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Hello.

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Hello.

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Welcome.

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Welcome all.

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Hello. How are you?

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I'm Soraya from Egypt.

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Welcome.

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Thank you.

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Yes. It's I'm very happy

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to be with you today.

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Nice to see you, Israel.

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Hi.

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How

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are you doing now?

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Lucy. Yeah. I'm well, Soraya. It's a long time since I saw you. Long time. Yes. Yes.

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I see.

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And Graham too.

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What I'm up to? Yeah.

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Well, it's lovely to see so many people here.

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Mhmm.

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Yeah.

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Hello.

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Hello.

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I'm from Nepal.

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Oh, nice to meet you, Neeraj.

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Ah, we met before, didn't we? Yes. Neeraj. Nice to see you.

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Lucy,

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Lucy, I'm actually in a place, called,

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it's,

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it's in Sinai, and,

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it's by the sea. And,

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they use,

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biodiversity,

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and they use

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ecotourism,

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they do waste management

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have, their cattle

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and the sheep and

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the chickens. And

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it's very peaceful, and

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it's related to permaculture

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and stuff.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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Thank you for sharing.

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You're welcome.

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One day,

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you can call me.

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Did Taiza

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went offline? Or I'm looking for Taiza. She's supposed to be introducing everybody.

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I mean, I guess she disappeared.

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Yes. I have a feeling that she might have gone. Yeah. She might have gone.

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So, I mean, we already saw Makako. You are,

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Yeah. So Yes. First of all, go open the the session? Yes. Thank you.

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I I, first of all, want to welcome everybody really warmly

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to this,

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workshop and webinar that we are going to look at permaculture

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and schools.

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And for this, we have somebody who is really, really experienced.

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Lucy Elder Slow from

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Findhorn, if I'm not wrong.

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From Scotland. From Scotland. Okay.

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From Scotland.

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I would and, I mean, we here we have so many schools. Some of them are already

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established. Gaia schools and many others

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maybe are looking to to become some.

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And, we want to have these meetings

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of topic related

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so that we can really create a place where it's possible to share deeply about our experiences amongst the people who do the work on the ground.

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So,

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this is what I can say so far, and I'm sorry for my voice. I'm still recovering from a very bad flu,

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but I hope I'm getting better.

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And over to you, Lucy. Idea.

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I think, excuse me. Taissa is back.

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Okay. Sorry.

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Taissa is back, so I think, we're handing the mic to Taissa. Right? Thank you. Right.

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Yeah. I'm not sure where we are. I'm so

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sorry. I just beginning.

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I just said welcomed the people and said that we will have Lucy and not much more.

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Wonderful. So did you share about the structure

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of the webinar, or should I do it,

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So we will,

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soon hand it over to Lucy, our guest for today. Lucy is an experienced

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and she is the one holding,

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the permaculture in Finnhorn Eco Village.

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She has a lot of experience in permaculture

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for children

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and in education,

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and she will share about it with us very soon.

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we will hear some practices

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from Gaia schools that are many representatives

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from Gaia schools. Did you introduce

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yourselves? Not yet.

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So please,

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open your mic

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very briefly.

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Margarita,

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Capra, not sure if Mugovi is around the Mugovi is there. Yeah. Oh, perfect. Wonderful.

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So just your names and,

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Yeah. I'll just go first. My name is Margarita. I'm located in Iceland.

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Our school is,

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we are actually the newest,

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member of Gaia school. Yeah.

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Thank you.

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And you handed over to my My name is my my

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Yeah. Hello.

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From my side, I'm

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Our school is Gaia School in Estonia,

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which has been here for twelve years.

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And I'm very happy to be here with so many people today.

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My name is Katha.

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You see, that my name, Kristina Schneider, and I'm from Domino where we have animal names.

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I'm the, president

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of the labor school, which is,

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a community school that was founded forty years ago.

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We have 70 children, and they're half from the community, half from outside.

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Seven no. Six months to 14. However,

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Mugove.

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Mugove.

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Yeah. Greetings, everyone, from Lusaka, Zambia.

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My name is Mugove

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I coordinate,

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schools program for several countries. We have hundreds of schools,

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practicing permaculture.

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one of them from Zimbabwe,

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was certified as a Gaia school last year.

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happy to meet all of you here.

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Thank you so much, Bugove,

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and then we'll have time for questions and interactions

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towards the end.

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I think that's probably it for now.

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I'm Taissa. I'm the Gaia schools coordinator

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in Gaia Education.

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I'm Brazilian,

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and I'm very glad to be here facilitating

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this session

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manager. We will talk more about it towards the end.

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I think now it's the time for us to continue. Welcome, Lucy.

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Thank you so much for being with us today.

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Thank you. It's lovely to meet you all.

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And, yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing more about the other phonewordcular stokes programs after my bed.

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Hopefully, this is a slide that means that you know that you're in the right place.

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Overview of what I'm gonna do,

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from from my part is I'd just like to invite you to introduce yourselves,

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on the chat if you would like to. One of the things I'd love to do when I'm working with children

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is to start with gratitude. Actually, whenever I'm teaching permaculture,

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I'm a permaculture design teacher and a diploma tutor, and I just I love to start with gratitude.

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So if you would like to introduce yourself, you could put in some gratitude from nature whilst you're there.

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And my gratitude to start the day

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is that out of my window, which I'm looking at there,

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today, I saw a bullfinch, which is a really beautiful

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bright red chest and a bright black head.

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here at my bird feeders before, so I was very excited to see that today.

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So, yeah, do please introduce yourselves on the chat,

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maybe your role and your gratitude. So then, whilst you're doing that, I'm gonna also say,

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what is I'm gonna talk about what is permaculture and engaging children in permaculture, some of the benefits of doing that,

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and some resources,

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and some ways that you can find out more.

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I've struggled a bit to fit this into half an hour, so we'll see how that goes.

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But the exciting thing is that you can learn more.

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There are more courses coming up where you can dive deeper,

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so that's that's a relief.

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So for those of you who are not familiar with the word permaculture,

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I just popped in here,

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one of the many definitions of permaculture.

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They say there's as many definitions of permaculture as there are practitioners, and that's several men million, I believe.

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But, anyway, this is one that we wrote in in our book, that that we wrote about permaculture children.

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is a design system that creates resilient, sustainable relationships between human beings and the rest of the natural world.

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Yeah. And that's a quote from there, and that's a picture of my two children a while ago,

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outside the local primary school where I worked at.

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the foundation

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really is those ethics that you can see right here in the center of the screen of the screen.

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The first is Earthcare,

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and people care, and then fair share.

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So whenever I start, the first time I work with a group of children, I would always start with the ethics

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because it guides the behavior. Well, right after the gratitude and the names, of course.

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So it it guides behavior if you think these are the ways that we are gonna be with each other.

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How how how do you want to be with each other? You know?

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So we're gonna whenever we're with a group, we're gonna be thinking about Earth care.

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So I'll invite the children

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to say, what is it what do you think this would mean to you in in our session today?

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And they're likely to say things like not hitting trees, and then I would try and

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bring that to something positive. You know?

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that we inhabit this earth with. So it's yeah. It's really foundational

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to everything that I would do. And we can do this

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anywhere. Wherever we are, we can be thinking about Earth care.

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So it can be about minimizing our negative impact

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our positive impact. And I think

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focusing on maximizing our positive impact on the Earth is is really beneficial for children because that's where they feel empowered.

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Here's something that I can do, that I can bring, and I can care and look after the world that is around me and have that,

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that that sense of care.

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And then with people care, again, children are likely to say things like no hitting and

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but what I love to to bring out is that, well, caring is more than that.

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It's it's coming from you from kindness.

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And rather than being a no, it's a yes. It's I want to care. I want to care for myself,

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and I want to care for others.

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I want to care for the other children as well as the adults in the group, and the children can feel that as well.

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And that that can be a really beautiful,

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beautiful heart connection,

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to start your session and to guide behavior throughout all all the times that you're with the kids.

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And the third one here is fair share,

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But, I mean, that's quite a difficult term. But the the term fair share, which

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children just understand straight away.

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There's a picture there of a pie, and you can see it's about having a fair slice of of of pie that everybody gets the same if they want the same.

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Although I do love in fair share to be thinking about equity and how it's not necessarily that everyone has the same amount of food.

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After all, a two year old maybe doesn't need as much food as,

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a 20 year old,

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I've got 20 year old son. He eats an awful lot.

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So, yeah, thinking about that equity rather than equality can be really powerful here as well and that everybody gets something.

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Yeah. So those ethics because those are the foundation of permaculture,

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they can be applied to anything that you do, and I've got some different,

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places that you can apply it.

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So these are some places where I've, specifically around children in permaculture.

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and I had a babe in arms.

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which also included childminding, where you're looking after other people's children, as well as kinship care, which is also looking after other people's children in my home,

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as well as I set up an outdoor playgroup

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based one of my permaculture

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diploma designs. So at the moment, you're doing a webinar.

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It's like a taster session, and then you can go on and do, like, a a introductory course, and then you could go on and do a permaculture design course.

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There's a couple opportunities up this summer. We'll tell you about that later.

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And once you've done a permaculture design course, you might go on and study the diploma.

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designs I did was this one here, nurture in nature, which I'll tell you more about later.

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I'm a forest school practitioner as well as well as after school programs like fun outdoors

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as well as locally. And I I'm used to live in the city, and now I live in the countryside. So local,

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village schools as well that I've done, and I'll show you some pictures

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I've also been doing a huge amount of work on outdoor maths that I will tell you more about shortly,

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as well as the children in permaculture project and

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mainly work under the umbrella of permaculture children now.

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So what is it? It's really about

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a different consciousness or a change in consciousness from a young age in how we relate to all of nature,

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to all of the natural world.

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It's re permaculture with children is not just a set of exercises or a set of games, and it is about

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nature literacy.

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With children in permaculture, which was a three year Erasmus plus funded project, our vision was was this one.

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like, MSPs, like the ministers of the parliament,

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they were saying, you know, this is how no one no one could say no to that. It's a beautiful

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and it's all about those permaculture efforts.

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so that's myself in the woods with a group of children and their school teacher.

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out into the local woods.

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And in May, you can see the bluebells in the woods and, yeah, the children are trusted to look after the fire.

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And this is my wooden box pike, so I was able to travel

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in an Earthcare way, which was by wooden

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bicycle with a big box at the front that was had all the materials and resources that I needed to take to have fires in the woods safely.

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It's what I mentioned. Nurture and Nature, our outdoor play group,

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which is really all about working

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with nature,

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working with the nature of the child.

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climbing trees and also can you see my son?

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He's very small there, but he's three years old, and he's very high up a tree and eating his lunch way up there.

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And it was really about it's in the city, but it was based around,

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all around public transport. I didn't even have a car, so we went entirely by buses or trains.

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to go to the city parks and nature

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places nearby, and we were there in all weathers.

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yeah, that that's a picture of me with my son, Louis, and that's,

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some maize that we grew

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in our allotment, our small garden.

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And, on the children in permaculture website, there are some different case studies.

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And one of the top tips is never to force a child to do something you want them to enjoy in later years.

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for any parents in in the group. Sometimes

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but top tips for parents.

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designing that I've done with children.

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into scale. So that's the size that's the the circle will be the size of a tree

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that it will be once it's fully grown, and this can really help you to visualize succession.

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When you plant a tree, you might be just looking at this thing and think, oh, it's only this big.

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You know? I can have another one right here. But, of course, they grow.

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What size will it grow to, and if it's expensive, like fruit trees tend to be, to make sure that they've got enough space that they'll be able to grow to their maximum.

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So this is, again, working with the children, where the children decided, you know, the shape of the raised beds.

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They they wrote with this raised bed, which was quite sweet that says eco here.

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of the soil.

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are using a design tool called plant paste.

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Plants they listed all the plants that they could see on the site, the animals that we found there, the structures, the tools, and the events that we found on this site.

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helping the everyone, the kids and the adults, the whole group to go deeper into their observation.

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And that green thing is different to that green thing. Okay. What makes it different?

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some people can struggle to identify.

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I love this picture. Embedding children in nature.

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This is a child harvesting apples at the very front of their primary school.

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I just think it it's really beautiful to think about how children can become embedded and

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to sense

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of it's more than connection. It's it's surrounded and embedded and inside,

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in nature. And I think that that and it's inside of her as well. No?

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She eats an apple and it goes inside.

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is really powerful. Like, how can you,

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you know, really feel nature?

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I think, like, that connection through even eat eating something that you harvest and put in your mouth, and that can feel like really deep connection.

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It says, may peace prevail on earth,

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and it says that in four languages.

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an area for the children to run around

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and then a circle of trees and a food forest circle. So we've got,

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rhubarb and angelica

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as a companion plant. So they're angelica and rhubarb are great companions.

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pear, and plum, as well as comfrey. Comfrey

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is a dynamic accumulator, so it makes nutrients avail

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it can accumulate nutrients in the soil and make them available

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the other plants in it, especially when you cut it.

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like, it's community building.

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This this little kid had never eaten a pea before.

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Peas are, like, one of the most common vegetables in Scotland.

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But, yeah, I I was working in an area of multiple

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there's a lot of poverty, a lot of drugs, a lot of drink problems, like alcohol problems.

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yeah. So it was a a wonderful thing because these kids had never

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fresh fruit and vegetables. I asked one group if any of them

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eaten an apple before,

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and literally one child put their hand up.

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An apple is, like, the most common fruit that you can have in Scotland.

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One child put their hand up and said, my granny gave me one once.

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gave me one once. Once, it had an apple. So

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these areas of multiple deprivation, they're eating sweets and chocolate and biscuits

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and other highly processed

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foods a lot

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and not getting access to fruit and vegetables.

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And they're not getting the nutrients that they need, and the kids are yeah.

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Various problems can ensue from not having

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you know, from from a, a a form of malnutrition where they actually have enough

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calories but not enough,

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nutrition,

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like, nutrients.

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So this is really good.

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And part of the problem can be that children are presented with food, and they,

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they turn their nose up at it. They say, no. Thank you.

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Whereas, actually, growing your own food

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can help children to taste food that they wouldn't have eaten normally.

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Yeah. This example of a pea, but also there's another lovely video,

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of some of a child who'd never eaten a tomato before and her trying a tomato

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for the first time because she had just maybe maybe she'd seen them but never

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never had, yeah, never felt confident

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to eat them perhaps.

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that connection.

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I first heard this quote back in 2005

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when my son was a baby, his son.

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everything I've done since then, I think, as,

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as a parent, as an educator.

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It is if we want children to flourish,

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to be truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to take it.

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And that is it's just such a beautiful

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quote that it is it's about

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really in his book, David Sabell's book, he talks about actually, like, telling children, oh, humans did this bad thing, and they do climate change, and they do all those negative things can actually,

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have a negative impact on what

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on the the child's view of what an adult does.

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an emphasis on what you can do to connect with nature, to love nature, and to empower them to be like, oh, I can care for nature.

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I can care for this by bird, by feeding it, or I can you know, what can you do as a positive thing?

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So really emphasizing and empowering the positive impact they can have on on the natural world around us.

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And isn't it a gorgeous picture? Like, literally drinking.

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He's drinking the sap from the tree. He's drinking the blood of the tree,

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directly from the tree, which is a really

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yeah. Something you can do in the springtime.

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And And always gets has a root ball, but it's a fir tree.

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of the benefits of outdoor learning where they have, done a a well researched project with a 125

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schools and 40,000

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children. And,

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you know, teachers are finding that pupils are more engaged with learning.

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They have a better behavior. Sometimes people are worried about getting the children out of schools

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because they're worried that their the children will not behave as well.

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But, actually, the majority of teachers find they have

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have better behavior and improved behavior.

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They enjoy their lessons more when they're outside, and they're happier and healthier

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as a result.

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can produce food. Like I said, it's nutrient dense. They're more likely to eat it.

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It's healthier, and it's free. And in this time of multiple,

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cost of living, like,

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having food growing in school grounds is very important,

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for educational

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act so that the children learn where their food comes from as well.

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So fresh air and exercise and therefore sleep.

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Just by being outdoors, they can be have improved mental and physical health. I know most yeah.

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physical health, and they're too interrelated anyway.

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It builds that connection with nature, being outdoors,

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engaging with the natural world,

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learning where your food actually comes from. I've seen

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quite quite old children not know that a potato came out of the ground.

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Again, a very common vegetable in Scotland.

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Yeah, kinda disgusted they were that

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00:29:13.535 --> 00:29:15.475
that food might come out of the soil.

499
00:29:16.655 --> 00:29:22.595
So, yeah, they really need to learn that because we need to know that in order to care for the soil and carry for the soils.

500
00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:24.980
Yeah. Very important in permaculture.

501
00:29:27.040 --> 00:29:30.020
It also means that learning becomes useful and relevant.

502
00:29:30.080 --> 00:29:33.620
So for example, doing math, and I'll talk more about that in a bit.

503
00:29:34.400 --> 00:29:38.775
It actually is like, oh, it makes sense. This is actually useful and relevant to me.

504
00:29:40.295 --> 00:29:43.195
There is a lot of people with attention

505
00:29:43.575 --> 00:29:44.795
deficit hyperactivity

506
00:29:45.335 --> 00:29:46.475
disorder, ADHD,

507
00:29:48.535 --> 00:29:52.635
and there are lots of studies that show that spending time outdoors

508
00:29:53.620 --> 00:30:00.280
can improve their attention span equal to the medication that they typically receive, they're ritinib,

509
00:30:01.620 --> 00:30:03.159
and improves their concentration

510
00:30:03.539 --> 00:30:06.840
as well. So getting to spend outside can actually aid

511
00:30:07.265 --> 00:30:12.725
when they go back inside as well as that they learn more outside because it's more interesting and more relevant.

512
00:30:13.825 --> 00:30:16.485
It can reduce stress and anxiety and depression,

513
00:30:17.345 --> 00:30:19.125
weaken aggression and violence,

514
00:30:19.825 --> 00:30:20.325
and

515
00:30:20.730 --> 00:30:23.470
having a really beautiful diverse playground

516
00:30:24.250 --> 00:30:27.470
encourages children to be more creative, so it reduces

517
00:30:28.010 --> 00:30:30.270
bullying in the schools as well.

518
00:30:32.570 --> 00:30:38.335
And it helps, yeah, helps the children to supports them to develop emotionally and

519
00:30:38.635 --> 00:30:39.135
socially.

520
00:30:41.835 --> 00:30:44.495
A really big project I've been working on

521
00:30:44.875 --> 00:30:48.335
last year and this year has been about doing maths

522
00:30:49.009 --> 00:30:49.509
outdoors.

523
00:30:51.090 --> 00:30:55.590
Yeah, because I found that teachers are interested in permaculture,

524
00:30:56.529 --> 00:31:00.950
and they would like to find the time, but it can be very difficult for teachers

525
00:31:01.250 --> 00:31:02.149
to dive,

526
00:31:02.825 --> 00:31:03.325
yeah,

527
00:31:03.705 --> 00:31:04.925
to make the time

528
00:31:05.305 --> 00:31:07.405
for something that they see as additional.

529
00:31:07.945 --> 00:31:10.285
And so I wanted to demonstrate

530
00:31:10.745 --> 00:31:11.805
to the teachers

531
00:31:12.184 --> 00:31:14.045
and the parents and the children

532
00:31:14.585 --> 00:31:17.710
that core curricular things like mathematics

533
00:31:18.250 --> 00:31:22.490
can be taught in the outdoors. So we worked with 10,000

534
00:31:22.490 --> 00:31:22.990
people

535
00:31:23.610 --> 00:31:24.669
over nine months

536
00:31:26.010 --> 00:31:26.510
and,

537
00:31:27.530 --> 00:31:28.990
did lots of different,

538
00:31:29.395 --> 00:31:30.015
math activities

539
00:31:30.795 --> 00:31:33.455
teaching yeah. Showing the teachers how that

540
00:31:33.755 --> 00:31:34.975
how you can integrate

541
00:31:35.515 --> 00:31:36.495
nature literacy

542
00:31:36.795 --> 00:31:37.615
with mathematics.

543
00:31:38.955 --> 00:31:44.655
On the top left here, we're teaching them how you can count how many different types of trees.

544
00:31:44.700 --> 00:31:49.360
These are different, types of trees that were there. How they can use tally marks.

545
00:31:50.139 --> 00:31:53.360
So there's two blackthorn trees. There were

546
00:31:53.820 --> 00:31:54.320
five

547
00:31:54.620 --> 00:31:55.120
rose

548
00:31:55.820 --> 00:31:56.320
bushes.

549
00:31:57.135 --> 00:31:59.075
Yeah. So, like, using tallies,

550
00:32:00.415 --> 00:32:05.075
which is one of the things on the on the curriculum for excellence. This is us drawing a bar graph,

551
00:32:06.175 --> 00:32:11.875
actually showing the real length of this. This is a basking shark. These are all local animals.

552
00:32:11.935 --> 00:32:12.435
Animals.

553
00:32:12.809 --> 00:32:17.870
A lot of times in our schools, children learn about animals that don't even live in the country.

554
00:32:18.570 --> 00:32:21.529
Like, they're not native. Maybe they only see them in a zoo.

555
00:32:21.529 --> 00:32:28.190
We're we're really focusing on, well, what can you see that are wild animals there or things that you can actually see

556
00:32:28.725 --> 00:32:33.285
in this area because we don't have a zoo in our area. Right? So this is a basking shark.

557
00:32:33.285 --> 00:32:36.725
That's the length the actual real length that that shark is.

558
00:32:36.725 --> 00:32:41.705
So seeing that mapped out but making that as a bar graph, and that's a golden eagle.

559
00:32:41.920 --> 00:32:45.700
Again, a bird that we can see in our area, and that's its wingspan.

560
00:32:46.000 --> 00:32:48.580
It's yeah. Tip of its yeah.

561
00:32:48.960 --> 00:32:51.380
So, yeah, drawing that as a bar graph.

562
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:57.455
So teaching the teachers how you can integrate that relationship and deepen that nature connection

563
00:32:58.154 --> 00:33:00.174
through math as well. Circles,

564
00:33:00.475 --> 00:33:00.975
symmetry.

565
00:33:01.835 --> 00:33:05.515
I love to use, you know, the actual names of the things.

566
00:33:05.515 --> 00:33:09.054
So if we're using shells, I separated them into the different,

567
00:33:10.300 --> 00:33:11.100
types of shells.

568
00:33:11.100 --> 00:33:15.280
Those are oyster shells or, you know, talk about the animals that lived in the shells,

569
00:33:15.740 --> 00:33:17.600
not just generic shells.

570
00:33:18.620 --> 00:33:21.340
Think about what they eat and and having different things.

571
00:33:21.340 --> 00:33:24.240
So this is learning about circles and diameter and radius.

572
00:33:24.895 --> 00:33:27.875
This is about scales using scale, like two baskets.

573
00:33:28.255 --> 00:33:30.434
So a a 1 kg

574
00:33:30.975 --> 00:33:37.315
a 1 l bottle of water is 1 kg. And just by having a two baskets and a coat hanger,

575
00:33:37.820 --> 00:33:38.559
you can

576
00:33:38.940 --> 00:33:43.679
say, well, how many apples are equal in weight to 1 kg?

577
00:33:45.420 --> 00:33:47.520
Another. Some top tips for

578
00:33:48.620 --> 00:33:49.280
and educators.

579
00:33:50.059 --> 00:33:52.795
Oh, I thought it was quite sweet to add in some,

580
00:33:53.735 --> 00:33:57.515
reviews of, like, what difference does it make? Why would you do math outside?

581
00:33:58.775 --> 00:33:59.275
And

582
00:33:59.575 --> 00:34:05.115
in our project, we got lots of amazing feedback. So this is for the teacher training.

583
00:34:05.910 --> 00:34:06.730
Everybody who

584
00:34:07.110 --> 00:34:14.410
filled out the feedback form from the teacher training courses gave it either four or five stars in overall performance,

585
00:34:15.830 --> 00:34:19.130
and felt that it really improved their confidence in in

586
00:34:19.605 --> 00:34:23.545
being outdoors. And those sort of training sessions can be really powerful.

587
00:34:24.725 --> 00:34:28.505
Yeah, great ideas that they can take home, and they love being outside.

588
00:34:31.569 --> 00:34:40.869
People were really amazed at the different amount of different ideas of things that you can do, but still math, but it's integrating nature literacy into the program.

589
00:34:43.250 --> 00:34:43.750
Yeah.

590
00:34:44.355 --> 00:34:45.655
The the leaders were excellent,

591
00:34:46.034 --> 00:34:48.534
with the children and had the challenge pitched right

592
00:34:48.915 --> 00:34:50.135
and very welcoming,

593
00:34:50.435 --> 00:34:53.255
and it's good to get these different activities and resources.

594
00:34:54.355 --> 00:34:54.855
Yeah.

595
00:34:58.150 --> 00:35:03.030
So that's my more recent program, Gatehouse of Fleet Primary School, our local school here.

596
00:35:03.030 --> 00:35:04.410
This is my son again.

597
00:35:05.430 --> 00:35:10.410
This is the food forest that we remember I showed you a picture earlier of some kids designing?

598
00:35:10.775 --> 00:35:12.955
Well, this is the food forest that they designed,

599
00:35:13.815 --> 00:35:14.875
as it's growing.

600
00:35:16.535 --> 00:35:18.875
Yeah. So it started this in 2012.

601
00:35:19.015 --> 00:35:24.430
And, yeah, this is a so I think sometimes you can dive deep, and this is what I did in Gate High School.

602
00:35:24.430 --> 00:35:26.530
I worked in the school for, like, seven years.

603
00:35:27.670 --> 00:35:29.570
They had various different projects,

604
00:35:30.190 --> 00:35:33.570
including the design and planting those trees, growing.

605
00:35:34.350 --> 00:35:35.835
We put up a polytunnel,

606
00:35:36.135 --> 00:35:38.555
raised beds, grew lots of vegetables. We

607
00:35:38.855 --> 00:35:42.235
built this with our own hands, the outdoor classroom.

608
00:35:43.175 --> 00:35:46.715
It is really useful to have a gathering space in your permaculture

609
00:35:47.255 --> 00:35:49.595
design of your outdoor space in schools.

610
00:35:51.180 --> 00:35:51.680
Yeah.

611
00:35:51.980 --> 00:35:52.480
Pumpkin

612
00:35:52.780 --> 00:35:54.880
jam. I have to go a lot faster.

613
00:35:56.460 --> 00:36:02.240
So, anyway, some more beautiful pictures of the things that I have done, including a school trip to Romania,

614
00:36:03.099 --> 00:36:04.320
integrating composting.

615
00:36:06.605 --> 00:36:11.105
Yeah. I wanted to show you these different resources, which are on the children in permaculture

616
00:36:11.565 --> 00:36:12.065
website.

617
00:36:13.085 --> 00:36:14.385
So do have a look,

618
00:36:15.805 --> 00:36:17.505
on either permaculture children

619
00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:20.599
or on childreninpermaculture.com,

620
00:36:20.599 --> 00:36:22.140
you can find these resources,

621
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:26.220
which this is our website, tiltinginpermaculture.com.

622
00:36:26.519 --> 00:36:29.420
And if you want to know about how you apply permaculture

623
00:36:29.720 --> 00:36:30.380
to pedagogy,

624
00:36:30.760 --> 00:36:32.460
definitely come and do a course,

625
00:36:32.984 --> 00:36:35.644
because we go much deeper into that on the course.

626
00:36:36.744 --> 00:36:39.884
Yeah. I don't have time to tell you about that now.

627
00:36:40.184 --> 00:36:44.525
It's a little bit more just to mention that we wrote this book as part of children in permaculture,

628
00:36:45.065 --> 00:36:47.325
which, Richard Louv has celebrated

629
00:36:47.704 --> 00:36:48.365
as well.

630
00:36:48.950 --> 00:36:51.289
And inside of this book is the curriculum.

631
00:36:52.950 --> 00:36:57.769
Also, on our date database, on that website, there are 865

632
00:36:58.150 --> 00:37:02.170
ideas for activities that you can search online for that.

633
00:37:04.365 --> 00:37:05.345
There's films,

634
00:37:06.445 --> 00:37:10.625
yeah, and there are various other top tips. So if you would like to learn more

635
00:37:11.245 --> 00:37:12.945
about any of this,

636
00:37:13.325 --> 00:37:17.105
there is an opportunity for you to do so next Tuesday.

637
00:37:19.000 --> 00:37:20.140
Starts on Tuesday

638
00:37:20.440 --> 00:37:23.579
evening in The UK time, 05:30PM,

639
00:37:24.440 --> 00:37:25.259
06:30,

640
00:37:25.799 --> 00:37:31.745
Central European time. And so find out more about that on the permaculturechildren.org

641
00:37:31.745 --> 00:37:32.245
courses.

642
00:37:33.105 --> 00:37:35.045
And there's also an opportunity

643
00:37:35.425 --> 00:37:36.725
if you've done a permaculture

644
00:37:37.025 --> 00:37:40.805
design course and you want to learn more about teaching permaculture,

645
00:37:41.425 --> 00:37:47.045
this course is for permaculture teachers with a focus on children, and it's gonna be in Denmark in July.

646
00:37:48.440 --> 00:37:50.599
Yeah. So watch out for that one. You can see it.

647
00:37:50.599 --> 00:37:55.980
It's linked the form for for doing that is also from this permaculture children website.

648
00:37:56.599 --> 00:37:58.780
And then we have this introduction

649
00:37:59.480 --> 00:38:01.180
to engaging children in permaculture

650
00:38:02.315 --> 00:38:05.195
course, but so it's the same one as we're doing next week online.

651
00:38:05.195 --> 00:38:10.175
It's in person for the first time since COVID in September in the South Of England,

652
00:38:10.635 --> 00:38:12.095
and there's a a webinar

653
00:38:12.715 --> 00:38:13.855
about, yeah,

654
00:38:14.430 --> 00:38:15.569
education and,

655
00:38:16.589 --> 00:38:17.890
as well as well-being.

656
00:38:21.710 --> 00:38:22.930
And Gaia Education's

657
00:38:23.869 --> 00:38:26.190
only course in 2026,

658
00:38:26.190 --> 00:38:29.089
I believe. Is that right, Tiza? Only in person one.

659
00:38:30.475 --> 00:38:33.775
And it will be in person in the biggest eco village in The UK.

660
00:38:34.075 --> 00:38:37.455
And yeah. So you can see some beautiful pictures there,

661
00:38:38.155 --> 00:38:43.295
lots of eating and learning together, and as much outdoor time as as

662
00:38:43.910 --> 00:38:46.330
the participants will allow me to be. We'll be outdoors

663
00:38:46.630 --> 00:38:47.930
as much as possible.

664
00:38:50.950 --> 00:38:52.330
Yeah. I think that's it.

665
00:38:53.990 --> 00:38:54.490
Wow.

666
00:38:55.110 --> 00:38:58.250
Thank you so much, Lucy. That's so inspiring.

667
00:38:59.115 --> 00:38:59.615
I

668
00:39:00.955 --> 00:39:02.255
will take the time.

669
00:39:03.835 --> 00:39:09.595
Not sure if you're following that, but there's a lot going on on the chat, and it's No.

670
00:39:09.595 --> 00:39:12.015
I couldn't really beautiful to see

671
00:39:12.395 --> 00:39:14.590
that we have such global

672
00:39:15.050 --> 00:39:17.470
audience. I will share with you all.

673
00:39:18.250 --> 00:39:20.590
There were a 145

674
00:39:20.650 --> 00:39:21.150
registrations

675
00:39:21.610 --> 00:39:22.670
for this session,

676
00:39:23.370 --> 00:39:23.770
and,

677
00:39:24.410 --> 00:39:26.030
we are 67

678
00:39:26.650 --> 00:39:27.790
attending live

679
00:39:28.410 --> 00:39:28.910
from

680
00:39:33.744 --> 00:39:34.484
so far.

681
00:39:34.785 --> 00:39:37.444
So it's really impressive to see

682
00:39:37.744 --> 00:39:38.805
how permaculture

683
00:39:39.184 --> 00:39:41.845
for children and at schools is

684
00:39:42.865 --> 00:39:43.365
very

685
00:39:43.744 --> 00:39:44.565
hot topic.

686
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:45.980
And,

687
00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:49.260
yeah, I'm glad we are here

688
00:39:49.560 --> 00:39:50.780
talking about it.

689
00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:52.220
And maybe

690
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:53.980
you could briefly,

691
00:39:55.400 --> 00:40:01.415
stop sharing your screen once you're ready. Yeah. So we can have a look around,

692
00:40:02.435 --> 00:40:02.935
and

693
00:40:04.835 --> 00:40:05.575
I'll just

694
00:40:05.875 --> 00:40:08.455
ask to bring a little bit of interaction.

695
00:40:09.795 --> 00:40:10.295
If

696
00:40:12.435 --> 00:40:14.135
one of the Gaia

697
00:40:14.660 --> 00:40:16.760
schools rep would like to

698
00:40:17.780 --> 00:40:19.720
comment on Lucy's presentation

699
00:40:20.260 --> 00:40:21.000
or share

700
00:40:21.620 --> 00:40:22.120
any,

701
00:40:23.780 --> 00:40:24.280
yeah,

702
00:40:24.580 --> 00:40:25.080
inspiration,

703
00:40:25.780 --> 00:40:26.280
example

704
00:40:26.740 --> 00:40:28.120
before we continue.

705
00:40:28.605 --> 00:40:30.065
I will start with the.

706
00:40:31.005 --> 00:40:34.225
I can see your hand up. I will open very soon.

707
00:40:35.325 --> 00:40:36.225
Let's see.

708
00:40:37.244 --> 00:40:39.905
Thank you, Lucy, very much, and thank you,

709
00:40:41.030 --> 00:40:47.609
to Teza. It seems that Soraya really need to speak, so we will hand over to you, Soraya.

710
00:40:48.310 --> 00:40:50.010
Okay. Thank you very much.

711
00:40:50.950 --> 00:40:54.675
I like the presentation of Lucy, and I like how the kids

712
00:40:55.715 --> 00:40:57.075
could be engaged in,

713
00:40:58.915 --> 00:40:59.415
activities.

714
00:41:00.035 --> 00:41:01.095
It struck me,

715
00:41:01.715 --> 00:41:02.215
how,

716
00:41:03.155 --> 00:41:03.735
the kids,

717
00:41:04.515 --> 00:41:09.495
some some of them, they don't know real fruit, and they don't know real vegetables.

718
00:41:12.510 --> 00:41:14.850
So, this happens not only in poor areas,

719
00:41:15.150 --> 00:41:15.890
but in,

720
00:41:16.670 --> 00:41:18.690
other areas as well. So,

721
00:41:19.870 --> 00:41:21.410
you you need, like,

722
00:41:21.870 --> 00:41:24.770
to bring things, like these on the table,

723
00:41:25.215 --> 00:41:29.475
and it would be more even effective if people or children

724
00:41:30.015 --> 00:41:31.075
are engaged in

725
00:41:31.695 --> 00:41:32.195
planting

726
00:41:33.135 --> 00:41:36.995
so that they know where this comes from and how to take care of it.

727
00:41:37.830 --> 00:41:39.450
So that's why the permaculture,

728
00:41:40.550 --> 00:41:41.050
courses

729
00:41:41.350 --> 00:41:41.850
for

730
00:41:42.630 --> 00:41:43.130
children,

731
00:41:43.750 --> 00:41:44.730
I mean, for

732
00:41:45.110 --> 00:41:47.050
elders and especially youngsters,

733
00:41:47.830 --> 00:41:48.810
is very important.

734
00:41:49.430 --> 00:41:50.570
I took with Lucy,

735
00:41:51.190 --> 00:41:52.570
a course before, so

736
00:41:53.045 --> 00:41:56.025
it was very effective, and I enjoyed it.

737
00:41:56.485 --> 00:41:57.225
Thank you.

738
00:41:58.405 --> 00:41:58.905
Wonderful.

739
00:41:59.445 --> 00:41:59.945
Yeah.

740
00:42:00.485 --> 00:42:04.825
Thanks for sharing. Let me see if one of the guide schools has any

741
00:42:05.660 --> 00:42:06.880
comment or reflection

742
00:42:07.180 --> 00:42:08.400
on Lucy's presentation

743
00:42:08.940 --> 00:42:10.400
before we move on.

744
00:42:14.300 --> 00:42:14.800
Yes.

745
00:42:15.180 --> 00:42:17.100
Thank you, Lucy, and,

746
00:42:18.645 --> 00:42:20.345
thank you, Taissa, for the opportunity.

747
00:42:20.965 --> 00:42:22.265
I would like to

748
00:42:22.965 --> 00:42:23.205
just,

749
00:42:23.845 --> 00:42:28.105
say that there are many entry points into working with these schools.

750
00:42:29.925 --> 00:42:32.025
And I I like the,

751
00:42:32.485 --> 00:42:32.985
Lucy's,

752
00:42:34.080 --> 00:42:34.580
sharing

753
00:42:35.200 --> 00:42:37.060
about, love for mother earth

754
00:42:37.520 --> 00:42:38.000
is,

755
00:42:38.320 --> 00:42:38.720
being,

756
00:42:40.160 --> 00:42:42.180
a possible starting point

757
00:42:42.640 --> 00:42:43.620
in our region.

758
00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:46.240
The entry point is,

759
00:42:46.640 --> 00:42:47.140
food,

760
00:42:47.744 --> 00:42:48.765
healthy food,

761
00:42:49.184 --> 00:42:50.384
in particular, and,

762
00:42:51.184 --> 00:42:52.545
that that helps us,

763
00:42:53.424 --> 00:42:56.224
connect much more easily with the children and,

764
00:42:57.025 --> 00:42:58.085
the the communities

765
00:42:58.545 --> 00:43:03.220
in our part of the world. Thank you very much. It was a wonderful presentation.

766
00:43:05.040 --> 00:43:06.180
Thank you, Mugoli.

767
00:43:10.240 --> 00:43:11.300
Anyone else,

768
00:43:11.680 --> 00:43:13.940
or are we ready to move on?

769
00:43:18.585 --> 00:43:19.805
It looks like,

770
00:43:21.625 --> 00:43:23.805
Margarita, would you like to start?

771
00:43:24.665 --> 00:43:26.285
So now we will Sure.

772
00:43:26.585 --> 00:43:28.845
I think we can produce some practices

773
00:43:29.385 --> 00:43:30.765
from the Gaia schools

774
00:43:31.380 --> 00:43:31.880
starting

775
00:43:32.180 --> 00:43:33.160
with Iceland.

776
00:43:34.980 --> 00:43:39.720
And please keep your questions. We will very soon open the mic to all of you.

777
00:43:43.460 --> 00:43:46.694
Can everyone hear me or and see the screen?

778
00:43:47.075 --> 00:43:47.575
Yeah.

779
00:43:47.954 --> 00:43:50.615
You can put in presentation mode. Yeah. Perfect.

780
00:43:51.315 --> 00:43:53.335
Thank you. You can see this, the presentation.

781
00:43:53.954 --> 00:43:54.994
Okay. Good.

782
00:43:55.315 --> 00:43:57.815
Lucy, thank you so much. It's really inspiring

783
00:43:58.115 --> 00:44:00.375
to to see the your presentation and

784
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:01.420
hear,

785
00:44:01.880 --> 00:44:02.380
permaculture

786
00:44:02.680 --> 00:44:05.100
once again, very close to my heart.

787
00:44:05.960 --> 00:44:10.780
So I am would like to I mean, I'm here to present, k an

788
00:44:11.160 --> 00:44:13.100
an example of how can you implement

789
00:44:13.765 --> 00:44:14.265
permaculture

790
00:44:14.565 --> 00:44:15.545
in school.

791
00:44:16.244 --> 00:44:17.525
Here in Iceland, it's What is

792
00:44:18.325 --> 00:44:21.225
Just just a sec. Can you put it in full screen?

793
00:44:21.845 --> 00:44:28.985
Because we can see the the slide the next slide also. I don't know if that's possible. But it It is.

794
00:44:30.270 --> 00:44:32.210
I I put it in the next slide.

795
00:44:34.830 --> 00:44:36.510
Can you see it? It's it's already

796
00:44:38.670 --> 00:44:43.410
Okay. I can see the next slide, and it's smaller. But that's okay.

797
00:44:43.734 --> 00:44:49.835
If if that's how it is, no problem. Come on. Come on. You cannot see just like earlier way.

798
00:44:50.695 --> 00:44:53.035
Mhmm. Okay. I can see the first two.

799
00:44:54.214 --> 00:44:55.595
Let me share it again.

800
00:44:56.500 --> 00:44:57.640
Yeah. Okay.

801
00:44:57.940 --> 00:44:59.240
How about this one?

802
00:44:59.620 --> 00:45:00.600
Can you see it?

803
00:45:02.100 --> 00:45:04.280
It's loading. Yeah. That's better.

804
00:45:04.580 --> 00:45:05.080
Okay.

805
00:45:06.260 --> 00:45:08.200
I think I was sharing the screen one.

806
00:45:08.675 --> 00:45:11.175
Okay. So, again, my name is Margarita.

807
00:45:11.315 --> 00:45:15.415
I'm located in Iceland, and, thank you, Lucy, for her presentation.

808
00:45:16.355 --> 00:45:21.075
I'm just gonna be really quick because I think I only have ten minutes, and I'm just gonna show you,

809
00:45:21.420 --> 00:45:23.020
what happened is you can also,

810
00:45:23.579 --> 00:45:26.300
later on, if you have more question, email us or anything.

811
00:45:27.339 --> 00:45:27.740
So,

812
00:45:28.540 --> 00:45:29.920
I'm gonna tell you a story

813
00:45:30.700 --> 00:45:31.099
of,

814
00:45:31.500 --> 00:45:33.680
I start working for Atlas Stepnights,

815
00:45:34.140 --> 00:45:39.934
35 year old private school. They're very much into nature, the school is already. But when I,

816
00:45:41.214 --> 00:45:42.835
when I start coming in here,

817
00:45:43.775 --> 00:45:47.155
Hetla Stavna took over a public school that has a normal

818
00:45:47.535 --> 00:45:48.035
Icelandic

819
00:45:49.869 --> 00:45:53.570
a normal playground, you know, the seesaw and all this conventional stuff.

820
00:45:53.790 --> 00:45:58.290
But then when we were taking over a public school, we we we we ask ourselves, what if

821
00:45:58.910 --> 00:46:02.130
we can create a playground that mimics the Icelandic nature?

822
00:46:03.195 --> 00:46:07.215
Because working permaculture, you really have to take a look at your nature, your surroundings,

823
00:46:07.515 --> 00:46:11.915
your your your, you know, demographic. Where where are you located in in the Earth?

824
00:46:11.915 --> 00:46:14.735
I cannot apply permaculture that's applied in

825
00:46:15.115 --> 00:46:17.880
Africa or something. So what if we can do this this way?

826
00:46:18.119 --> 00:46:21.099
So here's the picture of the public school we took over.

827
00:46:21.720 --> 00:46:22.220
And

828
00:46:23.640 --> 00:46:24.619
this was the,

829
00:46:25.240 --> 00:46:26.059
old playground.

830
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:28.700
And when the

831
00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:33.675
municipality announced, Hietla Stepna will take over, and we said the first thing we will do is

832
00:46:34.155 --> 00:46:35.215
demolish the playground.

833
00:46:35.835 --> 00:46:37.295
Everybody went panicking.

834
00:46:38.075 --> 00:46:39.515
It's like, oh my god. Why?

835
00:46:39.515 --> 00:46:46.015
You know, even the neighborhood, everybody was really some teachers were crying and, you know, it was it was like, where are they gonna play?

836
00:46:47.340 --> 00:46:48.480
They played anyway

837
00:46:49.660 --> 00:46:51.500
with the tractor and everything. You know?

838
00:46:51.500 --> 00:46:54.080
Of course, they were you know, it wasn't moving at this time.

839
00:46:54.460 --> 00:46:54.960
But,

840
00:46:56.140 --> 00:46:57.440
so all the playground

841
00:46:57.820 --> 00:46:58.960
was taken over.

842
00:46:59.660 --> 00:47:00.400
And then

843
00:47:00.700 --> 00:47:01.520
we said,

844
00:47:04.055 --> 00:47:05.974
well, this is me trying to take,

845
00:47:06.694 --> 00:47:10.875
a little bit of a ritual. I asked my friend to come and drum and connect to the earth.

846
00:47:10.934 --> 00:47:16.950
As you can imagine, these teachers are mainstreams, and they are really just normal public school teachers.

847
00:47:16.950 --> 00:47:18.730
So they were also in kind of

848
00:47:19.110 --> 00:47:23.270
a shock. So I'm gonna tell them. So here's the playground empty and everything, and then we

849
00:47:23.990 --> 00:47:24.490
so

850
00:47:24.790 --> 00:47:30.825
we were supposed to do the construction in summer while the school is closed, but then it happened in April.

851
00:47:31.125 --> 00:47:34.345
So we had to have the school running without anything outside.

852
00:47:34.645 --> 00:47:39.945
And all the teachers, existing teachers that was in public school that now turned over to a private school

853
00:47:40.500 --> 00:47:44.600
was in panic. And they said, why are we gonna how are, you know, kids are going to play?

