Between Rubble and Soil exists to help people build the capacity to live well through collapse, with honesty, depth, and connection.

This is not a project about fixing the world, and it is not about fear-driven prepping or individual survivalism. It is about learning how to live within these times: through uncertainty, ecological breakdown, social fragmentation, and the wider polycrisis we are witnessing and navigating.

It is about grief-tending and composting; allowing what is ending to break down so that something more grounded, relational, and alive can grow in its place.

A big part of this work is learning to let go of certainty, control, and the need to fix everything. Collapse awareness is not just intellectual; it asks for internal work too. It asks us to confront denial, sit with discomfort, and rethink what it means to live well.

This work is not about providing a map but more about offering lanterns, small points of clarity, calm, and connection as we move through uncertain territory.

About

My Place Within This Work

I come to this work first as an educator.

I have spent more than 14 years in secondary education, working inside a system that is often anxious, reputation-sensitive, risk-averse, and deeply invested in narratives of stability, progress, and continuity.

Schools are often asked to uphold the story that everything is basically fine, promising a future of continued growth, progress and continuity. But collapse awareness unsettles these assumptions and confronts cultural myths.

It asks harder questions such as:
What future are we preparing young people for?
What happens when the promises no longer hold?
How do we teach honestly in a world of ecological breakdown, social fragmentation, and deep uncertainty?

I see myself as someone moving from educator within the system to guide at the threshold, helping to hold space where hard truths can be faced, metabolised, and transformed together. I draw on collapse awareness, systems thinking, collapsology, alongside lived experience and practical adaptation. There are no clear answers, only offerings, questions and shared ideas.

An Invitation

Between Rubble and Soil is a space for people who want to face these times honestly.

It is for those who are tired of pretending stability still exists. For those who want to move beyond denial, beyond endless consumption, and beyond the idea that success means simply maintaining a broken system.

It is for people looking for practical ways to live differently, and for those doing the emotional work of grief, adaptation, and change.

This is not a place of certainty.

It is a place of practice.

A place to think, feel, prepare, and reconnect.

A place to ask harder questions.

A place to become more useful.

A place to remember that even in collapse and under the rubble, there is still soil.

Email

hello@betweenrubbleand soil.com