Crystal Waters Permaculture Village

Social Permaculture Weekend Coming Up Soon with Robin Clayfield and Erin Young

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 …

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Deep Ecology Workshop at Crystal Waters in May with John Seed

An exciting announcement – John Seed, who started The Rainforest Information Centre in Nimbin decades ago and is a world travelled and renowned Deep Ecologist, will visit Crystal Waters Permaculture Village and offer a weekend workshop from the 19th to 21st May. This will sell out quickly as only 30 places are available. Click here to book a place and to read more about it. Robin Clayfield and Carl Broman with facilitate with John and host the workshop. Robin Clayfield is an international teacher, facilitator and author who is passionate about healthy groups, organisations and communities, their structures and governance and most importantly, their facilitation and group dynamics. She presents and consults around the world to support global health, group and personal well-being and whole systems change through using Permaculture, Social Permaculture, Deep Ecology and her ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ methodology. Robin loves Ritual and Ceremony and supporting people to …

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Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning Course in 3 Weeks

Feel like an adventure to South East Queensland? The next ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ creative teachers, facilitators and group leaders course is happening at Crystal Waters EcoVillage from 17th to 22nd July. This started as an Advanced Permaculture Teachers Facilitation Course in 1992 and has now become a valuable and leading edge training for all professions, though at least half the participants are Permaculture People. Let Robin know if you’re interested 🙂 She’d love to welcome you to her home community and this great learning adventure 🙂 Here’s the poster at larger size for more details Here’s the link to the FaceBook event

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Celebrating 30 Years of Training Teachers, Facilitators and Group Leaders

In September it will be 30 years since Robin and Skye offered their first ‘Advanced Permaculture Creative Teachers Facilitation Course’ as a result of many people asking them how they managed to present a whole 2 week Permaculture Design Course without using lecturing and other non-participatory learning methods. The pair spent the next 12 years or so supporting people to facilitate learning rather than ‘teach as an expert’ and published ‘The Manual for Teaching Permaculture Creatively’ in 1995 to address people’s requests for written documentation of their approach to education. Since the early 2000’s Robin has evolved the bones of this early work with Skye into a Learning methodology called ‘Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning’ and offered it to a broad audience from trained teachers, NVC Practitioners, CD workers through to Art therapists, Healers, Genders workers and also corporate people. View a related post to see some recent testimonials. You can …

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PDC – Permaculture Design Courses at Crystal Waters EcoVillage

The Crystal Waters Community Cooperative hosts PDC’s in the village, traditionally once a year, but now twice a year, in Spring and in Autumn. Robin has hosted, programmed and coordinated the presenter’s team and the catering for the last two courses as well as presenting the majority of sessions. Many other Crystal Waters and Local presenters join her to form a dynamic teaching and facilitation team, including Max Lindegger, Annaliese Hordern, Conor Cran, Jess Steele, Richard Mochelle, Nigel Paratt and several other guest presenters. The course features many practical examples of Permaculture, hands on sessions, Crystal Waters and local permaculture garden tours, theory sessions and a culminating hands-on design exercise that brings all the learning from the intensive two week program to an exciting climax. Dates for the Spring course are 28th August to 11th September All information is on the website here   and have a look at the …

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Social Permaculture Weekend

Robin and Erin are receiving great feedback from the Social Permaculture Weekends they’ve been running for the last few years. It has seemed like a wise decision to offer a second workshop for the year in October on the 8th and 9th given the extent of interest and encouragement. Once again ‘Social Permaculture – for Times of Change’ will be the theme and be explored through offing many creative processes, engauging sessions, immersion in the content in practical ways and an abundance of resources.Email Robin to express interest or to book

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