Kirsten Rudestam

Kirsten’s teaching and facilitation is dedicated to life, the earth and alignment with the ground of being. She believes that practices of (re)connection are crucial in maintaining our capacity to face and respond to ecological loss and to embrace our inherent interbeing. Kirsten holds a PhD in environmental sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where she studied water policy and management, feminist political ecology, and environmental justice. She is trained as a vision fast guide through the School of Lost Borders, is a facilitator for Joanna Macy’s “Work that Reconnects,” and has over twenty years of experience teaching for colleges and universities, environmental field courses, and nature-based meditation programs. She has been practicing meditation since 1997, and co-founded and co-teaches the Sati Center’s Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy training program.