REGENERATION: A Call for Action
The state motto of Hawai'i, which says "Ua mau ka ea o'ka aina, i ka pono"; that is, "The life of the land is preserved in goodness". It is implicit that, when the goodness/creativity of the people fails, the ecological state of the land will suffer. It is also implicit that when the ecological state of the land is disturbed, the health and happiness of the people will be affected.
REGENERATION is a design science that weaves together the principles of sustainability. This training course will give you a solid, wholistic, ecological worldview, while simultaneously offering practical solutions that demonstrate how we can create a sustainable, abundant garden environment, home and regenerate our community. Empowering individuals to live whole-heartily, deeply rooted in the abundant flows of natural systems.
It is possible to rapidly heal the land and ourselves. Regenerative living is a mutually enhancing relationship between the people and the earth.
Regeneration: The Art of Sustainable Living
"The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education."
~Jean de la Bruyere
Reach into the ecological depths of your own backyard to intentionally create a thriving ecosystem that feeds you and your spirit, nourishes the landscape, and builds human and natural communities. Guided by ecological regenerative designers and permaculture specialists Lorenna and Shantree Kacera.
As we grasp new conceptual frameworks by applying practical ecological design techniques, we learn essential skills for replenishing and regenerating ourselves, our ecological biospheres, and our human communities back home. Open to beginners as well as those with some experience, this training will lay a solid foundation for continued studies in forest gardening and permaculture - on your own or through a Permaculture Design Course.
"Every Generation needs Regeneration" ~Charles H. Spurgeon quotes (English preacher of the 19th. century 1834-1892
Principles and Practices of Regenerative Design
We need to ask ourselves:
"What kind of future are we creating for our children and grandchildren?"
What can we do? As caring individuals, now is the time to learn new ways to positively contribute to improving our own lives, our families, our gardens and our community's environmental and social health. We must heed the words of Einstein: "We cannot solve the significant problems we face at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." We need to ask, "What new ways of thinking will get us out of this mess and help us restore our world to health?"
Ecological principles form the foundation of this way of seeing, and offer concrete directions for finding solutions to multiple problems with maximum effect for least effort. These principles apply at all scales, from your garden bed, to your neighborhood, to your bioregion, and in every realm of human endeavor. This is your invitation to experience a new way of looking at your world, and through that lens, you will find empowerment and skills you never knew existed. We'll also engage with issues of ecology and the deep paradigmatic shifts required to succeed at co-creating ‘humanatural' landscapes and cultures. You will leave inspired and empowered to design regenerative landscapes for your sacred self and sacred garden sanctuary.
A garden is a place of beauty; it is a sanctuary for the spirit, that goes back to ancient times, when gardens and forests were part of our common spiritual tradition.
The practice of regeneration will provide you with the necessary nourishment and open the gateway to a deeper understanding of your 'roots'.
The Path of Regeneration
- Rooting to Place
- Remembering Our Ecological Self
- Localizing Our Nourishment
- Intimately Connecting to Source
- Gardens to Regenerate
- Living Resiliently
- Trusting Our Original Instructions
- Discovering Native Plant Foods & Medicines
- Slowing Our Movement to Nature's Rhythm
- Becoming Permanently Cultured
- Nourished by the Elemental Forces
- Living in Gratitude Space
- Being Your Radiant Self
- Creating a Lively and Joyful Future
Benefits
- Nourished
- Recharged
- Creative
- Sustained
- Intimate
- Peaceful
- Content
- Grateful
- Radiant
- Revitalized
FAQ 's on REGENERATION
Regeneration is an integrate program that attempts to mimic the structure and function of natural ecosystems by creating regenerative inner and outer landscapes that are full of beauty, nourishment for emotions, mind, body and spirit. Learn how to create sustainable designs, which increase regeneration and restore local ecosystem health and strengthen personal and community resilience.
This training explores the vision, theory, design, and practice of regeneration.
Daily classes and experiential learning will reveal the nature of ecosystem architecture, social structure, underground economics, and succession.
Regeneration is both a practical and spiritual way of life, yet it also represents a radically new way of seeing our landscapes and our world. Seeing nature as a model of wellness.
This experiential training is your opportunity to get a glimpse of an how you can create a sacred sanctuary ~ one that transform your whole being.
"This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long-term view."
~Richard Rogers
The ultimate goal of Regeneration is to weave together the broken threads of native ecosystems, regardless of where you live.
Daily Flow
Regeneration is offered as a weekend workshop or a 3-day training. Sessions begin at 9am. The morning will include hands-on training followed by an Organic Vegan Live-Food lunch. The afternoon includes a lecture, interactive exchanges and concludes with a Sevenfold Path of Peace meditation. The session ends at 5pm.
Certificate
A Certificate of Completion will be issued upon completing the training.
We have are pleased to announce that we are in the process of completing a 'Regeneration: A Call for Action' Workbook.
Regenerative Living in Harmonious Balance with the Earth, Beyond Sustainability
It is time to regenerate both ourselves and environment. We can consciously apply the principles of ecology to the design of our inner ecology as well as home scale gardens that mimic forest ecosystem structure and function. Indeed, we must begin learning to apply ecological principles to the design of our natural living systems now - to create a better world for ourselves and seven generations into the future.
This change in our culture will require that we learn to live within our energetic means and begin to rebuild ecosystems that support human and humane lives without diminishing the ability of the ecosystem to support our children and grandchildren.
While the global problem is huge, most of the solutions available to us are local, personal, empowering, and potentially enlivening, enlightening, and fun. Regenerative living is one of these solutions, and we now have the resources at hand to transform our own lives, our living spaces and gardens into productive sacred sanctuaries.
Facilitators
Shantree Kacera, D.N., Ph.D. and Lorenna Kacera are founders and directors of The Living Centre and Living Arts Institute. Together they blend their over 35 years each, of experience to offer programs that support individuals in the practice of conscious living.
Through The Sevenfold Path of Peace, Ayurvedic Teachings, and a Local-Live-Plant-Food-based lifestyle they support those with a passion to live healthier, happier and more spiritually fulfilled lives.
Lorenna and Shantree are internationally celebrated visionaries, authors, educators, nutritional researchers and world peace workers.
Shantree is an Ayurvedic Live-Food Nutritionist, Therapeutic & Shamanic Herbalist, Permaculture Teacher and Constitutional Iridology Educator with 35 years experience in the Natural Healing Arts. He is the founder and co-director of The Living Centre (1983) and Living Arts Institute.
Shantree's laboratory ~ spiritually, emotionally, and physically ~ is the forest garden, from which spring ideas about shifting world paradigm through rethinking how we live our lives and how to regenerate our gardens. To learn how to live intimately with all our relations that live in our bioregion.
Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera is the founder of Shamanu Earth Wisdom Teachings. Her passion for self-realization and the awakening of consciousness has been the guiding force in her life. Her 35 years of being both student and teacher of spirituality, wholistic healing and the 'art of living' has gifted her with a diversity of healing modalities and wisdom which she is always deeply honored and delighted to share.
Dates for the Regeneration: A Call for Action
To accommodate individual needs this workshop is offered as a One-Day or Two-Day Workshop or as a Three-Day Training:
Workshop / Training Dates
One-Day Workshop
May 19
October 13
Two-Day Workshop
May 19-20
October 13-14
Three-Day Training
May 19-21
October 13-15
Times: 9am - 5pm.
Register for Regeneration: A Call for Action
Includes: workshop, educational material and organic vegan live-food lunches.
Transportation, tax and accommodations are not included in the pricing above.
Companion Pricing: Bring a friend and save $25.
Payment can be made through 'PayPal' below or by certified check. Please made checks payable and send to:
The Living Centre, 5871 Bells Rd., London, ON., Canada, N6P 1P3
Certificate
A Certificate of Completion will be issued upon completing three 3-Day Trainings.
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