Dates: Saturday, May 1
Time: 14:00 - 17:00 (2-3 hour workshop)
Location: GIDAK, Saarbrücker Str. 24, 10405 Berlin
Price: €39
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Language: English
Guided By: Leonie Woidt-Wallisser and Jenny O’Hare
Description:
Spiritual ecology is an emerging field recognising that there are spiritual aspects at the heart of conservation, environmentalism, and Earth stewardship.
We will explore the spiritual essence of the plants that accompany us throughout the Winter and Summer months, and enliven our senses to them. Through the practice of simple rituals taken from ancient through to modern times, we can reconnect with the self, to others, and to the greater living world that is present - even here in the city of Berlin.
We will explore what it can mean to view the world in its entirety as alive.
Join us for this discovery of the interconnectedness which goes beyond the physical and tangible all around us.
Instructors:
LEONIE WOIDT-WALLISSER
Leonie has a background in architecture, the fine arts and permaculture. Since having left her family’s off-grid homestead and extensive garden in small-town South Australia, she has lived amongst the urban populations of Australia, Germany, the US and the Netherlands. Her theoretical research in restoration ecology in the cultural sector, undertaken as part of studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, triggered her to initiate Cityplot in 2007. She co-coordinates the workshop programme and gardens in Berlin.
Leonie has many years of experience teaching and consulting in multiple facets of permaculture: food growing systems; community building and social systems; architecture, urban and landscape planning; natural building and construction with upcycled materials; nature connections and spiritual ecology; holistic and regenerative practices on all levels; and beyond. Life coming full-cycle, step-by-step she nears a self-sufficient lifestyle and delves ever deeper into the worlds of ethnobotany and deep ecology.
Leonie strongly believes that there is not a problem, which cannot be solved through tapping into the heartbeat of the Earth - and that even the smallest of garden plots will help get you there!
JENNY O’HARE
Jenny O’Hare is a Deep Ecologist, a writer and facilitator. With a background in Natural Sciences, and a lifelong love affair with the living world, Jenny believes in both Humanity and Earth, and in a beautiful reciprocal relationship between the two. She is passionate about reigniting that relationship. With a known and felt essence of both deep and spiritual ecology, Jenny uses her trainings in Nature Resonance, Eco-therapy, and a fellowship in Spiritual Ecology (and beyond) to continue to explore and offer ways of allowing the very many forms of life to remind us all of our belonging.