Carescapes: Permaculture Design for Every Body
How to design life with the spoons, time, and energy you actually have.
A Free Online Conversation & Workshop with Kirsten Bradley (Milkwood) & Anna Matilda (Everyday Permaculture) – Monday 29th Sept, 7pm AEST.
Feeling like you’re running on 20%? You’re not alone.
In news that is a surprise to no-one… our personal energy is not infinite! Especially when we’re living with disability, chronic illness, or even just the relentless pace of modern life.
In this free online workshop, we’ll explore how permaculture design principles can help us design daily life – using your actual capacity, rather than some imagined version of yourself – and design daily rhythms that are more rooted in care, ease, and resilience…
A workshop where rest is not considered radical, where small wins are celebrated as the yields they are, and where fluctuating capacity is simply part of the design brief.
We’ll explore how you can honour your actual (rather than aspirational) capacity as a design parameter… just like the realities of soil, sunlight, or rainfall in a garden… and look at how to work with what we have… to cultivate more everyday goodness.
This online workshop will be a shame-free, no-guilt space where rest is participation, cameras are optional, and lying down is welcome!
Alongside honest acknowledgement of the challenges, you’ll gain tools, practices, and micro-actions you can start using right away… to make life better for yourself, your household rhythms, and your communities of care.
We’ll discuss:
- How to notice and map your own energy rhythms.
- Simple micro-actions for saving spoons and supporting your future self.
- Ways to “catch and store energy”… from batch-cooking to naps to done-lists.
- Using permaculture zones to make daily tasks easier at home.
- How to value small wins, rest, and joy as real yields.
- Strategies for adapting gently with feedback from your body, household, and community.
You’ll Take Away:
- A fresh perspective on permaculture as a framework for daily living.
- Practical, care-centred tools for designing with your current energy.
- Permission to see rest and recovery as valid yields.
- Inspiration for building resilience not only for yourself, but also in your household and communities of care.
📅 Date + Duration: Monday 29th Sept, 7pm AEST – a 45-minute conversation + 15-minute Q&A
🎙️ Presenters: Kirsten Bradley (Milkwood) & Anna Matilda (Everyday Permaculture)
🌐 Format: Once you’re signed up, you can join from your web browser, no extra downloads needed – and we’ll email you the workshop recording, plus workshop notes afterwards.
FAQS
Q -What time and date is this workshop? The time and date should show up, in your local time-zone, on the signup page. Please sign up to join us!
Q – How long is this workshop? We’ll aim for a conversation of 45 minutes, and then move onto the live Q&A. So around an hour, all said and done.
Q – What if I can’t make it? Can I still watch somehow? Sure thing – everyone who signs up for this workshop will receive the recording and collated notes afterwards, to watch, absorb and consider in your own time.
Meet Your Workshop Humans:
Kirsten Bradley
Milkwood – milkwood.net
Kirsten is a grower, writer, mother and a fighter, gratefully living on melukerdee country. She co-founded Milkwood with Nick Ritar 18 years ago… to learn, teach and share skills for living like it matters – at a personal, household and community scale. Kirsten is the author of Milkwood (2018), a kids book called Easy Peasy (2019) and The Milkwood Permaculture Living Handbook (2023).
Anna Matilda
Nanna Anna – theurbannanna.com
Firmly steeped in permaculture ethos, Anna Matilda (The Urban Nanna) showcases and teaches traditional skills, crafts and methods of sustainable living in the framework of the modern-day, unpredictable rental market. Her first book ‘Everyday Permaculture’ is out now.
This series of live conversations is a new part of our Fair Share program – making the conversations, skills and community we all need more accessible to everyone.
Thank you to all our community (students, readers, subscribers) for your support, we couldn’t do this without you!
If you have any questions about this upcoming conversation, stick ’em in the comments below and we can help. Looking forward to seeing you in there x
