What’s a regenerative approach to ending sexual harassment?

Karryn Olson
PermacultureWomen
Published in
3 min readMar 1, 2018

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This is a conversation I’ve been wanting to have since I wrote this article calling for widespread action to adopt anti-harassment policies in permaculture.

Policies are sorely necessary, but not sufficient!

They belong to the “compliance” and “do less harm” mindsets that also render sustainability efforts impotent… because they don’t release the creativity, nor build the capacity of individuals and communities to think regeneratively, and design regenerative culture.

If you work in the field of permaculture, you probably consider yourself a systems thinker and designer.

Systems thinkers and designers know that there is great power in boldly identifying regenerative visions of what we want to create.

For example, Looby Macnamara is asking questions that explore how we can design for a world that is safe for women and children here.

Let’s move beyond compliance and instead, vision and manifest communities that nurture each human into their fullest contribution towards co-creating our regenerative future!

But in the mean time, we also need to deploy short-term solutions to…

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Karryn Olson
PermacultureWomen

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