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Land Matters – Documentary Screening
Thursday September 9, 2010
5pm | The Barn Cinema, Dartington | A special screening of the documentary following the Land Matters Co-operative as it sought planning permission to create a low-impact permaculture holding in South Devon.
Awakening our Relationship with Food
Starts: Monday September 13, 2010
September 13 – 17, 2010 | Edward Espe Brown, Carolyn Steel | This course steps back from asking what to eat and how to cook it and reflects on our relationship to food as a whole, and what it can tell us about how we relate to the natural world and our inner world.
Why food is vital to a sustainable society? Talk with Carolyn Steel
Wednesday September 15, 2010
8pm, Wednesday 15th September | Totnes Methodist Church | Carolyn Steel is author of ‘Hungry City’, which explored the relationshipsbetween food and cities. Can food production be central to town lifeand urban planning? What might this mean for Totnes?
Creativity and Social Innovation
Starts: Monday September 20, 2010
20 – 24 September, 2010 | Kate Davies, Jonathan Robinson | How can we create sustainable human systems – social, organizational, political and economic? What methods and processes help generate innovative social change? What are the skills of successful change agents?
Whose Land is it Anyway? Empowerment and community of place
Starts: Monday September 27, 2010
27 September – 1 October, 2010 | Alastair McIntosh, Iain MacKinnon, Sulemana Abudulai | This course will address important and complex challenges in combining land, human and Earth rights, as well as the fun and inspirational ways communities can live, work and learn together. It will help you in taking the next step in your relationship with the land, and within the rich community of Earth as a whole.
To Buy or Not to Buy? Consumption, Growth and Prosperity
Starts: Monday October 4, 2010
October 4 – 8, 2010 | Tim Jackson, Ed Mayo, Julie Richardson | Unless we can radically lower the environmental impact of our economic activity – and there is no evidence to suggest that we can – we will have to devise a path to prosperity that does not rely on continued growth.
Wild Plants as Food and Medicine
Starts: Monday October 11, 2010
11 – 15 October 2010 | Erin Smith, Simon Mills | Today many of us have forgotten how vital interaction with the natural world is to our wellbeing. This experiential course will explore how cultivating our relationship to plants can improve our physical and emotional health on many different levels.
Ecological Facilitation: A gritty and creative approach to leadership
Starts: Sunday October 17, 2010
October 17 – 23, 2010 | Jenny Mackewn and Toni Spencer | Whether you are an experienced facilitator seeking a fresh approach or improved ecological awareness, or new to this field but wanting skills to lead and facilitate change in others – this course brings together the radical thinking that will enable you to be part of leading this transition.
Ecoliteracy: First principles for radical change
Starts: Monday October 25, 2010
October 25 – November 5, 2010 | One or two-week course | Fritjof Capra (by videolink), Gustavo Esteva (by videolink), Stephan Harding, Philip Franses, Gill Wyatt, Julie Richardson, Mark Burton, Satish Kumar, Jon Rae, Terry Irwin (by videolink), Toni Spencer, Bethan Stagg, Anne Miller, Emily Ryan (course facilitator) | Changing the way we live and work on the planet is vital, and to do that we need a whole new set of skills to enable us to act effectively – and urgently. Understanding Ecoliteracy will help students to appreciate and act with a greater ecological awareness in both local and global situations.
Leadership, Education and the Closed Loop Economy
Starts: Monday November 8, 2010
November 8 – 12, 2010 | Ellen MacArthur, Ken Webster, Steve Martin | How do we educate for sustainability? What new skills and ways of thinking can help young people and the institutions that work with them prepare for a challenging – and unpredictable – future? What qualities of leadership can inspire a new generation of engaged citizens?
Using Living Roofs and Walls: A macro and a micro perspective
Starts: Monday November 15, 2010
November 15 – 19, 2010 | Teachers: Dusty Gedge, Gary Grant, John Little | By the end of the course, participants will have an overview of the benefits and challenges of green roofs and walls, how they are designed and the practical skills necessary to build your own.
The Art of Feminine Leadership: Values, vision and success
Starts: Friday November 19, 2010
November 19 – 21, 2010 | Teacher: Lynne Franks | How can we create and embed a more sustainable feminine style of values-based leadership in all areas of business and society? How do we redefine success for the individual as well as for business?
Transformational Change: Business inspired by nature
Starts: Monday November 22, 2010
22 – 26 November 2010 | On this programme, 20 people from business and change organisations will work collaboratively on developing a template for change that they can take back to their organisations to catalyse transformational thought, innovation and action.
Redeeming Darkness
Starts: Monday December 13, 2010
December 13-16, 2010 | Tchenka Sunderland, Lindsay Clarke & Chris Salisbury | At this, the darkest time of the year, it seems appropriate to seek the redemption of the Dark. Building on last year’s course, Darkness and Transformation, this course will enable participants to reflect on how we can renew our relationship with the creative mysteries of darkness and come to understand and appreciate its powers and gifts.
Systems Thinking in a Complex World
Starts: Tuesday January 4, 2011
one, two or three-week course | Hardin Tibbs, Philip Franses, Jean Boulton, Gunter Pauli | January 4 – 21, 2011 | Consider any of the problems or challenges facing our modern world and it will quickly become apparent that they are part of a whole complex system which we ignore at our peril. This course provides an introduction to systems thinking and its application to sustainability, ecodesign, organisational and social change, industry, business and enterprise.
Transformative Development
Starts: Monday January 31, 2011
one, two or three-week course | Allan Kaplan, Bunker Roy, Aruna Roy | January 31 – February 18, 2011 | This course will explore the changing face of development, beginning with a discussion of the broader global context within which any development work must take place, moving on to look at the process by which individuals facilitate change within communities, and finally examining different examples of radical grassroots community activism and empowerment.
Purpose and Profit: How holistic thinking can remake business
Starts: Monday February 21, 2011
February 21 – 25, 2011 | Chris Nichols, Chris Seeley | Recent economic events have told us that our present economic system is vulnerable. Can organisations be successful and genuinely sustainable – in the broadest sense? read more…
Ecopsychology: Exploring the roots to change
Starts: Monday March 7, 2011
March 7th – 25th, 2011 | one, two or three-week course | Dave Key, Mary-Jayne Rust, Jerome Bernstein, Alida Gersie, and Sophie Banks | Ecopsychology has a fundamentally important role to play in responding to current social and ecological challenges. This three-week course explores the many layers of this role. From denial to inspiration for action, our motivations are governed by our emotional responses and what we believe about our place in the web of life.
Green Design in Practice: Building an Earthship
Starts: Monday March 21, 2011
Two week course | Kevan Trott | Participants will work on the construction of a small earthship structure in the grounds of the Sharpham Estate, enabling them to learn the theory and experience the practice of all parts of the construction process. read more…
Forthcoming events (dates TBC)
Schumacher College is part of the Dartington Hall Trust, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and as a charity (company no. 1485560, charity no. 279756). Registered office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK.