Offered: September 27–28 & October 25–26, 10am - 5pm each day
Location: Commonweal Garden
Suggested Donation: $25 (no one turned away for lack of funds)

Special Guest
Michael 'Meka" Bunch, international natural builder

Activities Include:
Cob Building / Natural Plasters and Paints

Join us for a natural building work party and help complete our intern village in anticipation of the winter rains. Whether you are new to natural building or interested in gaining more experience with natural building techniques this is a great opportunity to get your hands in the mud and to work and learn along side Michael 'Meka' Bunch.

The Regenerative Design Institute is excited to announce a growing relationship with Gaia University International!



Gaia University focuses on the relocalization of higher education and offers accredited degree programs for real-world action in self and planetary transformation. These programs cultivate world changers working for local and global sustainability, justice, and peace. Associates have access to a powerful global network of leaders, advisors and peers offering support and guidance in the development, implementation and documentation of their self-directed project work.

Orientation Workshop: June 20 - June 28, 2008
Extension Workshop: June 29 - July 2 2008 (IESD & OLE)
Location: Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, California
Instructors: Andy Langford and Liora Adler

4 Seasons VII - Permaculture Design Certification Course

Cancer Help Program Tour

Cancer Help Program Tour

Cancer Help Program Tour

Gaia U

Extensions: June 29 (9 AM) - July 2 (6 PM)

IESD, OLE taught concurrently

NEXT OFFERED: June 2009

INSTRUCTORS: Penny Livingston-Stark & Brock Dolman and special guests Starhawk, Jon Young and James Stark.

LOCATION - Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, CA

Re-design Your Life! Re-envision The World!

Join us on our budding permaculture farm for this two-week intensive design course. You will observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems self-sustaining, and learn how to apply them to integrate homes and gardens. In addition, you will learn how to apply these principles to energy systems, water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and fulfilling work, ecological economies and global political movements.

Celebrate the beauty of the world we eat!

OFFERED: Spring 2009

LOCATION: Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, California

INSTRUCTOR: Carin McKay

As we move into the 21st Century, people around the world are exploring how we can design communities and create regenerative healthy lifestyles that are in harmony with all of the Earth’s living systems.

An important part of integrating with the earth is adopting diets that not only ensure human health and vibrancy but also regenerate the earth’s capacity to provide for our children, grandchildren and future generations.

OFFERED:
September 9, 2008 - May 28, 2009

INSTRUCTORS: Jon Young , Nicole Young , Josh Lane , Molly Myerson, Caitlin Williams, Jay Sliwa, Matt Berry, and other special guests

LOCATION: 15 weeks will be spent exploring the coastside of San Mateo County, CA, and 15 weeks exploring the Bolinas-Point Reyes areas of beautiful Marin County.

DESCRIPTION:
We all had ancestors who were natives to a place. Our indigenous ancestors practiced holistic awareness of the natural world (tracking) and land tending (permaculture) to such a high level that these two practices became biologically entwined and engrained. The ethic that resulted extended far beyond simple care for the earth into care for all of the relationships that our ancestors maintained on a daily basis.

We in the modern world can hardly guess at the true depth of what this relationship to land, creatures, and each other meant to our ancestors. It is our intention to facilitate, through the use of powerful tools of cultural mentoring, the powerful reawakening of this relationship for the participants in this course. This is a training that is being offered nowhere else in the world--because the Bushmen aren’t taking applications!

Join us for this ONCE IN A LIFETIME opportunity!

OFFERED: April 26 - May 2
LOCATION: Commonweal Garden

INSTRUCTORS: Jon Young, Nicole Young, the RDNA team and Shikari Tracking Guild.

Find out how the most elusive animals in the forest detect danger and move secretly to avoid it – using the language of the birds, the alarm system of the forest. Learn to decipher what the birds are telling us about the location of other animals, and also what they have to say about our own patterns of movement and awareness.

This exciting week will open your senses to the various “shapes” of bird language - rings of movement, sound, and feeling that ripple across the landscape. Learn to move quietly while expanding the circle of your awareness through the power of bird language, a skill that has been passed down through countless generations of trackers around the world.

Offered: October 2008 - July 2009 on selected Saturdays, 8:30am-4:30pm

Instructors: Josh Lane, Nicole Young , Jon Young and other special guests of the Shikari Tracking Guild

Location: Greater Pescadero area (at a different location each time to be announced via email)

Explore the wildlife and natural history of the coastal landscapes through the perspective of holistic tracking and awareness. Learn routines of sensory awareness that have been used by trackers for thousands of years that foster a deep and powerful relationship with place.

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UPCOMING PROGRAMS:

October 2008 - February 2009
Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, CA and Santa Barbara, CA

INSTRUCTORS: James Stark and Christopher Kuntzsch

"Never doubt that a small group of concerned citizens can change the world. Indeed it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

Introduction

As we face the challenges of our changing world, many people are searching for avenues to make a difference - to play a part in transforming our families, communities, and the greater world in which we live. Each one of us has the potential to bring forth our gifts, develop the tools we need to make a difference, and live up to our own leadership potential so we can be of service.

Whether you have prior experience and training, or if have recently felt called to step onto a path of leadership for the first time, this program provides a unique opportunity to deeply explore who you are, who you wish to be, and how you will contribute to others. You will articulate your vision, get in deeper touch with your gifts and develop new tools, routines, mindsets and skills to be more effective in manifesting what you see for yourself and the world.

LOCATION: Commonweal Garden
DATE: July 3rd - 12th, 2007
INSTRUCTORS: Michael G. Smith, Janine Bjornsen , Penny Livingston-Stark, James Stark and more!

Come and join us for a 10 day Natural Building Workshop

• Gain Hands on experience
• Learn about the superefficient wood-fired Rocket Stoves
  
• See inspiring Slide Shows
• Participate in stimulating discussions
• Get involved with networking and collaborating

LOCATION: Commonweal Garden
DATES: Residential Program, September 2009

In this unique program, Jon Young, founder of Wilderness Awareness School, shares the core dynamics and principles of The Art of Mentoring, and explores the unique educational approach he has developed called the Eight Shields Mentoring Model. This week-long workshop is rich in storytelling and features an on-going dialogue about the nature of awareness and the intricacies of expanding awareness in people who have grown up "disconnected" from nature.

NEXT OFFERED: Sunday, November 2, from 1 - 4pm

LOCATION: Commonweal Garden in Bolinas

COST: $10 per person, kids free. Fee waived for those who are unable to pay.

Here's a great opportunity if you've been interested in visiting Commonweal Garden and learning more about Permaculture.

James Stark will educate and inspire as he takes you through our 17-acre farm nestled on the edge of Pt Reyes National Park. He will guide you through features like our on-contour production garden, cob constructions, chickens and goats, heirloom orchard, grey water systems, passive solar camp showers, production greenhouse, yurt classroom, and more.

As you tour these features, James will highlight how permaculture principals can be applied in your own life to create sustainable and regenerative home and community environments.

Re-design your life, Re-envision the world!

NEXT OFFERED - Four Seasons 9: Starts March 2009 and continues one Sunday per month through February 2010

LOCATION - Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, California

INSTRUCTORS - Penny Livingston-Stark, Lydia Neilson, Lauren Dalberth , David Hage, Matt Berry & special guests

This course is a great opportunity to take a Permaculture Design Ceritifcation Course over a full year nature's rhythms. You will learn how to observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems self-sustaining, and apply them to integrated homes and gardens. In addition, you will learn how to apply these principles to energy systems and water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and fulfilling work, ecological economies and global political movements for change.