It ain't over till the blackbird sings

A garden drama unfolds during a heatwave, and I share my summer solstice/New Year wishes for you.Thanks for tuning into another year of Reskillience! We'll be back later in January full of fresh questions and custard. Shout out to my love Jordan Osmond for helping produce this episode.Sound credit: BlackbirdFiltered.wav by acclivity 🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

Cor blimey, we're getting equiney! Cast aside your Saddle Club trauma and learn how horses can help us be better humans and stewards of nature in this rich convo with Lisa Podosin.Lisa is a horse listener, advocate and author who swapped Hollywood for a tiny home on shared land with a herd of seven horses. We get real deep on topics of:🐴 not putting off till retirement what you wanna do today🐴 choosing freedom over security at any age🐴 land sharing gifts and tips (single women supporting women!)🐴 how horses as prey animals reveal our inner misalignment🐴 moving beyond control-based strategies (bridles, saddles, whips) and towards trust🐴 how to be agents of liberation for both the more-than-human world and our own wild souls🐴 learning interspecies communication🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️Lisa’s home on the webPre-order Lisa’s book🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon (and join our December meetup) 🧡🧡🧡Thanks for the birdsong straget! Blackbird.wav by straget | License: Attribution 4.0

You want it, you got it: an open discussion about the cracks in our civilisation, and how to catch each other when it all falls apart.Dave Pollard has been writing about culture, complexity, deep ecology and collapse for longer than some of us have been alive. While he continues to cheer on radical ‘deep green’ activists, he no longer believes that that we can change or reform The System. This convo is about what to do instead.[first aired in 2023]🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️Dave's writingsDave’s recommended reading list ~ The Books That Have Influenced Me MostDave’s article ~ How Do We Teach the Critical Skills Needed to Face Collapse?Molly Housch Gordon's piece ~ How to Survive the End of The World[watch] The New Peasants by Happen Films

Could you live without money? No support payments, no savings account, no secret benefactors? Jo Nemeth has been doing so for the past decade, and reckons she is less stressed and more secure in her moneyless life (in which she shares a home with eight other humans and plays the role of house keeper/manager/grower/frugavore). This is a truly radical tale of a woman who went the whole hog and gave up the bacon 💰 to invest in relationships and reciprocity. We cover:What is poverty/wealth?Why live without money?Jo has no hope!Less money = more freedomWhy to be a home economistIssues in a nine person householdThe deliciousness of aligning your actions with your valuesMoneyless gift giving, cravings, medical and moreWaste food seagull modeReceiving is harrrrdKids + collapseOn taking care of thingsCollapse prioritiesGrowing locally adapted food🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️Jo’s home on the webJo on Instagram ~ @jolowimpactJo in the GuardianMark Boyle ~ The Moneyless Man + The Way HomeEaarth ~ Bill McKibbenLuke Kemp ~ Goliath’s CurseArtist As FamilyThe Art of Frugal Hedonism ~ Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam GrubbThe really really free marketJust CollapseSound credits: first raven, flock of ravens.🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

I tell a story about becoming a gardening influencer before sharing an animated and long-awaited conversation with David Trood aka. The Weedy Gardener!  Weedy, Jord and I discuss:🌱 Creative land access🌱 Body as compost🌱 Hearing nature's call🌱 Being an eye cell for humanity🌱 Showing your failures🌱 Why to love the small stuff🌱 The all important nutrient cycle🌱 Decomposing cane toad🌱 Pest management, the Viking way🌱 Rhizophagy🌱 Nitty gritty on why organic produce is healthier🌱 From grandpa bod to garden god🌱 Weedy Garden Makeovers🌱 Sacred social media spaces🌱 Why garden?🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️The Weedy Garden on YouTubeThe Weedy Garden online🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

I tell a story about the ironic demise of my keepcup, and the difference between light green and deep green choices, before a pot-of-tea-convo with Laura Jean. Laura is a renegade business coach, dietician and permaculturalist who will help you see VALUES in a whole new light, and how to use them to illuminate the life/business/world you really want. Prepare to cry tears of recognition and possibility.🐝 Building trust in yourself for changes that take courage🐝 Eating disorder shares and healing strategies🐝 The very worst thing that can possibly happen🐝 Body check for making decisions🐝 Do we change, or choose?🐝 Laura’s values🐝 Why we recreate the same old shit even when living “alternatively”🐝 Figuring out your Bare Ass Minimum🐝 The felt sense of success🐝 Money as a tool to enact your values🐝 Three steps towards a regenerative business🐝 Commerce vs. capitalism🐝 Activities for clarifying your values🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️Laura on InstagramLaura’s podcast Dietician ValuesGundaroo GrowersCanberra Environment Center🙏 Yellow-tailed black cockatoo sound credit 🙏 🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

