Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

What do we need to interrogate about our dominant culture’s obsession with “wellness” — as well as its discomforts when confronted by illness? What does it mean to queer the concept of reciprocity and understand it as much more expansive than a palpable exchange of a give and take? And why do we need to refocus the idea of “community” on something that is rooted in place and proximity-oriented? In this multi-layered episode, we are honored to share space with Sophie Strand for a round two interview to explore her latest book, The Body is a Doorway. Join us as we chat about becoming more literate in the language of the more-than-human world, taking inspiration from fungi as both decomposers and recomposers, and glitching towards a return to each other. We invite you to… * tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app; * subscribe to kaméa’s newsletters here [https://kamea.substack.com/]; * and support our show through a one-time donation [https://greendreamer.com/support] or through joining our paid subscriptions on Patreon [https://patreon.com/greendreamer] or Substack [https://kamea.substack.com/].

What does it mean to reject the monocultural delusion of separation and endless growth, and to nurture systems that honor context and the brilliance of neurodiversity? What is the relationship between altered states of mind from ceremonies and our shared senses of “reality”? And how do we shift our focuses away from “health and wellness” — towards informal, “black market” economies of care? In Green Dreamer’s round two interview with Dr. Tyson Yunkaporta, we explore the connections between his first book, Sand Talk, and his latest, Right Story Wrong Story — including how they flip the standard protocols of trigger warnings for depression and suicide upside-down. How do we recalibrate our collective perceptions of the tangible world — when the “diversity in thought” of today feels so disoriented and ungrounded? We invite you to… * tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app; * subscribe to kaméa’s newsletters here [https://kamea.substack.com/]; * and support our show through a one-time donation [https://greendreamer.com/support] or through joining our paid subscriptions on Patreon [https://patreon.com/greendreamer] or Substack [https://kamea.substack.com/].

This is a replay from May 2022 on Sanctuary for All, Sanctuary Everywhere — on the deportability of workers as labor discipline, immigration policy as labor policy, military recruits from disenfranchised communities and migrant workers, challenging the “nation of immigrants” narrative, and more.

What is there to question about the dominant framing of “climate crisis”? What does it mean to understand carbon not just as an element but as the flow of life? And how do we begin to recalibrate our senses of delusion or reality in a world where often up is portrayed is down and down as up? In this conversation, we are joined by Paul Hawken, a world renowned climate expert who invites us to move beyond the fixation on carbon in a reductive, objectified equation of emissions and sequestration, and to look to the roots of why the planet and its communities are experiencing distress to begin with. How do we counter the climate movement’s co-optation by technological, capitalist interests? We invite you to… * tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app; * subscribe to kaméa’s newsletters here [https://kamea.substack.com/]; * and support our show through a one-time donation [https://greendreamer.com/support] or through joining our paid subscriptions on Patreon [https://patreon.com/greendreamer] or Substack [https://kamea.substack.com/].

How does sensing into our zones of stretch, comfort, and panic help us to expand our capacities for love and nonviolence — in their more radical iterations? Where might accountability come from in a world that seems to reward behaviors that are extractive, exploitative, and narcissistic? Our latest conversation features Kazu Haga, the author of Fierce Vulnerability, who invites us to shift the ways that we understand “power” and to center relational healing when addressing injustice. What does it mean for us to step into the role of becoming healers of collective trauma? We invite you to… * tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app; * subscribe to kaméa’s newsletters here [https://kamea.substack.com/]; * and support our show through a one-time donation [https://greendreamer.com/support] or through joining our paid subscriptions on Patreon [https://patreon.com/greendreamer] or Substack [https://kamea.substack.com/].