Kitchen Table Talk #001: Creating Regenerative Stories for Ourselves and Our Communities in the Era of Climate Chaos
Sold out | November 3rd, 2019 | 7 PM | RSVP Required
This Kitchen Table Talk is co-organized with Ella Kinsman.
Drawing on Charles Eisenstein’s text, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible”, Rev. Chelsea Mac & somatic therapist Janna Diamond will lead us in conversation around stories we can create and nurture as we collectively face the climate chaos unfolding around us and its attendant injustices and violences towards human and more-than-human worlds.
For too long, the stories held in our communal and personal psyches have been that of domination, erasure, coercion, and shame. Over a meal of lovingly prepared, locally sourced plant-based foods and medicinal brews, let us collaborate and tend to regenerative stories of radical flourishing that honor and celebrate our diversity of perspectives, histories and backgrounds.
Directions: Talk Show is a 5 minute walk from the Jefferson L station in Bushwick, located in a large warehouse building on Stewart Avenue between Flushing and Johnson. The building also shares the address 538 Johnson, although the entrance is located on the Stewart Avenue side of the building.
Accessibility Note: Talk Show is located on the 4th floor of a walk-up. As of now, there is no elevator access. If mobility is an issue for you, please let us know.
Rev. Chelsea MacMillan is a minister for the spiritual-but-not-religious, activist, writer, and spiritual director. She’s cofounder of Brooklyn Center for Sacred Activism, cohost of The Rising: Spirituality for Revolution podcast, and her writing has appeared previously in Anchor Magazine, in Anatomy of Silence: 26 Stories About All The Shit That Gets in the Way of Speaking About Sexual Violence, and Matthew Fox’s Order of the Sacred Earth. Currently, she is an organizer with Extinction Rebellion NYC, a direct-action climate movement built on principles of regenerative culture and non-violence. In her spare time, Chelsea likes to sing show tunes, geek out about the Enneagram, and ride her bike around Brooklyn.
Janna Diamond, CCEP, is a somatic therapist and evolutionary activist dedicated to supporting people awaken to their purpose and align with their heart in an era of global transformation. She works with individuals and groups on the beauty and complexity of the human condition, rooted in the awareness that no one heals alone and that cultural change begins with the self. Janna has been featured in numerous publications around her therapeutic focus on ecological grief and climate trauma. www.jannadiamond.com
About our collaborator: Ella Kinsman is a research nerd and enthusiastic home cook who aspires to building resilient communities that are nourished in their bellies and spirits. She's also a board member at Sanctuary at SHO, a vegan permaculture research farm and duck sanctuary located in Huntington, VT.
Image by Lisa Ericson