Interactive Nurturing Our Connections of Resilience “Below the Soil”—Lessons from Mother Trees
In this experiential, restorative session, Sarah Amsler, Associate Professor of Education, University of Nottingham (UK); and Sonali Sangeeta Balajee, founder, Our Bodhi Project, will help us expand our awareness about how making place for deep rest in our intensely capitalist society can be a powerful, vital practice for healing. Drawing metaphorically from Suzanne Simard’s world-renowned research into the nurturing and “teaching” role “mother trees” play in forest ecosystems, Sonali and Sarah will support us in exploring our own sources of wisdom through experiential, creative practices, opening up new possibilities to what rest and healing can look like in our lives, our communities and our activism.
November 13th | 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm
Panelists
Sarah Amsler
Associate Professor of Education
University of Nottingham
Sarah Amsler, an eco-social researcher, writer and educator, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Nottingham and a member of the Our Bodhi Project and the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures arts/research collectives, focuses in her work on how patterns of interpersonal, historical-social, epistemic, ontological and metabolic violence are reproduced in affective, embodied, conceptual, political and relational realms; and on strategies to interrupt systems of power that fuel suffering and destruction, so that other ways of being can become possible.
Sonali Sangeeta Balajee
Founder
Our Bodhi Project
Sonali Sangeeta Balajee is the founder of Our Bodhi Project, which promotes practices at the intersection of Belonging, Organizing, Decolonizing, Health, and Interconnectedness. Sonali previously spent 13 years in government in Portland, OR, leading equity-based projects, has been an activist in HIV/AIDS work, environmental justice, and racial equity for 30 years, has 20 years’ experience in dance and music performance and 35 years’ practicing yoga and mindfulness. She sits on the boards of Bioneers and Worldtrust.
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