Toward a Good Relationship with Earth — Silver Wattle Quaker Centre
Toward a Good Relationship with Earth
Friday, September 21, 20186:00 AM
Monday, September 24, 20184:00 AM
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Led by Rowe Morrow.
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Are you feeling distressed by global warming? Not sure what makes the biggest difference? Looking for spiritual direction through action and testimonies? This course discusses what works, using permaculture principles and a global and cosmological framework. You will learn:
Ways to live effectively
What has worked in other countries and situations where people are struggling more than we are in Australia.
A larger view of life and the spirit
For keen gardeners, consider staying on a few days to participate in the Spring Gardening Week (24-30 September).
In the 1980s, Rowe Morrow discovered permaculture which provided a powerful basis for Earth restoration. A Concern was born. She considers permaculture ‘sacred’ knowledge to be carried and shared with others. Since then Rowe has travelled to meet many people anxious and concerned to restore their environments. As a teacher of permaculture Rowe has been inspired for many years by Parker Palmer, the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and non-violent resistance. She works in difficult places, choosing people who have been disempowered and who would not otherwise have access to permaculture. Most recently she has been working in Afghanistan, and then with Syrian refugees in Mosul. Rowe delivered the 2011 Backhouse lecture and is a member of Blue Mountains Meeting.
Cost: $372 (Single)/ $342 (Shared) includes accommodation and catering
Note that Quakers may also seek support from their Local Meeting or Regional Meeting. Funds are set aside for this, so don’t be shy – it is an investment in the spiritual health of the Meeting.
If you need to be picked up from the Bungendore train station ($10 fee) or Canberra airport ($35 fee) please contact admin.office@silverwattle.com.au
If you are not ready to commit to the course but want to let us know you are interested, please contact us here.
Towards a Good Relationship with Earth
Thursday September 20, 2018 4 pm to
Sunday, September 23, 2018 1 pm
with Rowe Morrow
Author of
Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture
Thursday September 20, 2018 4 pm to
Sunday, September 23, 2018 1 pm
with Rowe Morrow
Author of
Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture
• Are you feeling distressed by global warming?
• Are you yearning to live a life connected to the needs of all of Earth’s communities?
• Not sure what makes the biggest difference?
• Looking to do work that is spiritually truthful?
• This course discusses what works, using permaculture principles within a global and
cosmological framework.
cosmological framework.
You will learn:
• Ways to live effectively
• What has worked in other countries and situations where people are struggling more than
we are in Australia.
we are in Australia.
• A larger view of life and the spirit
For keen gardeners, consider staying on a few days to participate in the Spring Gardening Week
(24-30 September).
For keen gardeners, consider staying on a few days to participate in the Spring Gardening Week
(24-30 September).
Rowe Morrow discovered permaculture provides a powerful
basis for Earth restoration.
basis for Earth restoration.
She considers permaculture
‘sacred’ knowledge to be carried and shared with others.
‘sacred’ knowledge to be carried and shared with others.
Rowe is widely known and sought after to run courses,
worldwide.
worldwide.
She has travelled to meet many people anxious
and concerned to restore their environments.
and concerned to restore their environments.
Rowe has
been inspired for many years by the work of Parker Palmer,
the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and non-violent
resistance.
been inspired for many years by the work of Parker Palmer,
the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) and non-violent
resistance.
She often works in difficult places, choosing
people who have been disempowered and who would not
otherwise have access to permaculture.
people who have been disempowered and who would not
otherwise have access to permaculture.
Most recently she
has been working in Afghanistan, and then with Syrian
refugees in Mosul.
has been working in Afghanistan, and then with Syrian
refugees in Mosul.
Course Costs : Single room $372 Shared $342
Includes all meals, accommodation and course materials.
Includes all meals, accommodation and course materials.
Transfers: Airport $35, Bungendore train station $10
For more information see www.silverwattle.org.au
Registration Online: https://www.silverwattle.org.au/course-registration
For more information see www.silverwattle.org.au
Registration Online: https://www.silverwattle.org.au/course-registration
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Rosemary Morrow is one of the 26 contributors to Permaculture Pioneers – stories from the new frontier. In this short interview, introduced by co-editor Kerry Dawborn, Rowe talks about the limits that permaculture has to deal with the problems of the world. Permaculture can provide skills and build confidence to adapt to changing environments, but a changing climate illustrates that migration may become necessary in extreme situations.
An interview with Permaculture Pioneer Rosemary Morrow
A little bit about Rowe
Born in Perth, Rosemary Morrow (Rowe) was claimed early by the Earth; plants, animals, stones, weather. Some years in the Kimberleys as a young girl confirmed it.
Later she trained in agriculture science with which she was very disappointed, then moved to France where she lived in the L’Arche community. Later at Jordans Village in England she realised she would become a Quaker. Back in Australia in the 1980s Rowe’s Permaculture Design Course provided the basis for a concern for Earth restoration. She considers permaculture to be ‘sacred knowledge’ to be carried and shared with others. Since then, when asked, she has travelled to teach the PDC to others who, due to circumstances, could not access it any other way. This took her to immediate post-war Vietnam as well as Cambodia, Uganda, Ethiopia and other countries.
Rowe’s present concern is to make teaching sustainable and encourage others to succeed her as teachers.
A Permaculture Pioneer
Rosemary Morrow is one of the 26 contributors to Permaculture Pioneers – stories from the new frontier. In this short interview, introduced by co-editor Kerry Dawborn, Rowe talks about the limits that permaculture has to deal with the problems of the world. Permaculture can provide skills and build confidence to adapt to changing environments, but a changing climate illustrates that migration may become necessary in extreme situations.
Rowe’s advice? “Apply the design principles as closely as you can you’ll end up with wonderful production of good systems, and that there isn’t a whole lot of room to innovate… creativity is applying principles, it’s not in going much beyond the palate that we have of principles for designing well.”
10% of all sales of Permaculture Pioneers whether in print form, or eBook form, continue to go to Permafund, supporting Permaculture projects around the world especially those that assist with resilience in the developing world and in places of extreme need. So why not purchase a copy and dip into the stories of these inspiring early adopters. Permaculture Pioneers is now available on iTunes.
