The daughter of Vanessa Andreotti (author of Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and The Implications for Social Activism), Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti grew up facing the ongoing predicament of collapse.

In this episode, Giovanna shares how facing the reality of collapse no longer destabilizes her. Instead, the wisdom she’s gleaned—and her commitment to inquiry—are helping her to acknowledge reality, notice the ways it manifests within us, and do the hard work of choosing emotional sobriety, intellectual discernment, relational maturity, and responsibility in these times.

By acknowledging the ways modernity manifests in each of us, we can begin to compost the aspects of modernity we’ve internalized and create space to transform our relationships with one another, ourselves, the land, and our more-than-human kin.

About Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti:

Giovanna de Oliveira Andreotti is a dancer/dance teacher, a member of the Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures, a certified Warm Data Lab host, and an online course facilitator/coordinator. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of British Columbia and postgraduate certifications in Climate Psychology and Embodied Social Justice. Currently, she coordinates an inquiry that maps pedagogical practices addressing complexity, complicity, collapse, and accountability.

Worksheets:

Rude Diagnostic Exercise

House of Fear - Want - Entitlement

SDMR Compass

Needs List

Vanessa’s Books:

Hospicing Modernity

Outgrowing Modernity

Learn More From Giovanna & Vanessa:

Rewiring for Reality

Giovanna on LinkedIn

Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures

Hospicing Modernity Online Course

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