Disaster preparedness expands beyond short-term charity and immediate on-ground support, yet the “behind-the-scenes” relational work of ongoing organising and community resilience-building is often sidelined by the capitalist aid paradigm. How can leveraging the work of mutual aid organisers and providers through community publishing and media platforms help sustain existing infrastructures of care fortifying disaster preparedness?

In this episode, we are joined by Kailea Rose Loften and Kate Rose Weiner, coeditors of the community publisher Loam and co-authors of the book Compassion in crisis: building disaster-resilient communities. Kailea Rose Loften is a mother of Tahltan, Kaska, and Black American ancestry. She has a background climate change policy with an emphasis on Indigenous rights, previously serving as a Climate Commissioner for the City of Petaluma, California. Kate Weiner works at the intersections of culture and climate justice as a writer and editor, and her work is shaped by her studies in environmental art, social practice, and community herbalism.

With the extended version of Compassion in Crisis launching in May, we explore the ways the book provides insight into relational practices and care infrastructures for disaster preparedness and management to support and build community resilience pre- and post-disaster.

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Nature “connectedness” is often prescribed as a healing modality for our trauma states but this eco-psychological approach fails to get to the root of our socioecological problems - the separation of the human being from nature. Whilst utilising the benefits of nature immersion to aid our healing journeys is essential, how can we move away from individualistic healing paradigms to re-earthing the nature-embedded mind, bereft of social conditionings on human exceptionalism, to heal and regenerate in the collective?

In our first guest episode of the year, we invite to the show Julie Brams, an Earth-centered psychotherapist, meditation practitioner/teacher, and author of The Nature Embedded Mind: How the Way We Think Can Heal Our Planet and Ourselves. The Nature Embedded Mind is a groundbreaking new book at the intersection of psychology, ecology, and social justice. Certified as an ANFT Forest Therapy Guide, and founder of the nature-informed retreat and education organisation Elemental, Julie integrates Earth-centred psychotherapy, neuropsychology, meditation, and nature immersion to help individuals and communities heal their relationship with earth.

Drawing on clinical practice, evidence based methodology, and scientific research, as well as lived experience and relational work, Julie guides us on how healing our disconnection from our Earth is the next frontier of psychology.

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As the new year begins with the crumbling of hope for a stable future, how can we tap into the restorative power of the erotic to regenerate our capacities to make change and attain collective liberation from a place of deep pleasure and joy?

In our first episode of 2026, join me in exploring the ways in which we can reclaim the erotic as power and political resistance in the new year, reconnecting with the feminine life-force within all our bodies to engage in radical pleasure-making that can help us dismantle systems of oppression, at the macro-level but also at the level of the self. Inspired from the work of Audre Lorde, bell hooks, adrienne marie brown, Minna Salami and others, this episode discusses everything from the weaponisation of the erotic as a tool for oppressing women’s bodies and erotic awakenings in childhood, to pleasure self-determination and building pleasure-positive communities, workspaces and lives. Feeling good is freedom, let’s feel good together.