Knowledge Share Description
Over a century of fire suppression has changed California from a fire-ecology to a fire-climate; meaning its continued suppression and the fear it generates makes up the atmosphere we live in, the air (or smoke) we breathe. Inevitably, the fear inherent to climate catastrophe and impending wildfire evacuation impacts our ability to place-make and form the long-term relationships necessary for resilience. While growing numbers make the exodus out of the West to escape the smoke, we ask: What is right relationship to fire? How do we stay with the smoke and how do we orient to the timescape it is truly asking of us?
This session will cover an introduction to the rematriation of cultural fire practices back to the land, while grappling with the complexities of mixed communities of practice. What it means for indigenous knowledge systems to be utilized by both indigenous and non-indigenous fire practitioners — or what I call inter-diasporic communities of collapse. We will learn about 'Fire Eyes' (ways of seeing how fire will move through a geography), preparing our homes and neighborhoods for wildfire, herbs and medicines to accompany us through times of fire, and how these ancient knowledge forms shape our senses and relationships to home. We will close with potential learning streams for deeper study and practice.
The prayer is that participants will leave with a more intact understanding of right relationship with fire and the medicine it carries -- and how to better prepare oneself for the deepening fire crisis as it defines the ecologies and times we live within.
This online session is offered as either a stand-alone event or in preparation for an in-person training series in Kashia Pomo territory this November at the School for Inclement Weather. The in-person series will include cultural fire protocol, martial arts, fire crafts, and the option for certification as a Type II Wildland Firefighter -- the entry level qualification for fire practitioners within the US. More information on the details of the series coming soon (priority for enrollment will be extended to attendees of the Herban Cura Knowledge Share.
Cost
$35 - low income
$50 - standard
$75 - pay-it-forward (if you have financial abundance, this is our pay-it-forward option to fund our full tuition scholarships)
Please apply here for a scholarship.
Accessibility Information
*ASR (automated) captioning provided
Virtual Gathering
The knowledge share zoom link will be sent out automatically upon purchase, along with any other necessary information.
3:00pm - 5:00pm Eastern Standard Time
Class will be recorded and available for 30 days.
Facilitator
Jiordi (hebrew variation of the river jordan, meaning to descend or flow down) encounters himself most deeply in places of confluence and immersive study — attentive to the forms of learning that most permit joy, humor, mystery, and contradiction. Through the guidance of the Kashia Pomo, the Fire Forward Fellowship and The Forestry Collective, Jiordi has been trained as a prescribed fire-practitioner to support the equitable return of fire-knowledge and practice back to Kashia tribal territory. Traced by xicano lineages by way of East L.A. to the Sonoran desert in Northern Mexico, and jewish migrations from Romania, Jiordi is most granted breath by inquiries into sonic imagination — as a luthier and instrument designer since childhood, he is theologically entangled in the ways that sound is created, how it travels, and the variance of forms through which it is perceived and given meaning. Jiordi’s current season of work is in discipleship to that which evades the archive. He is the Creative Director for Bayo Akomolafe’s We Will Dance With Mountains, curator for The Emergence Network, wildland firefighter for Northern Sonoma County Fire District, Forest Technician for the Forestry Collective, and holds an M.A. in Ecology & Spirituality from the University of Wales. Jiordi is currently home-making and attending to sanctuary at the headwaters of the Gualala river in Kashia territory.