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Regenerative leadership through crises with Mei Lai Swan

A senior yoga teacher, Mei Lai Swan is a certified Embodied Flow™ teacher, with years of study and practice in Ashtanga, Vinyasa and Anusara yoga. From Melbourne, Australia, but now based on the road, she teaches in-depth workshops, retreats and international teacher trainings around the world, with a special focus on nada (sound) yoga, somatic and trauma-informed practices.

A trained Doula, she is the founder, previous CEO and ongoing Board Director of Birth for Humankind, a non-profit organisation providing free birth support to women in disadvantaged circumstances.

 

In this conversation we chat about:

- Mei Lai's perspective on post-crisis regenerative recovery and repair from her experience working in flooded-affected communities

- the importance of community and co-regulation in times of crisis

- health and wellbeing as the cornerstones of regeneration

- mobilising and shifting systems for regeneration and recovery

- how trauma impacts repair and recovery

- community-driven responses to crisis

- regenerative leadership.

 

For more information on the Northern Rivers Community Healing Hub -

https://www.nrchh.org/

 

To learn more about Mei Lai - https://meilaiswan.com/about/

 

To learn more about our upcoming retreats and events - https://www.instagram.com/megjberryman/?hl=en

 

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On Neopeasantry with Artist as Family

Artist as Family (Meg Ulman and Patrick Jones) live in Daylesford, Australia on Djaara Country on a quarter-acre permaculture plot, home to their  School of Applied Neopeasantry at Tree Elbow University. They practice a unique form of performance art, comprising how they live, get their food and medicine, and move around; performing modes of life making they call permacultural neopeasantry.

Meg and Patrick are bloggers, fermentors, writers, public speakers, goatherders, gardeners and video makers who also make music, but mostly they're a family who belong to a bloody great community and a beautiful small patch of sacred forest, and therefore they're much more than the sum of our parts.

In this episode we talk about:

• Meg and Patrick's vision for the world
• using grief and sorrow as fuel toward living differently
• de-schooling
• living communally and resolving conflict
• stepping into young eldership
• neopeasantry and using the way we live as activism
• embodied leadership and regenerative living
• finding our way back toward indigenous wisdom

And so much more.

For more info on Artist as Family:

https://artistasfamily.is

 

 

On Repair and Transformation with Dr Bayo Akomalafe

Dr Bayo Akomalafe is a philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of the Emergence Network.

In this chat, Dave talks to Dr Bayo about:

• unschooling and non-schooling
• community as an organism 
• trauma as an invitation to reimagine 
• rupture and repair - individually and collectively
• surrendering to the non-human world
• localisation

And so much more.

To learn more about Bayo - https://www.bayoakomolafe.net

To learn more about Regenerative Ways - www.megberryman.com

 

The Art of Frugal Hedonism with Annie Raser-Rowland

I chat with Author of the Art of Frugal Hedonism Annie Raser-Rowland about:

• how to consume less and live more
• why frugality and hedonism aren't a contradiction
• why we're afraid of having and consuming less - and how to overcome it
• orienting communally and relationally
• finding sensory pleasure in our mammalian bodies
• what our bodies are saying about the systems we live in
• and how to find compassion for yourself and others wherever you are in your regenerative journey.

To buy the book - https://www.frugalhedonism.com

To see what we're up to - www.megberryman.com

 

Hand to Ground with Emily Sims

Emily Sims and her partner Alex are first generation farmers in their fifth year of running a small-scale regenerative farm business in Victoria, Australia. They are passionate about ethical animal husbandry, understanding local ecology, enhancing soil and pasture health and building relationships along the way. They believe locally grown, wholesome food is at the heart of healthy communities.

 

In this chat we talk about:

• how Emily came to farming and what she learned through mentorship
• why farming is healing 
• overcoming challenges
• learning in relationship to the land
• her experiment to ditch social media and focus on in person relationships
• creating diverse and reciprocal relationships 

and so much more.

