FACILITATOR’S TRAINING

Pre-Convergence Workshop: 1 Day Village Design Intensive

Thurs, Oct 5| 10:00am – 4:30 pm| Solar Panel

Catherine Nkolo Lebongo is a teacher, creative, and activist who is fascinated by how design and social enterprise have the power to elevate everything—from products, to systems, to spaces. As an international, multicultural, woman who studied system nuances and societal constructs, Nkolo teaches the principles of Design Thinking, and how to apply the human-centered design process with an equity mindset, to build the regenerative communities we hope to see in our lifetimes. Her personal mission is to live an abundant life saturated in bliss, gratitude, and learning while artfully weaving spiritual growth and conscious bionomics into the collective reality.

Design Thinking for Equitable Communities

The People’s Medicine: Herbal Allies for Social Movements

Grow your own! It doesn’t get more local or fresh than your own yard.
Want to create a personal Garden of Eden for you, your clients, or your
community? Want to eat fresh, local, organic produce while reducing your
environmental footprint? This workshop will focus on the how-to’s of creating a
beautiful, functional and food-generating garden, no matter how much space you
have. There will be an emphasis on incorporating ecological principles, such as
soil building, using perennial edibles, and planting for habitat enhancement.
The more food we grow at home and in our neighborhoods, the more food resilient
we become, relying less on remote agribusiness and for-profit supermarkets. We
reduce our environmental footprint by using less fossil fuel, less water, less
fertilizer and fewer chemicals.
There will be a power-point presentation, a group brain-storming session, and
sample plants followed by a question-and- answer session as time allows.

Friday, Oct 6 | 12:30 PM – 1: 30 PM | Zocalo

Presented By Mike Boss

Jeremiah is a certified Permaculture Designer and is an accredited and certified Rainwater Catchment Professional through ARCSA (American Rainwater Catchment Systems Association). He has taught and consulted on several projects in the USA, Africa, Central America and Asia. Prior to establishing San Isidro Permaculture, Jeremiah was a partner at Living Structures, Inc., a permaculture-based design/installation green building firm in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Established in 2000, San Isidro Permaculture is a design and installation company focused on water catchment, grey water systems, native and edible plant landscapes, erosion control, and land restoration. San Isidro Permaculture has served Santa Fe and the surrounding area working for the private sector, federal and local governments, the film industry, and commercial projects.

2016 RED Talk Presentation: Community Drought Solutions – Building Resilience and Abundance Through a Wholistic Design Approach

Learn how to apply permaculture to your diet with seed to table cooking!

Using holistic management and permaculture design concepts, Matt Powers will take you through an exploration of seed to table planning and cooking, and regenerative preservation and preparation habits. Includes guided group exercises: seasonal food guild planning & reverse engineering our diet! Fun for the entire family! Permaculture bridging the gap between the garden & the plate!

Food is core to building community as well as resiliency – understanding how to cook and preserve the food we grow is a critical skill few are teaching and needs to be a focus. It builds a bridge between the kitchen and the garden in a new way. I will be using an overhead projector, hand-outs, pencils/pens, grouping, discussion, examples, and guided practice. In addition to it demonstrating new planning skills for  planting out our properties that match our food needs it helps participants recognize how permaculture acts as a lens that can be applied to any situation and context. Everyone who participates will leave with a plan for planting out food and plants that will meet their food needs through planning out seasonal food guilds and calculating the amount of each kind of food already being consumed in their diets. For kids this will show them the connection between diet and season as well as the power of permaculture planning and design concepts.

Presented By: Matt Powers

This workshop will provide participants with the skills they need to determine how much water they produce or falls on their property, how to match that with water needs in the home, creating a balance of local water inputs and local water needs.

Participants will learn how to calculate the water available on their property and how best to use it.

Presented By: Dr. Elizabeth Dougherty

Permaculture has a lot to offer the ecological restoration movement (and vice versa). What would a permaculture approach look like? How can permaculture contribute to grassroots earth repair movements? Let’s set up a working group to work at and after the Convergence.

The goal is to build bridges between groups working on ecorestoration. nationally and internationally. In cities, rural, etc.

Presented By: Michael Pilarski

Self love is like Caring for your garden. If done well, it can be a blossoming contribution to the amount of roses and ripe fruits you see expressed in its beauty. Through poetry and passion Déva Presence will share his personal practice of self love cultivated over the last few decades traveling and learning from gurus around the world. Our love for ourself and how we take care of our health and wellbeing is a direct reflection on the quality and depth of connection with our permaculture projects and relationships to others. Come tap into the heart, mind and soul in this workshop and set a new tone for your life endeavors.

Presented By: Déva Presence

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Maria Christina Owl is an international speaker, spiritual mentor and ceremonial leader. She has offered workshops and rituals in Israel, New Zealand, Canada and the US. She is a clairvoyant medium and author of the forthcoming book “The Great Mother Transmissions: Midwifing the New Earth”. Maria founded Sacred Future School in 2012 as a safe and grounded training ground for healers and leaders ready to align with their innate gifts and calling. Maria holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology and is a Master of Intuitive Medicine and scholar of Indigenous Science and Healing. www.sacredfuture.org

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2017 Convergence Workshop: Midwifing the New Earth: Unplug from Old Paradigm Conditioning and Claim Your True Power to Create Reality

Previous Workshops:

2015 – Indigenous Mind: Re-awakening Our Connection to Nature & Cosmos with Maria Owl Gutierrez