Three events over 13th-15th June
Hinterland Learning Centre
38A Coral St
Maleny

Sustainability catalyst, Robina McCurdy, will be presenting a workshop and slide shows to share her experience and insight.

To read an excellent article about Robina, visit
http://www.pacific-edge.info/journalism/people/permaculture_people.html

Friday Evening 13th June 6:30 - 9:30

Maleny's Sustainability in the Face of peak oil and climate change

Cost: $10 ($8 concession/SM members)

This presentation is for areas motivated to develop strategies for resilience in the face of Peak Oil and Climate Change.

In this presentation, Robina will introduce the main steps in becoming a 'Transition Town', share how her home bioregion of Golden Bay, as well as other areas in New Zealand are applying these strategies with respect to their own character and uniqueness.

She will also introduce two tools from her new facilitator's manual: Bioregional mapping and Bioregional Sustainability. With relevant data at our fingertips, as well as knowledge and ingenuity present in the room, we will put Maleny through one of these analysis and planning tools, with a focus on food and water security.

A local person will 'scene-set' the evening with an overview of Peak Oil and Climate Change, and the implications for Maleny.

Saturday Evening 14th June 7:00 - 9:30

Community Glue
Cost: $10 ($8 concession/SM members)

What does it take to grow communities in a healthy way, being sustained through their various phases of development, with the usual diversity of challenges from within and without? Robina will address this question with reference to her Community Development and Permaculture Education work with a range of organizations, intentional communities and ecovillages, from Africa to America - speaking to the physical, environmental, economic, and social/cultural/ spiritual aspects of this question.

This slide-talk is relevant to residential land-based communities, organizations of common purpose and even the family unit!

Weekend Workshop: 14th-15th June 9am – 4:30pm

Creating sustainable community in challenging times
Both days: $180 ($130 concession)
One Day only: $100 ($75 concession)

WHO FOR?
• people living or preparing to live in land-based communities/ecovillages,
• permaculture designers and community development workers,
• people working with community groups of common purpose,
• project managers of land development, business projects, and organizations,
• professional facilitators, for inclusion in their 'toolkit' of primary processes.

This weekend workshop is primarily for anyone who is interested in ecovillages/intentional communities, from those who want to apply the concept to a new or existing settlement to those who want to familiarize themselves with ecovillages within a global context.

Based on the needs and interests of the particular group gathered, and in a way that is practically applicable for each participant, Robina will share relevant community facilitation tools in her 'hot-off-the-press' manual, "GROUNDING VISION – EMPOWERING CULTURE: how to Build & Sustain Community Together", to support members in 'common interest' groups to move closer to their goals.

The content moves through the following themes, time framed to make it possible for people who can't attend the whole weekend to attend on a daily basis - though whole weekend attendance is highly recommended.

Day 1:
(1) Formation and Stages of the Group Organism – with focus on the Ecovillage.
(2) Skills and Tools for Sustainable Living in an Ecovillage/Intentional Community
(3) Governance, Management, Work, Financial Aspects
(4) Preparing and Designing for Food Security

Day 2:
Morning: Wholistic Goal Setting Mandala (a tool for common visioning and collective planning)
Afternoon: Participatory Design for Shared & Common Lands (permaculture and beyond)

Description of 'The Wholistic Goalsetting Process'
This a very practical and powerful tool for building group alignment, alleviating conflict, clarifying values, creating a mission statement and doing strategic planning. It is highly participatory technique, with puts everyone involved on a 'level playing field', as well as recognising and honouring each persons gifts, skills, vulnerabilities and strengths. Its application ranges from an individual trying to determine their life and vocational direction to a very large group of people wanting to undertake a multi-faceted project together, such as planning an ecovillage on a specific piece of land.

Over the past 10 years, Robina has facilitated this process with households, schools, youth groups, environmental organisations, illiterate farmers, businesses, ecovillages, marriage partners and families - in Southern Africa, Brazil, Ireland, England, Scotland, USA, Australia and Aotearoa/NZ,

Booking for the Day workshops is essential.
Phone Gail Meehan on 54786280 or email powerowl8 [AT] iprimus.com.au.
No bookings required for the evening programmes

For additional info on the slide show evenings, click here to contact Sustainable Maleny