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Food as a remedy
Join us for our OSFD Odyssey and FRE2SH talks on Thursday March 23rd at 16.00 CET on zoom. Please register here for free to attend.
We are a living manifestation of nature and as such everything in nature happens through us.
Jean-Paul Close (Sustainocracy)
We are continuously being challenged to develop natural, lasting and evolutionary resilience through illnesses such as the flu or the corona virus. Other species such as bacteria, mosquitos, fungi, etc. use us as their own source of nutrition, especially when we are weakened and sick. Other of such species interact with us very positively. In fact our inner world is an ecosystem on itself with various millions of species interacting.
In order to build up and sustain our resilience individually and collectively as a species we need to use our consciousness and self-awareness to keep balance with our inner and outer environment. And this living environment is full of remedies for us to benefit from. Our pharmaceutical industries are entirely based on the wisdom of nature. A wisdom that is available to us directly through herbs, balanced diets, engagement with nature, self-awareness, etc.Â
Speakers
Maartje Kreike
Founder of Natuurlijk Maartje. She got her diploma in Orthomolecular food knowledge. She runs an educational food forest in the city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands where she develops workshops and training for groups, including schoolchildren. Maartje promotes a healthy lifestyle and food awareness to keep the doctor away. She believes in natural remedies through knowledge of herbs and natural food rather than medication.
Marcela Correia
Marcela and her team in Brasil started to experiment with fermentation for non alcoholic drinks. These probiotic drinks are slowly fermented with yeast and bacteria. They have a very good effect on our internal wellness. Their drinks are called Kombuchá and available in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo.
Hosts
Jean-Paul Close – Founder Sustainocracy, STIR Foundation, FRE2SH community (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanpaulclose/)
Ellen Gonzalez – OSFD Restless Head of Research (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-gonzalez-996b07b6/)
Equinox and the global 24 hour Connectathon
This week I first met Tim Olsson online. We had an animated talk about his initiative to do an online event during the Equinox 2023 called Connectathon. Every hour a new topic will be discussed with a few speakers, 24 topics in total. I have been invited to two of them. Hour 5 (regenerative governance) at 17.00 CET on March 20th and hour 20 (The Future Village) at 08.00 am CET on March 21st. Feel free to join by registering free of charge to this enormous chain of inspiration for a better world.
Social media impact on our youth
The Techrouter project involves 30 youth workers from 9 different countries. They came together in the Netherlands to discuss the impact of social media on our younger generations and how to create a learning mechanism to safeguard them from all the negative aspects (core value: safety and respect). Especially the early teens are vulnerable since they are still in a competitive growing up phase in which they are highly innocent, influenceable and unaware of the impact of their actions on others. In times when they should be building a positive self image the tendency is to be guided by the abundant fakeness of social media. No parental or adult embedding is there to help them because their actions are mostly invisible, they have no reference models and parents are often inexperienced in this world of virtual interactions.
A whole week of creative interaction is making the difference. Here are some photos of the process. The gathering is financed via Erasmus+. The objective is to create something that can be used in the different countries and cultures during several months, gathering feedback and linking with new programs.
Sustainocracy, the new democracy 