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  • From: Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Robina McCurdy Slide Show & Teachers Tui Community Ecovillage NZ Workshop/Aug 22 , 23 Santa BarbaraCA/Southern California
  • Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 10:01:39 -0700

hi everyone
For those responding to this email, we have decided to extend Discount for early registration to Aug 8 for FACILITATING PERMACULTURE WITH/FOR CHILDREN Aug 22 Workshop Santa Barbara CA
thanks Margie www.sbpermaculture.org

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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network Presents
August 22 & 23, 2003

Robina McCurdy
>From Tui Community, New Zealand

Facilitating Permaculture with and for Children Sunday Aug 22
(S.E.E.D. Workshop)

A one day workshop for teachers & educators will be held on Sunday Aug 22, 10-4:30pm, with Robina McCurdy of the Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa (the indigenous Maori name for New Zealand), a non-profit charitable trust committed to the ethics and practices of sustainability. The workshop will be held at the Community Environmental Council Gildea Resource Center, a five acre site with gardens and passive solar buildings, in Santa Barbara, California. Cost $75 ($60 if paid by Aug 8).

Please make checks for workshop out to:
SB Permaculture Network
312 E. Sola St, #1
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
DESCRIPTION OF 1DAY WORKSHOP IN SANTA BARBARA

FACILITATING PERMACULTURE WITH/FOR CHILDREN
- for school teachers and environmentally caring parents and resource
people.
This workshop is an introduction to the work of S.E.E.D. (Schools
Environmental Education & Development), an Earthcare Education Aotearoa
programme which Robina developed and piloted over seven years, that is now
established in South Africa and Brazil and influencing school programmes in
Australia and NZ. S.E.E.D. works in cooperation with teachers, students and
parents to create a practically applied integrated land-use design for the
school grounds as a comprehensive outdoor classroom. It combines the
following elements: community participation, culture (eg song, drama,
dance), environmental awareness, permaculture design, practical
implementation of the design by children, teachers and parents together.
S.E.E.D. recognizes schools as community resources and communities as school
resources, and the training incorporates strategies to strengthen this
relationship.
This workshop is a hands-on introduction for practical educators, in the
principles and some methods of the S.E.E.D. programme.
It will cover:
* permaculture education within your school¹s curriculum
* some methods of school community participation and decisionmaking
* site survey and permaculture design at each age group/class level
* some practical implementation with children eg gardens, playgrounds, water
features, nature conservation areas
* environmental & gardening clubs & after-school programmes* children¹s gardens and nature areas at home


Transforming Schools Through Permaculture, SLIDE SHOW Monday, August 23, at 7pm, for a donation of $5.

An evening slide show program, Transforming Schools Through Permaculture, will also be held on Monday, August 23, at 7pm, for a donation of $5. The evening lecture & slide show will be at the Santa Barbara Central Library, Faulkner Gallery.
TRANSFORMING SCHOOLS THROUGH PERMACULTURE - Slide show & talk depicting the stages of S.E.E.D. (Schools Environmental Education & Development), which Robina began developing in New Zealand schools and later piloted as a fully fledged 'environmental education in action' programme in squatter settlements of Capetown, South Africa, funded by the Danish, British & NZ High Commissions.
Robina McCurdy is a state and Steiner trained primary school teacher, and has a Permaculture Diploma in Trusteeship, Media and Education, and qualifications in Seed Technology. For three decades Robina has been engaged in broadscale community development, and for the past 18 years in permaculture design and teaching, organic growing, the development of environmental education resources and the creation of participatory processes for decision making and collective action. She has taught and applied these powerful community-building methods with households, neighbourhoods, schools, farms, ecovillages and bioregions, in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Brazil and USA. her website is www.planetorganic.org.nz

For more information, please contact the Santa Barbara Permaculture Network at sbpcnet@silcom.com, or (805) 962-2571. Website: www.sbpermaculture.org

Please make checks for workshop out to:
SB Permaculture Network
312 E. Sola St, #1
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
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OTHER WORKSHOPS AND SLIDE SHOWS IN SOUTHERN CALIF FEATURING ROBINA McCURDY:

Robin McCurdy of the Tui Community and Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa New Zealand Workshops and Slides Shows in Southern California (www.planetorganic.org.nz)

Sat Aug 21 7pm San Luis Obispo Library TUI COMMUNITY in AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND Admission $5

Tues Aug 24, 5pm. Dinner and Social Farmer and the Cook Meiners Oaks (near Ojai)
805-640-9808

Tues Aug 24 8pm Ojai Slide Show “Ecovillages & Sustainable Communities around the Planet” Full Circle Farm, Donation $5

Thurs., Aug. 26, 7:30 pm Los Angeles . COMMUNITY GLUE.Slide Show /Talk L.A. Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angeles 90004, 213/738-1254 Robina shares global examples of processes and activities which build healthy community and bind it together, followed by discussion. $10 (sliding scale ok)

Fri. Aug. 27, and Sat Aug. 28 Los Angeles 9:30 am - 5:30 pm "Creating a Culture of Abundance in Urban Ecovillages" $100 - $200 (sliding scale). Make check out to CRSP and send to 117 Bimini Place #221, Los Angeles CA 90004 by August 23.
Co-Sponsoring organizations are L.A. Permaculture Guild (Contact: Joan Stevens <joaniebird007@yahoo.com>), CRSP/L.A. Eco-Village (Lois Arkin <crsp@igc.org>), Permaculture Institute of Southern California (Bill Roley <DrRoley@aol.com>)

