Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning Dynamic Courses, Books, Resources and Tours for Healthy Groups, People and Culture with Robin Clayfield

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 a greater sense and ability to create places and people that connect, support and collaborate.
✦ Activate your agency to influence the social dynamics around you.
✦ Be effective to interact in meaningful ways.
✦ Feel grounded, centered and robust.
✦ Good ol’ inspiration and encouragement!

🌿 JOIN US TO UP-SKILL IN:
➤ Learning how to use permaculture principles for social change and people care in your groups – organisations – workplace – family – creative project crew – community.
➤ Practical regenerative social design tools & resources that you can implement straight away.
➤ Group effectiveness, dynamics, ecology and group-work skills.
➤ Insights to collaborative consent-based decision-making & governance.
➤ How to work effectively together for long-lasting change.

🌿 ABOUT US
Robin Clayfield is an internationally acclaimed facilitator, educator, author and social change practitioner who regularly facilitates courses in Australia and Overseas. She is best known for training and facilitating a diverse cross-section of leaders, facilitators and educators to effectively engage their audiences through creative, interactive processes and innovative learning methods. Her learning methods, books and creative resources have inspired positive and ongoing change. 

Erin Young helps holistic practitioners meaningfully contribute to the world through developmental coaching. She trains and consults organisations to be adaptive, responsive and effective in collaborative decision-making and governance, based in sociocracy. Through dynamic facilitation she shares living systems tools to empower people to create a more beautiful world. 

See more information on the FaceBook event here

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 have their own deep experience of nature, cycles and patterns, rites of passage, transformation and celebration.

John asked Robin to tell her story of involvement with Deep Ecology as part of her Bio but rather than put it all in the promotions you can read it here.

Robin’s journey with Deep Ecology began when she attended one of the first PDC’s (Permaculture Design Certificate Courses) in Tyalgum, Nth NSW in 1983. It was a course especially for women and taught by Lee Harrison plus others, with John Seed being a special guest, presenting on Deep Ecology. Robin’s passionate, nature based childhood and feelings of connection with plants, animals, the earth… and not fitting in a ‘mainstream world’ all made sense through a Deep Ecology lens.

Robin continued to do the catering for Lee’s courses for some years and participated in many other guest presentations, informal chats and discussions with John who willingly shared his passion.

Attending the 1st International Permaculture Convergence and Earthcare Conference in NSW in 1984 was also a pivotal moment for Deep Ecology being seeded more deeply in Robin’s worldview and also in Australia. John Seed was there and also Arne Naess and Michael Crowfoot so Deep Ecology was much talked about and well received.

Robin also attended a ‘Healing the Wasteland’ workshop with Joanna Macy in the 90’s, a four day reEarthing workshop with John Seed and others and also a ‘Group Breathwork Facilitators Training’ with Harriet Rose Meise (for Deep Ecology Practitioners) over a three year period.

All these inspirations led to Robin including Deep Ecology as a subject in over 35 PDC’s (Permaculture Design Courses), offering two x two week long ‘Permaculture, Deep Ecology and Earthcare Design’ courses for Japanese people and one (of four weeks duration) in Thailand.

Robin has written and recorded two Deep Ecology Meditations – ‘A Living Earth Meditation’ a 20 minute guided journey (inspired by A Gaia Meditation in ‘Thinking Like a Mountain’ by John Seed and Joanna Macy et al) and ‘Seeds for Change’ a 5 minute song and journey combined.

Robin lives on a 1 acre bush and Permaculture plot enveloped by a regenerating forest ecosystem in amongst the wider Crystal Waters Community in Kabi Kabi/Jinibara country, surrounded by birds, animals, insects, all kinds of critters, in deep connection with nature.

A ‘pingback’ to this website has happened, referencing ‘The Manual for Teaching Permaculture Creatively’ that Robin Clayfield and Skye wrote back in to early 90s and launched in 1995. Rob Hopkins was a key note speaker at Kinsale College’s celebration of their Permaculture Couse being 21 years old (Kinsale is in Ireland) and this is a transcription of his speech. An inspiring read and I was very happy to see that our Manual was an influence on his teaching journey 🙂

Rob was responsible for coming up with the ‘Energy Descent Action Plan’ for his Permaculture Course participants to undertake (I understand) and then to kick start ‘Transition Towns’ and the Transition Network in UK.

Have a read here

We’re delighted to announce that The Sacred Union Labyrinth will be fully set up, programmed and open to all festival patrons for walking any time or for attending the magical Ceremonies and any of the magnificent acts performing in our beautiful open air, garden venue. 

The tickets to Woodford are capped this year so if you haven’t booked tickets yet, now’s the time.

Here’s a link to the site

Robin had a comment pop up on FaceBook attached to a post promoting her Dynamic Groups Course. It was from John Champaign, a highly respected Permaculture elder and teacher.

“Can’t recommend this learning highly enough. Lucky to attend this training with Robin Clayfield back in 2004 at Robyn Frances’ place in Nimbin registering for APT. Taught my first PDC soon after and used many of the techniques learnt in it……….and still do. Thanks Robin xx John Champaign

John’s September PDC at The Crossing on the South Coast of NSW will be his 50th PDC. Yay! Congratulations on achieving such a great milestone and wonderful that Robin’s course helped you on the way. 

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