Ecovillage
Design Training of Trainers
Ecovillage
Design Training of Trainers 2010
Worldview -
Week 4
Saturday 23rd October, 2010
Pracha
Hutanuwatr, May East & Jane Rasbash
Holistic
Worldview
"To dissolve
a paradigm: if we want to change it, we have to
get into quantum level, we have to invite insightful
creative thinking that challenges assumptions, breaks
patterns and rewires our brains." Danah Zohar
This module will give an overview of new concepts
emerging in modern science and the implications
that this emerging world view may have upon how
we live and work with the land and the natural world.
It will introduce the major principles and values
of the emerging holistic paradigm and explore their
practical applications in our lifestyles.
Topics include:
Listening
to and Reconnecting with Nature
In this module we will weave together the biocentric
perspective of Deep Ecology, the importance of wilderness
for the planet and humanity, and the role of people
in helping to heal the Earth's degraded ecosystems.
Utilising experiential deep ecology exercises, the
module will also include nature walks and visits
to natural places of power.
Awakening and Transforming Consciousness
This module will
explore how consciousness creates reality. We will
work with the hypothesis that human consciousness
is associated with the formation of reality and
the act of observation is a process for collapsing
the possible in the actual. We will explore the
power and influence of intention and motivation
on living systems. We will look at how my awakening
is your awakening. This exploration will run throughout
the four weeks through daily meditation, sharing
and reflective practices.
Personal Health and Planetary
Health
Health is derived from wholeness
- being whole, sound or well. While good nutritional
practice is central to our health, equally essential
is our relationship with our sense of purpose in
the world, relationships, physical activity and
spirit. In this module we will explore the relationship
between our individual well-being in direct relation
to the well-being of the planet. This module will
also provide participants with a hands on and embodied
experience. We will co-create a living mandala in
the form of a labyrinth over the duration of the
Worldview week and from this develop a reference
frame through which we will consider how to design
community that cares for all stages of life. Facilitated
by Ariane Burgess.
Socially Engaged Spirituality
and Bioregionalism
"Sulak and I share
a conviction that if we are to solve human problems,
economic and technological development must be accompanied
by an inner spiritual growth."
The Dalai Lama
Too often the environmental movement
has been thought of as essentially different from
the movement for social justice. This split reflects
the deep, unconscious division in our minds between
the human world and the natural world. This module
will explore the principles of a socially engaged
spirituality. We will look at how the transformation
of society may first begin within the self; how
nurturing and cultivating compassion, wisdom, and
loving-kindness in our hearts can have an influence
on social structures; how by practising mindfulness
we awaken ourselves to the present moment and become
aware of the suffering that surrounds us; and how
by awakening ourselves to suffering, we can be the
change we want to see in the world.
Integration
Pracha
Hutanuwatr, Thai activist and intellectual,
is a former Buddhist monk with a socialist background.
He has worked under the guidance of Buddhadasa Bhikku,
a renowned, Buddhist monk and philosopher who developed
the concept of Dhammic Socialism; and Sulak Sivaraksa,
an influential, independent thinker. In 1988 Sulak
and Pracha founded the International Network of
Engaged Buddhists. Pracha's present positions include
Director of Wongsanit Ashram and Director of Spirit
in Education Movement, an NGO organising Grassroots
Leadership Training in South East Asia. He has published
several major books in Thai. Recently he and Ramu
Mannivan published (in English): Asian Futures:
Dialogue for Change, which contained intensive interviews
with 14 prominent Asian thinkers.
May East is a
Brazilian social change activist who has spent the
last 30 years working internationally with music,
indigenous people, women, antinuclear, environmental
and sustainable human settlements movements. Since
1992 she has lived at the Findhorn Foundation ecovillage
in Scotland where she is the Ecovillage Education
Coordinator, the Director of International Relations
between the Foundation, the Global Ecovillage Network
and the United Nations. May is a facilitator of
the World Wisdom Council of the Club of Budapest
and works internationally as an ecovillage consultant
and educator. She is currently coordinating the
establishment of a UNITAR CIFAL training centre
at Findhorn.
Jane Rasbash
lives at Findhorn Ecovillage in Scotland and Wongsanit
Ashram in Thailand. She has been involved in participatory
community sustainable development in the South East
Asia Region for many years. This included co-founding
and establishing the Grassroots Leadership Training
programme a community sustainability initiative
working in Burma, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. She
served as Executive Director of the Alternatives
to Consumerism Conference in Bangkok in 1997 and
follow up activities on Spirituality and Globalisation.
She has co-written many papers on Engaged Buddhism
with Pracha Hutanuwtr. She now serves as a 'needs
based' consultant for several NGOs Thailand and
Burma. She is also involved with Ecologia Youth
Trust a Scottish Charity with projects in Russia
and Thailand. She co-facilitates training of trainer
courses, proposal writing and deep ecology workshops.
The EDE
is being introduced to the world at this time to
complement, correspond with, and assist in setting
a standard for the United Nations Decade of Education
for Sustainable Development 2005-2014.
Training fees
For the whole programme
£1675 payable by participants with low
income
£1925payable by participants with medium
income
£2235 payable by participants with high
income
£475/£545/£635 per module
according to income
Fees include tuition, accommodation, vegetarian
meals and field trips.
Please complete
the Application
Form and Enrolment Questionnaire
Enquiries by e-mail: bookings@findhorn.org
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