Collaborative groups may be healing, nurturing, and inspirational—or they may founder on the rocks of conflict and poor communication. In this five-day intensive, we’ll explore how to structure our groups for maximum group health, how to share power fairly, improve our communication skills, mediate conflicts and facilitate group processes. We’ll explore issues of power, privilege […]
Shifting Our Relationships With Business Our lives and livelihoods are changing as a novel coronavirus hitches a ride in humans traversing the globe in the powerfully dispersive network pattern that has created a pandemic. We have an opportunity to recreate our relationships with each other and with The Earth, including how we value and trade […]
Join Starhawk and Earth Activist Training on Earth Day for a ritual to honor our planet and envision a future that can sustain us all. Let's Vision A New Future Together On this Earth Day, join Starhawk and Earth Activist Training for a live online ritual to release some of our grief and fear, strengthen […]
To transform the world, we need to work together. But working together isn’t always as easy as it sounds. All groups struggle with issues of power, conflict and communication. Collaborative groups, with no top-down leadership, need creative ways to structure themselves and tools for resolving differences, effectively confronting structures of oppression, inspiring vision and building […]
The Conflict Transformation Summit is an online journey inviting us to reimagine the ways we understand and respond to conflict. It aims to be a resource for us to: Observe the mindsets and world-views that keep us trapped in patterns of response to tensions and conflicts that lead to results no one wants. Get in […]
Gather around the virtual bonfire to celebrate a Solstice ritual, share some music, poetry, and stories of inspiring Earth Activism in honor of Starhawk's 69th Birthday! In this moment of the pandemic, the brutal police killings, the brutal response to protests, it feels more like a time for raging and grieving than for celebrating. […]
Melliodora Publishing and Linda Woodrow invite you attend the online launch of Linda’s novel 470. The launch will feature a four-way conversation between Linda, acclaimed author Starhawk, co-founder of permaculture David Holmgren, and long-term doyenne of permaculture, Robyn Francis on the topic ‘The role of imagination in creating change’. Linda will also read a passage from 470, and Charlie […]
Cooking and feeding people is a form of magic—and magic is spiritual nourishment! It’s Apple season now; the Fall Equinox is rapidly approaching as are the elections, and what is more American than apple pie? Join us for a free live Webinar: Politics and Apple Pie, hosted by Chef Carin McKay and Starhawk. […]
A 3-week elemental cookalong course filled with soul-nourishing recipes, skills, and delights taught by Chef Carin McKay & guest Starhawk. Fall is the time to turn down into our roots, to summon the elemental skills of earth & remember the stories of our ancestors. When we cook, the elements are no longer abstract concepts, […]
A 4-week elemental cookalong course filled with soul-nourishing recipes, skills, and delights taught by Chef Carin McKay & guest Starhawk. Come join us for our deep-dive winter cooking series. We will explore soups, braises and long cooked foods that strengthen our health as well as some delicious savory galettes and sweet baking. In […]
Deepen Your Understanding and Practical Application of the Science, Systems, Skills, and Spirit of Earth Healing. Our new 6 month Advanced Permaculture course will give you the experience and confidence to plan, design, and begin regeneratively managing medium to large scale land systems. Bring your vision of resilient land and upon completion you will have designed a […]
Three Days of Must-Have Tactics, Tools, and Empowerment To Grow Food – Harvest Water – Combat Climate Change – and Thrive No Matter What! FREE | LIVE | ONLINE OCTOBER 15, 16 AND 17, 2021 Introducing permaculture as a positive, proactive way to create food security, water security, and energy security, build community, and more […]
Join us for an Earth Day celebration of Black and Indigenous land stewards. Fundraiser to support Diversity Scholarships. Celebrate Earth Day with Starhawk as we honor the work of Black and Indigenous land stewards. We’ll be coming together online to hear the inspiring voices of Pandora Thomas, Redbird Willie, Chanowk Yisrael, and Permaculture teacher Bahar […]
Deepen your political activism and magical skills to focus collective power towards challenging and shifting unjust power structures in this 4 month live, online course with Starhawk. Right now, we need tools to counter the manipulative magic that fragments our attention and sways our emotions—from clickbait on the internet to disinformation on Fox News. Lies […]
Deepen your study and practice in the science and strategies of regenerative design for land and communities. To prevent global catastrophe, we need to both stop emitting carbon and draw it down from the atmosphere. The best way to do that is by regenerating living systems, using trees and plants to change that carbon into wood, […]
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Live, In-Person Permaculture Design Course Taught by Starhawk and Charles Williams Earth Activist Training’s Permaculture Design Certificate course (PDC) is our longest running and most requested course– we’ve been teaching it for 20 years. This is our foundational permaculture course where your learning about resilient land management and climate adaptation begins. In this 2-week residential […]
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Going Beyond Theory! This advanced, hands-on permaculture course teaches practical restoration tools and techniques Earth Activist Training’s Restoration Intensive is an in-depth, hands-on course teaching practical land restoration skills. This year's intensive will be focusing on fire resilient landscapes, erosion and stream restoration and integrating livestock as an element of restoration. There’s a quiet revolution […]
Learn the tools of effective group process and skillful facilitation. Meetings are the heart of any organization. We get together in meetings for many reasons: to discuss issues, make decisions, set priorities and respond to crises. In meetings, we learn who our colleagues are and decide whom we can trust. We may laugh, cry, rage, […]
Join us for a community weekend of rekindling embodied, nature-based, relational wisdom. In the face of the many ongoing tragedies caused by the unraveling of our political and economic systems, we must still hold the torch for a resilient future. We believe that cultural revival, deep solidarity, and embodied wisdom are essential foundations for our path forward. Kindling Wisdom is […]
