Special Guest:   Robina McCurdy

of Earthcare Education

Aotearoa - New Zealand

www.planet-organic.org.nz

DESIGN IN PARTNERSHIP

WITH NATURE

WHEN: Sunday, August 29   TIME:  9:00 am to 4:30 pm   WHERE:  Pasadena Located in auditorium of school next door to Path to Freedom.  Call or email for additional details.

COST:   $135 - $65 (income-based sliding scale)  Deposit of $50 required by Tuesday, August 24  (includes Permaculture Gardens Around the Planet Slideshow entry).  Limited to 24 participants. 

Workshop participants - bring food to share as a combined meal for lunch and also for dinner.

HOW TO REGISTER:  Download: pdf registration form

                                               Call:  626.795.8400

                                               or email:  Register for Workshop (you will receive a  invoice to fill out and return.)

          We accept creditcards ( Visa, Mastercard, Discover ), checks, cash, and money orders.

DESCRIPTION:   Introduction to permaculture design principles, tools and process, and applying theses to needs of the land, specifically to identify, enhance and create sacred spaces, restore areas in need of healing and balancing and to protect and create wildlife habitat. 

FACILITATOR / TUTOR'S BACKGROUND:   Robina is a New Zealander who also identifies herself as a planetary citizen.  She is co-founder / resident / trustee of Tui Land Trust & Community and founder / trustee of the Institute for Earthcare Education Aotearoa.  She is a state and Steiner trained primary school teacher, and has a Permaculture Diploma in Trusteeship, Media and Education, and qualifications in Seed Technology.

For three decades Robina has been engaged in broadscale community development, and for the past 18 years in permaculture design and teaching, organic growing, the development of environmental educations resources and the creation of participatory processes for decision making and collective action.  She has taught and applied these powerful community-building methods with households, neighborhoods, schools, farms, ecovillages, and bioregions, in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Brazil and USA.

Robina was the originator/coordinator of Golden Bay's 'PLANET Organic' a year-long vocational training in community-scale sustainable landuse design, management and facilitation.  Throughout her life, she has worked with minimal resources to bring about significant changes in the lives of people. their communities and their environment.  Consequently, human capacity building is one of Robina's special skills  - inspiring, guiding and offering specific tools and techniques for people to access their gifts, develop their potential, build their resourcefulness and live their dreams.

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