Co-Evolutionary Culturing
Welcome to our co-evolutionary pot of fermentation and composting, ritual and wonder! We want to have the largest conversations possible with you, at the crossroads of deep time, the future and the now. We invite you into this space for consciousness shifting spells to compost power-over culture from the inside out. We are leaning in to the edge of this present-time rupture that is the 6th mass extinction, and listening for the ways Earth might be dreaming through us in these times. Listening to the larger story, told by the web of the other-than-human world and thereby de-centering the human narrative so that our ways forward are sourced from wellsprings of wisdom, well beyond the limitations of the strategic-mind. Join us in tracking the scent of inner-led change out into the wildish world, remembering that we are earth, “not just troubled guests on this planet” (David Whyte). There at the wellspring, where the hieroglyphics of the hooves of creatures are pressed into the mud, we will listen to Earth’s Dreaming in the sound of water over rock. We will gather and speak what we’ve heard at the emergent edge of the unknown. We invite you into the ritual practice that is co-evolutionary culturing.
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Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Thursday Apr 17, 2025
Alicia and I speak about the intuitive, consciousness shifting jump of evolution in corn and these times. We speak about protection that is wise and the protective strategies that underpin modernity's violence. We listen in to who might guide us as we find our way through the "jump" that we now find ourselves in, between the old paradigm and the not-yet-born, the transformational space between what was and what comes- the present moment in which everything is possible and the guardians who are midwifing this dangerous and transformative time.
Alicia Enciso Litschi
Pronouns: she/her/ella
Website: www.conalmatherapy.com
Social: https://offeringsforcornmother.substack.com/
Alicia is a hybrid healer in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. She is part curandera, part psychologist. She finds great meaning in helping her clients restore their connections to ancestral wisdom and belonging to the land. Alicia is devoted to Corn Mother--one of the ancient Mothers of this world. Alicia loves to spread the practice of making offerings to the land. Guided by Corn Mother, she travels together with friends, making small offerings in service of connecting to the greater intelligences of Earth's Being.
Eamon Willow is the shamanic practitioner that Alicia mentions, their website is https://calonyddraig.com/
Friday Mar 21, 2025
Friday Mar 21, 2025
My guest is Shaleah Dawnyel, founder of the School of Unlearning Berlin. We speak together in a brave space about what it is to be a portal person, the necessity of speaking about things that our very presence embodies which are often confrontative for folks. We talk about leaning in to the discomfort of this way of being that opens up both the heart and mind for what is possible beyond binaries and hierarchies. And how that in and of itself is the invitation for transformation, together.
About Shaleah Dawnyel: Jane of all trades and master of some, Shaleah Dawnyel escaped her origins in Los Angeles in 2009 and found their home in Berlin. After working for over 15 years as a strategy & marketing consultant for creatives, she recently co-founded the School of Unlearning in Berlin, dedicated to (un)learning the myth of separation that is destroying our world. When they aren't gesturing toward alternative futures, she enjoys wandering walks with their fur partner Harmony and exploring the best cheeses the EU has to offer.
https://shaleahdawnyel.com School of Unlearning Berlin
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Greetings! In this episode, we speak of what we mean when we use the word power, and what we mean when we say power-over culture. We speak of composting power-over culture and how one might do that through inner-led change. It is a vulnerable and tender conversation that reveals our own experience and grappling, healing and transformation as we ourselves compost the shadows and wounds of power-over culture within our own psyches and within the relational culture that is Starter Culture.
Music by Tamsin Elliot, Uma's Song from the Album Fey
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Join us, Claire Milne and Sara McFarland, as we tend the heart of Starter Culture and share what has brought us here and why each of us are passionate about what brings us to this work, the inner-led transformation of power-over culture into relational culture.
With music by Laura Brady
Strong Ones from the album Stitch and Ocean
Website: http://www.wren-music.com
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Tuesday Jul 04, 2023
Description
The second part of our Eco-Awakening conversation of belonging to Earth Community, with Bell Selkie Lovelock and Sara McFarland. In this episode, you’ll find an experiential invitation to deepen into your senses and encounter the wild others within and without. We speak about how to Eco-Awaken, how to experience ourselves as Earth and how to continue the practice of it in our daily lives. With poetry by William Stafford and Joy Harjo. Music by Tamsin Elliot
http://www.tamsinelliott.co.uk/
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Bell Selkie Lovelock and myself, Sara McFarland, speak about Eco-Awakening, which is the psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual remembering of the fact that we each are a part of Earth and that all beings are our Kith, in reciprocal relatedness. Come along with us for an imaginal journey through poetry, song and stories into the heart of belonging to Earth Community.
Friday Mar 03, 2023
Friday Mar 03, 2023
Welcome to our first podcast, in which we dive into the heart of Starter Culture and all the ways in which we expand consciousness beyond the power-over culture into human wholeness and the other-than-human. We talk about the necessary death of the modern paradigm and the grief and fear that brings with it, the ways we might decolonize at depth and at scale, and the necessity of inner work for outer change for a possible future cultural renewal. www.starterculture.net
Co-Evolutionary Culturing:
composting power-over culture from the inside out
We are tending to the dismantling of the power-over culture as it lives within each of us, (and the groups, communities and movements we are part of), as well as calling in risky conversations at the crossroads of deep time and our current turbulent times, the known and the unknown - to question the things we take for granted and trouble our learned way of perceiving the world.
We are ritual midwives for Mystery, Seers and visionaries, soft bellied humans engaged in the very real daily grit and grind of becoming more and more resourced and healing our collective trauma in a time of cataclysm. We are listening to the larger story told by the web of the other-than-human world and thereby de-centering the human narrative.
A note about how to listen in:
You might listen to this podcast out in a wildish place, along a river, or in a meadow, forest, park or your garden. You might choose to listen whilst in your home, workplace or community, in the good company of other human creatures. In whichever ecosystem you find yourself, we invite you to give your full attention to the music, words, images, sensations and feelings that might arise while listening to the podcast. Please do not drive, do dishes or other business while listening, as we are inviting a different kind of consciousness to emerge. Thank you
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