Madeline Mae Sanders

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I want to aid in stewarding a New Earth!

About me

  • I am curious about ecovillages
  • I do academic research about ecovillages
  • I am looking for an ecovillage
  • I am a professional that can offer a skill to ecovillages

Hey friends! I’m passionate about nature, community, and our connection to Earth. Nature is family, and we are part of one web.

My journey includes learning from Indigenous perspectives and relationships with land. I respect distinct Indigenous traditions and wisdom around reciprocity, humility, and our stewardship. Listening to Indigenous voices can help us remember respectful ways of living with the Earth.

I graduated from Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, studying permaculture, Vastu architecture, native landscaping, sustainable architecture, and Ayurveda.

I love designing, getting my hands dirty, creating, and bringing people together. I hope to collaborate on retreats, communities, and nature-based projects. I’d love to share designs including a treehouse, a Vastu-inspired home, and permaculture.

Remembering our relationship with Earth is part of remembering ourselves.

Book Rec: Think Indigenous: Native Spirituality for a Modern World by Doug Good Feather.

Languages

  • English

Madeline Mae Sanders

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8 years ago

The Art of Embracing The Shadow

Ready to connect with the hidden aspects of yourself? The “shadow” are all the hidden or unconscious aspects of oneself, both positive and negative, that the ego has repressed or never acknowledged. In other words, the shadow is all we push out of our conscious awareness, all we disown in ourselves, all that is unwanted, ugly, unloved or simply uncomfortable or unbearable to look at so that we exclude it from what we show to the world. But what we exclude and disown becomes larger than life and scares us. This workshop will give you a solid and integrated approach towards achieving a deep healing, transformation and permanent change, as well as some practical tools for a healthy, rich, rewarding and more complete emotional life. The final goal is to make space or, in other words, to open our hearts to be able to include all those parts or situations that belong to each of us and our system. The goal is not to solve anything, but to allow some conscious movements or processes that make us more aware of the aspects that we have rejected and which, consciously or unconsciously, we are in conflict with. Key benefits of shadow work: The shadow isn’t a popular topic. Exploring the shadow, however, gives us tremendous opportunities for growth and development. These are some of the benefits that result from shadow work: – Improving personal and interpersonal relationships Seeing others and yourself more clearly Improving physical and mental health Psychological integration and maturity Achieving greater creativity Dates: November 30th, December 1st and 2nd Schedule: Friday 30th: From 10am to 8pm (with lunch break) Saturday 1st: From 10am to 8pm (with lunch break) Sunday 2nd: From 10am to 2pm The facilitator Irene Goikolea has been working for more than
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7 years ago

Youth Initiative Forum on Redefining Growth through Interconnection

An open invitation to all those whom are interested in stepping into action. Dear whom ever is reading this, we are this years participants of YIP (Youth Initiative Program). A 10 month societal entrepreneurship training based in Ytterjärna, just south of Stockholm, Sweden. As well as working on our capacity to become active and take initiative, we aim to understand what tasks are ours to take on. Part of the program involves organising a 5 day conference from April 8th-12th, the Initiative Forum. Our theme this year is “Redefining Growth”. Initiative Forum 2020 aims to reshape the linear boundaries of growth in our current economic paradigm. Our ‘Crisis of Imagination’ expresses itself in both inner and outer symptoms — for example, the over extraction of both personal and planetary resources We see that our way of thinking is the roots that has lead us to where we are today, and our thinking is something we are able to change. We believe that only whilst being connected, will the small changes we make expand into far greater movements. We think it crucial however, firstly to look at who is pioneering in this (we think brilliant) work. In doing this, we are striving to create a place where inspiration, knowledge and experience can be shared. With new-found understanding we hope to engage your critical thinking. We want to provoke you to actively engage in both local and introspective growth. We intend to explore this through our knowledge of Interconnection, leaving lots of room to craft a program of speakers, workshops and activities that we really think can make a difference. We are excited to share this work with you, as we believe many of you may be interested. More information can be found on our website, which is linked here https://initiativeforum.yip.se. You can find all information about the YIProgram here: https://yip.se. If you have any queries, please use this emai
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10 years ago

Nature Connected Community Design

During this week we will explore what it means to create and to be community. We will use permaculture principles, permaculture design and practices from indigenous cultures worldwide as our main toolbox. At the same time we will be experiencing community life first-hand in the new eco-community of Haslachhof, which will be our venue, our village and our social landscape to design for and with. We will also be sharing practices of cultural repair as they have been gathered over time by earth-based people worldwide and spread by the 8 shields community. On top of this connecting with self and others we will also connect to the land and its creatures – we are blessed to have forests and a creek nearby. We will practice nature connected community design by working on design exercises relating to the Haslachhof community. This course is for everyone interested in community design and suits people who have already done a full 72 hours permaculture design course and want to deepen their social permaculture skills as well as for people without any previous permaculture or nature connection experience who want to learn about community design and deep nature connection. Come and… Live a week in an evolving community! Learn about community building! Practice permaculture principles and social permaculture design! Explore techniques for cultural repair! Deepen your nature connection! Course facilitators Lien de Coster Lien is an inner tracker who guides people on their path towards nature and soul connection. She loves to take people out into the wild on solo retreats and to write poetry. The past years she has mainly been inspired by the Art of Mentoring, social permaculture and northwestern European shamanism. All of this comes together in www.leavesoflien.com. Peter Cow Peter leads Permaculture Design Courses, Nature Connection events and People Permaculture trainings around Europe and beyond. He is fascinated by commu
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6 years ago

Dragon Dreaming 5 Day Workshop in Taiwan

Dragon Dreaming was first developed by John Croft and his late wife Vivienne Elanta while they were both working for the Western Australian Gaia Foundation that they co-founded. It is a playful, inspiring, encouraging and meaningful method for assisting individuals and groups who seek to make their dreams come true, based on the three pillars: Personal Growth, Community Building and Service to the Earth. For more information, look at the international website. Chinese Information below: DRAGON DREAMING 五日工作坊 Dragon Dreaming 以「個人培力、建立社群、服務地球」為三大核心,運用充滿樂趣、創意又深具啟發性的引導方式打破傳統組織的金字塔權力架構,創造全新、永續、多贏且緊密相連的合作模式與群體關係。 透過工作坊,成員將共同學習並親身體驗一系列實用的 Dragon Dreaming哲學與工具,並在協作過程中感受經歷個人與團體的轉化: ,建立平等、互相支持、深度連結與協力夥伴關係的社群團體 ,為夢想或新計畫設定清晰的願景,並學習架構計畫、找出優先目標與實踐步驟,一步步建立起具體而有彈性的藍圖 ,為計畫規劃者、管理人與創業家帶來啟發與創新想法 ,創造有活力的團體動能 ,草根運動的發展 ,透過有效的規劃管理工具將想法落實,為所屬社群帶來實際改變更多中文工作坊資訊,可參考這裡

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