Keynote Conversations
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Dancing with the Cracks – Meeting the Climate Crisis as a Portal of Initiation
with Bayo Akomolafe
Bayo Akomolafe invites us to slow down amid ecological collapse and attune to the deeper, entangled rhythms of life. Drawing from Yoruba indigenous wisdom and post-activism, he introduces the metaphor of “cracks” – spaces of disruption and uncertainty that serve as portals for transformation. Through reflections on decolonization, desire, and ecological leadership, Bayo challenges linear, solution-driven responses to crises and instead calls for a “para-political” approach – one that stays with complexity, fear, and grief to reveal new possibilities for collective becoming.
- Breakdowns and systemic cracks as openings for transformation
- Slowing down to notice deeper rhythms and patterns
- Embracing uncertainty, incompleteness, and generative potential in disorder
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Recovering Authentic Power – How Indigenous Healing Practices Can Restore Our World
with Hāweatea Holly Bryson
Haweatea Holly Bryson, an Indigenous psychotherapist and Māori healer, explores how decolonizing Western notions of healing can guide our collective response to the climate crisis. She emphasizes restoring Mana, our inner power and cultural identity, through community connection, rites of passage, and alignment with nature. Her work bridges Western psychology with Indigenous wisdom to foster deeper, embodied, and collective healing.
- Reclaiming Mana through culture, ancestry, and community
- Integrating Western psychology with Indigenous wisdom for fuller healing
- Connecting with the Earth and community through embodied, collective practices
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Seeding Regeneration through Film – How Documentary Cinema Can Unlock Collective Healing
with Maria Clara Parente
Maria Clara Parente, Brazilian climate journalist and filmmaker, explores regeneration, grief, and decoloniality through storytelling. Her film Regenerate weaves Global South and Indigenous wisdom to reimagine our relationship with the Earth. She emphasizes dreams, imagination, and intergenerational collaboration as essential for climate transformation.
- Storytelling and imagination are vital to climate transformation
- Indigenous and Global South perspectives must guide regeneration
- Intergenerational collaboration helps turn grief into action
Practice for Personal Balance & Agency
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Decolonizing Mind and Heart: Remembering Wholeness
with Wanjîkū J. Kiarie
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with Thomas Hübl
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Live Event
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with Matthew Green, Sonita Mbah & Kosha Joubert
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Nature Inspiration
DAY 3: Wood Wide Web - the Hidden Networks of Wholeness
Beneath the forest floor, a hidden network of fungi connects trees, shares nutrients, communicates warnings – a paradigm of subterranean coherence, interdependence, and intelligence. Through the mycorrhizal web, chemical signals and carbon flow between species, maintaining balance across the ecosystem. Each exchange encodes feedback and adaptation – a living circuitry of cooperation that sustains the forest’s collective resilience.
Reflection questions
- What hidden networks of support sustain me, even when I forget they exist?
- How does recognizing interconnection shift how I hold power, belonging, and responsibility?
- Where might I listen more deeply to the “underground” voices – the quiet, unseen wisdom in and around me?
- How can I contribute nourishment back into the networks that feed my own life?
