My guest in this episode is Rirhandzu Marivate, a regenerative food systems practitioner and socioecologist currently based in the Western Cape of South Africa.

Rirhandzu leads the Living Soils Community Learning Farm initiative, which aims to empower young black women through jobs in regenerative farming to grow nutrient-rich produce, strengthen local community food security and create sustainable livelihoods.

In this episode we talk to Rirhandzu about how she collaborates with the team and the community to really embody regenerative leadership while they do regenerative agriculture.

We cover:

• How Rirhandzu’s career path diverged from working with apes to working with food!
• How Living Soils simultaneously tackles unemployment, food insecurity and unsustainable farming.
• What fosters the special energy in how they collaborate so that people ‘feel’ more than ‘see’ the project.
• How systems approaches need constant learning and adaptation.
• What intentionally building and nurturing community looks like.
• What it means to center individual and community growth, learning and development AND make a tangible impact.
• How they use regeneration as a lens for their work - not only in terms of how they produce food but also in terms of human development.
• The daily practices that help her embody regenerative leadership each day.

Further information:

Find more information about The Living Soils Community Learning Farm here: https://www.sustainabilityinstitute.net/research-learning/collaborative-projects/living-soils-community-learning-farm/

For more information about Rirhandzu Marivate go to Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rirhandzu-marivate/?originalSubdomain=za

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This week we are tackling a big topic together – your personal resilience and what it means for planetary resilience!

I dive into lessons I have learned working with this topic personally and professionally over the last decade and dig out key insights and practical tools that will help you on your journey to create a more just, generative and joyful life for yourself and others.

Before you jump in – there is a free workbook that accompanies this episode. You can download it here!

Listen in to this episode to explore:

- What personal resilience means.

- The myths surrounding vs what is actually backed up by science.

- What change-makers, or aspiring change makers, need to know about how resilience impacts them.

- Six key science-based insights to help you build your resilience.

- The relationship between personal and planetary resilience.

- Some tools and practices you can use help build your resilience.

All the tools and practices that are mentioned at the end of the episode have been pulled into a free workbook for you, which you can download here:

https://www.thegreatfull.com/podcast/ep35-your-resilience-why-it-matters-how-to-build-it-michelle-grant

Thanks for listening!

Further info:

The resilience workbook that accompanies this episode is available here.

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My guest today is Kylie Flanagan, the author of a brand new book called “Climate Resilience - How we can keep each other safe, care for our communities and fight back against climate change”.

“Climate Resilience brought me to tears of recognition, relief, solidarity, and hope. It’s the book we need to survive this human moment together.” (Lily Diamond - author of Kale & Caramel and coauthor of What’s Your Story?)

It was a pleasure to sit with Kylie on the release of her important book and chat about: the climate leadership we need; why she felt it was important to centre voices other than her own in this book; and how learning from people who do things differently and prioritise values like interconnectedness, humility can deepen the dominant climate conversations.

This book is an extension of Kylie's work as a climate justice and resilience strategist, educator and director of a small, place-based foundation. She partners with communities to develop sustainability + climate resilience strategies grounded in social justice.

During this episode we explore:

• What Kylie learned during a brief adventure as a ‘goat midwife’
• The opportunities that climate justice work offers us to reorient society and communities around wellbeing
• What made Kylie write this book and how it is different to any other climate book
• The myth that there are two options when it comes climate action—individual changes and systemic changes—and what's possible beyond that binary
• Her decision to not include any cisgender men in the book
• Why people who are most impacted should be at the helm of designing and implementing climate solutions
• The most important lessons she learned from the 39 diverse leaders who contributed to her book
• How to navigate the overwhelm that is inevitable in climate and social justice work
• How somatic work is an important tool in our kit to facing the challenges in front of us right now

Further information:

Find Kylie’s new book “Climate Resilience” at Penguin Random House: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724024/climate-resilience-by-kylie-flanagan/

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