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March 2008 
INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES
Posted on Dec 18th, 2007
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"Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture and agro-forestry in creating a rich and sustainable way of living. It uses appropriate technology giving high yields for low energy inputs, achieving a resource of great diversity and stability. The design principles are equally applicable to both urban and rural dwellers. " --Bill Mollison
Dear friends of BVR and the BOULDER COUNTY GOING LOCAL! Campaign,
As you know, Richard Heinberg and others have pointed to the urgent need for millions of new farmers in this country over the next several years, and one of the best ways of helping to achieve this goal is to get as many people as possible trained in Permaculture principles and methods. Fortunately, interest in Permaculture is booming in Boulder County, which will help stimulate the expansion of our local foodshed.
On January 7 (Mon.), 7:00 p.m., Sandy Cruz of High Altitude Permaculture Institute will be teaching INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES. The class will be free for those who register (call 303-459-3494), and will be held at Boulder Meadows Community Room, 4500 19th Street (Violet & 19th in North Boulder).
Following a dynamic conclusion to the PERMACULTURE THROUGH THE SEASONS! Design Certification Course last month (with 35 graduates), we are pleased to announce that Sandy Cruz will be teaching another eight-month course in 2008, along with Becky Elder, a permaculture activist and gardener from Manitou Springs. Guest teachers will include Marco Chung-Shu Lam and Jerome Osentowski. The course, sponsored by Boulder County Going Local, will be held the second weekend of each month, March 8 through October 12. A descriptive flyer is available here. Register soon, because this course will sell out quickly! Sandy says, "Please think about joining us this year, and let your friends know, too. We expect the course to fill, so if you're considering signing up or applying for a scholarship, be sure to request a registration form soon. Our super-early-bird discount will be in effect until January 8th, followed by our early-bird discount until February 8th." To register, call Sandy at 303-459-3494.
Sandy and Becky will also be offering the first locally-based course for PERMACULTURE TEACHER'S CERTIFICATION, providing ongoing support for new teachers and opportunities to assist experienced instructors at workshops. Winter classroom work will focus on developing teaching and organizational skills, with hands-on exercises to build confidence and ease. Participants will then assist at diverse Permaculture workshops offered along the Front Range, and have an individual conference with the instructor. Dates of the course are February 9, 16, 23 and July 26. The closing day of the course will focus on future collaboration among participants by developing teaching teams and designing a local workshop curriculum for Fall 2008-2009. Details available here.
Planning for other Permaculture Design Courses in 2008 is underway. Pikes Peak Permaculture in Colorado Springs will hold a Design Certification Course in the eight-month format beginning in April. In the Boulder area, Sandy will teach a variety of one and two-day permaculture workshops on specific subjects beginning in the spring. She will also be training new instructors this winter to help meet the soaring demand for Permaculture education.
Meanwhile, Bill Wilson, the "permaculture evangelist" of Midwest Permaculture, will host a Design Certification Course in a different format in April. This is a 72-hour course, with 12 hours of webinar instruction, and eight consecutive days of on-site work in Boulder County (April 19-26). Details available soon.
We hope you will take advantage of some of the incredible Permaculture instruction that is becoming available!
Dear friends of BVR and the BOULDER COUNTY GOING LOCAL! Campaign,
As you know, Richard Heinberg and others have pointed to the urgent need for millions of new farmers in this country over the next several years, and one of the best ways of helping to achieve this goal is to get as many people as possible trained in Permaculture principles and methods. Fortunately, interest in Permaculture is booming in Boulder County, which will help stimulate the expansion of our local foodshed.
On January 7 (Mon.), 7:00 p.m., Sandy Cruz of High Altitude Permaculture Institute will be teaching INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE PRINCIPLES. The class will be free for those who register (call 303-459-3494), and will be held at Boulder Meadows Community Room, 4500 19th Street (Violet & 19th in North Boulder).
Following a dynamic conclusion to the PERMACULTURE THROUGH THE SEASONS! Design Certification Course last month (with 35 graduates), we are pleased to announce that Sandy Cruz will be teaching another eight-month course in 2008, along with Becky Elder, a permaculture activist and gardener from Manitou Springs. Guest teachers will include Marco Chung-Shu Lam and Jerome Osentowski. The course, sponsored by Boulder County Going Local, will be held the second weekend of each month, March 8 through October 12. A descriptive flyer is available here. Register soon, because this course will sell out quickly! Sandy says, "Please think about joining us this year, and let your friends know, too. We expect the course to fill, so if you're considering signing up or applying for a scholarship, be sure to request a registration form soon. Our super-early-bird discount will be in effect until January 8th, followed by our early-bird discount until February 8th." To register, call Sandy at 303-459-3494.
