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

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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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• Explore the Loam Listen Podcast
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References:

• Embodied Plant Medicine workshop https://www.earthspeak.love/embodied-plant-medicine
• Alissa Maya https://akashaapothecary.com/
• Cacao Ceremony workshop https://www.earthspeak.love/cacao-ceremony
• Naomi Love https://www.wisewombmedicinepath.com/
• Episode 6 with Kailea Fredrick https://www.earthspeak.love/shows-1/spiritual-ecology-compassion-in-crisis-kailea-frederick
• Brontë Velez https://www.instagram.com/littlenows/
• Monsanto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto
• Sweet Alyssum https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobularia_maritima
• Borage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borage
• Calendula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendula
• How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong https://amz.run/4K6I
• California Poppy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eschscholzia
• Lilacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringa_vulgaris
• Spiderwort https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tradescantia
• Nasturtium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropaeolum
• Dahlia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia
• Compassion in Crisis https://loamlove.com/shop/compassionincrisis
• Compasión en tiempos de crisis https://loamlove.com/shop/compasion-en-tiempos-de-crisis
• Milla Prince https://www.instagram.com/thewomanwhomarriedabe
• Nourishing the Nervous System by Tayla Shanaye https://loamlove.com/shop/nourishing-the-nervous-system
• Living Through Liminality https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_ysUmHeU9/
• Black Histories / Black Futures Bookshelf https://bookshop.org/shop/loam
• Loam listen https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loam-listen/id1477513600
• Amirio Freeman https://www.instagram.com/plantasia_barrino/

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Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague https://mlesprg.info/

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