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 2011 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

For 2010 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

For 2009 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

For 2008 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

Jan 7 - 21, 2012

Cazadero, N. California

This unique permaculture design certificate course has an additional focus on earth-based spirituality, organizing, activism, and social permaculture. Learn how to heal soil and cleanse water, how to design human systems that mimic natural systems,  how to use a minimum of energy and resources to create real abundance and social justice.  Explore the strategies and organizing tools we need to make our visions real, and the daily practice, magic and rituals that can sustain our spirits.  This course is participatory, hands-on teaching with lots of ritual, games, projects, songs, and laughs along with an intensive curriculum in ecological design. The course is facilitated by facilitated by Starhawk, Erik Ohlsen, and a host of special guests. Read More.

Building Resilient Communities for a Post-Carbon World

February 17-19, 2012

Santa Rosa, California

As we face the challenges of peak oil, climate change, and economic contraction, the Transition movement (Transition initiatives) is a positive approach that focuses on local solutions and building community resilience. Training for Transition is the popular, in-depth experiential workshop created by the global Transition Network. The course describes how to set up, run, and maintain a successful Transition initiative. It is packed with imaginative and inspiring ways to engage your community, and delves into both the theory and practice of Transition that has worked so well in hundreds of communities around the world. It meets the training criteria recommended for local initiating groups to become an internationally recognized Transition initiative. Read More.

Holistic Permaculture Design Course

March 3 - 19, 2012

La A’kea, Puna, Big Island, Hawaii

The Aloha ‘Aina Holistic Permaculture Design Course will include the standard 72-hour permaculture design curriculum based upon the original Mollison and Holmgren ideas and design philosophies published in The Permaculture Designer’s Manual, as well as be a nourishing retreat and hands-on immersion experience of sustainable living ecovillage design. In addition to the standard permaculture design certification curriculum, we recognize permaculture as an expanding, holistic design philosophy encompassing many fields. Accordingly, this permaculture design course will include and integrate additional content and activities such as nature awareness, indigenous wisdom, embodiment practices, inner work, group process, ecovillage design, hands-on, and more. With a focus on tending the inner, outer, and community landscapes... course participants will work with each other and local community residents on tangible design project scenarios to implement positive transformation within themselves and in the local community. Read More.

in the Heart of Bodhgaya, India

25th March to 8th April, 2012

Sikkim House / Monastery, Bodhgaya, India

Learn all about sustainability and receive your Permaculture Design Certificate in the setting of the sacred city of Bodghaya and its many monasteries, pilgrims and seekers who travel from all over the world to this place of the Buddha’s Enlightenment. Do hands-on projects, face challenging exercises, do a permaculture design, and learn about the many facets of creating a sustainable lifestyle while benefiting the local community and the efforts for sustainability in Bodhgaya. This is a full immersion experience that will change your outlook and your life forever, as you begin to build a life of resiliency. Read more.

Advanced Permaculture Ecosystem Regeneration

TBA, 2012 - or privately booked

Creque Dam Farm, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands; or Ecuador

At a time of global climate change, depletion of resources, pollution of water, decline of the ocean’s fisheries, huge losses of top soil, and widespread destruction and contamination of vital ecosystems worldwide... there has never been a more important time to learn and implement cutting-edge technologies for bioremediation and ecosystem restoration. This course will concentrate on learning & applying whole systems design to remediate toxic spills combining three of the most promising techniques for remediating spills and building soil: bioremediation, mycoremediation, and carbon farming. During the course we will learn the processes, functions, and the application of these appropriate technologies in the context of permaculture design and hands-on experience, with a focus on designing integrative solutions and applying them to actual oil spill sites on St. Croix. This course is a part of a long term initiative to re-mediate spills; to push the oil industry, government, and private sectors towards more ecological practices, to educate & shift consumer relationships, and to create new jobs in bioremediation and ecosystems restoration. Read More.

Regenerative Retreat for People & Planet Through

Five Elements

TBA - or privately booked

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 2011 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

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

For 2009 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.

For 2008 Courses, Workshops, & Events Click Here.