Los Portales organizes an experiential workshop on working with dreams, a tool to connect to your strength and integrate it, enhancing your ability to consciouly take part in the design of both your and the planet’s futures. … Read more
A participative, contemplative, reflective, analytic and creative programme designed to accommodate applicants with interests in a variety of areas of leadership: Education for Empowerment; Personal and Spiritual Growth; and Community Empowerment. UPDATE: Rolling applications 1 Feb – 31 July; Start date: 1 September, 2020! … Read more
Learn the traditional craft of timber framing and gain the skills you need to build your own tiny house. Build a beautiful handcrafted timber frame on our course, no nails, just beautiful natural wood! Join our community of craftsmen and women in a fully-catered week-long course in Golden Bay, Tasman. … Read more
Curso de Diseño de Ecoaldeas (EDE) Diseño de Sistemas Integrados para la Regeneración 2X1 PDC+EDE Curso de Diseño en Permacultura y Curso de Diseño de Ecoaldeas. … Read more
Come for your Permaculture Course in Thailand, and experience Daruma ecovillage at our incredible location only 1 hour from Bangkok (BKK) airport, on the Eastern seaboard of the Gulf of Thailand. The Permaculture Design Certificate Course, widely referred to as the PDC, typically requires 72 hours of class and practical design activities, and has been taught globally for decades now to students all over the globe. Our Permaculture Courses run every month. … Read more
The goal for the Intensive PDC is to fit this into a week period including (when required) both weekends. That means 9 calendar days which is about 8 actual course days (after administrative time). … Read more
We created a project called RTR or Resilience Through Recovery. This project is an integrated approach to helping different communities in Nepal sustainably recover from the recent earthquakes allowing them to be even more resilient and prepared to deal with future challenges. We envisage that the learnings from this project will have relevance for rural communities in many parts of the world who are faced with the need to become increasingly self-sufficient, and resilient during these times … Read more
Key challenges for people on the ground - both affected and responding: The Musurrunakuna people lost their territory for third time. This people of the Inga's lineage faced a third displacement by natural disaster (the 2 previous by land conflict and violence), which entails a great hit against community sovereignty and cultural survival. The situation of emergency in Mocoa has its origin in the lack of urban planning and historical non-favorable political leadership inside the city’s … Read more
This year’s European Ecovillage Conference will take place in the stunning surroundings of La Comune di Bagnaia, Tuscany, Italy from July 14-17. Global ecovillagers and seekers will come together to share, participate and celebrate with hundreds of pioneers from across the European ecovillage networks. This year’s conference, inspired by the values of our host community, will explore the theme “Ecovillages in the world, the world in ecovillages: peace, ecology and social … Read more
This 2-day course will first introduce the concepts of each of these incredibly important books that relate directly to effective permaculture design. Then applications of these theories will be shared until It will become obvious why this is the most significant and substantial evolution of permaculture. … Read more
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