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
Links:
Learn more about Megan and The Eco-Institute at https://eco-institute.org/
Connect with The Eco-Institute on Instagram @the.eco.institute
Connect with Rising Earth Immersion on Instagram @rising.earth.immersion
Connect with Megan on Instagram @megantoben
Connect with The Eco-Institute on Facebook @the.eco.institute
Join The Eco-Institute for Rising Earth: A Semester of Transformative Permaculture Immersion
To learn more about upcoming programs and workshops, view The Eco-Institute Program Calendar
Learn about a kindred program, youthpassageways.org
* Read about the Amazon Rainforest tribe who won a lawsuit and blocked big oil here.
* Learn about and sign up for the Awakening Intuition course with Natalie here.