About
Living Justice was co-founded by Drs Miche Fabre Lewin and Flora Gathorne-Hardy.
Both Flora and Miche are moving forward with their work practices independently.
Miche continues to host artful encounters, food rituals and heart-centred liberation practices.
Gratitude
Heartfelt gratitude to the circle of advisors, research communities, justice thought leaders and the wisdom traditions that have guided, supported and honoured this collaborative work over decades. Appreciations for the valuable resources of co-inquiry, reflection and constructive challenge offered by our Research Associateship at the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) at Coventry University; and the profound research exchanges in South Africa with the Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST), Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ), and Stellenbosch University Museum.
My Ethos
Living Justice practices invoke a return to the Sanskrit roots of ‘art’, where the word ‘rta’ engages all within the ever flowing dynamic co-creation of matter, energy and living processes. This tunes into art as an enculturing power which enlivens our capacities to feel, sense and think with our whole selves as co-existent within interdependent kinship with each other and the living earth.
MICHE FABRE LEWIN
PHD, DIP ART THERAPY
A White woman, born on Zimbabwean soil, Miche has French and Jewish heritage. She works responsively between Africa, Europe and the UK. Her devotional vocation is rooted in a passion for art, ecology, food, and liberation. These iterative and intertwined practices are anchored in training in the therapeutic arts; nurtured in a rustic Zen kitchen as a contemplative cook; supported within peer exchanges of liberation counselling; and grounded through an extensive body of work as a socially engaged, ecological artist. Tuning into the cohesive power of ritual Miche curates convivial spaces for skills sharing, knowledge generation and co-creation within an ecology of emancipatory arts and earthcentred practices.
Her doctoral scholarship with Coventry University in partnership with the Sustainability Institute in South Africa, evolved the concept of sympoiethics. This engages a daily inquiry with the question of how to be living ecologically and ethically in respectful and response-able, co-evolution within a participatory cosmos. As a researcher and practitioner Miche has innovated experiential, collaborative and decolonising methodologies which are in service to ecological restoration and collective liberation.
Commissioners and Residencies include: SHAVE; Home Live Art; Royal Geographic Society; Platform; Thames Festival; Hawkwood Centre for Future Thinking; IF Festival; Oxford Contemporary Music; Bag Factory, Triangle Arts Trust; TEdx Soweto; NIROX Foundation; Sustainability Institute; Centre for Sustainability Transitions (CST); Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest (AVReQ); Stellenbosch University Museum; Be the Earth Foundation.
How I Work
I am dedicated to inspiring experiences which open up to exploring enlivening narratives and collaborative initiatives which reconnect human liberation and ecosystem restoration. Working with research centres, education and training organisations, arts and community led projects who are looking to build alliances and coalitions, my bespoke trainings are also offered to individuals and influencers, thought leaders and agents of change who seek sanctuary spaces for inner self-reflective journeys towards outer transformation. Collectively we resource ourselves to re-envision and manifest equitable and ecological futures.
Art, Liberatory and Food Offerings
All my offerings are encounters in-presence and can be bespoke & co-curated as:
1 day Taster | 2 day Workshop | 3 – 5 day Retreat
Short Course | Depth Journey
- HeArt of Change & Loosening the Warp – for people racialized as ‘white’ to explore and deepen into heartful justice practices through art and ritual
- Food Rituals – for nurturing bodymind, the living soil and to reconnect with seasons join me to experience artisan sessions of cooking with the senses
- Art of the Becoming – reconnect with your creative Muse through making-thinking-feeling with the matter of artful and ecological experiences
Miche’s practice is an expression of genuine love and connection – a universal expression of matter and energy. The power of the individual as a vibrant node within our bountiful ecosystem sits at at the heart of her life-affirming work. Andy Robinson – Future City
We need single identity spaces, especially for white people, because more often than not, the privilege, power, and the comfort that goes with being white in a predominantly white society are not recognized and go unchallenged. If this work is done, especially in its initial phases, by white people educating themselves in how whiteness confers supremacy and privilege, for me it is a relief and a necessity. Farhana Yamin – International climate change lawyer| social justice activist
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