Kirsten Rudestam, through her 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, has been mentored to teach by James Baraz and is currently in a four-year teacher training program with Gil Fronsdal and Andrea Fella. In 2017 she co-founded and remains core faculty for the Sati Center’s Buddhist Eco-Chaplaincy training program. As a facilitator, Kirsten encourages Mentees to deepen their gifts as mindfulness teachers and to be attuned to social and environmental conditions and dimensions of power, privilege, and reconciliation in their offerings.
