Communities for Future summit hub - Muizenberg village 2020

This Tu B’Shvat, we will join together in community, to detox and reset, allowing inner healing to help transform our outer world. Dates: February 6-10 | Tel Aviv (CityTree – 25 Bialik) Thursday – Orienting Around a New Story Friday – Soil: Grounding Saturday – Fire: Transformation Sunday – Air: Clearance Monday – Water: Life * * * Our intention is to provide a peaceful, communal space for you to reconnect to your innate essence as a human being on a living Earth. Working closely with the elements (earth, water, air, fire) through meditation, knowledge sharing and practical hands-on workshops, we will reset internally and realign ourselves with the external cycles that shape our experience of existence. Each day we will discuss the philosophy and science behind the practical ecological skills that we will learn, as well as anchor this knowledge in gratitude and ritual. * The retreat intentionally coincides with the dates of our partner – the Global Ecovillage Network’s (GEN) Communities for Future Summit. We will participate daily in lectures from leaders, change-makers, and indigenous elders from around the world who have come together with GEN to inspire an “authentic response to the Climate Emergency, a response that is not driven by urgency, fear, panic, and hurry, but comes from a deep sense of connectedness, love and responsibility.”

Dates: August 7 – 13, 2016 Instructors: Jude Hobbs, with Guests including Andrew Millison and Others Location: Wilson Creek Gardens, Cottage Grove, Oregon USA Sharing information is Regenerative ~ Be Part of the Permaculture Solution Empower yourself to advocate for change through whole systems design and teaching! In this dynamic and interactive course, you learn significant teaching techniques to communicate and apply Permaculture principles and strategies to a wide variety of audiences and educational settings. Our goal is to encourage and inspire your unique strengths and abilities by demonstrating diverse teaching modalities including effective use of lecture, storytelling, class discussions, interactive experiential activities, visual aids and hands-on skills. As a group we facilitate a safe setting of active learning, building confidence by experiencing essential practice via preparing and co-teaching multiple presentations. As with a Permaculture Design Course, in this teacher training we offer practical solutions for sharing information, which is essential in these current times.We have had great success teaching, and are advocates for the Mollisonian Standard Permaculture Design Course curriculum. We also believe each course taught needs to speak directly to local conditions and the specific skills of the presenters’ team. Jude has taught this course almost thirty times and it is never the same way twice… As proactive educators we are constantly adjusting the way a workshop or course is presented…creating innovative experiences that address varied learning styles while moving from theory to practice. We appreciate the unique skills and experiences of those attending and cultivate networking for future connections and support. A core part of Jude’s work is inspiring and training the next generation of Permaculture advocates. Course Topics Include: • Philosophy and Ethics of Instruction • Pedagogy, Teaching Systems, Principles and P

An international training course on deep communication and empathic leadership skills for actors in European / international projects. Evolutionary change needs new leadership qualities. The zeitgeist is a calling for a transformation of fear-based behavior into participatory action with co-empowerment, transparency, connection and flow. Social competencies necessary for this transition are made up of two ingredients: the ability to benefit from conflict and the ability to create cooperation. Cooperative Communication is a key skill enabling project leaders to enter into new forms of contact with themselves, with people around them and with their environment. It includes deeper listening and empathy to connect us with the context in which we act and it supports integrative growth. In this training course we will experience different approaches to connected communication through the tools of non-violent and inter-cultural communication, deep ecology and ZEGG Forum. We want to explore a) how to get into deeper contact with ourselves and b) different methods of collective intelligence in order to enter new ways of empathic leadership and achieve higher quality in projects. http://www.zegg-forum.org/cooperative-communication.phtml

Wednesday, July 11, 2018, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM EDT Please join us for an exchange of knowledge and celebration focusing on ‘implementing SDG 11.4 through Local Voices and Global Agendas for Cultural & Natural Heritage,’ a special event to be held in parallel to the UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF). The event will bring together both local (US) and international stakeholders active in the protection of the world’s natural and cultural heritage, illustrating the vital connections between integrated heritage protection and sustainable development. Through speakers’ interventions and poster presentations, the event will also showcase exemplary efforts on how SDG11, the Urban Goal, can be implemented from the perspective of 11.4. The UN High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) will be convening in New York City on July 9-18, 2018 to undertake their annual review of progress made on Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals, under the theme “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies.” The HLPF 2018 will also review SDG11: this is where the UN has explicitly recognized the fundamental role of culture and heritage in sustainable development, i.e. Target 11.4 to “protect and safeguard the world’s cultural and natural heritage” in order to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.” Both cultural and natural heritage sites, while under immense pressure from the impacts of urbanization, climate change and degradation due to other natural and human factors, play a crucial role supporting local economies, livelihoods, and quality of life in human settlements. LIGHT FOOD AND BEVERAGES WILL BE SERVED Selected poster presentations will be on view during the reception. An event organized with the collaboration of UNESCO, UN-Habitat, Government of Ireland, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) and