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 events going to:
Permaculture convergence Australia 2025
Canberra Environment Centre- Cally Brennan and waterwise gardens.
Monto Qld 97th agricultural show
Canberra Environment Centre- Bush tucker plants
Assembly 2025 – International Year of Co-operatives – This was great but I felt a little introverted at the time, met some amazing go-getters though.
Doing…
ART…
Painting and drawing on Monday arvos with Dennis Mortimer (Bunker Artists) –
Loving this – Yes – and exhibiting here
Current Design projects…
Vee’s garden
OB with Bro (a start up gaining ground rapidly)
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 – Activating your Bioregion – amazing program – really well designed for educational scaffolding and community building connections to build confidence, along with practical support like seed funding
Activities with experience and meaning
- Building PEAS from seeded startup to ‘growing’ organisation
https://peas-permaculture.com/peas#current-offers
Regeneration Study Group – Sunday afternoons at Canberra City Farm – started and talking about the diversity and crafting of world views.
- Perspective taking
- Fritjov Capra fans
(all headspace, may need to be followed by a ponder at the pub or a slow walk around the wetlands).
Pondering…
Churchill Fellow application and/or Doctoral study – deadlines looming…
How to do rearrange my work time into life time…I asked Chat GPT – here is what it suggested.
‘Professional 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)
- Tony Fry – Defuturing – a new philosophy for Design (first published 1999, 2020 edition) – wow so much jargon I am glad that April Sampson-Kelly is reading that for me 🙂
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). Great book by the guy who does the Team Human podcast…
https://simplicityinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TedTrainerandTheSimplerWay1.pdf Samuel Alexanders essay on Ted Trainers’ the simpler way’ – a bit idealistic given most of us are urbanised creatures detached from the natural world.
https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.T2024121600019901012894338
The evolution of regulation to prevent psychosocial harm in Australia
2025…
Word for 2025 – Soilmate
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)
rekindling wellbeing strategies
summers end
how my mac just keeps going….
resilience skills that just keep on giving
home and kitchen tables
talking around the real stuff with the weather as metaphor