offers and interests for 2025
January 14, 2025Here I am saying out loud what is alive for me right now and ahead…
Offers
Courses
See the PEAS web page for current permaculture education offers
https://peas-permaculture.com/peas
Workshops
Rapid design in place – workshops designed by request
The Next Event Offered…
The next event going to:
Regeneration Study Group Canberra City Farm
Bioregional activation. Design School program !!
(I hope for synchronicity between these two)
Word for 2025 – Soilmate
Interests
Article Reading
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/07/how-is-concern-about-climate-change-taking-a-toll-on-young-people
Slowly
- Gregory Bateson’s ecology of the mind (very slowly bit by bit)
- Carol Sanfords writings (again)
Carefully …The Permaculture newsletters from the late 70 -80’s – part of a Canberra Australia archive provided to me by John Champagne. This one is an archiving project potentially.
Still pondering – Technofeudalism (one of the best explanations of capitalism that I can understand).
https://simplicityinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TedTrainerandTheSimplerWay1.pdf Samuel Alexanders essay on Ted Trainers’ the simpler way’
‘Professional reading’
Tony Fry – Defuturing – a new philosophy for Design (first published 1999, 2020 edition)
https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.T2024121600019901012894338
The evolution of regulation to prevent psychosocial harm in Australia
Bioregionaling
Local volunteer or pro bono work and Co-operative Director role
Networks for #regenerative and #permaculture practice in design
Signed up for Regenerative Design Schools program 2025
Activities with experience and meaning
- Building PEAS from seeded startup to ‘growing’ organisation
https://peas-permaculture.com/peas#current-offers
- Canberra City Farm Regeneration Study Group
Aiming for
more input free time – letting my brain go into idle and creative modes more often
Appreciating…3 things that I stop to appreciate – the cumulative list for 2025…
women who build
The sharing and research into the concepts of self as a state we can create, and what is ‘transcendence’ –
John Seed, just being John Seed. “we are all stardust originally” there is no ‘other’
kind co-workers
sharing stories from my 20’s with people in their 20’s
dirt with potential
permission to play locally
a life well lived in service (RIP JY)