05/17/2026
Within the dominant paradigms, nature is treated as something that can be endlessly extracted from, despite having finite resources.
In many ways, our tender bodies have been treated the same way - systems often extracting from men’s bodies physically, and women’s emotionally (and everywhere in between).
This leads us into places of depletion, scarcity, and individualism as we feel the need to protect/withhold what little we feel we have left.
But what if ecological and matriarchal paradigms could offer new models? Systems of relating that become more abundant over time. Humans get enough or more of what they need from the earth while the earth simultaneously becomes healthier and more resilient. Relationships become less transactional, and become places we go to feel refilled rather than depleted.
This is possible, but requires a new set of values and beliefs shaping our interactions. Generosity, trust, reciprocity, creativity, shared responsibility, and not taking more than we need.
Wild Hawthorn aspires to be a microcosm to practice, play, learn, make mistakes, and explore these alternative paradigms for being and relating.
