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Abbey Joy Cmiel

Abbey is an apprentice at Rancho Mastatal, a permaculture, natural building, and agroforestry education center in Costa Rica. She graduated from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill with a degree in Global Studies with a focus on Latin American social and political systems. She hopes to use her Earth-skills and passion for social and environmental justice to help re-weave humans into community with one another and the natural world.

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The Joy of Living and Learning Interconnectedly


Much like the interconnected symphonies of trees, fungi, plants, animals, fauna, bacteria, and insects in a forest, immersive, Earth-based educational experiences support collective learning and personal growth within a radically different system from the dominant Western culture of industrial education.


Published in Volume 21 Issue 1

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The Village Way

Practices for Belonging in a Fragmented World

For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

Join us for a 9-month inquiry into this question, exploring how we participate together in a time that calls us back to community, resilience, and shared life,

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