Tending the Roots: Composting Conversations

We Are EarthSeeds: Collaborative Creation & the New World Nursery with Mist Alderkin

In this conversation, Karine Bell is joined by Mist Saoirse Alderkin to explore the New World Nursery, a space within the Rooted Village dedicated to collective dreaming, creativity, and responsibility to the worlds we are shaping together.  They talk about heartache and the longing for alternative futures in a time of deep division and polarization, and why so many people feel disconnected from their capacity to actively participate in creating those futures. Drawing from Mist's Earthseed Web of Worlds framework, the conversation touches on grief, values, ancestral wisdom, and what it means to dream and create in relationship rather than in isolation. This episode is an invitation to remember ourselves as contributors to collective world-building, and to consider what kinds of spaces can support that remembering. Links & Resources Learn more about Mist Saoirse Alderkin: https://linktr.ee/mistalderkin Explore the Rooted Global Village: https://rootedglobalvillage.com/the-village John Trudell – Tribal Voice (playlist): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kNjkI_4A5tqGT3VuhCvwHrAJJ8PUXFnh8&si=1sYWUCZX1HFmF7Yx

What We've Sacrificed to Stay Safe and the Courage to Peer Beneath the Waterline

Karine shares a story from childhood about visiting her grandmother's house where she encountered the heavy, unspoken tensions that would shape a lifelong commitment to shadow work. This reflection weaves personal memory with a deeper exploration of the cost of avoiding the shadow—those edges-places we've been taught to fear in ourselves, our families, and our social worlds. It explores what we sacrifice when we choose not to go to those places, and how this avoidance slowly distances us from intimacy, creativity, and our own aliveness. This mini-sode is an invitation and a gentle push toward the edges where healing and transformation await. Learn more about our upcoming program, The Alchemy in Edge-Play: Personal and Cultural Transformation in a Complex World, at www.rootedglobalvillage.com/edge-play-program. Consider a donation to HEAL Palestine, which supports communities through a holistic model grounded in Health, Education, Aid, and Leadership—not just meeting immediate needs, but empowering the next generation to thrive and lead. Their work is powered by the Palestinian diaspora, community volunteers, and people like us who believe in collective healing and liberation. To learn more and contribute, you can visit www.healpalestine.org.Every offering helps build toward a future rooted in dignity, care, and self-determination.  

In Care We Distrust (aka Experiments in Village-Making)

In Care We Distrust is an introduction and reflection from inside the Rooted Village, where we're not just talking about care and care ecologies—we're getting into the messy, layered work of studying, designing and practicing it/them. Underneath so much of the crisis we're living through—political, ecological, economic—is a crisis of relationship (or a crisis of care, as our friend Cassie calls it) and beneath that, a deep erosion of trust: in institutions, in one another, and even in ourselves. This episode winds through some of that terrain, touches on our distrust in those things we might desire most, and what it might take to trust and care within and between us; introducing a practice we are bringing into Rooted (the Hologram) as a radical practice in care. The Rooted Village is a dynamic third-space that is open now for those ready to do this work with us—through the Care Lab, through experimentation, and through showing up not with answers but with a willingness to risk relationship to weave friendship.   Referenced: Kelly McGonigal Ted Talk, How to Make Stress Your Friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcGyVTAoXEU  About Cassie & the Hologram: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745343327/the-hologram/  The Rooted Village is now open for new folks to join — discover more at: www.rootedglobalvillage.com/the-village 

On SE+AM: Relational Courage and Creative Aliveness w/Weena Pauly-Tarr

In this episode, we dive into a powerful and thought-provoking conversation with the brilliant Weena Pauly-Tarr, creator of SE+AM—a body-centered practice that blends Somatic Experiencing + Authentic Movement. In a time of heightened polarization and disconnection, SE+AM offers a profound way to explore how we show up in relationship—with ourselves and others—and how we can begin to recognize and move beyond our patterned ways of relating into spaces of choice, and creativity. Through this conversation, Weena shares how SE+AM reveals the dynamics that shape our connections and opens up new possibilities for being together in more honest and transformative ways. Whether you're curious about somatics, relationships, or how to navigate complexity in your life or in our world, this episode is inspirational for anyone seeking relational courage and creative aliveness! 

Where Do I Belong: An Exploring Identity and Belonging for Bi/cultural bodies [THIS TIME FOR EUROPE]

Welcome to a fresh session of Tending The Roots. In this episode Karine Bell speaks with Dr Leticia Neito about an upcoming program hosted by The Rooted Global Village called Where Do I Belong: An Exploration of Identity and Belonging for Bi/multicultural bodies - this time, for Europe. It's a fascinating one. The two of them talk about how this program for bicultural bodies came to be, some of the most interesting learnings that have come out of the last two iterations, and the intriguing role psychodrama has played in participant's process of self-discovery. If you're interested in learning more about this program, the next Where Do I Belong Cohort for EUROPE begins on September 12th. You can register by visiting us at www.rootedglobalvillage.com/belonging-reg-europe Hope to see you there! And if you're interested in Future Where Do I Belong programs in other global contexts, get on the waitlist for them at https://www.rootedglobalvillage.com/belonging-ambiguity-project-waitlist