First Day of School

Tomorrow is my first day of school, so to speak. I am teaching Session One of my first co-creative gardening class (“Co-Creative Gardening: Growing Our Own Food in Partnership with Nature”). Two students are coming to my home, and we will spend three hours — both indoors and outdoors in my co-creative soil garden — talking about, playing with, and mulling over the underpinnings of co-creative gardening and co-creative process. Tonight is a most exciting eve!

At the same time, I’m in the midst of my own co-creative school semester, learning deeper lessons from nature while working in my own soil-less and soil gardens. I’m getting more intense practice with the Workbook processes (such as Geopathic Zone Balancing, Soil Balancing, and Triangulation), and I am also re-learning the Workbook steps for establishing and planning a garden. It seems that no matter how many times I read Machaelle Small Wright’s books, there are still piles of facts, lessons and nuances that I miss or just don’t absorb. It’s amazing, really. This is an excellent realization for me, as a teacher. No doubt, much of what I teach tomorrow will need re-stating, reinforcing, and re-framing throught the course of the class (and beyond). It’s just a part of engaging in this massive paradigm shift. I am blessed to be able to shephard others through this shift, even as I am a student myself.