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Today’s guest believes that environmental resilience-building at its best reflects the layered interconnectedness of nature, taking place not only at local, regional, and national levels but also through perpetual self-transformation, which she views as the engine of authentic social change.

Meet Pamela Boyce Simms, an evolutionary culture designer who works with international Quaker, Buddhist, and African Diaspora Earthcare networks to build social transformation movements from the inside out. Her intersecting focus on self-care sovereignty through plant medicine extends from grassroots work with local partners throughout the African Diaspora to convening a Quaker-led Earthcare Coalition of environmental organizations at the United Nations. Through her work, she helps individuals, leaders, and organizations map leverage points where they can make tactical interventions that decentralize authority and enhance universal agency, create self-care resilience solutions, and operationalize strategies to shift critical discourse.

In today’s episode, Pamela offers some insight into her focus on Community Supported Enlightenment (CSE) and internal environmental resilience-building, shares some practical applications for the herbal medicines she creates with Singularity Botanicals and the African Diaspora Coalition Plant Medicine Project, and highlights the critical role that perpetual self-transformation plays when it comes to creating effective and long-lasting social change. Make sure not to miss this conversation!

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Key Points From This Episode:

• Insight into Pamela’s career trajectory and how it led her to the work she does today.

• Her focus on the intersections of spirituality, herbalism, linguistics, and neuroscience.

• Attacking symptoms via allopathic medicine versus unified systems change via herbalism.

• Practical applications for the herbal medicines that Singularity Botanicals creates.

• The ways that Pamela empowers distressed communities to take control of their own health.

• How the network she operates in is sociocratically organized to resemble the mycelium.

• The important role that perpetual self-transformation plays in authentic social change.

• Facilitating the development of new neural pathways using contemplative practice.

• How Pamela receives guidance from nature and her intuition, not her intellect.

• Find out how you can support Pamela’s work by facilitating conversation.

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Tweetables:

“Environmental resilience-building and social change from the inside out; it’s not just acting upon the environment. It goes in cyclical, multifaceted patterns.” — @transitionMidAt

“We are whole. We are one. We are unified. We are love. Love equals unity equals low entropy equals coming together equals oneness. If we approach things in a fragmented, piecemeal way, we are doing a disservice to the oneness that we are.” — @transitionMidAt

“The sociocratic exoskeleton, the scaffolding that holds this entire network of people together is one piece, [but our] model is nature, biomimicry, and that kind of interconnected, cross-species communication that we see [working so well] in nature.” — @transitionMidAt

“What I do and I invite communities we work with [to do] is zoom out, first metacognitive, then metaconscious. Learn how to work [your] neurobiology so it serves you, so you [can start to peel off] your woundedness and your baggage, and then play the interstices like mycelium.” — @transitionMidAt

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Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Pamela Boyce Simms on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pamelaboycesimms/

Pamela Boyce Simms on Twitter: https://twitter.com/transitionmidat

Pamela Boyce Simms on Medium: https://medium.com/@pbs9

Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub (MATH): http://midatlantictransition.org/

African Diaspora Earthcare Coalition: https://www.facebook.com/UNDecade.for.People.of.African.Descent.Earthcare

Singularity Botanicals: https://singularitybotanicals.net/

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