Erotic Ecology

An embodied journey from ecological grief to climate courage

Nourish the Current of Aliveness

What if the most radical climate act you could take this weekend was to let the Earth touch you? We are living in a moment of compounding loss—ecosystems unraveling, futures narrowing, the steady hum of grief beneath our daily lives. Most of us have responded the only way our culture knows how: by numbing, by scrolling, by pushing through. We have become strangers to our own bodies and strangers to the living world. But you cannot fight for what you do not feel.

This is a weekend immersion that moves through two inseparable truths: that our deepest source of climate resilience lives in the body, and that a body awake to its own aliveness becomes powerful in the most beautiful way.

Together, environmental psychologist and author Lindsay Branham and climate activist, community organizer, and Climate Lead of Seeding Sovereignty Madeleine MacGillivray will guide you through a journey that begins in the erotic—the sensory, pleasurable, nourishing current of aliveness that connects your body to the living world—and moves toward the political—the discovery of your own climate superpowers and the community that makes using them possible.

This is an invitation to fall back in love with the Earth and to fight for the planet we love.

This program is for you if:

  • You feel climate grief but don't know what to do with it.
  • You want to act but keep hitting the wall of overwhelm or despair.
  • You've lost touch with your body or with the natural world—or both.
  • You're already in the movement and need to be replenished.
  • You believe joy is not a luxury but a strategy.
  • You're ready to stop being a visitor to the Earth and remember you are nature.

Leave with:

  • A deepened, felt sense of belonging to the living world.
  • Practice in the eight stages of interoceptive awareness as a daily resource.
  • Clarity on your own climate superpowers and how to use them.
  • Tools for moving from contemplation to action.
  • A community of fellow travelers who take both pleasure and resistance seriously.
  • The kindled flame of a love affair with the Earth that sustains the long work ahead. 

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