Ep 20 Sabina Santovetti on Making Community Happen

To support this work: https://www.medusarising.org/donate #dancinggoddess #matriarchy #matriarchynow #modernmatriarchalstudies, #ecodesign #ecovillage #informaleducation #facilitator #shiftconsciousness #podbean #youtube, #goliathscurse #LukeKemp Sabina Santovetti, Woman, 67 years old, Mother, feminist, activist, ecologist, artist  and MADRE in soul, until 3 years ago I passionately worked in Rome as an architect running my sustainable design practice. In 2018, asked to help a friend in a no-nuclear political campaign for the Italian Senate, I came upon Extinction Rebellion. Realizing how urgently the climate emergency had reached, after months of grief and despair, whirled into active hope.  In brief, I took a sabbatical from my past life becoming a full time climate activist in XR. To me this Climate Emergency needs mostly a global shift in consciousness. I enrolled and finished a Master degree at Schumacher College, U.K., in Ecological Design Thinking and started facilitating Community Building in local Communities,The Work that Reconnects, Transition Town models and Gaia Education programs as a certified trainer. My thesis was on the cultures of the Goddess, Patriarchal societies and Feminine Wisdom. I have also certified with Hagia Academie with  Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth to become  “Lecturer on Modern Matriarchal Studies”.  The energy of the Feminine is calling me. Community building, Matriarchal Sacred Mysteries, Sacred in Cultures, Poetics of Imagination, Performance Arts in Delicate Activism. All I am investigating as an artist I use to facilitate and create a shift in consciousness. In 2023 I created SHE-EDE Ecovillage Design Education to empower women in a journey of healing, matriarchal modern studies decolonizing  our deep patriarchal biases.  Links to previous episode  Audio https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-9d6ja-193f842 Ep 9 Sabina Santovetti & Maria Esperanza Carrasco on SHE-EDE in Colombia 2025   Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4PQqieEPdU Matriarchal Movement Connections https://www.dancing-goddess.org/ Dancing Goddess/SHE-EDE is Sabina Santovetti’s project, a part of Matriarchy Now! A consortium of matriarchal organizations working to bring matriarchy into reality in its modern form because it is the only response to the OmegaCrisis that is always patriarchy that will not collapse back into a domination system.   https://www.matriarchy-now.com/ Where you can find the whole coalition: Chix & Nergiz De Baere, Le Matriarcali, Genevieve Vaughn & Maternal Gift Economy Movement, International Academy Hagia, Le Matriarcali Motherful, Nashira   Ecological Design Education Gaia Education’s goals & process are adopted by UN https://sdgs.un.org/goals https://gaia.org/gaia-education/ https://www.gaiaeducation.org/sdg-toolkit-for-designing-community-projects    Other Resources Mentioned Dragon Dreaming, John Croft, https://dragondreaming.org    https://iamas.com/iamas-conference/ https://www.iaffe.org/34th-annual-conference ERASMUS PLUS ACKNOWLEDGE  project by BestupAPs https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/projects/search/details/2025-1-IT03-KA153-YOU-000299253 Books Mentioned Dancing Goddess: Principles of a Matriarchal Aesthetic, by Heide Goettner-Abendroth https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/204150/dancing-goddess-by-heide-gottner-abendroth   The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber & David Wengrow https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374157357/thedawnofeverything    Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse, by Luke Kemp https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691357/goliaths-curse-by-luke-kemp   Goliath’s Curse Workbook, by Julian Rembrandt Clarke https://www.amazon.com.br/Awareness-Gained-Goliaths-Curse-Workbook/dp/B0G2TD671W    When God Was A Woman, by Merlin Stone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL2bOCNhFYM