Nature, Culture and the Sacred
A Woman Listens For Leadership
By: Nina Simons, Anneke Campbell (Editor)
Paperback | 7 June 2022 | Edition Number 2
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The world seems to be divided into two kinds of people - those who divide everything into two, and those who don't. Reading Nature, Culture and the Sacred is a step toward melting this false division into "feminine" and "masculine," and allowing each of us to become fully human again and at last.
- GLORIA STEINEM, Co-founder of Ms. Magazine
Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons offers practical guidance and inspiration for anyone who aspires to grow into their own unique form of leadership on behalf of positive change.
Join Bioneers co-founder Nina Simons on an inspiring journey to shed self-limiting beliefs, lead from the heart and discover beloved community as you cultivate your own flourishing and liberation. Inspired and informed by Indigenous wisdom keepers who are leading the way towards a regenerative future, Nina invites women and people of all genders to, as Joanna Macy suggests, "see with new and ancient eyes." Weaving her own insights together with reflections from cutting-edge leaders such as Terry Tempest Williams, Jeannette Armstrong, Alixa Garcia and V (formerly Eve Ensler), she opens thought-provoking pathways for reflection and growth. Discussion guides for each chapter offer prompts for engaging with radical anti-racism and intersectionality, along with interactive practices for individuals and groups to deepen understanding and learning. In this essential handbook for navigating these perilous times with clarity and joy, Nina invites us to remember and reclaim our sacred relationship to the Earth by rebalancing our selves and our societies.
NINA SIMONS is a social entrepreneur, producer and culture worker passionate about reinventing leadership, restoring the feminine, establishing racial and gender equity and helping to heal relations within ourselves, among each other and with the Earth. She teaches engaged leadership, strategies for resourcing ourselves well to meet this time, and is dedicated to weaving connective tissue among issues, leaders and movements.
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The world seems to be divided into two kinds of people—those who divide everything into two, and those who don’t. Reading Nature, Culture and the Sacred is a step toward melting the false division into “feminine” and “masculine,” and allowing each of us to become fully human again and at last.
— GLORIA STEINEM, co-founder of Ms. magazine
Nature, Culture and the Sacred is the perfect book for this historical moment. Nina Simons not only knows the rare gifts of leadership women can offer, she also reveals how challenge and adversity bring these gifts forth more brilliantly and powerfully.
— JOANNA MACY, author of World As Lover, World As Self
In Nature, Culture and the Sacred Nina Simons has woven a compelling and honest tapestry of hard-earned personal and collective wisdom, honoring the earth and igniting the revolutionary ways of women. It’s a book as much about the inside as it is about the outside, exploring where and how they can meet for a sustainable future.
— EVE ENSLER, founder of V-Day and author of The Vagina Monologues
With characteristic grace and great insight, Nina Simons shows us another path for leadership, one that grows from intuition, emotional intelligence and, above all, connection in every form, including human relationship. This book is a treasure chest of both knowledge and know-how, giving us what we all need, women and men alike: a larger vision with which together we can save the Earth and ourselves from the devastation that comes from the sadly more narrow and impoverished ways of seeing we mistake for reality. This book is the real thing.
— SUSAN GRIFIN, author of Woman and Nature and The Roaring Inside Her
Nina Simons listened to the call of her soul and stepped into her role of waking women up to the need to embrace their leadership abilities. Nature, Culture, and the Sacred shares a wealth of insights to assist us in replacing the old worn-out patriarchal and hierarchical paradigm. Simons brilliantly discusses the issues involved, shares moving stories of women around the world joining together to create change, as well as weaving in teachings from Indigenous cultures of how to reconnect people, nature, and the land. This is an amazing book that will inspire our current population of women and generations to come. It is an important book to help us ride the waves of change.
— SANDRA INGERMAN, author of Soul Retrieval and Walking in Light: The Everyday Empowerment of Shamanic Life
This is the time when the power of women returns to us, as we reaffirm our relationships to each other and to our Mother Earth. Together we will doula the next economy into being, re-birthing ourselves and this world. Nina’s writing explores the path forward on this journey that we will make together.
— WINONA LADUKE, Executive Director, Honor the Earth
I especially appreciate the foregrounding of Indigenous wisdom and Indigenous elders and teachers in Nina’s work at Bioneers and Cultivating Women’s Leadership. Nature, Culture and the Sacred underscores the urgent necessity of shifting our awareness away from the stories that have kept us separate, alienated and divided throughout the centuries of modernity. I can’t wait to recommend this book for Leadership courses at the university and to everyone in my circles! The poetic riffs in some of the chapters induce a kind of reverie that kindles the fire in my heart and suffuses me with longing for a future worth waiting for. May it be. Bathala Nawa.
— Leny Mendoza Strobel, author and associate professor of American Multicultural Studies, Sonoma State University
Table of Contents
Introduction 7
PART I
Cultivating Inner Balance:
Marrying the Moon and Sun Within
Shifting Guidance from Head to Heart 17
A River of Purpose: A Human-Nature Landscape 21
Listening for Guidance: Mystery, Intuition
and Dreamtime 36
Cultivating Relational Intelligence 41
Through Darkness, and Into Vision 51
From Mourning Into Daybreak 56
Reinventing Leadership: Reclaiming the Feminine
(Interview with Lauren Schiller, Inflection Point) 63
PART II
Women’s Leadership: The Challenges,
the Pathways and the Promise
At the Front Lines: The Global War on Women 83
Grassroots Women: Restoring Relations Around the World 90
Reclaiming Activism: Indigeneity, Leadership and
Collaboration (Interview with Ayana Young, For the Wild) 99
Illuminating Possibilities: Leaders Lifting Others Up 110
The Power of Story 131
The Power of Story: Eve Ensler 137
Celebrating Women’s Ways 142
PART III
Toward Wholeness:
Gender Equity and Racial Justice
Valuing Relationship & Tradition: Towards a
Future that Works for All 149
Healing at the Intersections: Environment and
Social Justice Conjoin at Bioneers
(acceptance speech for the Goi Peace Award) 155
Escaping the Tilted Room 165
Trauma, Rupture and Repair 171
Pathways for Repair after Ruptures:
Best Practices (Notes from the Journey) 178
Women Finding Voice:
The Relationship between Inner and Outer Work
(A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams) 196
Nature, Culture & Spirit: Integration and
Congruence through Practical Magic 214
Acknowledgments 231
Selected Bibliography 235
ISBN: 9781734757170
ISBN-10: 1734757175
Published: 7th June 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 352
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Green Fire Press
Edition Number: 2
Dimensions (cm): 27.7 x 17 x 5.2
Weight (kg): 0.52
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