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Join Compassion in Crisis co-authors on the final stop of their cross-country book tour at Avena Botanicals in Rockport, Maine.

They will share stories, answer questions, and engage with participants in an herbal mutual aid project. Hello Hello Books will be on-site to sell the book. Suggested donation $5.

Kailea Rose Loften is a mother of Tahltan, Kaska, and Black American ancestry. She is coeditor for the community publisher Loam and has guided climate change policy with an emphasis on Indigenous rights, previously serving as a Climate Commissioner for the City of Petaluma, California. You can contact her through kailealoften.com.

Kate Rose Weiner is a writer, editor, and publisher working at the intersections of culture and climate justice. She is coeditor of Loam and director of Loam Library, a mobile library committed to bringing the power of print to the people. Weiner’s work is shaped by her studies in environmental art, social practice, and community herbalism.

Join grassroots strategist and somatic coach Adaku Utah, community organizer LinYee Yuan, and Kate Weiner and Kailea Loften of Loam for an afternoon workshop in Brooklyn, New York.

Part book talk and part embodied workshop, this special convening is an invitation to explore the role of somatic practices in:

• Discerning and clarifying our role in social justice movements 
• Building capacity so we can show up consistently 
• Sustaining commitment while under pressure

This event is sliding scale from $24 (at cost) to $48 (pay-it-forward). Payment will be received at the door.

This workshop is part of MUTUAL AID IS LOVE, an 18-city grassroots book tour that seeks to transform Compassion in Crisis into a resource for community organizing.

In collaboration with Bitter Kalli and Amirio Freeman, Kailea Loften and Kate Weiner of Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities will be co-facilitating a book launch and ecological gathering.

Join us for an evening in the Star Apple Nursery garden to discuss some key takeaways from Compassion in Crisis, share a community mapping exercise, purchase seedlings from Star Apple Nursery, and learn about local mutual aid networks!

Please note that this venue doesn’t have electricity or a restroom on-site. 

This is a free event, although registration is required and donations are welcomed!

This discussion is part of MUTUAL AID IS LOVE, an 18-city grassroots book tour that seeks to transform Compassion in Crisis into a resource for community organizing.

In partnership with Robert Bordeaux of theBlack Hills Writers Collective, Kate Weiner and Kailea Loften of *Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities*will be facilitating a book talk and writing workshop on living through the polycrisis. An evening for creativity and connection for writers and non-writers alike!

This is a free event. We will have limited copies of the book Compassion in Crisis available for purchase; if you would like to guarantee a copy, we suggest you order yours here!

This workshop is part of MUTUAL AID IS LOVE, an 18-city grassroots book tour that seeks to transform Compassion in Crisis into a resource for community organizing. Donations are welcomed but not required.

Mountain Cloud is excited to welcome Kailea Rose Loften and Kate Rose Weiner to our Zendo for a special Wisdom Wednesday titled, “Compassion in Crisis: A book talk on building disaster-resilient communities.”

The evening will feature meditation and then a talk by Kailea and Kate about their new book, Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities.

How do we live in the age of disaster? In this updated and expanded guide to collective crisis preparedness, Kailea and Kate, organizers and coeditors for the book and magazine publisher Loam, share community-shaped strategies on how to practically navigate the challenges posed by overlapping catastrophes—be they environmental, economic, political, or otherwise. Help is here for our bodies, hearts, minds, and shared homes. By amplifying resources for resilience, the authors underscore preparedness as a constant, communal practice. 

These sessions are designed to enhance your practice and also provide an opportunity to connect with the local sangha community. This hybrid event is free and registration is not required. Please arrive five to ten minutes ahead of the scheduled time. 

Meditation begins at 5:30 pm MT, followed by the practice share and discussion at 6:00 pm MT

Join Compassion in Crisis authors Kailea Loften and Kate Weiner, alongside Kyle T. Mays, for an event at Skylight Books in Los Angeles.

Crisis looms large in daily life. From failing public health infrastructure to  resource shortages,  endless wars, and melting ice caps the crisis in education is inseparable from the crisis in loneliness, spurred on by the interests and fantasies of a small group of wealthy individuals, for whose sake whole swaths of our planet burn. The name for this compounding disaster is polycrisis. 

Confronted with this situation, Kate Rose Weiner and Kailea Rose Loften began collaborating on what would become Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities, a book that presents a strategy for catastrophe guided by values of curiosity and communal care. Knowing this is work with long-growing roots, Weiner and Loften gather a choir of organizers, educators, and healers from across North America to speak to their experiences responding to disaster.  Compassion in Crisis is a book of energizing dialogues and clear-eyed checklists for everything from water purification to somatic practices. Readers will learn how to prepare baby formula in an emergency, how to best use stinging nettle or chamomile flowers for first-aid, alongside tips for paying attention to the different responses of our nervous systems to stress. 

For many, the word “prepper” conjures images of underground bunkers and rural compounds; it’s an endeavor of individuals. The kind of preparedness such ideologies offer focuses on the survival of one, cut off from (or outright against) their neighbors. Compassion in Crisis affirms  that true preparedness is the practice of honoring change, learning to steady ourselves and what we love in the face of it, and remembering that the world we want only follows from acting as if we live there already.

Kailea Rose Loften is a mother of Tahltan, Kaska, and Black American ancestry. She is the coeditor for the community publisher Loam and has guided climate change policy with an emphasis on Indigenous rights, previously serving as a Climate Commissioner for the City of Petaluma, California. 

Kate Rose Weiner is a writer, editor, and publisher working at the intersections of culture and climate justice. She is the coeditor of community publisher Loam and the director of Loam Library, a mobile library committed to bringing the power of print to the people. Kate’s  work is shaped by her studies in environmental art, social practice, and community herbalism. 

Kyle T. Mays is an Afro-Indigenous (Saginaw Chippewa) writer and scholar. He is a professor of African American studies, American Indian studies, and history at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author or co-author of four books, including Rethinking the Red Power Movement (with Sam Hitchmough), City of Dispossessions: Indigenous Peoples, African Americans, and the Creation of Modern Detroit, An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States, and Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America.

In partnership with Water & Power and Isaias Hernandez, Kate Weiner and Kailea Loften of Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster-Resilient Communities will be facilitating a book talk on activating community during polycrisis.

This discussion is part of MUTUAL AID IS LOVE, an 18-city grassroots tour that seeks to transform Compassion in Crisis into a support service for community organizing.

“Activating Community” is also part of Earth Songs, a Water & Power series of performances and participatory workshops that highlights queer, trans, and BIPOC artists and educators working in land justice, somatic healing, and performance. One of the key elements of this program is connecting a network of already existing arts practitioners and educators with local environmental organizations and grassroots initiatives in Black, Brown, and Indigenous neighborhoods of East and South LA that have been historically underfunded and systemically excluded.

This is a free event. Copies of Compassion in Crisis will also be available for purchase.

Inspired by the book Compassion in Crisis: Building Disaster Resilient Communities, join Down Below Garden for an evening in the garden featuring authors Kate Weiner and Kailea Loften in discussion with Thomas Sage Pedersen.

This book talk and group discussion explores the role of community organizing in this time of polycrisis.

This is a free event. The authors will have limited copies of the book Compassion in Crisis available for purchase; if you would like to guarantee a copy, we suggest you order yours here!

Please note: Street parking is limited, so carpooling is encouraged!

This workshop is part of MUTUAL AID IS LOVE, an 18-city grassroots book tour that seeks to transform Compassion in Crisis into a resource for community organizing. Donations at the event are welcomed but not expected.