Communication · Permaculture Women Magazine

When we don’t know enough, what good does opinion do?

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" --Plato

Women Who Ask, Women Who Listen: Social Permaculture and Laying Stones for Peace

Does permaculture have what it takes to evolve?

Poetics of communication

There’s an issue that needs addressing, like a PO-box of understanding, of enthusiastically awaiting new mail to arrive, like the birds of yesterday in harmonic screeches of today’s fairy tales.

How to Have Difficult Conversations

How do we have difficult conversations? Any time we expect a conversation to be(come) difficult, it is because we assume that either the other person will reject what we propose or they will be hurt by what we share with them. I want to talk about the latter.

Benefits of Purging

Did you know that the primary definition of purging — before involving your bowels or getting rid of stuff — is this: a : to clear of guilt b : to…

Permaculture communication skills

Permaculture communication skills, speaking with compassion and the need to be understood.

War, what is it good for?

War, what is it good for? We need more compassion and understanding.

Buddhist Meditation and Regenerative Culture

By Dido Dunlop Our hearts and outer world grow hearty together To restore Mother Nature, and grow tomatoes in our cities, we must redesign our inner…

It’s not enough to be an environmentalist. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

Racism and climate change are linked in many ways. We must be anti-racist environmentalists.

Mapping and landing in a living world: how a Permaculture Design Course helped me organize my life

When I enrolled in a Permaculture Design Course in 2013, my youngest child was only three months old, and we had only recently landed in Scotland. I had spent most of my adult life away from Scotland…

Toward a permaculture for the people

Care of the Earth. Care of people. Fair surplus sharing. For whom? We need a permaculture for the people.

Book Review: Permaculture Design Companion by Jasmine Dale

There is a new beautiful permaculture design resource. Here is the Permaculture Design Companion by Jasmine Dale reviewed.

GOBRADIMET+ Design process

How to use the GOBRADIMET Design process for working on projects and in groups.

What I learned from keeping chickens

There's life wisdom to absorb from keeping chickens.

How To Organize a SkillShare and Shift the Culture of Your Community

In this article I will show you how to transform the way your community learns and cooperates, through learning how to organize a skillshare.

Accessing Permaculture for People with Disability and/or Chronic Illness

Permaculture for people with disability- positives, challenges and suggestions for a more inclusive permaculture.

Connection-the Language of Life

Early morning musings on meaning and connection, the language of life.

What is Ecofeminism? In a nutshell — how to save the world

What is Ecofeminism? The five elements are one way to explain.

Why my farm isn’t a “Permaculture Farm”

As we integrate into living, working farm communities, it’s important to remember that a permaculture farm is not a new idea.

Decoloniziation for Beginners: Inner and Outer Vision

Using the land and our tangible environments as the palette of living changes everything. Life is not just an idea that lives in the head,…

Ascension of Female Traits = Beyond Gender Equality

By Jodie Harburt When women thrive so too can the earth, everything and everyone else. Equality is one of those things that only works multilaterally. We…

Bringing Nature Inside

Some ideas for improving access to nature connection if you, or someone you are close to, has an illness or disability meaning they find it difficult to be outdoors and need to bring nature inside.

Healing Racial Injustices Using Restorative Practices: An Oral History by Morris Ervin

Ideas for healing racial injustices

Earth Based Spirituality and Permaculture — The 5 Elements as a Design Tool

Earth Based Spirituality, using Earth, fire, air, water and spirit to as a tool to design my journey to Andalucía.

Problem is the solution: keeping it simple

We’ve now gone so far beyond what is appropriate for our culture, for our health, and for the planet that it is time to bring technology back to scale. The problem is the solution.

Howling at the Moon: Communication and Connection for Healing the Pack

Howling at the moon is an analogy for describing clear and heart-centered communication established with yourself first and then extended to another.

Principles of Presence:

Applying Permaculture Design and Integral Theory to Personal Development By Jennifer English Morgan The image of a woman wearing a golden straw hat with a…

How to collect Feedback, the art of Evaluation and Renegotiation

Clear feedback is vital to any project. In this article I'll show you how to collect feedback.

The Elephant at the Front Door: A Designers Approach to Shadow Work

By Jennifer English Morgan Crash, clatter, smash, tink, tink. A careless boy’s ball shatters the front window pane. A scorned lover flings a picture frame…