The Mycelial Conversation opens a doorway into the living language of fungi and the ways they invite us into deeper relationship with the natural world.
In this conversation, we explore how fungi communicate within ecosystems and how humans can learn to listen more deeply through relationship, attention, and practice. What stories are carried in mycelia and mushrooms? What messages travel through spores across landscapes and time?
Through lived experience, forest-based practice, and cultural ways of knowing, this session invites reflection on mycelial intelligence as both ecological process and relational teacher. We explore what it means to be in relationship with fungi in the places where we live, and how these ancient beings can help us listen more fully to the wider intelligence of Nature.
This gathering is part of The Listening Field: Tuning into the heart of Nature, a live, interview-style conversation with space for reflection and participant questions.
Christopher Parker is a mycologist, Culture Keeper, and member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. He is the co-author of The Mycelial Healer: A Comprehensive Guide to the Cultivation and Traditional Uses of Medicinal Mushrooms, a recently released book grounded in decades of hands-on practice, traditional knowledge, and applied mycology. Christopher is the co-founder, along with his wife Katherine Parker, and an instructor at The Forest Farmacy, where he teaches mushroom cultivation, medicinal uses of fungi, and regenerative forest-based practices.
A self-taught mycologist, Christopher began cultivating mushrooms at a young age and brings more than 30 years of experience in mushroom cultivation, wild harvesting, herbal medicine making, and mycoremediation. He is deeply committed to food sovereignty and resilient local food systems and founded Asheville Fungi to provide mycological supplies nationwide and fresh mushrooms locally. His work is rooted in relationship with land and fungi, and in the ancestral foodways and traditional skills he carries.
To learn more about Chris and his work visit his website: https://www.theforestfarmacy.com/
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This webinar is part of a larger collective offering from the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries. Visit the main Listening Field page to learn more about the full conversation series and how to engage with this ongoing exploration of listening and relationship with the living world.
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