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PERMACULTURE & REGENERATIVE DESIGN
NATURE AWARENESS
ECOLOGY OF LEADERSHIP
CULTURAL MENTORING
PEACEMAKING
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE
SONG, CEREMONY, RITES OF PASSAGE & MORE
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Course Description
Are you ready to build a more meaningful relationship with the earth, your community and yourself Ôø‡ and make clear your role as a community member and an integral part of the natural world? The Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness (RDNA) program is an advanced 9-month program that extends hands-on, skill based training to help you develop the leadership skills you need to bring sustainability and regenerative practices into your personal and professional lives. Through RDNA, you can learn to design powerful communities, regenerate ecosystems and facilitate positive community change.
Our instructors are fully engaged visionaries working in regenerative design, nature awareness, cultural mentoring and leadership. They bring the tools they have gathered through years of experience, working locally and around the world, to create resilient leaders, cultural systems and landscapes. They weave these tools together into the dynamic and lifestyle that makes up the RDNA program.
Using the teachings of regenerative design, nature awareness, 8 Shields Culture Mentoring and the Ecology of Leadership, RDNA offers a comprehensive exploration of where we came from, where we are now and where we are going.
Course Details - RDNA Programs
The RDNA learning community is a village experience made up of three programs:
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*RDNA Essentials
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*Native Eyes
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*Cultural Mentoring
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The three programs are interwoven and support each other to create a dynamic learning environment, rich in the curiosities and creative nature of each participant. The RDNA learning community is one of the only places applying all the practices described in Jon Young's Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature.
RDNA Essentials is the first step in the RDNA learning journey. This program will help you to restore your authentic connection to nature and re-invigorate a holistic understanding of what it means to tend and regenerate the landscape for the future generations. As an RDNA Native Eyes participant, you'll move more deeply into the way of the Native Scout through advanced immersion in the Ôø‡8 ShieldsÔø‡ of holistic tracking. RDNA's Cultural Mentoring journey takes you through a rite of passage into community leadership and personal empowerment. The links below lead to course curriculum, schedules, applications and fees.
RDNA Essentials Program
RDNA Native Eyes Program
RDNA Cultural Mentoring Program
Who Teaches the Program?
The RDNA program designers oversee the program and facilitate selected classes.
Jon Young, emphasis on Nature Awareness, Bird Language and Cultural Mentoring
Nicole Young, emphasis on Nature Awareness, Bird Language and Cultural Mentoring
Penny Livingston-Stark, emphasis on Permaculture and Regenerative Design
James Stark, emphasis on the Ecology of Leadership
Our primary instructors facilitate RDNA course activities and provide continuous on-site guidance and instruction.
Lauren Dalberth
David Hage
In addition to the above instructors, Ôø‡RDNAÔø‡ has an amazing cast of special guest instructors who visit throughout the year.
Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness (RDNA) Program
Creating Resilient Leaders and Community
August 28, 2009 - May 15, 2010
Regenerative Design Institute, Bolinas, California
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Where Will the Learning Take Place?
The course takes place at two main locations throughout the year. These sites, and their surrounding areas, offer a comprehensive exploration and understanding of the varied ecosystems of northern California. These locations include:
Commonweal Garden in Bolinas, the primary demonstration site and educational center of the Regenerative Design Institute.
Venture Retreat Center in Pescadero, CA
Who Should Take this Program?
Are you interested in getting to know the natural world around you as your neighbor? Do you want to take a deeper look into what makes us human? Do you believe the world needs hopeful and powerful leaders? Do you want to strengthen your ability to heal and design ecosystems and communities? Do you want to experience what life is like in a village-style mentoring and learning community? If so, then RDNA is for you!
To date, the RDNA Program has served individuals from 18 to 65 years old. They have come from urban, suburban and rural backgrounds. They have come with varied levels of life experience, from web designers to environmental educators. And they have traveled from around the corner or from across the globe to be here. All have come willing to spend three days of their week in community, in an outdoor setting, with a deep commitment to healing the earth, themselves, and their communities.
Where do people live while they are taking the program?
At this time, we do not have any on-site housing available. Participants have chosen to live in various locations throughout the Bay Area. When housing opportunities arise among our friends and collaborators, we share that information with new and returning students.
Are there any scholarships or work trade option available?
There are none available at this time. We are pursuing funding and donations to offer scholarships in the future.
Can I pay my tuition via a payment plan?
50% paid by July 31, 2009
25% paid by November 1, 2009 (plus $25 admin fee)
25% paid by February 1, 2010 (plus $25 admin fee)
RDNA participants agreeing to a payment plan submit post dated checks for all payments. RDI keeps the checks on file until the payment date.
