ROBINA McCURDY of 'GREENWORLD-EARTHCARE''  of Tui Ecovillage New Zealand in Ojai  Nov 10-13 2005

NOV 10, 7.00pm Thurs Oak Grove School Oak 220 W. Lomita Ave, Meiners Oak near Ojai, Donation welcomed.
Public Slide Presentation:, ''WORKING WITH PERMACULTURE & GARDENING IN SCHOOLS AROUND THE WORLD'
Contact Dorothy Wallstein: Dorothy@paulherder.com 805 646 0752

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Nov 11 Fri , 9am - 4pm: Workshop at Oak Grove School 220 W. Lomita Ave, Meiners Oak near Ojai
'PERMACULTURE & GARDENING WITHIN THE CURRICULUM' Robina McCurdy and Huckleberry Leonard
'In Service' Training for School Teachers & Community Educators
Sliding Scale fee of $65 (community groups) - $150 (institutions) (see below for background & description)
Contact Dorothy Wallstein: Dorothy@paulherder.com 805 646 0752

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Nov Fri 11 Eve 7.30pm - 9.30pm: Slideshow COMMUNITY GLUE' at Full Circle Farm, Ojai
Full Circle Farm #10239.Hwy #150 near Ojai Foundation Upper Ojai Valley
COMMUNITY GLUE' where Permaculture meets Social Ecology in Intentional Communities & Ecovillages around the World
Contact 640-9808. Teph Dubois" <tephdubois@yahoo.com>, Sliding Scale donation: $5 - $10

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Nov 12 Sat 12 9.30 - 4pm at Oak Grove School, Ojai 'PERMACULTURE IN THE FAMILY ENVIRONMENT'
Creating Happy Home-spaces "Together' Taught by Robina McCurdy and Huckleberry Leonard.
Workshop for parents, and those who love to work-play with children. Lots of interactive activity: on-site design work together, 'hands-on' practicals, music, storytelling, and Robina's slideshow presentation: Small Space: Big Harvest.
Cost: Sliding Scale for Adults: $45 - $90 per person. $75 - $150 per couple. Children over 3 years old: $15 for 1 child, $22 for 2, each additional child beyond that number: free. Please bring 'pot luck' lunch to share.
Contact Dorothy Wallstein: Dorothy@paulherder.com 805 646 0752

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Nov12 Sat : 7.30pm - venue to be announced."KAITIAKITANGA' - a presentation and sharing by Robina (and friends),
regarding traditional Maori (NZ Native peoples) culture with regard to the caretaking and protection of the natural world - and how that relates our land and cultures here in USA. Includes storytelling, music and dance. Admission: koha (open-hearted donation).

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Nov: 13 Sun 10am - 5.15pm - venue to be announced.
'DESIGN FOR CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY'
This workshop is for anyone who lives and/or works within a group situation.  It covers:
- simple group alignment methods,
- cross cultural communication approaches,
-  'designing out' conflict and 'designing in' trust and safety,
- sustaining vision and maintaining energy in the face of adversity,
- holistic decision making processes & action strategies,
- creating sustainable livelihoods and strengthening cultural practices, through connecting with the cycles of nature,
- reworking personal and organizational time management with natural cycles, to minimize stress and maximize quality of life.
Cost:  Sliding Scale fee (income related:  representing low - high waged) $60 - $120

For more on Robina and Huckleberry's work, visit their website:
www.greenworld-earthcare.org


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# 'In Service' Training for School Teachers & Community Educators in 'PERMACULTURE & GARDENING WITHIN THE CURRICULUM'

S.E.E.D. (Schools Environmental Education & Development) is a program of Earthcare Education Aotearoa, 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. This training for educators is in the principles and practical methods of S.E.E.D., which 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 particular workshop focuses on bringing gardens and grounds into the school curriculum, and covers: 
* School food gardens as a component of whole school grounds development.
* Related programmes in schools around the world.
* Research evidence of the educational and social benefits of creating and using 'the outdoor classroom'.
* School food gardens - how to develop and sustain them with each class level.
* School gardens and grounds as an educational resource: concept & design stage, implementation stage, development & maintenance stage
* Practical work with the school children (in the afternoon)
* Resources and teaching aids.

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Robina McCurdy
Robina is co founder/resident/trustee of Tui Land Trust & Community, founder/trustee of the Institute for Earthcare Education Aotearoa, originator/co-tutor of the international program SEED (Schools Environmental Education & Development) and originator/co-tutor of NZ's permaculture vocational training course 'PLANET Organic' (www.planetorganic.org.nz). She has a range of teaching qualifications, including a Diploma in Permaculture. For 20 years Robina has been engaged in community development, permaculture design and tutoring, 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, USA, Canada, Southern Africa, Ireland, Britain, Scotland and Brazil.  Robina has a flair for using minimal resources to bring about significant changes in the lives of people, their communities and their environment. Because she is able to accomplish so much with so little, her work in 'developing countries' has often been supported by international funding agencies and national embassies.


Huckleberry Leonard (Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, USA)
For the past 30 years Huckleberry has been owner of and primary consultant for GREENWORLD, a company specialising in edible and sustainable landuse design in the northwest USA. He has taught permaculture design in South Africa, Britain, Australia and North & South America, including community projects in Patagonia, Costa Rica and many states of the USA. He also teaches classes in native plant identification, wild foods foraging and seed collecting, and facilitates deep nature connection experiences in the Olympic National Park wilderness. Huckleberry is a plant materials collector, and plant adviser for Raintree Nursery (USA-wide plant mail order). As a singer-songwriter, Huckleberry has written and performed many environmental/sustainability themed songs for children, and as professional Permaculture consultant, he has designed many gardens for and with children. As a father, scoutmaster, camp director and counsellor, he regularly took children into the wilderness and introduced them to ecology, animals and wild harvesting of foods.  A priority in Huckleberry's work is facilitating children to have fulfilling and fun experiences in nature, laying the foundation for future environmental stewardship.

For more on Robina and Huckleberry's work, visit their website: www.greenworld-earthcare.org

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