Robina is in Australia for the Australian Permaculture Convergence at Easter, where she is doing a presentation entitled 'Mobilising Community through Permaculture' and launching her ‘hot off the press’ facilitation manual: 'Grounding Vision - Empowering Culture - how to build & Sustain Community Together'. She is staying on to present this workshop, where she will teach how to use some the community building tools in her manual, based on the needs and interests of the group. She will also present ‘Community Glue’, a slideshow drawn from her work with land-based communities and ecovillages around the world.

To Register:
Contact Lyndall Parris
Phone: 0419 279 711; or 02 99536699
Email: lmparris@bigpond.com

Cost: sliding scale according to income/means:
$95 - $55. (15% discount for couples).
Bring a pot-luck lunch to share. Families welcome.

Venue Location, Directions & Transport Options:
The Kirribilli Neighbourhood Cente is about 500m from Milson’s Point Railway Station with access available via Bligh or Fitzroy Streets. On street parking is available.

The Sydney Harbour Ferry stops at Milson’s Point Wharf by Luna Park. There is a steep hil up to the Centre which you can walk or bus. Busses stop in Broughton and Alfred Streets when traveling between Kirribilli and North Sydney, Neutral Bay, Cremorne and Mosman and Sydney City.

ROBINA'S BACKGROUND
Robina McCurdy is co-founder/resident/trustee of Tui Land Trust & Community and founder/trustee of the Institute for Earthcare Education Aotearoa (Charitable trusts). She has a range of teaching/facilitation qualifications, as well as Permaculture (ecological land-use design) qualifications. For 25 years she has been engaged in community development, permaculture design and tutoring, organic growing, the development of environmental education resources and the creation of participatory processes for decision making and collective action. She has taught and applied these powerful community-building and land-restorating methods with households, neighbourhoods, schools, farms, ecovillages and bioregions, in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, Brazil and USA.

Human capacity building is one of Robina's special skills - inspiring, guiding and offering specific tools and techniques for people to access their gifts, develop their potential, build their resourcefulness, and live their dreams. Her work has been a catalyst for significant changes in the lives of people, their communities and their environment. Underpinning her work (local to global) is re-connection with nature and culture, with the intention of building sustainable community in harmony with the natural environment.

Some of the organisations which have funded Robina's projects are: the British High Commission, British Permaculture Institute (Britain), DANIDA (Denmark), Fundacio Gaia NGO, Rio Grande du Sul and Santa Catarina Education Departments (Brazil), Global Ecovillage Network (Australia), Village Development, Novalis Institute and Abalimi Bezekhaya (South Africa), PELUM (Zimbabwe), Context Institute, Sth California Permaculture Institute, Antioch University (USA), NZ Natural Heritage Foundation, Tindall Foundation, and the NZ High Commission (Aotearoa-NZ).