Reskillience is a podcast about the hard, soft and surprising skills that'll help us stay afloat if our modern systems don't. Hosted by Catie Payne, released we...
What if It's Not Dystopia? With Permaculture Elder Linda Woodrow
It’s Permaculture Week, friends and phascogales! And what better way to celebrate than a big old heart to heart with permie elder Linda Woodrow. Linda is the author of 470, The Permaculture Home Garden, and the Witches Kitchen blog which is now in its 17th year. She is humble and extraordinary, and I think you’ll dig what she has to say about finding our niches, neighbours, purpose and freedom in the throes of collapse.🧙♀️LINKY POOSLinda Woodrow’s home on the webLinda Woodrow’s blog The Witches Kitchen470 ~ Linda WoodrowThe Permaculture Home Garden ~ Linda WoodrowPermaculture: A Designer’s Manual ~ Bill MollisonRetroSuburbia ~ David HolmgrenPermaculture One ~ Bill Mollison & David HolmgrenDonut Economics ~ Kate Raworth***Show Reskillience some love on Patreon***
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The Health Episode // Sensitivity As Resilience with Anthia Koullouros
A story about a free bottle of French perfume and whether sensitivity makes us more or less resilient. With esteemed and ever-so-lucid naturopath, herbalist & author Anthia Koullouros of Apothēca Organic Teas & Apothecary.* What’s making us all so sick?* How to untangle complex & confounding health crises* Polyvagal theory & nervous system truths* Practitioner perspectives: holding space for uncertainty* What a regulated nervous system isn’t* Resisting business growth & hustle cultureLINKY POOS 🧙♀️Anthia’s home on the webAnthia’s Autumn reset [Starts March 17!]Anthia on InstagramAnthia on SubstackWhat is polyvagal theory?🧡🧡🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡
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Slow Textile Revival with the makers of The Nettle Dress
One of today’s guests spent seven years spinning a dress from stinging nettles and the other spent five years documenting the process. The result was the incredibly moving documentary The Nettle Dress — which I have now seen twice — co-created by Dylan Howitt and Allan Brown. It’s a love letter to old skills, hand crafts and everything that cannot be hurried; to fibersheds, foraged threads, gentle stories, and the magic of following your heart.Dylan Howitt is a BAFTA nominated filmmaker whose roll call includes BBC, Netflix and Discovery. Allan Brown is a textile artist and subject of the film whose steady commitment to disrupting consumer culture is contagious.It’s hard to sing The Nettle Dress’s praises highly enough without shattering a window, but I truly hope you’re moved to watch it after this conversation, perhaps with a posse of pals and a cauldron of nettle soup.🧙♀️ LINKY POOS ***Watch The Nettle Dress***The Nettle Dress’s home on the webThe Nettle Dress on InstagramShort film & group ~ Nettles for TextilesFlaxland UK**Support Reskillience on Patreon***
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Altered States, Imaginal Realms & Co-Becoming with Dr Maya Ward
Today’s subject matter is so slippery and mysterious that even my guest, Dr Maya Ward, finds it hard to describe, though she’s swimming in it. It concerns the aliveness of rivers and the rivers inside us; the nature of reality and realms invisible yet objectively real. It’s about catching the whispers and shouts of the world with pen and paper. It’s shamanic, ecstatic and emphatically esoteric. It’s bloody wild – and I suggest bringing your passport because the places this convo will take you are far out. But also, deep within. If you love all things complex, paradoxical and perspective-shifting, I dedicate this episode to you 🙌After we recorded, Maya sent this thoughtful epilogue:We are innately of the world, yet we are also this witness consciousness, experiencing separation. Forgetting, then remembering. “Inside human beings is where God learns”, said Rilke. Does separation itself create the possibility of learning? In my exhibition, on the wall, I have a quote from Robert Bringhurst: “Language is not for talking about the world – that's for dilettantes. Language is for talking with the world.” I wish I'd said that.***Support Reskillience on Patreon!***🧵ThreadsA new old way to introduce ourselvesOriginal meanings of yin and yangThe right ratio between humans and more-than-humanThe role of the artist and poetEcstatic and mystical experiences in natureBuilding beauty and vernacular architectureWhere a lack of trust in the system takes youInitiated vs. uninitiated ways of beingSmall, potent workThird wheeling the love affair between sun and earthAltered state workThe imaginal realmSufi mysticismThe danger of unwitnessed initiationAutomatic/shamanic writingReclaiming ‘esoteric’Acknowledgement of Country spellcasting🧙♀️LINKY POOSMaya Ward’s home on the webMaya’s events, workshops & exhibitionsMaya’s book: The Comfort of WaterNature Based Leadership TrainingCERESWilliam WordsworthTyson YunkaportaHenri CorbinCarl JungRudolf SteinerPlatoWouter Jacobus HanegraaffGregory BatesonBook: Songspirals ~ Gay’wu Group of WomenAlfred North Whitehead
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The Pursuit of Discomfort & Pirate Bananas With Charlie McGee
Real good fun with this one! Join me and Formidable Vegetable’s kind and charismatic frontman Charlie McGee for a swashbuckling convo about pirate bananas, working the edges, growing up in Arnhem Land, dumpster diving to feed your art, staying in your integrity (while saying yes to flying), the deep discomfort of home ownership and remembering your interconnectedness.🧙♀️ LINKY POOSFormidable Vegetable’s home on the webGrow Do It (Charlie & Brenna's hub of ecological goodness) Find secret track Pirate Banana on Formidable Vegetable’s Micro Biome CD, only available in person at gigs!Vandana ShivaBill Mollison & David Holmgren ~ Permaculture One***Become a legendary supporter of the podcast on Patreon***
Reskillience is a podcast about the hard, soft and surprising skills that'll help us stay afloat if our modern systems don't. Hosted by Catie Payne, released weekly.
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