About Kaye
Kaye is a homesteader, an educator, and mother of three. She is a student of relationships, reality and complexity, as understood through the lens of dharma and natural systems. She is the child of two psychologist parents who dragged her along, outside, in every spare moment of her childhood. Leaving home at 17, she tried to exit from psychology and go her own way (“I will study the earth!”) Twenty years later neck deep in kids, farm, and tending the ragged rich inner lives of herself and others, she realizes that life has led her in a circle, back to where she started.
Kaye has her MSc in Holistic Science from Schumacher College where she was mentored by Brian Goodwin. She is a student of the Vajrayana in the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages of Tibetan Buddhism. Kaye has studied somatic spirituality and meditation in the lineage of Dharma Ocean, and Vajra Yoga with Michele Loew and Robert Thurman. Joanna Macy has been Kaye’s root teacher and collaborator since 2004 in the Work that Reconnects, systems thinking, and the dharma. Kaye expresses incomparable gratitude for her teachers.
Kaye has worked professionally for two decades, using her natural systems lens, in emerging paradigms of participation~ ecological farming, place based transformative education, curriculum development, strategic facilitation, feminist theory and embodiment practice. Recently, she finished working with Joanna Macy and Stephanie Kaza on an anthology entitled, A Wild Love for the World.
As a certified Somatic Coach Kaye supports the integration of mind and body, or the mind in our body; helping clients attune to the intelligence, wisdom and alignment within each of us. As of Fall 2021 Kaye is a doctoral student in Integral and Transpersonal Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
The best ways to connect with Kaye is through a Coaching Session or the Women and Dharma Program. If you have ideas or requests for consulting, group work, or the lineage of Joanna Macy, please send an inquiry to kaye@broadforkfarmtl.com.
““We exist at all because of human resilience, which is our birthright. Everything our progenitors survived in order to bring us forward lives in us today, not just their struggle and suffering, but their skills, talents, tenacity, perseverance, and genius. Likewise, millennia after millennia, humans have learned and developed countless means and methods through which to mend, heal, redeem, and restore ourselves and one another—and all of that wisdom is as near as our DNA.
If our kind is to flourish and thrive, not just survive, the elegant interrelation we observe in the natural world must be mirrored in us. We aren’t merely on the planet; we are part of it. We aren’t the highest intelligence on Earth; we are a manifestation of Earth’s intelligence. The planet is us: its ancient carbon, oxygen, minerals, metals, and water are the same that comprise our bodies. Humans are simply the latest drumbeat in an ancient, cosmic, evolutionary dance, even if somewhere in our journey, we have forgotten the song.””