I often get asked where I've been, who I've met and what I learn from. So, I created this place to share some of the books, writers, innovations, gatherings, networks, and people that shape how I think and work. Nothing here is a recommendation; but each of them have planted seeds in my mind and given energy to my work and life.
a reference shelf of texts I return to.
Fundamental to who I am, how I read, how I move and how I plan my weeks, months and years around prioritising time with people and in nature. Also makes me feel less crazy for rejecting the need for ownership.
If you can see Kate perform in person, truly even better. But if not, do start your uncovering of the invisible value, and invisible impacts that exist within the way we perceive our economy, why so much of what we are taught is fundamentally wrong, and how you might create a new reality. Simply put, useful for board-level debates on value.
On the human cost of systems that ask too much. A sharp read when the work feels unsustainable.
A beautiful tool for navigating your role in complex and unsettling times. Read this and gift it many times. Wonderful for your team.
Writing I love.
Specifically - ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/book-excerpt-a-note-on-hope
The tree map guides my understanding of who, and what, I surround myself with and why.
Places I've found connection, heart-ache, information and active hope.
Truly a festival of impact, creative, deep and expansive. The community dinner was an evening that gave me space to truly challenge my own thinking, and learn through conversation, in a way conferences rarely do.
A celebration and connection point for regenerative practices.
Getting Real. Becoming Real. Making Real. The reflections and reckoning with reality that occurred here for me changed me on a deeply personal level.
A gathering to wrestle with the complexities of shifting societal systems through shared inquiry and practical action.
The people we return to are how we learn, and unlearn, together.
Convening the next-generation leadership across Aotearoa food and fibre.
Indigenous land sovereignty and food systems work in Aotearoa.
The Understory is a living thing,
keep an eye on it in case it grows.