Private Youth Hostel System (called “Casa de Colonias” in Spain); Permaculture Center; Open Centre for Courses like outsiders arranging private courses as yoga etc.
Community Resilience: Exploring how communities can thrive in these challenging times.
A summary of a micro teach with Davie Philip - by Andrew Zionts
What is livelihood?
We can look at it as work that we do which makes us come alive examples of creating livelihood in community, primarily from CloughJordan in Ireland, www.thevillage.ie:
A summary of a micro teach with Primož by Andrew Zionts.
Ecology is a science which explores interactions among organisms and their interactions with the environment.
Drawing an illustration on the ground of a number of elements such as sun, rain, plants, soil, bee, spider, fox, rabbit, fungi, flower, to represent the following features of an ecosystem.
Movement of Energy Illustrate with arrows flowing starting from the sun, and connecting all the flows
During the 5th EPT meeting in Spain from 24th till 28th September in Mas Franch we have identified with a World café technique which are the questions and answers leading the partnership to its future activities after the end of the Leonardo Da Vinci’s funding in July 2014. Here is the result from the Cultivate learning primary activity session. The first question asked within the group itself was "How do we continue further" and there were 5 suggestions raised:
Day 5 was a long one, with most people moving from Mas Franch to Can Masdeu, where we enjoyed a site tour (along with another group of American students) and an incredible meal before heading to Barcelona centre to visit Aurea Social and learn more about that project. The day ended on the beach where we met with people from Permacultura Barcelona and enjoyed yet another lovely meal. Some photos follow below.
Day four was more restful, but the schedule endlessly busy with meetings on the future of the partnership, collaborating with others, and feeding back on the days gone by, interspersed with 'contemplation in motion' (shown right) and witnessing many people hit by a 'zombie virus'. For the body, activities included collecting firewood in the forest, swimming in the natural pool, morning Yoga and of course, the essential celebration.
Day three was packed with another round of micro-sessions and inputting materials to The Compost ('Collection of Materials about Permaculture in Order to Support Teachers'), a site visit to Ecollavors Seed Saving project, an Open Space and of course, lovely foraged food and meals prepared by a Barcelona collective! The day's micro-teaching sessions included:
Day two is flying by and has been packed with micro-teaching sessions, writing, collating and inputting materials to the website, progress with using VSM (the Viable Systems Model), a lecture on Systems Thinking and more. We're beginning to capture the micro-sessions in text, images and videos, as resources in our Teacher's Manual. The sessions included:
