Northern California Permaculture Convergence
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Norcal Community Resilience Network
http://www.norcalresilience.org/ Vision The vision of the NorCal Community Resilience Network is to transform our homes, neighborhoods, and communities into vibrant, regenerative places. We are a building a Network of solutionaries – citizen activists, businesses…
Mateo Nube
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Mateo.jpg[/image_frame] Mateo was born and grew up in La Paz, Bolivia. Since moving to the San Francisco Bay Area, he has worked in the labor, environmental justice and international solidarity…
ChoQosh Auh’Ho’Oh
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ChoQoshAuhHoOh.jpg[/image_frame] ChoQosh Auh’Ho’Oh was named by the Seneca and Chumash elders. She is herself an elder of Coastal Native Indian descent. She is a giver of spiritual tools, divine and…
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.…
Joshua Chambers
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/11150236_10206803933525484_94523102715552836_n.jpg[/image_frame] Joshua Chambers is passionate about permaculture. After years of self-study, he completed a PDC in 2010 and has since then done three workshops with Sepp Holzer. He helped to…
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…
Melanie St. James
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MelanieSt.James_Bio_Pic.jpg[/image_frame] Recently returned from medicine exploration in Zimbabwe, Melanie St. James was first inspired in 1999 by the culturally rich animist tribe in Senegal West Africa to use their rich…
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…
Judy Hoaglund
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Judy_Hoaglund.jpg[/image_frame] Judy Hoaglund has studied and practiced shamanic arts with indigenous teachers in North, Central and South America for more than 25 years. In 2001 she began an extensive apprenticeship…
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…
Joel Glanzberg
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Joel-Glanzberg.jpg[/image_frame] Joel is a teacher and tracker of patterns in landscapes of all sorts. His early work of his thirty years in permaculture is documented in both the book Gaia's…
Walking the Labyrinth: Fostering Spiritual Growth by Creating Sacred Space and Building Community
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Jamie_Edmonds_Walking_The_Labyrinth_Image1.jpg[/image_frame] Introduction to Labyrinths: The history of ancient labyrinths and their modern rediscovery as a tool for spiritual growth and building community. Found all over the world and in many…
Jamie Edmonds
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Jamie_Edmonds_Sept2015.jpg[/image_frame] Jamie Edmonds wants to live in a world where humanity lives gently and sustainably on this pale blue dot in harmony with all of our fellow creatures. Jamie is…
Introduction to Evolutionary Leadership: Redesigning Cultures and Institutions for a More Just, Sustainable, and Flourishing World
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fyodor_Ovchinnikov_Introduction_to_Evolutionaty_Leadership.jpg[/image_frame] Are you absolutely happy with how things are in the world? If you aren't, here is something to think about: you are designing this world right now. Of course,…
Fyodor Ovchinnikov
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Fyodor_Ovchinnikov.jpg[/image_frame] Fyodor is a co-founder of the Institute for Evolutionary Leadership. As participatory process designer, consultant, and facilitator he worked with local and international clients including UC Berkeley Goldman School…
Raya Cole
[image_frame align="left" height="300" width="300" prettyphoto="false"][/image_frame] Raya has been involved with organic agriculture, permaculture, and sustainable systems since 1996. She is an herbalist with a medicinal herbal product business, Simply Being Botanicals. She has taught…
Calgary Brown
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_6537-retouched-1-768x768.jpg[/image_frame] Calgary manages innovative shared spaces and builds ecosystems where communities can flourish. She is currently the Operations Manager at Impact Hub Oakland, a coworking community and space for changemakers…
Zone Zero: A Resilient Body Supports Resilient Relationships
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/SalenaConvergence.jpg[/image_frame] Join Elaine Pendergrast and one other instructor in this interactive workshop. Building resilient communities can be stressful physically, mentally, and emotionally. Giving and receiving Breema bodywork, and especially practicing…
Elaine Pendergrast
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ElainePBreema.jpeg[/image_frame] Elaine is a Staff Instructor at the Breema Center in Oakland and has benefited from practicing Breema for 24 years. She has taught workshops at many locations around the…