Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fw: Earthcare Education workshop in New Zealand

[Hans Tilstra (hanstilstra]

Here's details of a workshop which just happens to be taking place in one of
the most beautiful spots on earth. Also, february & march are a great time
of year to go (summer!). Whilst Australia & New Zealand tend to be expensive
places to fly to from North America, you might find Canada 3000 reasonably
prices. More importantly, they stop in Hawai'i, Rarotonga and Auckland.

----- Original Message -----
From: Robina McCurdy <robina [at] win.co.nz>
To: Hans Tilstra <hanstilstra [at] rabbit.com.au>
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: Earthcare Education workshops


Hi Hans

Here's the whole workshop, including dates!
all the best
Robina

DESIGN  FOR  SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY

WEEK 1:   Sun 25th Feb - Sat 3rd March  DESIGN FOR CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY:
on the mountain - Anahata Retreat Centre.  Robina McCurdy,  Daniel Nepia,
Kaya Singer, Brook Weatherall

WEEK 2:   Sun 4th - Fri 9 March DESIGN FOR PHYSICAL SUSTAINABILITY: by a
river - Rainbow Valley Community.
* Richard Walker, Ro Piekarski, Bruce Geddes, Robina McCurdy

Fri eve 9th - Sun 11 March NATURE ATTUNEMENT: by the ocean - Tui Community.
Labetia, Eshana, John Massey, Peter Cumming

WEEK 3:  Mon 12th - Sun 18th March DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE SETTLEMENTS
: up a valley - Onetahua Marae, Week 3 & 4:
* Peter Cumming. Robina McCurdy, Daniel Nepia, Eshana, Ro Piekarski

WEEK 4:   Sun 18th - Sat 24th March
ECO-VILLAGE DESIGN PRACTICUM

COURSE PARTICIPANT REQUIREMENTS

The full course is open to people with a good knowledge and experience of at
least one of the following: permaculture, sustainable systems, ecology or
community.  If you have not completed a Permaculture Design Certificate
course,, you are encouraged to consider attending the Permaculture course at
Anahata Retreat Centre (also located in Golden Bay) between 9th and 24th
February.   Also read 'Introduction To Permaculture' by Bill Mollison with
Reny Slay.

Participation in weeks 1 and 2 is a pre-requisite for participation in weeks
3 and 4.  However it is possible to participate in weeks 1 and/or 2
independently or together without doing weeks 3 and 4.

COST:  includes all food and facilities.   As we will be functioning as a
'community within a community', you will need your own tent.   Camping style
significantly reduces costs.   A limited number of indoor sleeping spaces
are available at extra charge.

Week 1:   6 days      NZ$ 420
Week 2:   5 days      NZ$ 380
Weeks 1 & 2:          NZ$ 720
Nature Attunement Weekend:   2 days  NZ$ 180
Weeks 1 & 2 plus Nature Attunement   NZ$ 900
Course Total:    28 days             NZ$ 1500

Scholarship Fund
Contributions towards our scholarship fund  are invited, and especially
encouraged from overseas '1st World'country participants who are advantaged
by NZ's currency exchange rate, to assist New Zealanders and '3rd World'
peoples to attend.

Special Circumstances Attendance and Fees:
*  For people registering for the whole  course  before  24th November,
there is a  reduction of 5% of the total cost.

*  The limit of participants for the full course is 28 people.  There will
be seven places above this number for people wanting to attend the first and
second weeks only plus the Nature Attunement weekend.  After this number of
people have registered, a waiting list will be kept (refundable deposits
required) to add more people in the event of full course numbers not being
reached.  Non full course participants wanting to attend the Nature
Attunement weekend must have attended either of the first two weeks.

*  To make the course fee attainable to people in NZ it has been pruned down
to the absolute
minimum it costs to run it.  The only way reductions will be available is by
others contributing to the scholarship fund.  If you are wanting to attend
but can't see how you can afford it, we suggest that you try to raise the
money at the same time as putting your name down for the scholarship fund.
To register for this fund, send relevant details about yourself, why you are
requesting assistance, and how you plan to use the knowledge and skills you
would gain from
attending.   In lieu of a scholarship, we  will consider a very limited
number of people whose circumstances warrant it, paying by arranged
installment.



TUTOR PROFILES

Robina McCurdy
Robina of Earthcare Education Aotearoa is a co-founder and resident of Tui
Land Trust, a sixteen year old intentional community based on living in
harmony with the land and people and working towards becoming a wholistic
learning centre.  Robina holds a Diploma of Pemaculture Design and for the
past fifteen years she has been engaged in broader community development,
permaculture design, teaching, organic gardening and orchard management,
along with the development of environmental education resources and
participatory processes for decision making.  As well as working extensively
in NZ, her skill as an ecovillage design and intentional communities
consultant and workshop facilitator has taken her to Australia, South
Africa, USA, Brazil, Ireland and Scotland.

