Teaching, Speaking + Facilitating

Are you planning an event, course or workshop in your community and are looking for experienced facilitators to help you deliver it? Or maybe you’re looking for speakers to bring their stories to your food, sustainability or changemaking event? 

We’d love to talk about working with you.

Creating this project, as well as being a practical response to the ecological and social challenges in our community, has been about telling a story. It’s been our way to communicate and demonstrate that a different kind of food system, a different way of stewarding the land, a different kind of business and a different way of living is, in fact, possible. That story is a more beautiful, abundant, healthier and kinder one. 

Our teaching services not only blend many different facilitation styles and disciplines, within the worlds of permaculture, radical ecology, meditation and nature-based health and wellbeing - but they are grounded in nature connection practices and focused on empowering and inspiring participants with the tools and the agency to take positive action in the world, deepen their relationship with the Earth and to build the confidence and the resources to live a full life. They are rooted in an authentic personal commitment to regenerative living, service to the Earth and our own curiosity.

Telling that story and communicating with people is one of our great passions - in many different forms and mediums - from the written word, to videos and photography, live speaking events, podcasts & community events to farm tours, courses and workshops. We can offer facilitation services for your permaculture design workshop, nature connection program or food growing course, or perhaps we could add a voice to your regeneration event or climate action workshop. Get in touch to talk about how we might be able to offer our services.

Who We Are…

Abel Pearson

Abel is the founder of Glasbren. He’s a food grower and passionate permaculture designer and educator, listening for the stories we need to reconnect to land, food and seed. He’s also a natural builder and a facilitator of deep experiences in wild places. He believes in food growing & foraging as a rich, exciting and accessible pathway to a deeper relationship with the living world, as a livelihood that’s in service to the Earth and for building a thriving culture, healthy communities and ecosystems. 

He has worked on land projects all over the world, and lived and worked at the Ecodharma Centre in the Catalan Pyrenees, a centre for radical ecology and engaged dharma, offering work in nature connection, permaculture and social engagement. He is a nature-based facilitator with broad training, including the Work That Reconnects, the Natural Academy’s NatureWell approach to Green Care and Nature Connection, and his facilitation experience includes The Global Environment Network’s Summer Academy (GESA), Grow Feral permaculture design workshops and residential permaculture, nature connection and ecology courses at the Ecodharma Centre.

Abel created and delivers on our ‘Growing Roots ~ of Resilience, Regeneration & Relationship to the Land’ series, and has developed a unique two-day community design process to vision and create regenerative foodscapes that are accessible, abundant and ecologically rich.

He loves to write, tell the old stories around a fire, explore rivers and coastline in his canoe & run wild trails in the mountains. He is available for teaching & facilitation, landscape design services, writing, speaking and food and sustainability events.