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Welcome to our community blog! Here we share posts or stories in relation to the transformations going on this planet. You could be actively engaging with the world e.g. growing food naturally, local communities, living alternatively, sovereignty, travelling, etc. We invite too any internal experiences of change in relation to these. Strengths, challenges, successes, failures… we would like to hear it all as we can learn from one another.
Are you a business or initiative with a project to share? A creative with some creations for others to see or hear? Some knowledge, ideas, discoveries to exchange? Would you like to share more about yourself or your work in more detail? All this is welcome.
We encourage expression and finding our voices. To open our hearts, understanding and supporting one another. To inspire others by facing life, being part of the change and following the true callings of nature and ourselves.
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Travelling Spain for 2.5 months we (my friend Pigi and I) visited so many places – wild camping, our friends’ house, Workaway exchanges and a squat, across Spain … almost no money spent on
The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience–they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Filming & photography: Pigi Irene Ilia & Kate PriestleyVideo editing: Pigi Irene IliaMusic by Owen Hanner – full song: see music video – website: www.owenhanner.com (recently redesigned by Kate) After almost two years of collaborating remotely
Nothing is more important in these times than the securing of our rights in alignment with who we as human beings are. While some societies, peoples and countries are celebrating tremendous, exciting and ever
A story… When I was still living in Newfoundland, Canada, I took a very unconventional and interdisciplinary study program in which I was joined by a small group of young people from a large
Recently me and my partner have come back from staying in an off grid village (won’t share name here for privacy reasons) which was quite a transformative experience. The opportunity fell into our laps
What does ‘being oneself’ mean in our society? What happens when sensitivity and deep compassion are expressed, when we are loud, or have a different opinion?
Was bedeutet ‘sich selbst sein’ in unserer Gesellschaft? Was passiert wenn man Sensibilitӓt und tiefes Mitgefühl zeigt, wenn man laut ist und eine andere Meinung hat?
Why create abundance without money? Have you ever questioned the need for money to secure shelter, food and comfort, and to thrive in this world? From early on in life we are molded into
Welcome to the last blog post of this series. I invite you to take part in some of my experiences in Bulgaria and with the Workaway platform and its community of people. It’s been
This is the inspiring story of a dog called Orka, a Serbian dog, but he could be any living being on this planet. Very shortly after his first vaccination at the age of 1.5
Welcome back to the Balkans! If you missed part 1, you can find it here. Together we went to Albania, Kosovo and Serbia, exploring riddles and layers of multifaceted histories. Thank you for the
I so much wish I’d know more. 10 days in Albania, 5 days in Kosovo, 2 weeks in Serbia (2 more to come); the latter with a woman who lives between her home country
Living without a phone almost consistently since more than 15 years, the thought that there are people who can’t imagine turning off this device for a day, leave alone not owning one feels bizarre.
The sweetness of life is in spontaneity. Haven’t we all experienced the joy when we spontaneously meet with a friend or when we change our mentally prepared schedule out of a sudden impulse that
Agnès is a fascinating woman and nature photographer, originally from France but living in Mexico at the time of our conversation, where exchange at a local, indigenous barter market is part of the unfolding
You can find an introduction to gift economies on our earlier blog post on this topic. Information about different forms of care-based trade and business can be found on the ‘Economies of care’ page together with
Written by Johanne Robitaille Who is Johanne? My name is Johanne Robitaille and I live in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I studied humanistic mediation at the University of Minnesota in the USA and Non Violent
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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