Navigating mothering, work and leadership with Maddy Harland
Looby is in conversation with Maddy Harland, who is founder and editor of the Permaculture Magazine and publisher with Permanent Publications of many books including Looby’s books. They are long term friends and collaborators and this is a nourishing authentic conversation sharing some of the challenges as mothers as we navigate teenagers, menopause, eco-anxiety and leadership.
YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT:
balancing boundaries and being liberal with teenagers
unresolved ways of being from our own teenage years
evolving family cultures
transitioning as mothers into menopause
cultural wounding as mothers
managing mothering, work and leadership
coping with eco-anxiety in our children
RESOURCES
ABOUT MADDY HARLAND
Maddy is the editor of Permaculture magazine. She is mother to 2 grown-up daughters. She started her first business in 1981, a natural food shop in Portsmouth. By 1991, Maddy was practising wildlife gardening and conservation when she discovered Bill Mollison's ideas about permaculture; ideas that changed her life. Maddy and husband Tim founded a publishing company, Permanent Publications, in 1990 to publish information that would 'empower people'. By 1992, they had launched Permaculture magazine - Earth care, People care, Future care. Maddy also co-founded an educational centre for sustainability in East Hampshire in 1995 and is a trustee of Common Earth, a charity mandated to assist the Commonwealth and other nations in making their diverse and often highly vulnerable communities sustainable and resilient to the impact of climate change. Her book Fertile Edges celebrated 25 years of Permaculture magazine. Her writing shows a profound connection to the land – to the 'fertile edges' where things are wilder and a bit more interesting.
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Music by Giulio Cantore.
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