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2015 WORKSHOPS THEMES

  • Water, Land & Nature Stewardship
  • Leadership Development & Organizational Capacity Building
  • Home & Neighborhood Resiliency
  • Regenerative Business & Equitable Economy
  • Skills Shares & Appropriate Technology
  • Social Justice, Education, & Culture
  • Inner Resilience and Social Permaculture
  • Governance, Policy & Movement Building
  • Public & Private Partnerships
  • And Much More!

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SKILL SHARES:

  • DIY Skills in Permaculture
  • Natural Building
  • Seed Saving
  • Social Entrepreneurship
  • Alternative Economies Economy
  • Clean Energy
  • Food production
  • Herbal Medicine

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2015 WORKSHOPS :: TITLES & DESCRIPTIONS


Towards a Just Transition: Freedom Fighting While Healing the Earth

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/15313591271_4c812dd68d_o-1024x819.jpg[/image_frame] While transition is inevitable, justice is not. The scale and pace of the ecological crisis and transition in which we find ourselves demands a radical rethinking of our relationships to place, and to each other, particularly in the urban context. Movement Generation's interactive, whole body workshop will combine principles and practice from Permaculture Design with ...

Regenerative Wealth: Community Investing, and Sustainable Growth Panel

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/regenerative-wealth.png[/image_frame] This is a big conversation about the future of money through the lens of permaculture. Together, through this conversation and many others, we are co-creating the future of regenerative wealth. If money is a medium of exchange and a measure of flow - essentially a math system to track to the movement of goods, resources ...

Placemaking: Techniques for Creating a Happy Healthy Place

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/6b9a1fdc5627ff973f9493fb9de8a93b.jpg[/image_frame] Placemaking is a multi-faceted approach to the planning, design and management of public spaces. Placemaking capitalizes on a local community's assets, inspiration, and potential, with the intention of creating public spaces that promote people's health, happiness, and well being. Each presenter will share some examples of placemaking from different places with pictures, stories, lessons learned and plans for the future/ growth with ...

Feminine Leadership for Men & Women

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/11229417_10153990025103782_7582237794691924324_n.jpg[/image_frame] Why is everyone talking about Awakening of the Divine Feminine?  Ultimately, it's about realigning the human species with life itself. For over 10 years, I've been asking the question, "What is a sustainable person?"  In other words, what kind of people do we need to become in order to cause a regenerative civilization?  I believe ...

Morning Meditation

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/meditation-1024x628.jpg[/image_frame] One hour of collective silence to encourage and support introspection, contemplation, and mental regeneration. A simple sit each morning at a central location, with no guidance. Will begin and end with a simple sound or subtle gesture. Held by Karmendra Rossy ...

The Latest on Vegetable and Fruit Tree Roots – for Greater Yields

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/unnamed-5-1024x726.jpg[/image_frame] See more new root drawing of vegetables and fruit trees than ever shown before. The discussion will focus on: where do roots get most of their nutrition. How do roots compete for water and fertility? How to use root drawings to increase yields. Learn about extensive research on cardboard mulches ...

Building Networks to Catalyze Regenerative Action: A Permaculture Action Tour Report

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/RyanRisingConsultingPermacultureDesign-2-300x200.jpg[/image_frame] Hear a report back from the Permaculture Action Tour - a tour that partnered with a well known music producer to host 32 Action Days in cities across the country following shows in major urban venues. These Permaculture Action Days brought out up to 400 people at a time to get their hands in the ...

Regenerative Funding: Raising Resources for the Movement

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Unilever-highlights-good-business-sense-of-sustainability_strict_xxl.png[/image_frame] How do we use the permaculture ethics and practices in resource development that is regenerative? What funding opportunities exist to support our work? What impacts our ability to access, steward and regenerate these resources? How is fundraising an opportunity to connect around what we hold sacred, an opportunity to change the dominant narrative, to tell ...

Ego-System Re-Story-ation: Ecology of Awakening

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/kerry-brady-wksp.jpg[/image_frame] In order to create truly just and resilient communities, it is essential we Re-Story ourselves out of the predominant narrative of people and planet as commodity into the reality of being an inherent part of the ever-evolving web of Life. By placing ourselves into the 4.5 billion year unfolding Earth community, we more easily recognize ...

Community Choice Energy: A Pathway to Resilient, Energy-Secure Communities

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Al_Weinrub_Workshop.jpg[/image_frame] As the social, economic, and environmental impacts of climate change become more pronounced, Community Choice energy can be a powerful vehicle for democratizing energy, spurring local sustainable economic development, and building more resilient communities. This workshop will explore the relationship between local renewable energy and community empowerment. This workshop will consist of a 20 minute ...

Dirt is Everything!: Climate and Food Solutions Through Living Soil

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/climate-change-solutions.jpg[/image_frame] 2015 is the International Year of Soils, as defined by the United Nations, and people all over the world are waking up to the integral solutions found in our earth's fragile, but potent soil system. Healthy living soil can sequester carbon in the atmosphere, and as Joel’s website says, “Stimulating soil biota is our first ...

Discover Fantastic Fruit for Our New “Weird Weather” Challenges

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/John-Valenzuela.jpg[/image_frame] You can grow wonderful fruit in spite of our recent drought and warm winters. John Valenzuela will share simple and effective growing strategies and techniques, with water wisdom and microclimate magic. He will also discuss fantastic fruit species and varieties adapted to our ever changing climate." With the unusually dry and warm winters we have ...

Youth Stories from Youth Programs: Planting Seeds with the Next Generation

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/KellyCarlisle_MG_1410CREDITDavidFentoncrop.jpg[/image_frame] You’ll get seriously inspired during this multi-generational storytelling workshop with some of the most innovative youth food justice and permaculture programs in the Bay Area. Youth and staff representatives from a variety of school-based and community programs - including Urban Tilth, Girls2000, Acta Non Verba Farm and Planting Justice - will share stories about the ...

Sustainable Leadership: What Does it Take To Thrive?

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Main_WomenLeaders-1024x461.jpg[/image_frame] Arianna Huffington’s landmark book Thrive makes the case for a “Third Metric” for defining success. As leaders, we are hardworking, passionate and good at what we do. But how do we make the time to hold our own personal well-being as a bottom line priority, so that we can serve our mission in a sustainable ...

Building a Resilient Neighborhood with Transition Streets

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/transition-streets-1024x768.jpg[/image_frame] Transition Streets is a neighbor-led project to reduce household energy and water use, build resilient local food systems, and build community resilience on your street. It takes the systemic thinking of Transition & permaculture and breaks it down into simple, actionable steps that add up to real change. If you've been looking for ways to ...

Dancing Freedom: Embodying Resilience

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/11329880_10153338281990435_3718743456497437272_n.jpg[/image_frame] Ritual predates human language and is the art of changing consciousness at will. We are hard wired for self expression in community. In this conscious dance workshop, we will co-create a safe space for us to move with what's present individually and as a collective. By creating a container of embodied awareness, we can physically ...

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