facultyexplore advaya’s teachers
Explore advaya's faculty of teachers, scientists, practitioners, philosophers and storytellers, who share multidimensional, local and diverse narratives from across the world.
Bayo Akomolafe
Sophie Strand
Satish Kumar
Vandana Shiva
Veronica Strang
Manda Scott
Beloved Sara Zaltash
David Abram
Dr Andreas Weber
David Whyte
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic
Charles Eisenstein
Aisha Paris Smith
Brontë Velez
Beatrice Stewart
Beatrice (she/her) is a writer and climate justice activist based in London. Her interests range from ecology, law and technology to decolonial theory.
Beatrice Stewart (she/her) has a Masters in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development. Currently she works at Planet Tracker, a sustainable finance think tank. Through writing she seeks to build bridges between the pragmatism of Earth System science and the magic of Spiritual Ecology. Her work meditates upon how the ecological and social justice crises of our current juncture invite us to reimagine ways of being to enable the mutual flourishing of people and planet.
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Re-weaving the web of meaning: a participant's reflection
A participant reflection from the course Tree of Life. Beatrice Stewart asks: how can the wisdom of the Tree of Life help us to navigate the Great Unravelling and re-weave the web of meaning?
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Thinking like a forest: a participant's reflection
The teachings of the Inverted Tree explain how we come to see ourselves as material beings. How can thinking like a forest help to reclaim the parts of ourselves that are lost in this narrow-minded worldview? Beatrice Stewart, a participant in the course Tree of Life, reflects with the wisened Oak.
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Saltwater Threads
Drawing on insights from advaya’s Contemporary Spirituality course, this article examines how the grief we feel over the destruction of the more-than-human world disrupts the way of seeing that separates us from the web of life.