To learn more about Hand to Ground- https://www.handtoground.com.au/

To subscribe to Emily's blog and seasonal newsletter - www.savourtheseasons.com

To enrol in our signature course Small is Beautiful - www.megberryman.com

 

Decolonise to Thrive with Ella Noah Bancroft

Ella Noah Bancroft is Bundjalung woman born in Australia. She is a descendant of the Bundjalung peoples of Northern NSW, and also has blood lines to Scotland and England.

She is a Connection Therapist, Mentor, activist and creative, carbon neutral event co-ordinator. She is passionate about re-wilding the world and the feminine force.

In this chat we talk about:

• choosing a technological or nature based future
• slowing the f*** down
• healing through connection and in relationship 
• rewilding and finding our way home 
• local futures and creating regenrative communities 

and so much more.

To learn more about Ella - https://www.ellanoahbancroft.net

To enrol in Unbound and spend three months learning the art of regenerative leadership and business - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound

 

Honouring your Inner Winter with Becca Piastrelli

Becca is the host of the Belonging podcast, the author of Root & Ritual and a facilitator of women’s gatherings both virtually and in person. She speaks on the nature of belonging and what it means to be alive in the Age of Loneliness and holds retreats to help women reconnect with their rooted sense of self.

She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner, child, two cats, and five chickens, where she gardens, cooks, mothers, and gathers with the ebb and flow of the seasons.

In this medicinal conversation, we chat about:

• honouring our inner winters 
• living seasonally 
• building community and re-villaging
• reimagining the village in a way that honours the past and looks to the future
• orienting relationally in life and business
• changing our relationship to chaos

and so much more.

For more info on Becca - visit https://beccapiastrelli.com

To learn the principles of regenerative business and leadership including living and working seasonally - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound

 

 

Regenerative Leadership with Laura Storm

Laura Storm is the Founder of Regenerators and has spent her entire career working in the intersection of sustainability, organizational development, climate change policy and the intelligence of nature. 

In this conversation, Laura and I chat about:

• regenerative leadership and why it's time for a new conceptualisation of leadership
• working within systems to transform them
• honouring cycles and seasons in work and life
• Laura's journey of regeneration
• regenerative business
• why the way we do things matters
• what is giving us hope

and much more.

For more information on Laura - https://laura-storm.com/

To join me for our three month regenerative business immersion - www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound

 

Resilience and Recovery with Arrowyn Ambrose

Arrowyn Ambrose is an Advanced Certified Facilitator of The Resilience Toolkit, Certified Teaching Artist, and Certified Race Equity and Healing Justice Facilitator. She has studied Viola Spolin’s long-form organic improvisation, creative writing, addiction, and group dynamics. With a background in the creative and performing arts, Arrowyn believes in the healing power of story and is passionate about ethical storytelling along with trauma-informed and resilience-oriented recovery, parenting, and social justice.

In this conversation we talk about:

• why we do what we do when we know what we know
• addiction, recovery and regeneration
• trauma and the body
• why we are all in recovery from culture 
• creating rituals of repair in relationship

And so much more.

To learn more about Arrowyn and the Resilience Toolkit - https://lumostransforms.com/team/arrowyn-ambrose/

 

To join our upcoming regenerative business community, Unbound - 

www.megberryman.com/journeys/unbound

 

 

Birthing a regenerative future with Chloe Holloway

I interview New-Zealand based doula/daughter Chloe Holloway - @oh_mwanawanga about how our culture of birthing reflects the disconnections we see in our everyday - and how we can tend to this rite of passage with reverence, inclusion and radical support in order to step toward a more regenerative tomorrow.

 

We talk about:

* birthing cultures globally and how they differ

* what respectful care looks like and why we can extend this beyond the birthing room 

* feeling safe to move in the world in different ways 

* respecting traditions in antenatal, birth and postnatal care

* finding belonging

* being a death doula and what we can learn from death 

* finding different expressions of activism

 

and so much more.

 

For more information on Chloe - https://www.ohmwanawanga.com

For more information on our upcoming programs and evergreen courses - www.megberryman.com