What of the Ground we are standing on?

Enough to save the World?

Are you trying to save the world? Or anyone else for that matter?
Do you feel like you have enough to give? 
In this episode Catriona Blanke shares a beautiful story of a little desert well that tries to save the waterhole and prevent the animals in the desert from going thirsty. Is she enough though? 
Cara and Cat discuss some of the themes and thoughts brought up by this story. Often we find that our own wells are depleted and still we try to give. Sharing until there is nothing left to share, and still our efforts fall on stoney ground. Is it really our job to save the whole world? 
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You can find further information about Catriona and her work on fb https://www.facebook.com/Catrionablankestoryteller and here https://catrionablanke.de/
Cara's fb pages are https://www.facebook.com/carasilversmith and  https://www.facebook.com/onenaturestories her website is https://www.carasilversmith.com/ and her environmental education website https://www.onenatureeducation.com/
#storytelling #storiesfortheenvironment #changetheworld #beyou #philosophyofstories 

Re-Becoming One, a storied journey with Martha Alter Hines

Re-Becoming the One. Our world is stories, our world is us, we are Earth.
This episode has so much in it.
We begin with some of our chat from before we started the episode, discussing fairies and the spirits in our world. Martha Alter Hines shares some of her experiences and inspirations which have led to the Re-Becoming the One Symposium which starts today (1 June 2023) focusing on healing our relationships to Gender and Sexuality.  Our discussion takes us on a wonder filled journey, including a detour with Cara to a seal hunter story. We touch on questions of what it is to fully inhabit this world and reconnect with aspects of the environment that have perhaps been missing from a western centric view of landscape.
Martha shares her motivations and hopes for the symposium and Cat talks about her input into the opening ceremony and storytelling as part of the first week on the divine feminine.
Full details of the symposium and sign up is here.
https://living-the-one-light.teachable.com/courses/2055345?affcode=412518
You can find further information about Catriona and her work here https://catrionablanke.de/
Cara's personal website is https://www.carasilversmith.com/ and her environmental education website https://www.onenatureeducation.com/
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Commissioned Stories, honouring truth and telling stories with love

In this episode Cat and Cara discuss the process of developing, writing, and telling stories on commission. What is it like to tell a story for someone else?
Cara talks about her experience of writing a story for a Scottish Creative Commons community. She tells the story for the first time without a script. The original version is available here https://www.onenatureeducation.com/post/fittie-between-city-and-sea
We discuss the challenges, responsibilities and expectations around the process. Cat then shares some of her experience writing stories for people, the joy it can bring and the idea that it must be done with love. You can find out more about Catriona's work here https://catrionablanke.de/
Open Road is the company which has been helping to run the Safe Harbour: Open Sea project in Fittie https://www.openroadltd.com/
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What of the Ground an Introduction

In this episode Cat and Cara introduce ourselves. We share a song of being in that liminal space in-between and a story about the threads that bind us. Welcome to our podcast we hope you enjoy joining us on the journey. 
You can find further information about Catriona and her work here https://catrionablanke.de/
Cara's website is https://www.carasilversmith.com/ and her environmental education website https://www.onenatureeducation.com/
 

What if a story is wrong?

Stories contribute to of our view of the world, and our assumptions. We discuss look at a story of bog bodies and what it teaches us. TW - brief reference to sexual assault and mild swearing.Hedge Sisters "Places of HER ~ SHORES":https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/places-of-her-shores-tickets-579127845977?aff=ebdsoporgprofileSymposium mentioned by Catriona "Re-Becoming the ONE"https://living-the-one-light.teachable.com/courses/2055345?affcode=412518

Mary Magdalene and the ground we stand on

Taking Mary Magdalene as our starting point we see where this journey takes us. We touch on gender and masculine and feminine energies and reflect on societal expectations which affect us all. It includes a story from Cara ‘Mary is a Blacksmith’ which was originally developed with the musician Johanna Kirkpatrick. Cat discusses her Goddess research and some of the books she has used as part of the process to discover different aspects of Mary Magdalene.