Schedule

You can find out more about all of our courses, workshops and educational events using the links below. New classes are regularly in development so please check back, or join our announcement list to be notified when new courses are open. Information about financial options can be found on our Money Basics page. If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us.



SPRING 2019

:: ANNOUNCE – REGISTRATION is NOW OPEN ::

Social Permaculture: Nurturing Effective and Creative Groups


March 13th – 17th, 2019: five-day intensive residential course
Location: Black Mountain Retreat Center, Cazadero CA

Led by Starhawk and Pandora Thomas

Collaborative groups may be healing, nurturing, and inspirational—or they may founded on the rocks of conflict and poor communication. 

In this five-day intensive, we’ll explore how to structure our groups for maximum group health, how to share power fairly, improve our communication skills, mediate conflicts and facilitate group processes. We’ll explore issues of power, privilege and diversity, and how to shift ‘’call-out’ culture to call in understanding, mutual respect and support, and real relationships.  And we’ll share tools for decision making and constructive critique.

Starhawk’s latest book, The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, will be our foundation. 

We’ll balance the process work with time outdoors in nature, including hands-on work on the land, as well as walks, bird sits and wilderness awareness. Insights from both permaculture and magic will help us learn to be more effective and joyful as we work together to regenerate our world. 

This course is for you if you belong to :

◦                A group or organization seeking to make change.

◦                A nonprofit or NGO that seeks to work collaboratively.

◦                A spiritual circle, ritual group, or faith community.

◦                A community group, Transition Town, collective, or worker-run cooperative.

◦                An intentional community or household or hope to start one.

◦                A collaborative arts, theater, or music group. A band!

◦                A family or a community of friends that want to improve communications and ways of handling conflict.

Click Here to learn more and apply to join us!

Sacred Earth Intensive 

Sonoma County, CA

:: ANNOUNCE – REGISTRATION is NOW OPEN ::

March 18th – 22nd, 2019: five-day intensive residential course
Location: Black Mountain Retreat Center, Cazadero CA

Led by Starhawk, Amythest Faria and guest teachers

A program sponsored by Earth Activist Training.

Please join us for an intensive residency in magical and practical healing for ourselves, our communities and the earth. Myth and story guide us through a deep process of personal transformation, anchored with inquiry into plant medicine, tools of healing, plant preparations, and earth magic.

Deepen your skills of ritual and ceremony, both personal and collective, while immersing yourself in the many paths to herbal practice and partnership.

Click HERE to learn more and apply to join us!

Announcing EAT’s New Course!

Regenerative Land Management Program

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

Click HERE

May 14-23, 2019: Kick-off Intensive

Location: TBD near Sebastopol, CA.

Taught by Starhawk, Charles Williams and many guest teachers.

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Create a meaningful livelihood restoring land and revitalizing community!

Our new long-term program is designed to give you the skills, experience and confidence to run a farm, ranch, retreat center or urban farm in ways that heal damaged ecosystems and sequester carbon.

Why?  We are beyond the tipping point for climate change, and to prevent global catastrophe we need to pull carbon out of the atmosphere.  The best way to do that is by regenerating living systems, using trees and plants to change that carbon into wood and food and humus.  Farmers are the new earth healers!

The opportunity—Half the farmland in North America is due to change hands in the next two decades as farmers age out.  It’s vital we get that land into the hands of those who know how to manage it in ways that contribute to global healing.  We need trained people—and you need to be able to make a thriving living for yourselves and your families.

The Program—We’ve designed a flexible program that should take approximately two years—less if you already have extensive experience.  It’s based around two ten-day intensives, short internships, a longer-term apprenticeship and many shorter courses, all guided by your personal mentor who will help you tailor the program to your own goals and needs.

>> See all the details HERE <<

Are you starting out in life, looking for meaningful work that can provide a livelihood for you and your family?  Are you seeking to change careers? Are you distressed about climate change and social breakdown, and want to make a positive contribution to the world?  Do you love nature and enjoy being outdoors?

This program is for you!

The cost: Each intensive costs sliding scale $1600-$1800 which includes food and camping sites or lodging.  We hope to provide work trade opportunities and Diversity Scholarships.

The basic mentorship and program fees are $150 a month.  Apprenticeships and internships will be by arrangement. We will work with you to make the program accessible.

Find out more—see the full program on our website, here.

Mother Earth wants you on her team! 

SUMMER 2019

Permaculture Design Certificate Course
Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada

June 28th – July 14th, 2019: two-week intensive residential course
Location: O.U.R. Ecovillage, Shawnigan Lake, British Columbia, Canada

Taught by Starhawk, Charles Williams, and many fine teachers from the ecovillage

This residential PDC course is held concurrently with the OUR Little Permies Camp, a homeschool, unschool, educational immersion program for kids that runs alongside the PDC and welcomes entire families to learn together! O.U.R. Ecovillage is an incredible model demonstration sustainable village community rooted in social, ecological, and economic well being; Earth Activist Training has been bringing our PDC course to this location for years. (And U.S. residents save a lot with the Canadaian currency exchange!) For all details, questions, and registration information, please visitthe O.U.R. Ecovillage Course page. (Please note, O.U.R. Ecovillage will handle all aspects on this course, so please contact them directly with your questions.)

This PDC is actually the first half of the International “Ecovillage and Sustainable Communities Design Certificate” (the United Nations ratified global curriculum for ecological community design). The second half of the course is a straight transfer for anyone who has been part of an Earth Activist Training/PDC. For details on the full 5-week course, please visit The Ecovillage Design Education Programme.

We are heading overseas!

In our two-week Permaculture Design Course, we gather together to explore an internationally-recognized permaculture design certificate (PDC) curriculum with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism.

Learn how it is possible to design human systems that mimic natural systems, using a minimum of energy and resources and creating real abundance and social justice. We will cover principles and practices for how to read the landscape, how to heal soil and cleanse water, design integrated systems, harvest water, drought-proof land, build soil, sequester carbon, make compost, compost tea, and biochar, and how to bioremediate toxins. Explore the solutions to climate change, and the strategies and organizing tools that can put them in place.

More information and registration HERE

Or here is an alternate website for registration @Permakultur.de

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