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.