Permaculture Teacher Training Course

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.”

Come study the art and practice of natural finishes. Learn how to utilize breathable, low impact, non-toxic materials to make protective, beautiful and durable finishes. In this in-depth hands-on workshop you will be applying earthen plaster to the interior and exterior of a Tiny Home, the Cedar Nest, at Wilson Creek Gardens. The Project The Cedar Nest is an on going project that started in 2013 utilizing 95% repurposed materials from a 1920’s home and from the land at WCG. The structure is designed to demonstrate simple construction techniques in a small footprint, 11’x16’. It was in-filled with a straw clay slip last year and now is ready for the walls to receive the final plaster layer. We will be utilizing mostly on-site materials. What You Will Learn: • Sourcing and processing materials for making your own healthy, low cost finishes! • Proper methods for natural ingredients when preparing and applying clay based plaster. • Practice making and applying other types of finishes which can be applied to other surfaces such as; cement, bricks, drywall and latex paint. • The many advantages of constructing a tiny home with ecologically friendly building techniques. Who will benefit from this workshop? Builders, homesteaders, homeowners, interior decorators and artists enjoy being able to make and apply these healthy finishes successfully to both interior and exterior walls. Class cost: Three-day: $320.00 Includes: meals and camping: $20.00 Early bird discount (if register by 6/24) Daily rate: $ 110.00 Includes lunch. Location: Wilson Creek Gardens (http://cascadiapermaculture.com) Class will be held on the site of a 7-acre homestead and permaculture demonstration site located outside Cottage Grove, Oregon Registration: Contact je************@***il.com Instructor Eva Edleson is a talented natural builder, cook, gardener, and craftswoman. As a builder with over 15 years experience, she specializes in earthen wall systems, wo

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

La Escuela de Bioconstrucción Los Guindales propone un aprendizaje practico de bioconstrucción durante todo el año, en la finca de la ecoaldea Los Guindales (Algatocín – Málaga). Para mejorar las instalaciones del proyecto, vamos a construir un taller de carpintería. Durante el mes de agosto, lanzamos un llamamiento excepcional para poder avanzar la armadura con madera redonda. Se van a cuadrar troncos, a trazar en el suelo las varias piezas para luego trazar en las piezas mismas las cotas importantes, a cortar las piezas haciéndoles encajes tradicionales, a montar y a levantar los cinco pórticos previstos. Vamos a seguir la misma organización grupal que solemos tener ; hacemos turnos diarios de cocina, trabajamos de las 8h a las 10h, desayunamos hasta las 11h, y seguimos luego hasta el almuerzo a las 14h. Por la tarde seguiremos trabajando unas dos horas. Paralelamente, estamos cuidando una huerta y tres cabras. Para mas info sobre nuestra rutina y condiciones os dejo el enlace a seguir. https://escueladebioconstruccionlosguindales.wordpress.com/formacion/ Aquí somos un equipo fijo de cuatro personas llevando la escuela. Siembre habrán un mínimo de dos personas con experiencia para llevar el taller del mes de agosto. Tenéis a disposición un terreno grande para poner tiendas de campana, también hay una yurta según las disponibilidades. Pedimos una aportación de 120 euros para el mes entero o 70 euros para dos semanas para cubrir los gastos de comida. Caso tengan cualquier duda, no hesiten en hacérnosla saber. Pueden contactarnos a través de: bi*************************@***il.com