United Nations International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) 2012

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Aug 082012
 
United Nations International Year of Cooperatives (IYC) 2012
social.un.org

Welcome to the official website on the International Year of Cooperatives (IYC). Here you will find information on events planned throughout the year, as well as suggestions on how to get involved and participate. International years are declared by the United Nations to draw attention to and encourage action on major issues.

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Creative Community Governance and Decision Making May 14, 2012

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May 092012
 
Paid Event

Creative Community Governance and Decision Making
http://communitygovernanceworkshop.eventbrite.com/?ref=esfb

This workshop is designed to assist existing and newly established groups to develop good governance and decision making processes essential to the growth of a healthy group culture and happy human relations, vital to the long term success of any community project.

This workshop is designed to assist existing and newly established groups to develop good governance and decision making processes essential to the growth of a healthy group culture and happy human relations, vital to the long term success of any community project.

  • Feel Empowered in groups
  • Use and explore a tool box of creative decision making processes
  • connect and share in an interactive environment

For further information regarding your booking contact Emma Wasson 0409 300 592 or email emmawasson@gmail.com

 

Facilitated by Robin Clayfield.

Robin has spent the past 30 years working, playing and interacting in groups in various capacities… Since 1990 she has been facilitating and creating one and two week intensive residential courses, Training Teachers, Guiding Women’s Weekends, Designing and Leading Empowerment and Visioning sessions (for Community Groups, Businesses and Individuals), Lobbying Governments & Councils, Chairing Meetings, Presenting at Conferences and Festivals, as well as Living, Working and Sharing with others in Community – all in a spirit of empowerment, creativity, joy and holistic growth and learning.

She is the author of two books, co-author of several resources and a Training Manual and has produced a CD of Guided Visualisations set to music. Robin has run the business of Earthcare Education since the mid nineties and is a mother and grand mother. She somehow finds time to also potter in the garden, home educate her teenage son and play in JAMBEZI a high energy Marimba band.

Robin acknowledges powerful inspiration in her life from nature, all beings and many humans including Joanna Macy, Star Hawk, John Seed, Bill Mollison, David Holmgren, Lea Harrison, her two children, Pele and Tumii and especially Skye.

To see a Utube clip of a Pecha Kucha presentation by Robin for ‘Green Love’ put on by Sunshine Coast Creative Alliance in August 2011 and entitled “The 20 things I love most about my life that are Green and Creative” click this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7CYYAl3lpE Pecha Kucha is a presentation process which give 20 seconds for each of 20 slides so that each presenter only gets 6 minutes and 40 seconds to present. This was filmed by Luis Gonzales Medina from Chile while he was WWOOFing (Willing Workers On Organic Farms) with Robin.

www.dynamicgroups.com.au 

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Behaviour change for Sustainability tools

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Feb 082012
 

It can be quite hard to bring people over to views that we need to care for our environment, this includes natural, social and economic sustainability.

Why is there so much misinformation and why are facts not enough ?.

You will go someway to answering these questions if you read the following item on “The Conversation” a new information source written by people who know what they are talking about, rather than after a underpaid rushed journalist has manipulated the facts Fighting fact-free journalism: a how-to guide. I can thoroughly recommend you get the Debunking Handbook referred to.

If you want to get right into it consider downloading the paper The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of – and Making Progress In – The American Culture War of Fact which is still relevant in Australia.

Finally if you would like to start a project to work with others to dispel misinformation and promote facts for sustainability why not join us in the topic Behaviour change for Sustainability tools at LaSourceProjects Google group.

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