Embodying Community

With Sybille from Embodied Freedom and Robina from EarthCare Education Aotearoa

An interactive workshop for those already living in an intentional community or a close-knit neighborhood and those already engaged in starting up a new community.

When: 18th - 19th April

Where: Wainui Bay, NZ

Investment: $310 NZD
(Includes accommodation, food & facilitation fee)

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The level of responsibility a community can grow depends on each persons ability to respond, notice and navigate.

Saturday will be more inter-personal, primarily using Possibility
Management concepts and frameworks, equipping ourselves to thrive within a residential community.
Saturday evening will be an emergent space.
Sunday will be more strategic, structural and systems focused, equipping ourselves to perceive, plan and function from a holistic framework.

  • Using participatory processes for collective decision-making and action, Robina will share how to facilitate a communities evolution, building dynamic and resilient social systems to balance private and collective needs.  Themes may include: Generating a Collective Vision, Creating Community Glue, Community Powerbase, Common Agreements, Community Development Stages, Fair Labour Sharing, Regenerative Governance,
    Conflict Resolution/Transformation.

Meet the Facilitators

Robina Mcurdy is a dedicated Permaculture educator-designer, organic grower, pioneer-resident of 41-year-old Tui Community Trust, and founder of the Charitable Trust, Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa. Since 1992 she has facilitated community-building in 10 different countries, and with 42 community organisations and 24 land-based intentional communities in her home country of Aotearoa-New Zealand. During this time, she has developed a range of participatory processes and produced several educational resources.

Sybille Biedert has a wholehearted commitment to hold space for personal, collective and multi-generational transformation. Being a bold and dynamic community weaver, with 23 years of first hand community living and 15 years of delivering workshops and retreats based on embodied community connection, she has gained many tools for communities to be resiliant.
From her own experience, Sybille now has the clarity that the key for a community to fly is directly connected to the willingness of each individual to feel, grow and handle human conflict.