In Hawaii
Last Updated:  11/02/2011

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La'akea Community Winter Internship
February 1 - 29, 2011

Offered By - La'akea Community
PO Box 1071
Pahoa, HI
96778
Contact Person - Judy Dolmatch
Phone - 808-443-4076
email - info@permaculture-hawaii.com
Web Address - permaculture-hawaii.com/residential/internships/
Course Fee - $675
Course Format - Month long submersion into sustainable community life
Course Location - La'akea Community Pahoa, Puna, Hawaii - big island
Course Instructor(s) - Dona Willoughby, Tracy Matfin, Judy Dolmatch, Amara Karuna and others

Course Description -

Our internship program increases the focus on learning beyond what you would get as a work trader. Participants will enjoy workshops on permaculture and on communication/ interpersonal /community living skills. This is in addition to your daily participation in community life and hands-on immersion in permaculture modalities. Interns will be given tasks related to sustainable food/fiber production (tropical fruit orchards, vegetable gardens, greenhouses, animal systems, coconut tree climbing and harvesting, bamboo and other timber crops, and local food preparation).

 
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Aloha Aina Wholistic Permaculture Design Course
March 3-19, 2011

Offered By - Living Mandala & La'akea Community
PO Box 1071
Pahoa, HI
96778
Contact Person - Jay Ma
Phone - 707-634-1461
email - education@livingmandala.com
Web Address - www.livingmandala.com/Living_Mandala/Aloha_Aina_Holistic_Permaculture_Design_Course_2011.html
Course Fee - $1,500
Course Format - 72-hour permaculture design curriculum based upon the original Mollison and Holmgren ideas and design philosophies as well as a nourishing retreat and hands-on immersion experience of sustainable living ecovillage design.
Course Location - La'akea Community: Pahoa, Puna, the Big Island of Hawaii
Course Instructor(s) - Jenny Pell, Jay Ma, Angelica Papio, Tracy Matfin, La'Akea Community

Course Description -

The Aloha 'Aina Holistic Permaculture Design Course will include the standard 72-hour permaculture design curriculum based upon the original Mollison and Holmgren ideas and design philosophies published in The Permaculture Designer's Manual, as well as be a nourishing retreat and hands-on immersion experience of sustainable living ecovillage design. In addition to the standard permaculture design certification curriculum, we recognize permaculture as an expanding, holistic design philosophy encompassing many fields. Accordingly, this permaculture design course will include and integrate additional content and activities such as nature awareness, indigenous wisdom, embodiment practices, inner work, group process, ecovillage design, hands-on, and more. With a focus on tending the inner, outer, and community landscapes... course participants will work with each other and local community residents on tangible design project scenarios to implement positive transformation within themselves and in the local community.