Earth Apprentice Weekend 2025 - Feel Your Way

Humans are deeply nuanced, courageous and creative beings, we are capable of so many more beautiful things than this violent, colonial, hierarchical world has imagined for us. If you are feeling lost and confused by the state of our world and feeling disillusioned by the ways in which human beings around you and across the "civilized" world are accepting the unacceptable in the name of convenience, social standing or apathy, then this weekend might be for you.

It's an opportunity to connect and strengthen relationships with non human teachers, who have experience in resilience, living beyond cultural norms and who embody aspirations for collective thriving of all beings. 

Everyone will walk away with a different experience and learnings as all relationships are different. It's time to call in our gifts, how can we be part of the telling of new stories about what it means to be a human in this great alive dance of the living world? How can we embody new stories of human resilience, that don't tell stories that in order for one being to thrive, another must suffer or be dominated? 

Who would you be if you hadn't learned the stories of this culture of domination, ownership and scarcity? Who are you as the unique gift giver, involved in an ever moving cycle of gifts moving through the existence of all living beings?

Early bird: $350

Late Bird: $400

Concession: $250

Facilitators

Julia Yelton, a creative homemaker and designer, mother, grandmother, and lifelong student for earth advocacy is also a “way shower” for other seekers committed to walking lightly on this unique planet. After some 35 years of teaching many of the earth sciences and practices, Julia's passion is to explore the farthest edges of this amazing world and beyond. Forever stretching the boundaries of discovery into the natural and the ethereal, her life work aims to inspire and teach by example.

Heather Mac is a witch, a poet, a parent and an animist. She coordinates and stewards seeds for the Cygnet Seed Library as well helping to grow other non-monetary and gift economies. Heather is an experienced permaculture educator, community facilitator and farming/gardening mentor. She walks alongside her clients as they learn how to connect, listen to and engage in reciprocity with the land they live on. Heather believes in the power of stories and cultural change as a way for humans to transcend our paradigm of exploitative relationships with each other and our living world. 

Miriam McCormack is a passionate student and caretaker of all things fermenting, a lover of language & communication, a devotee of deep listening who has brought her exploration of agriculture, permaculture and landscape into her holistic psychotherapy practice. Miriam has travelled, worked and studied all over the world and weaves curiosity and play into her work and inquiries. She is a gardener, a cook, a goat milker, a hiker, a meditator and is on a mission to reclaim the true essence of culture, relationship and hospitality. 

Let's talk about children. 

This course deliberately flies against many of the structural stories about how things are in the world, hierarchies and knowledge as a silent, rationalised pursuit are out. As such, if your children are the impediment to you being able to regularly attend the course, please get in contact (via email listed below). While we cannot promise anything, it matters to us that we work to accommodate parents and their child rearing. Raising children is part of our lives and part of how we serve the earth. 

Let's talk about money.

If money is the impediment to you attending this weekend, please send an email to Heather at happyvalleypermaculture@gmail.com