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Objectification Begins With Words: Reading Robin Wall Kimmerer with Nancy Harris
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This week’s text:
✍️ “Speaking of Nature” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
This week’s guest:
Nancy Harris (she/her) is an executive coach, keynote speaker, and facilitator supporting leaders and organizations committed to equity, people-centered work, and transformational change. She’s the founder of Restart Consulting, host of The Intersection podcast, and a lifelong nature-lover rediscovering the power of slowing down.
Find Nancy:
🌐 restartconsulting.com
🎧 The Intersection podcast
📱 LinkedIn
Discussed in this episode:
- The objectification of nature—and the people we treat like objects too
- How Indigenous language teaches respect through grammar and animacy
- What it means to re-humanize the world around us
- Why slowing down is radical and reconnecting is revolutionary
- The power of rest, seasonality, and nature as a model for leadership
- What “nature deficit disorder” is and why we feel it so deeply
- How language has been used to colonize, erase, and devalue
- Parallels between natural resource extraction and human exploitation
- Why mindfulness and appreciation can be powerful acts of resistance
- How we might live and lead differently by learning from the earth
Resources mentioned:
• “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• “Wintering” by Katherine May
• On Being podcast with Krista Tippett
• ”The Other End of the Leash” by Patricia McConnell
• “The Privatization of Everything” by Donald Cohen & Allen Mikaelian
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