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What Can We Let Go Of?

NikiAnne Feinberg — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:49:01 +0000

This time of year in Southern Appalachia the waning heat and waxing cold converge to produce sights, sounds, and smells unlike any other season. This weekend’s convergence was resplendent here in our village, with the red leaves of the sourwood trees and the yellow leaves of the oaks and hickories — some still on the trees and others carpeting the ground.

The morning after our first frost, the tender basil had a final hour of beauty before giving up for the season while the hardy greens toughened up for the winter. The zinnias will tough it out for another couple of weeks while newly planted shallots remain tucked under a blanket of straw to grow through the winter.

Nature reminds us to ask: What can we let go of in our lives to allow space for something life-serving to emerge?

Earthaven’s School of Integrated Living is itself in the waning phase of our 2021 in-person classes, which is making space for new online programs this winter and the emergence of a fresh slate of in-person classes in Spring 2022. While some of our programs wax and wane with the seasons, we give thanks for the steadfastness of our on-going, year-round tours (in-person and virtual), which give us a chance to connect and feed the fire of community with folks from all over the world.

Take a peek at our upcoming online programs:

Nature as Medicine — Gaia and Your Health, Vitality, and Spiritual Unfoldment with Swami Ravi Rudra Bharati. Five-week online workshop. December 6, 13, 20, 27, and January 3.
Thriving in Relationships — Five Tools for Success with Steve Torma. Five-week online workshop. January 10, 17, 23, 31, and February 7.

Join one of our upcoming Earthaven tours:

In-person tours: November 13, 27, and December 11.
Virtual tour: December 8, or view the recording anytime.

May we use this autumnal time to find clarity about what really matters and make space for something life-serving to emerge.

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Is Place Important? – Virtual Tour

NikiAnne Feinberg — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:33:07 +0000

Back in the winter, I attended my friend Lee Warren’s workshop on “Place-Based Living at Earthaven Ecovillage.”

She talked at length about place. Specifically, she suggested that “we are cosmological orphans” in part because we aren’t connected to place.

I’ve been sitting with that concept. Mulling it. Contemplating it. Considering it.

At Earthaven, we use the phrase “place-based” to describe our educational programs partly because we reside at Earthaven Ecovillage and all of our learning and teaching are born in that PLACE.

But also because we’re trying to become deep, respectful, and integrated inhabitants of this place.

Lee also went on to say, “In our culture, we seem to not know who we are, where we came from, where we are going, or who it’s for.”

So I’ve been asking myself some questions:

What does it mean to become familiar to place? To humble ourselves to place? To learn from place? To steward place? To become indigenous to place? To learn about the gifts of that place?

I’ve been settled in this particular place for almost fourteen years, even though I hail from a far different place (California). And I realize that I’m just starting to touch on the deeper understandings of the cycles, mysteries, and wisdom of this place.

Here are a couple of my favorite quotes about place:

“Sometimes if you move carefully through the forest, breathing like the ones in the old stories, who could cross a shimmering bed of leaves without a sound, you come to a place whose only task is to trouble you with tiny but frightening requests, conceived out of nowhere but in this place beginning to lead everywhere. Requests to stop what you are doing right now, and to stop what you are becoming while you do it, questions that can make or unmake a life, questions that have patiently waited for you, questions that have no right to go away.” – David Whyte

“A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define and limit the possibilities of each other’s lives. It is the knowledge that people have of each other, their concern for each other, their trust in each other, the freedom with which they come and go among themselves.” – Wendell Berry

If you would like to know more about the place we call home, please join me for our next Earthaven Ecovillage Virtual Tour next Wednesday, October 13, 2-4 pm. Find out more and register here. I look forward to meeting you and sharing this special place.

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Autumn Equinox And End-Of-Life Workshop

NikiAnne Feinberg — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 15:48:32 +0000

As we pass through the autumn equinox, we can see the seasonal change in our Appalachian forest home. Bees are feasting on the goldenrod flowers, sumac leaves are turning red, and acorns are falling.

At autumn equinox, we celebrate our harvests of squash and corn, and also the ways we have grown individually and as a community. We make corn dollies, exchange our harvests, and have a feast. The next morning, we gather early to sing up the sun.

