https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site Lindsay Branham Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:47:37 +0000 https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site en https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/Main Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:33:15 +0000 Lindsay Branham https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/Main LINDSAY BRANHAM I look to the lichen, the whale, and the turtle dove. They are not safe from humans, fossil fuels, or a warming planet. And yet, they go on anyways &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Even as they face disappearance, they sing, love, fly, grow. If they can, we must.&nbsp; ︎ ︎&nbsp;︎ I am &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; An author, scholar, filmmaker, community-builder,&nbsp;eco-doula and psychedelic facilitator. These strike similar vibrations from a common center, a yearning to seed a more loving world.&nbsp;Thank you for being here. I believe &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Central to an alternate orthopraxy to the dominant culture that has extracted, pillaged and destroyed so much, we need ceremonies, rituals and ways of life that embody our entanglement–that call us home. I offer&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Ecological Wisdom Direction and Psychedelic-Assisted Healing sessions with individuals and groups. These offerings inhabit multiple rings on the metaphorical heart of the tree. Concentric and expansive, nested and radiating. They seek to re-story and re-imagine, so as to plant resilience, grow community and deepen more loving ways of living. https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/All-Projects-Header Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:33:16 +0000 Lindsay Branham https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/All-Projects-Header All Projects&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1584" height="396" width_o="1584" height_o="396" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec7ac5f280a9163f4b04958eedd0831ef5f314c6af44a153131b3eb3a021d3e0/Heartwood-BannerLI2.png" data-mid="241666772" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec7ac5f280a9163f4b04958eedd0831ef5f314c6af44a153131b3eb3a021d3e0/Heartwood-BannerLI2.png" /> https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/ECO-DOULA-SPIRITUAL-CARE Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:33:16 +0000 Lindsay Branham https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/ECO-DOULA-SPIRITUAL-CARE ECO-DOULA&nbsp; Guide “Let us live in a way that Earth will be grateful for us.” &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - Robin Wall Kimmerer We are facing global climate collapse and social upheaval. The desire to show up meaningfully to a suffering Earth co-arises with the fear, panic and overwhelm of a rapidly changing planet. Of a world shifting beneath our feet. Anxiety, grief, pain, anger and loneliness are very normal responses. So is a sense of urgency and a firey heart. I provide tailored psychological and spiritual support as an eco-doula (or chaplain) to reconnect us to the healing capacity of nature. To reweave us into reciprocity for the Earth in turn.&nbsp; I work in a practice I am terming Ecological Wisdom Direction, an emerging field that brings together environmentalism and the spiritual values of reverence for nature, interconnectedness, reciprocity, and service. I facilitate practice 1:1 sessions, circles, groups and retreats to renew our relationship to the living world, and to gently navigate and support all that comes with these fractured times. What is an Eco-Doula? An Eco-Doula is a bow to the midwife who helps usher forward life. Even in the midst of global warming, extreme weather, climate refugees, loss of biodiversity and wild spaces, pillaging of Indigenous sacred lands, loss of natural resources and more, new life is still possible. Perhaps in the midst of this decay, something new is growing. My desire is to be a small piece in that arrival. This philisophy is based on the Buddhist principles of; Ahimsa(do no harm), Karuna (compassion), Metta (lovingkindness) and Paṭicca-samuppāda (interconnection).Fill out this interest form to learn more. ︎&nbsp;Education&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; PhD Psychology, University of Cambridge, 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;MPhil Social and Developmental Psychology, University of&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Cambridge &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Graduate Certificate, Global Mental Health Trauma and&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Recovery, Harvard&nbsp;Medical School ︎ Training &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Eco-Chaplain Certificate, Sati Center for Buddhist Studies, 2022 <img width="3344" height="2675" width_o="3344" height_o="2675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0bbde85ea3a70d387f4bed39af03ccefa27f49198ba317c4ef8de69c4f55c16a/KatrinaSorrentino_Albuquerque_2019_23-Edit.jpg" data-mid="119010701" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0bbde85ea3a70d387f4bed39af03ccefa27f49198ba317c4ef8de69c4f55c16a/KatrinaSorrentino_Albuquerque_2019_23-Edit.jpg" />Image by Katrina Lillian Sorrentino https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/AUTHOR Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:33:17 +0000 Lindsay Branham https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/AUTHOR AUTHOR Pre-Order Now Coming March 10, 2026 <img width="1080" height="1440" width_o="1080" height_o="1440" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ab04e2a02d5dbd3fe958c7d89ce66854bfa3df7bb7f00ae36726b8bbcce7f9c0/Heartwood-Announcement1.png" data-mid="241666273" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ab04e2a02d5dbd3fe958c7d89ce66854bfa3df7bb7f00ae36726b8bbcce7f9c0/Heartwood-Announcement1.png" /> Pre-Order Heartwood&nbsp; <img width="222" height="34" width_o="222" height_o="34" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64689b4e03db153b5efb03b6a16e39735a6ca30c51fc86b08125923a889c2a27/logo.881e4ae9.svg" data-mid="241836166" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/222/i/64689b4e03db153b5efb03b6a16e39735a6ca30c51fc86b08125923a889c2a27/logo.881e4ae9.svg" /> Amazon, Barnes &amp; Noble Booksamillion Skylight Books Powells Books, Between the Covers Emmy nominated filmmaker and University of Cambridge Environmental Psychologist invites readers into a poetic, embodied and expansive journey into the idea that our relationship with trees could change the trajectory of climate collapse. Combining her pioneering PhD research on interoceptive awareness, our body’s “eighth sense,” which she suggests is the sensuous language of the Earth, along with science and stories about trees rooted in the Roaring Fork Valley of Colorado, readers will be walked through a wonder-filled process of creating an erotic and reciprocal relationship with the more than human world. Branham takes readers on a profound exploration; how to learn the language of trees, hear their sentinel, collective wisdom, and move from strangers to kin. Heartwood speaks directly to the fact that our dissatisfaction, discontent and despair are core symptoms of being separated from nature and shares exactly how to rediscover the living, teeming medicine that is right under our feet. Each chapter includes a "tree" and "body” practice rooted in mindfulness and Budhhist philosophy to directly experience kinship with trees, and to be loved in turn. Currently represented by Folio Management. Columnist, The Aspen Times, the oldest news source in Pitkin County, Colorado, writing about local place-based environmental topics. See more here. Heartwood Notes,&nbsp;subscribe for free to Lindsay’s Substack, Heartwood Notes, explorations on healing through nature, environmental psychology, contemplative spirituality and science. Advance Praise for Heartwood: “For those ready to divorce themselves from the extractive ways of living that have severed us from ourselves and Mother Nature—this book is the map for a new way forward.” —Anna Malaika Tubbs, 2X&nbsp;New York Timesbestselling author of The Three Mothers and Erased “As the world literally and figuratively burns, Branham is giving us a vibrant, vision-changing way&nbsp;to survive what's coming.” —Jedidiah Jenkins,&nbsp;New York Times bestselling author of Like Streams to the Ocean, To Shake the Sleeping Self, Mother: Nature“Bold and dignified, intelligent and sensual, this book helped me fall in love with the world again.” —Mirabai Starr, author of Ordinary Mysticism and Wild Mercy“Woven together with a beautiful prosaic touch, Lindsay has magically connected the dots between our liberation and the centuries old knowledge rooted firmly in the mother of our existence: the trees.” — Joél Leon, author of the 2025 Gotham Book Prize nominated, Everything and Nothing At Once“A&nbsp;wonderfully perceptive and generative book, filled with invitations to open our bodies and imaginations to the many gifts offered by trees. A powerful reminder, too, of the healing powers of trees for individuals and communities.” — David George Haskell, biologist and two-time Pulitzer-finalist author of Sounds Wild and Broken, The Songs of Trees, and The Forest Unseen“With poetic tenderness, depthful knowledge, and embodied presence, Heartwood will guide readers to their inherent belonging, interconnectedness, and relationship with the living earth.