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EDUCATION – Texas, USA ~ Experienced homeopathy mom, using homeopathy in all aspects of life – for people, farm animals, plants in her organic garden. Offering a homeschool homeopathy curriculum for young people to learn & moms to teach. Delightful material for various age classes, covering history of homeopathy, preparation of medicines & use in […]
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EDUCATION – Denmark ~ Giving young people opportunity to play freely, engage with nature, experience the weather & develop impressive motor-skills & abilities to concentrate. Book: Understanding the Danish Forest School Approach (DOI: 10.4324/9781315542027): See book Visit
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EDUCATION – Texas & New Mexico, USA ~ Campus for (self)-sustainability & earth-centric classes in wilderness & primitive living skills, tracking certification, naturalist studies, herbalism, off-grid engineering, natural building, water purification systems, permaculture, aquaponics, land navigation, urban survival, first aid, self-defense, teamwork & leadership skills, knife-making, bladesmithing etc. Programs for young people & adults. Strong
EDUCATION – California, USA ~ Play-based early social & emotional learning. Daily merging of classes, music, art & biodynamic organic farm work with developing empathy, collaboration skills & stewardship. Cherishing diversity & living inclusivity. Supporting individual talent & student projects. Focus on discovery of knowledge by students rather than feeding concepts. Personal teacher-student relationships. Film
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EDUCATION – England, UK ~ Outdoor young people-centred & play-based learning immersed in nature. Forest-bathing for mom’s with babies. Combining freedom in play with learning, responsible leadership & healthy ritual & routine. Outdoor learning for families, adults, outdoor practitioners & organisations, including various forms of bushcraft such as fire-making without matches, handling of saws, knife
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ECONOMIES OF CARE – South Africa & worldwide ~ Movement turning small towns into places of abundance through integrated community development, eradicating modern slavery. Includes trading platform for Infinity tokens – OST’s community cryptocurrency & NFT rooted in labour. Currently valued against USD. Free of charge trading. Tokens stored in wallets on OST platform. Creating
ECONOMIES OF CARE – Germany & Europe ~ High-frequency, inclusive blockchain & decentralised, open-source payment system. No signup, download or personal data required. Direct connection between your bank account & crypto wallet. Supports Bitcoin. Simplifying payments & banking. Non-profit, created through teamwork. Standing for true financial freedom & personal control of one’s money. Featuring a
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ECONOMIES OF CARE – USA ~ Teacher, speaker & writer focusing on money & cultural transformation. Courses about rethinking this world, questioning, de-constructing identities & programmed narratives, finding back to our own power & inner authority, setting boundaries, being in community etc. Payment by sliding scale/donation. Video below about downfalls of old financial system &
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ECONOMIES OF CARE – California, USA ~ Introduction to sliding scale, freely giving, care economy & leaving behind scarcity – creating accessibility of services & products for everyone, developing trust in the community, honoring the giver & the receiver equally. Links to additional material on sliding scale, donation system etc. Alexis is also a teacher
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ECONOMIES OF CARE – USA & Canada ~ Small business incubator, interracial collective & learning space for ancestral ways of healing & birthing. Led by Ihotu Ali, a multiethnic maternal health researcher, speaker, consultant & teacher on economic justice tools incl. sliding scale fee, solidarity economy, cultural appropriation, racism in health care, allyship. Public courses
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ECONOMIES OF CARE – Netherlands & worldwide ~ Social entrepreneurship network based on honouring social & international rights & basic freedoms, true stewardship of all life, shared values. Worldwide financial platform rooted in time/labour-based fixed-value URA coin for currency. URA platform is a cooperative business platform & directory, marketplace, community meeting place. Working towards fair
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ECONOMIES OF CARE – Poland ~ Documentary portraying people who live outside the financial system. Sharing knowledge, homes, food, skills, time. Finding new and fulfilling ways of living. Visit
ECONOMIES OF CARE – Worldwide ~ High-frequency, decentralised, equity-centered cryptocurrency project. Creating a new economic system which respects the Earth & our communities & lives prosperity. Rewarding regeneration of the planet, transparency, equity & true teamwork. No transaction fees. Full personal control over your money. A platform where you can use your voice to change
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ECONOMIES OF CARE – USA ~ Nature could not be explained more clearly. A short & powerful, beautiful essay which gives a glimpse of Robin’s deep work exploring gift economy, intentionally created scarcity, natural abundance, the role of relationship, gratitude & reciprocity for exchange & a gift’s increase in value, nurturing of community bonds –
Robin Wall Kimmerer – The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance Read More »
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY – Netherlands ~ Circular Telecom & IT company offering preventive replacement maintenance & refurbishing services. Collect old equipment directly from people, remove all data, refurbish it, sell at affordable prices & take back products after use. Recycle what can really no longer be used as spare parts for maintenance services or by recovering
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY – Texas University, USA ~ AI-based plastic recycling technology. A machine learning model was used to generate novel mutations to the natural enzyme PETase that allows bacteria to quickly degrade PET plastics, facilitating recovery & reuse of plastics at molecular level. Article: Machine learning-aided engineering of hydrolases for PET depolymerization. By Lu, H.,
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY – Kenya ~ Build free, people-based, open-source tools which amplify citizen voices & provide local, personal information to facilitate informed decision making. Projects include communication tools, independent information platforms, digital maps for data visualisation, health tools etc. based on official sources & crowd verification. Engaging people in shaping their world. Supporting local activists,
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY – USA ~ AI-based platform for legal information & documents which helps people secure their rights in the face of anything from parking tickets, bank fees & tackling phone number verifications to medical fraud, insurance claims, divorce, copy right & refund issues etc. Provides access to legal aid for homeless people, low-income families
Carina Ramm
Carina was the original founder of SunBeings who approached Kate to do the design for the platform. In the 3.5 years of working together, a friendship blossomed, and creative ideas arose between the two of them that has helped build what SunBeings has the potential to grow into.
