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Social Permaculture Intensive with Pandora Thomas & Starhawk| Maricopa, CASeptember 28, 2016 - October 2, 2016 $825
 How can permaculture principles bring people together to co-create and empower one another to transform patterns of unjust power into healing, nurturing and inspirational collaborative experiences? All groups deal with issues of power, conflict and the need to make decisions. In this five-day intensive, using approaches inspired by permaculture principles, 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. 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 permaculture, magic, and indigenous wisdom will help us learn to be more effective and joyful as we work together to regenerate our world. This course is for you if you belong to a group or organization seeking to make change; a nonprofit or NGO that seeks to work collaboratively; a spiritual circle, ritual group, or faith community; a community group, Transition Town, collective, or worker-run cooperative; an intentional community or household or hope to start one; a collaborative arts, theater, or music group; a family or a community of friends that want to improve communications and ways of handling conflict. Course fee includes: Topics we will explore:5 comments to Social Permaculture Intensive with Pandora Thomas & Starhawk| Maricopa, CALeave a Reply to Will Carey Cancel reply |
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Hello! I would like to know if you still have places for this course and until when it would be safe to get enroll, based on the interest you have been tracking. Thanks for your attention.
Yes, we still have places. I’m not the one tracking enrollment–I would suggest contacting Quail Springs directly, but of course, sooner is always safer. If finances are the problem, they may have some scholarship money available. We’d love to see you there!
Any chance for including Aspies in the mix? We have low social skills but bring innovation. Neurodiversity can be an asset to the community… like with Temple Grandin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn_9f5x0f1Q
Definitely! I think Social Permaculture could be helpful in navigating many social situations, as it looks at patterns and can offer other pathways to reading and responding to social cues and other peoples’ emotions. And in that process, we might develop new tools and awarenesses. One of the core principles in Permaculture is that diversity generates resilience. Come along to a course sometime–you’d be welcome.
Oh…. my credentials: PDC 1982 at TESC with Bill Mollison and Andrew Jeeves; Permaculture Teacher’s Training, 2002 with Jude Hobbs and Tom Ward.