Satori EARTH

29/10/2026

MINORI — The Harvest Garden 🌱
What’s it for? Join us - THURSDAYS 1-2:15pm

Register online - https://events.humanitix.com/community-gardening-satori-earth

21/10/2026

🌿 Coming Home to Indigo. We're delighted to welcome botanical textile artist Jenai Hooke to the SATORI EARTH Faculty.

Discover Jenai's story, join us in the garden tomorrow to meet Jenai as we prepare the garden bed with her to plant indigo plants. Explore her upcoming Indigo & Shibori workshop.

Read our latest newsletter below. 💙
https://wix.to/ng2qBbT

19/10/2026

🌱 MINORI 実り | The Harvest Garden

A little glimpse of life here at SATORI EARTH yesterday. ❤️

An afternoon of tending the garden, feeding the chickens (and our rather cheeky visiting peacock! 🦚), pruning, harvesting basil, lettuce and strawberries, and enjoying some good company.

There has been so much rain ☔️ this week, Thursdays gardening 👩🏻‍🌾 was too wet. We still got to garden catching pockets of sunshine outside the traditional timeslot ☀️ 😊

Nothing particularly extraordinary. And yet, everything about it is nourishing.

🌿 MINORI is a place where food, soil and people are nurtured through reciprocity, stewardship and patient care.

❤️ 🧑🏽‍🌾 This Thursday, we're delighted to have our new Faculty member, botanical textile artist Jenai Hooke, joining us to prepare a dedicated garden bed for growing Indigo plants.

Come meet Jenai, learn a little about Indigo, get your hands in the earth, and enjoy some tea and conversation.

📅 Thursday 22 October | 1–2:15pm
🌱 Register via Humanitix — link here, https://events.humanitix.com/community-gardening-satori-earth

WEATHER PERMITTING ☔️ 🤞

18/10/2026

✨ 🌳 🌿 MEET OUR FACULTY | JENAI HOOKE

We're delighted to welcome Jenai Hooke to the SATORI EARTH Faculty!

Jenai is a Sunshine Coast botanical textile artist, natural dyer and educator who has spent over **40 years exploring the extraordinary colours and creative possibilities held within nature.**

Her lifelong curiosity has taken her around the world, studying with renowned masters of Indigo, Shibori and natural dyeing in Japan, France, Mexico and the USA.

Founder of the Sunshine Coast Natural Dyers Interest Group, Jenai has spent decades creating, teaching, collaborating and passing on knowledge.

❤️ Jenai has been part of our journey since CCALFA, and we're so pleased to continue that journey together at SATORI EARTH.

🌱 We have some wonderful workshops and masterclasses with Jenai lined up over the next few months!

**Join our newsletter to hear about upcoming offerings and registrations:
https://www.satori-earth.com/newsletter

🎥 Here's a beautiful glimpse into Jenai's world — where nature, creativity and a lifetime of learning come together.

14/10/2026

🌱 Our latest SATORI EARTH October newsletter is out!

🌱 If you're in town, join us tomorrow for Community Veggie Gardening 1-2:15PM, where we'll prepare indigo plant beds and assess the garden from a permaculture perspective.

🌱 Explore our November Creative Studios — with FUNGI as our focus 🍄 (limited places remain for 14 November)

🌱 Meet the Queen of Indigo, SATORI EARTH Faculty member and modern-day elder, Jenai Hooke.

🌱 We're also gathering on Sunday 25 October for an afternoon of community connection and conversation.

Read the newsletter and explore what's coming up 👇

https://satori-earth.com/so/4eQ4tvCsC?languageTag=en&cid=7d54df03-da57-4c5b-b63c-3d44e21cd484

24/09/2026

⭐️ CCALFA evolves into SATORI EARTH. 🌏

✍🏼 📰 Our first SATORI EARTH newsletter is out.

After a prolonged period of review and re-design, this first letter shares what the work has evolved into — and what is now taking shape through SATORI EARTH --

-- creative practice, Soul Blueprint sessions, mentoring, community gatherings, ecological practice and collaborative programmes.

This is the beginning of a new chapter.
Read the first newsletter below.

If it resonates, subscribe to stay connected — and please do share or forward it to someone it may speak to!

Welcome to SATORI EARTH. 🌱
https://wix.to/hs0hwfD

19/12/2025

Happy holidays to our wonderful CCALFA families and wider community 🤍

As we close out 2025, we’re gently preparing for the next chapter of this work.

CCALFA is evolving into SATORI EARTH, an expanded vision launching in 2026 — while continuing to honour the creative, mentoring, and community foundations CCALFA was built on.

Our Teens Mentoring Program (ages 12–19) remains active during this transition.

If you’d like to enquire about applications, availability, or joining the waitlist, please contact us directly.

With gratitude,
Nic 🌿

23/11/2023

Do our systems and culture allow You to be You?

📸 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=934687644687662&id=100044393058630&mibextid=qC1gEa

Gillian is a seven-year-old girl who cannot sit in school.

She continually gets up, gets distracted, flies with thoughts, and doesn't follow lessons.

Her teachers worry about her, punish her, scold her, reward the few times that she is attentive, but nothing.

Gillian does not know how to sit and cannot be attentive.

When she comes home, her mother punishes her too.

So not only does she Gillian have bad grades and punishment at school, but she also suffers from them at home.

One day, Gillian's mother is called to school.

The lady, sad as someone waiting for bad news, takes her hand and goes to the interview room.

The teachers speak of illness, of an obvious disorder.

Maybe it's hyperactivity or maybe she needs a medication.

During the interview an old teacher arrives who knows the little girl.

He asks all the adults, mother and colleagues, to follow him into an adjoining room from where she can still be seen.

As he leaves, he tells Gillian that they will be back soon and turns on an old radio with music.

As the girl is alone in the room, she immediately gets up and begins to move up and down chasing the music in the air with her feet and her heart.

The teacher smiles as the colleagues and the mother look at him between confusion and compassion, as is often done with the old.

So he says: "See? Gillian is not sick, Gillian is a dancer!"

He recommends that her mother take her to a dance class and that her colleagues make her dance from time to time.

She attends her first lesson and when she gets home she tells her mother: "Everyone is like me, no one can sit there!"

In 1981, after a career as a dancer, opening her own dance academy and receiving international recognition for her art, Gillian Lynne became the choreographer of the musical "Cats."

Hopefully, all “different” children find adults capable of welcoming them for who they are and not for what they lack.

Long live the differences, the little black sheep and the misunderstood.

They are the ones who create beauty in this world

Credit- Unknown

17/10/2023

✨ Neuro-divergence is an evolutionary response to a harsh conformist culture that has normalised prolonged hyper-vigilance and hyper-production for centuries.

When neuro-divergence is so common and wide-spread, perhaps we should stop making it to be something wrong with the child, and instead start re-examining an outdated educational system that is Incomptible with and Un-Responsive to our natural wiring as human beings.

It is our natural wiring to be diverse, creative, and robust, social beings.

We are not machines, we are human-beings.

Normalised conformity in learning environments and culture is outdated, non-responsive, irresponsible, and has done enough damage.

On a level of sustainability as a species, we need new more sustainable systems that are designed to respond to, and optimise our natural blue-print.

— ✨ Nic Anderson, 18 October 2023

06/06/2023

Last Wednesday’s work… exploring Escher. Some young Eschers in the room. Our teens (age 12-16) pilot group.