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Recent Webinars
Becoming Naturally Resilient
Becoming Naturally Resilient
In this very timely web class, we take a positive and proactive approach to adapting and preparing for some of the biggest challenges of our times.
From evolving disasters to our quickly changing climate and world, a lot is happening right now that will impact us all in the coming years.
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Designing A Regenerative Business
In this webinar, Patty Love and Starhawk discuss how to bring regenerative design principles into your business. Start 2024 by with this inspiring conversation about how to make your current business or your dream business more regenerative.
If you like this even, join Patty in the upcoming Regenerative Business Design class
2023 Webinars & Rituals
Real World Regeneration
This video explores the reality of making regenerative projects work on the ground in real time with permaculture designers Erik Ohlsen & Starhawk. They discuss design, installation, and management strategies found in Erik Ohlsen’s new book, The Regenerative Landscaper, published by Synergetic Press.
Seeds of a Brighter Future Midwinter Ritual
The nights are long, the world situation is dire, and it can be hard to find hope and optimism. But while we don’t usually think about planting seeds in the midst of winter, some seeds need cold and time to germinate. As we move toward Winter Solstice and the return of the light, we can gather together to draw inspiration from those who are working for regeneration. Earth Activist Training offers this mid-winter seed-blessing ritual, together with stories from our students who are on the front lines of environmental and social justice. Join us to celebrate and come away with renewed hope and commitment. This ritual and our midwinter silent auction is a benefit for our Diversity Scholarship Program, so your contribution will seed growth and change for indigenous students and students of color who are taking leadership in their communities.
Building Regenerative Movements
“How do we build the diverse and welcoming movements we need to bring about social justice and environmental balance?”
Starhawk draws on insights from permaculture and nature spirituality to show how understanding interconnectedness, in nature and in human society, is the key. Acknowledging our basic human needs for safety, belonging, value, agency and meaning can help us become more skillful at bringing people together, bridging our differences, and working more effectively for change.
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In the Green Zone
Do you want to use your skills to help others live abundantly and more in harmony with natural systems? Maybe you want to offer Regenerative Landscape Designs or consult with land owners and stewards. How much do you charge? On what do you base your pricing? Do you quote or estimate? Certified Permaculture Designer and Teacher, Patty Love, E.A.T. ‘s Regenerative Business Design teacher and Maven Makers coach and founder of her 15 year old business, Barefoot Permaculture, will demonstrate how to apply Regenerative Design concepts to design your pricing structure. She’ll also share some tips on how to answer when a potential customer asks, “How much do you charge?” Starhawk will lead a meditation to connect with your inner sense of your own value to help you feel empowered to get paid what your time is worth.
Take the Dream & Make it Real
Take the Dream & Make it Real – 30 Years of the 5th Sacred thing!
“We wanted to love, freely and without barriers. We had to remake the world in order to do it.”
A quote from Starhawk’s visionary novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and this year is the 30th anniversary of its publication. Yet the questions it poses are more urgent than ever. How do we remake the world for love? What would that look like, feel like? And if we succeeded—if we could build a society on just foundations, one that embraced diversity and found harmony with the natural world—how would we defend it against violence?
A celebration of the inspiring projects Earth Activist Training students are doing to regenerate human and natural communities, with readings from The Fifth Sacred Thing and its sequel, City of Refuge, and a ritual to honor the Summer Solstice. A benefit for Earth Activist Training and our Diversity Scholarship Fund.
Special performances & presentations by:
Zahna Simon, Assistant Director of the Bay Area International Deaf Dance Festival
Kristi Broadhead, permaculture designer and organizer
Evelie Delfino Sales Posch, musician and sound healer
Wanda Stewart, director of Common Vision
Leila Darwish, author of Earth Repair
Maya Lilly, filmmaker
“Remember this story. Remember that one act of courage can change the world!”
Apartment Permaculture
Permaculture is about working with nature while regenerating the world around us. Enjoy a class devoted to urban living and apartment permaculture. Explore topics ranging from growing food, cooking, heating, cooling, dealing with neighbors, and much more.
Come learn the basics of apartment permaculture with Earth Activist Training!
Senior Permaculture instructor and designer, Earth Activist Training lead teacher, Charles Williams will offer his expertise in permaculture and guide you through food production, systems design, and more in this free class!
Earth Healing Practice
A Ritual Conversation w/ Starhawk, Charles Williams, & Friends
Join Starhawk and Earth Activist Training to learn spiritual and hands-on practices from five accomplished earth healers of varied traditions. Come away with new tools for your own earth healing practice, with inspiration and renewed energy for the struggles and the joys of the great work of our time—the regeneration of land and community.
Coming Back into Community
Covid sent us into a period of isolation. Whether you experienced loneliness, depression and want, or embraced the solitude and quiet, or some of both, emerging again can be a challenge. Our ability to socialize, to deal with crowds, to function in groups, can be a bit rusty. While we are told the pandemic is waning, and we want to open up and trust—people we know are still coming down with new cases every day! Are there practices and insights that can help us navigate this new territory?
