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.

An Intensive Course With Dr. Elaine Ingham

February 6-10, 2012

MA Center, Castro Valley, CA

There is a whole world under the soil – and no one knows this cast of characters better than Elaine Ingham! Elaine is one of the world’s leading soil microbiologists, with 30 years of experience researching and teaching and an easy and enthusiastic style that brings the soil food web to life. Elaine literally wrote the book on compost teas: The Compost Tea Brewing Manual. Healthy soil has all the interconnected elements of a “web” – which can retain nutrients, cycle nutrients into the right forms at the right rates for the plant desired, build soil structure, suppress disease-causing organisms, protect plant surfaces, produce plant-growth-promoting hormones and chemicals, and decompose toxic compounds. In this course, you’ll look at the elements of a healthy soil food web, learn how to analyze and improve your own soil, and learn how to make composts and extracts to strengthen the soil food web. The course will cover the soil food web, soil food web analysis, composts and compost extracts, and the use of microscopes. Read More.

Permaculture Design Certification Course

February 7 - 23, 2012

Peruvian Amazon Rainforest - The Paititi Institute

The goal of the course and the center is to share how we can live and be in a more sustainable and harmonious relationship with nature while creating a supportive, self sufficient and nurturing community around us. In collaboration with international experts in Permaculture and indigenous Shamans of the Peruvian Amazon, we will immerse ourselves into one of the most bio-diverse regions on the planet. Entering the Amazon, we will experience deeply how we are interconnected to this magnificent organism, earth. We will study Permaculture design while learning to truly be in relationship with ourselves. The course will intertwine three main areas of experience: Earth Wisdom. Body Wisdom, & Universal Wisdom. 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.

With Applied Permaculture Design

Green Career of the Future!

May 25 - 28, 2012  

Santa Cruz, CA

Aquaponics is one of the most sustainable and productive farming systems in the world. It combines Aquaculture and Hydroponics to create a truly self-sufficient closed loop system that uses only a fraction of the water, labor, energy, etc. that other methods use. Combining Permaculture Design with Aquaponics creates an even more sustainable, dynamic, productive & regenerative system. In this intensive training you will learn some of the most cutting edge pioneering aquaponics systems and gain a solid foundation from which to create your own Aquaponics System, Farm & thriving Green Business appropriate to your climate, ecology, dreams, & desires. Read More.

Permaculture Design Certification Course

July 10 - 26, 2012

Peruvian Amazon Rainforest - The Paititi Institute

The goal of the course and the center is to share how we can live and be in a more sustainable and harmonious relationship with nature while creating a supportive, self sufficient and nurturing community around us. In collaboration with international experts in Permaculture and indigenous Shamans of the Peruvian Amazon, we will immerse ourselves into one of the most bio-diverse regions on the planet. Entering the Amazon, we will experience deeply how we are interconnected to this magnificent organism, earth. We will study Permaculture design while learning to truly be in relationship with ourselves. The course will intertwine three main areas of experience: Earth Wisdom. Body Wisdom, & Universal Wisdom. 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.