Joy as the Compass Book Club
Begins July 31st – September 20th, 2026
A must-read for anyone who has ever felt devotional about serving this ailing world …
Nina Simons, co-founder, Bioneers
100% of your book club membership will be donated to TreeSisters.
Which means your participation will plant approximately
20 trees
in the world's rainforests.
Do you long to …
- Cultivate joy and passion, rather than sacrifice and suffering, in your life.
- Explore and identify how the Seven Activist Addictions (sacrifice, suffering, control, busyness, struggle, drama, hard work) are draining your passion and vitality.
- Explore and identify the Seven Wild Remedies (receiving, nourishment, emergence, inspired action, sense navigation, flow, joy) can heal and revitalize your life and leadership.
- Create a personalized Wild Remedy Tincture of Joy as your root medicine, both personally and professionally.
I’ve never read anything like this book. It’s so crystal clear in regards to how our society has gone wrong and why the NGOs are not succeeding. So many important insights and aha-moments. It made me laugh and cry. A deeply touching book with soul-deep revelations.
This book club will help you:
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- Balance your strategic leadership style with self-care that nourishes your soul.
- Join a circle of sisters as we make joy the center of our lives and leadership.
- Engage with established Wise Women of the Nonprofit World as mentors.
- Ground your personal leadership in joy and root it in rest.
- Learn how to weave a spirit of joy into your non-profit culture.
If soul-deep freedom is something you yearn for, then listen to the stories and wisdom Edveeje has on offer. This book is part confession, part gentle confrontation: What would it take for you to choose a life of freedom and joy?
What You Will Experience
- 7 Weeks of online dialogue that will encourage and inspire you
- A weekly prerecorded podcast with seven Wise Women Nonprofit Mentors (sessions are prerecorded rather than live)
- Membership in the exclusive and private group Joy as the Compass
- A weekly Facebook Live hosted by some of the Wise Women Mentors
How This Book Club Will Unfold
Begins July 31st – September 20th, 2026
To Get Started
1. Register below to join the book club and make Joy Your Compass.
2. Purchase the book, Joy as the Compass: Freeing Yourself from the Seven Activist Addictions by Edveeje Fairchild. Purchase on Bookshop.org or on Amazon.com.
3. Join the book club by introducing yourself in the Facebook private group. (The link to join the private group will be made available upon registration.)
CLAIM JOY AS YOUR COMPASS
Membership does not include the cost of the book.
It may be twelve to twenty four hours before you receive confirmation and access.
As the book club unfolds:
- Download and explore your gift, Joy as the Compass Field Guide.
- Listen to the weekly prerecorded Wise Women Mentoring (sessions are not live and can be listened to at your convenience)
- Join the collective online dialogue in the private group every week beginning on July 31st 2026.
- Post your weekly questions and thoughts to Edveeje and our circle of Wise Women Mentors.
- Share your voice (often) in our circle of sisterhood in the private Facebook group.
- The Soul Conversations will be available for as long as the web page remains active in the foreseeable future.
- The private Facebook group will remain open for as long as it is actively engaged.
The Seven Weeks of the Book Club
Addiction One: Sacrifice With
Clare Dubois
Clare Dubois
Clare Dubois is an Earth-loving social entrepreneur, poet and inspirational speaker, passionate about humanities return into reciprocal, conscious connection with the natural world. Clare spent two decades coaching business leaders and creating behaviour change processes within the personal growth sector before founding TreeSisters, a women’s social change and tropical reforestation organisation that has funded the planting of over 27 million trees. Having left TreeSisters in 2022 her new aim is to reclaim balance, freedom and health. She is writing several books and curating courses that focus on the rising feminine and the shift to a unified field of reverence and respect for all life.
Addiction Two: Suffering With
Sophie Jane Hardy
Sophie Jane Hardy
Sophie Jane Hardy is a nature and cycle-inspired business coach, writer and podcast host.
Her work has evolved over fifteen years in the fields of not-for-profit communications, filmmaking, women’s leadership and environmental activism. She’s the host of Red School’s Menstruality Podcast and the creator of the Your Cyclical Business – an online course and community helping creatives and changemakers to channel the wisdom of their menstrual cycles to create thriving businesses.
Sophie’s happy place is walking along the Rivelin river in Sheffield, UK where she lives with her husband, son, and Frodo the dog.
