Upcoming Courses, Workshops & Events

Following is a listing of our featured, upcoming, and previous courses, workshops, and events both produced by Living Mandala and by our affiliated partners and friends. If you are interested in working with Living Mandala to produce or promote a course, workshop, or event contact us.

For Previous 2010 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

For 2009 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

For 2008 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

                                      

With Applied Permaculture Design

August 25 – 28, 2010

Ukiah, California

Aquaponics is one of the most sustainable and productive farming systems in the world. It combines Aquaculture and Hydroponics to create a truly self-sufficient closed loop system that uses only a fraction of the water, labor, energy, etc. that other methods use. Combining Permaculture Design with Aquaponics creates an even more sustainable, dynamic, productive & regenerative system. In this intensive training you will learn some of the most cutting edge pioneering aquaponics systems and gain a solid foundation from which to create your own Aquaponics System, Farm & thriving Green Business. Read More.

Workshop Series

July-November

3rd Saturday of each month

Sebastopol, California

In this 5 month program you will deepen your relationship with the land, learning to care for it using permaculture principles and Biodynamic rhythms. The focus is on hands on gardening to deepen your skill and intuition in knowing how to listen to the garden’s needs. This program invites deeply nourishing insights into the life that sustains us.

You will explore your connection to food as being the bounty of a beautiful garden. Every food choice we make effects our bodies and our planet. This is an opportunity to get inspired by a life centered around the garden. We will be preparing food and making herbal preparations. Read more.

Thriving Economies from Healthy Ecosystems

September 24-26, 2010

The Farm Community, Summertown, Tennessee

This innovative training for teachers, designers and community organizers hosted will review the mechanics of design, and tools for strategic organization, business planning, documentation, collaboration, action learning and principles of Permaculture applied to personal, ecological, social and financial systems as they meet in the nexus of right livlihood. Core instructor Eric Toensmeier will lead participants in three days of applied permaculture design to co-create thriving, humane, economies that regenerate whole ecosystems (profits for a prosperous planet!). Take this amazing workshop as a follow up to the Teaching Permaculture Creativly Course, or as a stand alone. Read More.

Creating Resilient Leaders and Community

August, 2010 - May, 2011

Regenerative Design Institute, N. CA

Are you ready to build a more meaningful relationship with the earth, your community and yourself – 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. Read More.

with Brad Lancaster

April 21, 2010

Grace Grove Retreat Center, near Sedona, Arizona

next dates to be announced soon

Turn water scarcity into water abundance! This course will show you how to conceptualize, design, and implement sustainable water-harvesting systems for your home, landscape, and community. Learn how to access on-site resources (rainwater, greywater, topsoil, sun, plants, and more), apply a diverse array of strategies to maximize their potential, and utilize guiding principles to create an integrated, multi-functional, and water-sustainable water-harvesting landscape plan specific to your site and needs. These course will help bring your site to life, reduce your cost of living, endow yourself and your community with skills of self-reliance and cooperation, and create living air conditioners of vegetation growing beauty, food, and wildlife habitat. Read More.

Regenerative Retreat for People & Planet Through

Five Elements

postponed - dates to be announced soon

Grace Grove Retreat Center

Sedona, Arizona

We are inspired and grateful to be offering this holistic, regenerative retreat and skill based workshop for people and the planet combining personal healing & nourishment with tangible skills in sustainability and Earth regeneration at the beautiful oaisis of Grace Grove Retreat Center in Sedona Arizona. With a focus on tending the inner as well as the outer landscapes, retreat participants will learn tangible skills to heal themselves and the Earth through the lense, themes, & medicine of the 5 Elements: Earth, Air, Water, Fire & Spirit. This 5-Day retreat and educational workshop will focus on 1 element for each full day, with the element of Spirit woven throughout the entire course. Participants will learn cutting-edge technologies and hands-on skills in Earth Regeneration & Stewardship including: Nature Connection, Water Works, Patterns Recognition & Design, Soil Building Strategies, Plants & Food Forest Gardening, Wild Plant Identification, and much more. This course will also focus on cultivating deeper connection to ourselves and to the natural world through observation, song, story, dance, health, nutrition, healing, and other activities. Grace Grove will offer a range of healing services available for retreat participants at special rates. Read More.

For Previous 2010 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

For 2009 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

For 2008 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.