Ecology of listening

<div class="wp-block-image"><span style="color: #000000"><strong>How do we create pathways into living our full humanity?</strong></span></div> <div></div> <div class="wp-block-image"><span style="color: #000000"><em>This episode is part of a collaboration with St Ethelburga’s, called Listening to each other : Listening to Earth, which reaches for the place where spiritual ecology and climate justice meet. It explores the integration of spirituality with grounded action through the lives and leadership of people of colour.</em></span></div> <p><span style="color: #000000">“We’ve actually got to deal with the foundational belief system, which is white supremacy and racism. Because if we don’t deal with those two things, we won’t be able to deal with this disposability that then is projected on to ecological spaces and to whole peoples.” Hop Hopkins</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000">In this episode Amisha speaks with Hop Hopkins, the Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Sierra Club working to promote economic justice and protection to those most affected by climate change and environmental degradation. He has worked in the labor, the climate justice and the housing justice movement. Hop is an Arborist and a Master Gardener living in community and creating a network of residential food forests supporting the development of stable, human-scale solar self-reliant neighborhood communities.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000">Amisha and Hop explore listening to Earth as a practice of acknowledging our surroundings and our inner voices; an expansive opportunity for becoming conscious, compassionate and empathetic. They reveal how the pandemic, climate change and economy are interrelated and how the overarching system we live in impacts us all in its interconnectedness. They share how the global changes activated during the past year are an invitation to use our liberatory imagination in order to craft new governance and economic models, and new models of community support.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000">Hop shares his personal experiences of living in a self-reliant community and the advantages of such a support system and sharing economy, especially in times of crisis and times of unlearning. He believes that fostering a culture of failing, learning and humility will help us form pathways into collective leadership rooted in sharing and self-governing communities where we may flourish into living our full humanity.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000">We learn that ‘sacrifice zones’ were designed to exploit land and people systemically instating racism, disposability and destruction that sit at the very core of environmental and human exploitation. In order to dismantle these foundations of our system, we must recognise its magnitude, develop anti-racist analysis and overcome scarcity mindsets.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #000000">“Listening does require a certain level of humility.” Hop Hopkins</span></p>

<div><span style="color: #000000"><a style="color: #000000" href="https://stethelburgas.org/projects/spiritual-ecology/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable"><span style="color: #0000ff">Listening To Each Other, Listening to Earth</span></a>, is a collaboration with <span style="color: #0000ff"><a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://www.thefutureisbeautiful.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">The Future Is Beautiful</a></span>, and is funded by the <span style="color: #0000ff"><a style="color: #0000ff" href="https://kalliopeia.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">Kalliopeia Foundation</a></span>.</span></div> <div></div> <div><span style="color: #000000">Listening to each other : Listening to Earth reaches for the place where spiritual ecology and climate justice meet. It explores the integration of spirituality with grounded action through the lives and leadership of people of colour.</span></div> <div></div> <div><span style="color: #000000">The Future Is Beautiful is a global community weaving together politics, spirituality, creativity and regeneration as we co-create a better world. Through the influential podcast, collaborative book and interactive learning experiences – The Future Is Beautiful is moving us beyond silos and into an integrated way of being. You are invited.</span></div> <div><span style="color: #0000ff"><a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://www.thefutureisbeautiful.co/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable">www.thefutureisbeautiful.co</a></span></div>