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About Dianne Monroe

Dianne Monroe is a Life Mentor, Inner Wilderness Guide, Experiential Educator, writer and photographer, living in Sonoma County, CA. She offers programs and personal mentoring using a blend of arts, creativity and nature connection practices to support people in finding soul path and purpose, knowing their deepest life story for this world, navigating times of transition and more. Visit her website or email her.

3 Lessons from the Holocaust to Save Us Now

By Dianne Monroe | February 10, 2016

This is the second of two parts. Read Part 1 here. -- Ed. My mother didn’t die when so many others did – and so lived to give birth to me. I write about this now, because it has everything to do with today, even though the cataclysm in which so many perished happened more than 75 years ago. This is how I began part 1 of this story, which tells how my mother’s family, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: Holocaust, Sixth Extinction

A Lesson from the Holocaust for the Era of the Sixth Extinction

By Dianne Monroe | February 1, 2016

Holocaust candles

This article is the first in a two-part series. My mother didn’t die when so many others did – and that means she lived to give birth to me. I write about this now, because it has everything to do with today, even though the cataclysm in which so many perished happened more than 75 years ago. I owe my life, in part, to people who were willing to risk theirs, whose names I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit Tagged With: climate change, Extinction

In the face of collapse, neither polyanna nor doomer

By Dianne Monroe | February 24, 2014

collapsed pyramid

Carolyn Baker writes with passion, insight and courage about a topic that most people turn away from – the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspect of what she and many others call "collapse." Collapse is the convergence in our times of economic unraveling, resource depletion and human created climate instability that could bring the destruction of the world economy, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Barbara Ehrenreich, Carolyn Baker, collapse, emotions, Joanna Macy, positive thinking

Wild grapes on the edge

By Dianne Monroe | February 12, 2014

wine grapes on girder

The second in a series about inhabiting and acting in the edge-places of our civilization as crucial for humanity’s passage through these challenging times – and inviting you to share your personal edge-dwelling experiences. Read part one. – Ed. There’s a country path I walk often, near where I live, that borders the edge of a vineyard. There’s a place along this path … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: emotions, grapes, wine

Confessions of an edge-dweller

By Dianne Monroe | January 22, 2014

skyscraper edge

The first in a series about inhabiting and acting in the edge-places of our civilization as crucial for humanity’s passage through these challenging times – and inviting you to share your personal edge-dwelling experiences. -- Ed. I’m an Edge-dweller. It’s not something I signed up for, or studied. It’s simply what I am. Over the past several years, I’ve begun to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: Anthropocene, Bill McKibben, climate change, independent living

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