We also start preparing for the time of death. My friend and SOIL co-founder, Lee Warren, says:

As we move toward a land-based life, we start to see that death is inherent in everything we do. We respect death and decay in the composting process, in the cycles of giving death to animals, or in the cycles of the seasons changing. As we get more familiar with those cycles, we turn towards the idea that human death can be sacred also, an important and even meaningful part of our lives.

Because we’re a residential community at Earthaven, we have the opportunity to get to know each other over a long period of time. When our friend and elder, Kimchi, entered her dying process, she had a community of people who could really honor her decisions and support her. It was such a gift that she let us in close, let us be of service, and hold and support her as she declined and died. We were able to care for the body at home and have a home funeral as well. It was one of the most profound experiences of my life — there’s some portal that opens into whatever we want to call it, the source or spirit world or the great beyond.

We easily share these stories of the meaningful end-of-life home care and death care, including home burials, but rarely share some of the other stories. Stories of the ones who didn’t have their affairs in order before they passed and had not shared their after-death wishes with their family, creating conflict and stress, and thwarting their dreams for how their life savings would benefit future generations.

Now, I am on a mission to encourage all of our community members to prepare their end-of-life papers. Creating clear end-of-life paperwork is important for all stages of life and health. Written documents help loved ones know what to expect, guide our own inner and outer processes and, when the time comes, allow us to turn our attention to the mystery and magic inherent in the dying process.

We offer you a sacred journey to contemplate your end-of-life intentions and prepare the appropriate documents. Lee is leading a five-week online workshop on Conscious Living, Conscious Dying — Preparing for the End of Life starting November 12. This workshop emerged through our own experiences, help from our mentors, wisdom from the dying, and a synthesis of the celebrations and challenges.

Many people have good intentions for getting their end-of-life papers together. I hope that you will take this opportunity to complete this sacred work in a guided, supportive group process.

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Interview with Communitarian Lee Warren

Lee Warren — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 00:25:19 +0000

Conversation with Communitarian Lee Warren with the FIC on 8/6/21

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Interview with Lee Warren on Relational Leadership

Lee Warren — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:00:57 +0000

Video Interview

Transcript on Interview with Lee Warren on Relational Leadership

Courtney Brooke:

Hi, folks.

It’s Courtney Brooke of Earthaven EcoVillage.

And I’m here with dear friend Lee Warren, who is here to talk with us about a beautiful upcoming offering that she has called Relational Leadership.

What is the subtitle?

Lee Warren:

The subtitle is “A New Paradigm Approach to Team Building and Organizational Success.”

Courtney Brooke:

Right.

Relational Leadership, a new paradigm approach to team building and organizational success.

And I can say from experience I’ve had quite a bit of experience in team building and organizational projects, and I am always learning from Lee.

So I’m really excited that this is being offered through the School of Integrated Living.

So we could you tell us a little bit more about what relational leadership is?

Lee Warren:

Yes.

Hey, I’m happy to be here with you.

And relational leadership means in pioneering new ways of working together. Sort of The central tenant is trust.

We’re moving away from hierarchical structures and moving towards these emergent systems that use collaboration, equity, inclusivity, and mutually beneficial models of relating.

So for me, it always comes back to how trusting in my feeling of this team.

And if I’m not, how can I adjust that?

So both the end goal and the process in relational leadership is to get to really high satisfaction, really high performance teams. And we all want to live in a world where our work and our projects and our movements are even more satisfying than we can imagine.

So relational leadership is all about creating that sort of rich and rewarding engagement.

Courtney Brooke:

Beautiful.

And when you say new paradigm teams, what is that talking about? So new paradigm teams are the future.

Right.

Lee Warren:

We’ve heard so much about how dismantling some old structures, like the 40 hour work week or always being in the office or sitting in cubicles, or only bringing one aspect of ourselves to the job is actually counter to creativity.

Right.

We’ve seen. So Google and other sort of forward thinking organizations pioneer this kind of work. The idea of doing work from home or bringing play into the workplace or having onsite child care. So our lives are more integrated or redesigning our office spaces or rethinking our organizational charts, things that actually bring humans alive. It’s not only best for the bottom line, but it makes everyone happier and healthier and wealthier.

So it’s like the best of the win win win.

And how I like to think about it is, can you imagine a workplace that has honest communication, collective problem solving, transparency, and a strong sense of we’re in this together? Like, that’s the ultimate place to be, in my opinion, in a workplace environment.

