Sense-Making in a Changing World

Join Morag Gamble in this episode with Leah Rampy and Beth Norcross to explore the possibilities of transformative relationships between humans and the more-than-human, and discover the spiritual wisdom of trees. From deepening our understanding of thoughts beyond language to learning from trees and mycelial networks, they share stories about our connections to nature and our processes of becoming rooted and fluid.On Earth Day this year Leah & Beth released a book together called, Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees, exploring:Moving from science to spirit: how forestry and ecology meet mystery.Trees as spiritual beings and patient teachers.The loneliness of isolated trees—and what it teaches us about human community.Practices to connect more deeply with trees wherever you are.Cracking open: the vulnerable yet transformative journey of opening to nature’s wisdom.Leah Rampy is a writer, speaker, and retreat leader living in a co-housing community who weaves ecology, spirituality, personal stories, and practices to help others deepen their relationship to the natural world. She is the founder and leader of Church of the Wild Two Rivers, and co-founded Save Our Soil - a volunteer organisation promoting soil health, local food, native plants, and regenerative agriculture.Beth Norcross is a passionate spiritual guide, author, naturalist, TEDx speaker, and founder of The Center for Spirituality in Nature. She offers nature's wisdom for living with connection, resilience, joy, and hope, particularly in challenging and uncertain times. I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show🌳🌳🌳 Hello lovely people. Please subscribe to this podcast, share widely, leave a comment and a 5 star review to help these stories myceliate far. 🌳🌳🌳 Check out the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast website. This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠ Explore Morag Gamble's permaculture courses. You can start today. Morag also shares conversations through monthly masterclasses, Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and monthly film screenings.This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country.

This episode, Rebecca Tickell - an award-winning documentary filmmaker, passionate storyteller and environmental activist - joins to explore the art of regeneration.Rebecca creates films, like 'Common Ground' and 'Kiss the Ground', that combine powerful cinematography with a hopeful movement for soil regeneration and health. In a world where extractive systems of agriculture and development have destroyed two thirds of the world’s topsoil and exacerbated climate change to dangerous levels, we have two decades to restore what has been lost. Amongst the crisis, Rebecca shows us how to reground and regenerate - wherever you are with, whatever you have.Tune in to get inspired and you can find more of Rebecca’s work at her website.I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show🌳🌳🌳 Hello lovely people. Please subscribe to this podcast, share widely, leave a comment and a 5 star review to help these stories myceliate far. 🌳🌳🌳 Check out the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast website. This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠ Explore Morag Gamble's permaculture courses. You can start today. Morag also shares conversations through monthly masterclasses, Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and monthly film screenings.This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country.

Tune into this episode with Poppy Okotcha, ecological home grower and community gardener, to hear about how we can rewild our relationship to the land around us - in our backyards and beyond!Poppy has just released a book, ‘A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us’, a beautiful memoir on her connection to her garden and how settling down her roots in tending a patch of land has helped her grow as an individual and explore how we can all grow a better world. Flipping the narrative from humans being in control of gardens to being part of the garden itself is such an important shift!From the process of writing her book to the holistic process of rewilding ourselves, this conversation with Poppy really uplifted me - I hope you enjoy it too!To find Poppy’s work and her book, visit her website.I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show🌳🌳🌳 Hello lovely people. Please subscribe to this podcast, share widely, leave a comment and a 5 star review to help these stories myceliate far. 🌳🌳🌳 Check out the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast website. This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠ Explore Morag Gamble's permaculture courses. You can start today. Morag also shares conversations through monthly masterclasses, Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and monthly film screenings.This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country.

This episode, join me to explore mindfulness with the inspiring Fleur Chambers - multi-award-winning meditation teacher, best-selling author, philanthropist and creator of The Happy Habit app.In this conversation we explore the question many of us have - how do we learn to be in service with our work? And how can we be present in this journey? As both Fleur and I run a business, we share our experiences in how we have found our confidence in finding a flow in our work.We also touch on how meditation can be a rebellious act - a small way of becoming more audacious in our everyday life, while grounding ourselves to meaningful action. What we need more than ever is to connect with our inner permaculture and find confidence in our purpose.To find out more about Fleur's work and publications, visit www.thehappyhabit.com.au.I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show🌳🌳🌳 Hello lovely people. Please subscribe to this podcast, share widely, leave a comment and a 5 star review to help these stories myceliate far. 🌳🌳🌳 Check out the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast website. This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠ Explore Morag Gamble's permaculture courses. You can start today. Morag also shares conversations through monthly masterclasses, Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and monthly film screenings.This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country.

Laura Oldanie, founder of Rich & Resilient Living, chats with Morag Gamble about the fascinating interplay between permaculture and money. They redefine wealth, emphasizing the significance of relationships and community capital over mere financial assets. Laura discusses innovative ideas such as eco-villages for affordable housing and Japan's re-ruralization movement aimed at revitalizing local economies. The conversation also highlights the importance of integrating financial discussions within permaculture education, paving the way for sustainable living and resilience.

