Alicia and I speak about the intuitive, consciousness shifting jump of evolution in corn and these times. We speak about protection that is wise and the protective strategies that underpin modernity's violence. We listen in to who might guide us as we find our way through the "jump" that we now find ourselves in, between the old paradigm and the not-yet-born, the transformational space between what was and what comes- the present moment in which everything is possible and the guardians who are midwifing this dangerous and transformative time.

Alicia Enciso Litschi

Pronouns: she/her/ella

Website: www.conalmatherapy.com

Social: https://offeringsforcornmother.substack.com/

Alicia is a hybrid healer in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. She is part curandera, part psychologist. She finds great meaning in helping her clients restore their connections to ancestral wisdom and belonging to the land. Alicia is devoted to Corn Mother--one of the ancient Mothers of this world. Alicia loves to spread the practice of making offerings to the land. Guided by Corn Mother, she travels together with friends, making small offerings in service of connecting to the greater intelligences of Earth's Being.

My guest is Shaleah Dawnyel, founder of the School of Unlearning Berlin. We speak together in a brave space about what it is to be a portal person, the necessity of speaking about things that our very presence embodies which are often confrontative for folks. We talk about leaning in to the discomfort of this way of being that opens up both the heart and mind for what is possible beyond binaries and hierarchies. And how that in and of itself is the invitation for transformation, together.

About Shaleah Dawnyel: Jane of all trades and master of some, Shaleah Dawnyel escaped her origins in Los Angeles in 2009 and found their home in Berlin. After working for over 15 years as a strategy & marketing consultant for creatives, she recently co-founded the School of Unlearning in Berlin, dedicated to (un)learning the myth of separation that is destroying our world. When they aren't gesturing toward alternative futures, she enjoys wandering walks with their fur partner Harmony and exploring the best cheeses the EU has to offer.

https://shaleahdawnyel.com School of Unlearning Berlin

Greetings! In this episode, we speak of what we mean when we use the word power, and what we mean when we say power-over culture. We speak of composting power-over culture and how one might do that through inner-led change. It is a vulnerable and tender conversation that reveals our own experience and grappling, healing and transformation as we ourselves compost the shadows and wounds of power-over culture within our own psyches and within the relational culture that is Starter Culture.

Music by Tamsin Elliot, Uma's Song from the Album Fey

Join us, Claire Milne and Sara McFarland, as we tend the heart of Starter Culture and share what has brought us here and why each of us are passionate about what brings us to this work, the inner-led transformation of power-over culture into relational culture.

With music by Laura Brady

Strong Ones from the album Stitch and Ocean

Website: http://www.wren-music.com

Description

The second part of our Eco-Awakening conversation of belonging to Earth Community, with Bell Selkie Lovelock and Sara McFarland. In this episode, you’ll find an experiential invitation to deepen into your senses and encounter the wild others within and without. We speak about how to Eco-Awaken, how to experience ourselves as Earth and how to continue the practice of it in our daily lives. With poetry by William Stafford and Joy Harjo. Music by Tamsin Elliot

http://www.tamsinelliott.co.uk/

Bell Selkie Lovelock and myself, Sara McFarland, speak about Eco-Awakening, which is the psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual remembering of the fact that we each are a part of Earth and that all beings are our Kith, in reciprocal relatedness. Come along with us for an imaginal journey through poetry, song and stories into the heart of belonging to Earth Community.

Welcome to our first podcast, in which we dive into the heart of Starter Culture and all the ways in which we expand consciousness beyond the power-over culture into human wholeness and the other-than-human. We talk about the necessary death of the modern paradigm and the grief and fear that brings with it, the ways we might decolonize at depth and at scale, and the necessity of inner work for outer change for a possible future cultural renewal. www.starterculture.net