Courtney Brooke:

Wow.

Beautiful.

Really bringing the vitality back into the things that we care about and bringing our whole selves to work.

I love that.

So could you tell the listeners a little bit about, like, who are you and why would we want to be learning from you about these things?

Lee Warren:

Yeah.

Thanks.

Yeah.

So, Malcolm Gladwell is the author of Blink and Outliers. He talks about how anything cognitively complex. It takes about 10,000 hours to get good at it. So 10,000 hours is about four hours a day for 10 years. And I’ve been living in a place called Earthaven EcoVillage for 20 years. And before that, I was in another land based community for five years. And within that span of time, and even before that, I have been in nothing but cooperative teams. I sort of swim in the ocean of cooperative culture. So I ran a cooperative farm for 12 years. I built a cohousing neighborhood with four other folks that still exist and have grown to 20 plus residents. After almost 20 years, I worked on a team of women who put together a large conference in the Southeast for 10 years. I ran a sustainable agriculture nonprofit as the executive director for seven years, and all of these teams were thoroughly collaborative and had very high levels of trust. And at this point, I figure I’ve bought about 30,000 hours of relationship and cooperative team buildings under my belt. So I don’t come with any big degrees or certificates, but I come with some significant experience and some really clear direction of what I like and actually sort of a model or a system of a recipe, so to speak of how to actually create it.

Courtney Brooke:

Wow. What a wealth.

So can you give us a little bit of the rundown of what the workshop will look like and what are some things we’re going to walk away with?

Lee Warren:

Sure.

I really think that experiential learning is the way that adults integrate new material. And so we will sort of have this two hours together, and we’re going to be doing dynamic discussion, one on one dialogue, classmate engagement, takeaway exercises, and really I want… my intention is for folks to build a toolkit to enhance their already existing tool kit and to build skills. So we start out with this idea of envision a time when you had a working relationship where it was defined by high levels of trust. And what did that feel like and look like in your world? And then subsequently talk about a work relationship that had low levels of trust and what did that look and feel like?

And then we’re going to sort of go through some different components. I have this sort of whole pyramid of things that happen to create relational leadership. And one component is building a layer of solid, transparent participatory groundwork through clear agreements. What I’m calling guiding document. Other components, including include understanding human motivation and how to include our whole selves in the work experience.

Other pieces are defining our values, our expectations, and how we want to be together. So actually creating relational contracts, and then there’s things in the organization that help us stay connected to each other, give each other feedback, and build an ongoing flow of trust and good will.

And ultimately, I’m hoping that everyone can do all of these things to get to the point where we create joy, connection, fund, belonging aliveness and effectiveness in our work.

Courtney Brooke:

Beautiful.

So this is a two hour offering.

It is. Is that what I understand? Wow.

There’s a lot to come out of it, what we’re offering.

Yeah. What a treat.

Okay.

And how can people get involved?

What is the pathway?

Lee Warren:

So they can go to the schoolofintegratedliving.org or earthaven.org, where this workshop is being offered. And just a little bit about who it’s for.

I think that it’s best really, for folks who’ve done some conscious leadership, right. Who’s done some consciousness raising in their own lives, and who had some experience at leadership. So whether they’re in the nonprofit business, corporate, NGO, or government sector doesn’t really matter. But anyone who’s part of a team, anyone who manages people project groups or organizations. And it really doesn’t matter if they’re new to leadership or long term, but they have to have a sense of organizational framework and also of trying to make life better through consciousness raising practices.

So, Yeah, go to those websites and find out more. It’s upcoming this year a couple of times.

Courtney Brooke:

So thank you so much, Lee.

And if you want to know more about Earthaven Ecovillage, we offer tours every Saturday, public stores and offer also virtual tours once a month.

And you can find more information at earthaven.org about this offering and upcoming offering.

And also join our newsletter to stay in tune with other offerings that are coming out.

And to just get a flavor of who we are and how we are, have a beautiful day.

Thank you so much.

Lee.

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We Learned So Much From Death

NikiAnne Feinberg — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 17:14:41 +0000

It’s hard to convey just how much we have learned from the deaths of a few of our beloved community members.

Over a two-year period from spring 2016 to spring 2018 we had six deaths in our community.

These beloveds all had home funerals and home burials. And several of them died at home after being tended to by our fellow villagers.

