Moving Toward Relationship in Food Systems Work w/ Nicole Civita

This is the second workshop of a three-part webinar series titled "Presence, Relationship, and Stories: Transformations for Equity-Centered Food Systems"
Educator and author Nicole Civita will bridge principles of Radical Presence from the previous workshop to specific applications for the food system work, through Relational Food Systems practices. After guiding participants into a critical inquiry into the values, logics, and imperatives that make food systems move, Nicole offer a suite of signals and principles for moving toward relationship as leaders of change-oriented food systems work, from cosmolocalism to learning from and living as part of nature. Participants will leave the session better equipped to courageously confront collapsing features and breaking ideologies in food systems, distinguish problematic transactional/extractive conduct from relational/empathic ways of interacting, and connect to their own relational intuition.
Presenter Bio:
Nicole Civita is a food systems thinker, experiential educator, applied ethicist, integrative lawyer, and responsive consultant who grounds in ecological knowledge, and attends to relationships of care and reciprocity. She currently leads a collapse-responsive collaborative learning network in EcoGather; maintains a relational food systems consulting practice named Plenty Enough; and is Of Counsel to Handel Food Law, LLC. In 2023, she co-authored Feeding Each Other: www.feedingeac...
Facilitator: Elias Berbari
Elias strives to be a weaver, a synthesizer, and a connector of dots. He is a Development Manager for Fresh Approach, where he secures funding, develops partnerships, and leads advocacy work that connects farmers, families, and nourishing food in the Bay Area. Elias holds a Master’s degree in Sustainable Food Systems.