Books and resources

The amazing Delvin Solkinson from Canada just sent this photo and feedback about using Robin Clayfield’s new ‘Permaculture Principles Card Game’ with his groups.  “I so love the amazing new permaculture principles game from the visionary amazitude of Robin Clayfield. Its a key booster for bringing creativity, fun and intelligence to learning” Delvin Solkinson   http://gaiacraft.com/

Robin Clayfield’s ‘NEW Permaculture Principles Card Game’ is now complete, finished, edited, proofed, dressed up with amazing art and design, printed, collated and now available. It was launched internationally at IPC UK (International Permaculture Convergence) in September. FaceBook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/469474966546675/ The set is a card-matching game for teaching and learning the latest Permaculture Principles and Ethics and comprises 80 A6 full colour cards and a fold-out booklet.  It incorporates David Holmgren’s updated principles with the original principles and icons by Richard Telford and David Holmgren. It includes photographs, mind maps, key principles, explanations, solution map and instruction booklet. It’s an interactive tool for engaging all learning styles and enables ‘speaking and doing’. It expands on the understanding of Social Permaculture and introduces the 4th Ethic, Spirit Care. With thanks to Rob Clark for beautiful art and design work and Eve Witney for amazing editing and InDesign skills. Thanks also to …

Robin’s partner Rob Clark has just produced a stunning flier to give some pre publicity to Robin’s next book and too generate support and possible funding in advance.    

More than a year has passed since Robin began in earnest writing the first in a series of books documenting over 20 years of training teachers, group leaders and facilitators. Book I, outlining the methodology and giving examples, activities and some processes to use, is almost half written. It has attracted a dedicated team of proofreaders, assistants and an editor over the months, namely Ange Jackson, Erin Young, Tracy Adams and Eve Witney. Robin’s partner Rob Clark is working on the artwork for the cover and for two card games that will be ready for launching before the book is completed. Prof Stuart Hill is reading the book with a view to writing the forward. It’s still early days, though Robin aims to have it in print in the first half of 2016. Here’s a sample activity from the ‘Empowerment’ chapter in Book 1 under the section of ‘Working from …