conscious roots
garden, gather & grow
13-Month Slow Study
Deepen Your Roots
in partnership with Rooted Healing
A 13-month slow-study course weaving deep ecology, ‘the work that reconnects’, and a psycho-socio-spiritual exploration into re-inhabitation of place.
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This is a journey of honouring, belonging and becoming
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Over 13-moon cycles we will explore what it means to re-inhabit place through new and ancient eyes. In deepening connections to land, food, water, flora and fauna, community, folklore, geology, ancestry, song and tradition, this journey will root you into a feeling of home, purpose and animistic interbeing.
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Held as a full, slow spiral of Joanna Macy’s ‘The Work that Reconnects’, this course is practical, intellectual, embodied and spiritual; you may find yourself diving into books and rivers, breaking bread with local ecological farmers, teaching your community to forage wild plants and building fires with new allies.
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At the end of the year you can be pinned on our bioregionalism ‘Guardians’ map, helping pollinate broad landscapes with leaders of ecological intimacy and bioregional stewardship.
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This is, quite simply, the deepest guided exploration of belonging on offer.
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“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Thoreau
what is included?
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13 Inspiring Council Calls
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12 special guest talks/workshops
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13 printable PDF + audio course chapters
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Community of support
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Guidance for your research
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1 on 1 mastermind coaching session
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Practical skills (foraging, medicine making, and so on)
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Shared research forum
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Signposts to an array of reading, listening and watching materials
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An in-depth exploration of yourself, your bioregion and your calling
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Support with emergent projects
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Opportunities to become a part of an exciting new bioregionalism map and movement
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Feature opportunities within our emerging annual journal
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You’ll feel resourced to bring forth your unique medicine and vision
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A tried and tested roadmap to belonging
vision: walking the green path
Deepen Your Roots is a multi-generational calling, it does not end after 13-moons. As a participant you gain automatic, lifetime status as a bioregional guardian; a keeper of the wisdom, knowledge and forgotten secrets of the land on which you live.
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Throughout the programme you will have the opportunity to explore and develop offerings to nourish your ecological-niche. What is it that your lands long for? Your community?
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As we define and inhabit this bioregional map of belonging, you will have the option to add your details as a beacon of hope for bioregional flourishing. We cannot say what your ecological niche will be; perhaps it is planting school gardens, leading folkloric walks, initiating rewilding projects or petitioning for new water-care systems.
Perhaps you’ll launch a movement that reshapes the world, all guided by the land you listen to beneath your feet.
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Our work is to bio-regionally re-vision our maps with blurred boundaries, creating a growing community who do not wish to forget what it means to belong.
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Join us now to become part of this unique, vital work toward a more beautiful landscape of re-membered interconnectivity.
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Our next intake will open summer 2024. Sign up to my newsletter to be informed when this opens and be sure to get a place on this life changing journey.
