Nature Evolutionaries

Join us for an insightful webinar as we delve into the inspiring journey of Christina Lynch, a story of reconnecting with her Bajan heritage, her unique upbringing, and the profound influence of her environment on her path to regaining her voice. In this engaging and enlightening discussion, Christina will take you on a journey through her intuitive herbal path, sharing the powerful plant allies that have played a pivotal role in her physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.

Christina will also shed light on her current projects aimed at guiding and supporting others on their own paths of self-discovery and healing. You'll gain valuable insights into the practices and resources that have helped her along the way, empowering you to connect the dots in your own life and find your voice.

This webinar is a unique opportunity to hear from a passionate and knowledgeable herbalist as she shares her wisdom, stories, and vision for personal and collective healing. 

Christina Lynch is a growing community herbalist who desires to share her knowledge and passions with those around her. She is a first-generation American, with her lineage deriving from Barbados. Taking a great desire to reconnect to the Earth, continuing the spiritual and physical connections with the Earth as her ancestors once did, her intent is to assist others in starting or continuing their journeys in becoming one with themselves. 

Christina is the founder of Black Herbalists Alliance, Trydent Consulting, and Gingerly Expressions, an organization focused on intentional creation of herbal products and services, to assist others in starting or continuing their own journeys in becoming one with themselves; and to finance fiscal sponsorship and opportunities to support BIPOC healers.

Christina offers herbal programs, herbal classes, and herbal tea blends. She studied under Emily Ruff and Maggie O’Halloran and is an avid tea lover, recovering foodie, and cultural explorer. She is currently on the board of Red Hills Small Farm Alliance, Florida School of Holistic Living and American Herbalists Guild.

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This webinar is part of our end-of-year fundraising campaign. Your contribution makes it possible for ONE to share these educational resources for building co-creative relationships with the Living Earth. You can Donate here and read more about the fundraiser: https://www.natureevolutionaries.com/give-to-thrive  🌎🌿💜  Together we are cultivating a world where all beings have the right to thrive and our Sacred connection with Nature is honored. 

Join us for this exciting webinar that looks deeply at the vast intelligence of the plant world, including plants and trees that heal us, guide us, and feed us. You have probably heard the expression “master plants” and immediately think about psychotropic plants. In this paradigm-shifting webinar we will explore the idea that All plants are master plants and if approached and treated in a sacred manner, have the ability to open doors of perception, heal us at a core level, and nourish us optimally.  

🌿 Imagine plants that can guide us in co-evolution into the “New Earth”. 

🌿 Imagine plants that have certain chemical constituents that heal and nourish us because of their spiritual intelligence. 

🌿 Imagine yourself connecting effortlessly directly into the spiritual intelligence of plants.  

🌿 Imagine that simply by eating certain plants they are serving as “master plants”.
 
Teacher, curandera, and ethnobotanist, Rocio Alarcon, is joining us once again to inspire, guide and deepen into the realm of the spiritual intelligence of plants. This is new and exclusive never-before-shared material that she has prepared for ONE participants.


Rocio Alarcon is a healer for our times.  She has worked tirelessly for decades to preserve indigenous cultures and land both in the Amazon and in the Andean community where she grew up, under the tutelage of master healers. She has lovingly brought many modern seekers, as well as skeptics, into the fold of the healing traditions of her ancestors, teaching especially about our relationship with the “divine forces” in the natural world. Rocio’s grandmothers held intimate connections with the forces of nature, particularly the plants and the hummingbirds, whom they could call upon for the healing of their communities.  Recently, Rocio has been bringing forth this particular ancestral heritage.  

Rocio brings to her inherited knowledge a scientific understanding of the co-evolution of plants and animals and ecosystems, as well as understandings of healing based on modern neuroscience.   She weaves this all together in her teachings on the healing power of the plants.

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What does life look like if we live with an awareness of interbeing? How is our relationship with Nature informing our lives today to support a vibrant future?