A few of the take-aways:

A good death is possible. In fact, it’s actually accessible.
The dying give a tremendous gift to the living before, during, and after their death.
Death brings the community together in a way nothing else does.

Our experiences were so profoundly positive, including learning to grieve our losses, that we’re offering some of our wisdom to you in July through a two-part, eight-hour workshop called End of Life Planning & Paperwork: Honoring Your Life and Your Loved Ones.

Have you thought about your death?
Are you able to talk about your death or the deaths of your loved ones?
Have you considered what you would like if you become injured or so ill that you can’t speak for yourself?
Have you thought about your wishes once you are gone?
Have you shared these desires with the people closest to you?

This workshop is a beautiful way to invest in yourself and your circle of family and friends. In fact, it may very well change your life.

Here’s what some past participants have to say about this workshop:

“This workshop offers a bounty of resources, including the participants who lend support, education and direction. It’s truly a beautiful unfolding of community in process! I feel so much more well-equipped to address the issues of approaching my end-of-life.” — Benita Silver, LCMHC

“I highly recommend this workshop to absolutely everyone. And ASAP too! None of us can know when the moment will come that we must leave our body (and life as we know it) behind forever. Being as prepared as we can be for such creates more grace and ease in one’s living.” — 2020 Workshop Participant

“The workshop was comprehensive and impressive in regard to the content shared. The workshop was as thorough as it was spacious. I highly recommend this.” — Dr David Nygaard

“I was surprised at how quickly the time went, and I felt completely engaged throughout. This workshop was organized, informative, motivating — and most of all, human.” — Kitty Schaller

We hope you’ll consider joining us in July for this heart opening, playful, important, and inspiring journey. The workshop has a sliding scale from $96 to $170.

As an incentive, we are offering our newsletter subscribers a 50% discount for this two-part workshop, making the workshop as low as $48!

To receive the discount, use coupon code ELP-EBird when you register. The discount is available through June 22.

Find more information about the workshop and register on our website.

Interview with the workshop instructor Lee Warren

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Interview with Lee Warren on End-of-Life Paperwork & Literacy Workshop

Lee Warren — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 22:59:41 +0000

Video Interview with Lee Warren

Transcript of Interview with Lee Warren

Courtney Brooke (CB): Hi folks, I’m here with Lee Warren. Hi Lee.

Lee: Hi Courtney Brooke.

CB: Good to be with you and we’re here to talk about an exciting upcoming offering through Earthaven Ecovillage that Lee is offering with helping us do our end of life paperwork. So yeah I just had a few questions for you Lee. One is could you tell us why you’re wanting to offer this beautiful work through Earthaven Ecovillage.

Lee: Yes, thank you, um…So from the spring of 2016 to the fall of 2018 we had five deaths at our ecovillage, Three of those folks died at home, all five of those folks had home funerals and home burials and some kind of, you know, magical evolutionary programming kicked in in so many of us and we harmoniously created uh processes for both caring for the dying, tending to the dead, and tending to our own grief in in some of the most profound community experiences I’ve ever had in 25 years of community.
And so many of us came out of that experience over the course of those two and a half years pretty transformed and realized that we wanted to offer the world some taste of that.
And because of my background in in finance and economics and sort of systems organization design, I really wanted to marry the tenderness of that process with helping people step by step go through uh thinking about their intentions and their end of life paperwork.
So it’s this interesting combination of the left brain and the right brain and we we really blend that in a powerful way during this workshop and that really all sort of grew out of a lived experience of of being with the dying.

CB: Wow that is beautiful. So could you speak to just how the course is formatted, like what what will we be getting out of the course?

Lee: Yeah after a series of years doing this I’ve really come to a format that seems to work pretty well for adult learners.
So the workshop is eight full hours and we structure it in two half days. So we do four hours and then a week later we do another four hours. So we have a week in between and I find that this topic, because it’s slightly taboo in our culture and a lot of people don’t touch this topic very often in their lives, there there’s a lot of integration and processing time that’s needed and so we really create a powerful container where people feel safe to explore and digest and discuss and contemplate and get inspired about possibilities. So that takes a little time and I really find that this is the best of all formats for this for this particular workshop.

CB: Wow beautiful. So I hear there will be some integration of just the process of getting getting cozy with the fact that we are mortal and that our life will come to an end and making some peace with that and then also actually getting down to some practical filling out paperwork that will make that transition better more easeful more clear.

