Woodford News of Citizens Day and the Folk Festival is ON

Ceremony, Co-created Workshops with other Facilitators, Ritual and Celebration, Robin Clayfield, Sacred Union Labyrinth, Upcoming Events

Over 300 Woodfordia Citizens, staff, volunteers and Woodford Folk Festival organisers and friends got together recently for a weekend of reconnecting, future planning, ideas generation, music, fun and mural painting.

The main highlight was the announcement that the Woodford Folk Festival is back this December, as usual pre Covid, from 27th December to 1st January.

The Saturday program of the Citizen’s ‘Gathering the tribe’ weekend began with Robin leading a one hour Reconnection session with participants, followed by a stunning performance by Linsey Pollak. After lunch lots of subgroups formed to brainstorm and develop ideas for getting the word out about the festival, supporting volunteers, forming an onsite logistics working group as well as discussing ideas for The Planting Festival to have a new life and initiate the Conservatree project.

Of course there was the now traditional ‘Mad Hatters Tea Party’, great music and entertainment and lots of exciting conversations around the fire and the grounds.

Gavin Ryan held the thread of continuity through the weekend with the opportunity for everyone to add their unique designs and colour to the huge mural that will become the program cover artwork and other promotional delights.

Thanks go out to Amanda, Bill and McBride for their vision, leadership, work and dedication.

Here’s the link to the festival website to book.

The festival will be slightly smaller than 2019 but 100% as good.

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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