Ep 20 Sabina Santovetti on Making Community Happen

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Sabina Santovetti, Woman, 67 years old, Mother, feminist, activist, ecologist, artist and MADRE in soul, until 3 years ago I passionately worked in Rome as an architect running my sustainable design practice. In 2018, asked to help a friend in a no-nuclear political campaign for the Italian Senate, I came upon Extinction Rebellion. Realizing how urgently the climate emergency had reached, after months of grief and despair, whirled into active hope. In brief, I took a sabbatical from my past life becoming a full time climate activist in XR. To me this Climate Emergency needs mostly a global shift in consciousness. I enrolled and finished a Master degree at Schumacher College, U.K., in Ecological Design Thinking and started facilitating Community Building in local Communities,The Work that Reconnects, Transition Town models and Gaia Education programs as a certified trainer. My thesis was on the cultures of the Goddess, Patriarchal societies and Feminine Wisdom. I have also certified with Hagia Academie with Dr. Heide Goettner-Abendroth to become “Lecturer on Modern Matriarchal Studies”. The energy of the Feminine is calling me. Community building, Matriarchal Sacred Mysteries, Sacred in Cultures, Poetics of Imagination, Performance Arts in Delicate Activism. All I am investigating as an artist I use to facilitate and create a shift in consciousness. In 2023 I created SHE-EDE Ecovillage Design Education to empower women in a journey of healing, matriarchal modern studies decolonizing our deep patriarchal biases.

Links to previous episode

Audio

https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-9d6ja-193f842

Ep 9 Sabina Santovetti & Maria Esperanza Carrasco on SHE-EDE in Colombia 2025

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4PQqieEPdU

Matriarchal Movement Connections

https://www.dancing-goddess.org/

Dancing Goddess/SHE-EDE is Sabina Santovetti’s project, a part of Matriarchy Now! A consortium of matriarchal organizations working to bring matriarchy into reality in its modern form because it is the only response to the OmegaCrisis that is always patriarchy that will not collapse back into a domination system.

https://www.matriarchy-now.com/

Where you can find the whole coalition:

Chix & Nergiz De Baere, Le Matriarcali, Genevieve Vaughn & Maternal Gift Economy Movement, International Academy Hagia, Le Matriarcali

Motherful, Nashira

Ecological Design Education

Gaia Education’s goals & process are adopted by UN

https://sdgs.un.org/goals

https://gaia.org/gaia-education/

https://www.gaiaeducation.org/sdg-toolkit-for-designing-community-projects

Other Resources Mentioned

Dragon Dreaming, John Croft, https://dragondreaming.org

https://iamas.com/iamas-conference/