You are invited to join us in discussion with an incredible panel of Nature Evolutionaries, Pam Montgomery, Myra Jackson, Larry Karsteadt, and Lauren Valle as they share their experience of deep kinship with Nature and their vision for a vibrant future.

This discussion will be grounded in our present time and our daily lives and you will also be invited to share your perspectives and vision in the meeting chat. From this rich conversation and your input, we will assemble the highlights and essence of our time together in a shared document.

🎉And, we are also celebrating ONE's 10th Anniversary during this webinar!! We will have a prize drawing for registrants for some wonderful gifts: Plant Initiation with Pam Montgomery at Sweetwater Sanctuary in Vermont (or online), Connecting Creatively with Nature online course, and an all-access pass to Women Working for the Earth Summit recordings.


Pam Montgomery is an herbalist, author, international teacher, Earth elder and new-paradigm thinker who has passionately embraced her role as a spokesperson for green beings and has been investigating plants and their intelligent spiritual nature for more than three decades.

Larry Karsteadt’s life journey has been rich, rewarding and varied, with a long professional career as an Emergency Medical Services administrator in California, a Master’s degree in Biology from Cal-Poly Humboldt in northern California, extensive world travels, and a growing musical repertoire with his beloved guitar.

Myra Jackson is an Earth Elder who has held careers in engineering, holographic organizational development and academia. She carries the title of Diplomat of the Biosphere with a primary focus on transforming our societal relationship with Nature through public policy approaches that recognize Nature's intrinsic rights to exist whole along with all Her lifeforms.

Lauren Valle is a community herbalist, gardener, artist, and a mother of two young boys. She is devoted to reawakening the memories we all carry of being joyfully woven into the web of life, and to dismantling the social constructs that lead us to believe that we are separate from each other and that we are separate from Nature.

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Join natural builder, Sigi Koko, as she shares about working with Nature to create inspired architectural designs and construction from natural materials.  We will explore Sigi’s passion and commitment for eco-sensible design and her practical outlook in partnering with Nature in the building of our homes.   Creating in collaboration with our own ecosystems leads to more efficient homes as well as incredibly beautiful, connected spaces.  

Mimicking Nature instead of trying to overpower with our will just makes sense to Sigi.

Sigi Koko, owner and operator of Down to Earth Design, is one of the most established and prolific architect/builders of natural structures in the United States. Her company, founded in 1998, predominantly serves the mid-Atlantic region of the US and designs strawbale homes and residential-scale commercial structures for their environmentally minded clients. For over 25 years Sigi has been pushing the boundaries of the construction market towards sustainable and environmentally conscious building. She is also a major advocate and educator of natural building techniques, holding workshops and courses for students seeking to learn to build with natural materials. 

To learn more about Sigi’s work visit her website https://buildnaturally.com/ 

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What does life look like if we recognize Earth as our kin and Mountains as our ancestors?  

Join Dr. John Hausdoerffer as he shares his vision and experience of deep kinship with Nature and talks about how good life can be when we are in a meaningful relationship with our landscapes.  We will honor Mountains in our discussion as wise Elders who can help guide us in being the ancestors we want to see in the future.  

Being those ancestors is rooted in the here and now and calls us to enliven values that nourish life for the following generations.   As guardians of Earth, Mountains show us the way.

Dr. John Hausdoerffer is an environmental philosopher, teacher, organizational founder, and writer from Gunnison, Colo. He believes that peace between humans begins with a spiritual connection with a just distribution of the “ecosphere” that forms our local and global home. His books “Catlin’s Lament“; “Wildness“; and (forthcoming) “What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?” imagine how environmental health must come from and result in the healing of deep histories of social injustice and cultural trauma. “Dr. John” calls for a new ethic that views all places as part of our home, all generations of all beings as part of our scope of responsibility, and all actions as potential expressions of human care for the world. As he often says, “environmental ethics insists on humans as more than bodies that consume bodies in a global economy, insists that we are wholehearted beings capable of understanding and caring for the complex local and global systems that sustain us.”

Throughout his life, Dr. John’s dedication to peace has been driven by this question: What does the good life look like once we accept that all places are “here” and all eras are “now”? What does the good life look like if all peoples are considered as part of an equal humanity and if all species are considered as persons?

