Fireside Chats & Spiritual Talks
A series of online conversations on how we can approach these burning times to help bring forth a more liberating world in the ashes of the old
Upcoming FIRESIDE CHAT
This Brown Bag talk is primarily for funders who want to hear directly from their peers at the Robert Wood Johnson and Open Horizon foundations why they included funding the WildSeed Society as part of their strategy to resource communities during these constant assaults on democracy.
We'll explore the work that the WildSeed Society is doing to heal movement leaders on the frontline of the fight against facism and create a new vision for multi-racial, economically just democracy from the ground up. There will also be a chance to hear about both challenges on the ground for local organizers and the profound impact of WildSeed's Revolutionary Aftercare and movement infrastructure building projects have had on their work.
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June 12, 2025
At this Fireside Chat, WildSeed Society and the Womanist Working Collective share what we've learned building both community power and offering networks of community care - to address the impact of the proactive dismantling of the very public infrastructure we rely on to get our needs met. We'll share strategies like building robust systems of mutual aid, piloting guaranteed income programs and offering wrap around support to frontline movement organizers.
April 29, 2025
This talk "Resourcing Movement Defense" is a part of "Building Movements for this Moment," a brown bag series for funders and donors who wish to explore lessons learned from the last Trump administration and how those lessons can inform our strategy moving forward with the current Trump administration. It'll offer an outline of possible strategy for building new movement infrastructure to resist the destruction of movements and erosion of our freedoms.
October 31, 2024
This is the fifth part of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” The series will cover the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. In this final session we will discuss how difficult how to keep each other safe during the election and its aftermath.
September 26, 2024
This is the fourth of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” The series will cover the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. In this fourth session we will discuss how difficult it can be to find meaningful connection in the digital era and why community is more important now than ever.
August 29, 2024
This is the third of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” The series will cover the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. In this third session we will discuss the how late stage capitalism leaves us underpaid, overworked and isolated.
July 25, 2024
This is the second of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” In this second session Aaron will talk about the deep history of our current crises and what the struggles of 30’s, 40’s and 50’s can teach us about rising labor militancy, growing fascism and dealing the trauma of witnessing genocide.
June 27, 2024
This is the first of a 5 part series called “Navigating a world on fire. In this first session Reece and Aaron will give a big picture overview of what WildSeed sees as the core crises and then hold space for people to share how these crises affect their daily lives.
February 22nd, 2024
This Spiritual Talk will focus on the prototypes WildSeed is developing to offer off-ramps from our modern political economy towards a more liberatory social system. They will also discuss how Black movement history has inspired these prototypes.
November 16, 2023
This Spiritual Talk focused on both Erika’s personal journey to recognizing and planning for an extended sabbatical and the ways that her journey exposes the problems of how we fund and structure movement work. .
October 5, 2023
Aaron Goggans and Sandra Kim shared how the WildSeed Society is prototyping new structures of care, resourcing and wrap around support for movement organizers and community healers.
April 28, 2022
Erika Totten and Sandra Kim shared why and how WildSeed Society prioritizes rest and play in our movement and liberation work - even in the midst of organizational uncertainty and financial insecurity.
February 8, 2022
Aaron Goggans and Sandra Kim continue to share in this Part 2 of the Spiritual Talk given on January 25th on on what skillful and consensual care looks like, particularly in the context of organizations and movements.
January 25, 2022
Aaron Goggans and Sandra Kim will share on what skillful and consensual care looks like, particular in relationships across racial, culture and gender differences where people have experienced trauma in relationships and in communities.
December 17, 2021
Aaron Goggans and Sandra Kim shared how the WildSeed Society uses the Buddhist concept of Right Livelihood to bring people together to build a new ecology where our needs can be met with dignity - through caring community and right relationship with the land.
