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Tools and Skills for Changemakers – Gateway Farm

October 7, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT

$50.00 – $100
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So many people and communities are striving for, and achieving, positive change away from disaster scenarios towards life-affirming goals of sustainability, regeneration, resilience and healing. 10’s of millions of people around the world are doing this. Taking action requires a range of skills and tools to be successful. In this workshop we share tools & skills to help us take effective action. In no uncertain terms, we all need this. 

 

Imaginations set free to dream

The greatest failures often start with failures of imagination. Most of us don’t need too much encouragement, especially after Covid & lockdowns, with climate and biodiversity declines, economic pressures and injustices to imagine different and better worlds. We loosen up through senses, meditations, drawing, breathing. What are our disasters, dreams, passions? Can we express them? We look at case studies to see what other communities and organisations are doing. 

 

Adaptations & Radical Redesign

It’s one thing to have a good idea and to be passionate about it; it’s a whole other thing to bring that idea to life. This can be achieved through pro-actively designing and redesigning our lives. We use the Adapt design game as a proactive conscious design process to generate, support and cultivate possibilities. An important element of this is becoming clear about the underlying design aims. 

 

Field Guide to Taking Action

Then how do we put our plans & designs into practice? How do we sustain passion, focus, inspiration, energy, sometimes for decades, required to make a cherished idea become real? From decades of practice & research Charlie Brennan offers A Field Guide to Taking Action – how sustainability and regeneration projects can come to life and thrive. We explore what it takes to sustain sustainability work. 

 

Evaluation for Permaculture & Regeneration 

High on idealism and positive thinking is fine but much of this sector is low on applying evaluation and assessment to projects. This workshop is rounded off with focussing on techniques to work out how effective or successful we are really being. How much change are we generating? If we have well clarified goals for our project, and if we can accept critique, then our practices can evolve and improve. Sadly this is rarely the reality for permaculture or regeneration where doctrine often wins over practice. 

 

Join us for this urgently needed workshop. All life depends upon people doing these good works to be successful and effective. Learn and share tools and skills for effective change-making. 

This workshop could be for you:

  • You are involved in personal or community environmental change.
  • You are a counselor, farmer, social worker, conservationist, permaculture practitioner, activist, designer, city planner, or dreamer.
  • You crave activities that breed all of the creativity and motivation necessary to design and carry out ambitious visions.
  • You struggle with maintaining flexibility and remaining open to feedback and messages that emerge during your action process.
  • You recognize the urgency for improved systems and want to tap into your greatest purpose for the betterment of all life on earth. 

 

Facilitators: Bridget O’Brien & Charlie Brennan Phd.

What to bring:

  • Gloves, hats, sturdy shoes, water bottle, note pan and pens.
  • A healthy dish to share for lunch

We supply:

  • Workbooks & Activities
  • Tea, coffee, snacks 

Workshop details:

  • Location: Gateway Farm
  • Date: Saturday, October 7th
  • Time: 10am-5pm
  • Cost: Workshop fees $ 60-100 Sliding Scale – Limited places
    • We price our workshops with sliding scale fees to cultivate inclusive educational opportunities for the whole community. We ask you to pay what is comfortable for you right now and please reach out if you need scholarship support. We do have a limited amount of work trade and barter opportunities available. These are negotiated on a case by case basis. Email resilientspirals@gmail.com for more informatio

Please contact us for questions –cwsbrennan@gmail,com

 

Details

Date:
October 7, 2023
Time:
10:00 am - 5:00 pm EDT
Cost:
$50.00 – $100
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Website:
gatewayfarmplymout.com

Organizer

Garden Juju Collective

Venue

Gateway Farm
10540 Joy Rd
Plymouth, MI 48170 United States
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