Meg Toben of The Eco-Institute on Healing the Human-Earth Connection [episode 142]

Meg Toben is an Earth Activist Mama based in Chapel Hill, NC. She is a co-creator of The Eco-Institute at Pickards Mountain, a sanctuary space for nature connection, renewal, and healing the human-earth relationship. Megan has twenty years of experience as an environmental educator, and ten years as an executive director. Her love for art, ritual, Earth, and humanity inspired her to offer a nature-inspired space to all who are working to heal our world. In this episode, we dig into:

  • How The Eco-Institute was born
  • Becoming an activist against climate disruption
  • Megan’s experience in Standing Rock
  • A celebration for the Huaorani/Waorani/Waodani people of Ecuador
  • Challenges in cultivating community
  • How you can’t buy purpose and authenticity
  • How complicit we can be at the expense of planetary demise
  • What The Eco-Institute has to offer
  • A prayer and fasting ceremony in the wilderness
  • Asking questions and being guided to reconsider everything
  • Conducting a listening tour and a reimagining council
  • A definition of permaculture
  • Details of the permaculture immersion program
  • Cultivating connection through soul work and dismantling ego

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