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Last updated on May 16, 2013
August 13-17
"Social Permaculture: Nurturing Effective and Creative Groups"
An Earth Activist Training course.
When we come together to co-create, to empower one another or to challenge the structures of unjust power, we face unique challenges. All groups struggle with issues of power, conflicts, and the need to make decisions. Collaborative groups may be healing, nurturing, and inspirational—or they may founder on the rocks of conflict and poor communication.
In this five-day intensive, we'll explore how to structure our groups for maximum group health, how to share power fairly, improve our communication skills, mediate conflicts and facilitate group processes. And we'll share tools for decision making and constructive critique. Starhawk's latest book, The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, will be our foundation.
We'll balance the process work with time outdoors in nature, including hands-on work on the land, as well as walks, bird sits and wilderness awareness. Insights from both permaculture and magic will help us learn to be more effective and joyful as we work together to regenerate our world.
Starhawk and Charles Williams, instructors.
Location: O.U.R. Ecovillage, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Cost: Early bird special through June 15: $699 CND; after June 15: $799 CND.
Includes camping, meals, and all materials.
A limited number of partial work-trade options are available; please contact O.U.R. Ecovillage to apply.
For more information and to register:
http://ourecovillage.org/events/2013-social-permaculture-with-starhawk/
September 7-21
Earth Activist Training in Johnson, Vermont, at Prospect Rock Permaculture Center's Willow Crossing Farm.
Instructors: Starhawk, Charles Williams, Keith Morris, Lisa DePiano, and Skotty Kellogg.
A two-week permaculture design certificate course with a focus on organizing and activism, and a grounding in earth based spirituality. Learn how to heal soil and cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems, using a minimum of energy and resources and creating real abundance and social justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that can sustain our spirits. Participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of ritual, games, projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological design.
Cost: $1600-1900 sliding scale. To register, go to: http://prospectrockpermaculture.wordpress.com/2011-pdc/registration/
Visit Prospect Rock online to check out the location and facilities. Visit EAT for more information about this course, and also Prospect Rock's EAT page.
September 25 - October 9
Starhawk will teach at the special Permaculture Design Course at Marda Permaculture Farm in the West Bank, Palestine.
For more information:
mardafarm.wordpress.com
October 12-13
Starhawk will be the keynote speaker and will present a workshop at the Women and Spirituality Conference, at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
Keynote talk:
"Women's Hidden Histories: Goddesses, Witches, Hags and Wild Women"
At the root of Western Culture, at the very beginnings of what we call "civilization," lie societies where the sacred was envisioned in female form and women held social power. The suppressed memory of that time lives on in art, in myths and fairy tales, even in contemporary popular culture: witness Avatar. When women begin to reclaim that power, we're seen as fearful and scary. Yet those images of Goddesses and Witches, hags and harpies can lead us home to our wild, creative, world-changing selves.
Workshop TBA.
For more information: http://sbs.mnsu.edu/women/conference/
October 26
Starhawk will take part in Reclaiming's 34th annual Spiral Dance in celebration of Samhain.
Time: doors open 6:00 p.m. for altar viewing, ritual begins 7:30 p.m.
Location: Kezar Pavilion, 755 Stanyan St., San Francisco
Cost: $20-100 sliding scale
For more information, please visit reclaimingspiraldance.org.
January 5-19, 2014
Earth Activist Training in Cazadero, California, at Black Mountain Preserve
Taught by Starhawk and Charles Williams
A two-week permaculture design certificate course with a focus on organizing and activism, and a grounding in earth based spirituality. Learn how to heal soil and cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems, using a minimum of energy and resources and creating real abundance and social justice. Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that can sustain our spirits. Participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of ritual, games, projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological design.
Cost: $1600-1900 sliding scale. Some work trade available, apply early.
For more information about EAT and to register, visit Earth Activist Training.
