Courses and Events

Dominican University Sustainable Practices Certificate

Apr 4 2009 09:00
Apr 4 2009 17:16
US/Alaska
This innovative new certificate program offers participants the chance to create real and meaningful environmental change in their professions and daily lives. In addition to learning about important concepts in Sustainability, participants will gain practical and applicable skills while working closely with a variety of environmental organizations in the Bay Area.

Many of the courses at RDI can be taken as electives in this program! 

The Sustainable Practices Certificate is designed for adults including:

  • Professionals who want to differentiate and enhance their practice
  • Policy makers, community leaders, activists, and advocates
  • People seeking a career change to make a positive difference on the environment
  • Educators, parents, and school administrators
  • Seekers of personal enrichment and active retirees
  • High school graduates looking for new vocational opportunities 

Gaia University Orientation Workshop

Jun 16 2009 09:00
Jun 23 2009 17:00
US/Alaska

The Regenerative Design Institute is excited to announce a growing relationship with Gaia University International!



Gaia University focuses on the relocalization of higher education and offers accredited degree programs for real-world action in self and planetary transformation. These programs cultivate world changers working for local and global sustainability, justice, and peace. Associates have access to a powerful global network of leaders, advisors and peers offering support and guidance in the development, implementation and documentation of their self-directed project work.

Orientation Workshop: next offered in 2010
Extension Workshop:
next offered in 2010

Location: Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, California
Instructors: Andy Langford and Liora Adler

Marin County Tracking Club

Aug 1 2009 07:59
Aug 5 2009 09:34
US/Alaska

Join us for a morning of tracking the wilds of Point Reyes!


Meet at 8:30am, rain or shine, always the last Sunday of the month, at Toby’s Feed Barn on HWY 1 in Pt Reyes Station. Play and learn in nature with good friends. Beginning and advanced trackers, young and old, are all welcome. You’ll be amazed at what you discover!

We meet ‘til about noon. It’s free!

Areas of Focus:
Track identification
Feeding signs
Telling the story of the land
Ecological and seasonal patterns
Animal behavior
Bird language

For more info, please contact:

Richard Vacha - rwvacha@horizoncable.com or (415) 663-1704
John Brossard - luminousground@gmail.com or (415) 454-1818

The Ecology of Leadership

Oct 10 2009 09:30
US/Alaska

inner permaculture

Open for registration:

5-Month Ecology of Leadership Program
Offered:
February - June 2010, meets one weekend per month
Location
: Commonweal Garden, Bolinas, CA

The only way to predict the future is to create it.        

Peter Drucker

 

Many of us are searching for ways to make a difference, to transform our families, communities and the world we live in. And each of us can make a difference - we all have the seeds of leadership and service within us. We can nurture these seeds, learning the skills and tools we need to transform ourselves and embody our highest potential.

Whether you have prior experience and training, or you have recently felt called to step onto a path of leadership for the first time, this program is a unique opportunity to deeply explore who you are, who you wish to be, and what your specific offering is to others. 

Through the Ecology of Leadership courses, you can learn to articulate your vision, get in deeper touch with your gifts, and develop new tools, routines, mindsets and skills to be more effective in manifesting what you see for yourself and the world.

Hear Ecology of Leadership directors James Stark and Christopher Kuntzsch talk about the Ecology of Leadership program on a Sustainable World Radio podcast.