Living Tuned
with Kim Hershorn PhD
TINY GARDEN SANCTUARIES (TiGS)
A pilot permaculture program for building nutritional & psycho-spiritual resilience in challenging times.
the challengeS
- Growing poverty in the face of inflation, crop losses due to climate change, food shortages
- A global mental health crisis
- The loss of green spaces + nature deficit disorder
- Declining ability to meet nutritional needs
- Traumatic responses to conflict + global crises
- A need for beauty, inspiration from the natural order of life
TiGS aims to build a strong foundation for both personal + cultural wellbeing.
1. Learn how to grow and preserve your own food and meet nutritional needs.
2. Create tiny gardens as sanctuaries in your home as well as in a community space.
3. Nurture your “inner sanctuary” through trauma-sensitive mind-body-spirit practices, tuned life-story work, sharing, team and relationship building.
4. Explore your “sacred identity” and the labels, narratives and histories we adopt through cultural conditioning, transgenerational patterns, survival and stress responses.
Let nature show you how to solve problems & live a healthy life.
What’s Permaculture?
Permaculture refers to building a “permanent” or sustainable culture – that looks to nature as a model for how we should structure our lives in healthy ways – how we should care for the natural world, ourselves, and each other.
Permaculture uses a set of design principles derived from whole-systems thinking and considers larger ecosystems and the interconnections of life. It isn’t just about gardening, it’s a whole new way of seeing the world that can encourage cultural change, social and personal healing.
Permaculture values health and spiritual well-being as necessary for sustainable development, ecological design, and peace-building built on the foundation of healthy, whole people and communities.
The importance of attuning to Nature
Rather than learn from nature in an intellectual way, the beauty of this work is to integrate, to commune with nature, to be aligned and attuned with the flow of the natural order of life. To listen to it, respect it, have reverence for it, and let it be a guiding force in our lives. This is how we grow ourselves, our gardens, our community, find our solutions and new ways forward in challenging times.
HAPPY CLIENTS
“I just feel better about everything
I can see the bigger picture and understand why I went through what I went through and appreciate the opportunities being offered me. Working with Kim helped me see that the universe really knows what it’s doing, that we are always supported and guided, and that there is a blessing and Divine hand in everything. Nothing short of inspiring.”
– Malka M, writer