Your Name | Clare Freeman |
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Cohort Assignment | Europe, Africa, and the Middle East with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | Finding ways to heal people, planet and myself. I have been through a very difficult few years with a lot of loss and trauma (a difficult start to motherhood with a traumatic labour and then the sudden death of my father, followed by a relationship breakdown from a toxic relationship and moving house twice). I see my primary work now to heal myself, but also to find work that is meaningful and heals others and the planet. This is why I have set up the project Her Land, to help women and girls heal both themselves and the land (see www.herland.co.uk). I also see my primary work as raising a strong, kind, healthy daughter. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I am always full of ideas and am creative. I think my role is generating ideas and setting up projects and initiatives which will help people and the land heal. I see my role as the creator. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | My goal at the moment is to make Her Land a success and for it to improve the health of women and girls and the land. I also have other business ideas I'd like to explore. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | I would like to try and become a more confident public speaker as I struggle with this. After such a difficult few years I want to look after myself and practice a lot of self-care. |
5. And for professional growth? | I want to learn more about building and designing in a regenerative way, such as building earth ships and building with natural materials. I feel I am in a big period of transition professionally and am being drawn away from my current publishing business in to a new field of regenerative design, building and property. It's daunting but exciting! |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | I have studied a lot throughout my life. I have a degree in Sociology and a Masters is Psychology, and have undertaken several courses. I have invested a lot of unpaid time and energy in to setting up businesses over the last decade, some which have been successful and some not. I have so many ideas for new businesses and projects but struggle with keeping focus and can get overwhelmed. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | I like learning about psychology and people, and more recently about regenerative design, materials and building. I find Seth Godin very inspiring and have read many of his books and the carbon almanac. His book 'The Icarus Deception' resonated strongly with me. I enjoy mindfulness meditation and books from Jon Kabat-Zinn. |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | I haven't thought enough about this, although I would like to. I believe that as humans we should behave in ways that are in tune with all life and the cosmos. |
Date Created | February 27, 2024 |