Helping you design for resilience!
Helping you design for resilience!
Rachel Lyn has been teaching permaculture for 9 years and is a leader in teaching and consulting within schools, municipalities and non-profits. In addition to site design, she runs many permaculture and cooperative development trainings. She has a passion for collaborative leadership that move groups forward creatively and learning events that inspire community and connection. Her master's degree in Applied Behavioral Science provides a wealth of perspectives on process and development that she brings to her teaching, speaking and consulting work. She as also trained with the Art of Hosting and the Soil-Food-Web School.
She has supported the development of permaculture and transition growth regionally as an lead organizer for the New England Transition Network, and partnered with both the Resilience Hub and the Center for an Ecology-based Economy where she brought leadership and many creative facilitation methods, and content. She is the Executive Director of 207Permaculture, a low profit company, dedicated to education for ecological leadership development, resilience planning and regenerative systems design in Maine (Abenaki Territory) and is a faculty member and diploma tutor for the Women's Permaculture Guild.
Rachel Lyn is an activist in her community. She serves on the Community and Economic Development Committee, and Resilience Committee in her town, co-founded an annual Blueberry Festival, and started the Gray Village Farmers' Market.
Rachel Lyn enjoys, singing, yoga, cooking, playing ukulele and homesteading. She resides with her partner Mike and their son Ryan, and two very cool cats.
If your project requires mapping skills and network weaving, we have that. If your are placemaking, or have multiple stakeholders to weave into the design process. We are learners first, never the expert.