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What does it mean to propagate Black Joy? To begin, Dr. Chris Omni invites you to think about how we propagate plants. 

In order to create new plants, the parent plant must be healthy and striving. In the space of propagating Black Joy, Dr. Omni, the parent plant, spent several years on an intentional healing and nature-inspired journey of self-discovery after the passing of her Mama from a 26-year battle with cancer. Seven years later, she is strong, whole, and grounded. Now, Dr. Omni joyfully enters a space of celebrating and growing Black Joy in the lives of other Black people such as Michelle Gunn and Ashley Powell - 2022/2023 Black Joy research mentees from Florida State University who were promoted to interns for the 2023/2024 season. During this webinar, you get to hear directly from these brilliant young leaders.

Partner in supporting the  “Black Joy is Lit(erature) Workshop Series”:  a writing workshop and retreat for Black undergraduate students in Florida
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Dr. Chris Omni, the Black Joy Scholar is a speaker, award-winning entrepreneur, artist, and activist.  Her research explores Nature’s influence on the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being of Black people and by blending her 25-year background in public health with her foreground in art education, Dr. Omni provides a counter-narrative to the typical deficit lens generally applied to the Black experience.

Michelle Gunn is an international affairs student at Florida State University. Originally from Orlando, Florida, she aspires to one day lead a non-profit organization dedicated to solving the issues amongst the Black diaspora. 

Ashley Powell is a Psychology and  Business student at Florida State University. She is a senior this year and plans to attend graduate school to pursue a master’s in business and eventually work in a field where she can utilize both psychology and business.

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Join us in conversation with Lisa Estabrook, artist, author and creator of Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck as she shares her journey with her plant spirit mentors. We will explore the power of intentions, living body wisdom, restoring imagination as a super sense, and conscious creation with the elemental realm. 

It has always been Lisa’s intention to grow herself which means that the plant spirits have continually helped her stretch her comfort zone!  Over the last year or so her gardens have been calling for a new “blueprint" and she is leaning into that and what it can mean for our work in the world.

Feeling empowered and listening to and following the wisdom of our own hearts is an ongoing thread that Lisa is sharing with others as she remembers with the help of the plants.   Lisa encourages us all to give ourselves permission to create a life from the inside out rather than the outside in, as so many of us have long been conditioned to do. 

Lisa Estabrook is an artist, mother, way shower, author, home herbalist and plant whisperer who has spent the last 30 years figuring out how to live a meaningful, heart-led, healthy and joyful life. The creation of the Soulflower Plant Spirit Oracle deck was the result of a two-year long personal journey of self-discovery and healing which also launched her heART based Soulflower business with a growing range of products intended to support and inspire connection with ourselves and our planet. Lisa's belief is that the more we learn about ourselves, and take responsibility for our own healing (wholing) journeys, the more we will empower and support ourselves and by extension our families, our communities and ultimately the Earth herself. The founder of the online CommUNITY Garden, Lisa lives in Yarmouth, Maine.

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Join William Padilla-Brown as we discuss the fascinating relationship between truffles and mammals, and how this connection may have played a key role in the evolution of intelligent life on Earth.

It’s possible that after the extinction event, which wiped out the dinosaurs, truffles were a vital food source for surviving mammals with their high nutritional content and unique chemical composition.  In fact, researchers suggest that truffles may have been one of the first foods that triggered the part of the neural system responsible for learning and memory, which in turn may have led to increased cognitive function and the evolution of more intelligent mammals.

In addition to the incredible history of truffles, William will also discuss the different types of truffles, their distribution, and their unique culinary and cultural significance.   There is great economic and ecological potential with truffle cultivation for many local communities. 

