green dreamer presents

~alchemize~

a 10-week audio-based program of daily creative prompts and imagination practices — an experimental invitation to sit with the mess, stretch comforts and alternatives, and disrupt status quo ways of thinking, sensing, being, and relating

enrollment closing soon for our spring/summer 2024 cohort

behind the concept…

As someone who has engaged with various forms of visualization and creative practices intended to enhance my personal well-being and self-actualization, I started wondering over the last years:

What could this look like if we wanted to alchemize for collective thriving and Earth-actualization?

Green Dreamer has loved publishing intellectual, philosophical, and educational media content over the last five years—sharing over 400 conversations attempting to make sense of these troubled times through all sorts of lenses and angles. We are committed to continuing to do this.

And we have also been curious to conspire other forms of creative production. Called to help disrupt dominant ways of relating to, sensing, and being with the world, we feel that the time is ripe for some playful programming that invites us to sit with the mess while honoring the gifts of what already is and what could be.

After years of watering our seeds of possibilities, we are thrilled to present ~alchemize~.

With ten weeks of daily guided imagination, embodiment, and multi-sensory prompts and practices led by ~20 visionaries, dreamers, and shapeshifters, this quietly experimental offering was created to enrich our dreaming habits for more life-affirming possibilities. This is an invitation to deepen our self-rootedness, community connectedness, and Earth intimacy; expand our creativity through speculative fantasizing; and alchemize so we may further embody the changes we wish to see.

We welcome you to play and ~alchemize~ with us.

— Kamea Chayne
Host & Producer

alchemize with the imaginaries of…

Sean Sherman

Award-winning chef, educator, author, activist, and a member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe dedicated to revitalizing Indigenous food systems

Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures Collective

An arts/research collective aiming to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being and gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures

Hilding Neilson

Mi’kmaw astrophysicist whose research integrates Indigenous knowledges and focuses on the stories we can learn from stars and planets

Leny Mendoza Strobel

A Kapampangan Founding Elder at the Center for Babaylan Studies whose work tends to practices of decolonization and re-indigenization

Fariha Roisin

Multidisciplinary artist and the author of Being In Your Body, How to Cure a Ghost, and Who is Wellness For? (Photo by Amanda de Cadenet)

Ang Roell

Facilitator, thought leader, and dream weaver who co-operates They Keep Bees, which builds collaborative networks and teaches people about bees

Siv Watkins

Microbiologist, independent scholar, ritualist, and the founder of Microanimism, which examines how human culture engages with microbial organisms

Solaris J. Capehart

Liberian poet and abolitionist educator working alongside their neighbors to nurture The Garden Abolitionist Bookstore & Community Well

Gabes Torres

Therapist, organizer, and artist whose work focuses on imperialism and its vast impact on our collective mental health

Laurie Palmer

Artist, teacher, activist, and the author of The Lichen Museum, which examines lichen's role as an anti-capitalist companion and climate change survivor

Staci K. Haines

Founder of generative somatics, a multiracial social justice organization bringing somatics to social and environmental justice leaders, organizations, and alliances

Chelsea Mikael Frazier

Dr. Frazier is a Black feminist ecocritic writing, researching, and teaching at the intersection of Black feminist theory and environmental thought (photo by Solon Quinn)

Andreas Weber

Biologist, philosopher, and the author of The Biology of Wonder, Matter and Desire, and Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene

Stacy Alaimo

Professor and author of Bodily Natures, Exposed, and The Abyss at Hand, who explores the intersections between literary, artistic, political, and philosophical approaches to environmentalism

brontë velez

Black-Boricua transdisciplinary ritual artist, shepherd, curandere, educator, and wakeworker whose work and rest is guided by the cosmology and promise of sabbath for Black people and the land

and more…

tasting menu
of our invitations…

into beingness


honoring your uniquely storied body, with gabes torres

acknowledging your ancestral long body, with leny strobel

rooting deeper into your sense of place, with leny strobel

being here and now with your body, with fariha roisin

affirmations for your why, with dr. chelsea mikael frazier

the multidimensionality of your wholeness, with staci k. haines

embracing intergenerational responsibility, with gtdf collective

disintegration, dissolution, & decomposition, with gabes torres

~ m e t a b o l i z e ~

into porousness


resurfacing landscapes of reciprocity, with sarah elisa kelly

the art of kinning, with gavin van horn

magnifying our intimacy with the microbial, with siv watkins

reconnecting with the cosmos, with hilding neilson

tracing pathways of creative relations, with anisa sima hawley

resting as an intimate embrace, with sarah elisa kelly

we breathing, with gavin van horn

sensing into our bound/lessness, with staci k. haines

~ m a r i n a t e ~

into otherness


you are lichening, with laurie palmer

you are microbing, with siv watkins

you are seeding, with kamea chayne

you are honeybeeing, with ang roell

you are homecoming, with brontë velez

you are psychedelic jellyfishing, with stacy alaimo

you are watering, with kamea chayne

you are fermenting futures, with anisa sima hawley

~ f e r m e n t ~

into belongingness


remembering your animality, with brontë velez

pollinating networks of collective care, with ang roell

leaning into gravity as love, with andreas weber

nurturing wellness for all bodies, with fariha roisin

worlds of food sovereignty, with sean sherman

finding healing beyond institutions, with gabes torres

mapping towards freedom in community, with solaris j. capehart

a cartography of living landscapes, with kamea chayne

~ c a r a m e l i z e ~

into earthfulness


becoming deliciously edible, with andreas weber

moving beyond colonial borders, with sean sherman

alive and well in afrofutures, with chelsea mikael frazier

embodying the radical traits of lichen, with laurie palmer

cultivating receptivity in multispecies worlds, with stacy alaimo

rethinking global connectivity, with hilding neilson

dreaming into collective liberation, with solaris j. capehart

alchemizing into an earthful abundance, with green dreamer

~ a l c h e m i z e ~

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from our alums

  • "I've been a soul adventurer all my life. alchemize is the most transformative soul workshop I've ever taken."

    – isabella, jan 2024 cohort

  • "I deeply appreciate this creation of love and sincerity. The structure of the program greatly lends itself to what it set out to do: help meet people where they are on their pathways of change [...] by reclaiming other modalities of being, learning, and connecting. Thank you, thank you!"

    – alchemizer, jan 2024 cohort

  • “I absolutely love this program and how it made me think, reflect, ponder and wonder. So many practises stayed with me long after listening to them, and some were so profound I had to take a few days from continuing the program because I really wanted to linger in my feelings and thoughts.”

    – tesmin, jan 2024 cohort

  • “I love the build up of themes over the weeks. I’ve found the program to be enriching and transformative for my perspectives on a daily basis and through time. I love the diverse speakers who share their teachings and wisdoms, and the post-listening reflections I can journal with.”

    – alchemizer, jan 2024 cohort

  • “I can’t express how much alchemize resonates with me, and I’m absolutely 'head over heels' for [the theme of] Otherness. Alchemize has allowed me to take the time to ground myself so that when I’m out in the role of activist, I can be calm, compassionate and effective.”

    – gina, jan 2024 cohort

  • "Alchemize has been beautifully done. I’m really grateful to be here. I understand imagination and connection different every time I listen to an audio. I think you could get something different every time you listen to one of the offerings."

    – alchemizer, jan 2024 cohort

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