Transformation Series: Cultivating Ecological Resilience in Beloved Community

Building Beloved Community includes tending to our loving Earth and all our human and non-human relatives. One of the ways to build Beloved Community is through cultivating ecological resilience in oneself and for all. 

Join Rachel Bryant and Shirley Strong for a healing conversation on cultivating ecological resilience with Dr. Jeanine M. Canty, CIIS professor of transformative studies, author of Returning the Self to Nature, and editor of Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices.

Rachel, Shirley, and Dr. Canty discuss pathways and growth edges when cultivating ecological resilience. Learn about how to integrate self into ecological and social healing and how we can all cultivate daily ecological practices that heal ourselves and the Earth. 

What is the Transformation Series?

The Transformation Series is part of the Beloved Community Initiative's commitment to critically engage with the CIIS community by platforming inspiring voices. Designed to enhance our mission of cultivating courageous conversations, bridging divides, and building connections, we hope that this series will inspire hope and transformative action.

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Our Guest Speaker

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Rachel Bryant, M.A., is an educator, leader, and healer with more than two decades of experience in public and community mental health. She serves as Vice President, Community Engagement and Belonging at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where she has helped teach, mentor, and launch the careers of hundreds of emerging mental health clinicians from diverse backgrounds. With a pedagogical and therapeutic orientation in Black, Indigenous, and Liberation Praxis, Rachel is dedicated to working alongside others to heal the soul wounds of poverty, violence, and addiction in our communities.

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Shirley Strong, M.Ed., M.A., is a social justice educator and advocate committed to increasing equity and inclusion in higher education and healthcare for underserved and vulnerable populations. She has worked in higher education, philanthropy and social justice for over 35 years, including eight years as Dean of Students and Director of Diversity at CIIS and five years as Chief Diversity Officer at Samuel Merritt University in Oakland, California. Currently, Ms. Strong serves as senior advisor to the Structural Competency Working Group (SCWG), a cross-section of health professionals who train health organizations to recognize and address structural racism in health care and to develop policies and procedures to improve health equity. She is committed to integrating spirituality with activism in the service of the Beloved Community, as envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other prophetic leaders.

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Jeanine M. Canty, Ph.D., is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change.