Are you concerned about our global or your local ecology?  Are you convinced our future is bleak? sometimes the 'solutions' are embarrassingly simple.  An amazing interview with children's author, underground parent educator and Holistic framework facilitator, Sarah Savory.

The daughter of world famous ecologist Allan Savory, who created and developed the Holistic Management framework. Sarah has taken her own understanding and passion for Holistic Management and brought right down back to the foundations, teaching, storytelling and facilitating individuals, communities and local governing bodies. Sarah's mission is to develop our decision making out of knee jerk reactions and into the elegantly simple and powerfully evolved Holistic context framework.  

I really enjoyed this interview. Sarah Savory is a real gem of heart and knowledge, and I know EcoIQ will be collaborating much with continuing work in the future.  We talk about the art of storytelling, growing up among among elephants and hyenas, and the blurring of wild and domestic areas in Africa and as a necessity around the world. It was truly refreshing to reconnect with the power of engagement with ecology as a strategy rather than strict conservation. 

Favourite timestamp was around 1:07:35, Sarah opens up the whole regenerating process of Holistic grazing right in the last quarter!

1:10  Growing up in Zimbabwe and storytelling

13:05 Conservation and Regeneration - blurring the lines between wild and domestic

21:45 A Holistic Context

(37:00 Bare ground will always lead to conflict….)

41:30 Victimhood and empowerment

43:45 We are part of our harmonious ecology - elevating and accelerating

(47:55 When we remove ourselves from the ecology, and 40,000 dead elephants)

(50:35 Our shadow reveals our strongest power. “The gift is in the wound”, Doron Geber)

1:01:50 Juanfran Lopez- “Nature is complex, humans make it complicated”

1:04:30 Where to learn more about Holistic Management as a decision framework

1:07:35 Joel Salatin - “Life is so sacred it requires sacrifice to thrive”

1:17:07 Do we need less animals on the land and on the earth?