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• End of Life Matters with Pippa White

  Shrug off the cloak of secrecy and awkwardness around death with palliative care nurse Pippa White. I’ve been wanting to bring a death convo to the airwaves for ages, because there’s a huge imbalance between light/dark, above/below, waxing/waning, growth/decay, possessing/relinquishing energies in our culture (and I'm the first person to perpetuate it). Shout out to everyone who sent frank and thoughtful questions for Pippa to answer – you’ll hear them towards the end of the ep.Pippa White is a palliative care nurse and death care advocate and educator in the Anthroposophical tradition. We discuss:🖤 What is Anthroposophic philosophy?🖤 Death care rituals, balms and vigils🖤 Windows into the reality of spirit from people in transition🖤 Why to “do the work” at the eleventh hour🖤 Soothing suffering without drugs🖤 How painful is death?🖤 Different ways to relate to pain🖤 Small, slow solutions to dying (tiny local end of life retreats)🖤 Pet euthanasia, yay or nay?🖤 How to deal with loved ones in denial?🖤 Can you make a living in end of life care?🖤 How do you document/cherish a life?🖤 What folks find difficult when dying?🖤 Grieving to breathe and to love🖤 Birth and death thresholdsLINKY POOS 🧙‍♀️Pippa WhiteAnthroposophical Society AustraliaWhat is Advance Care Planning?Wedgetail RetreatMartín PrechtelStephen Jenkinson[poem] Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas🧡🧡🧡 Show Reskillience some love on Patreon 🧡🧡🧡

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• Growing Against the Odds with Katie Finlay

  Do not listen to this unless you want to reawaken your dormant farming desires and throw yourself into a life on the land. I tell a story about being a grub, before having an animated chat with rural woman of the year Katie Finlay about staunching the loss of small farms in Australia and supporting emerging growers to step up – even and especially if they don’t own land. (What even is land ownership?) 🍎 AND ALSOKatie and Hugh Finlay are black belt orchardists whose online program Grow Great Fruit is just brilliant for anyone who wants to obtain a yield from fruit trees (with an organic and holistic tilt, of course). It gives me great joy to connect you with their work.This is their Dream Orchard Masterclass starting REAL SOON on June 12.🧙‍♀️LINKY POOSGrow Great FruitHarcourt Organic Farming CoopAustralian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) Tess Sellar ~ Sellar Dairy 🧡Support Reskillience on Patreon 🧡

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• Finding God in the Compost Pile with Gareth Devenish

  It’s colder than a penguin’s big toe here in Djaara Country, so we’re cosying up by the fire for a yarn with Gareth Devenish. I call Gareth the Snoop Dogg of permaculture, he calls himself a sovereign man walking in Country, subject to natural lore, seeking a connection with the cosmos. Call off your obligations for the next hour because Gareth’s crackling mix of irreverence and truth telling is something really special.🔥 How to yarn🔥 Why land ownership is a furphy🔥 Native vs. exotic trees and colonial malaise🔥 What is our responsibility to Country?🔥 Nomadic agriculture🔥 Quantum physics, free will and a post-truth era🔥 Useful jobs in the time of AI🔥 Why peacemaking with first nations people should be our #1 priority🔥 Pay the rent!🔥 Finding god in the compost heap🔥 Does consciousness even exist?🔥 Tips for planting and growing healthy trees🔥 The best way to learn new skills🔥 The scars which make us beautiful🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSGareth’s tree nursery ~ The Farm Tree Nursery (ships around Aus!)Gareth’s email ~ [email protected]🧡 Support Reskillience on Patreon (plz don’t use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡

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• Quit Your Job & Work in Reciprocity with Linda Cockburn

  I tell a story about making bugger all money but feeling filthy rich, before being joined by the incredible Linda Cockburn (pronounced “Co’burn” cos it’s Scottish) who explains why Capitalism is a death cult, and ways to crowd it out with reciprocity. Ample brain fodder and fiery inspiration here, folks! We cover:🪶 Being unmade by successive tragedies.🪶 Quitting employment to work in the home economy.🪶 Going six months without spending a dollar.🪶 How to grow your own toilet paper!🪶 Will politicians ever “solve” climate change?🪶 Why you can’t question capitalism🪶 How the growth imperative works🪶 Changing the narrative through language🪶 The debt treadmill for “developing” nations🪶 The closest thing we’ve had to utopia in human history!🪶 Old and new indigeneity through storytelling🪶 Hitting bodily limits🪶 How to get owwwfff the hamster wheel🪶 Riches without an income🪶 The Eudaimonia Index & Reciprocity🪶 Black Soldier Fly Revolution!🪶 How to share even when you’re a scoundrel only child like me🪶 Why it feels great to give your best stuff away🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOSLinda’s booksThe Quiet Revolution (basically why & how to decouple from the death cult of capitalism & start giving back to all life)Eat My Shadow (hopeful and instructive collapse fiction!)Living the Good LifeLinda’s articles in Organic Gardener magazineA kickass essay by Linda ~ My Planet Saving SuperpowersLinda on InstagramThe Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight by Thom HartmannSeed Freaks ~ open pollinated seeds TasmaniaDavid Holmgren’s RetroSuburbia: The Downshifter’s Guide to a Resilient FutureSound credit: Bruny Island Ambience by guyburns License: Attribution 4.0🧡🧡🧡 support Reskillience on Patreon (plz don’t use the app it takes a fee, go desktop) 🧡🧡🧡

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• Loving What's Left with Tessa Campisi

  Hello! I have been away in the bush for three days and three nights with just a tarp, sleeping bag and water to my name. No tent, no pillow, no torch, NO BREAKFAST. Off the back of this deeply moving ritual (which I'll tell you about soon), I wanted to release this equally as moving and foresty interview with Tessa Campisi.Tessa is a writer, poet, audio visual artist, activist and radio host who speaks with the timbre of an old growth tree and tells stories that will rustle your leaves. In this chat:🌳 What it's like to live through a catastrophic flood🌳 How anarchic networks can rise to meet a crisis, fast🌳 What happens when forest conservationists are at loggerheads with traditional owners?🌳 Strawman vs. steelman arguments🌳 A new approach to deep listening to those you disagree with 🌳 What traditional activism gets wrong and how to be a more effective change agent 🌳 How and why to love the scraps of our beautiful, broken world🧙‍♀️ LINKY POOS Tessa's home on the webTessa's (online) exhibition ~ Framings of Wombat ForestArticle of interest ~ Reflections on forest gardening by Cam Walker https://www.melbournefoe.org.au/galk_galk_dhelkunyaPaper of interest ~ History of Environmentalist-Indigenous alliances and conflictsEssay of interest ~ The Trouble with Wilderness by William Cronon*** Become a Reskillience supporter on Patreon!***

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