Orienting Futures: Emerging Culturally and Ecologically Responsive Practice

About this webinar

Over the past 12 months, PermaQueer has been convening a brave and vulnerable peer learning community for people who want to explore better ways of doing things. It was a space to grow community and develop capability to meaningfully shift systems of inequity and make real, lasting change through the social enterprise sector.

Join the PermaQueer team and participants to:

• Hear participant experiences, insights and shifts to organisational practice. 
• Learn from insights, resources and dreamings that emerged from this community.
• Explore ways that you could engage in pollination of culturally and ecologically responsive practice in the social enterprise sector. 

Guy Ritani (ia/they/them)

Creative Director

 

PermaQueer

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Guy is a proud Takatāpui Māori Food systems specialist, systems designer and storyteller from Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Koata and Ngāti Kahungunu whakapapa. Their work is centred around building relationships, networks and systems to build climate justice, bio-regional food security and culturally appropriate, sovereign food systems. They are a Pacific Climate Warrior, Cultural Advisor to the Pitt River Museum Oxford University and Creative Climate Leader.

Toad Dell (they/them)

Co-founder

 

PermaQueer

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Toad is an Irish/English queer permaculture designer and co-founder of PermaQueer who applies a systems thinking and trauma informed approach to their work. Toad's work in PermaQueer is to support LGBTIQA+, First Nations and other marginalised communities through a community development and food justice lens through education, programs and advocacy.

Sticks XO (they/them)

 

PermaQueer

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Sticks is a queer trans community organiser and emerging counsellor of white-settler background. They joined the PermaQueer team in early 2025, bringing experience in community food growing, grassroots activism and mutual aid. Their work is deeply informed by a commitment to decolonisation and solidarity with First Nations people, collective liberation, radical care, and non-punitive responses to harm. Sticks is currently training in counselling with a focus on Narrative Therapy, Liberation Psychology, and Restorative Justice.