Our names are Alia and Hayden and we are the Co-Founders of The School for Ecocentric Evolution & Design Strategies (SEEDS). Our primary mission is to sow seeds of a life-affirming world at the fertile intersection of the individual, cultural, and more-than-human ecologies.

Our intention with Season One is to explore and articulate how we’re making sense of these unprecedented collective times, what we see as the evolutionary invitation for our species, and what we can do as individuals and localized communities to design an ecocentric pathway toward a life-sustaining future world.

In this second episode, The Three Identities: Foundations of the Ecocentric Self, we articulate a 3-fold identity framework that underlies our ecocentric design modalities in both theory and praxis. Our intention is to posit a framework of human identity that is simultaneously generalized enough to be radically inclusive, self-evident enough to build consensus, and nuanced enough to afford healthy differentiation across and between scales of diverse experience.

Join us for a lively, exploratory, emergent dialogue exploring the irreducible yet interdependent facets that comprise The Three Primary Identities of the human being: 

1) The Unique Individual Self

2) The Human Cultural Self

3) The More-Than-Human Ecological Self

The integration of these three mutually-informative identities make up the totality of the True Self, aka The Ecocentric Self. This True Self is an ecocentric architect of life-sustaining future worlds, for they remember and are interwoven within a more whole, accurate, mature, radically complex yet delightfully simple understanding of who and what they are. 

Thank you for being alongside us for this wild ride of finding our voices, sharing our visions, and calling out to other (r)evolutionaries. May this podcast be an act of creative service to further the healing and regeneration already underway within the hearts and minds of so many. Together may we midwife a next chapter of our planetary story. We’re grateful to be in it together!

Thank you for joining us for our inaugural episode of The SEEDS Podcast!

Our names are Alia and Hayden and we are the Co-Founders of The School for Ecocentric Evolution & Design Strategies (SEEDS). Our primary mission is to sow seeds of a life-affirming world at the fertile intersection of the individual, cultural, and more-than-human ecologies.

Our intention with Season One is to explore and articulate how we’re making sense of these unprecedented collective times, what we see as the evolutionary invitation for our species, and what we can do as individuals and localized communities to design an ecocentric pathway toward a life-sustaining future world.

In this first episode, Origin Stories: Tending the Roots that Grow Us, we begin by telling the story of our first meeting in the wild mountains of Colorado in 2018. We explore how this synchronistic encounter with one another during a pancultural Vision Quest ceremony catalyzed our sovereign paths of self-discovery, initiated our romantic partnership, and laid the foundations for our SEEDS project. We then go on to introduce some of the basic tenets and guiding frameworks informing our work and directing our efforts in theory and praxis.

Thank you for being alongside us for this wild ride of finding our voices, sharing our visions, and calling out to other (r)evolutionaries. May this podcast be an act of creative service to further the healing and regeneration already underway within the hearts and minds of so many. Together may we midwife a next chapter of our planetary story. We’re grateful to be in it together!