Join permaculture designers and teachers Starhawk and Charles Williams for this pop-up workshop to explore how we can meet the challenge of this moment to create beneficial relationships.
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Well of Regeneration
A Ritual for Brigid, Goddess of Fire and Water. Renew your spirit and replenish your energy at Brigid’s well! Imbolc marks spring’s beginning. Join our guided meditation to her Holy Well to find personal and earth healing, and the inspiration to forge a world of justice and balance.
The Mystery of Fungi
Take a journey with Charles Williams into the wild world of mushrooms. During this webinar, we will explore the microscopic world of mycelium.
Come find out how fungi:
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- Heal the soil
- Combat climate change
- Support our food plants
- Increase diversity in our landscapes
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Global Permaculture Movement
Get a sense of how permaculture is addressing climate change and informing the work of land restoration worldwide, and get some hope and inspiration.
Your Personal Economic System
Learn about some livelihoods, lifestyles, organizations, businesses, and communities where regeneration and abundance are flowing.
2022 Webinars & Rituals
Community Disaster Response
Disaster can strike at any time. Regardless of the cause, from climate chaos to social unrest, poorly designed systems to outdated infrastructure, we need to be ready.
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Permaculture & Resilience
The world is changing and the times ahead often feel uncertain. Many of us know we have a role to play in this significant shift, but it can be overwhelming. Join Starhawk and Charles Williams as they talk about the principles of permaculture and how to apply them for resilience.
Seeds of Hope and Renewal
Seeds of Hope and Renewal was a celebration of Permaculture and a fundraiser for Earth Activist Training’s diversity scholarship fund. Earth Activist Training offers diversity scholarships to indigenous and students of color working in social and environmental justice.
If you would like to donate and support diverse students please go to: https://earthactivisttraining.org/donate/
Earth Repair, Fungi, & Disaster
Working with Nature to Facing Climate Change. Join Earth Activist instructors Charles Williams and Chris Gilmour as we explore working with nature to solve some of our current challenges
Cultivating Community & Countering Noxious Creeds
We live in times of tension, when the old norms and assumptions are falling away. We see the need and potential for deeper collaboration and co-creation, and at the same time, the rise of an authoritarian right returning to doctrines of white supremacy, anti-Semitism and male domination. What are the principles and practices that can help us counter these toxic ideas and build a world of greater justice and balance?
Permaculture is a system of ecological design that teaches us to work with nature to create beneficial relationships—whether in a garden or a social system. In this workshop, permaculture designers and teachers Starhawk and Charles Williams will share tools to help us analyze the needs that contribute to the alt-right’s appeal and design our groups and movements to meet those yearnings in more beneficial ways. In nature, diversity generates resilience, and disturbance can spark creativity. Understanding these processes can help us create safety, belonging, value and agency in healthy ways, and create welcoming communities rooted in compassion and care.
Taking Permaculture Education Further
This is a public conversation about furthering your permaculture education in breadth and depth. Our teachers, Starhawk, Charles Williams, Wanda Stewart and Sunshine Rose Claymore will explore:
What’s beyond the standard course design?
How do we offer more training and skill building?
How do we reach beyond the usual suspects and serve diverse communities?
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Local, Resilient Diversity; A Discussion of Community & Place
This workshop explores some aspects of social permaculture—communication tools and understandings that can help us know when to set boundaries and how to bridge gaps and find common ground.
Taking Permaculture Education Further
This is a public conversation about furthering your permaculture education in breadth and depth. Our teachers, Starhawk, Charles Williams, Wanda Stewart and Sunshine Rose Claymore will explore:
What’s beyond the standard course design?
How do we offer more training and skill building?
How do we reach beyond the usual suspects and serve diverse communities?
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Tutorials
How to make a water filter
This video showes how to make a simple DIY tabletop water filter.
How to make a rain barrel
This video shows you how to plumb a simple rain barrel.
How to build an A-Frame
Learn to build an A-Frame with Starhawk
Learn how to build a swale
Starhawk discusses swales and how they work.
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To bring the knowledge and resources of regenerative ecological design to communities with the greatest needs and fewest resources.
To teach visionary and practical solutions and personal sustainability to social change activists, and to teach practical skills, organizing, and activism to visionaries.
To cross-pollinate the political, environmental, and spiritual movements that seek peace, justice, and resilience.
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THE EARTH ACTIVIST TRAINING DIFFERENCE
positive solutions
Permaculture has many tools to address the problems of climate change and environmental degradation, and our courses focus on solutions and positive approaches to the grave problems which confront us today.
hands-on LEARNING
We believe learning should be interactive, participatory and experiential, so our courses include many hands-on projects, games, songs, exercises, discussions, and rituals as well as classroom time.
experienced teachers
Our teachers are deeply involved in organizing around climate change, anti-racism, and social justice, as well as environmental issues. We work with the Black Permaculture Network, and cowrote the solidarity statement that is on their website. We were instrumental in organizing the Permaculture Climate Change Solutions group with an international scope.
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