A deep ecology retreat that nurtures our connection and inter-being with the natural world, with guest facilitator Dr. Andreas Weber, award winning biologist and philosopher.
This weekend retreat lasts from Friday evening until Sunday after lunch and guides participants toward rediscovering our inter-connectedness with nature. We will start and end with the question ‘Who are we?’ and will deepen our understanding and knowing throughout the weekend as we also participate in the spiral of The Work That Reconnects.
Katharine Burke, deep ecology practitioner, permaculturist, teacher and facilitator of The Work that Reconnects.
– Work in the Spiral of The Work that Reconnects with gratitude, honoring our pain, seeing with new eyes, and going forth in connection to Earth.
100 – 250 British pounds (sliding scale depending on personal economy) includes retreat and meals from Friday evening to Sunday lunch.
This retreat will take place in the beautiful Norwegian countryside in June, with almost 24 hours of daylight per day. Round trip flights from England (London Stansted) are currently only 40-65 pounds depending on departure on Sunday or Monday. We can provide pick up and delivery to the airport (Oslo Torp) which is just a half hour from the venue.
Permaculture is a systems-based approach to problem-solving based on cycles, processes, and principles observed in nature. In a permaculture garden or landscape, planting, sowing, growing, and the design of the landscape are practiced in ways that mimic processes in nature and reflect an understanding of water flow, wind patterns, earth and soil composition, beneficial plants and insects, zones of growth and many other elements.
In the last few years, permaculture principles have been extended from garden and landscapes to the realm of ‘social permaculture’. If we are also natural creatures, then this makes sense. Social permaculture design is a way to recreate nature’s principles in our own lives, interactions, and social groups. As natural beings, we are of and from nature. Our separation from nature and natural processes is in fact, I believe, both the cause of our poor understanding of and horrific misuse of nature and the cause of many of our own social problems. Reconnecting with nature and with natural processes can help to heal the environment, can heal our social structures, and can heal ourselves. Looby Macnamara’s excellent book, People and Permaculture, is a wonderful introduction to the ways that an understanding of permaculture ethics, principles, and design can be used in our own lives to develop lifestyle design.
As a permaculturist, teacher and curriculum designer, I became interested in the ways permaculture and regenerative design principles can be used within the ‘landscape’ of a classroom, and in developing the larger school curriculum. We have the responsibility, I believe,to bring an understanding of permaculture ethics, principles, and design methodology to schools and to teachers.
The Yearning of the Tree, and Acceptance of Rest.
The Celebration Isn’t Over Yet- Happy Perihelium and May Emergence Begin.
This weekend retreat lasts from Friday evening until Sunday after lunch and guides participants toward wellness and wholeness though rediscovering our inter-connectedness with nature. We will start and end with the question ‘who are we?’ and will deepen our understanding and knowing throughout the weekend as we also participate in the spiral of The Work That Reconnects.
-Participate in a deep time walk: 4.6 billion years of Earth’s history represented and narrated in a 4.6 kilometers walk through beautiful Vestfold.
Accommodation: 20 pounds per night in a room with two 15 pounds per night in a room with 3 10 pounds per night in annex or tent- bedding and toiletries included. max. 15 persons.
This retreat will take place in the beautiful Norwegian countryside in June, with almost 24 hours of daylight per day. Round trip flights from England (London Stansted) are currently only 40-65 pounds depending on departure on Sunday or Monday. We can provide pick up and delivery to the airport (Olso Torp) which is just a half hour from the venue. Please contact us if you would like a proposed schedule of events over the weekend.
I record my thoughts on education, permaculture and regenerative design on the wordpress blog called REAP regenerative ecology as pedagogy. I’m not sure the subtitle makes great sense, but I liked the acronym enough to keep it. My writing ranges from ranting to philosophy to rambling to, perhaps, some genuine insight. Feel free to follow me to get updates!