Earth Speak with Natalie Ross and Friends: Kailea Frederick and Kate Weiner of Loam, on Navigating Crisis + Holding Space for Nuance with Beauty [episode 40]

Kailea Frederick and Kate Weiner of Loam, on Navigating Crisis + Holding Space for Nuance with Beauty [episode 40]

Feb 19, 2021

Kate Weiner and Kailea Frederick share about creativity, art, and beauty as integral to activism work. You’ll also hear about:

Co-creating a world that values and priorities the health and wellbeing of future generations
Embodied, reciprocity and holding space for nuance
A reimagining of the matriarchy
Kailea and Kate share a special announcement and new project by Loam

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Kailea Frederick (Loam Editor) is a mother and First Nations woman dedicated to supporting individuals of all cultures in remembering their ties to the earth. A graduate of the International Youth Initiative Program, she has in-depth training in interpersonal communication, community building across cultural and linguistic boundaries and large group facilitation. She is a Spiritual Ecology Fellow, and has served as a youth delegate twice to the United Nations Climate Change conferences (COP). Currently, Kailea offers facilitation and project consultation through her project Earth Is `Ohana and is a Climate Commissioner for the city of Petaluma.

Kate Weiner (Loam Creative Director) is an environmental educator, writer, and gardener. Kate is a 2015 Brower Youth Award winner, a 2017 recipient of the John Goddard Prize for Environmental Conservancy, and a 2018 Spiritual Ecology Fellow. Kate was an Artist-in-Resident at Woodland Keep in the San Juan Islands as well as a beneficiary of the Boulder Arts Commission Professional Development Grant. She facilitates workshops across the country on low-waste living, permaculture in practice, and resilience, and has a Certificate in Permaculture Design from the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.

In this episode, we talk about:

Kailea shares a spell by Brontë Velez on repatriation
How flowers, activism, and literature, weave within Kate and Kailea’s story
Kate shares the co-creation story of Loam
That beauty is perceived as supplementary and not integral
Flowers as an entry point into compassion and activism
On why it’s easy to become cynical and overwhelmed in the current climate
How Loam holds space for the unraveling of the human experience
We speak on how to navigating crisis with beauty and art
Creating spaciousness for future visioning
How beauty helps us evoke the world we want to live in
Why imagination is necessary for moving forward with hope and compassion
How honoring beauty is honoring the sovereignty of other beings
How beauty invokes gratitude
Tuning in to the sensual and spiritual nature of the matriarchy
A reimagining of the matriarchy
How does it feel to be embodied
How embodiment work invites in greater empathy and spaciousness
How our bodies are the Earth
The matriarchy as power within, not power over
Creating a path to healing with plants
Kailea and Kate share stories of how the plants speak to them
On how the plants feel like home
Kailea and Kate share a special announcement about a new project with Loam
On Compassion in Crisis
How we are born of crisis, yet have the capacity and the resilience to make it through challenging times
Kate and Kailea share about the Loam Listen podcast and on current Loam publications and projects
Plus so much more!

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Kailea Frederick and Kate Weiner of Loam, on Navigating Crisis + Holding Space for Nuance with Beauty [episode 40]

Kailea Frederick and Kate Weiner of Loam, on Navigating Crisis + Holding Space for Nuance with Beauty [episode 40]

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