Sandy and Becky will also be offering the first locally-based course for PERMACULTURE TEACHER'S CERTIFICATION, providing ongoing support for new teachers and opportunities to assist experienced instructors at workshops. Winter classroom work will focus on developing teaching and organizational skills, with hands-on exercises to build confidence and ease. Participants will then assist at diverse Permaculture workshops offered along the Front Range, and have an individual conference with the instructor. Dates of the course are February 9, 16, 23 and July 26. The closing day of the course will focus on future collaboration among participants by developing teaching teams and designing a local workshop curriculum for Fall 2008-2009. Details available here.
Planning for other Permaculture Design Courses in 2008 is underway. Pikes Peak Permaculture in Colorado Springs will hold a Design Certification Course in the eight-month format beginning in April. In the Boulder area, Sandy will teach a variety of one and two-day permaculture workshops on specific subjects beginning in the spring. She will also be training new instructors this winter to help meet the soaring demand for Permaculture education.
Meanwhile, Bill Wilson, the "permaculture evangelist" of Midwest Permaculture, will host a Design Certification Course in a different format in April. This is a 72-hour course, with 12 hours of webinar instruction, and eight consecutive days of on-site work in Boulder County (April 19-26). Details available soon.
We hope you will take advantage of some of the incredible Permaculture instruction that is becoming available!
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Hi,
I am very thankfull for your article, the work of Bill Mollisson it is not at all well known, but should be. I am collaborating now with a permaculture network, from the human factor challenge.
you and your friends groups might like my article, i will apreciate your feedback
daniel
Permaculture, Human Factor & Multidimensional Management
___________________________________________________
Multidimensional Management
by Luis Daniel Maldonado Fonken
http://www.multidimensional-management.nexo.com/
mailto:%3Ca%20href=“>luisdanielmaldonadofonken@yahoo.co.uk">luisdanielmaldonadofonken@yahoo.co.uk
Mobile: 015773736956
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Multidimensional Management
A Solution for the Human Factor Challenge
by Luis Daniel Maldonado Fonken
What it is Human Factor? Why this variable have been that important our whole life? in the way it changes, evolves, leavs a mark in us, deeply, in our private and professional life. What are humans, and why humans are the greates challenge humanity have, and life-on-earth have?
When i was 11 years old, i did hear frequently the kind of challenges members of my family had at work, i could not understand why humans could make their own lifes that complicated.
Later, getting older, something changed in me: at school or at university, when i really needed to jump from playing games with friends and hanging around, to taking responsibility; when my own individual interests had to face that “not everyone around the world” go my way….. I understood, what really was going on, i mean, why it is not always easy to work together, to communicate, and find ways of collaboration.
Humans can be so individual, and as well, can really create marvelouse things and experiences all toghether, when they colaborate to each other and learn to communicate.
I was motivated, since I was a child, to look for alternative solutions/methods that bring to a group/project better strategy, collaboration, co-creativity and communication.
Suddenly i forgot my first questions, regards why it seems like adults have such a complicated life, and enter with a deep passion the world of research, experience and life among “adults - complex humans”
My intuition about what i needed to do im my life was guiding me from IT (Information Technology) to studies in health education and arts. Why? becouse information, system and organization, are not the solution for human factor needs. Humans experience with their bodies, emotions and mind, have a spiritual experience of life, own goals and ego, and so on. I needed to understand better what humans are, before i could bring any practical and real solution.
Later i did more studies about environment care education, culture, nature, management, human senses and emotional self management,…and suddenly discover a group of interesting people learning about permaculture.
Permaculture met all my interests, from healthy living to self sustainability, from experience nature to letting nature do and be as it is. Was tottaly obvious for me that if humans wanted o learn to work toghther, they needed first to observe how nture work toghether, and take this experience as a mirror, to see and understand themselves better. This kind of awareness based on experience could create a seed of change, a change that can come only from every individual that become aware.
Humans will decide what life is and how life on earth should be, based on their education, but as well on their understaning of what humans and nature and culture are. I met counted people around my travels in Southamerica and Europe (1996-2007) that had a sense of what humans really are and do with this “humanity”.
I wanted to understand human and nature better, then i was interest to understand all aspects of human life: health, emotions, body, senses, and so on. But as well where humans live (nature and culture), and what this context need to keep being alife.
While learning in a multidisciplinary context, i got to understand that only simple and effctive solutions that are tottally integrated to natural processes, could bring back humans to nature, and at the same time bring back humans to a natural sense of communication and colaboration. In that way the development of a new kind of human inteligence (that learn and enjoy to colaborate with nature, instead to try to control it) will arise on our self-sustained communities.
In 1993 i did start working at university on human factor, team building and interdisciplinary skills. Later, did travel as consultant and offered workshops along Southamerica pacific coast. Did develop new know how, that can help individuals and groups of humans to work toghether “better”, to improve their performance at work but alo at their daily life.
The Mandala of elements is one of those tools i did develop, and is suitable and efective for self-management & management, facilitates communication and colaboration processes, and increases co-creativity.
