Alliance of Community Trainers

11/17/2024

Transform the stories that shape our lives

10/31/2024

Tonight is Halloween, or by the old Celtic name, Samhain, (Sow-in), summer's end and the beginning of winter here in the northern hemisphere. To the ancients, this was a time when the veil is thin between the living world and the realms of spirit, when our beloved dead come close and visit us, when we can call on the ancestors for guidance and help. With candles and offerings of food we light the way, and we give offerings of food to the children, who are the ancestors returning..

Hecate, the Crone, guide to the realm of the dead and

09/26/2024

Ecovillages, intentional communities can serve many ends—they can be centers of learning and experimentation, places of peace and refuge, living laboratories for discovering ways to better live together. In this webinar, Starhawk will share tales of ecovillages she visited this summer in France, Spain and Ukraine. From La Zad, a powerful locus of climate resistance in Brittany, to Can Mas Deu, a long-tern squat and social center on the outskirts of Barcelona, to a peaceful educational center in the war-torn Ukraine, you’ll hear stories that inspire and come away with renewed hope. By donation—a benefit for Earth Activist Training.
ASL interpreted!
Registration:

https://earthactivisttraining.org/

08/26/2024

Excerpt from my latest Substack Post--on how we resolve the moral dilemma of wanting both justice for Palestine and electoral victory for the Democrats:
"It is a valid moral position to not want to support those who are arming the collective punishment of the Palestinian people, the mass starvation, and the murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians, women, and children.
And it is also a valid moral position to say we need to look at the whole picture, at the reality of what our choices are and choose those who will be best for the country, the many issues at stake in these elections, and not least, ultimately better for Palestine and Gaza, as well as for Israel, the hostages, and the ultimate goal of peace and justice in that region.
I cannot tell you how to resolve this dilemma for you. I can only share how I wrestle with it myself."
Read the rest here:
https://starhawk.substack.com/.../the-moral-dilemma-of...

08/20/2024

So happy to tell you that we've reached our fundraising goal to support scholarship for seven Lebanese students in our current Permaculture Design Certificate Course. We have been so thrilled to have their participation, and have learned so much from their creativity, commitment and courage. Thanks so much to everyone who donated! Your generous support has made such a difference!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10162729240474691&set=a.10152458934419691

08/20/2024

How do we meet our human needs while regenerating the living environment around us? How do we move from scarcity to abundance? Permaculture is a system of ecological design that draws on ancient wisdom and cutting-edge systems science to give us tools for creating a just, resilient and caring world. We teach permaculture design with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. Come join us to learn tools that can help your home, your community, and the larger world to achieve more than sustainability--a flourishing and nourishing culture!

Permaculture Design Certificate Course September 11th to December 18th Are you ready to become an Earth Healer? Earth Activist Training’s Permaculture Design Certificate course (PDC) is our longest-running and most requested course– we’ve been teaching it for 20 years. This is the course where...

08/13/2024

How do we meet our human needs while regenerating the living environment around us? How do we move from scarcity to abundance? Permaculture is a system of ecological design that draws on ancient wisdom and cutting-edge systems science to give us tools for creating a just, resilient and caring world. We teach permaculture design with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. Come join us to learn tools that can help your home, your community, and the larger world to achieve more than sustainability--a flourishing and nourishing culture!
https://earthactivisttraining.org/permaculture-design.../

08/07/2024

With the worsening situtation in the Middle East and the threat of war looming, we're more than ever committed to invest in regenerative solutions and support for the dedicated young people working to bring them about. We are so happy and grateful for all the generosity that has allowed us to reach our original goal! Now we have a seventh person we would like to bring, so we've moved the goal posts a bit and hope to reach the new bar in the next week. Thank you, thank you to all who have donated so far!
https://chuffed.org/project/permaculture-training-for-lebanese-changemakers?fbclid=IwY2xjawEgMvNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHclyE2DtDfNAZuYJkLb-vlu7VsJqLcmhFRQrmW6ouu0ElxF_gBf3tFQa6A_aem_QP0Cl-M4OzpzlB7heKfXgw
Three ways to help:
Donate: Feel free to donate what you can. Even the price of a coffee or a sandwich adds up and will help us reach our new goal. https://chuffed.org/project/permaculture-training-for-lebanese-changemakers?fbclid=IwY2xjawEgMvNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHclyE2DtDfNAZuYJkLb-vlu7VsJqLcmhFRQrmW6ouu0ElxF_gBf3tFQa6A_aem_QP0Cl-M4OzpzlB7heKfXgw
Social media: Share this story and our links with your own social media and expand our reach.
Personal contacts: Do you know someone with a special interest in the region, in regenerative agriculture, in support for youth? Share this post and link with a personal note.
Thanks so much for your generosity! Together we can envision a thriving, abundant Middle East—and support those who are working to make the vision real.
Starhawk and Alfred Decker
Earth Activist Training
https://chuffed.org/project/permaculture-training-for-lebanese-changemakers?fbclid=IwY2xjawEgMvNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHclyE2DtDfNAZuYJkLb-vlu7VsJqLcmhFRQrmW6ouu0ElxF_gBf3tFQa6A_aem_QP0Cl-M4OzpzlB7heKfXgw.

07/30/2024

Starhawk Has a Podcast!

This summer I decided to try an experiment—writing a new book on building regenerative movments, and posting it chapter by chapter online on my Substack: https://starhawk.substack.com/ Along with the chapters, I’ll be posting a podcast episode each week, mostly related to the writing, but occasionally digressing into other political/spiritual/permacultural topics. Like the first one—responding to the great energy shift in the current elections this past week with Biden dropping out and Harris stepping up. I talk about our short-term strategy: Elect Harris and Democrats up and down the ticket! (Yes, I’’m coconut-pilled!). Long-term strategy, (and this is where the writing comes in and where most of the podcasts will focus) build an even stronger, far more broad-based progressive movement than we’ve ever had, that can be regenerrative to our environment and spirit!

I invite you all to join me. At the moment, there’s no paywalls—it’s all free!

The Movement We Need

Podcasts on Apple and Spotify:

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/3GhFFHjwj3gjbNJM5GqCZV

APPLE PODCASTS: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-movement-we-need-with-starhawk/id1760044666

And y0u can also join my Magical Activism Live Instagram most Fridays at 9 AM Pacific Time at starhawk_spiral!

‎Society & Culture · 2024

07/23/2024

Are you looking for some hope in the Middle East?
Six amazing young people from Lebanon have contacted us at Earth Activist Training, asking for help to attend our upcoming permaculture design course in France this August. As hard as the situation is now in the Middle East, they give me hope for the long-term resilience of the region. Watch their video, and check out their stories, and you’ll feel inspired by what they have already accomplished, working for food security and regeneration in the face of so many obstacles. Won’t you help us help them? https://chuffed.org/.../permaculture-training-for...
Three ways to help:
Donate: Feel free to donate what you can. Even the price of a coffee or a sandwich adds up and will help us reach our goal. https://chuffed.org/.../permaculture-training-for...
Social media: Share this story and our links with your own social media and expand our reach.
Personal contacts: Do you know someone with a special interest in the region, in regenerative agriculture, in support for youth? Share this post and link with a personal note.
Thanks so much for your generosity! Together we can envision a thriving, abundant Middle East—and support those who are working to make the vision real.
Starhawk and Alfred Decker
Earth Activist Training
https://chuffed.org/.../permaculture-training-for...