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Check out Nadine's recent talks and articles:

March 2022:  Read Nadine's recent contribution, "Information and its Roots", in the Climate Matters: Perspectives on Climate Change column in the Addison Independent here. 

July 2021: 
Middlebury College's Franklin Environmental Center's Summer Intern Program, "human communication and culture: the air we breath, the water we swim, sustainability in practice."  The zoom recording is here:  pw: &1^2?LKQ 

March 2021: Organization of Nature Evolutionaries (O.N.E.)  Teleseminar  Relationship with Nature Unlearning and Relearning at the Intersection of Theory and Practice and Essay:  Logos vs. Leaves: Unlearning and Relearning in Higher Education. 

Resources

So many are having a profound impact on my evolutionary thinking, as I respond to the work of climate and social justice.  While there are many not on this list, including my inner tribe of soul mate friends or Anam Cara as John O'Donohue writes, I am beyond grateful for my full community of teachers and learners. 

For additional materials, connections, and thinkers, check out my work in the classroom at Middlebury College. 

A few notable interviews, series, and conversations on Climate Justice and Social Justice
  • Regenerative Futures with Kate Raworth, Flourish Systems Change, January 5, 2022 
  • A Gathering of Stories: The Pandemic is a Prism.  December 2021. 
  • ​Charles Eisenstein and Bayo Akomolafe April 11, 2020.  
  • Daniel Christian Wahl (Regenerative Culture) and Anil Sachdev (Soil), May 11, 2020   (p.s. you'll see some familiar graphics in there that I have borrowed to tell the story of how I support our work together.)
  • Jeremy Lent and Daniel Christian Wahl, January 30, 2021

Philosophy/Thinking/Spirituality/Re-Storying
Emergence Magazine
  • Paul Kingsnorth, A Wind Blown from Paradise
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance
  • Tim Lilburn, Living in the World as if it were Home 

Brainpickings
  • Confucius on Good Governing
  • Marie Howe: Singularity
  • Rachel Carson: Speaking the truth to power
  • David Whyte:  Proximity - Visual Inspired Poem

On Being:  
  • David Whyte, The Conversational Nature of Reality
  • Jonathan Rowson: Integrating our Souls, Systems, and Society
  • Katherine May: How Wintering Replenishes
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Sounds True:
  • Resmaa Manaakam: Somatic Abolitionism
  • Erin  Yu-Juin McMorrow:  Healing the Soil, Healing Ourselves

and there is more...
  • Journey of the Universe
  • Liology (and anything by Jeremy Lent - his latest book The Web of Meaning is a treasure I am savoring slowly)
  • Dark Mountain
  • Designing for Sustainability
  • Schumacher College, UK

Systems Thinkers and Teachers
Along my pattern-seeking, system thinking journey I've come across many valuable teachers and resources. I've begun collecting sources specific to Systems for you to access. I'll start with some Donella Meadows and go from there. She can do NO wrong IMHO, as I've shared in my first Climate Matters Column.
  • Dancing with Systems, Donella Meadows
  • Flourish Design Paradigms for our Planetary Emergency, Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn

Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
I've been gathering guides and advice on how to be an accomplice as we attune to the structural oppression and racism that defines our entire human-imagined civilization.  It is up to each and everyone of us to show up, for real, to lift up and amplify the voices of those who have been silenced.  Here are just a few of the brilliant minds I lean in with to de-school and un-school myself and my students:
  • adrienne maree brown
  • bell hooks
  • Prentice Hemphill
  • Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • Resmaa Manakem
  • Lama Rod Owens
  • rev angel Kyodo williams
  • Woman Stands Shining (Pat McCabe)
  • Akilah S. Richards
  • Dr. Bayo Akomolafe
  • Judy Dow
  • Satish Kumar
  • Tyson Yunkaporta
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Other Coursework and Training
Playing Big: Tara Mohr
  • Mohr's 10 Rules for Brilliant Women
  • Mohr's Future Self  - Inner Mentor Visualization
  • Mohr's Quieting the Inner Critic Excerpt
Dragon Tree Coaching
Falling Water Tai Chi
Tung Family Tai Chi
Tung Tai Chi Chuan Vermont
Re-Authoring Teaching: Creating a Collaboratory
We Will Dance With Mountains:  Making Sanctuary with Fugitivity

Healers
Laura Lomas
Joanne Kenyon
Center for Integrative Bodywork


And, here's a little extra treat featuring Charles Eisenstein.

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