“The times are urgent; let us slow down. Slowing down is losing our way—not a human capacity or human capability. It is the invitations that are now in the world-at-large, inviting us to listen deeply, to be keen, to be fresh, to be quick with our heels, to follow the sights and sounds and smells of the world.”— Bayo Akomolafe
Kirsten Rudestam
Kirsten works as an environmental educator, wilderness guide, and meditation teacher. She believes that practices of (re)connection are crucial in maintaining our capacity to face and respond to ecological loss and to embrace our inherent interbeing.
Kirsten holds a PhD in environmental sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she studied water policy and management, feminist political ecology, and environmental justice. She is trained as a vision fast guide through the School of Lost Borders, is a facilitator for Joanna Macy’s “Work that Reconnects,” and has over twenty years of experience teaching for colleges and universities, environmental field courses, and nature-based meditation programs.
She has been practicing meditation since 1997, and co-founded and co-teaches the Sati Center’s Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy training program.