Think Outside (the box)
Transport your audience outside the conference room…even if only in their imaginations.
“I don’t think people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are seeking the experience of being alive.” -Joseph Campbell
What can seeds teach us about adapting to change and uncertainty?
What can a forest show us about cooperating?
For over 20 years, Casey has employed her contagious enthusiasm to help others experience wonder and find meaningful work through engaging with plants. The storyteller in her relishes transforming audiences from the stage, while the urban farmer and teacher in her delights in empowering folks with hands-on, down-to-earth skills to actively provide for their communities. The seeds she plants bear fruit. The Snake River Seed Cooperative—the radical bioregional seed company she co-founded—has grown into one of the largest worker- and producer-owned seed cooperatives in the country.
Watch Casey Speak
Ideal Audiences:
Mission-Driven Organizations struggling with burnout
Colleges & Universities inspiring their students to consider careers that reflect their values
Wellness Events helping folks lead happier & healthier lives
Keynote (for indoor folk):
Thinking Like A Seed: How to Reconnect with Nature to Reimagine Your World
Most modern Americans are disconnected from the rest of nature. We spend most of our time inside. We are experiencing unprecedented levels of loneliness and isolation. We are increasingly anxious, stressed, and uninspired. Our organizations, made up of these same disconnected and uninspired people, are failing to achieve high levels of employee satisfaction, or to innovate in the ways necessary to meet sustainability goals and address climate change.
But it doesn’t have to be that way!
Using the seeds she works with as a powerful metaphor, Casey helps audiences rekindle their sense of wonder and enliven their ideas about what is possible by reconnecting them with the reality that they are natural creatures who belong here on planet earth.
Ideal Audiences:
Food, Farming & Seed Organizations building alternative agro-ecological systems and wanting to remember their bigger “why”
Gardening Clubs & Associations inspiring their members
Botanists, horticulturists, and ecologists remembering how their lives intertwine with the beloved plants they study and work with
Keynote (for outdoor folk):
Thinking Like A Seed: Sowing A Resilient Future
What can seeds teach us about the future of agriculture? How can they help us find our unique niche, while working together in service of the greater good?
Emerging research is turning everything we thought we knew about plant behavior on its head. Turning to the seeds we sow as mentors opens up a world of innovative possibilities, intrigue, and wonder. They can help us create systems that adapt in real time to a changing climate, increase our resilience through collaboration, and invite us to explore the myriad of ways that we are intimately interconnected with the ecosystems of our place. The myth of rugged individualism is out. Seeds show us that cooperation is key, and that we folks who sow them have a vital role to play in growing a culture of belonging for everyone.
The seeds we sow matter.
Using the seeds she works with as a powerful metaphor, Casey helps audiences remember that planting a seed is a powerful act. Her contagious enthusiasm and grounded innovation invokes a passionate, joyful, connected, and plausible alternative to business-as-usual. Let’s plant some seeds!
