Cultivating Wellbeing through Permaculture – Education and Health in Harmony
In conversation with permaculture educators Lusi Alderslowe & Lexington Love
Date: Tuesday 12th May 5.30pm – 6.30pm (BST)
Facilitators: Lusi Alderslowe and Lexington Love / Cost: FREE, please register below / Time: 60minutes
How can permaculture help us nurture healthier, more creative, and more resilient people?
In this interactive webinar, we’ll explore how permaculture’s ethics and design principles can inspire fresh approaches to both education and healthcare.
Together we’ll look at how learning from nature’s patterns supports focus, play, and curiosity in children and adults, whilst also helping practitioners care for their own wellbeing and that of their learners, clients or patients.
With 1 in 6 young people aged 5 to 16 likely to experience anxiety, depression and other mental health conditions, how can we equip them for the modern world we now face? How can we create a culture in our practice which connects people with themselves, each other, and the natural world?
We’ll discuss how simple, nature-based design – from a window box to a peace garden – can transform the spaces where we learn, teach, and heal. You’ll hear stories and examples of how outdoor learning, sensory gardens, and nature connection can restore energy, improve mental health, and rekindle a sense of hope and purpose.
This webinar is for practitioners and educators – such as teachers, forest school leaders, parents, therapists, counsellors, and health professionals – who want to explore how permaculture can bring more balance, creativity, and joy into their work and communities.
Come ready to share ideas, ask questions, and be inspired by what’s possible when we design for connection – with nature, with others, and with ourselves.
About the webinar facilitators
Lusi Alderslowe is a permaculture educator of adults and children: an author of the Children in Permaculture Manual, a Permaculture Design Course teacher, an outdoor maths specialist, co-founder of Children in Permaculture, Children in Permaculture qualified trainer, a senior tutor for the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design, a Forest School Leader, a Branching Out Leader, a Trainer of Teachers, and LGBTQ+.
Qualifications include MSc in Human Ecology (with distinction), BSc in Psychology, Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design, Training of Permaculture Teachers, Children in Permaculture – Outdoor Classrooms Teachers training by Australian pioneers Janet Millington and Carolyn Nuttal, Forest School Leader (level 3), Work that Reconnects facilitators training, Branching Out Leader training, Senior Tutor training for the diploma in applied permaculture design, and lots of short courses, such as LGBTQI+ inclusion training, outdoor first aid, campfire cooking, ecofootprint masterclass, PDC, food hygiene, ponds and wetlands, mental health first aid, etc.
Lusi forages, gardens, keeps chickens, cooks, cycles, walks, makes things from wood, and loves our abundant and beautiful Earth. She has a fun, informative, participatory teaching style with lots of diversity.
Find out more about Lusi Alderslowe.
Lexington Love is a creative facilitator, movement & visual artist, musician, permaculture designer/teacher & yoga teacher who designs and delivers projects worldwide with their unique, fresh, fun and creative style , They have worked in forests, woodlands, gardens, arts centres/galleries, businesses, hospitals, schools, prisons and retreat centres.
Lex has an MA in Puppetry, 4 years training in 3D design with distinction, 6 years deep study in yoga & yoga therapy plus 32 years of continual practice, 27 years of practising permaculture with various qualifications, including Social permaculture (cultural emergence) with a focus on people care, regenerative farming & worldwide wildlife corridor link-ups.
Current projects include –
- Artist in residence/creative director on a large multi-faceted intergenerational permaculture project in Newhaven Fort Road Rec
- Creating a touring show/kids online programme called ‘A Tiny Drop Of Magic’ which is a modern-day folktale about biodiversity and belonging, aimed at marginalised groups touring in a travelling greenhouse with puppet/mask show, birdbox sounds system and cinema
- CEO of Fionnlocha Wild Nature Sanctuary – Regeneration project in Southern Ireland focused on land, people & culture
Lex is GenderQueer and uses they/them pronouns. They regularly lead LGBTQI+ meditation retreats. Lex is passionate about inclusivity and diversity; they are a Level 3 BSL (British Sign Language) communicator, Mental Health First Aider and an Emergency First Aider.
Find out more about Lexington Love.
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Testimonials from courses with Lusi Alderslowe and Lexington Love
LMN, a course participant on Ecovillage Findhorn Permaculture Design Course 2025
CB, a course participant on Ecovillage Findhorn Permaculture Design Course 2025
“Lex is extremely skilled at being able to respectfully and sensitively meet young people where they are at and playfully engage them in activities which gently challenge them on various levels. Lex is insightful, enthusiastic, sensitive and adaptable as well as being extraordinarily playful.”
MD Occupational Therapist, Sussex
Katrina Broadhill, Charity Manager for Brighton Permaculture Trust and 2024-25 Design Student
“Human and nature with a united soul will build a new world”
Joseph Beuys
“Nature connection is also community connection”
Jon Young