854
00:47:45.620 --> 00:47:46.760
They did play anyway

855
00:47:47.620 --> 00:47:49.000
with the stone and sticks.

856
00:47:49.940 --> 00:47:53.240
Of course, we didn't went on for not not having anything outside.

857
00:47:56.115 --> 00:47:59.335
We started creating and and and drawing a

858
00:48:00.515 --> 00:48:01.815
permaculture base,

859
00:48:02.355 --> 00:48:02.855
playground.

860
00:48:05.075 --> 00:48:06.355
So here we are,

861
00:48:06.755 --> 00:48:08.055
building the ground.

862
00:48:08.670 --> 00:48:10.450
Here's the house. We have an outdoor,

863
00:48:12.270 --> 00:48:12.770
classroom.

864
00:48:13.230 --> 00:48:17.069
As you can imagine, Iceland is very cold, and we have a very strong wind.

865
00:48:17.069 --> 00:48:20.210
So it's really good for us to have something that we can go inside,

866
00:48:20.750 --> 00:48:23.355
when that happens. Like this morning, it was blowing really hard.

867
00:48:23.915 --> 00:48:25.695
And the idea is to plant,

868
00:48:27.595 --> 00:48:29.755
herbs that grows in Iceland and trees.

869
00:48:29.835 --> 00:48:33.215
We cannot really plant trees and it grows, like, you know, after three years.

870
00:48:33.275 --> 00:48:38.815
It takes many, many years, decades for trees to grow in Iceland. So we can work on what we have,

871
00:48:40.020 --> 00:48:44.740
herbs and berries and stuff like that. So we created a playground that,

872
00:48:46.020 --> 00:48:47.000
mimic the Icelandic,

873
00:48:47.780 --> 00:48:50.360
turf house, mimic the Icelandic nature

874
00:48:50.660 --> 00:48:53.560
with herbs and everything and and stones around. And,

875
00:48:54.245 --> 00:48:57.865
so we we don't have plastics in our playground. We don't have,

876
00:48:58.405 --> 00:49:02.905
it's basically nature. So we imagine it like being in the nature, like,

877
00:49:04.805 --> 00:49:05.625
old Icelandic

878
00:49:05.925 --> 00:49:07.145
turf farm.

879
00:49:08.220 --> 00:49:13.200
So I'm not gonna talk more. I'm just gonna send you, have you watch that, one video

880
00:49:13.820 --> 00:49:14.320
here.

881
00:49:15.580 --> 00:49:19.440
So after we build it and it's just a story. It's you know?

882
00:49:20.940 --> 00:49:22.560
We start working in it.

883
00:49:36.585 --> 00:49:37.085
Yeah.

884
00:49:57.375 --> 00:50:01.855
So I'm just gonna go so I cc the video. I'm gonna go really go fast because I only have ten minutes.

885
00:50:01.855 --> 00:50:05.474
Here at activities that we do, we do outdoor cooking outside,

886
00:50:06.950 --> 00:50:09.609
make bread, we make pancakes, we make

887
00:50:09.910 --> 00:50:10.410
cakes,

888
00:50:11.510 --> 00:50:14.069
all sorts of thing. We bake apple, what whatever we do.

889
00:50:14.309 --> 00:50:17.289
The children, we don't have a fix a fire pit.

890
00:50:17.670 --> 00:50:18.645
We have lots of stones.

891
00:50:18.645 --> 00:50:25.285
So what we do is when we make a fire, we ask the children to collect stones and create their own fire pit.

892
00:50:25.285 --> 00:50:27.545
Of course, we have a certain place where we do that.

893
00:50:28.085 --> 00:50:31.705
We eat outside, and we we work a lot with the inside kitchen.

894
00:50:32.100 --> 00:50:38.040
So here you can see that, two girls are mixing for the pancake, and then we go outside and cook the pancake outside.

895
00:50:38.340 --> 00:50:42.260
We do a lot of art in nature, use all everything we get through.

896
00:50:42.260 --> 00:50:47.875
I mean, it's all all based in season. So in in winter, we can freeze,

897
00:50:48.495 --> 00:50:50.675
like what you see in the I don't know. Free some,

898
00:50:51.775 --> 00:50:52.915
candy or popsicle

899
00:50:53.215 --> 00:50:56.275
or decoration, and we we do artwork art outside.

900
00:50:57.615 --> 00:50:59.395
We could we make our own

901
00:51:00.540 --> 00:51:01.760
paints or, like,

902
00:51:02.060 --> 00:51:07.580
now it's winter, so we have a lot of charcoal. We make black ink out of that and use vegetable.

903
00:51:07.580 --> 00:51:08.800
Here's a mud painting.

904
00:51:09.340 --> 00:51:12.405
And then we do a lot of carpentry. We use recycled materials.

905
00:51:13.285 --> 00:51:19.545
We have a festivals here a few times a year where we invite parents to do a carpentry with us, and we use,

906
00:51:19.845 --> 00:51:21.625
recycled materials to create,

907
00:51:22.485 --> 00:51:23.945
well, to make

908
00:51:24.579 --> 00:51:25.640
toys with children.

909
00:51:26.020 --> 00:51:33.960
And here we have a huge carpentry area where we collect a lot of woods, and we we there's a lot of donation from the neighborhood, and we build huge,

910
00:51:34.980 --> 00:51:39.640
like, houses and they they're they're allowed to use we have hammer,

911
00:51:39.954 --> 00:51:41.015
saw, I mean,

912
00:51:41.315 --> 00:51:42.375
all you can imagine,

913
00:51:43.395 --> 00:51:44.214
with building.

914
00:51:44.755 --> 00:51:48.214
So we try to introduce them to making stuff outside.

915
00:51:48.674 --> 00:51:50.615
Here's some of the children's creation.

916
00:51:52.035 --> 00:51:53.655
There you go. It has a boat

917
00:51:54.400 --> 00:51:56.020
and some pictures, more pictures.

918
00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:59.840
And it doesn't matter if it's snowing, raining. We are outside.

919
00:51:59.840 --> 00:52:03.380
These are the two two years old with their hammer.

920
00:52:04.960 --> 00:52:07.515
And, of course, we do a lot of rest and meditation piece.

921
00:52:07.515 --> 00:52:10.734
This is part of our everyday life around the around the fire.

922
00:52:11.194 --> 00:52:13.454
You know? We practice this every day.

923
00:52:13.835 --> 00:52:14.494
We also

924
00:52:15.115 --> 00:52:18.095
try as much as possible to sleep outside when it's possible.

925
00:52:19.355 --> 00:52:21.694
Here are some of the kids sleeping.

926
00:52:24.490 --> 00:52:24.990
Okay.

927
00:52:26.089 --> 00:52:29.049
And when it's a really, really nice weather, we take buses.

928
00:52:29.049 --> 00:52:32.349
We go to the closest forest, ocean, wherever we

929
00:52:32.730 --> 00:52:35.869
oh, here. I'm still in the eating part and resting outside.

930
00:52:38.595 --> 00:52:41.255
We do emphasize a lot of working together

931
00:52:41.715 --> 00:52:44.775
at and working in nature. Here's the more picture.

932
00:52:45.075 --> 00:52:46.855
Hang on. I want to go faster.

933
00:52:47.395 --> 00:52:48.615
And we have

934
00:52:48.994 --> 00:52:53.975
a small garden where we grow from now from March, we will start a seed our seedling.

935
00:52:54.270 --> 00:52:55.890
You can see there's a little girl,

936
00:52:56.590 --> 00:52:57.090
making,

937
00:52:58.190 --> 00:53:00.690
planting her seedlings. And then in summertime,

938
00:53:01.790 --> 00:53:03.410
around July or June,

939
00:53:03.710 --> 00:53:06.850
we can harvest our kale, our carrots, radish.

940
00:53:07.390 --> 00:53:08.770
We had some strawberries.

941
00:53:09.150 --> 00:53:09.310
We

942
00:53:10.085 --> 00:53:12.585
all sorts of stuff. And we have a lot of, berries.

943
00:53:13.125 --> 00:53:15.785
So we harvest, and they love that.

944
00:53:15.924 --> 00:53:20.805
And, when it's a really nice weather, we don't just stay in our garden. We go, in a,

945
00:53:21.525 --> 00:53:25.224
to the forest. Well, there's not much forest in Iceland. So

946
00:53:25.890 --> 00:53:28.530
from trees, a group of trees, and then we call it a forest.

947
00:53:28.930 --> 00:53:32.069
Not as big as, you know, other country, but we make,

948
00:53:32.930 --> 00:53:34.470
the most out of our forest.

949
00:53:35.569 --> 00:53:37.589
And then we go to the ocean. We

950
00:53:37.970 --> 00:53:40.049
collect shells and just, you know, just,

951
00:53:41.875 --> 00:53:47.175
we try to, as much as possible, spend time in nature. As as Lucy said,

952
00:53:47.475 --> 00:53:53.370
the most thing that we can foster our to our children is the love for nature and the understanding of it.

953
00:53:53.930 --> 00:53:55.630
So we call it not playing

954
00:53:55.930 --> 00:53:58.890
in the nature. Instead, we call it playing with the nature.

955
00:53:58.890 --> 00:54:02.330
Because with the nature, you interact with them. You're just not just in them.

956
00:54:02.330 --> 00:54:06.650
You're not just using it. You interact with nature. So that's what we emphasize every day.

957
00:54:06.650 --> 00:54:11.055
This is just our tools that we use when we go to the forest. We put up a tent

958
00:54:11.355 --> 00:54:13.055
so we can stay there all day long.

959
00:54:13.595 --> 00:54:17.694
Here are some pictures of there's a closest pond in, in a pond,

960
00:54:18.474 --> 00:54:19.454
in our community.

961
00:54:20.394 --> 00:54:21.855
Yeah. They're here. They're

962
00:54:22.250 --> 00:54:24.750
trying to find fish, little, little fish.

963
00:54:26.490 --> 00:54:28.430
Yeah. And more pictures of the forest

964
00:54:30.010 --> 00:54:30.510
here.

965
00:54:32.010 --> 00:54:34.170
And we take our juice sometimes chocolate.

966
00:54:34.170 --> 00:54:39.714
Sometimes we have this, you know, they request for hot chocolate, but mostly, we make our own, hot,

967
00:54:41.694 --> 00:54:42.835
fruit, juice.

968
00:54:43.615 --> 00:54:48.595
Here is the, the river. We go sometimes just go and walk through the river and watch the river.

969
00:54:48.734 --> 00:54:49.954
As easy as that.

970
00:54:50.850 --> 00:54:51.350
Yeah.

971
00:54:51.890 --> 00:54:56.790
So playing with nature. Taissa, do how much time do I have? Because I can go on.

972
00:54:57.410 --> 00:55:02.930
One minute. Oh, one minute. Okay. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go One or two. Continue. No.

973
00:55:02.930 --> 00:55:06.515
I'm not gonna continue, buddy. Because there's more slides and and on on,

974
00:55:08.275 --> 00:55:12.775
we start where we start following the the when children are done playing

975
00:55:13.234 --> 00:55:13.734
outside,

976
00:55:14.194 --> 00:55:17.095
what we observe is, like, we can observe their

977
00:55:17.635 --> 00:55:19.015
traces of their play.

978
00:55:19.230 --> 00:55:26.609
So we can watch so when when everybody's inside, I I usually go around and look at the things that they, you know, they've done

979
00:55:27.070 --> 00:55:28.830
and look at the and and observe it.

980
00:55:28.830 --> 00:55:33.010
And I I find it really interesting to see children really engage with nature,

981
00:55:33.375 --> 00:55:36.035
play with it, and and, you know, see this

982
00:55:36.335 --> 00:55:38.915
flower and all this beautiful art that they made.

983
00:55:39.855 --> 00:55:42.275
Here is one of the, you know, samples that,

984
00:55:42.975 --> 00:55:47.395
there's something there's a lot of things happening here. It was in inside one of the bushes,

985
00:55:47.750 --> 00:55:51.109
and somehow they found lots of pieces of woods, and they were playing with it.

986
00:55:51.109 --> 00:55:53.049
They did they don't need the toys. And here

987
00:55:53.430 --> 00:55:58.890
is a fire pit. It's a play fire pit. So you can see all over our garden, there's a little tiny

988
00:55:59.349 --> 00:56:03.049
fire pit where they they go and play as if they are cooking together.

989
00:56:04.194 --> 00:56:06.755
I find it really interesting. Here's the other

990
00:56:07.395 --> 00:56:09.954
and, yeah, this is just more pictures of,

991
00:56:10.915 --> 00:56:13.255
our kids playing with the sticks and stones.

992
00:56:15.570 --> 00:56:16.710
Yeah. Here it is.

993
00:56:16.770 --> 00:56:22.770
Just they're playing with their they have created their, fishing rod, and they start fishing.

994
00:56:22.770 --> 00:56:24.790
And here's a I don't know. There's a meeting

995
00:56:25.250 --> 00:56:28.150
going on there, which I have no idea what's happening. But, yeah,

996
00:56:28.944 --> 00:56:30.484
we call it the tracing,

997
00:56:32.145 --> 00:56:32.464
the

998
00:56:33.025 --> 00:56:34.164
what's that in English?

999
00:56:34.545 --> 00:56:36.565
Tracing the the play of children.

1000
00:56:37.345 --> 00:56:37.585
Yeah.

1001
00:56:37.585 --> 00:56:47.030
I'm gonna stop here because I don't have so much time, but this is just one example of how it's you can see it inside the kindergarten, especially in the kindergarten setup.

1002
00:56:47.170 --> 00:56:49.589
But, of course, you can create more for,

1003
00:56:50.290 --> 00:56:51.190
school kids.

1004
00:56:51.490 --> 00:56:53.430
We have elementary school too, so

1005
00:56:53.730 --> 00:56:54.630
that is another

1006
00:56:55.625 --> 00:56:57.405
full one hour PowerPoint.

1007
00:56:59.385 --> 00:57:00.125
Thank you.

1008
00:57:01.704 --> 00:57:03.085
Thank you, Margarita.

1009
00:57:04.025 --> 00:57:05.165
Thank you so much.

1010
00:57:05.545 --> 00:57:06.684
As you can see,

1011
00:57:07.145 --> 00:57:08.925
there's a lot of knowledge,

1012
00:57:09.464 --> 00:57:09.964
experience,

1013
00:57:10.740 --> 00:57:11.400
and inspiration

1014
00:57:12.340 --> 00:57:14.280
in this circle. Thank you.

1015
00:57:15.780 --> 00:57:20.760
And, maybe before I move on, we could have one reflection,

1016
00:57:21.460 --> 00:57:21.960
comment,

1017
00:57:22.500 --> 00:57:24.395
or question to Margarita

1018
00:57:24.935 --> 00:57:25.675
just to

1019
00:57:26.215 --> 00:57:28.155
make it a bit more participatory.

1020
00:57:29.815 --> 00:57:31.275
Whoever is ready.

1021
00:57:37.910 --> 00:57:38.410
Here.

1022
00:57:39.349 --> 00:57:42.010
Okay. So I will invite Mugovias,

1023
00:57:43.430 --> 00:57:44.569
Donna. Let's

1024
00:57:44.869 --> 00:57:47.049
let's hand it over to you.

