Food Sovereignty Facilitator Training
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| Sat & Sun, 13 - 14 September | 09:00 am - 05:00 pm | Byron Community College - Mullum Campus | 20 | $300.00 |
Introduction:
You will leave with a rich toolkit of supportive resources for generating local food action plans and more. Some activities introduced and practiced are: creating a bioregional food resource inventory using a ground-model, building co-operation amongst food systems players, strategising local food action plans and generating local food economy prosperity.
In this workshop Robina applies her powerful community facilitation methods to enabling the goal of community scale food security to the Byron Shire region. This includes how to motivate and engage others, as well as opportunities to gain confidence, skills and tools to support an enduring community through the enriching of local food culture whilst generating local economic prosperity.
What to bring
- Notebook and pen
- Own refreshments/lunch
Important information
Once your enrolment is completed you will receive a confirmation email. This email will include your receipt and inform you of the dates, times and venue for your course. It will also let you know of anything you need to take to class with you.
Please make sure that you give us a valid email address and mobile number as any course changes will be communicated via sms or email.
Students are required to be 15 years old and above at the time of enrolment.
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Tutor Profile:
Robina McCurdy
For the past 25 years, Robina has worked internationally and nationally as a community development facilitator, Permaculture educator/designer and gardening teacher, evolving her own methodology and accompanying educational resource materials. She worked with village-scale food security in Southern Africa, co-ordinated the Victory Community Gardens (Nelson, NZ), and consulted with Project Lyttelton's 'Food Resilience Project (Christchurch, NZ), post-earthquake. In mid 2012 Robina established The Localising Food Project, which toured NZ filming a plethora of inspiring local food initiatives, in parallel with teaching workshops on local food action planning, home garden design, public food forests and seed sovereignty. She is currently involved in the production of documentaries from the material filmed during the tour. To discover more about this work, visit www.localisingfood.com
In this workshop Robina applies her powerful community facilitation methods to enabling the goal of community scale food security to the Byron Shire region. This includes how to motivate and engage others, as well as opportunities to gain confidence, skills and tools to support an enduring community through the enriching of local food culture whilst generating local economic prosperity.
