Thank you @Ruth Nelson-Andorf for making me aware of this festival of wild & kind ideas, organized by the Permaculture Education Institute. It sounds delightful and I'm signed up. @Veronique Sikora Gasser @Maria do Céu Bastos @Nathalie Venis-Randabel https://permacultureeducationinstitute.org/festival-2026/

Thought this would be of interest to share as applications are currently open for a United World College (UWC)-endorsed online short course “The World as a Village of 100 People.” This online course invites participants to explore global inequality, identity, interdependence, and citizenship through an immersive simulation-based learning experience. Using the imaginative framework of a “village of 100 people,” participants will examine how global systems shape everyday life and how communities make decisions about their shared future. Through dialogue, role-based learning, and a structured Citizen Assembly, participants will practice empathy, ethical representation, systems thinking, and collaborative decision-making. The Geographical Imaginations Expedition & Institute (The GIEI) is an education and civic learning initiative that uses human geography, dialogue, and systems thinking to help young people and communities better understand global interdependence, inequality, and planetary futures. The GIEI designs learning experiences and research projects that cultivate imagination, critical thinking, and collective agency around global challenges. If anyone does sign up it would be fabulous to share your learning back here with the community ☺️

Hello everyone, The topic of spirituality and inner development inspired me to share something I'm preparing. I am hosting a small 60-minute workshop called Listening to What Is Changing and wanted to share it with this community. It’s for people who sense that something in their life is shifting—even if they can’t quite name what—and want space to pause and listen for what might be emerging. It feels like a particular moment right now, where personal transitions and broader collective shifts are sitting closer together—and worth making space to explore. Monday, April 13 · 11:00–12:00 PM PT Zoom Register here: https://goldenthreadcoach.com/events This is an edge for me, offering work that feels more spiritually aligned. I’m very much in the shaping phase of this, and I would genuinely value any honest feedback—what resonates, what doesn’t, and what could be clearer. I have a few spots remaining and would love to welcome some of you there! Warmly, Julie

Across years of working in leadership development, peacebuilding, organisational transformation, and decolonial inquiry, I have witnessed a simple truth: spaces change when we change the way we hold them. Not through technique, but through presence. Not through authority, but through humility. And not through speed, but through relational depth. Facilitating with a Decolonising Ethic is my offering to that truth: a synthesis of what I have learned while holding rooms shaped by power, history, grief, imagination, and the longing for repair. This manual distils the practices that help a space breathe: grounding that slows inherited urgency, questions that open rather than direct, multilingual and trauma-aware approaches that honour many forms of knowing, and an ethic of care that resists extraction and performance. I created this because so many of us are seeking ways to convene that do not replicate the very systems we hope to transform. If you are working at the intersections of leadership, justice, ecology, community, or inner development, I hope this resource serves you. If you feel called into conversation or collaboration, you are welcome to reach me at [email protected] May this work support those who hold space as an act of courage, clarity, and repair.

Share in the comments how you're celebrating Earth today! I'll go down to 'my' forest and river again and practice walking bare feet 😍