1025
00:57:49.085 --> 00:57:52.305
Thank you very much for this amazing presentation, Margarita,

1026
00:57:52.605 --> 00:57:54.065
for organizing this gathering.

1027
00:57:55.164 --> 00:57:56.385
I come from Ecuador,

1028
00:57:57.325 --> 00:58:01.265
and now we are ranked as one of the most beautiful countries for mega biodiverse.

1029
00:58:01.530 --> 00:58:07.230
So we have these amazing forests, but now we are also having trouble in terms of the vocational system.

1030
00:58:07.850 --> 00:58:10.510
People are complaining that during the last years,

1031
00:58:11.050 --> 00:58:12.190
we are having

1032
00:58:13.610 --> 00:58:16.795
less computers or the computers are not functioning.

1033
00:58:17.095 --> 00:58:20.075
And now what you are teaching us is, block mining

1034
00:58:20.694 --> 00:58:21.194
because,

1035
00:58:22.214 --> 00:58:23.434
you are really teaching

1036
00:58:23.734 --> 00:58:25.115
children to live

1037
00:58:25.895 --> 00:58:29.835
within nature. I wouldn't say only with nature, but within nature

1038
00:58:30.570 --> 00:58:33.390
and also using very practical tools.

1039
00:58:34.010 --> 00:58:41.950
So we are also working with Gaia Education with the BioSchools program in Ecuador and also in other countries in Latin America.

1040
00:58:42.490 --> 00:58:46.030
And I would love to to see your wider presentation and

1041
00:58:46.755 --> 00:58:51.555
having the chance to to learn more about this kind of practice. So I would love to contact you.

1042
00:58:51.555 --> 00:58:52.855
Thank you very much, Margarita.

1043
00:58:53.474 --> 00:58:54.295
Thank you.

1044
00:58:55.395 --> 00:59:01.414
Thank you. Good that you are working with Piedad in Ecuador. She's also another partner.

1045
00:59:01.980 --> 00:59:02.480
Wonderful.

1046
00:59:03.660 --> 00:59:05.520
So now as we can see,

1047
00:59:05.900 --> 00:59:11.680
we we saw some examples from the global North. And as we know, permaculture

1048
00:59:11.980 --> 00:59:15.040
can be totally different in different environments.

1049
00:59:16.224 --> 00:59:18.165
So we are handing it over

1050
00:59:18.545 --> 00:59:19.525
to Mugabe.

1051
00:59:21.665 --> 00:59:22.645
They will share

1052
00:59:23.984 --> 00:59:24.484
examples

1053
00:59:24.785 --> 00:59:25.925
from African

1054
00:59:26.385 --> 00:59:26.885
schools.

1055
00:59:27.905 --> 00:59:30.944
Over to you, Mugabe. Do you need to just put it on,

1056
00:59:31.730 --> 00:59:32.549
full screen

1057
00:59:33.329 --> 00:59:33.829
mode.

1058
00:59:34.210 --> 00:59:34.710
Yes.

1059
00:59:35.250 --> 00:59:35.750
Okay.

1060
00:59:36.690 --> 00:59:37.190
Perfect.

1061
00:59:37.490 --> 00:59:38.470
Yeah. Thank you,

1062
00:59:39.329 --> 00:59:43.510
Theresa, and thank you, Margarita and Lucy, for for sharing,

1063
00:59:44.529 --> 00:59:45.029
earlier.

1064
00:59:45.765 --> 00:59:47.845
So I will share with you what,

1065
00:59:48.805 --> 00:59:49.924
we are doing in,

1066
00:59:50.325 --> 00:59:51.065
in Africa,

1067
00:59:51.365 --> 00:59:52.565
and we have,

1068
00:59:53.444 --> 00:59:56.184
an approach that we call old school integrated

1069
00:59:56.565 --> 00:59:57.625
land use design.

1070
00:59:58.990 --> 01:00:00.370
It's a participatory,

1071
01:00:02.030 --> 01:00:03.570
inclusive way of

1072
01:00:03.870 --> 01:00:04.370
involving,

1073
01:00:05.790 --> 01:00:09.410
not only the learners, but also their parents, their teachers,

1074
01:00:10.830 --> 01:00:11.970
and the communities.

1075
01:00:13.125 --> 01:00:13.865
So when,

1076
01:00:14.885 --> 01:00:15.865
the the schools

1077
01:00:16.325 --> 01:00:16.825
work,

1078
01:00:17.525 --> 01:00:18.585
with this approach,

1079
01:00:19.205 --> 01:00:20.505
they want to see,

1080
01:00:21.925 --> 01:00:23.705
themselves living in abundance,

1081
01:00:24.725 --> 01:00:26.585
using their whole land creatively

1082
01:00:26.965 --> 01:00:27.705
to produce

1083
01:00:28.500 --> 01:00:31.400
a wide range of, nutritious food

1084
01:00:31.700 --> 01:00:33.240
and other useful products,

1085
01:00:34.020 --> 01:00:35.080
also providing

1086
01:00:35.380 --> 01:00:37.000
countless learning possibilities

1087
01:00:37.540 --> 01:00:38.680
for their curricula,

1088
01:00:39.460 --> 01:00:39.780
and,

1089
01:00:40.580 --> 01:00:41.080
also,

1090
01:00:42.174 --> 01:00:45.395
serving as resource centers within the communities

1091
01:00:46.095 --> 01:00:46.914
and contributing

1092
01:00:47.214 --> 01:00:48.674
to community resilience

1093
01:00:49.295 --> 01:00:50.515
and to the development

1094
01:00:50.815 --> 01:00:51.875
of the whole child.

1095
01:00:52.335 --> 01:00:54.095
So that that's the vision that,

1096
01:00:54.895 --> 01:00:55.714
that the schools,

1097
01:00:56.174 --> 01:00:56.914
work towards.

1098
01:00:57.750 --> 01:00:58.250
And,

1099
01:00:59.990 --> 01:01:01.370
so the the,

1100
01:01:02.950 --> 01:01:04.250
work brings together.

1101
01:01:04.790 --> 01:01:05.690
As I said,

1102
01:01:05.990 --> 01:01:10.730
the parents come to the school, and together with the children and the teachers,

1103
01:01:11.415 --> 01:01:12.155
they redesign

1104
01:01:12.855 --> 01:01:14.315
their school grounds,

1105
01:01:15.735 --> 01:01:18.075
usually starting from bare land

1106
01:01:18.615 --> 01:01:19.115
to,

1107
01:01:20.375 --> 01:01:22.155
a whole school food forest

1108
01:01:22.695 --> 01:01:28.170
like the one that we are seeing in the picture. The this is in the middle of the school grounds,

1109
01:01:28.550 --> 01:01:30.890
and the classrooms are just nearby,

1110
01:01:31.510 --> 01:01:34.250
but you can't see them because of the,

1111
01:01:35.830 --> 01:01:38.150
forest that has been established. And,

1112
01:01:38.870 --> 01:01:40.570
at the center of this forest,

1113
01:01:41.555 --> 01:01:42.055
different,

1114
01:01:43.955 --> 01:01:46.055
edible plants. So a lot of edible

1115
01:01:46.755 --> 01:01:47.255
landscaping,

1116
01:01:48.115 --> 01:01:48.615
happens.

1117
01:01:50.115 --> 01:01:51.015
And this is,

1118
01:01:52.595 --> 01:01:53.735
another school,

1119
01:01:54.035 --> 01:01:55.735
Poshai School in Zimbabwe.

1120
01:01:56.310 --> 01:01:56.810
And

1121
01:01:57.190 --> 01:02:02.970
and the children in the middle of their food forest, I'm sure you can recognize papaya there,

1122
01:02:04.390 --> 01:02:04.890
and,

1123
01:02:05.590 --> 01:02:06.090
also,

1124
01:02:06.710 --> 01:02:07.530
some vegetables

1125
01:02:07.910 --> 01:02:08.970
growing in between.

1126
01:02:10.365 --> 01:02:10.865
And

1127
01:02:11.485 --> 01:02:11.885
this,

1128
01:02:12.605 --> 01:02:15.905
school food forest, apart from providing food,

1129
01:02:16.285 --> 01:02:19.105
they also help in cooling the environment,

1130
01:02:19.405 --> 01:02:19.905
creating

1131
01:02:20.205 --> 01:02:21.025
cool microclimates

1132
01:02:22.045 --> 01:02:22.945
that are conducive

1133
01:02:23.245 --> 01:02:24.705
for teaching and learning.

1134
01:02:25.160 --> 01:02:27.820
And they also provide a lot of,

1135
01:02:28.680 --> 01:02:29.820
learning opportunities

1136
01:02:30.760 --> 01:02:31.260
where,

1137
01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:32.300
children,

1138
01:02:33.640 --> 01:02:34.140
really

1139
01:02:34.600 --> 01:02:35.820
touch, see,

1140
01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:40.714
and work with what they are learning, and, eventually,

1141
01:02:41.655 --> 01:02:45.755
they enjoy the food. So here we have, parents, some moms come

1142
01:02:46.055 --> 01:02:47.435
to help with the cooking,

1143
01:02:48.055 --> 01:02:48.454
and,

1144
01:02:48.935 --> 01:02:49.675
the children,

1145
01:02:50.535 --> 01:02:51.994
then enjoy the food,

1146
01:02:55.570 --> 01:02:57.110
They themselves have grown.

1147
01:02:57.650 --> 01:02:58.050
And,

1148
01:02:58.930 --> 01:03:00.150
this has really,

1149
01:03:00.770 --> 01:03:03.330
made a big difference. We find the schools that,

1150
01:03:04.130 --> 01:03:05.990
are participating in this program.

1151
01:03:06.645 --> 01:03:08.345
If we increase the enrollment

1152
01:03:08.725 --> 01:03:10.025
and a very, very

1153
01:03:10.725 --> 01:03:12.185
low, if any, dropouts,

1154
01:03:13.445 --> 01:03:16.505
and also the the children are much more,

1155
01:03:18.085 --> 01:03:19.525
sharp and engaged and,

1156
01:03:20.580 --> 01:03:22.440
generally do much better,

1157
01:03:23.220 --> 01:03:24.280
in in school

1158
01:03:24.660 --> 01:03:25.860
as a result of,

1159
01:03:26.740 --> 01:03:27.220
this,

1160
01:03:27.540 --> 01:03:28.040
work.

1161
01:03:29.460 --> 01:03:29.960
And,

1162
01:03:31.060 --> 01:03:33.240
to make this the food forest, usually,

1163
01:03:33.620 --> 01:03:34.440
they start,

1164
01:03:35.845 --> 01:03:36.665
most schools,

1165
01:03:37.845 --> 01:03:38.345
actually

1166
01:03:38.645 --> 01:03:39.145
bear.

1167
01:03:39.765 --> 01:03:42.825
You find some schools ask children to

1168
01:03:43.285 --> 01:03:44.665
sweep the schoolyard

1169
01:03:45.365 --> 01:03:46.265
in the morning,

1170
01:03:46.805 --> 01:03:49.785
before they start school in the name of cleaning.

1171
01:03:50.490 --> 01:03:51.870
And, you get

1172
01:03:52.250 --> 01:03:53.390
a cloud of dust,

1173
01:03:54.810 --> 01:03:55.790
in the school,

1174
01:03:56.170 --> 01:03:58.030
and the the children

1175
01:03:58.410 --> 01:03:58.910
are,

1176
01:03:59.610 --> 01:04:00.670
usually hungry,

1177
01:04:01.370 --> 01:04:01.770
and,

1178
01:04:02.744 --> 01:04:06.924
they're asking data to do this or to plant ornamental plants,

1179
01:04:08.184 --> 01:04:08.684
around.

1180
01:04:09.545 --> 01:04:13.005
But when they are introduced to this program, they transform

1181
01:04:13.385 --> 01:04:15.325
these ornamental landscapes

1182
01:04:15.625 --> 01:04:16.765
and the bare grounds

1183
01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:17.860
into,

1184
01:04:18.480 --> 01:04:18.980
forest.

1185
01:04:19.520 --> 01:04:20.020
So,

1186
01:04:20.400 --> 01:04:23.380
this school we are seeing here is the same,

1187
01:04:24.720 --> 01:04:26.180
seventeen months earlier.

1188
01:04:27.360 --> 01:04:29.540
If you can see the blue circle there,

1189
01:04:30.815 --> 01:04:31.214
that,

1190
01:04:32.015 --> 01:04:32.515
brown,

1191
01:04:33.375 --> 01:04:34.015
sheet of,

1192
01:04:34.494 --> 01:04:34.994
roof.

1193
01:04:35.454 --> 01:04:35.694
And,

1194
01:04:36.255 --> 01:04:39.954
you can see the same blue circle there. And this is only

1195
01:04:40.654 --> 01:04:42.115
seventeen months difference.

1196
01:04:42.789 --> 01:04:45.109
And, the difference here is just,

1197
01:04:45.670 --> 01:04:46.809
change of mindsets

1198
01:04:47.430 --> 01:04:51.210
and also the power of, integrated lattice design.

1199
01:04:52.630 --> 01:04:52.869
And,

1200
01:04:53.670 --> 01:04:54.170
also,

1201
01:04:54.470 --> 01:04:56.650
no budget is required for this transformation.

1202
01:04:57.645 --> 01:04:58.865
The school simply

1203
01:04:59.405 --> 01:05:01.025
mounted the bare ground

1204
01:05:01.405 --> 01:05:02.145
to create,

1205
01:05:03.005 --> 01:05:03.905
the good,

1206
01:05:04.925 --> 01:05:05.425
topsoil,

1207
01:05:06.045 --> 01:05:08.865
and the parents donated the seeds,

1208
01:05:09.245 --> 01:05:09.745
and,

1209
01:05:10.610 --> 01:05:15.830
the rain did the rest and one and a half months later you have a food forest.

1210
01:05:16.210 --> 01:05:17.590
So it's so easy

1211
01:05:18.210 --> 01:05:23.190
to have this transformation. So what we have is the biggest challenge is the mindsets.

1212
01:05:23.735 --> 01:05:24.795
So with permaculture

1213
01:05:25.175 --> 01:05:25.675
training,

1214
01:05:26.135 --> 01:05:28.455
we really change the mindsets, and,

1215
01:05:29.335 --> 01:05:31.435
everything becomes easy thereafter.

1216
01:05:31.975 --> 01:05:33.835
So then there's our,

1217
01:05:35.095 --> 01:05:36.075
contact information,

1218
01:05:36.375 --> 01:05:37.115
our website,

1219
01:05:37.900 --> 01:05:38.299
and,

1220
01:05:38.700 --> 01:05:40.720
our presence on the social media.

1221
01:05:41.740 --> 01:05:43.520
Thank you very much. I recognize

1222
01:05:43.820 --> 01:05:44.560
that we,

1223
01:05:45.500 --> 01:05:47.100
we have limited time, but,

1224
01:05:47.820 --> 01:05:51.200
yeah, that that's what's happening in Eastern And Southern Africa.

1225
01:05:51.660 --> 01:05:52.400
Thank you.

1226
01:05:53.465 --> 01:05:53.965
Bravo.

1227
01:05:54.505 --> 01:05:55.725
You, Mugove.

1228
01:05:56.425 --> 01:05:56.925
That's

1229
01:05:57.305 --> 01:05:58.205
so beautiful.

