“Deep listening, when done properly is about sensing and hearing what is beneath words or beneath what is being shown. Deep listening employs the whole body, and asks us to be soft enough to hold the meta view that is always made up of multiplicities.” Kailea Frederick
E114 – Kailea Frederick on REFLECTIVE ACTIVISM, PARENTING AND CLIMATE JUSTICE
THE QUIET REVOLUTIONS INSIDE OUR HEARTS
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“Deep listening, when done properly is about sensing and hearing what is beneath words or beneath what is being shown. Deep listening employs the whole body, and asks us to be soft enough to hold the meta view that is always made up of multiplicities.” Kailea Frederick
In this episode Amisha speaks with Kailea Frederick, a mother of Tahltan, Kaska and Black American ancestry. Her work sits at the intersection of climate justice, spiritual ecology and resilience thinking. Kailea is the Editor for Loam, a Climate Commissioner for the city of Petaluma, and a facilitator through her own project ‘Earth Is `Ohana’. She co-authored ‘Compassion In Crisis: Learning To Live in an Age of Disaster’.
Amisha and Kailea talk about the practice of deep listening as way of being in dialogue with Honua, the trees, the rocks, the elements, ourselves and each other; a vital tool for navigating our complex lives whilst experiencing the discomforts, unpredictability and imbalances of climate change.
Kailea shares practical ways of listening to Earth as a climate commissioner working on climate emergency frameworks translating data and charts, observations and climate transitions into guiding documents for crisis management during climate emergencies. Together they explore communities creatively coming together to forge ways forward by uplifting voices and narratives that offer new perspectives and grounding us in simple life, hope, resilience and spiritual practice.
Kailea reveals the challenges of being a parent and together they explore the joys and the murkier moments of being a guardian during these times that do not promise safety nor balance, but nonetheless the rewards of personal growth and widening perspectives.
We learn that deep listening is an act and gift of reciprocity that can help us shape spaces of shared values where we may find new formats of balance, common goals and a community moving towards the creations of systemic changes. They encourage us to observe the quiet revolutions inside our hearts so we can become the lightbearers of alternative perspectives that will guide the way.
“Listening is a tool to learn and widen our perspectives.” Kailea Frederick
Kailea Frederick is a mother of Tahltan, Kaska and Black American ancestry. Her work sits at the intersection of climate justice, spiritual ecology and resilience thinking. Growing up off the grid in Maui, Hawai`i forever imprinted in her the importance of reciprocity through indigenous world – view. She feels raised by quiet spaces and intimately tied to Honua, our island earth. Her prayer is that those on the front-lines of climate change and extractive based industry are able to find justice and peace for their communities.
She is a graduate of the International Youth Initiative Program and a Spiritual Ecology and Boards & Commissions Leadership Fellow. She has served twice as a youth delegate to the United Nations Climate Change conferences. Currently, Kailea is the Editor for Loam, a Climate Commissioner for the city of Petaluma, and a facilitator through her own project Earth Is `Ohana. She co-authored ‘Compassion In Crisis: Learning To Live in an Age of Disaster’.
To find out more about Kailea’s work, visit earthisohana.com
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Will Scott . The Future Is Beautiful // Episode 73
Valerie Kaur . Revolutionary Love Project
St Ethelburga’s Centre for Reconciliation & Peace
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