CONFLICTS/DISAGREEMENTS WORKSHOP-ISTANBUL

Are you a Permaculturist? Ecovillage Designer? Deep Ecologist? Builder? Gardener? Natural product maker? Healer? Herbalist? Nutritionist? Shaman? Dancer? Artist? Yogi & Yogini? Are you looking for a community to live to practice your knowledge and skills, a space to share your knowledge and skills with others, a place to use your knowledge and skills to create positive impact on earth? Then, you might be interested in this program! What is Gaia Ashram Teacher Internship Program? The Gaia Ashram Teacher Internship is a program where we provide a learning space for those who wish to deepen and widen their knowledge and skills relating to sustainable and conscious living, who wish to use their knowledge and skills to help creating a better place on earth and who wish to share their knowledge and skills with others, who want to gain experience on teaching, leading groups and practice their facilitation skills as well as other skills for community living. Who might be interested? We are providing this programme especially for people who are interested in teaching / practice/ experiment their knowledge that is related to sustainable or conscious living such as the following areas: Permaculture, Ecovillage Design, Deep Ecology, Spiritual Ecology, Wilderness retreats, Gardening, Natural Building, Alternative Technology, Nutrition, Herbalism, Healthy Food & Diet, Natural Healing & energy healing, Natural Products, Shamanism, Dance, Artists, Yoga & Tai Chi etc. What the Gaia Ashram Teacher Internship offers to teacher interns? Time to study/research/experiment in your area of expertise for two days a week. This does not include the holiday (Sunday) Space to practically practice/experiment/to go deep in your area of expertise/interest Training and mentoring on facilitation skills and leadership styles (workshop on facilitation skills every two weeks) Training and mentoring on workshop/session design Chance to lead /give small workshops/presentations a

For the first time, work camp “Stara Planina” will be held in village Visocka Rzana on Stara planina (Old mountain), 27km from Pirot, 700m above the sea level in South-Eastern part of Serbia. It will take place during the first two weeks of July supported by WWOOF Serbia as an official camp partner. The camp goal is to adapt the old school in the village Visocka Rzana, educate youth and motivate them to be active citizens in preserving the nature and other values for the sake of generations to come. Inspired by this sprit, WWOOF Serbia will organize a green building workshop for the participants and bring some WWOOFers to support maintaining the camp. Campers will have a chance to participate in various workshops (activism, ecology, permaculture, poetry, storytelling, diving..) and sport events, to hike a lot so they can see the beauty of Stara planina and local sightseeing such as as church in the cave with the picture of bald Jesus, waterfall Tupavica, Rosomac Gorge, springs and many others and they will have the possibility to swim in the mountain river Visocica. Work camp “Stara Planina” is the initiative of a non-profit organization “Pirot E Publika” supported by local partners “Sveti Sava” school from Pirot and Tourist Organization Pirot aiming to introduce the spirit of voluntarism, develop and improve rural and eco-tourism in Stara Planina since 2008. Last year camp is named as one of the TOP 10 youth projects in Serbia in 2013 by the umbrella Association of Serbian Youth. *** Accommodation and Food: In tents in the school yard or, in case it rains, inside the school classroom. 3 meals per day, prepared by campers themselves. The school is in really bad condition, but there are two classrooms that can be used as a storage and sleeping place. Campers will use solar showers and toilets in the school yard. We are looking forwards to face those challenges together with participants. Special remarks: Excursions to beautiful places on the moun

On March 4th, 2018, Earth Association (Yeryuzu Dernegi) will organize its 3rd seed exchange festival as part of “2018 Urban Gardens Project”. The euphoric and festive program with music will start at 14:00 in Moda, Kadikoy,ISTANBUL and we will distribute ancestral seeds.

At the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, CATIE, in Costa Rica. there will be a space to share some of the conference of the Summit, during the week..