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How Stories of our Relationship to the Land Add Value
Peter Forbes - Center for Whole Communities
Excerpt from Program:
"How do we best convey hope and inspiration about the land-and-people relationship?
"Our capacity to convey our story to a much larger segment of the American population provides as important a practical advantage to us as every other tool we use in our lives. Our story that people and the land can bring health to one another is deeply inspiring and hopeful in an era when the dominant American story is pulling people away from the land and away from one another. So much of the environmental debate boils down to the fundamental disbelief that people can do good and belong on the land. How do we convey a different story about the possibility of our human relationship with the land that truly tastes today like truth? The workshop will wrestle with the question: "How do we replace this culture of fear with a culture of care and attention?"
"Peter Forbes is a photographer, writer, and farmer. A life-long student of the relationship between land and people, Peter has worked throughout the world to record and protect the value of a strong human relationship with the land.
"For ten years, Peter led all of the land conservation undertaken by the Trust for Public Land in New England. In 1998, Peter became TPL's first national fellow and devoted himself to researching and writing about how individual and community relationships with the land can become the seeds for broader social change. In 2001, Peter founded the Center for Land and People, a program of the Trust for Public Land, to help foster a new practice of land conservation where relationship is as important as place. In 2003, Peter and his wife, Helen Whybrow, bought Knoll Farm and began to unfold an ambitious dream of creating a place, and a set of relationships, that might help to create healthier, whole communities. Today, the Center for Whole Communities has alumni from 36 states and more than 230 communities and organizations."
Presentation Outline:
Excerpt from Program:
"How do we best convey hope and inspiration about the land-and-people relationship?
"Our capacity to convey our story to a much larger segment of the American population provides as important a practical advantage to us as every other tool we use in our lives. Our story that people and the land can bring health to one another is deeply inspiring and hopeful in an era when the dominant American story is pulling people away from the land and away from one another. So much of the environmental debate boils down to the fundamental disbelief that people can do good and belong on the land. How do we convey a different story about the possibility of our human relationship with the land that truly tastes today like truth? The workshop will wrestle with the question: "How do we replace this culture of fear with a culture of care and attention?"
"Peter Forbes is a photographer, writer, and farmer. A life-long student of the relationship between land and people, Peter has worked throughout the world to record and protect the value of a strong human relationship with the land.
"For ten years, Peter led all of the land conservation undertaken by the Trust for Public Land in New England. In 1998, Peter became TPL's first national fellow and devoted himself to researching and writing about how individual and community relationships with the land can become the seeds for broader social change. In 2001, Peter founded the Center for Land and People, a program of the Trust for Public Land, to help foster a new practice of land conservation where relationship is as important as place. In 2003, Peter and his wife, Helen Whybrow, bought Knoll Farm and began to unfold an ambitious dream of creating a place, and a set of relationships, that might help to create healthier, whole communities. Today, the Center for Whole Communities has alumni from 36 states and more than 230 communities and organizations."
Presentation Outline:
- Introduction
- Themes from the Conference
- Whole Thinking
- Change
- Values
- Story Telling
