Yay – we are off to spend the weekend at the newest most exciting green festival this weekend – Sunrise Off Grid is going to be blowing people’s minds in Somerset from 20-23rd August. There is so much going on but these are a few highlights:
KIDS AREA complete with Forest School where festival pixies can learn to build dens, make fires and even create a totem pole!
LOADS OF DELICIOUS ORGANIC VEGGIE FOOD AND DRINK I’m looking forward to a vegan breakfast at the lovely Buddhafield cafe and chai at the Chai Chapel accompanied by a drumming circle. Mmmm – roll on the weekend!
FIREWALKING ceremony to be held on Sunday night complete with percussionists and firedancers.
ENERGY ALCHEMY A workshop from the lovely Natalie Fee about how to change everyday stresses into creativity and awareness. Come along and change your life!
GET CREATIVE with stone carving, stove building, herb walks and pottery workshops.
MIND EXPANSION WITH JONATHAN CAINER Discover how to build your own time machine and all your questions about astrology answered.
PERMACULTURE WORKSHOP with Patrick Whitefield, which is bound to go deep into the practical application of permaculture.
A CHANCE TO MEET WILD FOOD GURU Fergus Drennan who’s leading wild food walks around the site and showing how to make paper from mushrooms. yes, really!
AND US We’re going to be doing a workshop on sustainable parenting and why it’s so important.
Of course, there’s loads of other juicy stuff going on – check out the website here to find out why it’s the place to be this weekend.
Am reading this great book that I picked up in Glastonbury’s wealth of tempting bookshops when I went last weekend for a mini-break. It’s about creative parenting and it’s really inspiring, offering lots of practical exercises that help to bring clarity. I bought myself a new journal and dug out some art equipment. And over the last week or so I have completed some really interesting exercises from the book – the results of which have been really revealing about my parenting style and how I would like things to change.
Called The Creative Journal for Parents it encourages the use of a journal, coloured pens, pencils, collage materials and complete creative freedom to work through exercises such as creating a nurturing home environment and inner child work. The author recommends setting aside a regular time to get creative and she explains that this is one of the most beneficial aspects for many parents, the fact that they are inspired to take a daily time-out from other responsibilities to do something different. The thing I like most about it is that it is so much fun to do. I have been meaning to make more time for creativity for ages and this book has just opened that door for me. Yay!
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