Daniel Nepia
Daniel of Earthcare Eduction Aotearoa specialises in holistic design process
and community capacity building.  Some of Daniel's pioneering work has been:
nationally co-ordinating the Tree Project, a state-wide school and community
greening programme in Australia; and together with Robina, co-designing and
co-facilitating the S.E.E.D. programme, using permaculture methodology to
transform desolate school grounds into productive learning environments, in
a squatter settlement area of South Africa. His work has taken him
throughout Australia, Russia, USA, New Zealand and Africa, consulting to
government departments, working in communities and teaching sustainable land
use design.  Daniel is beginning to work with permaculture for marae and
kohanga reo and is currently working with Maori and Pacific Island
communities in South Auckland to develop Community Supported Agriculture
(C.S.A.) schemes.

Elizabeth Bragg  (Eshana)
Eshana of Sustainble Futures, Australia has a university doctorate in
Eco-psychology and is a  deep ecologist who internationally facilitates
personal connection with nature through a range of creative experiential
processes.  Her professional experience includes: social/environmental
research and evaluation, teaching ecopyschology and ecophilosophy; and the
cofacilitation of community planning workshops.  Eshana has also been
awarded a Commmendation for Excellence in Planning from the Royal Australian
Planning Institute for her work on the Sustainability Training and Education
Programme.

Peter Cuming
Peter of Sustainable Future Australia is a regional planner and designer of
sustainable human settlements with a specific focus on eco-villages.  He
holds a degree in Urban and Regional Planning and a Diploma of Permaculture
Design.  His professional experience includes: the facilitation of major
community and government planning forums, local and regional conservation,
eco-tourism and resource management.  Peter is renowned for his innovative
planning work and has recieved state and national recognition as well as an
International Permaculture Service Award.

Kaya Singer
Kaya lives at Tui Community and is a psychotherapist, educator, writer, and
Reiki Master.  She has been a professional counsellor for over 20 years, and
during this time has facilitated personal growth workshops and trainings in
the United States and New Zealand, on topics such as relationships, conflict
resolution, recovery issues, and social change.  She is now offering
workshops on community skills building and group process together with:

Brook Weatherall
Brook has been involved in co-operative and intentional community projects
for many years.  Origionally trained in the healing arts, in the last few
years she has been developing her ability to be an effective group leader
and is an advanced trainee in the methods of psychodrama and sociometry.
Currently she works as a counsellor and psychotherapist with groups and
individuals in Golden Bay and lives at Tui community.

Richard Walker
Richard Walker is a consulting registered engineer and permaculture designer
with 27 years experience in NZ and overseas in the design and construction
of both large and small scale projects ranging from large rural development
projects to individual adobe houses.  He has a honours degree in engineering
and a diploma in permaculture design and has tutored many courses and
seminars on permaculture design and earth and strawbale housing.  He has a
broad range of experience in many fields including roads, earthworks, water
supply, waste water, land development, hydrology, flood protection,
aquaculture and housing particularly earth and strawbale houses.  Richard
prepared the draft for the new NZ Earth Building Standards.

Ro Piekarski
Ro has a bachelors degree in environmental science and a masters in
education.  He has studied, experimented with, and applied appropriate
technology, organic gardening, and sustainable living for decades.  Ro has
considerable experience in technology applications, including solar energy,
water systems, and conversion of a petrol auto to an electric vehicle.  He
has taught environmental science at the university level, as well as
continuing education courses in solar energy, energy efficiency, energy
economics, and micro-hydro. In 1980, he was a recipient of a U.S. Department
of Energy Appropriate Technology grant to build his self designed
earth-sheltered, passive solar home.  He also has experience in the building
trades: stone masonry, rammed earth, irrigation, and power and
transportation systems.

Bruce Geddes
Bruce has a background in the electronics service industry and taught
related subjects in Australia for three years.  He currently runs his own
business as an alternative power specialist, consulting, designing and
installing alternative power systems on the West coast and top of the South
Island of New Zealand.  He has expertise in solar, wind and micro-hydro
power systems, and has installed a mircro-hydro power system for his
owner-built home.

Labetia Grace-Webb
Since 1988, Labeitia has been making Vibrational Essences for healing the
environment and people, and since 1990, co-creating annual 'Deva Planetary
Healing Calendars'.  Her essences and calendars are used all over the world.
Lobeitia has written two teaching manuals on earth healing and related
subjects as well as a book on tree consciousness, all currently being
published.  Throughout her lifetime, she has been attuned to Earth Mother¹s
energies, and has been actively working with environmental and land healing
issues globally since 1990.  This has led her to teaching workshops
throughout Aotearoa / NZ on essences, sacred ritual and earth attunement.

John Massey
John is a knowledgeable farmer-gardener and dedicated community development
worker.  He trained as a herbalist in USA and travelled throughout the world
to extend his knowledge of culinary and medicinal plants.  For the past 14
years John has been the co-ordinator of the Golden Bay Community Gardens.
During this time, through formal training courses and by living example, he
has facilitated  many people in learning the practicalities and exploring
the mysteries of working with the natural world   He is an organic
horticulturalist, beekeeper, 'kitchen pharmacist', vegetarian cook, yoga
teacher, propagator of heirloom seeds and bringer of the sacred into the
mundane.  John knows the region of Golden Bay intimately.  He will be our
course 'practicalities co-ordinator' plus one of the Nature Attunement
workshop facilitators.