by Alan Heeks | Jun 12, 2018 | Homepage Resources, Other Resources (Green)
Resource Toolkit: Personal Energy Audit This can be a powerful process to help you understand your sources and uses of physical, emotional, mental and inspirational energy. Gardeners and farmers manage the energy mix for their land, and you can do this for your...
by Alan Heeks | Mar 26, 2018 | Homepage Resources, Other Resources (Green)
For gardens and farms, every stage of the cultivation cycle and all four seasons are important. This holds true for people’s work and life generally, but we often over-focus on some stages of the cycle, and neglect others. This quick checklist will help you see how...
by Alan Heeks | Mar 14, 2018 | Homepage Resources, Other Resources (Green)
The Diamond Process: drawing on both sides of the brain As we try to handle ever more complexity and uncertainty in our lives, co-creative skills are essential. Co-creativity is about both-and, combining action and reflection, balancing your needs and aims with the...
by Alan Heeks | Jun 12, 2018 | Homepage Resources, Other Resources (Green)
Wild margins: This is one of my favourite principles in organic systems. To qualify for organic certification, a farm must leave some field corners and edge land wild, uncultivated. These margins are a haven for wildflowers, plants, birds, insects. Diversity of...
by Alan Heeks | Nov 16, 2022 | Homepage Resources, Other Resources (Green)
Self-help Process: Circle of Voices This is a method I’ve evolved for integrating multiple viewpoints: see Chapter 4 for a fuller introduction. Before you do this process, read this briefing thoroughly, and get clear on basic decisions such as aim, location, and who’s...
by Alan Heeks | Jan 26, 2023 | Homepage Resources, Other Resources (Green)
The Hero’s Journey: an archetypal growth map The five stages of positive change It was the American anthropologist Joseph Campbell who coined the term hero’s journey to chart the archetypal stages of change which he identified through many years of research. In his...
