Yulia Smagorinsky (they/them), M.Sc.Agr, Spiral Journey administrator and co-facilitator.
Yulia is a farmer, weaver of social change and healing, permaculture designer and a graduate of the Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program and registered facilitator of the Work That Reconnects Network.

As a horticultural educator and restorative justice practitioner in the Healing Garden at the Philadelphia Juvenile Justice Service Center, Yulia creates beauty and healing spaces and hands-on experiential opportunities for youths.

Yulia is a co-founder of Emergent Abundance Farming Collective, sharing food, knowledge, skills, information, access to land and sources of healing with the local community. They are actively creating platforms and pathways to hold space for others to heal, to listen deeply and transform

Education

Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training

Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness – David Treleaven

Certified Social and Ecological Permaculture Designer

Spiral Journey Facilitator Development Program

Master of Science Agricultural Business Administration, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Hohenheim

Agricultural Systems and Groundwater Hydrology, Norsk Landbrukhogskolen, As, Norway

Bachelor of Science Agricultural Plant Science, University of Hohenheim

Affiliations

Work That Reconnects Network – Registered Facilitator

Spiral Journey International Facilitator Development Program – Administrator

Emergent Abundance Farming Collective – Co-Founder and Co-Director

Deep Times Journal – Published Author

Permaculture Women Magazine – Published Author