SUN AUG 29, 9-4:30: Path to Freedom Urban Homestead, a sustainable living resource center, in Pasadena, CA. A one day workshop: Design in Partnership with Nature. Sliding scale: $135 - $45. Space is limited to 25-30 people for this event, so please reserve and send payment by August 19th. Contact: Anais Dervaes Email: dervaes@pathtofreedom.com Website: www.PathtoFreedom.com

Sun 29 Aug 7pm, Pasadena Slideshow: Permaculture Gardens Around the Planet ,Sliding scale, $15 - $5). Contact: Anais Dervaes Email: dervaes@pathtofreedom.com


DESCRIPTION OF SLIDE SHOWS AND WORKSHOPS:

SLIDE SHOW SAN LUIS OBISPO -TUI COMMUNITY in AOTEAROA/NEW ZEALAND - slides of Robina’s home, Tui Community, a 20-year-old intentional community pioneering new forms of social organisation that bring spirit into practical aspects of life, including work, money, gardening and sexuality. The information presented in the slideshow, together with viewers' questions, offer an opportunity for a stimulating dialogue about community living. Tui Community is featured in the book 'Creating Harmony: Conflict Resolution in Community', published by Permanent Publications and Gaia Trust.

WORKSHOP SANTA BARBARA- S.E.E.D. is an Earthcare programme which Robina developed and piloted over seven years, that is now established in South Africa and Brazil and influencing school programmes in Australia and NZ. These workshops are trainings for practical educators in the principles and methods of Earthcare’s S.E.E.D. programme. They take place within a school setting, as we can immediately apply what we learn in a ‘hands on’ way with classes.
S.E.E.D. works in cooperation with teachers, students and parents to create a practically applied integrated land-use design for the school grounds as a comprehensive outdoor classroom It combines the following elements: community participation, culture (eg song, drama, dance), environmental awareness, permaculture design, practical implementation of the design by children, teachers and parents together. S.E.E.D. recognizes schools as community resources and communities as school resources, and the training incorporates strategies to strengthen this relationship.\

FACILITATING PERMACULTURE WITH/FOR CHILDREN
- for school teachers and environmentally caring parents and resource
people.
This workshop is an introduction to the work of S.E.E.D. (Schools
Environmental Education & Development), an Earthcare Education Aotearoa
programme which Robina developed and piloted over seven years, that is now
established in South Africa and Brazil and influencing school programmes in
Australia and NZ. S.E.E.D. works in cooperation with teachers, students and
parents to create a practically applied integrated land-use design for the
school grounds as a comprehensive outdoor classroom. It combines the
following elements: community participation, culture (eg song, drama,
dance), environmental awareness, permaculture design, practical
implementation of the design by children, teachers and parents together.
S.E.E.D. recognizes schools as community resources and communities as school
resources, and the training incorporates strategies to strengthen this
relationship.
This workshop is a hands-on introduction for practical educators, in the
principles and some methods of the S.E.E.D. programme.
It will cover:
* permaculture education within your school¹s curriculum
* some methods of school community participation and decisionmaking
* site survey and permaculture design at each age group/class level
* some practical implementation with children eg gardens, playgrounds, water
features, nature conservation areas
* environmental & gardening clubs & after-school programmes* children¹s gardens and nature areas at home


TRANSFORMING SCHOOLS THROUGH PERMACULTURE - slides depicting the stages of S.E.E.D. (Schools Environmental Education & Development), which Robina began developing in NZ schools and later piloted as a fully fledged 'environmental education in action' programme in squatter settlements of Capetown, South Africa, funded by the Danish, British & NZ High Commissions.

SLIDE SHOW OJAI -ECOVILLAGES & SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES AROUND THE PLANET - slides of ecovillages and communities throughout the world, their similarities, differences and common learnings. The presentation includes some of the processes Robina uses to build sustainable community and her participatory approach to permaculture landuse design and development.


SLIDE SHOW LA ECOVILLAGE -COMMUNITY GLUE' - global examples of processes and activities which build healthy community and bind it together, followed by some discussion.

WORKSHOP LA ECOVILLAGE - CREATING A CULTURE OF ABUNDANCE
The relationship between economic activity and human contribution. The workshop will be a sharing of attitudes, models, working examples, practical tools & techniques. The workshop may include, depending on the group's interest and focus: internal community labour systems, trading within the wider community, different economic approaches to ecovillage/intentional community membership, including rights, privileges and responsibilities, commercial businesses supporting community endeavours, creating an economic activity centre, LETS system, permaculture principles applied to economic development and staging for economic sustainability, economic indicators of sustainability, quality of life as an economic advantage.

WORKSHOP PATH OF FREEDOM, PASADENA -DESIGN IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NATURE - introduction to permaculture design principles, tools and process, and applying these to needs of the land, specifically to identify, enhance and create sacred spaces, restore areas in need of healing and balancing, and to protect and create wildlife habitat.


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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network
(805) 962-2571
sbpcnet@silcom.com
www.sbpermaculture.org

"We are like trees, we must create new leaves, in new directions, in order to grow." - Anonymous





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