Since December 2025, Carina has left to move onto engaging with the world in other ways, more offline, but we cannot forget the legacy she has left behind – SunBeings wouldn’t have existed if it wasn’t for her!
Carina’s dedication, passion, and knowledge is very admirable. Her compassion and drive for supporting a new better world we know is possible is still felt. She was a whiz at research, writing and speaking. Her sense of solidity enabled her to work even while on the move with her constantly changing environments.
Carina managed to research and write summaries for nearly 500 ethical businesses! She shared many possibilities for how we can live with less dependency on money and banking systems, how we can use gift economies, a new donation model, what real ethics aligned with nature is, the true histories of this planet and more.
She has lived for many years without a bank account or phone, engaged very minimally with financial systems, travelled to many parts of the world, and lived in deep trust and communion with herself and nature to receive what it is she needs. She has contributed many posts onto the blog inspiring others with her experiences and findings.
Check out her poetry booklet she has left behind with a wonderful collection of poems and writings she has done over the years.
You won’t be forgotten Carina! We hope to continue what you have started.
Owen Hanner
Owen is Kate’s partner and a grounded presence behind SunBeings. Both highly creative and logical, with a gift for words, an eye for beauty, and an artistic soul. With his keen eye for what’s in alignment, Owen gives feedback, helps with writing and streamlines the content.
He is a gifted musician who can play many instruments, delighting those who happen to come across his live, dynamic improvisations, and the magic that happens when he gets together with other musicians. A treat for the ears and those who are willing to dream. His music is an expression of his dream for a new world, and it has often been his key to opening doors in his life… including in bringing Kate to him. He has had his music included in some of the SunBeings videos.
Owen has a deep appreciation for the history of the arts and culture, and in reviving the forgotten magic of our lives. He has a way of capturing that in his music… blending into whatever culture is presented to him and taking us back to our roots, with nature and the mystery.
As a video editor, he makes dreamy worlds bursting with freedom, colour and nature through the videos he sets to his music.
Highly creative at whatever he applies himself to, he creates with high attention to detail that reveals more subtleties when one looks deeper. It reflects his feeling and sensitivity for the intricacies in life.
Owen has a deep sense of love and beauty and lives in deep communion with it. With that, Kate and Owen share an adventurous life together that has provided a driving spark behind SunBeings. They have dived deep into exploring what following nature and a new earth looks like… this can be both a painful and joyful process, and one of deep growth, that helps to ignite this platform. Thank you to Owen for the flame and loving support!
Kate Priestley
Kate is an original co-founder and the current coordinator of SunBeings providing much of the foundation and is the designer. Bouncing around with creative ideas, listening to others’ ideas, she has a way to ground them into the physical.
She is a passionate multi-disciplinary creative, and she treats this platform as a creative outlet, to make a space where people can commune and share themselves. Kate loves to nurture others’ gifts and help bring them out into the world. She likes to share the good and the innovative and has a natural passion for community.
An adventurous and playful spirit who likes to push the usual boundaries of the known. Through answering nature’s calls, she has found life to reward her in ways often very unexpected. Discomforts and challenges are often met but they provide doorways into her own understanding of herself and life. As a storyteller, she is enthusiastic about sharing her experiences with others in case it may benefit another.
She also is a painter, illustrator and photographer. Her works are often highly expressive with an explosion of colour and play. As someone who has a deep appreciation for music, she enjoys playing with Owen’s musical instruments. She is a practising daf player!
Kate has long been interested in projects that bring about change or have a positive impact on the world. Since a young age, she has liked to combine art and social engagement. Now all her interests come together in running SunBeings, and growing its community platform for all of us.
Nixi “No fixed thing” Cole
Coordinator, Coach, Creative and Champion of whole hearted projects and creatives. Nixi offers her gifts as a writer, editor, group holder, artist and art curator. She also loves being in a garden and growing things.
Nixi has a passion and strength for recognising and nurturing gifts in people, places and projects. She is empathic, intuitive, enthusiastic and dynamic in nature, naturally uplifting and energising in many of her offerings. Making connections across the physical and non-physical and encouraging our full and true expression.
Wonderful at coaching, mentoring and holding a safe space, she is gifted in seeing and expanding possibilities with a great sense of joy, play and creativity that pushes on our usual boundaries of imagination.
She has been helping behind the scenes at SunBeings for a little while supporting Kate and Owen and the wider field of the platform and its potentials, coming up with fun ideas, gently questioning, feeling and finding possibilities.
She loves playing with words, pens and fabric and hopes some of this will find its way on to SunBeings offerings too.
Nixi has a free and bright spirit, with extremely sensitive sensors for all subtleties of life. She is connected to the vastness of the universe and yet deeply grounded and anchored in nature. She moves fluidly between energetic, emotional and practical levels, integrating it all with humility and humour.
Nixi is full of magic, joy and love, while also not scared to sense and feel what’s uncomfortable, painful, or unfamiliar. Her curious and listening nature have carried her to many places and experiences and she has been nomadic for over two years.
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