1230
01:05:59.145 --> 01:05:59.645
I'm

1231
01:06:00.105 --> 01:06:01.245
never tired

1232
01:06:01.705 --> 01:06:04.125
to hear from you. Thank you so much.

1233
01:06:05.980 --> 01:06:06.800
Any comment

1234
01:06:07.180 --> 01:06:08.080
or questions

1235
01:06:08.380 --> 01:06:08.880
to

1236
01:06:09.260 --> 01:06:10.080
Mugabe's work?

1237
01:06:10.860 --> 01:06:13.360
We could hear one voice before

1238
01:06:13.660 --> 01:06:14.800
opening the circle.

1239
01:06:23.315 --> 01:06:23.815
Johanna.

1240
01:06:24.595 --> 01:06:25.095
Johanna.

1241
01:06:29.715 --> 01:06:30.215
Hello.

1242
01:06:31.075 --> 01:06:32.115
I want to ask,

1243
01:06:33.475 --> 01:06:34.295
if we can,

1244
01:06:35.930 --> 01:06:38.510
if there is a chance for volunteers to

1245
01:06:39.050 --> 01:06:40.990
also come there and help.

1246
01:06:43.930 --> 01:06:46.350
Is this a question to move over? Yes.

1247
01:06:46.810 --> 01:06:47.310
Yes.

1248
01:06:47.770 --> 01:06:48.510
Thank you.

1249
01:06:49.585 --> 01:06:52.405
We do welcome volunteers a lot,

1250
01:06:52.945 --> 01:06:55.445
and we have a lot of volunteer opportunities,

1251
01:06:56.625 --> 01:06:58.065
because we are working in,

1252
01:06:59.265 --> 01:07:00.885
eight countries at the moment.

1253
01:07:01.985 --> 01:07:02.485
Zimbabwe,

1254
01:07:02.785 --> 01:07:04.005
Zambia, Malawi,

1255
01:07:06.040 --> 01:07:07.819
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania,

1256
01:07:08.520 --> 01:07:09.020
Ethiopia,

1257
01:07:09.480 --> 01:07:10.300
and Eswatini.

1258
01:07:11.480 --> 01:07:14.200
And in each of these countries, we have a lot of,

1259
01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:16.619
organizations

1260
01:07:17.880 --> 01:07:19.339
that can host volunteers

1261
01:07:20.184 --> 01:07:22.845
and a lot of schools that are doing this work.

1262
01:07:23.224 --> 01:07:23.545
And,

1263
01:07:24.025 --> 01:07:26.605
yeah. So we we do welcome,

1264
01:07:27.145 --> 01:07:28.025
volunteers, and,

1265
01:07:28.585 --> 01:07:30.045
we have a lot of opportunities

1266
01:07:30.345 --> 01:07:32.984
for that. So just get in touch, and,

1267
01:07:33.704 --> 01:07:35.325
we will come up with something.

1268
01:07:38.240 --> 01:07:38.740
Wonderful.

1269
01:07:39.440 --> 01:07:40.980
Thank you so much, Mugove.

1270
01:07:41.840 --> 01:07:47.700
And maybe now you can stop sharing your screen so we can come back to the big circle.

1271
01:07:49.734 --> 01:07:50.234
Wow.

1272
01:07:50.935 --> 01:07:51.675
So much

1273
01:07:52.055 --> 01:07:52.555
inspirations.

1274
01:07:53.734 --> 01:07:55.275
And now we are open

1275
01:07:55.655 --> 01:07:56.795
for questions,

1276
01:07:57.575 --> 01:07:58.075
comments,

1277
01:07:58.615 --> 01:08:00.155
feedback on the work,

1278
01:08:01.255 --> 01:08:05.150
of the Gaia schools, also questions to Lucy,

1279
01:08:06.970 --> 01:08:07.710
who have

1280
01:08:08.170 --> 01:08:09.390
some time to

1281
01:08:10.010 --> 01:08:10.510
reflect

1282
01:08:11.050 --> 01:08:11.950
and discuss.

1283
01:08:16.614 --> 01:08:17.014
And,

1284
01:08:17.574 --> 01:08:20.955
hold on. Maybe that's my bad. I will

1285
01:08:21.415 --> 01:08:24.715
open the mic to you, Capra, please. Sorry.

1286
01:08:25.734 --> 01:08:27.034
We want to share

1287
01:08:27.870 --> 01:08:29.649
a little bit more inspirations.

1288
01:08:30.270 --> 01:08:32.130
Back to the global North,

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01:08:32.510 --> 01:08:38.689
I will send the mic to Capra from Libri School in Davenport to share some of their practices.

1290
01:08:40.055 --> 01:08:44.715
Yes. Thank you. And thank you to everyone having shared. I'm so inspired,

1291
01:08:45.095 --> 01:08:47.195
and there's so many similarities.

1292
01:08:47.655 --> 01:08:47.975
So,

1293
01:08:48.774 --> 01:08:51.995
I have sent an a link to Makako

1294
01:08:52.615 --> 01:08:53.675
and on the

1295
01:08:54.135 --> 01:08:58.930
email, some pictures to share because I'm on the phone. I have a hard time to sharing.

1296
01:08:59.470 --> 01:09:04.370
So what I want to just start as we're waiting for the pictures maybe to come

1297
01:09:04.750 --> 01:09:05.390
is that,

1298
01:09:06.270 --> 01:09:07.250
labor school,

1299
01:09:08.590 --> 01:09:10.529
is, not actually applying

1300
01:09:12.415 --> 01:09:13.074
in permaculture,

1301
01:09:14.015 --> 01:09:17.955
and yet there's so many things very similar. Maybe this can also be inspirational.

1302
01:09:18.654 --> 01:09:18.975
So,

1303
01:09:19.935 --> 01:09:23.074
what Macaco will be showing now is, for example,

1304
01:09:23.774 --> 01:09:25.310
how our kids

1305
01:09:25.770 --> 01:09:26.349
are using

1306
01:09:26.729 --> 01:09:28.109
the the period

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01:09:28.889 --> 01:09:29.210
of,

1308
01:09:29.689 --> 01:09:30.189
connecting

1309
01:09:30.729 --> 01:09:31.210
with,

1310
01:09:31.689 --> 01:09:32.270
the Earth,

1311
01:09:32.649 --> 01:09:34.989
which is also the season after the

1312
01:09:35.290 --> 01:09:38.670
November 1, which is the day of dedicated to the

1313
01:09:39.105 --> 01:09:41.925
forefathers to to our to the to death.

1314
01:09:42.625 --> 01:09:44.245
And it is the moment

1315
01:09:44.545 --> 01:09:45.045
when

1316
01:09:45.985 --> 01:09:47.685
nature dies, and,

1317
01:09:48.545 --> 01:09:51.685
everything is coming to a quiet part also.

1318
01:09:52.050 --> 01:09:52.949
And it's about

1319
01:09:53.250 --> 01:09:55.110
feeling that's getting into the mood.

1320
01:09:56.130 --> 01:10:03.110
These are images of our school park. So we are very lucky that our school is inserted in two hectare

1321
01:10:03.730 --> 01:10:07.030
park with which is very rocky, many trees.

1322
01:10:08.055 --> 01:10:08.555
And,

1323
01:10:09.015 --> 01:10:11.435
this allows the kids to be a lot outside.

1324
01:10:12.055 --> 01:10:18.315
So we are not an outdoor school only, but we are many, many hours during the week, our kids outside.

1325
01:10:19.255 --> 01:10:24.090
And, this is a way of living nature in a different way. Also, very,

1326
01:10:25.430 --> 01:10:29.610
connecting nature. So connecting nature for us is the way of saying,

1327
01:10:30.950 --> 01:10:32.890
it is not so much an ecological

1328
01:10:33.270 --> 01:10:36.785
view only, but it is a way of relating to nature

1329
01:10:37.165 --> 01:10:39.985
in different elements. I don't know if you can also show,

1330
01:10:41.165 --> 01:10:43.565
Kaisa, the the images I sent on,

1331
01:10:44.445 --> 01:10:45.745
Internet. I don't know.

1332
01:10:48.150 --> 01:10:50.250
I wanted to show you we also have, like,

1333
01:10:50.630 --> 01:10:51.610
hanging classrooms

1334
01:10:52.070 --> 01:10:55.210
or or places dedicated to nature spirit.

1335
01:10:55.510 --> 01:10:59.930
To us, the relationship with nature has a, a spiritual impact.

1336
01:11:00.605 --> 01:11:01.485
It's a way of,

1337
01:11:02.205 --> 01:11:03.265
connecting creativity,

1338
01:11:05.165 --> 01:11:05.665
connecting

1339
01:11:06.045 --> 01:11:09.905
the fantasy of children. Like, what you see here is a it's a girl

1340
01:11:10.685 --> 01:11:11.824
creating Adobe

1341
01:11:12.525 --> 01:11:15.830
for the house of the gnomes in the city of the Nomes.

1342
01:11:15.889 --> 01:11:19.510
So the children have dedicated one area of our park

1343
01:11:19.810 --> 01:11:20.949
to nature spirits.

1344
01:11:22.449 --> 01:11:23.590
And the next picture,

1345
01:11:25.969 --> 01:11:28.230
these are this is a child connecting

1346
01:11:29.035 --> 01:11:29.775
to his,

1347
01:11:30.795 --> 01:11:33.535
tree friend. Every child has a tree friend.

1348
01:11:34.155 --> 01:11:36.015
And when you learn to communicate

1349
01:11:36.475 --> 01:11:39.775
with a tree and you hear the tree's voice within you,

1350
01:11:40.155 --> 01:11:42.735
you will always have a connection to nature.

1351
01:11:43.369 --> 01:11:46.110
Like just like you can hear the voice of the wind.

1352
01:11:46.730 --> 01:11:54.110
And, as children get older and then puberty, our school goes up to 14 years, they tend to get disenchanted.

1353
01:11:54.570 --> 01:11:58.190
So we will then keep up the connection with the invisible,

1354
01:12:00.675 --> 01:12:02.615
connecting then with the inner voice.

1355
01:12:03.395 --> 01:12:06.615
For us, nature is a way of connecting with the invisible

1356
01:12:07.315 --> 01:12:08.295
that is behind

1357
01:12:08.675 --> 01:12:09.655
the the tree.

1358
01:12:10.355 --> 01:12:12.375
Here you see a class outside,

1359
01:12:12.740 --> 01:12:13.560
so we have

1360
01:12:13.860 --> 01:12:19.640
the possibility to do many classes like we heard also before from math outside.

1361
01:12:19.700 --> 01:12:22.680
We're also doing math or other courses outside.

1362
01:12:23.220 --> 01:12:26.840
And the last picture, actually, is our hanging classroom.

1363
01:12:28.685 --> 01:12:29.985
When you go one further.

1364
01:12:30.445 --> 01:12:32.385
Yes. So we have a hanging classroom.

1365
01:12:33.005 --> 01:12:33.325
It's,

1366
01:12:34.125 --> 01:12:38.625
it's the favorite place of all age groups, and sometimes they're playing.

1367
01:12:38.925 --> 01:12:42.465
And sometimes we're really having, like, a group of,

1368
01:12:43.530 --> 01:12:44.030
like,

1369
01:12:44.410 --> 01:12:50.190
eight children that are not I don't know. Age 10 to 14 that are doing actually a lesson of Italian

1370
01:12:50.490 --> 01:12:51.630
or math or whatever

1371
01:12:52.170 --> 01:12:52.670
outside.

1372
01:12:54.490 --> 01:12:58.335
Yes. This is to disclose with a very different way of the

1373
01:13:10.094 --> 01:13:11.955
Thank you so much, Capra.

1374
01:13:12.550 --> 01:13:14.010
It's super beautiful.

1375
01:13:15.350 --> 01:13:16.170
Thank you.

1376
01:13:16.710 --> 01:13:22.550
Oh, can I just add one thing? We are turning 40 this year, and I want to invite all of you.

1377
01:13:22.550 --> 01:13:26.730
If anyone of you would like to come to Domino's tour in in May,

1378
01:13:27.395 --> 01:13:29.495
the May 9, you're

1379
01:13:30.355 --> 01:13:32.935
warmly invited to celebrate with us.

1380
01:13:35.555 --> 01:13:36.055
Yes.

1381
01:13:36.515 --> 01:13:38.455
This is one of our informs.

1382
01:13:39.395 --> 01:13:39.895
Perfect.

1383
01:13:41.240 --> 01:13:42.300
Thank you, Capra.

1384
01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:43.260
Marit,

1385
01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:45.260
are you also inspired

1386
01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:47.020
to briefly share?

1387
01:13:48.920 --> 01:13:50.520
Yes. Thank you very much.

1388
01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:54.460
We have now seen so many inspiring presentations, but

1389
01:13:55.115 --> 01:13:59.775
but I already feel very inspired, and I hope that every everybody else also.

1390
01:14:00.555 --> 01:14:01.935
And I can very briefly

1391
01:14:02.235 --> 01:14:02.735
share

1392
01:14:03.115 --> 01:14:03.615
our,

1393
01:14:05.035 --> 01:14:05.535
experience.

1394
01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:10.500
Here we

1395
01:14:11.320 --> 01:14:11.820
are.

1396
01:14:12.640 --> 01:14:13.860
Is it seen now?

1397
01:14:14.640 --> 01:14:18.340
Is it okay? Yes. Just put on the on the

1398
01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:20.020
presentation mode.

1399
01:14:28.474 --> 01:14:29.375
Is it okay?

1400
01:14:30.715 --> 01:14:31.215
Perfect.

1401
01:14:31.675 --> 01:14:32.175
Yeah.

1402
01:14:33.034 --> 01:14:34.974
Yeah. So I come from Estonia,

1403
01:14:35.355 --> 01:14:38.340
which is also, we can say, a Nordic country.

1404
01:14:38.960 --> 01:14:40.180
So our school,

1405
01:14:41.120 --> 01:14:44.500
is located in Tallinn, in town. In it's our capital.

1406
01:14:45.360 --> 01:14:45.840
And,

1407
01:14:46.320 --> 01:14:46.960
we have,

1408
01:14:47.920 --> 01:14:48.960
240

1409
01:14:48.960 --> 01:14:50.739
students from very different ages.

1410
01:14:51.385 --> 01:14:51.885
And

1411
01:14:52.505 --> 01:14:59.565
I have to repeat the same sentences that they also already have been said, outdoor lessons and project based learning.

1412
01:15:00.585 --> 01:15:03.244
But Estonia has very different climate,

1413
01:15:03.705 --> 01:15:04.205
seasons.

1414
01:15:04.585 --> 01:15:05.725
We have cold winters,

1415
01:15:07.710 --> 01:15:10.770
where you can really have a nice experience,

1416
01:15:11.470 --> 01:15:13.490
with the the climate of minus

1417
01:15:14.030 --> 01:15:17.890
15 or sometimes even 25 degrees below zero.

1418
01:15:18.990 --> 01:15:19.490
It's,

1419
01:15:20.030 --> 01:15:20.910
25

1420
01:15:20.910 --> 01:15:21.410
Celsius.

1421
01:15:23.075 --> 01:15:25.895
And we have very ugly autumn weather.

