Tag Archives: Social Permaculture

The soon to be reprinted new, updated offering of the Permaculture Design Deck by Delvin Solkinson and friends will have many new cards, with a series of contributions by Robin along with new ones also from Graham Bell and Susan Weed. This has been made possible after a successful Crowd Funding campaign to pre-odder the Permaculture Design Deck. Words directly from Delvin’s eNewsletter – Delvin and team are creating this grassroots project with the power of permaculture! 172 generous people have pre-ordered the limited edition 260 card deck that comes in a beautiful box with a ways to play booklet. Help them manifest the miraculous and produce this deck which will also be a free download for all. Pre-order a deck today designdeck.backerkit.comLink is https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/galactictradingcards/permaculture-design-deck-2021/postsAwesome Permaculture offerings from Delvin and friends which are free downloads, a gift to the world community.Book www.permaculturedesign.earth/permaculturedesignnotesCards www.permaculturedesign.earth/designdeckGame www.permaculturedesign.earth/elementscardsAnd new offerings on the website – …

MARCH 2021 Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning With Robin Clayfield 21st to 26th March 6 Day Creative Facilitators, Teachers and Group Leadership Training at Crystal Waters Permaculture Village. South East Queensland. Residential Course, Fully catered. See the FaceBook event invite for more information and current updates. Here’s the poster… APRIL 2021 Community Gardens and Permaculture Festival at and by Northey Street City Farm Sunday 11th April Part of APC (Australasian Permaculture Convergence) All day with workshops Here’s the website link APC (Australasian Permaculture Convergence) Hosted by Northey Street City Farm 12th to 15th April at Redlands Bay Here’s the website link Northern Tour of Sunshine Coast Permaculture Places – Crystal Waters, Green Harvest and Yandina Community Garden plus Noosa Permaculture sites as part of APC Organised by Robin and others. 15th to 18th April Stay tuned to the Pre and Post APC Courses and Tour page of the website for details. It’s about to …

Crystal Waters Eco Village has established its reputation as an important centre for Permaculture here in South East Queensland with its history going back over 32 years. Robin Clayfield and Crystal Waters Community Cooperative will host a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) from 8th to 22nd August, 2021 with many Crystal Waters and other local Permaculture teachers, facilitators and guest presenters. Bruce Gibson is the Organiser of the overall logistics, website, bookings and admin for this annual course which is a fund raiser for the Community Cooperative and its village enhancing facilities. The 2021 Course will be the first one where Robin has organized the program, presenters and kitchen goodness, having been a Special Guest in past Co Op Courses led by Max Lindegger and Bruce. Max wanted to start his own courses again and Robin, having presented over 30 PDC some years ago, put her hand up to carry on …

Australasian Permaculture Convergence 2021Celebrating Nature’s AbundanceMonday 12 April to Thursday 15 April 2021at Camp Kindilan, Redland Bay, Queensland. The 2020 Australasian Permaculture Convergence (APC) was postponed to April 2021 due to the COVID19 pandemic. The program will be kept as close as possible to the one planned for last year but with necessary changes. The APC is a biennial gathering of permaculture people from around the country and the Asia Pacific region. All people with an interest in permaculture and regenerative development are invited to join for four days of workshops, hands-on activities and discussions on how we can both celebrate and support nature’s abundance. The Quandamooka First Nations people are the traditional custodians of North Stradbroke Island (Minjerribah) and the Southern Moreton Bay region including Redland Bay. The organisers pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging. For more information on their activities visit their website Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee …

The second Social Permaculture Weekend hosted by Robin and I at Crystal Waters Ecovillage in November 2020 was an absolute delight! A rich group came together to explore and understand the application of permaculture principles for the design of social dynamics. Particularly in the context of ‘times of change’, for which 2020 was a great demonstration. The engaging content was met with an equally potent delivery – where the sessions were dynamic, interactive, visual, kinaesthetic and engaging. We sat in circle. Everyone on the same level, with similar access to the information and experience… including us as instructors. Accessible and impactful tools were shared to implement for one’s self, for one’s kin, and for one’s community. We completed with a gentle ritual of acknowledgement and onward visioning to seal the goodness. After a weekend of exploring regenerative social design, combined with the delicious fare served at mealtimes, the group were …

Robin’s long awaited first book in the ‘Dynamic Teaching and Facilitation’ series has now gone to four proofreaders and three general readers for their review and feedback. In it’s fourth draft and being ‘The Foundations’,  it’s taken awhile to get it right.  Beautiful Artwork by Brenna Quinlan and Meg Clark’s Design and Formatting Work will add Colour and Flare to Robin’s New Book Brenna was commissioned to create seven ‘Art Maps’ to grace the beginning of seven of the main chapters. They are ‘Mind Maps’ but with the words transformed into art. The delightful and soft pastel colours that Brenna is famous for has given designer and formatter Meg an additional theme to incorporate into the creative touches and elements of the book. The image shown is for the ‘Ethics, Principles, Values and Needs’ chapter and shows all the topic headings covered in the chapter. To find out more or …