Voices of Women in Permaculture

Permaculture Womens Guild

By Klaudia van Gool Last month I joined the Extinction Rebellion actions in Bristol and got myself arrested for willingly obstructing a highway. I’m not one for putting myself into the public eye, other than when teaching/facilitating, nor upsetting people, but this is so much bigger than any of that. It has been part of my life’s work to find the most effective tools to support us living in balance with the Earth. It brought me to permaculture, deep nature connection, regenerative culture, healing, grief tending and ceremony. And still the carbon emissions have been going up. We need a…

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By Gisa Seeholzer Building a community through growing something sustainable can be a challenge. Over the past few months I have learned more and grown more than I could have imagined. I was pushed into directions that challenged me in both good ways and bad ways. All the while I was reading about permaculture. I started out taking a course that was meant to be taught to kids in kindergarten all the way through high school. I started to learn about connection between people, the earth, and the benefits and importance of sharing the surplus that we harvest. Like any…

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The time I visited the oldest ecocommunity in Spain By Elena Pollen Long before moving to Spain, or, a few months actually, my partner & I came across this article about the oldest ecocommunity in Spain. Filled with beautiful pictures of wooden houses and wisened people, we dreamed of someday being there, living the self sufficient mountain life. Two years later, having just arrived in León on foot, 130km of steep terrain and mist behind us, we were quite happy to get the bus to our next destination. Matavenero, the oldest ecocommunity in Spain, is located somewhere in Astorga, which…

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By Gudrun Cartwright Today I need to write. For the last few weeks I have been consumed with work. I have written for that purpose, but not for me. Not for my website. My mission. My sanity. Yet again, life is getting in the way. I have such great plans. Such lofty ambitions. But I get caught in the day to day. As Stephen Covey famously said in the 7 habits of highly effective people, in the urgent, but not so important, when I consider my overall mission. How do you go about redressing this balance? Find the time, when…

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By Julia Pereira Dias So, I hear that positive thinking has fallen from grace. It has “brainwashed [us] into thinking that that confidence will eventually cause competence,’ as Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic said in an interview with the Harvard Business Review. The result is over-confidence, people who think they can do everything, when they don’t have the competence to do anything. (Reminds you of one or the other manager?) Worse still, ‘positive thinking’ has the potential to terrorize people into believing that any pain or dark mood they experience, in addition to being painful, is also a sure sign of their failure…

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releasing old pain by dealing with grief, caring for your body, making art, and getting dirty

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Arbitrary label or a point of connection? By Roshnii Rose What’s in a name? That which we call a rose,By any other name would smell as sweet. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare I have an interesting relationship with names. In 2002, at the age of 20, I was given a Sanskrit name by my then meditation teacher and felt as though a powerful gift had been bestowed upon me. Roshnii — meaning Divine Light or ‘the first ray of sun at dawn’. It seemed the name was imbued with an energy that elevated my mind. In 2006, after living for 4 years…