Beekeeper Ang Roell on the Wisdom of Bees and Building Resilient, Collaborative Communities [episode 21]

Ang Roell shares about rethinking community and collaboration, through re-connection with the honey bee. You’ll also hear about: Community centred agriculture  Creating access to beekeeping for queer communitites  A lineage of prophetic dreamers Reconnecting with our ancestors through Earth based practices  ♥♥♥ Join The Earth Speak Collective Membership!  Join like-hearted folks in a sacred container and community where you'll: Connect deeply to yourself, others, nature & spirit Learn to trust your intuition Activate your Earth magic Expand your healing & divination skills Put your intuition into practice in everyday life Stop feeling lonely on your spiritual path Embody & express your creative power & truths Experience safe space without agenda or judgement When you join the Collective, you get access to all of our past workshops, any live workshops happening while you're a member, live weekly energetic reset calls, monthly community rituals, all the secret episodes, member-run meetups to explore magical topics, and a lively members only forum (that's not on FB!). ▶▶▶ Learn more and sign up for the Collective membership here: https://www.earthspeak.love/collective ***** Ang Roell is a beekeeper, educator, writer, evaluator, and facilitator, from They Keep Bees and Mainspring Change Consultants, living and working in the US. They Keep Bees connects humans and honeybees in a cooperative learning community. Exploring how people access beekeeping, how people participate in beekeeping, and who has access to creating relationships with honey bees. Their work highlights the need to rethink our relationship with the natural world, and specifically our extractive relationship with honey bees. Remembering them as teachers for collaborative, cooperative, and reciprocal relationships, and communities. Ang’s book Radicalize the Hive is available to download for free on their website. In this episode, we talk about: Intuitive beekeeping Creating new lineages of beekeepers Reconnecting and remembering our ancestors through Earth based practices  How Ang’s work of increasing equity and inclusion in business, is influenced by the ecological world The human induced challenges currently facing the honey bee The parallels between honey bee health and human health  An ancient connection between humans and bees The honey bee as a teacher, not a resource Creating cooperative models for the future  The queen bee as the heartbeat of the hive Non-hierarchical roles within the hive, that support the bee community  Naming both our privilege and our vulnerability  Creating opportunities to be bridges between communities Using our collective power to move forward and create the kind world we want Why white led business’s need to be accountable to histories of harm  Building trust and accountability as a community  Connecting to the Earth and our bodies - to witness the grief and trauma created by capitalist / colonial systems  What resilience could look like in our communities Why guilt and shame don’t always work as tools for change  Holding space to be wrong and make mistakes  Community centred agriculture  Creating queer role models in agriculture, and access to beekeeping for queer communitites  Starting small and building thoughtfully, to develop a relationship with expansion and contraction Bees as asexual femes - living collectively And we chat about Ange’s free downloadable book, Radicalize the Hive! Bonus Secret Episode! Get the secret episode where Ang Roell takes us on a tour of their bees, at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret. Links: Learn more about Ang Roell’s offerings at www.theykeepbees.com/ // mainspringchangeconsultants.com/  Connect with Ang Roell on Instagram @theykeepbees // https://www.instagram.com/theykeepbees/ Connect with Ang Roell on Facebook @angelaroellconsulting Connect with Ang Roell on their Youtube Channel Get the secret episodes at https://www.earthspeak.love/secret References: Ang Roell, TedX https://bit.ly/2UjWR0W Varroa Mite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varroa_destructor Cave paintings in Spain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuevas_de_la_Ara%C3%B1a  Access a free copy of Radicalize the Hive ! The Radicalize the Hive Webinar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aONpfNJC6Xw  Leave us a written review on iTunes, and get shouted out on the show! Theme music is “It’s Easier” by Scarlet Crow http://www.scarletcrow.org/ and “Meeting Again” by Emily Sprague  https://mlesprg.info/ Learn to trust your intuition and activate your Earth magic + sign up for our delightful newsletter at https://www.earthspeak.love Follow Earth Speak on Instagram and tag us when you share @earthspeak https://www.instagram.com/earthspeak