| Your Name | jen ringbauer |
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| Cohort Assignment | Hybrid In-Person/Online with Intensive in Melbourne, Summer-Fall 2025 |
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| 1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | To be frank... I really don't know.
I was intending to be starting a PhD this year with a focus on the intersection of land management and spirituality. Whilst studying this past 14 months I have felt a strong pull towards localising - being more present and committed to local community groups and their aims. And I am ever-so-curious - I feel inspired to learn new things and learn all I can about them. The more I know, the more I want to know.
So with this in mind, this year I am concentrating on localising and making some impact in education of land stewardship and management. I am working towards offering some short courses in holistic management, permaculture, regenerative agriculture and consultation for/with farmers of small - to - medium sized farms.
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| 2. What role do you see as yours to play? | Working with myself to be the best I can be - and the most true and genuine version of myself that I can be.
Being curious.
Working with my farm and family to co-create and enhance life in the places we inhabit.
Gently walking with land stewards and managers to be curious and discover new ways of being in the world that incorporates co-creation, enhancement of ecological function and biodiversity, enjoyment and celebration of life!
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| 3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | Continue to peel away layers of trauma that inhibit and slow my inner growth and my relationships with family and farm.
Find more ways to be curious - where will this curiosity need be met - within an institution in the container of more study, or simply reading, noticing and being?
Continue to grow opportunities to reach new farmers and decision makers for education, consultation and connective/growth experiences.
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| 4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Communication, connection and collaboration.
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| 5. And for professional growth? | Peeling away imposter syndrome so I can easily get on with my work. Revisiting course notes to find the answers to things/issues that blocking my progress.
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| 6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | My family, my farm, my head - so many courses to fill my head with information...
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| 7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Permaculture and holistic management have been integral for my ecological conversion. But I would have to say that working in at Rahamim Ecology Centre in Bathurst NSW steeped in the teachings of Thomas Berry, Brian Swimme, Joanna Macy, Robin Wall Kimmerer and other thought leaders in ecological feminism, cosmology and eco-spirituality was the most influential learning and experiences in my life.
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| 8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | Written in 2021 in response to a human ecology university assignment - it still rings true...
To live conscientiously and treading lightly to enhance human-to-human and human-to-Earth relationships with increasing gratitude, generosity and reciprocity (Kimmerer, 2013). To fully embrace, enhance and/or relish active participation in life and life’s cycles with interdependence, interrelatedness and interconnectedness. To be increasingly aware of the whole, and to co-create the right environment/conditions for each of the parts to flourish into their fullest possible being. All to develop a deepening relationship with my bioregion.
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| Date Created | March 5, 2025 |
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