Between 2021 and 2024 the Hekate Conscious Ageing Foundation (HCAF) together with the Erasmus+ project partners has made significant strides in addressing social isolation and mental health among ageing and elderly individuals through its social permaculture project called Social Peas. By integrating principles of permaculture, the project has successfully created a multifaceted approach to enhancingContinue reading “Fostering Mental Health and Well-being with Social Permaculture: The Social Peas Project of Hekate Conscious Ageing Foundation”
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Roots in the Garden and in Our Lives
We are often captivated by nature’s visible beauty, whether it’s a blossoming flower or the grand canopy of a noble oak. When asked to visualize a tree, most of us picture its trunk and canopy, but rarely do we consider its hidden, underground root system. Yet it’s the roots that anchor the tree, absorb waterContinue reading “Roots in the Garden and in Our Lives”
Community check – this how well we are digitally
In Hekate we’re strongly focusing on the digital aspects of the different areas of life, too. We approach ageing, mental health, work, personal fulfilment, social life and community, and even sustainability through our digital lenses. Why? Because we do live in a digital era that requires us to intentionally and critically reflect on and actContinue reading “Community check – this how well we are digitally”
When a project won’t just end…
We started our DigInclude project 2 years ago. While it’s coming to its official end, we are far from really ending it. It is just impossible not to carry with a different meaning of work – and life, too. It is impossible not to build on all the learnings we experienced, and not to leaveContinue reading “When a project won’t just end…”
How to support mental health with (social) permaculture (online event)
We are currently facing turbulent times marked by numerous crises, including those related to care, climate, housing, ecology, and mental health.
Hekate Garden in Janoshida, Hungary
Our foundation and the Municipality of Janoshida (in Hungary) started a strategic cooperation in 2020. It is a complex, care and permaculture-based village development process. The title of the cooperation is JANOSHIDA2030 (see link for more info). Part of this cooperation is the development of an educational and community space for promoting (social) permaculture asContinue reading “Hekate Garden in Janoshida, Hungary”
How to be really inclusive? The learning from an inclusive workshop on inclusivity…
Two weeks ago we led a professional forum with two workshops in Budapest, Hungary. This was for the lovely community of one of our strategic partners, SignCoders, who we are coordinating a 2 years long Erasmus+ project, “DigInclude – Developing Digital Skills in Disadvantaged Groups” with. The topic therefore was given: Digital Inclusion. From the process ofContinue reading “How to be really inclusive? The learning from an inclusive workshop on inclusivity…”
Digital Wellbeing and Digital Inclusion: what’s the connection?
Two weeks ago we lead a professional forum with two workshops in Budapest, Hungary. This was for the lovely community of one of our strategic partners, SignCoders, who we are coordinating a 2 years long Erasmus+ project, “DigInclude – Developing Digital Skills in Disadvantaged Groups” with. The topic therefore was given: Digital Inclusion. However weContinue reading “Digital Wellbeing and Digital Inclusion: what’s the connection?”
Technology: blessing or curse? 1 question, 5 opinions!
As part of our DigInclude project, we have initiated exciting club discussions, which have now become quite a tradition. Our first discussion was an introduction to the digital society, Artificial Intelligence and the changing world, with the help of four knowledgeable panellists and a moderator. In this article we want to present the general viewContinue reading “Technology: blessing or curse? 1 question, 5 opinions!”
One wholesome response to the mental health crisis
Among many other crises (climate, care, housing) we also face a mental health crisis. While mental health cases and issues quickly rise, available support, staff and funding are in decline. According to Martin Price, vice president of Health Economics, Market Access and Reimbursement in Europe: “The OECD estimates that mental health disorders cost Europe overContinue reading “One wholesome response to the mental health crisis”
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