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Reconnect: Transition Towns and Permaculture event, Wgtn

Want to reconnect to what matters? Need a weekend away from the city, listening to inspiring speakers, engaging in empowering discussions and meeting awesome people set on making a positive difference in our communities?

This event is being run to connect people to the permaculture and deep ecology roots of the Transition Towns movement. There are several workshops over the weekend and people can either attend the whole weekend, staying at the gorgeous Tapu Te Ranga marae, Island Bay, Wellington, or can come in for other sessions open to the everyone.

Programme:

Friday 15 August

Opening and welcome 6.00pm

Evening workshop “Blessed Unrest” (koha): 6.30 – 10.30pm
Glen Lauder and Andrew Morrison

Saturday 16 August

Opening 9.00am
Local Leadership in an Age of Transition: Daytime
Daniel Nepia and Finn Mackesy

The Great Turning: 8.00 – 10.30pm
Daniel Nepia, Finn Mackesy

Sunday 17 August

Opening 9.00am
Local Leadership in an Age of Transition: Daytime till 4.30pm
Daniel Nepia, Finn Mackesy

This is a two day participatory course for change agents stepping up to leadership roles in
the community who want to deepen their foundationsfor working effectively in their communities.
You’ll be sharing lessons and insights with everyone there learning from the collective
wealth of experience in the group how not only to develop your own leadership but also
how to ramp up your team back home.

There’ll be a chance to act, as well as to be still. This is a dynamic guided facilitated
experience on the strategies that really matter, now while keeping emergence and
empowerment the central cogs of the process.

Your workshop facilitators are two imports from Auckland. Finn Mackesy and Daniel Nepia
are both gardeners, permaculture designers and social activists. Daniel’s weekday job is
working with youth with gang backgrounds; Finn’s is in the classroom with primary school
kids. They have been partners for change leading workshops together for over four years.
Drawing on a combo of influences from urban design, deep ecology, social anthropology and
creative facilitation.

For more information on the weekend, speakers and what to bring, see the pdf below. The cost of attending the whole weekend workshop is $50.

To register, get in touch with the lovely Alison Hoffmann, ph 04 475 8241 or 021 150 1326, email hoffmann@paradise.net.nz

reconnect-v9.pdf

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