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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

297) Michael Lees: Affirming the power of community-building in times of crisis

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9661 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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About Michael Lees:

Michael Lees (Instagram: @mike_please) is a Dominican film-maker and photographer whose work explores themes of survival, environmentalism, spirituality, and island life, aiming to connect the dots in the “bigger picture.”

Michael attended UNC Chapel Hill, where he spent the first half of his college career studying business at the Kenan-Flagler Business School, later switching his major from business to film.

Never one to shy away from bold decisions, in 2017, Michael embarked on his latest project, UNCIVILIZED, (Instagram: @uncivilizedfilm ; Facebook: @uncivilizedfilm), which would lead him into the forests of Dominica, where he would eventually face Category 5 Hurricane Maria alone in the forest, in a palm leaf hut.

Lees has written, shot, and edited for clients ranging from Billboard to UNICEF. Much of his inspiration is drawn from his home island, Dominica, and from an unquenchable curiosity about the world around him.

 

Song featured in this episode: Over by Luna Bec

Green Dreamer with Kamea Chayne is a podcast exploring our paths to holistic healing, ecological regeneration, and true abundance and wellness for all. Find our show notes, additional resources, and newsletter on our website: www.greendreamer.com

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When we talk about things like climate crisis or any kind of crisis we're in, oftentimes

1:16.2

we're looking at it through one lens such as we need to burn less fossil fuels.

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But at the root of it, obviously, is our own humanity and what it is that we want out of

1:27.2

the world, seeing how the

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crossover between all the different religions, if we could live by some of the values that

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they teach us to aspire to, again, we'd be able to circumvent some of the issues we're facing

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