Fran Whitlock

*We have a few places left on the September PDC, and room for one or 2 more for the Natural Building Course starting September 15th* Permaculture Design Course (PDC) Thailand September 2nd to September 14th, 2019 Daruma Eco Farm, Bang Phra, Si Racha District, Chon Buri 20110, Thailand In the early days of permaculture, Bill Mollison’s Designer’s Manual was the stated standard for most PDC’s. Sometimes a PDC description would state that it officially covered the “14 chapters” which are listed here: Introduction (to permaculture) Concepts and Themes in Design Methods of Design Pattern Understanding Climatic Factors Trees and their Energy Transactions Water Soils Earthworking and Earth Resources The Humid Tropics Dryland Strategies Humid Cool to Cold Climates Aquaculture The Strategies of an Alternative Global Nation In a few places, these chapters can serve as a guide for a PDC that will wind through the maze of design concepts and supporting background material. The Daruma PDC definitely covers the topics in these 14 chapters but this is not the order (or format) it is presented. Every PDC course here at Daruma begins with an orientation tour of the farm to give you an overall impression of how individual elements integrate with each other. This often generates a broad range of questions. We will, however, hold off on answering most of these questions initially but don’t worry, if the course material doesn’t answer them, they will be answered in time. We also spend some time getting to know each other and sharing our goals. One reason for not answering all the questions in the beginning is the most common answer in permaculture courses is, “it depends.” So it takes a little time to establish the basic foundations which we start on right away. That foundation begins with two important topics: The state of the world (why we need permaculture design thinking) and what is permaculture and where did it come from (a comprehensive o

Los Portales organizes an experiential workshop on working with dreams, a tool to connect to your strength and integrate it, enhancing your ability to consciously take part in the design of both your and the planet’s futures. The increasingly chaotic and insecure times we live in now urgently require us to trust ourselves as never before, to be aware of the real power we have to change things. We need to investigate our individual and collective creative potential in search of innovative solutions that dreams copiously provide. The workshop will be practical and experience-based and is aimed both at people who have an interest in better understanding their dreams, as well as those who seek to get to know themselves better and enhance their processes of change. It will also be very useful for therapists who want to apply this tool more in their work. Rosalie Poskin is a Jungian psychotherapist, family and organizational constellator, conflict facilitator, consultant in organizations, has been trained in Process Work psychology. She has integrated into her work techniques of energetic psychology and shamanism. You will learn to bring out the essential message of each dream for you and others various ways and techniques to explore dreams how to broaden your identity by integrating more parts, more facets of yourself how to get out of the collective dream that transforms us into powerless victims, how to access the power that is within you and express it safely how to follow the natural flow of your energies what is the purpose of your life, your “personal myth” to access creative solutions for your personal challenges but also for collective ones Dates: 1-2-3 May 2020 Hours: Friday and Saturday 10:00-18:00 – Sunday 10:00-16:00 Price : 180 € (plus food & accommodation)

Sin lugar a dudas, lo primero que piensa uno tras asistir a un evento como ha sido este GES 2014 –Primera Cumbre Internacional de la Red de la Ecoaldea Global (GEN) – es que ha llegado el momento de la celebración: celebrar, en primer lugar, que el encuentro haya tenido lugar, pues la crisis del Evola lo puso en serio peligro hace no tantos meses; celebrar también que la Cumbre se haya desarrollado en suelo africano, diseñada, facilitada y organizada por un equipo africano y con la asistencia de más de cien representantes de cuarenta y pico paises; celebrar por supuesto que el gobierno de Senegal nos haya agasajado y cumplimentado por todo lo alto, llegando incluso a prometernos apoyo futuro para las posteriores cumbres de este tipo y ayudas en la difusión de nuestro modelo social por los ministerios de los países del oeste africano; celebrar con alegría que una personalidad pública como el músico y mega estrella Youssou Ndour (hoy en día Ministro Consejero del gobierno senegalés) haya aceptado ser nuestro embajador de buena voluntad a escala internacional; y celebrar, cómo no, hasta donde ha llegado nuestra red, la GEN, surgida hace menos de 20 años entre un puñado de iniciativas ecoaldeanas o comunitarias pioneras y marginales. Tenemos pues motivos para la celebración: cada día que pasa nuestros objetivos y conocimientos son compartidos por más sectores de la sociedad, en todas latitudes. Nuestro lenguaje y contendidos son adoptados por el público general y ya no solo por unos pocos. Los políticos se enamoran con nuestras palabras, nuestros proyectos, pues son los que aportan soluciones a sus principales dolores de cabeza. Porque saben que en breve, si se llegan a firmar los próximos acuerdos mundiales sobre acciones para el desarrollo sostenible (Paris, Diciembre 2015), cada gobierno del mundo va a despertarse con un nuevo dolor de cabeza de nombre CO2. “¿Cómo secuestrar CO2?” se va a convertir en la pregunta de moda, el nuevo mantra…Ya no se trata de la

GEN is developing a continent-wide programme to transform villages in Africa into dynamic, viable, resilient communities that can wisely and sustainablymanage the natural resources upon which they depend. The conversation will look at successful ecovillage programmes (in Senegal, Egypt, Tanzania) and propose ways of dramatically scaling up these experiences.