The Workshop
Fundamental one. Permission to Follow Your Meaning
Listen closely. You are driven by what you find meaningful to do. You know this in your heart and do not need any justification or permission from anyone to follow it. For me, this looks like growing a healthy and abundant vegetable garden. Sitting for hours and doing embroidery on clothes I have sewed. Walking in the woods looking for that piece of wood that fit just right for a shelf project. Go source your meaning from within yourself and stay with it. You are allowed to follow the inner voice towards what it whispers you to become.
Fundamental two. Permission to Trust Your Meaning Matters
Your meaning is not separated from the world’s needs.What you genuinely find interesting and meaningful is what the world needs more of. Allow yourself to feel and trust this. You are worthy and have interests and skills that can help other people. I have seen that what I genuinely find interesting and meaningful is what the world needs regarding becoming more regenerative and sustainable. Growing, harvesting and storing your own healthy and abundant vegetables offer safety in the stomach during turbulent times. Sewing your own clothes restores self-confidence from a profit-driven clothing industry. Harvesting local wood teaches you to honor nature and not take to much. Permit yourself to share your gift and observe how it feels offering it to the world.
Below you will find projects where I put these words into action. Not to create perfection or a masterpiece, but to practice listening to my heart and where it whispers me to move.
The Mender’s Kit
The Mender's Kit: Features three panels that fold over each other, containing slots, compartments, and pockets for all my sewing tools. I sew my own clothes and gear to hand the power back to myself. Choosing to step out of the over-consumption society and be part of the solution. Integrating practical skills that embody true sustainability.