Sophie Strand on re-rooting in community, re-defining “wellness” and chronic illness, and embodied listening/tuning into our desires.

Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta of Right Story, Wrong Story on moving from “health and wellness” towards communities of care, the role of altered states of mind, rooting ancient wisdom in the present, and more.

Paul Hawken on the flow of carbon, regenerative lifeways, digging deeper into the roots of the “climate crisis”

Kazu Haga on building Beloved Community, centering relational healing in addressing injustice, and more.

Abby Reyes on engaging the slow work amidst urgency and crises, supporting the Pueblo U’wa community in their resistance efforts against Big Oil, and more.

Mitch Anderson on building solidarity for the Amazon’s resistance against oil drilling, the Waorani people’s historic victory in 2019 to protect half a million acres of rainforest, and more.

Nemonte Nenquimo on returning to Waorani wisdom, the false promises of development and saviorism from outsiders, and more.

Prentis Hemphill on What It Takes To Heal, becoming strange to the status quo, imbuing wonder and magic into movements for change, and more.

Serene Thin Elk on truly holistic medicine, intergenerational healing, the medicine wheel, and more.

Sandor Katz on the art and practice of fermentation, reconciling our relationship with the microbial world, and social change as a form of fermenting.

Joseph Oleshangay on defending the Maasai’s ancestral lands, resisting against colonial fortress conservation, and more.

Martín Prechtel on the rich embodiment of indigenous languages, growing “real culture,” and becoming indigestible to the “monster of modernity.”

Ferris Jabr on how life contributes to the water cycle in the Amazon rainforest, understanding the aliveness of earth through a scientific lens, and more.

Nathalie Kelley on pushing back against Hollywood and mainstream narratives, re-connecting with her Indigenous Quechua roots, and more.

adrienne maree brown on moving away from cancel culture, centering relationships in social change, growing our “garden of ideas,” and more.