Graines de Vie
What is it?
Graines de Vie is an association created by a small group of women involved in perinatal care and interested in making the first steps towards a social transition based on the theme of the family in its broadest sense. Our professional and personal experiences have brought us together around a common dream and a need that we all felt when we became mothers: to be much better accompanied, supported and informed in the field of parenthood.
Graines de Vie is an association created by a small group of women involved in perinatal care and interested in making the first steps towards a social transition based on the theme of the family in its broadest sense. Our professional and personal experiences have brought us together around a common dream and a need that we all felt when we became mothers: to be much better accompanied, supported and informed in the field of parenthood.Our vision is to sow the seeds for families to blossom and flourish in a world of sharing, listening, support, empathy and cooperation. We want to work with and for all those who are part of our family, or who will become part of it, in order to help create the new human being and generations that are conscious, free and creative. The collaboration established with the Luna birthing center enabled us to begin this project. Our aim is to create spaces where people can meet, listen, support, inform, discover, learn, practice and support each other, through regular or occasional courses, workshops, conferences, round tables, debates, therapies, consultations, etc., in line with these different values:
Our values
Positive parenting
You’re not born a parent, you become one, and we promote activities that foster caring parenthood. These extend to the phases of becoming parents, being parents, being grandparents and so on.
Physiological mothering
We promote and encourage physiology in areas related to motherhood: birth, breastfeeding, post-partum, babywearing, co-sleeping, etc.
Feminine and masculine
We promote the discovery of the particularities of each gender and encourage the celebration of our bodies as women or men in union with the living.
Respect for people
Each being is unique and has its place within the community. We encourage the development of the self and its potential in the sense of this uniqueness, while respecting the rhythm of each individual.
Respect for nature
The earth bears us and nourishes us abundantly. We promote responsible, sustainable, organic and local consumption, as close as possible to zero waste.
The circular economy
We support a local economy, promote networking and bring together social/professional players to share and create collaborative, rather than competitive, synergies.
Aims of the association
● Support families through meetings, activities, listening and sharing
● Promote and encourage physiology in the field of mothering
● Organize activities: meetings, courses, events, workshops, conferences, seminars, exhibitions
● Network and collaborate with various players in family support fields
● Promoting a local, circular economy
● Raising awareness of sustainable and responsible consumption and respect for living things
● Raising awareness and encouraging participation in art and culture
● Develop a family café project to support families
Co-creators
Agnès Leonetti
Active in the field of human exchanges for many years, I am passionate about inner ecology and parenting.
Alexia Binggeli
By offering a place to meet, share and grow together, Graines de Vie opens up the possibility of daring to speak out, daring to be, daring to become.
Fabienne Pahud
With the arrival of my first child, I discovered physiological babywearing. It quickly became a passion, and in 2015 I trained to become a babywearing instructor.
Aya Kato Glutz
In Switzerland since 2007, and passionate about bringing Japanese and Swiss cultures together as mediators, I have worked as a tour guide, interpreter and coordinator.
The committee
The association’s committee is made up of the above-mentioned co-founders and an auditor. for 2023
Agnès Leonetti
- Co-presidents
- Public relations and fundraising manager
Alexia Binggeli
- Co-presidents
- Administration and Accounting Manager
Fabienne Pahud
- Marketing and social networking manager
Aya Kato Glutz
- Marketing and website manager
Yvan Binggeli
- Auditor
Agnès Leonetti
Active in the field of human exchanges for many years, I am passionate about inner ecology and parenting. I’m 49, married and have 3 grown-up children. A French-Swiss national, I’ve been living in Biel for 17 years.
and I love this city and its people.
I’ve been working independently in the support field for over 10 years, and I’m constantly training myself, so I have many strings to my bow to best support the people I support who call on my services. Based on the principle that we must first change ourselves for the world around us to change and evolve, I’m also interested in the way our society works.
I question myself and try to better understand, discover, share and co-create ways of living sustainably and differently on our beloved earth.
So I get involved in projects such as the Graines de Vie association, representing and expressing the values and transformations that motivate and drive my life.
Alexia Binggeli
My job as a specialized educator has brought me into close contact with families. At the same time as looking after my children, I started teaching yoga, including pre- and post-natal yoga, as well as baby yoga, and continued to meet aspiring parents and new mothers.
To consider, explore, support and create parenthood and all the facets associated with it is, in my opinion, a necessity, even a gap to be filled. By offering a place to meet, share and grow together, Graines de Vie opens up the possibility of daring to speak out, daring to be, daring to become.
Connecting people is one of the project’s core values. I’d like to develop this aspect and be in even closer contact with families who are questioning their role as parents; to offer them my sympathetic ear, my experience and my knowledge; also that of yoga in what it can bring that is concrete and useful in our daily realities. So the Graines de Vie project corresponds to what I want to see germinate today and blossom tomorrow: creating a new way of being, a new society, more serene, more joyful, closer to itself and to nature, more cooperative, more loving. It’s a vision I’m putting my heart and soul into, because for me it’s a necessity for the future, and it’s a great joy to contribute to it.
Fabienne Pahud
With the arrival of my first child, I discovered physiological babywearing, and it quickly became a passion. So in 2015 I trained to become a babywearing instructor, following which I set up an online store selling babywearing, mothering and baby care accessories. In 2016, I quit my job as a watchmaker to stay 100% at home. I’ve also developed a passion for sewing and create my own clothes and accessories for children and their parents.
With the arrival of my children, I discovered the whole range of proximal mothering (babywearing, co-sleeping, free motor skills, DME, positive parenting). Now it’s my turn to introduce it to other parents. I’m keen to continue training in the field of proximal mothering and positive parenting. My aim is to be able to support, accompany and advise parents, which is why the Graines de Vie project corresponds completely to my desires.
Aya Kato Glutz
In Switzerland since 2007, and passionate about bringing Japanese and Swiss cultures together as mediators, I have worked as a tour guide, interpreter and coordinator.
I’ve experienced personal integration difficulties in Switzerland, and through sharing with others in my situation, as well as my personal experiences, I’ve always wondered how I could help facilitate integration. In addition, my experience of post-partum depression and professional experiences made me realize the difficulties of social isolation as a young foreign mother in Switzerland. I now dedicate my professional activity to accompanying and establishing a relationship of trust with women and their families as they go through the difficult experiences of parenthood.
My involvement in the Graines de Vie collective gives me a link and a special place in Swiss society. I sincerely hope that our approach through this project will serve as an inspiration to create a society where people can be more connected and supportive of each other.