I finally wrote some books regards the Mandala of Elements, and Multidimensional Management in 2007. After many years of private research, application of methods on practical situations, through consultancy, coaching, own business management and pilot projects I am very confident to say that Multidimensional management provides a set of tools that support human colaboration and improve performance of humans in our company, project or organization.
Why the name: multidimensional management? becouse we humans, have many dimensions of experience, we experience emotions, body, sensations, mind, wishes, ego, gender-skills, at the same time. We have many experiences simultaneusly.
In order to bring to our work and daily life a quality experience of co-creativity, collaboration and communication, we need to observe and understand what humans and nature experience along life. Then, we will be able to colaborate with nature and humans community, and to increase the benefits that comes from this colaboration-intent, for us and future generations.
The following is a brief description of the method, and its context. I wish this method will help permaculture practitioners and teams to achieve their individual and collective goals into a context of collaboration, communication and co-creativity.
Daniel Maldonado Fonken
Multidimensional Management
Consultant, Facilitator
Mandala of Elements
The elements that exist in nature, simbolizes the inteligence that exist in every life process, and that is also valid for humans daily life.
A mandala represents our inner and outer universes, playing together a dynamic that we recognize as „our life” ( individual) or the life of a company (collective).
The Mandala of Elements is a tool, a method, that helps you organize your life (or the life of your company and its business plan development) accord natural procceses (nature and its principles). It helps you care for nature, culture and people, and harmonizes to what humans really experience: body, mind, emotions, ego, soul and spirit, into a context where humans, culture and nature are meant to be respected.
Mandala of Elements is a:
>Management & self-organization method for your company
>Improve colaboration, communication, co-creativity & strategic planning
>Self-management & Self organization method for your dayly life
Life is great! Becouse i can enjoy all experiences and resources life gives me in an effective way!.
By seeing life in a positive way, we are able to perceive the gold into a space of continues change!
By observing life processes through awareness and organized and presice sight, we learn how to support the life-inteligence of nature, and in that way we also support our own life and sucess. No need to act against but to collaborate.
The mandala of elements „improve performance” of our life: The life and development of a business, a team or an individual (collective or individual processes) are experiencing the power and inteligence of the elements.
The elements are present in nature all around us, and nutrish every creative and development proccess we start. If we start to colaborate with natural forces (also within our company or daily life), instead of trying to control them, we will discover, that nature means life and life means enjoyment and sucess.
The human factor challenge means to understand humans life within nature, and to support humans procceses of colaboration, communication, co creativity and strategic planing by using management tools that apply the inteligence and principles of nature.
Humans are not just objects that you can replace when the qualifications do not match anymore with the company change of culture, know how or technology. The company human resources costs might be reduced if managers understand that until now the human factor have not been properly understood. Intelectualy theories and concepts do not match with the integral experience of humans, into a natural and cultural context, humans are life beings with emotions, sensory perception, body, mind, vision, wishes, ego and spirtual life. All the human potentiality have not been yet integrated to daily life or company life. Why?
The mandala of elements help humans achieve their daily life goals, and harmonize to what humans are, and nature is. The mandala of elements it is not an intelectual method, or concept, is a life experience with which you come back to nature through your own professional activity, daily life or company life.
Courses, Seminar
Mandala of elements for business management
Life into our company can be described as a collective experience of humans that co-creates a process of development with a common goal.
Life into a company can be described as paralel proccesses that creates the development of the business plan. These processes, accord to the mandala of elements, happend into the fields of every element: Fire, water, air, earth…, like Finnances (earth), Communication (fire), … Marketing (Wind), and so on.
The mandala of elements integrates in one method:
self management,self organization
emotional self management
decisions management, process management
resources management, strategic planing
communication, colaboration, cocreativity
Managers can use this method to improve performance of their company, team and individual dayly life.
Course, Seminar
Mandala of elements for daily life
Daily life is an individual experience, where we create a process of development of our own future. We discover, understand our inner resources (skills and potentiality) and outer resources (life conditions).
Along our daily life, if we would like to experience a high % of our potentiality and use our resources in an effective way, we can use a tool, Mandala of elements, that gives us a presice understanding of our daily life conditions, provides a way to take decisions and develop life processes, accod natural principles.
The mandala of elements integrates in one method:
self management & self organization (Incl. time management)
emotional self management,
decisions management, process management
resources management, strategic planing
communication, colaboration, cocreativity
______________________________________________
Multidimensional Management
by Luis Daniel Maldonado Fonken
http://www.multidimensional-management.nexo.com/
mailto:%3Ca%20href=“>luisdanielmaldonadofonken@yahoo.co.uk">luisdanielmaldonadofonken@yahoo.co.uk
Mobile: 015773736956
Courses, seminars, coaching: booking by email or telephone
Kurse, Seminare und Vorträge in Deutsch