William Padilla-Brown is a Multidisciplinary Citizen Scientist practicing social science, mycology, phycology, molecular biology, and additive manufacturing. William founded and is the current CEO of MycoSymbiotics, a permaculture research and production business based in Central Pennsylvania focused on innovative, practical applied biological science. William holds Permaculture Design Certificates acquired through Susquehanna Permaculture and NGOZI, and a Certificate from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences for completing their Algal Culturing Techniques Course. William published the first books written in the English language on Cordyceps cultivation. William regularly teaches k-12 classes around the United States, for universities, including Cornell’s Small Farms Program, private clubs, and events, as well as offers private consultations. William is constantly in the mix of contemporary ritual in a nuanced modern Urban Shamanism, spending his time vlogging for social media, writing, researching, rapping, singing, and loving his Beautiful Lady Lydia, their son Leo, and baby daughter. William and his work have been featured on Fantastic Fungi, VICE, Buzzfeed, The Verge, Outside Magazine, Civil Eats, Public Goods, The Book “One Earth,” and much more.  

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As we engage in co-creative partnership with Nature, old beliefs and wounds can emerge to be healed. Connecting with trees or water, we become aware that our ability to thrive is predicated on the wellbeing of our kin, both human and more-than-human. In this dance of healing, awakening, and embracing our potential, we realize that our human relations need some attention. Sometimes we can feel overwhelmed, not sure where to start, or even afraid to dig deeper. 

Dr. Amanda Kemp is a lifelong advocate of justice. As the founder of Racial Justice from the H.E.A.R.T., Amanda has helped over 25,000 people have open-hearted conversations, consciously use their power and practice compassion to cultivate racial justice and authentic community.

Over the last several years, Amanda’s life and work have been transformed as she has deepened her relationship with Nature, particularly Trees. She now utilizes Earth’s intelligence to create transformation that is heart-based, joyful, and regenerative. We can nourish ourselves, our communities, Earth as we engage in the incredible healing work of racial justice.

We are deeply honored to have Dr. Amanda Kemp share her wisdom and heart with our community. The gifts that Amanda shares not only help us heal injustice, they also help us have more authentic, connected, and empowered lives.

Join us for this transformative hour as we discuss how to create regenerative racial justice by learning from the Earth.

To learn more about Amanda's work visit her website here https://www.dramandakemp.com/

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Everyone has an innate ability to consciously communicate with Plants.  Author, and teacher, Jen Frey gives us a taste of the synergistic process of communicating with Plants and how they can help us heal and teach us to trust, forgive, and embrace self-love.  Jen is joined by botanical illustrator, Lillian Edwards, who additionally shares her process in visually bringing forward the essences of plants.   Jen and Lillian recently collaborated on Jen’s new book Communicating with Plants:  Heart-Based Practices for Connecting with Plant Spirits.

Note this episode references images in the video recording which you can view here.

Jen Frey is a Healer, Mentor, and Earth Advocate. She is the Founder of Brigid's Way and is leading the Plant-a-tary Evolution.  Jen is the co-steward of Heart Springs Sanctuary, a living example of how to create a more sustainable future by engaging in co-creative partnership with Nature.  With over 20 years of experience with plant essences, energy work, and herbal practices her private consultations and plant based protocols are known for helping clients through emotional life transitions, physical health crises, and chronic conditions. Jen has dedicated her life to the spiritual path of plant work. Her apprenticeship certification programs, ceremonies, retreats and workshop offerings are designed for people wanting to open their hearts, fall in love with plants and deepen their relationship to the planet. Jen is a Visioning Council member for the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries.

You can learn more about her work at: www.brigidsway.com

Lillian Edwards is a plant spirit healer and visual artist, on a mission to mend the rift between human consciousness and the ever-accessible, loving and wise, presence of Nature’s intelligence. Her healing business, Earth Prayer, was birthed from a deep desire to give voice to the Plants, weave Their prayers into writing and art, share flower essences, and serve her local community with plant spirit healing. Lillian has a background in ecological restoration, permaculture design, organic urban farming, and freelance illustration. She is grateful and excited to be involved with ONE, aligned with the organization’s work to deepen our collective relationship with the Sacred in all of Life.  Her roots are nestled into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California~ the landscape she calls home.  

You can learn more about Lillian at: http://earthprayer.love/

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