“—Lisa Olivera, author of Already Enough and When the Ache Remains“In mellifluous prose, embedded with sparkling glimpses of poetry, we encounter an interwoven discourse and guided meditation on trauma, chronic illness and autoimmunity, healing and recovery, and the rediscovery—the re-enchantment—of our relationship with nature.“—Sylvestre Quevedo, MD, MPH, Research Physician, Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley“Effortlessly combining scientific research, Buddhist practice, and indigenous wisdom, she unveils the remarkable discovery that enhancing our interoceptive sensitivity restores our ability to hear and understand the language of the land.”—Brother Spirit, Plum Village <img width="2048" height="1365" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6f16a313a446f6533f242996d8264a7bbc261c71bc285ea9c0ead85bbc76c6e6/JB7A0169.jpg" data-mid="139602355" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6f16a313a446f6533f242996d8264a7bbc261c71bc285ea9c0ead85bbc76c6e6/JB7A0169.jpg" /> https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/JOURNEY-WITHIN-PSYCHEDELIC-ASSISTED-CARE Wed, 15 Sep 2021 18:47:37 +0000 Lindsay Branham https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/JOURNEY-WITHIN-PSYCHEDELIC-ASSISTED-CARE JOURNEY WITHIN Guide “What you seek is seeking you” &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - Rumi Welcome to "Journey Within."&nbsp; The Journey Within is a supported, and professionally-guided process to support your personal growth and spiritual development in partnership with plant allies. The Journey Within takes a mind-body-spirit, evidence-based approach to interconnected well-being. The bespoke experience starts with holistic preparation, culminates in a customized retreat with the power of organic plant compounds, and is supplemented with integration.&nbsp;Modalities include meditation and mindfulness, somatic experiencing, nervous system regulation, mindful movement, breath work, neuroplastic pain rewiring methods, philosophical inquiry and more. We build on recent breakthroughs in the benefits of psychedelics on mental and physical health science combined with our years of experience facilitating psychedelic healing at Europe’s leading legal psychedelic wellness center. Each tailored retreat is built for you and for this particular time in your life.&nbsp; Journey Within is grounded in the values of reverence for nature, interconnectedness, and sovereignty. This is for you if: ︎︎︎You are committed to creating lasting change in your life. ︎︎︎You are ready for deep and lasting transformation. ︎︎︎You are willing to do preparatory and integration work. ︎︎︎You are either new to plants or are experienced with these medicines and would like to access deeper insight and transformation through immersive work.This is for you if you are looking for: ︎︎︎ Spiritual and personal growth.︎︎︎ Support navigating existential concerns.︎︎︎ Processing climate anxiety and climate grief.︎︎︎ Improving resiliency, connection to self, others and nature.︎︎︎ Navigating end-of-life or other significant transitions.︎︎︎ Discovery of creativity, purpose and service. Let’s begin! ︎︎︎ Fill out this interest form to begin the process. Why work with me? Our team has guided over 1,000 people in psychedelic retreats to date through this method. We are certified psychedelic facilitators through the Synthesis Institute, a global leader in the modern psychedelic movement. Our approach is especially informed by Buddhism, formal training in psychology and trauma, meditation expertise, somatic experiencing, holotropic and transformational breathwork and nature connection. Lindsay has also facilitated in-person meditation and mindfulness contemplative retreats for over 350 people. We are companions on your journey. We take a resilience-focused, non-directive approach. We believe you have everything you need inside of you. Our role is to help you find, source and experience that inner healing intelligence. We seek to provide impeccable care and take ethics very seriously when interacting with altered states of consciousness. Undertaking an experience with plant medicines is a risk and we are happy to go over that risk in detail with you. We prioritize harm reduction, safety and special considerations for non-ordinary states of consciousness. We center your inner knowing above our own, and believe deeply in your own capacities and resources. A health screening is in place to ensure medical and psychological safety. However, it is still a risk to take plant medicines and we advise you to do your research and determine if this is the right fit for you, and if we are the right people to do it with. Additionally, we engage in practices of self-care, self-growth, and self-examination, aligning