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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


Mining the Urban Waste Stream

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Ken-with-Herb-mandala.jpg[/image_frame] The reverse skill set of shopping backwards through the urban waste stream is an essential one to have. Resilience means being resourceful in our material sourcing. There is so much we can repurpose, reuse, re-think. Let's Re-Do it! Together we will make art from Salvaged herbs, Art like herbal mandalas with Ken's famous Chai Mulch! ...

Biodynamic Agriculture and Biodynamic Community

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Thea_Carlson_BiodynamicAgricultureBiodynamicCommunity-21.jpg[/image_frame] The deep principles and innovative practices of biodynamic agriculture can be taken up by any farmer or gardener wanting to enhance the health and vitality of their soil and the food they grow. Have you worked with biodynamic practices on your farm or in your garden? Are you interested in trying biodynamics, but not sure ...

Embodying Permaculture – 5 Senses Exploration through Movement, Theater & Music

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Robin_Liepman_BloomingBiodiversityWorkshops-2.png[/image_frame] Embodying Permaculture: 5 Senses Exploration through Movement, Theater and Music is an experience designed to integrate mind, body, heart and spirit with the values and principles of permaculture. As facilitators we will take participants through a journey of body centered awareness practices including transformational theater, embodied movement, guided music creation, vinyasa yoga flow, and guided visualization meditations activating the ...

Transition 101: State of a World in Transition

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/transitions-wordle.png[/image_frame] The Transition Movement, an international network of communities committed to moving away from fossil fuel dependence toward local resilience, just celebrated its 10th anniversary and is now in 50 countries. Join Transition leaders from Northern California to learn how the movement is growing and spreading locally, nationally, and around the world. Hear about successful projects ...

California’s Food Forests: Wildtending in Zone 4

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/food-forests-wildtending.jpeg[/image_frame] Our native Californian landscape possesses a unique heritage - in pre-European times, this land was home to the greatest biodiversity on the North American continent, as well as the largest human population. The oak woodlands - California's original food forest - and their reciprocal relationship with humans were the key to this abundance and diversity, ...

Rewilding: Trophic Cascades

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/rewilding-trophic-cascades.jpg[/image_frame] Rye N Flint leads this session on reconnecting with your wild roots.  Learn about how humans have lived in harmony with the Earth for thousands of years.  Embrace the wild foods that grow around you, and plant your own new garden of Eden in your backyard! I offer a local, permaculture, and wild foraging based solution for ...

Making Equity and Sustainability in Business Real: Walking our Talk

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/EquitySustainability.jpg[/image_frame] In our communities, local business leaders have made headway in creating thriving, sustainable, ethical and just business models, but there is still a ways to go. What models are working in these efforts to transform our economy? How can socially responsible businesses go from good to great -- moving from light green to deep green? ...

Mobilize and Organize Beyond the Convergence: Launching the NorCal Community Resilience Network

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/norcal-logo07-100.png[/image_frame] The Convergence brings together hundreds of movers and shakers, and dozens of organizations from the grassroots on up. How can we stay connected both online and offline; and how can we leverage our enthusiasm to continue our efforts and build on our efforts year-round? The NorCal Community Resilience Network, launching at the Convergence and modeled ...

Creating Green and Resilient Homes, Neighborhoods, Culture and Economy

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Screen-Shot-2015-09-10-at-3.26.35-PM.png[/image_frame] This presentation will show and tell greening a suburban property and neighborhood in Eugene, Oregon for taking care of more needs closer to home - food, water, energy, "social security." The presentation will also touch on making creative use of "allies and assets" found in almost any city or town. While the mainstream economy, culture ...

Permaculture Contracting: Building Businesses That Care for Earth and People

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Permaculture-Plan-.jpg[/image_frame] Learn best practices for starting and sustaining your own permaculture contracting or design company using the principles of permaculture. In this day and age there is a ripe opportunity for permaculturists and ecological designers to take over the contracting, agriculture, and development industries. To truly create a regenerative economy that cares for the planet and ...

Collaborative Action to Take Community-Based Solutions to Scale

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Tour.jpg[/image_frame] Given the scale of the challenges we face, how can we strengthen our organizations and networks and take these vital community-based solutions to scale? Join Daily Acts and community partners Clear Blue Commercial and CivicSpark, a Governor's Initiative on Climate Change, to hear inspiring stories of transformation ranging from homes and neighborhoods to business landscapes and ...

It’s On! Water Challenges and Solutions for 2016 and Beyond

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/drought_image.jpg[/image_frame] Everyone knows we are facing a serious water crisis in California and globally. The hottest temperatures on record, unprecedented forest fires and four years of extreme drought are about to be coupled with El Niño flooding weather conditions that scientists say are not like anything they’ve seen. Dwindling water supplies and reduced access to clean ...

Introduction to Holzer-Style Permaculture

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/POG-Aerial-1.jpg[/image_frame] Joshua Chambers will lead this workshop about the work of Sepp Holzer, the Austrian rebel who has been innovating in this work since before the work permaculture was coined. His methods and his attitude are quite extreme, and his perspective is a very important one to have in our movement, as it stands as a ...

Plant Medicine & Community Health – Past, Present & Future

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/BioNova-Melanie-New.Crop5_.jpg[/image_frame] Medicinal plant knowledge presents a timely opportunity to create healthier and more bio-diverse world from the ground up. What can YOU do in your backyard? What information can we trust to make informed choices in our own healthcare? What might be some collective strategies for systemic change (allowing access to info on what works)? Want to ...

Ceremony for a Sacred Life

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Judy_Hoaglund_Ceremony-for-a-Sacred-Life.jpg[/image_frame] This ceremonial offering is one that is traditionally celebrated throughout the Andes of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. In Andean cosmology, the entire physical plane, including Mother Earth and all living things, are continuously brought into being, and nurtured, by sentient beings in the Spirit Realm. Andean peoples therefore perform rituals in which sacred offerings, or “feedings”, are ...

Designing Systemic Change Processes

[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Joel_Glanzberg_Workshop2.jpg[/image_frame] Joel Glanzberg will be leading us in this participatory workshop. All living systems follow the same patterns, from ecosystems to economies, and organisms to organizations. learning to read these patterns we can find the small changes that can have systemic effects. This is how nature works and how we need to learn to work in order ...

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