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Robin and Erin are preparing a full and rewarding experience for you when you attend their Social Permaculture Weekend on 11th and 12th March. You’ll experience this unique, motivating & creative weekend adventure full of enriching experiences in Social Permaculture & Dynamic Group culture ⭐️ Social Permaculture uses natural patterns, cycles, rhythms and influences to guide how we care for self, kin and community. In these changing times, the healthy functioning of our groups, communities and ourselves is vital for resilient and cohesive responses for a better world. When groups, learning environments and social systems apply permaculture principles, they work effectively and harmoniously together toward their aim and purpose. Care for yourself, your people and your groups by attending and sharing these gifts with your community. 🌿 WHY IS THIS GOOD FOR YOU?✦ Be focused on positive solutions that impact yourself personally and our world in this current climate.✦ Have …

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 …

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 …

Did you know you can design harmonious and effective groups who thrive towards their aims and purpose as a collective? Yep, it’s called Social Permaculture. And this is what Permaculture pioneer Robin Clayfield and social change-agent Erin Young are brewing for the SOCIAL PERMACULTURE WEEKEND on 18 & 19 May at Crystal Waters Permaculture EcoVillage, near Maleny in South East Queensland. This unique weekend is a rare opportunity to be guided in developing your social design fluency by applying the nature-based principles of permaculture. Using interactive and dynamic experiences, Robin and Erin will share with you insights to regenerative people systems and approaches contributing to happy and healthy humans on the levels of the individual, organisational, and societal. Various angles of effective social design will be covered, including group ecology, community governance and decision-making, group effectiveness, social space retrofits and confidence in acting for change. This course is for those …

By Erin Young People wanting to up-skill in supporting their groups and human relationships to thrive are invited to join Robin Clayfield and I as we combine forces to offer a weekend of Social Permaculture exploration for this coming November at Crystal Waters Ecovillage. Dates are 10th and 11th November. It is an exciting time of growing momentum for Social Permaculture around the world, so this is sure to be a special and potent weekend workshop to attend. Participants will experience a unique combination of Robin’s extensive and established experience and wisdom as a permaculture pioneer and respected elder. I bring a whole-systems patterns-to-details approach of organisational governance and eco-social literacy supporting groups to be effective, transparent and equivalent. This all combines within the Dynamic Groups methodology to create a fun and experiential learning space. This workshop will provide a thriving collaboration of our skills and perspectives in an intergenerational …

Here’s a couple of photos of the Social Permaculture weekend led by Robina McCurdy and Robin and hosted by Samantha Hawker and Frank near Canberra after the APC (Australasian Permaculture Convergence) in April. Participants got a lot out of the workshop and went home with much inspiration and many tools for applying to their local groups and course environments.