Surviving and Thriving in these Times adapt community community engagement ecological belonging empowerment farm horticultural therapy permaculture remakings resilience stewardship sustainability wholistic design process Sep 24, 2026

September, 2026

Let's start with being honest: sometimes the best thing we can do is hope and survive.
An honest approach tells us that we live amongst the everyday challenges and struggles of life: on top of that, we live in times of ecocide, genocide and ongoing assaults on most life on Earth, human communities and our individual and collective psyches. The whole aim of the sustainability, permac
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Sanctuary and Ecopsychology ecopsychology emotions empowerment etymology events horticultural therapy literacies and practices more-than-human resilience workshops Jul 19, 2025

Yes, there's such a thing as Ecopsychology!

Just as we have relearnt to be ecological beings (existing in a web of relationships to plants, animals, environment, and energy flow)...we can also remember and relearn that we are just as equally ecopsychological beings.

Ecopsychology is a field of study, a therapeutic technique and a set of ideas that studies and works toward healing the interrelati...

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The Power of 'Zhuzhing' 'zhuzing' etymology garden horticultural therapy literacies and practices living mosaics tools & tricks Mar 06, 2025

In this newsletter we are playfully exploring something we do a lot; but it’s rarely written and it’s actually pretty hard to define. The Cambridge Dictionary spells it ‘Zhuzh’, An article in The New York Times references early usage as ‘Zhoosh’. ‘Tzushing’ is a word that you’ve likely heard more than seen and there’s contention on the best way to spell ‘Tzush’...you’ll see many options here.

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