Lee: Yeah.

CB: Yeah, go ahead.

Lee: Well my intentions for the workshop really, you know at a fundamental level, are to introduce people to resources to increase our death and dying literacy and ability to articulate um and again as I mentioned contemplation and inspiration, but also to start some, you know to really start some paperwork, we have about four or five pieces of paperwork that we’re starting.
Some people finish it, some people actually identify some next steps and get a checklist and figure out what they’re going to do by what date.
And part of the beauty of the collective in this context is that we create a buddy system for accountability and support so that they don’t just sit in a pile on your desk but they actually get done by the dates that people want them to get done.
And then even more exciting for me from a collective perspective is how do we build a death literate community, how do we create comfort for this conversation, and how do we build, you know, how do we build in the long term a structure of support where we can actually help each other through not only the conversation but through the dying process.
So all of that we’re having conversations about and we’re wading pretty deeply into.

CB: Well that sounds very rich Lee. Could you share with us a little bit about like what happens when someone does or doesn’t and your experience in your life like when someone has done this preparation and then when someone has not done this preparation. Like how how that that is a seed that gets watered for different experiences.

Lee: Yeah that’s a really great question.
I find that when people actually have spent some time in their life before they’re dying to contemplate these things that they actually can go into the dying process with a little more ease, Right?
They can um they can have a they’re more likely to be able to have what’s called a good death. And how I define that is how one of my mentors defines it, which is a good death is walking towards it.
So if we’ve got some things in order we can actually settle in and surrender to the pretty sacred process of dying that not only is our process but the process of everybody around us who loves us and that can be a very liminal magical experience especially if we can put down the physical world because we’ve sort of crossed our t’s and dotted our i’s.
You know it’s never black or white or one thing or the other and death can be challenging particularly if it’s a painful death process but my experience is if we have decided to um put our intentions down it can pave the way for a process that can be pretty miraculous and and I would even venture to say beyond conscious, potentially joyful potentially ecstatic.
I think we’re we’re pioneering these realms, but my sense is preparation paves the way for those things.
And on the on the opposite side, you know, um people who maybe aren’t as prepared (and you know death can go in any mysterious ways so it’s sometimes people don’t do anything and they have a fabulous death and they do all this preparation and they have a challenging death so it’s not cut and dry) but I think one example that I can think of is that someone had actually about a month to live, a dear friend had a month to live and the doctors, the oncologists told him, “oh you have a year or two,” and he didn’t get to his paperwork and then um who was the beneficiary on one of his insurance insurance policies was an ex-partner, an ex-marriage partner and that created a whole bunch of infighting between the family and other people and it was the post-death experience for the people who were left was agonizing and painful and it went to court and it was lots of high drama and I don’t imagine that that was helpful for any of his beloveds to really sink in and be able to process his death in a pure way because there was so much conflict around it. So those are just some examples. It doesn’t have to go those ways but it is really nice to get things in order because as we do we leave instructions for the living and when the living have instructions they’re very interested in carrying out the wishes of the dying and the dead and it can create a lot of harmony and good will.

CB: Wow that is really beautiful. I just wanted to share that I’ve also gone through my own paperwork for my my process and my paperwork isn’t complete but um it wasn’t because I was sick or because I was anything just because it came my way and came into my awareness and I and I did that and it was it was a really rich experience that I would highly recommend. Also to just really gave me like more life, you know, like i was being like you know, i grew up in a culture, we all grew up in a culture where it’s like “oh just don’t talk about that,” we just put that somewhere else. We just think that we’re going to live forever and have all these you know buy things that keep us young or whatever that’s gonna be like and yeah it was really rewarding to just like “how would I like to die and and where would i like to be?” and to be able to voice it to my beloveds, even to my mother and to my friends. It brought a lot of intimacy into my my life and my relationships.

Lee: Yeah really death does open a portal to the mystery and talking about death opens a portal to the mystery I think even in our eight hours together something really mysterious does open and we we have this comprehensive overview but it’s really quite a deep dive and I think people are changed because of our time together because of touching on this topic and swimming in those mysteries for a time together.

CB: Wow, well I’m feeling so excited and grateful that you’re going to bring these offerings to Earthaven and be offering them through an online offering through earthaven.org and that’s where people can go to find more information and to register and these offerings are up and coming so is there anything else you’d like to share or touch in on before we go?

