After starting out in the music business, Tiu de Haan has forged her own unique path. From starting a non-profit to connect children and their parents to playing in nature, she now creates rituals to help people connect to themselves and each other (her TEDx talk explains more about this). We met on her beautifully white […]
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Let’s reclaim Easter from the chocolate companies and revive traditional games
By Joanna Gilar I am an unapologetic enthusiast for festive happenings; for all spaces in which we grant ourselves permission to pause in our business, turn towards cyclical time and make magic in a great concord. Even though it is the colourful earthiness of older rites to which I would be drawn by inclination; even […]
Becoming Indigenous
Introducing the first of our Hedge School Podcasts. Four years ago, I started writing a book with a core idea in mind which offered itself up in the Introduction like this: In our own Western societies we are seeing more calls for a return to native wisdom, but we cannot live by the worldviews of […]
An interview with Andreas Kornevall
Andreas Kornevall grew up in South America, Sweden and Switzerland. He spent several years volunteering with charities around the world, after which he co-founded Working Abroad – a non-profit volunteering and travelling site. He now directs the Earth Restoration Service Charity, which aims to enhance ecological integrity by planting new woodlands around the world. And in […]
Building a new folk culture
by Sharon Blackie This post is reblogged from my personal blog, The Art of Enchantment, because it sits at the heart of our work here at The Hedge School. Last week I was the guest speaker at a joint meeting of the Trinity College Dublin Literary and Environmental Societies. I was speaking at their request […]
How to become a Hedge School patron
This summer we completed the refurbishment work on the building that houses The Hedge School. It’s a lovely little thing, as you can see below. It’s just as lovely inside, but we still have some painting to complete before we’ll be ready to share the interior with you as well – so watch this space. […]