Leadership development – The Convergence

Transition to Permaculture: Scaling Up for Community Resilience

Convergence Program — Mon, 06 Aug 2018 00:36:37 +0000

Learn how to effectively apply Permaculture ethics, strategies, and principles to build a thriving movement for community resilience right where you live.

The international Transition Towns Movement was founded in 2005 by UK-based Permaculture teacher Rob Hopkins in order to engage entire communities in implementing Permaculture solutions for a more resilient future. Since that time, the Transition Movement has spread to over 1,200 communities in 50 countries, including 163 official Transition Initiatives located throughout the US. These initiatives have been successfully revitalizing local food systems, strengthening local economies, reducing dependence on fossil fuels, and reweaving the torn fabric of community for more than a decade now. Come learn from Transition US Co-Director and certified Permaculture Designer, Don Hall, about how to effectively apply Permaculture ethics, strategies, and principles to build a thriving movement for community resilience right where you live.

Presented By: Don Hall

Anti-Racism 101: Removing Blind Spots, Building Bridges

Joshua Angelo Silva — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:38:37 +0000

In this 3-hour workshop, we will lay the foundation to:
*Develop clear definitions of race, oppression and privilege.
*Interrupt the pervasive and unseen operations of privilege.
*Increase capacity to create interactions that build bridges of trust.
*Develop a framework to understand cultural appropriation.
*See how a “color-blind” approach while well-intentioned both reads as a time-bomb of hurtful, unexamined entitlement and continues to yield unequal results.
* Cultivating a culture that is safe, inclusive, and supportive for diversity to thrive
* Learn tools, practices, and principals of alliance.

Ray and Michael share Common Vision’s Anti-Racism 101 training designed to give white folks the basic understanding and tools they need to create a more inclusive, safe, and supportive culture for diversity to thrive in their organizations and collaborations.

Saturday Oct 7| 2pm| Bioregional Hub

Presented By: Ray Stubblefield-Tave & Michael Flynn

Ray Stubblefield-Tave

Joshua Angelo Silva — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:33:13 +0000

Ray Stubblefield-Tave is the Program Director of Common Vision. As a biracial woman and the daughter of a Cultural Competency Counselor, she has been having conversations around the subject of race her entire life, and has been leading trainings formally over the last year. As a queer woman of color, she seeks to lead conversations on the many intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality (as well as many other factors). She holds a degree in Communications from Northwestern University.

2017 Workshop:Anti-Racism 101: Removing Blindspots, Building Bridges

Michael Flynn

Joshua Angelo Silva — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:31:16 +0000

Michael Flynn is the Executive Director of Common Vision and has been leading cultural competency workshops for the last decade. He focuses on aiding white folks in overcoming their unique challenges in seeing and understanding the operations of white privilege and racism and understanding their role and responsibility in counteracting the insidious and ubiquitous operations of these systems in everyday life and work.

2017 Workshop:Anti-Racism 101: Removing Blindspots, Building Bridges

The Art of Facilitation

Joshua Angelo Silva — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 22:21:11 +0000

In this workshop, we will build a toolbox of skills and practices for intentional and just facilitation of groups. The ways that we hold and move through our meetings can end up replicating on a micro scale the very systems of inequity and scarcity that we are working to change. But, just as powerfully, with intention and practical tools, meetings can serve as inclusive and accessible spaces in which to model and create practices of a just and thriving world. The voices that feel welcome in the room affect the world we will build. Fair share through facilitation is essential- and it’s also creative and fun! Participants will leave with activities, practices, and frameworks to apply in their own meetings, classes, and communities.

Learn and practice skills for modeling/embodying resilience and justice in the ways we lead our meetings, groups and classes.

Friday Oct 6| 2pm| Hops Tipi

Presented By: Rachel Economy

Rachel Economy

Joshua Angelo Silva — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 21:13:27 +0000

Rachel Economy is a writer, facilitator, artist, and permaculture educator and practitioner living in Berkeley, California. She has studied, practiced, and taught ecological gardening, sustainable farming, and permaculture practices in urban and rural environments across the country for almost a decade. In her work with students of all ages, Rachel focuses on social permaculture — re-writing the stories that create human and ecological systems, with an eye to justice and resilience. Rachel holds a Masters in Social Innovation and Sustainability from Goddard College, is a working poet and writer, and is currently attempting to grow an absurd number of plants in the space between her apartment and her neighbors’ driveway.

Leadership development – The Convergence

Transition to Permaculture: Scaling Up for Community Resilience

Anti-Racism 101: Removing Blind Spots, Building Bridges

Presented By: Ray Stubblefield-Tave & Michael Flynn

Ray Stubblefield-Tave

2017 Workshop:Anti-Racism 101: Removing Blindspots, Building Bridges

Michael Flynn

2017 Workshop:Anti-Racism 101: Removing Blindspots, Building Bridges

The Art of Facilitation

Presented By: Rachel Economy

Rachel Economy

2017 Workshop:The Art of Facilitation