Three unbelievable stories about owls, and how to be a myceliating, possibilitarian practivist with the phenomenal Morag Gamble.Morag has cornflower blue eyes and a glorious crop of hair that curls at the ends like pea shoots. She consorts with broad beans and leafy greens in bare feet, and has sent no dig gardening viral on YouTube.This convo was recorded at Crystal Waters Eco Village where Morag lives with her family and 200+ other humans on 640 acres shared with a teeming assortment of subtropical wildlife.📝 SHOW NOTESBuilding your livelihood around the seasons of your lifeHow to find your flow and live with intentionMore than human helpers and teachers“I am the garden gardening”Ways to access land when accessing land is insaneMyceliating ideas around the worldWhy aren’t permaculture villages everywhere?PossibilitarianismNourish threads of connection rather than fighting the fightHow the new unfolds through collapse of the oldThe vital role of the artsHow are we to live?What is enough in these times?Why permaculture is everythingGift economy how-toDo you have what it takes to be a permaculture teacher?Integrating permaculture with your professionMorag is a beloved permaculture teacher and designer, founder of The Permaculture Education Institute, pioneer of urban permaculture projects like Northey Street City Farm, and an international changemaker who has led changemaking programs in 22 countries.🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSMorag’s home on the webMorag’s podcast ~ Sense-making in a changing worldMorag on YouTubeBecome a permaculture teacher ~ The Permaculture Education InstituteRob HopkinsJeremy LentSchumacher CollegeVandana ShivaArne NessHelena Norberg-HodgeFritjof Capra🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

Can birdsong heal your hearing? Can a rainforest recruit humans to protect it? What is deep ecology, anyway?Of all the approaches to “saving the world”, this one has my heart. Join me in conversation with elder John Seed as we get to the marrow of the environmental crisis, from the illusion of separation between human beings and nature, to the rituals, ceremonies and stories that can heal it.About John SeedJust last year at age 79 John was arrested for strapping himself to logging machinery in the Bulga State Forest, and has been awarded the Order of Australia medal for his services to the environment. John launched the Rainforest Information Center, has initiated global rainforest action networks and campaigns, developed The Council of All Beings with Joanna Macy, co-authored Thinking Like A Mountain with Joanna Macy Pat Fleming and Arne Ness, and spent decades facilitating experiential deep ecology workshops.IN THIS CONVOJohn’s story of being called into service by NatureCollaborating with Joanna MacyThe root of the planetary crisisCommunity therapies to heal civilisational woundsBusiness As Usual, The Great Unravelling, The Great TurningThe Work That ReconnectsActivism as ceremonyThe antidote to cultural amnesiaWhy John loves podcasts!How not to judge gross human behaviourHonouring our pain for the worldFeelings as ancient intelligenceCan anyone run a grief circle?The council of all beingsThe cosmic walk🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSJohn Seed’s home on the webThe Rainforest Information Center[read online] Thinking Like A Mountain by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming & Arne NessDeep Ecology The Work That Reconnects🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon🧡Field recording credit: Thrushes, golden whistlers, yellow faced honeyeaters and a spotted marsh frog by Afro408 License: Attribution NonCommercial 4.0

Friends! Here’s a D&M (Dharma & Meditation) conversation I recorded with mindfulness meditation teacher and founder of Australian Parents for Climate Action Suzie Brown while visiting Narara Eco Village last week. If you’ve ever felt anxious, unsure how to process difficult/obstinate emotions, or sad for no reason, this episode will provide ample tools for stilling the mind and relating to yourself – and the world – with kindness. On that note, I start the ep with an emo travel diary entry, and how a snaggy creek helped me see my internal struggles in a whole new light.IN THIS CONVO🕊️ When you feel sad for no reason despite the trappings of success🕊️ Can we *really* choose happiness?🕊️ The pleasant/unpleasant emotional pinball machine🕊️ The magic of noticing🕊️ Name it to tame it🕊️ Kindfulness🕊️ How to establish a non-militant meditation habit🕊️ Rejigging negativity bias🕊️ The R.A.I.N practice for difficult emotions🕊️ Dharma + ecodharma explained🕊️ How interbeing can solve the polycrisis🕊️ Long Shower Syndrome🕊️ Resource guilt🕊️ Parents for Climate!🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSInsight Meditation AustraliaSydney Insight MeditatorsSuzie’s teaching profileBanyan TogetherWeekly online (by donation) Sky Sangha Meditation gatheringAustralian Parents for Climate Action!Give Suzie a hoy at [email protected]🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon🧡

It's the RESKILLIENCE ROADTRIP where I'm intercepting all sorts of good sorts along Australia's east coast!First up is Ceilidh Meo who teaches no less than 80 apocalypse skills (!!!) while also growing olives, shoring up the food system and being casually shamanic.This is a ROMP of a convo that is INSPIRING ME TO USE CAPS. Such fun. Such depth. I also share about the caravan park we've just checked into.🔥 WITHIN GEEK OUT ON MICRO NICHE OLIVE PRESSINGAn antidote to the olive oil crisisCooperation is not the same as collaboration!POMMUSThe gross truth about imported olive oilTHE FIVE C FRAMEWORKWhen knowledge ain't powerSystems design thinking for avoiding monumental fuck upsWHY 40s ARE THE BEST DECADEYay for confirmation bias!Loyal soliders of the psycheBirth story REWRITELearning typesManifestation vs. MAGICWhere does the need to know everything come from?Do more of what you’re already good at, or challenge your comfort zone?Not here to consume, but to create!🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSConnect with Ceilidh ~ CIVILITASCeilidh's olive oil ~ Apulia GroveThe Long Road Olive CoopArt exhibition + workshops ~ Ancient Roots in the New WorldMel Robbins ~ The Let Them TheorySchool of Shamanic Womancraft Happen Films ~ The New Peasants screening tour🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