in 2022 I enrolled for Heather Houston’s 6 month online song leader training. At the same time I was leading the CEED – Cultural Emergence Effective Design course, so I choose to do this as my design. And it was … read more
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As i transition from using crutches, I am curious about the metaphor of crutches in my life and which ones are useful or not.
read moreI’m in bed with a broken leg – a period of embodied and enforced pause and pattern disruption. Kinda annoying it has to be said, as it is right at the beginning of my scheduled 3 month window for slowing … read more
#WorkingTowardsZero #safetyculture Any statistic above zero for sexual violence is too much. Can we imagine a world where the statistic is zero? Can we proactively work towards zero? After a week of feeling challenged and awakened by the many voices … read more
Some people are looking to our nation’s leaders to get us out of the mess we are in, waiting for them to take action and show us what we need to do. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t. (It’s looking … read more
It’s the end of an era with the passing away of Bill Mollison, co-founder of permaculture. It’s up to us now to follow in his footsteps and be courageous, bold, outspoken, practical and visionary. When an elder dies it is … read more
It’s the end of August, September is on the horizon and although we still hope for hot, sunny days they are now considered a bonus. Me and my family have completed our first season at Applewood North and it has … read more
When I was writing People and Permaculture I had a mindmap, which had ‘any topic’ in the middle and all the tools of permaculture thinking branching off. When starting to write about a subject I would write it in the … read more
My last post a few days ago was about why I wanted to stay in the EU. Now just a few days later and I have to shift my thinking, firstly traveling through feelings of shock, disappointment, disbelief. There seems … read more
I don’t usually get too involved in politics, although having said that everything we do could be interpreted as a political act, from the language we use to what we buy. Even growing our own food can be seen as … read more