The Planting Festival is Awesome

The cover of the program booklet for The Planting

If you’ve never been to ‘The Planting’ Festival before and you live close enough to have three days away over the first weekend in May, you’ll get to experience and participate in a delightful diversity of environmental, social and creative workshops, talks, wanderings and activities along with ceremony and of course great music. It’s held at the Woodford Folk Festival site and grew out of the tree planting weekends that have supported the site be a shady and beautiful wildlife and people haven.

The Labyrinth at last year’s ‘The Planting’ with the split bamboo garden edge surrounds.

For the second year running Robin and her troupe of labyrinth makers, ceremony weavers, workshop facilitators and musicians will create a luscious space for patrons to experience the serenity of labyrinth walking and guided ceremonies, accompanied by divine music at The Sacred Union Labyrinth. The Labyrinth is now its own unique venue after six years at Woodford Folk festival and now, in a much smaller and simpler version for The Planting, offers a split bamboo and banana fibre making and weaving workshop to beautify the labyrinth to begin the activities in the space.

Robin is also presenting a workshop in The Grove Venue entitled ‘Growing Community’. Growing healthy community needs the same love and care as a veggie garden or a food forest. Like all of us humans, it requires a supportive group environment in which to thrive. What are the elements that grow community and assist our groups, teams, organisations, businesses and families to be at their best? We’ll garden the answers together and harvest the gifts of our collaboration.

Hope to see you there. It will be a lot of fun 🙂 Here’s the link to the website

About Robin Clayfield

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 all around the world to support global health, well-being and whole systems change through using Permaculture, Social Permaculture and ‘Dynamic Groups’ methodology. Robin is a Permaculture Pioneer and Elder who has lived at Crystal Waters Permaculture Eco-Village in SE Queensland, Australia since 1988. Her books and resources include ‘You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat It Too’, ‘The New Permaculture Principles Card Game’, ‘The Creative Community Governance and Decision Making Resource Kit’ and the ‘Creative Process Wild Cards’. She is also the co-auther (with Skye in 1995) of ‘The Manual for Teaching Permaculture Creatively’ plus several resources and card games for teachers and facilitators.

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