with our own inner healing intelligence. We give and receive feedback from mentors and colleagues, and participate in continuing education. Today, if you Google the phrase “psychedelic healing” there is a consumer market with pre-packaged one-size-fits-all approaches ready to purchase. In contrast, we have co-created tailored experiences for hundreds of participants with desires and needs that range from mental health concerns to life transition, spiritual growth and more. ︎ Education&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; PhD, Psychology, University of Cambridge, 2025 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Certified Psychedelic Facilitator, Synthesis Institute &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;MPhil Social and Developmental Psychology, University of Cambridge&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Graduate Certificate, Global Mental Health Trauma and Recovery, Harvard Medical School︎ License&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Training Facilitator License, State of Colorado&nbsp;NMIT.0000171 ︎ Training&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Eco-Chaplain Certificate, Sati Center for Buddhist Studies &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Teaching and Program Team, University of California Berkeley, Center for Science of Psychedelics https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/ENVIRONMENTAL-PSYCHOLOGY-STUDIES-SCIENCE Sun, 12 Sep 2021 22:57:40 +0000 Lindsay Branham https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/ENVIRONMENTAL-PSYCHOLOGY-STUDIES-SCIENCE Environmental Psychology PhD Psychology“ Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - Reverend angel Kyodo williams I am a scholar and scientist exploring kinship between humans and the Earth. Doctoral Research: The Body of the World: A Queered Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Embodied Sensation, More-than-Human Kinships and Entangled Futures In order to challenge Western nature connection science's binary understanding of the human-nature relationship which upholds colonial logics and risks perpetuating ongoing coloniality and limits its impact for addressing climate change intersectionally, this present research traced the lived experiences of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour environmental activists' relationships with the more-than-human world. By exploring the phenomena of the 'naturehuman' relationship through a decolonial dialogue between queer feminist phenomenology and interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), the research revealed four key insights: (1) the body is a critical sensory site of 'naturehuman' relations, where embodied awareness creates pathways for ecological intimacy; (2) kinship and reciprocal relations weave an embodied ontology that transcends conventional notions of attachment; (3) moving beyond binaries toward entanglement promotes intersectional environmentalism and helps prevent the perpetuation of colonial ideologies; and (4) arts-based ceremony offers ways to materialize new relations and futurities. Deconstructing a queered IPA into a post-qualitative arts-based ceremony, 'The Body of the World' emerged as a conceptual framework building on Haraway’s natureculture, where 'naturehuman' (focus on kinship/relations) and corporeality decompose into a space of possibility. This framework reveals that an embodied, reciprocal kinship with the more-than-human world is a pathway toward collective transformation that addresses embodied colonial wounds while nurturing ‘multispecies ecojustice.’ In sum, the research reimagines environmental justice as a kinship-making process, emerging not through individual behavior change in nature connectedness but through radical revisioning of how bodies, ecologies, culture and more-than-human worlds entangle, co-terminus in their mutual flourishing. Theoretical and methodological implications are discussed. Thesis available here. Embodied Earth Kinship: Interoceptive Awareness Predicts Nature Connection study, Frontiers in Psychology, 2024.Virtual Immersive Contact: A Field Experiment to Reduce Prejudice and Discrimination in Central African Republic, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2023. ECOLOGY NATURE CONNECTIONSELF-COMPASSIONPREJUDICE REDUCTIONVIRTUAL REALITYSOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH Research Gate Virtual Contact Skoll World ForumCambridge UniversityPodcast on ThinkPeace &nbsp; https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/RETREATS Mon, 13 Sep 2021 00:33:16 +0000 Lindsay Branham https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/RETREATS RETREATS "I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world. . . - Rainer Maria