1422
01:15:26.595 --> 01:15:27.095
So,

1423
01:15:28.595 --> 01:15:35.095
this can give us beautiful challenges how to organize outdoor learning when it's rainy or muddy.

1424
01:15:37.010 --> 01:15:39.510
And, of course, today, we talk about permaculture.

1425
01:15:39.810 --> 01:15:43.090
So perm we have our school garden where we we also

1426
01:15:44.010 --> 01:15:44.510
we

1427
01:15:44.930 --> 01:15:48.550
prepare them outdoor lessons for permaculture gardening.

1428
01:15:49.250 --> 01:15:50.790
And we can do with this

1429
01:15:51.745 --> 01:15:53.105
type of activities in,

1430
01:15:53.665 --> 01:15:54.165
September

1431
01:15:54.465 --> 01:15:55.365
or in May,

1432
01:15:56.305 --> 01:15:57.845
and not during winter.

1433
01:15:59.265 --> 01:16:00.645
But the gardening

1434
01:16:00.945 --> 01:16:02.245
can be quite beautiful

1435
01:16:02.705 --> 01:16:04.165
at the end of the summer.

1436
01:16:05.100 --> 01:16:08.880
So and the the kids can really see how the,

1437
01:16:10.140 --> 01:16:11.440
the plants are growing

1438
01:16:11.740 --> 01:16:14.080
during the three, four months of summer.

1439
01:16:17.055 --> 01:16:21.795
But permaculture is not only gardening. It's a lifestyle, as Lucy told us.

1440
01:16:22.415 --> 01:16:27.635
And I totally agree. So hiking is also one part of our outdoor lessons

1441
01:16:29.160 --> 01:16:30.380
And animals.

1442
01:16:30.760 --> 01:16:31.580
This is

1443
01:16:32.360 --> 01:16:33.260
a very important

1444
01:16:33.560 --> 01:16:34.219
part of

1445
01:16:34.520 --> 01:16:35.900
our school year.

1446
01:16:37.000 --> 01:16:39.420
We have plenty of nice partners,

1447
01:16:40.520 --> 01:16:41.260
in Estonia

1448
01:16:41.560 --> 01:16:43.420
who can host our kids and

1449
01:16:43.815 --> 01:16:44.315
let

1450
01:16:44.775 --> 01:16:47.755
give us some time with beautiful farm animals.

1451
01:16:51.255 --> 01:16:54.375
And I agree with Lucy who,

1452
01:16:55.175 --> 01:16:59.790
presented us, the different options, how we can integrate different subjects.

1453
01:17:00.590 --> 01:17:05.890
And it is possible to make mathematic lessons or language lessons or arts lessons,

1454
01:17:06.430 --> 01:17:07.890
of course, music lessons,

1455
01:17:08.510 --> 01:17:10.050
social sciences. Everything,

1456
01:17:10.430 --> 01:17:11.970
could be done in nature

1457
01:17:12.430 --> 01:17:15.170
and reflected out afterwards in the classroom.

1458
01:17:16.245 --> 01:17:18.105
So here you can see beautiful

1459
01:17:18.485 --> 01:17:18.985
artwork,

1460
01:17:20.005 --> 01:17:20.745
that depicts

1461
01:17:21.125 --> 01:17:23.145
the cells of different plants.

1462
01:17:24.565 --> 01:17:26.265
And, also, a nice,

1463
01:17:27.765 --> 01:17:30.665
written story about a cat and, water.

1464
01:17:33.659 --> 01:17:34.159
And,

1465
01:17:34.860 --> 01:17:37.920
last but not least, everything is built on teamwork

1466
01:17:38.460 --> 01:17:38.960
because,

1467
01:17:40.619 --> 01:17:41.840
care for people

1468
01:17:42.380 --> 01:17:45.840
is one of the three pillars of permaculture.

1469
01:17:46.875 --> 01:17:47.375
And,

1470
01:17:48.554 --> 01:17:52.255
outdoor lessons gives gives give us plenty of opportunities

1471
01:17:52.795 --> 01:17:53.534
for having

1472
01:17:54.155 --> 01:17:55.295
a lot of teamwork

1473
01:17:55.835 --> 01:17:57.054
and conflict resolution

1474
01:17:57.914 --> 01:17:58.414
and,

1475
01:17:59.630 --> 01:18:00.130
and,

1476
01:18:00.670 --> 01:18:01.170
overcoming,

1477
01:18:02.429 --> 01:18:03.409
different obstacles,

1478
01:18:04.670 --> 01:18:05.650
different situations.

1479
01:18:06.590 --> 01:18:07.810
And we will

1480
01:18:08.270 --> 01:18:11.790
we have always, been able to find solutions in in these,

1481
01:18:13.065 --> 01:18:14.045
nice situations.

1482
01:18:15.545 --> 01:18:22.605
So thank you very much from my side. Here is also our address, and, hope to see you all

1483
01:18:22.985 --> 01:18:25.405
somewhere on our planet, Gaia, and

1484
01:18:25.705 --> 01:18:27.485
make some thermoculture together.

1485
01:18:31.679 --> 01:18:32.980
Thank you, Marie.

1486
01:18:33.679 --> 01:18:34.900
Thank you so much.

1487
01:18:36.400 --> 01:18:38.980
As you can see, we could continue

1488
01:18:39.840 --> 01:18:42.579
on and on in this very rich

1489
01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:43.380
circle,

1490
01:18:44.494 --> 01:18:46.034
but let's open

1491
01:18:46.655 --> 01:18:47.474
the circle

1492
01:18:48.014 --> 01:18:49.235
for comments,

1493
01:18:49.855 --> 01:18:50.355
questions,

1494
01:18:50.895 --> 01:18:51.395
reflections,

1495
01:18:52.094 --> 01:18:54.755
feedback. There's a lot going on on the chat.

1496
01:18:55.614 --> 01:18:57.875
Beautiful feedback to each

1497
01:18:58.500 --> 01:18:59.239
of you.

1498
01:18:59.860 --> 01:19:02.920
And I know there are many people working on permaculture,

1499
01:19:05.460 --> 01:19:06.440
and certified

1500
01:19:09.059 --> 01:19:09.559
trainers.

1501
01:19:10.099 --> 01:19:10.840
So please,

1502
01:19:12.395 --> 01:19:14.015
you're welcome to also

1503
01:19:15.995 --> 01:19:16.495
connect

1504
01:19:17.114 --> 01:19:18.015
and share

1505
01:19:18.715 --> 01:19:19.695
your experiences.

1506
01:19:23.515 --> 01:19:25.614
I would love to hear at least

1507
01:19:25.950 --> 01:19:26.850
one or two

1508
01:19:27.150 --> 01:19:28.210
questions to Lucy

1509
01:19:29.230 --> 01:19:30.930
or to the guy at schools.

1510
01:19:34.270 --> 01:19:35.890
Please open your mic.

1511
01:19:38.475 --> 01:19:39.135
Hi there.

1512
01:19:40.875 --> 01:19:42.895
Sorry. I'm trying to get my camera on

1513
01:19:43.275 --> 01:19:47.695
as well. Just a big thank you to to all the presenters and the time and the enthusiasm.

1514
01:19:49.114 --> 01:19:52.070
I'm based in London, so a big capital

1515
01:19:52.450 --> 01:19:56.070
city. I work in the community garden, and I'm trustee there.

1516
01:19:56.130 --> 01:19:59.910
But but from my personal experience of having two teenage children,

1517
01:20:00.530 --> 01:20:05.430
but also from the work in the community, and it's something that Kapa touched upon.

1518
01:20:05.825 --> 01:20:08.085
It's how do you continue the enthusiasm

1519
01:20:08.625 --> 01:20:09.445
and engagement

1520
01:20:09.905 --> 01:20:10.565
with children

1521
01:20:10.945 --> 01:20:12.245
when they reach the teenage

1522
01:20:12.785 --> 01:20:18.400
years. Yeah. Sort of with the younger ones, there there seems to be an openness and a receptivity,

1523
01:20:18.940 --> 01:20:21.820
which as they get older, you know, there's there's some exceptions.

1524
01:20:21.820 --> 01:20:23.360
I'm not saying it's all teenagers.

1525
01:20:23.739 --> 01:20:28.699
There are some exceptions, but I find, you know, with a lot of them that it's no longer cool.

1526
01:20:28.699 --> 01:20:29.520
They're disengaged

1527
01:20:30.565 --> 01:20:31.385
from it.

1528
01:20:32.724 --> 01:20:41.704
And and, yes, I just wondered whether whether, Lucy, you had any thoughts in relation to that, how you continue to keep them engaged, or is it that point that you made in one of the quotations

1529
01:20:42.324 --> 01:20:43.065
that actually,

1530
01:20:43.525 --> 01:20:45.605
in some ways, this is this is an actual cycle.

1531
01:20:45.605 --> 01:20:56.620
This is a a time to to stand back, you know, to allow them to go out, to explore what they want, and then, hopefully, what has been, you know, embedded in them at an earlier point will come back to them.

1532
01:20:56.620 --> 01:21:00.699
And we have to trust the process, however difficult it is, standing on the sidelines.

1533
01:21:00.699 --> 01:21:04.875
But I'd be interested in your thoughts, Lucy. Thank you. Thank you, Carla.

1534
01:21:05.335 --> 01:21:09.835
Yeah. It's a thing, isn't it? Teenagers, they're they're a whole other a whole different,

1535
01:21:10.775 --> 01:21:11.995
they're they're really wonderful

1536
01:21:12.775 --> 01:21:17.675
creatures, and they're really quite different to seven, eight, nine, 10 year olds. You know?

1537
01:21:18.450 --> 01:21:20.630
And I agree. I think that the main thing

1538
01:21:21.010 --> 01:21:26.710
that I learned is not to force it. We did teenagers in the forest as well and

1539
01:21:27.170 --> 01:21:29.430
allowed them to make a lot more choices

1540
01:21:29.970 --> 01:21:33.875
so that that's that's really important. Like, what do you want to be doing?

1541
01:21:33.875 --> 01:21:37.975
What are your favorite activities? So we planned the week. But first of all, we had

1542
01:21:38.435 --> 01:21:42.035
a meeting in advance, like, you know, a month or so in advance.

1543
01:21:42.035 --> 01:21:45.795
So because, normally, you planned basically what you're doing before you start. So

1544
01:21:46.580 --> 01:21:50.280
and we had lots of we we had a full house, you know, the 12,

1545
01:21:50.740 --> 01:21:52.520
young people joined for the teenage

1546
01:21:52.980 --> 01:21:53.880
wild week.

1547
01:21:55.620 --> 01:21:58.500
So, I mean, that was one beautiful thing. Another

1548
01:21:58.980 --> 01:22:00.520
the other the other one,

1549
01:22:01.220 --> 01:22:02.475
the my younger son,

1550
01:22:03.435 --> 01:22:03.935
he

1551
01:22:05.035 --> 01:22:07.595
was very much was, you know, anything that parents

1552
01:22:08.475 --> 01:22:10.975
you know, they get to a stage quite often where

1553
01:22:11.755 --> 01:22:16.750
anything that a parent says is is not cool and, therefore, not to be listened

1554
01:22:17.130 --> 01:22:17.630
to.

1555
01:22:18.090 --> 01:22:22.430
And that happens. Right? Okay. I just accept it and didn't push it.

1556
01:22:22.890 --> 01:22:24.750
But I said they had to be outside

1557
01:22:25.050 --> 01:22:30.045
every day, and they would they used to like, in lockdown, they would walk, quite a long

1558
01:22:30.425 --> 01:22:37.725
walk, up to the viewpoint and back every day, but they would choose to do it, like, six in the morning so that I wouldn't hassle them for the rest of the day.

1559
01:22:38.745 --> 01:22:47.840
But when he started asking your question, Carla, I went over to the other side of the room to show you this, which my son just made for me and my present he gave me,

1560
01:22:49.100 --> 01:22:49.920
last week.

1561
01:22:50.300 --> 01:22:51.760
He's 20 now.

1562
01:22:52.220 --> 01:22:52.960
And although

1563
01:22:53.660 --> 01:22:54.800
you might not know

1564
01:22:55.260 --> 01:22:57.920
the importance for him of the nature connection,

1565
01:22:58.795 --> 01:23:00.974
he says that he often

1566
01:23:01.514 --> 01:23:03.534
thanks me for the nature connection

1567
01:23:03.835 --> 01:23:05.135
I gave to him

1568
01:23:05.514 --> 01:23:06.494
as a child.

1569
01:23:07.034 --> 01:23:09.295
A joyce in nature connection, I think.

1570
01:23:10.155 --> 01:23:13.434
Although, like, you think, oh, they're they're, yeah, they're gone. You know?

1571
01:23:13.434 --> 01:23:14.610
In some ways, you think

1572
01:23:15.170 --> 01:23:17.489
as teenagers, you're like, oh, they'll never come back.

1573
01:23:17.489 --> 01:23:26.469
But, also, my friend Karen, who I did those the fun outdoors with for, like, six years and nurture in nature in Glasgow, she was here at the weekend.

1574
01:23:27.095 --> 01:23:30.955
And both of us were saying how much our children

1575
01:23:31.495 --> 01:23:31.995
appreciate

1576
01:23:33.175 --> 01:23:38.955
that connection that we gave them to nature and how that is something that they keep coming back to.

1577
01:23:39.255 --> 01:23:40.955
Karen's eldest is,

1578
01:23:42.000 --> 01:23:48.420
you know, she's living in the city, but she says, oh, I I want to come back just to be in the countryside for some time.

1579
01:23:48.640 --> 01:23:49.140
Or

1580
01:23:49.520 --> 01:23:53.600
my son also drew another picture similarly. You know? Like, it's a

1581
01:23:54.400 --> 01:23:54.900
they

1582
01:23:55.855 --> 01:23:56.895
they come back to it.

1583
01:23:56.895 --> 01:24:03.075
It's in them, and it it's through those years of mentoring, which is sometimes just asking questions.

1584
01:24:03.215 --> 01:24:03.875
You know?

1585
01:24:04.255 --> 01:24:06.515
It might be, what did you see on your walk today?

1586
01:24:07.150 --> 01:24:07.810
You know?

1587
01:24:08.190 --> 01:24:13.650
Just small questions to help them to notice things can be really helpful whilst they're in that.

1588
01:24:13.710 --> 01:24:15.390
But it yeah.

1589
01:24:15.390 --> 01:24:24.665
Our experience of the four kids who are all grown up now is that they do come back to that beautiful nature connection even if if they seem to go at 15.

1590
01:24:25.925 --> 01:24:28.985
Age 15 is a difficult one for my family anyway.

1591
01:24:29.525 --> 01:24:31.705
You know, they can seem to go farther away.

1592
01:24:39.739 --> 01:24:40.560
Thank you.

1593
01:24:41.660 --> 01:24:43.120
Maybe one final

1594
01:24:43.580 --> 01:24:44.080
question,

1595
01:24:44.620 --> 01:24:45.120
comment

1596
01:24:47.100 --> 01:24:48.800
before we move to our

1597
01:24:49.180 --> 01:24:50.080
final round.