In this episode I welcome Emeritus Professor Stuart Hill - scholar, educator, and advocate for transformative change in social ecology - to explore the interconnections of permaculture and psychology. Join us as we dive into how to nurture a deeper inner permaculture while nourishing a wider outer permaculture.Stuart is an educator and researcher whose knowledge spans from ecology to entomology, agriculture to psychotherapy, and education to policy development. Currently Foundation Chair of Social Ecology at Western Sydney University and having published over 350 papers and reports, Stuart has been at the forefront of social regeneration for decades - advocating for regenerative practices and facilitating the hard conversations that meaningfully develop community.Whether you're passionate about sustainability, innovation, or societal change, this conversation will leave you inspired with practical design exercises to apply in your work and community!I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show🌳🌳🌳 Hello lovely people. Please subscribe to this podcast, share widely, leave a comment and a 5 star review to help these stories myceliate far. 🌳🌳🌳 Check out the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast website. This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠ Explore Morag Gamble's permaculture courses. You can start today. Morag also shares conversations through monthly masterclasses, Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and monthly film screenings.This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country.

Join me in this episode with Dr Katherine Trebeck to imagine what an economy designed to serve people actually looks like and how we can make it happen. Come explore the root of today's crises and the seeds of the solutions with us.Dr. Katherine Trebeck is a leading political economist, writer, TedX speaker and leading advocate for economic system change. She co-founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance, is writer-at-large at the University of Edinburgh, the Economic Change Lead at The Next Economy and played a pivotal role in establishing the Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo) partnership - among many other roles. Katherine is passionate about aligning economic systems with social and environmental well-being, striving for an economy that serves both people and the planet. To find more about her work, visit www.katherinetrebeck.com.To see Katherine in action, come along to our next Permaculture Film Club to see her latest film 'Purpose' - register here!I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show🌳🌳🌳 Hello lovely people. Please subscribe to this podcast, share widely, leave a comment and a 5 star review to help these stories myceliate far. 🌳🌳🌳 Check out the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast website. This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠ Explore Morag Gamble's permaculture courses. You can start today. Morag also shares conversations through monthly masterclasses, Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and monthly film screenings.This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country.

Join me in conversation with Andrew Millison, an agent for change who shares permaculture wisdom through art, design and multimedia storytelling. In this episode we explore how Andrew is actively weaving stories to shift the narrative from one of scarcity to one of abundance - and how you can too. This episode is part of the recorded series from the International Festival of Ideas, held in May 2024.Andrew has previously been on this podcast, talking about the epic permaculture projects he has been part of and helped to record. The work of sharing the possibilities that permaculture has created in the world is so important, from making Youtube videos to getting your hands dirty in the garden. Learn how Andrew has done it and how you can get involved too!To find Andrew's work, check out his podcast Earth Repair Radio, and find the films he mentioned in this podcast on his Youtube channel.I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show🌳🌳🌳 Hello lovely people. Please subscribe to this podcast, share widely, leave a comment and a 5 star review to help these stories myceliate far. 🌳🌳🌳 Check out the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast website. This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠ Explore Morag Gamble's permaculture courses. You can start today. Morag also shares conversations through monthly masterclasses, Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and monthly film screenings.This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country.

Fritjof Capra, an acclaimed scientist and author, dives into the essence of systemic thinking and its role in addressing global crises. He highlights interconnectedness between natural laws and human systems, advocating for permaculture as a catalyst for community sustainability. The discussion covers the need to rethink economic models, emphasizing a shift from linear to circular economies. Capra critiques the impacts of corruption on creativity and policy-making, urging holistic approaches for a regenerative future and conscious living.

Tune into this episode with Phoebe Tickell - an imagination activist and founder of Moral Imaginations, a group who is building a movement of moral imagining - to explore what it means to exercise and stretch your imagination in order to create new possibilities and new action. This episode is part of the recorded series from the International Permaculture Festival of Ideas, held in May 2024.From the solar punk movement to radical kinship, Phoebe highlights how important it is that we realise that imagination is not what helps us escape reality, but what helps us return to reality by helping us remember what is right relationship with the planet and ourselves.Learn more about Phoebe's work here and get involved with Moral Imaginations to continue stretching your imagination.To find the recordings of conversations and events from the International Permaculture Festival of Ideas, visit the Permaculture Education Institute.I'd love to hear from you. Text me here.Support the show🌳🌳🌳 Hello lovely people. Please subscribe to this podcast, share widely, leave a comment and a 5 star review to help these stories myceliate far. 🌳🌳🌳 Check out the Sense-Making in a Changing World podcast website. This podcast is hosted by Morag Gamble, founder of the Permaculture Education Institute - the leading-edge international online school for integrated permaculture design, education, leadership and [pr]activism.⁠ Explore Morag Gamble's permaculture courses. You can start today. Morag also shares conversations through monthly masterclasses, Our Permaculture Life YouTube, and monthly film screenings.This podcast is broadcast from a solar powered studio in the midst of a permaculture ecovillage food forest on beautiful Gubbi Gubbi country.