The Seeds of the Long Story with Sophie Strand

We live inside a story of human domination, empire, and excessive extraction that precedes our birth and, if allowed to continue shaping our actions, will foretell our early end. How can we harness the disruptions engulfing our world in service of new stories?

Acclaimed writer Sophie Strand will open our Seeds and Structures online lecture series this fall with a talk drawing on the symbology of serotinous seeds, which only open within the crucible of fire. She will examine how this lens can help us both honor the “partial-view” in service to stories whose impact we may not witness in our lifetimes; and develop generational “long-story” thinking for supporting systems and processes of transformation. Through the image of the lodgepole pine cone, Sophie will explore how the urgency of ecological disruption and social upheaval offer these story seeds the furnace they have been waiting for.

Part of the launch of our new print edition, Volume 7: Seeds and Structures, this series offers a dynamic space to engage with radical spiritual, practical, cosmological, and ecological structures that can help us seed a future of embodied reciprocity and exchange with the Earth. We invite you to check out and register for the other lectures in this series: Stories Are Living Structures with Aboriginal scholar Tyson Yunkaporta and Seeds and Our Co-Evolved Psyches with writer and naturalist Yuvan Aves.

DETAILS

Date: Thursday November 5, 2026, 5–6:30pm PST

Format: Zoom webinar lecture followed by Q&A

Tickets: Available on a sliding scale of $5–$20 USD

Recording: A recording will be shared with all ticket holders after the event

ABOUT SOPHIE STRAND

Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Dark Mountain Project, Atmos, Braided Way, and Art Papers. She is the author of The Flowering Wand, The Madonna Secret, and the memoir The Body Is a Doorway, as well as the creator of the popular Substack “Make Me Good Soil.”