Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning Dynamic Courses, Books, Resources and Tours for Healthy Groups, People and Culture with Robin Clayfield
The wonderfully creative and clever Robina McCurdy from Aotearoa NZ will be visiting Australia in late May early June and we’re very fortunate that she’ll be up on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland so she and Robin can collaborate on a day workshop called ‘Growing Community’.
It will build on the material from Robin’s workshop at ‘The Planting’ and take participants deep into the realms of what it takes to foster healthy, vibrant, successful communities – intentional ones and also neighbourhoods, community groups, families, work cultures and any sub-cultural and cultural gathering and collectives that meet and gather over time.
Robina can also ‘do this type of workshop with her eyes closed’ and it’s been both hers and Robins life work to support and facilitate group and community well-being and success. They will both have their eyes fully open to be deeply present and achieve the best possible outcome for their group workshop.
It will be held on Sunday 2nd June at The EcoCentre at Crystal Waters Permaculture Village.
In the evening there will also be a special night on offer which will include a Community Building game by Robin and a glorious slide show of many of Robinas great photos of the keys to Growing Community.
Here’s Robina’s Bio for your information and enjoyment.
Robina McCurdy is a professional community development facilitator, Permaculture educator, organic gardener, and pioneer-resident of 30 year-old Tui Community & Trust in rural Aotearoa/New Zealand (www.tuitrust.org.nz). She is also the founder of The Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa.
www.earthcare-education.org
For the past 30 years she has been engaged in community development of various forms. During this time, she has produced a range of environmental education resources and participatory processes for decision-making and collective action, culminating in the publication of her community facilitation manual, ‘Grounding Vision, Empowering Culture’. She also has chapters in: ‘Creating Harmony: Conflict Resolution in Community’, and ‘Living your Passion’.
Robina has facilitated community-building in 10 different countries since 1992, as well as regularly in her own country, Aotearoa-New Zealand.
Her community facilitation work encompasses ‘midwifing’ new initiatives, squatter settlement re-development, long-term conflict resolution, rebuilding community post natural disasters, the training of community leaders as ‘cultural change agents’, participatory planning of orphanages, mentoring of new ecovillages, social renewal of existing ecovillages, and strengthening the community culture within existing organizations.