Tending the Roots: Composting Conversations

Welcome to Tending the Roots: Composting Conversations, an exploratory podcast with the co-dreamers and friends of the Rooted Global Village, in conversation with change-makers, scholar-activists and teachers, dedicated to culture change work and seeding future(s). We evoke in these conversations the powerful metaphor of composting. Composting is a process of transformation, wherein organic materials, once alive, break down and decay, eventually becoming rich, nourishing soil. We seek to identify and grapple with aspects and elements of culture, and in our personal lives, that no longer serve us and the world(s) we wish to create, and begin the slow work of composting them. We traverse paradigm-shifting themes, exploring the transformational power of body-centered praxis, the vibrancy of creative arts, the joy of spontaneity and play, the depth of poetry, and the profound interconnections of earth-spirit and more-than-human encounters. This podcast reflects the work of personal and co

Tending the Roots: Composting Conversations is a society podcast hosted by Karine Bell, with 19 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Karine Bell hosts Tending the Roots: Composting Conversations, a society show with 19 episodes published.

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  Episode #1

  We Are EarthSeeds: Collaborative Creation & the New World Nursery with Mist Alderkin

  Dec 20, 20251h 19mS2

  In this conversation, Karine Bell is joined by Mist Saoirse Alderkin to explore the New World Nursery, a space within the Rooted Village dedicated to collective dreaming, creativity, and responsibility to the worlds we are shaping together. They talk about heartache and the longing for alternative futures in a time of deep division and polarization, and why so many people feel disconnected from their capacity to actively participate in creating those futures. Drawing from Mist's Earthseed Web of Worlds framework, the conversation touches on grief, values, ancestral wisdom, and what it means to dream and create in relationship rather than in isolation. This episode is an invitation to remember ourselves as contributors to collective world-building , and to consider what kinds of spaces can support that remembering. Links & Resources Learn more about Mist Saoirse Alderkin: https://linktr.ee/mistalderkin Explore the Rooted Global Village: https://rootedglobalvillage.com/the-village John Trudell – Tribal Voice (playlist): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kNjkI_4A5tqGT3VuhCvwHrAJJ8PUXFnh8&si=1sYWUCZX1HFmF7Yx

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  What We've Sacrificed to Stay Safe and the Courage to Peer Beneath the Waterline

  May 23, 202510 minS0

  <p >Karine shares a story from childhood about visiting her grandmother's house where she encountered the heavy, unspoken tensions that would shape a lifelong commitment to shadow work. This reflection weaves personal memory with a deeper exploration of the cost of avoiding the shadow—those edges-places we've been taught to fear in ourselves, our families, and our social worlds. It explores what we sacrifice when we choose not to go to those places, and how this avoidance slowly distances us from intimacy, creativity, and our own aliveness.</p> <p >This mini-sode is an invitation and a gentle push toward the ed...

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  In Care We Distrust (aka Experiments in Village-Making)

  May 6, 202515 minS2

  <p>In Care We Distrust is an introduction and reflection from inside the Rooted Village, where we're not just talking about care and care ecologies—we're getting into the messy, layered work of studying, designing and practicing it/them. Underneath so much of the crisis we're living through—political, ecological, economic—is a crisis of relationship (or a crisis of care, as our friend Cassie calls it) and beneath that, a deep erosion of trust: in institutions, in one another, and even in ourselves. This episode winds through some of that terrain, touches on our distrust in those things we might...

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  Episode #17

  On SE+AM: Relational Courage and Creative Aliveness w/Weena Pauly-Tarr

  Nov 28, 202436 minS0

  <p>In this episode, we dive into a powerful and thought-provoking conversation with the brilliant Weena Pauly-Tarr, creator of SE+AM—a body-centered practice that blends Somatic Experiencing + Authentic Movement. In a time of heightened polarization and disconnection, SE+AM offers a profound way to explore how we show up in relationship—with ourselves and others—and how we can begin to recognize and move beyond our patterned ways of relating into spaces of choice, and creativity. Through this conversation, Weena shares how SE+AM reveals the dynamics that shape our connections and opens up new possibilities for being together in mor...

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  Episode #16

  Where Do I Belong: An Exploring Identity and Belonging for Bi/cultural bodies [THIS TIME FOR EUROPE]

  Aug 29, 202443 minS0

  <p>Welcome to a fresh session of Tending The Roots.</p> <p>In this episode Karine Bell speaks with Dr Leticia Neito about an upcoming program hosted by The Rooted Global Village called Where Do I Belong: An Exploration of Identity and Belonging for Bi/multicultural bodies - this time, for Europe. It's a fascinating one. The two of them talk about how this program for bicultural bodies came to be, some of the most interesting learnings that have come out of the last two iterations, and the intriguing role psychodrama has played in participant's process of self-discovery.</p> <p>...

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