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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
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 different cultures, the labyrinth is an archetype that unites us as a people. Unlike a maze meant to deceive and distract, in the labyrinth there 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, you are not the only one: every human is involved in this process, but most of us are not aware of what we design. Imagine how ...
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 Breema’s Nine Principles of Harmony, give us practical tools to restore energy to the body, bring clarity to the mind, and balance the feelings, in any ...
Discovering the Living Earth: Learning to Live in the Spiritual Dimension of the Planet
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/IMG_6246-825x510.jpg[/image_frame] In this experiential workshop we will learn how to connect and communicate with the soul of the land and its reflection in us. Through this process we will learn how to attune to the spiritual evolution of the Earth’s soul and how to integrate the spiritual aspects of evolution in the most practical and live ...
Social Permaculture & Community Organizing
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/1441593989096.jpeg[/image_frame] How can we build stronger relationships within our local communities and groups? Explore fun and practical applications of the permaculture principles in organizing working groups, community events and actions that foster authentic and lasting relationships. Join Jasmine Fuego for an interactive and engaging workshop on Social Permaculture & Community Organizing. This workshop is about community ...
“Dirt Cheap Housing”
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Cob_Oven_DailyActs_0.jpg[/image_frame] In this hands on natural building workshop, participants will construct a small house in just a couple hours. Miguel "Cobalot" Elliott will teach how to build a small house using all recycled materials, such as pallets, bottles, straw, and earth. The structure could be used as a dog house, coop, children's play house, or a meditation hut ...
Policy Making for Resilient Local Economies
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Policy-Making-for-Reslilent-Local-Economies.jpeg[/image_frame] To create socially and economically resilient communities, we need to change or create thousands of city, state, and federal laws. What if every person takes charge of advocating for and passing just one law? By turning community organizers and climate activists into policy advocates for resilient communities, we could ring in an era of new ...
Local Currencies & Economic Resilience
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/chongkee_tan.png[/image_frame] From 1970 to 2010, the world has witnessed 145 banking crises, 72 sovereign debt crisis and 208 monetary crashes. Writers such as Charles Einsenstein and Bernard Lietaer have clearly identified one of the root cause of these crisis: our monoculture monetary system. They have also outlined the solution: local or community currency. However, the current ...
Design Your Regenerative Enterprise
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Kevin_Bayuk_Workshop-Design-Your-Regenerative-Enterprise.jpg[/image_frame] Direct discussion and learning to take your ethical regenerative enterprise aspirations into reality or further towards your vision. This workshop is for individuals with an idea for a regenerative enterprise, a nascent venture or even just the intention to someday start your own enterprise. We will work directly with examples brought by participants to provide ...
Whole Systems Seed – Breeding and Adaptation for Resiliency
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/100_1235.jpg[/image_frame] Thoughtful selection, breeding and adaptation of our vegetable cultivars can enable plants to adapt to climate, disease, drought, pests and other environmental stresses. Commercially available varieties are often grown in overly controlled, input subsidized scenarios. Designing whole systems seed systems begins with fostering good resilient genetics through traditional plant breeding and then ripples outward through ...
Closed-Loop Aquaponics: Combining the Sciences of Permaculture & Aquaponics
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/unnamed.jpg[/image_frame] Wether you are a beginner, a backyard hobbyist, a homesteader, or a skilled professional wanting to grow more food sustainably and for less work, Aquaponics has something to offer. Aquaponics is one of the most sustainable and productive farming systems in the world. It combines Aquaculture and Hydroponics to create a truly self-sufficient closed loop system ...
Indigenous Mind: Re-awakening Our Connection to Nature & Cosmos
[image_frame align="left" height="200" width="200" prettyphoto="false"]http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/EagleAndCondor.jpg[/image_frame] Maria Owl Gutierrez will be speaking on the relevance of nature-based ritual, ceremony and rites of passage for creating resiliency and harmony in our modern culture. Through interactive processes participants will be invited to look at simple yet effective ways to integrate ritual and/or rites of passage into the work they already do or into ...