Lee: Just join us for the journey, it’s you know it’s a lot of resources a lot of focus, but also playful, heartful, and frankly fun.

CB: Thank you so much Lee for helping us take care of this sacred threshold of our lives called death.

Lee: Thank you Courtney Brooke.

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My Firewood Stack

NikiAnne Feinberg — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 17:10:32 +0000

At Earthaven Ecovillage, we do a lot more “chop wood, carry water” than the average American.

In some ways it makes life harder and in some ways it makes life better. Taking care of the physical world so that it can take care of me helps me stay embodied, humble, and connected to this great mother Earth.

Our firewood shed and stack of wood serves us so well. And as the saying goes, chopping wood warms you twice–once when you chop it and once when you burn it.

My firewood shed and firewood

If you’d like to learn more about my life, our lives, and the everyday stuff that creates the ecovillage, consider joining me on the next Earthaven virtual tour, which is happening on Wednesday, June 2 from 7 – 9 pm Eastern Time.

Looking forward to a continued connection with you.

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Creating Community With Women

NikiAnne Feinberg — Sat, 22 May 2021 19:51:46 +0000

I first read Anita Diamant’s book, The Red Tent, back in 2007. A few years later, in 2012, at a women’s gathering, hundreds of us watched Things We Don’t Talk About: Women’s Stories from the Red Tent, which documented the growing movement.

There was clearly a great need to share, discuss, and honor our internal cycles in a safe and supportive environment. Since then, the movement has expanded all over the world.

A teacher of mine, ALisa Starkweather, often called the mother of the Red Tent Temple movement, lays out some guiding principles such as: Red Tents are a place for women of all ages and stages; they are focused on our journeys as women; they encourage non-directed time, they are ideally held near the new moon, and they act as an archetypal womb space.

At Earthaven, we’ve been so lucky to have Kaitlin Ilya Wolf guiding our Red Tent gatherings for more than a decade. Having a consistent resource for scheduling, decorating, facilitating, and encouraging women to get together once a month has been beyond supportive; it’s been transformative. And it naturally builds community among women.

Kaitlin speaking about Red Tents

Through SOIL, Kaitlin is now offering a four-hour online workshop on Red Tent Facilitation Training for women around the world who might want to start a Red Tent in their region. It’s being offered three times: June 5, September 18, and December 4.

I’m so thrilled that we are able to offer this kind of encouragement and empowerment to other women who want to experience the kind of community that we have here at Earthaven.

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What Is Permaculture?

NikiAnne Feinberg — Tue, 18 May 2021 19:46:19 +0000

Our world is always looking for things to be boiled down to a soundbite. Sometimes complex things can’t be conveyed in a summary or a sentence. I recently found a phrase from an article entitled The Indigenous Science of Permaculture by Rohini Walker that, for me, conveys the essence of Permaculture:

“An indigenous science of working in partnership with cycles of nature.”

The wisdom of this sentence is so important.

Two reasons we’re offering the upcoming Decolonizing Permaculture series are:

To emphasize that permaculture’s origins emerge from indigenous technologies and practice. Permaculture has not been great at accentuating that important point, which can often look like appropriation, extraction, and arrogance.
To acknowledge that sometimes when disconnected folks embrace permaculture, they can implement it with a colonized mindset. This can often look like encouraging perfection, black and white thinking, and systems that are not fully in integrity.

During the workshop series, which runs for five Saturdays from May 22 to June 19, we’ll explore the permaculture principles through an equity lens with three amazing instructors. You can meet two of the them — Amakiasu Turpin-Howze and Tyson Sampson — in this interview:

Sera Deva interviewing Amakiasu Turpin-Howze and Tyson Sampson

Please check out the workshop description and instructor bios of Amakiasu, Tyson, and Lee on our website. We’re so excited to be offering this series.

Martin Prechtel is a mentor and dear teacher to several people at Earthaven. He says:

“Every individual in the world, regardless of cultural background or race, has an indigenous soul struggling to survive in an increasingly hostile environment created by that individual’s mind. A modern person’s body has become a battleground between the rationalist mind — which subscribes to the values of the machine age — and the native soul. This battle is the cause of a great deal of spiritual and physical illness.”

Blessings on all of our journeys to wellbeing. Whatever path we are walking.

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