#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 calling #metoo, there is a feeling in the air, a question lurking of what can 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 a real wake up call to the next generation – we are now the ones 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 middle and see what connected with the permaculture thinking. I have now added other tools 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 to have been such an outpouring of similar emotions and collective grief all over my 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 a deeply political act. I feel drawn to write this as I want to use Read More
Like most of the world I had been watching and celebrating Mandela’s life, and grieving for his passing, over this past week. As I have been watching snippets of the past oppressions and violence I’m grateful that so much has moved forward. One of the things that struck me though, while thinking about the inequalities Read More
On the design immersion weeks this summer participants had a day for each of the phases of the design web. We worked through the growth phase (vision, helps and limits), the exploratory phase (patterns, ideas and principles), the productive phase (integration, action and momentum) and the reflective phase (appreciation, reflection and pause). The first phase Read More
We started today with exploring culture. I liked the analogy from family therapy that one participant shared, of our culture being the water in the goldfish bowl we swim around in. We accept this as the way things are. It is only when we either stick our heads out of the bowl and get to Read More
While writing ‘People and Permaculture’ I asked many people for their hope for humanity. What’s your highest vision? If we were free from fear and limitations what is the journey for humanity our hearts would like to participate in? On one of my courses we wrote all of our visions on a big roll of Read More