Debora Rizzetto, queen bee breeder

ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE IN DREAMING

Trained as a goldsmith, D.R. spent fifteen years as a stone setter before realising that the impersonal and competitive nature of her work no longer fulfilled her. A sense of rejection toward the jewellery-making environment led her to isolate herself. She experienced a growing sense of emptiness and solitude, accompanied by a troubling despair.

Her brother’s unexpected purchase of a few beehives made her aware of her instinctive connection to bees. The sound of the swarm enchanted her, awakening a spiritual call to nature and inspiring an ecological vision for her profession and future.

She chose the more challenging path: seeking her psychological well-being through a healthy and authentic relationship with bees.

Debora had a true instinct for bees, a unique sensitivity that allowed her to understand their language through their movements. She could sense, from the sound of the swarm, the captivating blend of group dynamics and individual contributions, and she deeply appreciated their collective wisdom.

D.R.’s dream of living and working with bees led her to develop an ecological intelligence expressed as a threefold ability: recognising the intricate connections between human activities and the bee ecosystem; adapting to their ecosystem by adopting new human behaviours to protect them; and learning from their ways of working to optimise human organisation and time management.

In practice, D.R.’s professional dream led her, on one hand, to collaborate with her beekeeper husband in developing initiatives and actions to protect the environment, such as breeding genetically selected queen bees resistant to viruses, parasites, and climate change. On the other hand, it allowed her to draw inspiration from the hive as a model of organisation, which she applied to her team of collaborators—united and cooperative in their shared mission as guardians dedicated to the protection of bees.

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