Rilke,Book of Hours, I 2<img width="1234" height="1854" width_o="1234" height_o="1854" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dcccc7a35ad03185032c2a2e4560a992d008174c364ddefd7190e6a12b6161ba/Screen-Shot-2020-09-24-at-5.35.25-PM.png" data-mid="119097298" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dcccc7a35ad03185032c2a2e4560a992d008174c364ddefd7190e6a12b6161ba/Screen-Shot-2020-09-24-at-5.35.25-PM.png" /> I offer group gatherings and retreats regularly through Esalen Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga &amp; Health, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, Connection is the Medicine Within and WIDEN. Retreats have explored: Erotic Ecology, The Wisdom and Medicine of the Earth, Psychedelics and Ecological Awareness, Contemplative Spirituality, Awakened Buddhism and more.My retreats are a weave of three braids: self-inquiry practice, group work and experiences/unfoldings with nature. In every retreat, we gently move together towards aliveness.&nbsp; Gatherings also include immersive art experience, contemplative wisdom teachers such as Richard Rohr, Mirabai Starr and Rev. Jacqui Lewis, emergent offerings, meditation and mindfulness and more. My vision is to awaken a loving world.︎︎︎ Sign up for a free 6-part&nbsp;embodiment series here which includes practices like vagus nerve activation, Earth altar building, ecstatic movement and more. ︎ Featured Offerings&nbsp;︎ 5 In-person, four day gatherings in New Mexico with over 60+ participants each. 11 Live digital gatherings with teachers such as Rev. Jacqui Lewis, Mirabai Starr, Gabes Torres, Kaitlin Curtice, Rumi-scholar Pouria Montazeri. Themes ranged from Honoring the Pain of the World, Decolonization,&nbsp;Sitting in the Unknown, Fostering Hope and more. 6 Week Embodiment Series.&nbsp; 28 Weeks of book club meetings for Me and White Supremacy and My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies. 21 Live guided meditations led by Lindsay Branham and Tiffany Keesey.&nbsp; Email invitations for activism in response to anti-Black and anti-Asian violence, and a message from Manal Omar on Palestinian violence. <img width="6412" height="4275" width_o="6412" height_o="4275" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fd4ad8ce65943734f8ccacde4184e6c688d0c87797dc3fd08d88472fb90988e/KatrinaSorrentino_Widen-4069.jpg" data-mid="119013996" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fd4ad8ce65943734f8ccacde4184e6c688d0c87797dc3fd08d88472fb90988e/KatrinaSorrentino_Widen-4069.jpg" /> <img width="6524" height="4349" width_o="6524" height_o="4349" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/080e23136c5a2b0dd81c035139a0b830908002cc915db6c6166e3ab729dfce82/KatrinaSorrentino_Widen_2019-2833.jpg" data-mid="119013917" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/080e23136c5a2b0dd81c035139a0b830908002cc915db6c6166e3ab729dfce82/KatrinaSorrentino_Widen_2019-2833.jpg" /> https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/NOVO-FILM Sun, 12 Sep 2021 22:57:40 +0000 Lindsay Branham https://lindsaylaurenne.cargo.site/NOVO-FILM NOVO FILMS Founder “The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is - it’s to imagine what is possible.” &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; - Bell Hooks NOVO is a collaborative environmental and social issue film production studio. We are an incubator for art and technology that inspirits human connection in imaginative ways. We build creative solutions to some of the world’s seemingly insurmountable challenges and create collaborative films with communities for distribution locally and around the world. We pair social science research with visionary creative to achieve behavior change at scale. NOVO’s achievements include: seven culturally-responsive trauma-informed interventions in central Africa and India reacing over 20M people; An Emmy nomination; Film premieres at SXSW, Venice Bienale and Tribeca Film Festival; Coalition advocacy success that resulted in the United Nations recognizing the violence in Myanmar as genocide; Secured Congressional funding for SNAP benefits; proposition to Aspen City Council to pass a Rights of Nature Resolution granting the river legal rights and personhood; over 40 short award-winning documentary films; over 200 filmmakers trained in central Africa in behavior change media; four published reports on mental health of child soldiers, China’s environmental impact in Guinea and community-based peaceful defection models. Clients include The Nature Conservancy, The Freedom Fund, International Justice Mission, the United Nations, UNICEF, Skoll Foundation, Search for Common Ground and more.COLLABORATIVE FILMMAKINGFILMMAKING WORKSHOPSTRAUMA-INFORMEDTRANSFORMATIONAL HEALINGWebsite&nbsp; &amp; ︎ Oculus Feature on “The Hidden”