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

 
 
 

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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. 

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LISTEN TO HEAR:

  • 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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