Life ItselfHello and welcome to our latest newsletter! We’re halfway through the year now, and there’s so much to update you on. The team at Life Itself have been working hard on many exciting projects, so read below to find out more. Compassionate Mental Health Liam Kavanagh, head of the Life Itself Insitute, co-curated a three-day […]
Hello and welcome to our fortnightly Life Itself news bulletin. Here is a quick update on everything we have been doing recently. Go and check it all out: Compassionate Mental Health Coming Home to Ourselves is a two day virtual gathering to explore alternative approaches for living and working with mental distress, running June 23-25th 2021. […]
Hello to all! As May floats gently along and the days are longer and brighter, there is plenty more news to report to you. We have been busy behind the scenes at Life Itself, as well making more frequent public appearances on podcasts and seminar discussions. Life Itself co-founder, Sylvie Barbier has been discussing her […]
July 16th – August 12th The renovation of the Bergerac Hub began in earnest last month and we were delighted to welcome many new as well as familiar faces to the Building Festival. Heavy building work was balanced with contemplation and interesting discussions. We began stripping the cement off the farmhouse’s walls to reveal the […]
18th June – 15th July Time for another update on some of the things we’re most excited about from our recent sprints. Last month the headquarters of Life Itself moved from La Cheraille to our beautiful new farmhouse in Bergerac. Rufus, Sylvie, Will and Bethany managed the mammoth task of packing and moving everything from […]
4th – 17th June At Life Itself we organise our time into fortnightly sprints. This means we make plans together of what we’ll achieve every fortnight, and we update each other as a group on what we’ve been up to after each sprint. We decided that we’d like to involve you — our wonderful readers, […]
Art Earth Tech are preparing for the winter, and as the world settles into composting the year past, we are calling people together for a unique Gathering on Contemplative Activism in Norfolk, UK. We are still beaming from our inspirational trip to our new hub in Bergerac to uncover the human-story behind the building, and […]
What a full, rich summer it has been for the Art / Earth / Tech team. We transition into the next season: the tomatoes are over, the beetroots are coming up and Petronella makes her way to open our new Berlin coliving home after a summer at La Cheraille. We reflect on the past few […]