director of the American Botanical Council’s Sustainable Herbs Program . She is the author of The Business of Botanicals: Exploring the Healing Promise of Plant Medicines in a Global Industry which documents her journey following herbs from seed to shelf. She is also the co-producer of the documentary Numen: The Nature of Plants and the author of the award-...

Maureen Robertson (Medical Herbalist) and Jose Melo (Musician & Composer) explore medicine. They have been working together for over 5 years to forge a conscious crossover between the healing vibrations of plants and the healing vibrations of music- a powerful example of working with nature in way of deep listening, attunement and cooperation. In this teleseminar, they will give an overview of...

Geneen Marie-Haugen explores an emerging dimension of the human/Earth relationship – a relationship in which the human capacity for imagination is an essential component of planetary ecology. We’ll consider the possibility that our manner of approaching the wilder Others make a difference – both reawakening the older mind in us that knows the animate nature of the world, as well as re-enlivening t...

 Rina Kedem, environmental peace-builder, dialogues about peace, ecology, and communities.  Rina believes in peace between people and the land and is part of an international network of projects and communities that are involved in this work.  Rina Kedem has developed and directed cooperative projects with Palestinians, Israelis, and Jordanians for the past 16 years. Her work is guided by a holist...

Join Dr. Ablard on a journey to the heartwood of growing and preserving, sharing, and healing. Rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora) faces possible extinction due to unsustainable harvesting and management practices driven by a high global demand for its precious essential oil. Native to many biodiversity hotspots throughout South America, the loss of rosewood is inseparable from the loss of many other nati...

This Dialogue with ecologist and artist, Dr. Rene Henery will explore pathways toward the simultaneous healing of systems in nature and of our own internal systems, hearts, minds, and spirits. In the process, Rene will share some of his experiences, as a scientist deeply engaged in the complex and contentious politics of water in California, pivoting from an emphasis on the application of science...

Linda Lombardo is A Certified Forest Therapy Guide, Life Coach & Sacred Activist. She finds wonder in the worlds-within-worlds of the forest; seeing nature as a regenerative culture, in which nothing is wasted, nothing is without purpose. In addition to forest therapy and coaching, Linda produces and hosts Voice of Evolution Radio, sharing the voices of those creating a more compassionate...

 Earth Activist, Ardelle Ferrer shares about the regeneration of the Ceiba Tree on Vieques, Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.  She also speaks about the creation of a park around the ancient Ceiba Tree and the meaning it holds for the community and the land. Excerpt from:  An Ancient Ceiba Tree Blooms Once Again After Puerto Rico’s Devastating Storms   A protest movement, known among locals as “t...

 Emma and Davyd Farrell speak about the power of plant dreaming and sacred earth activism.  They will share with you how dreaming can inform your daily life and help you break through illusions to come to a better understanding of reality and therefore become a more whole person. Emma & Davyd work in co-creation with plants and trees for every aspect of their work, from event design and creati...

Karyn Sanders, herbalist and activist,  talks about healing our relationship with nature and our vital need for connection to all beings. Her analysis focuses on the trauma caused by living in a way that separates us from our power and the resulting loss of connection with all our relations. Karyn will also speak about how to overcome this separation and heal the wounds we have been carrying in ou...

David Haskell spent several years listening to the stories of trees in forests, cities, and coasts. At each, he explored the many interconnections that give us all life. It is these connections that David speaks about in this talk. In the lives of trees, we see that living beings are made not from "selves" but from networked relationships. Trees, therefore, tells us both about the fascin...