Vanessa Machado de Oliveira: Sensing into collapse and what it is asking of us
From Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration by Kaméa Chayne
February 19, 2026 · 1h 6m · Episode 469
About this episode
In this episode, Kaméa Chayne speaks with Vanessa Machado de Oliveira about navigating fears and discomforts around collapse and the deeper practices that can help us engage with these challenges.
How do we sit with our fears and discomforts around collapse? What might we miss when we demand quick fixes, takeaways, and summaries — without allowing our bodies to ferment and feel through the practices and experiences that could move us more deeply? And what does it mean to retune our literacy of the languages of the Earth? In this episode, Green Dreamer’s Kaméa Chayne speaks with Vanessa Machado de Oliveira, whose latest book is Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion. Join us as we hold up a mirror to reflect on questions of complicity and collapse — while sensing into what these fractured times may be asking of us. We invite you to… tune in and subscribe to Green Dreamer via any podcast app; tap into our bonus extended and video version of this conversation on Patreon here ; and read highlights from these conversations via Kaméa’s newsletter here . Song feature: Goodnight Moon Child by Beautiful Chorus
People in this episode
Host: Kaméa Chayne
Guest: Vanessa Machado de Oliveira
Topics covered
- collapse
- complicity
- sustainability
- earth literacy
Keywords
- quick fixes
- accountability
- compassion
- modernity
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Outgrowing Modernity
Books & works: Green Dreamer’s, Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion, Goodnight Moon Child, Beautiful Chorus
Places: Earth
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