Pilgrimage and Discovery: Further explorations with the Earth Pilgrim

11 – 18 June, 2010

The course runs from Friday evening to Friday lunchtime

Satish Kumar with Chris Lloyd, Mary Bartlett, Martin Crawford, and Schumacher faculty

This course is open for bookings.

Course Overview

By popular demand, our Earth Pilgrim course is being both lengthened and deepened to enable participants to have more time to explore and experience a deep connection with the land.

As well as days walking on Dartmoor, spending time in sacred sites and hidden beauty spots, there will also be visits to the South Devon coast and the varied and fascinating landscapes on the Dartington estate itself. Journal writing, drawing, meditation, and experiential exercises will complement discussions with Satish about the place of spirituality in the modern world and sessions with other College staff on incorporating holistic and systemic ways of being into one’s life.

Author and educator Chris Lloyd will visit for a day to reflect on the evolution of key species and how they have affected life on the planet as a whole and the way that we humans live. His presentation is based on his new book What on Earth Evolved?, and follows on from his popular talk on a previous course on What on Earth Happened?

Sessions include

This course offers the opportunity to slow down. As we explore some of the beautiful Dartmoor and coastal landscapes, we will enjoy periods of quiet reflection through mindful walking and sitting, as well as sharing some of our thoughts and ideas. This course aims to help you engage with the natural world and to reconnect. It will be of interest and enjoyment for those new to our Earth Pilgrim series as well as those who have enjoyed them in the past.

Teachers

Satish Kumar undertook an 8,000 mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money to deliver packets of peace tea to leaders of the four nuclear powers. In 1973, he settled in England, becoming editor of Resurgence magazine – a position he has held ever since. Satish is the guiding spirit behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures in Britain and was one of the founders of Schumacher College. Read more

Christopher Lloyd is a journalist, writer and education manager with a background in history. His book What on Earth Happened? was launched in October 2008, and has since sold more than 20,000 copies in the UK. It was serialised in The Independent newspaper under the title The World, A Pocket History over 14 days between Saturday 7th to Friday 20th February 2009.

Toni Spencer has been leading on the innovative Schumacher Certificate in Education For Sustainability, designing, facilitating and teaching on the course using a wide variety of facilitation techniques and approaches. Alongside this she is a freelance facilitator elsewhere including Embercombe and Transition Town Totnes. She is also engaged in a re-emerging art practice and a growing practice as a wild food forager and teacher.

Martin Crawford runs the Agroforestry Research Trust. He has over 20 years’ experience of Organic horticulture, agriculture and agroforestry. The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity which researches into temperate agroforestry and into all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops.

Course Fees

£950 – The course runs from Friday evening to Friday lunchtime

All course fees include accommodation, food, field trips and all teaching sessions.

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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.