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FAM in Community, Alannah Tomich Part 2

In Part 2 of this discussion we will explore the holistic integration of FAM into your life.  From collective sharing in community to designing your schedule into rhythms, to dismantling the myths of PMS.  FAM is more than just birth control, it's an access point to reintegrate cycles into our social patterns.
This is an example of a cycle chart creatively made by a ecovillage member. Contact Alannah to learn more!
Speaker Bio:
Alannah Tomich, is a Fertility Awareness Educator in training, studying under Sarah Bly with Grace of The Moon. She is also a full spectrum doula. She currently lives at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. Alannah studied Public Health at UC Berkeley, and cares deeply about women's health and environmental sustainability. You can reach her at empoweredcontraception@gmail.com.
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Fertility Awareness Method w/ Alannah Tomich Part 1
    In Part 1 of this series we will learn the fundamentals and ancient wisdom of the Fertility Awareness Method. In Part 2 we will explore how this technique can enrich community life.
Speaker Bio:
    Alannah Tomich, is a Fertility Awareness Educator in training, studying under Sarah Bly with Grace of The Moon. She is also a full spectrum doula. She currently lives at Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage. Alannah studied Public Health at UC Berkeley, and cares deeply about women's health and environmental sustainability. You can reach her at empoweredcontraception@gmail.com.

Resources:
Basal Body Thermometer
Garden of Fertility
Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler
Online Community Support Group
Certified Teachers: Find a coach near you
German FAM Study
Building Come-Unity with Hassan Hall:
     Our guest today Hassan Hall has spent the last 8 years living in an ecovillage. In this interview he shares about how to liberate yourself by doing what you love each moment, and how to find deep connection in collaboration.

Hassan Hall has been designing from the heart and rearranging materials into functional art since 2006. Favorite materials are wood, clay, sand, and straw. HIs work can be seen at cobwallbuilder.com and www.instagram.com/hassan.d.hall/
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Ecovillage During Pandemic:
    How does an ecovillage of over 200 people respond to the pandemic, and are they prepared for the chaos of this scale in the future?
Speaker Bio
  Nathan Scott is the Director of LEARN@EcoVillage, the non-profit education program of EcoVillage at Ithaca. He has a background in global experiential education and a passion for engaging people of all ages in the struggle for a more liveable climate and for the health and wellness of our living planet. He lives at the EcoVillage in Ithaca and is blessed to be surrounded by a loving community - both human and non-human.

Relevant Links
www.ecovillageithaca.org
sacredinstructions.life
www.pachamama.org/

Articles worth reading:
Is Covid-19 the "Silver Bullet For a Stable Climate?" by Brad Zarnett
From David Korten of YES! Magazine on "Coronavirus as a Wake Up Call"
And from the always lucid Naomi Klein on "Coronavirus Capitalism"
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Healing through Grief:
Joanna Laws Landis is bringing new life to the ancient traditions of grief rituals. Integrating the traditions from elders of various cultures she shares the insights a community can reach by mindfully going into the depths of their sorrows together.
Healing Through Reimagining Economics:
In this podcast we explore how to we can reimagine economics in community to build abundant connection no cold transactions.
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Sam studies economics as humanity's allocation of abundance, not scarcity. Rather than thinking of the earth system as the limiting constraint, he wants to study how communities and societies can practice collective self-limitation according to the world they want to inhabit now and in the future
Healing our illusion of Productivity
    Ella Sutherland has been building an intentional community which values a meaningful lifestyle which is connected with one another and nature. In this discussion she explores how our relationship with efficiency and profit can lead to an out of touch life, but prioritizing connection and playfulness can heal that disconnect.

Follow up with her at Cambia Community and Rustling Roots websites.
Healing Trauma with Community  
    Joe Cole is an Academic Professional Assistant  Professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at UNC-Greensboro. He is a trained Facilitator and supports communities and non-profit organizations in developing cooperative skills, nonviolent communication, collaborative governance, and conflict transformation. Joe is also a speaker, trainer, and consultant working with ecovillages and intentional communities in North Carolina and around the country.
Links Mentioned in the show
Cohousing webinars
​1. August 2019, “Culture Change and Personal Transformation.”

2. April 2019, “Addressing Racism and Working for Racial Equality.”
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Book
My article, "Ecovillages, Sustainability, and Social and Environmental Healing" will be in a book called Realizing Nonviolent Resistance: Neoliberalism, Societal Trauma, and Marginalized Voice, by Peter Lang Publishers, as part of their Conflict and Peace Book Series.This volume is due out later in 2020.

a powerful book on healing racialized trauma:
My Grandmother's Hands, by Resmaa Menakem
https://www.resmaa.com/books

Some of my Communities Magazine articles:Joe wrote an article for Communities Magazine in December of 2018 on collaborative skill-building in intentional communities. Cole, J. (2018). Skill building for a culture of collaboration. Communities, 181(181), 40-44.

Joe wrote an article for Communities Magazine in Spring of 2018 on race and racism in intentional communities. Cole, J. (2018). I'm not a racist, but racism is in me-and in my community. Communities, 178(178), 31-35.

2 year trainings on facilitation/conflict mediation
Laird Schaub and Maria Pini, Integrative Facilitation
(I'm attaching the Brochure for the 2-year training that is based in/near North Carolina, but Laird offers these around the country. Folks can contact Laird laird@ic.org or Maria mariasilviapini@gmail.com for more information.)

Academic Programs
UNC-Greensboro Department of Peace and Conflict Studies (offers both a B.A. and M.A. degrees in Peace and Conflict Studies, in both residential and online programs)
https://hhs.uncg.edu/pcs/