Michael Gauthier

My regenerative journey began in 2018 with the organisation an animation of specialized courses in the growing field of permaculture. The main purpose of these activities was to improve the relation we have with ourselves, with the other living beings, with mother nature. This process took me to systemic design, agroecology, bioconstruction and community building workshops, discovering how to regain autonomy and freedom, understanding how people can transform the world through their own transformation, myself as first ! Currently living in a community in the south of France named Lou Neïssoun, I joined GEN as ambassador in 2020 and co-organized in 2021 the first Ecovillage Design Education course held in France at Sainte Camelle, now preparing the next edition !

Passionate with the living world, as a permaculture designer I currently work on several innovative projects to experiment regenerative solutions applied to local context. One of them is the seeding of a syntropic agriculture edible forest in a Mediterranean context as a way to address the challenges we are facing regarding water management, food sovereignty, economical resilience, soil erosion and the evolving role of a farmer in a healthy ecosystem. My intention is to keep supporting actions that help humanity to align with the planet's balances and to allow all life to be respected and valued as is it, a miracle!