Please forward this workshop on to others you think may be interested..
With thanks, Robina

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CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY through PERMACULTURE DESIGN PRINCIPLES
- Explore how sustainable local economies and cultural bonds
can be strengthened through connecting with cycles of nature.

FACILITATED BY: Robina McCurdy (New Zealand) and Dorothy Wallstein
(Ojai,CA) - Certified Permaculture Designers

ON: Sunday, NOVEMBER 13, 2005      10am - 5.15pm

AT:  The Lettuce Bee Farm, 1329 North Montgomery Street, OJAI


This workshop is for anyone who lives or works in a group situation.
You will learn and practice:

*Cross Cultural Communication Approaches

*Effective and Simple Group Alignment Methods

*Holistic Decision Making Processes & Action Strategies*

*Simple Assessment & Design Tools for greater Local Economic
Self-Reliance

*Design Methods for Increasing Trust and Safety and Reducing Conflict

*Cyclical Time Management - to Minimize Stress and Maximize Quality of
Life

*Ways of Sustaining Vision and Maintaining Energy in the Face of
Adversity

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FEE: $60 - $120 (Sliding Scale Based on Income)

REGISTER: by calling Dorothy Wallstein, Tel. 805 646 0752 or email: 
dorothy@paulherder.com_*

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FACILITATORS:

Robina Mc Curdy is the founding Trustee of the Tui Land Trust &
Community and the Institute for Earthcare Education Aotearoa in New
Zealand. She is the pioneering developer of two international education
programs S.E.E.D. and 'PLANET Organic’. For 25 years Robina has been
engaged in community development, sustainable landuse design, organic
growing, and environmental education. She has worked with 80 different
organisations, intentional communities & eco-villages in New Zealand,
Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Great Britain, Brazil, Canada & USA.

Dorothy Wallstein has been a strategy and process consultant to
organizations on envionmental sustainability, social responsibility and
organizational creativity and effectiveness for many years.  Using
empowering techniques of whole system change, drawing on nature and the
'new science', she has facilitated large and small groups in Great
Britain, France, Japan, Cyprus, and the USA. She is a certified
permaculture designer. With her husband, Paul Herder, she lives on a
permaculture site in Ojai, CA, the Lettuce Bee Farm.*



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