Fireside Chats & Spiritual Talks
A monthly online conversation on how we can approach these burning times to help bring forth a more liberating world in the ashes of the old
Upcoming FIRESIDE CHAT
2025 Dates Coming Soon!
We just wrapped our 5-part series called “Navigating a World On Fire”. The series covered the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. All recording can be found below or on our Blog. We also invite you to join our Virtual Village which houses all our live community offerings.
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Past Fireside Chats & Spiritual Talks
October 31, 2024
This is the fifth part of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” The series will cover the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. In this final session we will discuss how difficult how to keep each other safe during the election and its aftermath.
September 26, 2024
This is the fourth of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” The series will cover the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. In this fourth session we will discuss how difficult it can be to find meaningful connection in the digital era and why community is more important now than ever.
August 29, 2024
This is the third of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” The series will cover the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. In this third session we will discuss the how late stage capitalism leaves us underpaid, overworked and isolated.
July 25, 2024
This is the second of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” In this second session Aaron will talk about the deep history of our current crises and what the struggles of 30’s, 40’s and 50’s can teach us about rising labor militancy, growing fascism and dealing the trauma of witnessing genocide.
June 27, 2024
This is the first of a 5 part series called “Navigating a world on fire. In this first session Reece and Aaron will give a big picture overview of what WildSeed sees as the core crises and then hold space for people to share how these crises affect their daily lives.
February 22nd, 2024
This Spiritual Talk will focus on the prototypes WildSeed is developing to offer off-ramps from our modern political economy towards a more liberatory social system. They will also discuss how Black movement history has inspired these prototypes.
November 16, 2023
This Spiritual Talk focused on both Erika’s personal journey to recognizing and planning for an extended sabbatical and the ways that her journey exposes the problems of how we fund and structure movement work. .
October 5, 2023
Aaron Goggans and Sandra Kim shared how the WildSeed Society is prototyping new structures of care, resourcing and wrap around support for movement organizers and community healers.
April 28, 2022
Erika Totten and Sandra Kim shared why and how WildSeed Society prioritizes rest and play in our movement and liberation work - even in the midst of organizational uncertainty and financial insecurity.
February 8, 2022
Aaron Goggans and Sandra Kim continue to share in this Part 2 of the Spiritual Talk given on January 25th on on what skillful and consensual care looks like, particularly in the context of organizations and movements.
January 25, 2022
Aaron Goggans and Sandra Kim will share on what skillful and consensual care looks like, particular in relationships across racial, culture and gender differences where people have experienced trauma in relationships and in communities.
December 17, 2021
Aaron Goggans and Sandra Kim shared how the WildSeed Society uses the Buddhist concept of Right Livelihood to bring people together to build a new ecology where our needs can be met with dignity - through caring community and right relationship with the land.
