A Wild New Work

Why should we listen to the land, and how do we even do so? In this gently flowing conversation with Leah Rampy, we discuss the benefits of communing with the Earth and ways to deepen the relationship that we already have with the land and that can never be severed.

About Leah:

Leah Rampy, Ph.D. is a writer, speaker, retreat leader, and educator who weaves ecology, spirituality, personal stories, and practices to help others deepen their relationship to the natural world. She is the author of Earth & Soul: Reconnecting amid Climate Chaos and a frequent speaker on spiritual ecology and leadership in these uncertain times.

To connect with Leah, visit:

Web: www.leahrampy.com

Instagram: @leahrampy

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553196486975

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Resources mentioned:

*To learn more about Old School Nate and the divinations he offers, visit him on Instagram @old.school.nate

*Fruition: Expand Your Options and Make Fruitful Choices: https://awildnewwork.com/shop/fruition-expand-your-options-and-make-fruitful-choices

*Rise Up Rooted Gathering August 17-18: https://awildnewwork.com/events/2024/we-are-the-sturdy-ones

*Summer Tarot Readings: https://awildnewwork.as.me/3-card-reading

*Save Our Soil: www.saveoursoilwv.com

*Church of the Wild Two Rivers: www.churchofthewild2rivers.com

*The Center for Spirituality in Nature: www.centerforspiritualityinnature.org

Welcome to the first episode of the Summer 2024 season of A Wild New Work! In this season, we’ll be exploring how to communicate with the Earth. In today’s episode, we’re looking at a pre-Christian Celtic ritual in which the land and the people were brought into intimate partnership. We’ll explore how our own modern lives could change if we were sovereign and in committed relationships with the enspirited lands we inhabit.

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*Fruition Class: https://awildnewwork.com/shop/fruition-expand-your-options-and-make-fruitful-choices

*Rise Up Rooted: Rite of Passage Program for Adults: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted

Celtic Ceremonial Marriage Resources:

https://sharonblackie.substack.com/p/marrying-the-land-how-we-broke-the-ancient-bargain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWyHPRFOJr4&t=299s

When an organism’s needs are met, growth naturally occurs and takes the form of some kind of flower, fruit, spore, or offspring. In the same way, when our needs are met, our blooming is inevitable. In this episode, we explore how that process occurs, how we know when something is blooming in our lives, and how to make more room for it as we head into the Summer season.

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Rise Up Rooted: Rite of Passage Program for Adults: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted

Meeting our needs in today’s landscape requires that we remain flexible and shift how we relate to ourselves, our work, our income, and one another. Across the animal world, we find countless options for how to feed ourselves, and in this episode we explore some of the major strategies our animal friends employ and how we can adopt them in our own lives.

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June 17th: How to Expand Possibility and Choice Inside of Capitalism, a Summer Solstice class to help you reset for the rest of 2024: https://awildnewwork.com/events/2024/summer-solstice-workshop

Rise Up Rooted: Rite of Passage Program for Adults: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted

In this episode, we’re learning how plants meet their needs and what it can show us about how to be here in a good way. Plants receive sunlight and carbon dioxide freely and then, in turn, offer us an abundance of oxygen, medicines, building materials, and nourishment. Their truest nature is collaborative and generous, and the same is true for us.

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Rise Up Rooted: Rite of Passage Program for Adults: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted

In this episode, we’ll learn how fungi meet their needs and the unique teachings they offer us through their millenia of experience adapting to life on Earth. Fungi are masters of absorption, decomposition, and collaboration, and most of us could use a dose of their teachings.

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You can learn more about Megan and her work at: https://awildnewwork.com/

How can we make the tiny area of life that we inhabit more caring, less transactional, and free from extraction? In this conversation with Toi Smith, we discuss strategies for embodying more beauty and less exploitation, whether it’s in our parenting, work, relationships to one another, or our relationships to the wider world.

About Toi:

Toi Smith is a Growth + Impact Strategist and her work centers on doing life, business, and motherhood differently. Toi works with people whose work is countercultural, liberatory, and revolutionary in nature...or people who desire and are committed to moving their work or lives in that direction.

To connect with Toi, visit:

www.toimarie.com

deepening.toimarie.com

www.lovingblacksinglemothers.com

www.projectbloom.com

Instagram @toimarie

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Many of us yearn for a way of living that is evoked by the term “village,” and it’s true that for millenia, humans met their needs inside of a communal setting such as this. In this episode with anticapitalist, nature-loving co-conspirators Heather Dorfman and Megan Hayne, we discuss what the term “village” means to us, what needs might be met in a village setting that aren’t met in our modern way of living, and accessible ways to re-village right where we are, with what we’ve got.

Resources Mentioned:

*Rise Up Rooted: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted

About Megan:

Megan Hayne (she/her), is a shepherd’s daughter, mother, body worker, and menstrual circle facilitator. She is also an authorized Kum Nye (Tibetan Yoga) instructor, Licensed Massage Therapist, and holds a Bachelor of Health Science Degree. Megan is presently studying ritual with Old School Nate. You can learn more about Megan’s work at moonschoolcircle.com or on Instagram @mooncyclemegan

About Heather:

Heather Dorfman, LMSW (she/her) is the founder of Rose and Cedar Forest Therapy. Heather guides groups and individuals in the practice of Forest Therapy; offers Grief Care; provides organizational consulting, training, and retreats; and is also an adjunct professor of social work. In all of these realms, Heather is co-creating a world of justice and liberation for all beings. You can learn more about Heather’s work at roseandcedarforesttherapy.com or on Instagram @roseandcedarforest

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How does a seed grow to become the fruit? It does so by meeting its needs. In this first episode of the Spring 2024 season, we’ll be discussing what our actual, original needs are, the extraneous needs put upon us by capitalism, why it’s so hard to meet our needs in this culture, and why we need fresh strategies for meeting the needs that will actually help us become who we deeply are.

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Resources mentioned:

*Rise Up Rooted: Rite of Passage Program for Adults: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted

*Eating Capitalism: https://awildnewwork.com/eating-capitalism

*One on One Work: https://awildnewwork.com/one-on-one-coaching

Life happens in cycles, but we work as if we’re walking a straight line. In this encore episode, I’m sharing how you can move through four seasons on your vocational journey and why doing so can bring more ease, alignment, and wisdom to your professional life.

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Resources mentioned:

Becoming the Dawn: A 4-week Sunrise Series: https://mailchi.mp/awildnewwork/becoming-the-dawn

Rise Up Rooted: Rite of Passage Program for Adults: https://awildnewwork.com/rise-up-rooted

Eating Capitalism: https://awildnewwork.com/eating-capitalism