Addiction Three: Control with
Dr. Jennifer Browdy
Jennifer Browdy
Jennifer Browdy, PhD is a writer and teacher focused on cultivating the power of storytelling for leaders working for positive change. She coined the term “purposeful memoir” to refer to essential inner work for activists and has shared her own life story and the techniques of purposeful memoir in several award-winning books. In addition to teaching for more than three decades at Bard College/Simon’s Rock, she was the founding director of the monthlong, multi-venue Berkshire Festival of Women Writers, featuring a range of educational events fostering the alignment of purpose, passion and creativity. The founding publisher of Green Fire Press, she hosts a podcast focused on “books that make the world better,” and writes a Substack, Writing to Right the World. She leads annual international writing retreats, including her popular Riding & Writing series, and maintains a lively online teaching, coaching and editing practice. Find her at JenniferBrowdy.com.
Addiction Four: Busyness With
Osprey Orielle Lake
Osprey Orielle Lake
Founder and executive director of the Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN), Osprey works internationally with grassroots, BIPOC and Indigenous leaders, policymakers, and diverse coalitions to build climate justice, resilient communities, and a just transition. She sits on the executive committee for the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and on the steering committee for the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Osprey’s writing about climate justice, relationships with nature, women in leadership, and other topics has been featured in The Guardian, Earth Island Journal, The Ecologist, Ms. Magazine and many other publications.
She is the author of the award-winning book The Story is in Our Bones.
Addiction Five: Struggle
With Cynthia Jurs
Cynthia Jurs
Cynthia Jurs, author of Summoned by the Earth; Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing Our World is a teacher (“Dharmacharya”) in the Order of Interbeing of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh and an honorary Lama in the Vajrayana tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. In 1990 she made a life-changing pilgrimage to ask question of Kushok Mangdon Rinpoche, an old lama living in a cave in Charok, Nepal. From him, she received the practice of the Earth Treasure Vases. Since then, Cynthia has been traveling the world in service to bringing healing and protection to the Earth. She founded the nonprofit, Alliance for the Earth and the Gaia Mandala Global Healing Community, an international community dedicated to planetary healing and collective awakening. Today, inspired by her years of buddhist practice and pilgrimage into diverse communities and ecosystems to bring healing to the Earth, Cynthia is forging a new path of dharma in service to Gaia rooted in the feminine, honoring indigenous traditions, and teaching an embodied, engaged, sacred activism. Cynthia lives at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northern New Mexico where she is often found walking in the wilderness with her dog or gardening with her husband. To learn more visit www.GaiaMandala.net and www.SummonedbytheEarth.org
Addiction Six: Drama
with Kristi Nelson
Kristi Nelson
Kristi Nelson is the author of Wake Up Grateful: The Transformative Practice of Taking Nothing for Granted and also The Gratitude Explorer Workbook. From 2014 – 2023, she was the Executive Director at A Network for Grateful Living. Kristi’s work as a consultant includes uplifting the power of gratefulness through teaching, speaking, interviews, and writing. Her current focus revolves around celebrating aging as a miracle, privilege, and opportunity worthy of our celebration and appreciation. Being a long-time stage IV cancer survivor moves Kristi every day to live and love wholeheartedly, and to support others to do the same.
Kristi’s work in the non-profit sector has focused on leading, inspiring, and strengthening organizations committed to progressive social and spiritual change, including the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, Spirit in Action, Institute for Jewish Spirituality, Wisdom 2.0, and The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, among others. She has also served as Executive Director of the Women’s Fund of Western Mass, founding Director of the Soul of Money Institute with Lynne Twist, Director of Development at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, and Director of Development and Community Relations for the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society.
To learn more about Kristi’s work, visit www.kristinelson.net, where you can find her writing, events, and upcoming workshops, including her Aging Gratefully: The Power of Appreciative Presence retreat.
Addiction Seven: Hard Work
With Nina Simons
Nina Simons
NINA SIMONS is Co-founder and Chief Relationship Officer at Bioneers, and leads its Everywoman’s Leadership program. Throughout her career spanning the nonprofit, social entrepreneurship, corporate, and philanthropic sectors, Nina has worked with nearly a thousand diverse women leaders across disciplines, race, class, age and orientation to create conditions for mutual learning, trust and leadership development.
She loves convening and speaking – both in-person and online – for mutual mentorship and shedding conditioning, to encourage full flourishing, and to explore methods and practices for reinventing leadership, reclaiming our whole selves, connecting across difference and co-creating communities of belonging.
Nina co-edited Moonrise: The Power of Women Leading from the Heart, and authored Nature, Culture, and the Sacred: A Woman Listens for Leadership—released as a second edition in 2022 with an accompanying discussion guide and embodied practices, which won Nautilus awards in the categories of Women in the 21st Century and Social Change & Social Justice. Both are being used to ignite liberatory learning in individuals, circles and classrooms.