Please contact our office to arrange a payment plan.
Will I need to study outside of class time?
Is there time to work outside of the program?
Participants engage in weekly assignments (home play), designed to enhance the richness of the RDNA curriculum. The quantity and focus areas are co-created between each participant and RDNA staff. Participants are also encouraged to do home reading in relation to the weekly curriculum topics.
Some participants choose to work during the program, and others focus soley on their RDNA studies. The kinds of jobs that various participants have held include work in NGOs, restaurants, education, landscaping, self-employment, or any part-time work that is flexible to the RDNA schedule. Local work opportunities are passed through the RDNA list serves.
Can I Get College Credit?
Beginning in Fall '08, RDNA Students will be eligible to earn a BSc or MSc through registering concurrently with Gaia University International.
Contact
For More Information and to Register Contact the
email: info@regenerativedesign.org
phone: 415-868 9681
address: P.O. Box 923
Bolinas
California, 94924
Facilitators & Instructors
Jon Young
Under Jon's guidance, Wilderness Awareness School, which was originally founded as a high school nature club, has grown to reach students all around the world with its programs that help people reconnect with their native environments.
Jon has created several popular training tape series, and he is the principal author of both The Kamana Naturalist Training Program and The North American Master Shikari Sequence for CyberTracker.
Penny Livingston-Stark
Penny Livingston-Stark is internationally recognized as a prominent permaculture teacher, designer, and speaker. She is the founder of: Sustainable Living Designs (SLD) - a professional permaculture design/build firm integrating landscapes and structures with water, soil, plants and energy efficiency; The Permaculture Institute of Northern California (PINC) - an educational and research organization promoting sustainable technologies and methodologies; and Regenerative Design Institute (RDI) - a non-profit education program focusing on hands-on skills development. Penny has been working professionally in the land management and development field for 25 years and has extensive experience in all phases of ecologically sound landscape design and construction as well as the use of natural non-toxic building materials. She specializes in site planning & design of resource-rich landscapes, integrating rainwater collection, edible landscaping, pond and water systems, habitat development and watershed restoration for homes, co-housing communities, businesses and diverse-yield perennial farms. Penny is currently on the board of the Solar Living Institute in Hopland, California and has served on the Redwood Empire Chapter of the Green Building Council. She co-created the Ecological Design Program and its curriculum at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture and co-founded the West Marin Grower's Group, West Marin Farmer's Market, and the Community Land Trust Association of Marin.
James Stark
James Stark, M.A., F.E.S., is the co-director of the Regenerative Design Institute (RDI). He co-founded and co-directs the Ecology of Leadership program and is a senior trainer in the 3-year, full-time Regenerative Design and Nature Awareness training program, preparing young global community leaders for the Ôø‡Great TurningÔø‡ of our era. James has committed his life to exploring how we Ôø‡ ourselves, our communities, and our species Ôø‡ might move as quickly as possible back into harmony with who we are and the natural world. He considers the programs at RDI a nursery for growing visions of the new era, and providing skills and tools to bring the visions to life. For decades, James dedicated himself to community visioning and organizing in West Marin Ôø‡ during which he co-founded the following organizations, among others: * West Marin Growers Group (WMGG), which was created to ensure food security in Marin County. WMGG grew into the 5013c, Marin Organic, which introduced the Marin Organic Food Label and hosts the West Marin Farmers Market.* Waste Free Now, which is committed to West Marin becoming waste free and hosts the innovative annual Recycle Circus including a "Stuff Exchange" for people to redistribute community resources.* KWMR "Watershed Radio", which is a licensed 501c3 community radio station in the tenth year of providing a voice for West Marin residences and heard around the world live through web casting. * CLAM - Community Land Trust Association of Marin, an affordable ecological housing land trust (5013c) created to provide affordable housing in the face of increasing gentrification. JamesÔø‡ years working with visioning led him to an interest in exploring the inner world and to earn a master's degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. Like the natural systems and patterns that guide permaculture, his work now is to help others explore the inner patterns that affect how visions become reality. He believes that creating a loving, peaceful inner world provides the soil for the seeds of our world visions to grow.
Nicole Young
She works with the Shikari Tracking Guild doing Wildlife surveys on local land trusts, and wildlife tracker trainings. Nicole continues to work with Owlink Media in program development, and facilitation and as a video producer. Nicole is passionate about Surfing, Skateboarding, Nature, Permaculture/Regenerative Design, Mentoring and Creativity. Her dream is to create pathways for children, adults and herself to continue experiencing the mystery and wonder of this beautiful place called earth.
David Hage
Lauren Dalberth
A host of special guest instructors visit Ôø‡RDNAÔø‡ throughout the year.