1598
01:24:50.860 --> 01:24:52.880
Yeah. I just want also to

1599
01:24:53.275 --> 01:24:54.315
share something on,

1600
01:24:54.955 --> 01:24:55.775
the the,

1601
01:24:56.715 --> 01:24:59.295
teenagers and then young adults,

1602
01:25:00.555 --> 01:25:00.875
that,

1603
01:25:02.315 --> 01:25:06.895
we can also make things much more interesting for that for them.

1604
01:25:07.560 --> 01:25:09.900
For example, in, our communities,

1605
01:25:11.320 --> 01:25:15.100
the the young adults become more interested in money, for example.

1606
01:25:16.360 --> 01:25:17.260
So we,

1607
01:25:18.120 --> 01:25:21.180
expose them to skills like value addition,

1608
01:25:21.925 --> 01:25:24.085
where they can learn how to make,

1609
01:25:25.285 --> 01:25:25.785
some,

1610
01:25:27.285 --> 01:25:27.785
products,

1611
01:25:28.485 --> 01:25:29.705
using locally,

1612
01:25:30.805 --> 01:25:31.865
produced materials.

1613
01:25:32.325 --> 01:25:32.825
So,

1614
01:25:34.245 --> 01:25:37.305
and that that becomes much more interesting for them

1615
01:25:37.710 --> 01:25:37.950
and,

1616
01:25:38.590 --> 01:25:41.410
also gives them an opportunity to

1617
01:25:41.790 --> 01:25:43.710
to to do something that's that,

1618
01:25:45.150 --> 01:25:45.630
can,

1619
01:25:46.110 --> 01:25:49.650
actually guide them towards a possible career

1620
01:25:50.110 --> 01:25:50.610
or,

1621
01:25:52.425 --> 01:25:53.165
some some,

1622
01:25:54.665 --> 01:25:55.724
social enterprising

1623
01:25:56.185 --> 01:25:57.724
and and things like that.

1624
01:25:58.025 --> 01:25:59.965
So we we can broaden

1625
01:26:00.905 --> 01:26:01.804
the engagement

1626
01:26:02.185 --> 01:26:03.405
beyond just,

1627
01:26:05.250 --> 01:26:05.750
yeah,

1628
01:26:06.290 --> 01:26:08.150
connecting to the environment, but to

1629
01:26:08.450 --> 01:26:10.710
to to also incorporate other relevant

1630
01:26:11.170 --> 01:26:16.150
skills that might be more interesting to to the young adults. Thank you.

1631
01:26:16.975 --> 01:26:17.555
Thank you,

1632
01:26:18.495 --> 01:26:22.115
You reminded me there of this amazing project I saw in Slovenia

1633
01:26:22.735 --> 01:26:24.595
where they were teaching children,

1634
01:26:25.535 --> 01:26:27.075
well, young people, teenagers,

1635
01:26:27.695 --> 01:26:28.195
chemistry

1636
01:26:28.975 --> 01:26:30.275
through making cider.

1637
01:26:31.579 --> 01:26:33.360
So alcohol. Very cool.

1638
01:26:35.420 --> 01:26:39.820
Just as a just throw that in there. You know, what is it that they're passionate about?

1639
01:26:39.820 --> 01:26:45.199
And all ages, isn't it? What are you passionate about, and how can we learn through your passions?

1640
01:26:47.545 --> 01:26:48.665
I 100%

1641
01:26:48.665 --> 01:26:49.724
agree with you both.

1642
01:26:51.704 --> 01:26:54.045
Can you hear me, everyone? Yes.

1643
01:26:54.425 --> 01:26:58.025
Hi, everybody. Lucy, I love your classes. You guys do amazing work.

1644
01:26:58.025 --> 01:26:59.804
Thank you for everything that you

1645
01:27:00.105 --> 01:27:01.244
do in this space.

1646
01:27:01.850 --> 01:27:05.390
I appreciate it. So my name is Monica Vicacci. I teach permaculture

1647
01:27:05.770 --> 01:27:11.610
in pre k from pre k pre k to twelfth grad in New York City. I teach in public schools.

1648
01:27:11.610 --> 01:27:13.150
I teach places where

1649
01:27:13.610 --> 01:27:17.470
we have to, you know, garden on top of concrete in boxes,

1650
01:27:17.825 --> 01:27:22.405
But it works. That's why I do it because it still works. It's a beautiful thing. So,

1651
01:27:23.105 --> 01:27:26.945
what I was gonna say about high school, because I've been teaching high school now since 2016.

1652
01:27:26.945 --> 01:27:31.710
I've been doing a a permaculture internship. I now call it the permaculture design lab.

1653
01:27:31.790 --> 01:27:35.170
We take the kids to an urban rooftop farm that's one acre

1654
01:27:35.790 --> 01:27:44.110
in Queens, which is where the school is, and we have them interview the client, the farmers, and the staff about what they want.

1655
01:27:44.110 --> 01:27:48.015
And then we then they do a design for them and they present it.

1656
01:27:48.015 --> 01:27:51.555
So it's a way of being able to introduce them to

1657
01:27:51.935 --> 01:27:56.435
all the skills that are so important. Right? And for the person who was speaking about,

1658
01:27:57.310 --> 01:27:59.410
how to reach them as far as, like, job

1659
01:27:59.790 --> 01:28:03.550
job skills and things like that, that is how that program is couched. But,

1660
01:28:04.830 --> 01:28:07.090
I've been working now. I've got a teacher

1661
01:28:07.870 --> 01:28:11.815
permaculture fundamentals for educators, and I'm looking at public school teachers.

1662
01:28:11.815 --> 01:28:16.315
Because, Lucy, you're so right. It's really hard to work with school teachers. They're so busy.

1663
01:28:16.534 --> 01:28:25.370
That's when that's how I got in to teach because everybody else was too busy, and they didn't have the base fundamental knowledge that we all do if we've studied permaculture.

1664
01:28:25.910 --> 01:28:27.370
So now what I'm doing,

1665
01:28:28.550 --> 01:28:30.330
now what I'm doing is,

1666
01:28:31.989 --> 01:28:36.410
working with the teachers directly. But I just wanted to affirm that

1667
01:28:37.205 --> 01:28:43.865
what Lucy said about her experience with her child in the way that he was raised is a 100% what I hear from other permaculturists

1668
01:28:44.405 --> 01:28:45.465
who have had children

1669
01:28:45.765 --> 01:28:47.445
that they it stays with them.

1670
01:28:47.445 --> 01:28:54.420
Andrew Millison was talking about how his kids now are 25 and have started their own gardening garden, and they're blaming him

1671
01:28:54.960 --> 01:28:56.660
because of all his permaculture

1672
01:28:57.200 --> 01:28:58.880
lifestyle that he had around them.

1673
01:28:58.880 --> 01:29:02.980
But as far as for the kids who are not don't have the access and are not connected,

1674
01:29:03.305 --> 01:29:09.325
I would say that it's a wonderful thing to introduce, and I introduce it from the place of problem solving.

1675
01:29:09.545 --> 01:29:11.245
They are aware climate anxiety,

1676
01:29:11.865 --> 01:29:14.285
climate anxiety, climate depression is real.

1677
01:29:15.225 --> 01:29:16.525
Despair is real.

1678
01:29:16.850 --> 01:29:20.390
And what I found in my classes is that they feel better at the end.

1679
01:29:20.850 --> 01:29:25.330
They feel better knowing that their solutions, which is what I fell in love with with permaculture twenty years ago.

1680
01:29:25.330 --> 01:29:31.670
Right? It's the fact that we can do better. We can we can not just do less harm, but we can repair.

1681
01:29:32.015 --> 01:29:35.295
And they love hearing about all the projects in the world.

1682
01:29:35.295 --> 01:29:37.395
They love hearing about all the good news,

1683
01:29:37.775 --> 01:29:41.075
focus on stories of kids their age doing all the good things.

1684
01:29:41.375 --> 01:29:44.575
We just did a youth workforce development project for,

1685
01:29:45.980 --> 01:29:50.320
for a place in Tennessee, and we did an eight week intensive that we wrote for them.

1686
01:29:50.780 --> 01:29:51.179
And,

1687
01:29:51.820 --> 01:29:52.320
they

1688
01:29:52.620 --> 01:29:57.580
loved it. And when I zoomed in to talk to them, they were just really sparkly.

1689
01:29:57.580 --> 01:30:01.935
And that made me so happy because we all we do this because we love people.

1690
01:30:01.935 --> 01:30:03.554
We do this because we love children,

1691
01:30:03.855 --> 01:30:06.975
and we want them to feel hope. We want them to feel empowered.

1692
01:30:06.975 --> 01:30:10.255
We want them to feel like they know more, and they at least have a direction.

1693
01:30:10.255 --> 01:30:14.675
And I think catching them in high school is super important because it's before they go to college.

1694
01:30:14.950 --> 01:30:18.650
We want them to design our green future that we all deserve. Right?

1695
01:30:19.030 --> 01:30:19.530
So

1696
01:30:20.070 --> 01:30:20.570
I,

1697
01:30:21.670 --> 01:30:25.530
started teaching pre k. They are my first love without a doubt.

1698
01:30:26.230 --> 01:30:27.290
My first love.

1699
01:30:27.724 --> 01:30:33.164
And, it's been really cool teaching high school and just being with them at the other end of their journey.

1700
01:30:33.164 --> 01:30:33.664
Right?

1701
01:30:33.965 --> 01:30:34.465
And,

1702
01:30:35.965 --> 01:30:42.304
yeah, it's definitely an area that I now I'm focusing most of my work on because it's so important.

1703
01:30:42.940 --> 01:30:45.200
Thank you. I don't wanna take up too much time.

1704
01:30:45.580 --> 01:30:46.240
Thank you.

1705
01:30:47.100 --> 01:30:47.920
Thank you.

1706
01:30:48.460 --> 01:30:49.600
Thank you so much.

1707
01:30:51.020 --> 01:30:51.520
Unfortunately,

1708
01:30:52.460 --> 01:30:53.840
it's time to go.

1709
01:30:54.620 --> 01:30:58.160
And, before that, Lucy started with

1710
01:30:58.534 --> 01:30:59.034
gratitude.

1711
01:30:59.735 --> 01:31:02.315
So I want to complete our session

1712
01:31:02.935 --> 01:31:04.074
the same way.

1713
01:31:04.614 --> 01:31:06.474
I'm very, very grateful

1714
01:31:06.775 --> 01:31:11.755
for this session. I want to thank you, Lucy, for this beautiful presentation,

1715
01:31:12.295 --> 01:31:13.034
for sharing

1716
01:31:13.770 --> 01:31:14.510
your work,

1717
01:31:15.050 --> 01:31:18.430
and I want to thank each of the Gaia schools,

1718
01:31:20.010 --> 01:31:20.510
here

1719
01:31:20.970 --> 01:31:21.790
for everything

1720
01:31:22.250 --> 01:31:24.830
they have been doing. Thank you, Mangarita,

1721
01:31:25.290 --> 01:31:25.790
Mogove,

1722
01:31:26.330 --> 01:31:26.830
Marit,

1723
01:31:27.210 --> 01:31:27.710
Capra.

1724
01:31:28.535 --> 01:31:31.115
Thank you all for joining this session.

1725
01:31:31.815 --> 01:31:32.315
And,

1726
01:31:33.895 --> 01:31:34.395
before

1727
01:31:34.695 --> 01:31:35.675
we complete,

1728
01:31:36.455 --> 01:31:37.355
I would like

1729
01:31:37.735 --> 01:31:39.835
all of us to open our mics

1730
01:31:41.010 --> 01:31:44.630
and share a word. How are you leaving this session?

1731
01:31:45.970 --> 01:31:51.590
If you're not able to do it, you can also write on the chat. I'm extremely grateful.

1732
01:31:51.890 --> 01:31:52.870
Thank you all.

1733
01:31:56.165 --> 01:32:00.005
Whoever is ready, we can do it popcorn style. Just

1734
01:32:00.885 --> 01:32:01.385
Inspired.

1735
01:32:04.245 --> 01:32:04.745
Hope.

1736
01:32:05.845 --> 01:32:07.305
Inspired as well.

1737
01:32:08.325 --> 01:32:09.145
Say something.

1738
01:32:12.540 --> 01:32:13.040
Happy.

1739
01:32:16.140 --> 01:32:18.060
Very ins very inspired.

1740
01:32:18.060 --> 01:32:24.480
It's so nice to see all you all these faces and everybody who's working and they're having interests.

1741
01:32:24.935 --> 01:32:28.955
It is very, very inspiring. Because sometimes when we do our work this way, as

1742
01:32:29.255 --> 01:32:32.235
I already said, we are I feel isolated

1743
01:32:32.935 --> 01:32:36.315
often because I work in a mainstream, and it's really difficult

1744
01:32:36.855 --> 01:32:40.489
often. But seeing you all guys in here, Lucy, everyone

1745
01:32:40.790 --> 01:32:45.530
is very inspiring, and that gives us more power to, you know, continue to work.

1746
01:32:49.590 --> 01:32:50.969
I feel connected,

1747
01:32:52.165 --> 01:32:54.185
to this circle. And,

1748
01:32:54.965 --> 01:32:55.465
yeah.

1749
01:32:55.845 --> 01:32:59.065
And with that connection, feel very powerful,

1750
01:33:00.725 --> 01:33:03.445
in the face of all the challenges that,

1751
01:33:04.085 --> 01:33:06.505
we face in the world. Thank you.

1752
01:33:11.010 --> 01:33:13.830
I'm happy to see you guys' school thriving.

1753
01:33:21.415 --> 01:33:24.635
So inspiring to see all these different examples of permaculture

1754
01:33:24.935 --> 01:33:26.535
in different parts of the world.

1755
01:33:26.535 --> 01:33:31.755
It's very inspiring and seeing how different it can be, and yet the core is the same.

1756
01:33:36.750 --> 01:33:37.889
Thank you very much.

1757
01:33:42.270 --> 01:33:43.170
Thank you all.

1758
01:33:45.070 --> 01:33:48.370
We are planning to do another three webinars

1759
01:33:49.225 --> 01:33:51.245
this year, so stay tuned.

1760
01:33:53.065 --> 01:33:53.565
Topics

1761
01:33:54.265 --> 01:33:56.685
are related to the four d framework.

1762
01:33:57.065 --> 01:34:00.205
So this was connected to ecology,

1763
01:34:01.145 --> 01:34:01.965
and soon

1764
01:34:02.270 --> 01:34:04.370
we'll have more on social,

1765
01:34:05.390 --> 01:34:05.890
worldview,

1766
01:34:06.350 --> 01:34:07.330
and economy.

1767
01:34:08.510 --> 01:34:09.170
I hope

1768
01:34:09.550 --> 01:34:11.090
you keep this inspiration

1769
01:34:11.469 --> 01:34:13.010
and put your hands on

1770
01:34:13.469 --> 01:34:14.770
wherever you are.

1771
01:34:15.075 --> 01:34:15.735
Thank you

1772
01:34:16.114 --> 01:34:18.614
all. Mhmm. We keep in touch.

1773
01:34:19.075 --> 01:34:19.815
Thank you.

1774
01:34:20.995 --> 01:34:21.815
Bye bye.

1775
01:34:22.275 --> 01:34:24.535
Bye bye. Bye. Thank you.

1776
01:34:25.635 --> 01:34:27.815
Bye bye. My face is a light bulb.