Bonus Feature – A Feminine Revolution With Sarah Drew
Sarah Drew
Sarah Drew is the visionary author and creator of GAIA CODEX, the acclaimed eco-feminist fantasy series weaving ancient wisdom, feminine spirituality, ecological consciousness, and mythic storytelling into a powerful vision for a regenerative future. An independent scholar, cultural philosopher, and multidisciplinary media creator, Sarah explores the vital relationship between the reawakening of the feminine, the evolution of human consciousness, and the healing and flourishing of our living Earth.
A lifelong Earth advocate and student of the world’s wisdom traditions, Sarah draws upon decades of spiritual practice, international study, and immersion in diverse cultures. Her work invites a renewed relationship with the Earth—one rooted in reverence, reciprocity, compassion, and the restoration of feminine ways of knowing. Through her writing, teaching, and activism, she amplifies the stories and perspectives that inspire ecological healing and meaningful cultural transformation.
Sarah has spoken internationally at Google, Bioneers, ABC Deepak Homebase, Tibet House/Menla, Taschen, and PAUA Paris, and has lectured at the graduate level on feminine wisdom, technology, consciousness, and regenerative cultural evolution. As a multi-decade student and practitioner of Vajrayana Buddhism she studied Religious Studies at UC Berkeley. As founder of Vibrant Seed Media and Creator and Co-Executive Producer of the GAIA CODEX television series, she is devoted to bringing feminine-forward, Earth-honoring narratives into the heart of global culture.
CLAIM JOY AS YOUR COMPASS
Membership does not include the cost of the book.
It may be twelve to twenty four hours before you receive confirmation and access.
Welcome from Edveeje
This book is about my experience as an executive leader within environmental activism, but I could just as easily call them the seven cultural addictions. Seen through that lens, almost any woman, regardless of career or title, can benefit from this journey.
100% of your book club membership will be donated to TreeSisters.
Which means your participation will plant approximately
20 trees
in the world's rainforests.
TreeSisters is a global movement working toward a greener, more equal future, one rooted in restoration, protection, and reconnection with the Earth. In partnership with local women and Indigenous communities, we have already planted millions of trees, restoring some of the world’s most precious forests and ecosystems. But planting is only the beginning. Our work champions the Rights of Nature, uplifts those on the frontlines of climate change, and seeks to rebuild humanity’s relationship with the living world, because this disconnection lies at the very heart of the crises we face. Together, we are working toward a greener, more equal future for both humanity and the countless other species that call Earth home. To learn more about TreeSisters.
Edveeje creates a compassionate, safe, strong, empowering space in the bookclubs I have participated in. This has promoted deep sharing, growth, and a lovely companionship amongst the members. It has been a soul nurturing, heart enriching experience to have been part of these book clubs. Edveeje’s questions are insightful catalyzers. An added bonus is that the images accompanying her posts are energy transmissions in and of themselves. And her guided meditations are skilled and meaningful.
The Wild Feminine content is just so empowering, exquisite, juicy, delicious and mysterious and it has given me a new sense of deep honouring of, and respect for, my pelvic bowl and feminine nature. I have never felt so held or safe to express myself in a group before. I felt like my voice was really valued and so I expressed myself more than ever. I loved it so much and want more!
Edveeje’s wisdom, thoughtful interaction, and gift for asking the hidden questions creates illuminating conversation. I’ve participated in three book clubs so far. Each has deepened my connection to the work, and has been a rich, transformative and treasured journey. Edveeje is also a beautiful curator of images. They tell their own story which enhances the experience. So grateful.
Edveeje holds a beautiful space in the book clubs. I have joined for four so far and each have been a transformative experience. Sharing the journey with other women, held by Edveeje’s wise wisdom deepened my engagement and process with the books.
I have had the good fortune to be part of 2 of Edveeje Fairchild’s book groups. She holds a safe space in which a group can come together to explore a topic. Even though I was working personally through the book I felt a deep sense of community and togetherness in the book group. Edveeje allows you the freedom and space to explore and ponder, and at the same time, gentle guidance and support when needed.
It was such a joyous and insightful way to read a book.
In the seven weeks of the Wild Feminine Book Club with Sophie and Edveeje, I came wildly alive! I went from 22 (depression) on the emotional scale to 5 (optimism). I even finished the first draft of a book I was writing. I attribute all of this to the journey I took with the Wild Feminine with Edveeje and Sophie as my guides.
It was such a joyous and insightful way to read a book.