From: Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network <lakinroe@silcom.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [permaculture] Sustainable Aid Courses July 27th - August 6th 2009
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 07:53:15 -0700
Sustainable Aid Courses July 27th - August 6th
Facilitating Resilient Community Development in Areas of Need
Permaculture for 2/3rds World, Indigenous and Culturally Diverse Communities
With Robyn Francis
international permaculture designer and teacher
www.permaculture.com.au
Sustainable Aid Courses
Facilitating Resilient Community Development in Areas of Need,
Permaculture for 2/3rds World, Indigenous and Culturally Diverse
Communities
With Robyn Francis international permaculture designer with over 25
years experience throughout Australia, New Zealand, USA, India,
Indonesia, Germany, Cuba, and Taiwan, and including projects ranging
from outback communities to urban development, domestic gardens to
public landscapes, ecovillage design to bioregional and state
planning, with clients ranging from the grassroots to corporate and
government sectors. See below for more on Robyn Francis.
This course develops awareness and skills for working in areas of
need, and with people from other cultural backgrounds in both a
first-world context and in overseas development work, and is
presented in two complementary parts.
Part 1 - Working with Cultural Diversity
July 27-30, 2009
The first part deals with cultural awareness, working with people
from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds, appropriate
communications and inclusive facilitation techniques and processes.
This part of the course explores issues and strategies specific to
working with indigenous, multicultural, ethnic and minority
communities and groups in developed nations. The principles covered,
however, provide an essential foundation for Part 2 of the course.
Part 1 provides valuable insights for those involved in working in
community development programs, from community gardens and schools to
transition planning, which involve liaising with people from
culturally diverse backgrounds and disadvantaged groups.
Part 2 - Overseas Development Work
August 1-6, 2009
Part 2 builds further on the skills-set of Part 1 for those working
or intending to be involved in overseas aid and development work. Key
issues facing the 2/3rds world are addressed together with
Permaculture strategies to facilitate solution processes. Topics
include survival security (food, water, shelter), health and
nutrition, environmental health, kitchen garden and local food
security programs, appropriate low-tech options, and integrating
permaculture with traditional production systems in humid and arid
tropics. The course also addresses facilitation processes for
community directed program development, project appraisal and
evaluation, disaster preparedness, post disaster relief and recovery,
and ways we need to prepare ourselves for undertaking this kind of
work including research, working with development agencies and NGO's,
and issues of personal security in overseas field work. Course
activities will include discussion, case studies, presentations,
participatory processes, role play, group projects, practical and
experiential activities. This course can be very challenging on a
deep personal level, and will provide an invaluable basis for either
working in the field or with support foundations and organizations.
Robyn Francis shares experience and insights from over 2 decades of
working as Permaculture trainer and consultant in diverse countries
and cultures including India, Indonesia, Fiji, Taiwan, Cuba, with
Australian Aboriginals and NZ Maori, and as advisor/mentor to
Permaculture NGO's and activists around the world. This course was
originally developed by Robyn Francis in 1991 and undergoes constant
revision in keeping with global changes and their impacts on the
world's poorest and most vulnerable peoples. These courses now form
part of the Accredited Permaculture Training Certificate IV and
Diploma of Permaculture studies with Erda Institute at Djanbung
Gardens Permaculture.
Registration details
Prices include tuition, certification, textbook, catered meals, and
camping nearby.
Full Course (Parts 1 & 2) $1250 ($300 deposit will secure your space**)
Part 1 only $550
Part 2 only $820
**Early registration to secure your space is advised as the course is
expected to fill quickly
Unless otherwise indicated, prices listed are for payments made in full.
Limited work trade and payment plans are offered, please inquire
early. Onsite Childcare program possible, please inquire early as it
will be designed around the needs presented.
Contact to register or for more info: Kolmi Majumdar,
<mailto:info@quailsprings.org>info@quailsprings.org or 805-886-7239
About Robyn Francis
Australian permaculture designer, educator, pioneer and presenter,
Robyn has been working internationally for over 25 years, throughout
Australia, New Zealand, India, Indonesia, USA, Germany, Cuba and
Taiwan. The founder of Permaculture International, Erda Institute and
Djanbung Gardens Permaculture, she was editor of the Permaculture
International Journal, and one of the key architects of the
Accredited Permaculture Training providing national vocational and
trade qualifications in Permaculture. Her experience has encompassed
all climate zones in projects ranging from outback communities to
urban development, domestic gardens to public landscapes, ecovillage
design to bioregional and state planning, with clients ranging from
the grassroots to corporate and government sectors. One of
permaculture's early pioneers, Robyn has conducted over 100 PDC's
plus numerous advanced and professional development courses. She has
developed one of permaculture's leading education and demonstration
sites, Djanbung Gardens in sub-tropical NSW, where she has
established a bioregional campus for vocational training in
Permaculture. Robyn is also an accomplished musician,
singer-songwriter and artist, an avid gardener and enjoys getting
dirty walking the talk. For more information and full CV visit
www.permaculture.com.au
[permaculture] Sustainable Aid Courses July 27th - August 6th 2009,
Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network, 07/02/2009