Plant Medicine Summit
Plant Wisdom Working with Plants as Teachers and Allies
In the context of Plant Medicine, plants are seen on a continuum from substance, drug, and medicine to teachers and allies. How do we transform our relationship with plants from a focus on what they can do for us to a co-creative partnership where plants and people can work together for personal and planetary transformation and renewal? How do we cultivate relationships with plants as teachers and allies?
In This Session:
- Listeners will broaden their understanding of what constitutes a teacher plant, perhaps moving from a narrow view focusing on entheogenic plants to a broader view that includes the plants on their streets or in their backyards.
- Listeners will shift their focus from what plants can do for them to how they can work with plants in a co-creative partnership for personal and planetary transformation and healing.
- Listeners will learn about how information is exchanged through electromagnetic fields, and how this provides a pathway for human-plant communication.
Dr. Kathren Murrell Stevenson
Kathren Murrell Stevenson, Ph.D. is the founder and director of Wisdom Ecology. She specializes in reconnecting humans to the Living Whole, where we experience ourselves as individuals connected through relationship and belonging in the web of life. Through the practices of Wisdom Ecology, she helps us access our body’s wisdom, earth wisdom, and the healing power of nature.
As a practiced guide for personal and planetary transformation, Kathren’s approach is grounded in her understanding of the principles of ecology, personal studies with perennial wisdom teachers, twenty years of study and practice in embodied awareness modalities, and deep immersion in nature.
As an adjunct instructor at CIIS, Kathren has enjoyed teaching “Plants and People: Exploring Nature through Relationship” and “The Ecology and Poetry of Trees”. A certified yoga teacher and bodyworker, she taught weekly yoga classes for over a decade and led workshops and retreats in Yoga, Arts, and Ecology. Kathren holds a Ph.D. in Plant Ecology from U.C. Davis and a B.A. in Biogeography from the University of Texas at Austin.
