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The Mother Nature project is committed to creating a worldwide movement of sisterhood, bringing awareness to the personal transformative journey of mothers.
The Mother Nature project is a partnership between 4 European organisations:
Pandora association - Hungary, Paradiso Ritrovato - Italy, Preplet - Slovenia, Casa del Cuculo - Italy plus The Permaculture Association - UK, The project is funded by grants from the European Union through the Erasmus + programme. Working on the project for the Permaculture Association are Looby Macnamara since it started in 2018 and Emma Gorbutt who joined her in 2021.
Mother Nature Podcast
Seasons 1 to 3 of the Mother Nature Podcast - Over 30 episodes, hosted by Looby Macnamara and guest hosts Lara,Emma, Agi, Jana and Cecilia, will inspire your motherhood journey by sharing women's circles stories, interviews with professionals, and nature connection practices. We also explore mothers as natural leaders, sing songs and talk about everything in between.
Listen here: anchor.fm/mother-nature6
Find out more: mothernatureproject.org/mother-nature-podcast
About the project
EMPOWERING MOTHERS AS AGENTS OF CHANGE TOWARD ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN A DIGITAL ERA
Mother Nature - Empowering mothers as agents of change toward environmental sustainability in a digital era is a project funded by the Erasmus + project of the European Union that builds on the Mother Nature - Empowering Mothers in their personal transformation project, previously founded in 2017
Mothers are increasingly aware of the looming climate crisis and are fearful of the world for their children. This project aims to create and share learning tools, including digital tools and resources to support mothers in becoming agents of change in their families and communities: in being proactive with strategies to initiate thinking, behavioural and cultural changes in tackling climate change.
Project Results
A BOOK: MOTHERS AS NATURAL LEADERS OF OUR TIMES
The Mothers as Natural Leaders book explores how we can use the transferable skills that we gain as mothers to be agents of change towards environmental sustainability. The world is facing numerous complex challenges and a new style of leadership is necessary to help us navigate these.
In this book we give tools to bring agency into our personal leadership, to guide our family culture, to be proactive in our communities. All together these weave possibilities for a new global leadership centered on Earth care.
A CARD DECK
About nature connection… the first pilot deck is almost ready!
A PODCAST SERIES
First release on March 2022!
Check out the episodes and the podcast here
AN ONLINE COURSE
The first pilot training is running in December 2022 and we ran 2 more between January and June 2023. Sign up any time to the online course and live calls coming in 2024 Learn more here!
Through this project, we want to empower mothers to become agents of change towards a more ecological way of living - and we consider mothers not only adult learners, but also change agents, with a great influence on their immediate communities, their family's lifestyles and children's future habits. Addressing digital transformation became more important during the COVID pandemic when mothers became even more isolated and need even more peer support and community. Through our project results, women, and mothers across Europe will gain tools and competencies to enhance this connectedness through digital means, and use innovative digital learning tools.
Mother Nature Diary
Find out more here: mothernatureproject.org/mother-nature-ii-20172021
Previous Mother Nature Projects
Empowering Mothers In Their Personal Transformation 2017-2020
Mother Nature - Empowering mothers in their personal transformation is a project that has been founded by the Erasmus + project of the European Union from 2017 to 2020.
The general aim of the project was to equip professionals with adult learning tools and skills to support and empower mothers in developing, recognising and validating skills acquired through the informal learning experience of becoming mothers in order to foster employability, socio-educational and professional development.
Project results:
Mother Nature Guidebook
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Mother Nature Card Deck
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Online Platform
Mother Nature Journey Course
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Mothers as Natural Leaders Book
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Find out more about the project here: mothernatureproject.org/about-mother-nature
Mother Nature Guide Book and Cards
The Mother Nature project has been successfully completed in February 2020. For the project we have produced a Guidebook and Card Deck to nourish and empower mothers on their journey.
This Guidebook is a collection of 42 principles: daily affirmations that help us to be present and aware of our journey of motherhood. They are elixirs, a-ha moments, distillations of our joys, struggles, challenges and learnings from our lives as mothers. Each principle has an explanation, reflective questions and activity.
The beautiful Card deck is illustrated by 42 powerful images created by Eszter Laszlo, our team member. Motherhood is a time of joy, challenges, growth and transformation. The Mother Nature cards will guide, nourish and empower you.
Filled with heartwarming, enchanting, powerful images to engage your intuition and innate wisdom. They are combined with 42 concise, relevant principles and affirmations that have been harvested from the collective intelligence and experience of many mothers. See a sample of the cards here.
Buy the cards and guide book
Disclaimer:
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.