Terratalk Sessions. Philosophy + Ecology study group
Three sessions coming up exploring some key topics we have focused on on the Ground Shots Podcast. Reserved this round for a small group of folks.
I’ve been hinting at some things I’ve been conjuring and working on in many of my posts on here over the last few months, and well, one of these things is the start of online study group + teaching sessions called Terratalk. Its a space where we can gather to talk about how ecology intersects so many other worlds and fields we find ourselves in, and how critical thought and dialogue can help us get deeper more multifaceted understandings of how these weavings affect our lives. And our relationship with land. I’ve received a lot of feedback that folks want to talk more about some of the topics we cover on the Ground Shots Podcast, and maybe have different viewpoints, or stories to share, or another perspective.
Scroll ahead to learn more of the details (and some repetition of what I’m reiterating above). This group is going to just be a three session meetup, with lots of good work we will cover together and explore. I’m limited the number of folks who can join this round to keep the collaboration and conversation more intimate.
Terratalk Sessions: How Can We Cross Our Ecologies?
Terratalk Sessions explore topics weaving philosophy and ecology.
a study group.
early Spring 2023 mini session.
The dates for these three sessions, which will be held via ZOOM, are :
February 10, February 25, March 4
from 2-4:30 PM (MST)
If you have to miss live sessions, they will be recorded and sent out right after class is held. (But the class will be better if you are there!)
This is a mini-session, so it will be an experiment in collaborative conversation with the same group in multiple study sessions. We're not going to try to solve the world's problems in three weeks, but hopefully we will walk away with more resources, questions to ask, and perspectives to look at within our own individual works as it relates to land.
The goal is to encourage cross-ecological curiosity, research and inquiry among one another.
Many of these topics are related themes we've explored for years on the Ground Shots Podcast, and this session is the start of a series in gathering together to discuss them.
General themes we will explore over three sessions:
week 1: dabbling in fire, water, and ecological disturbance
week 2: deepening exploration around 'wildness', 'wilderness', religious influences on land perception
week 3: weaving our experiences of introduced and native plants
In this round of Terratalk sessions, I will be sending resources, readings and writing prompts to you ahead of time before each class based on the general theme of each session.
We will meet for 2.5 hours each session. Part of the time will be lecture/talk and the other part of the class we will work as a group to discuss aspects of each theme as it relates to our lives, and the resources we studied beforehand.
After each class, you’ll receive a recording of the class, and resources for the next session to study.
I’m sure we will have much more to expand upon than the class times can hold, but that will be the fun of it, the experiment for future discussion.
This session facilitated by Kelly Moody.
Who is Kelly Moody?
Kelly grew up in rural southern Virginia in tobacco country, working at her family's nursery business. She got a B.A. in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Anthropology at Christopher Newport University in Virginia in 2009, focusing on globalization of culture and land relationships, environmental ethics and 'east-west' comparative philosophies. After that she worked on and ran organic farms, studied with various herbalists, gardeners, permaculturists and ecologists from Vermont to Ohio, North Carolina, California and New Mexico and beyond. She has also spent countless hours in self-study working with plants on public land across the U.S. west. She is the main facilitator behind the Ground Shots Project and Podcast, a work that explores cross-ecological and societal intersections.
This class is sliding scale. $180- $250
Chose what works for you. Keep in mind the time and energy it takes for me to put together these talks, the podcast episodes that help inform them and the resource collections! And, consider your actual financial capacity.
Free entry to a certain number of Black, Indigenous and People of Color. Email me at kelly@ofsedgeandsalt.com to inquire about scholarship.