Vancouver Island Ecovillage Youth Convergence Sept 26-28

Announcing the 3rd annual fallgathering of….
Vancouver Island Ecovillage Youth Convergence:
Cooperating for Capacity Building.
September26th, 27th, 28th, 2008 at O.U.R ECOVILLAGE (www.ourecovillage.org )
Shawnigan Lake.
Comeexplore the possibility of building your own personal capacity and/or
yourorganizational/community capacity.

Each of us hold inour hearts and minds aspirations for healthy relationships within our
communities and theland we live on. At this falls Convergence, we aim to
explore and shareour personal visions, and to gain skills for building community
capacitycollectively.
We understand thatthe challenges we face in our world require collective action and
that
our personal effortsare most effective when in concert with a group of people.
SPECIAL GUEST FACILITATOR:
MARK LAKEMAN, Community Visionaryfrom The City Repair Project in Portland
ORwww.cityrepair.org
We will engage in activities, workshops,and discussions aimed at formulating group
cohesion, shared vision, andcommunity building activities to take back into our own
lives/neighbourhoods tomake a difference. Special attention is being given this
Convergence to groupswho wish to start community/repair projects and want to look at
the stepstowards creating this. We will join inhands-on learning projects to
practice skills for living incommunity sustainably and to foster a deeper sense of
how to live/worktogether.

To Register: Send registration form (below) to info@ourecovillage.org
Workshops and events to look forward to this year:
• biodynamic farming- Farmer John Ehrlich from Alderlea Farm
• Natural building and alternative energy
• Playback theatre- Rob Osborne
• Personal/family/community empowerment andwellbeing
• Story telling/weaving
• Skill sharing/ repairing stuff
• Diversity training- Kxx and Neil Dolan from Real Deal Training
http://www.rdtraining.ca/about.html
• Cooperative Land Ownership- Brandy Gallagher executive director of OUR Ecovillage
• Way of Council training- Lori Austein
• Sound workshops
• Evening musical performance/Gumboot dancing class
To see pictures of the previousconvergences, please click on:
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What:3rd annual Fall Vancouver IslandEcovillage Youth Convergence
Who:Youth, Adults,Elders and families
When:September 26th, 27th,28th, 2008
Where:O.U.R. Ecovillage, 1565 Baldy Mountain Road,Shawnigan Lake
Whatto bring: work clothing, camping gear, rain gear, Gumboot dancingboots, musical
instruments, water bottle, camera, ONLY biological soap/shampoo,cell phone/laptop
(there are no public phones onsite), any food to share(especially if you glean fruit
or dumpster dive we will process it all), andall else you think you might wish to
share with other folk who are in theConvergence.
2008 SCHEDULE:
September 26th (Friday)
4:00 onwardsArrival, site prep, team building, food & organizing.
6:00 dinner (be sureto have booked ahead for this separately)
7:30 Community Building Dialogue Circle with MARKLAKEMAN

September 27th (Saturday)
9:00 am Arrival andRegistration
9:45 - 10:00 Intros,opening ceremony, & team/community building
10:00 - 11:00Presentation and Tour of OUR ECOVILLAGE
11:00 - 12:30 SLIDESHOW MARK LAKEMAN
12:30-1:30 lunch
2:00 - 4:30 Hands-onLearning Projects (Natural Building, Food Productionetc.)
Workshops (TBD)
4:30 - 6:30Workshops
6:30 - 8:00 DINNER
8:30 onwards Liveperformances and dancing (Marimba and Gumboot)
September 28th (Sunday)
9:00 - 10:00 BREAKFAST
10:00 - 12:00Hands-on Learning Project *focus on food production, shelter,
recycling, livingroof etc
12:00 - 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 - 3:00 Workprojects and workshops
3:00 - 3:30Evaluations and closing circle
3:30 - 4:30 Closingceremony
Accommodation:
• Yurt (tent, with wood floor) that can sleep 30+ people.
• Onsite tenting.
We do not have gearonsite so you must bring your own bedroll, tent, etc.
• B&B accommodation (limited) - please visit website for moredetails


Registration:
Pleasecopy, paste and send your completed registration form to
info@ourecovillage.org

Name:_______________________________________________
Home Phone #________________________________________
Emailaddress_________________________________________
What city and neighborhood communitydo you live in?
____________________________________________________
Cost Please check
¨ Friday eve: Training/CapacityBuilding for individuals,
villages, and towns. $20¨ Saturday Full day training, workshops,
presenters $70.00 ¨ Sunday: Full day training, workshops,
presenters $70.00 or both: $85 (circle)
Total:
Paymentis made upon arrival in cash or in cheque to O.U.R Ecovillage
RideShare:
We will be posting 4 days before theconference an email- ride share list of
people who are seeking and offering.Please fill out:
I need ride for ______ number ofpeople.
I can provide a ride for ________number of people.
I am from neighborhood/ community,city:
_______________________________________________________

Pleasecopy, paste and send your completed registration form to
Please Click here for directions to O.U.R Ecovillage or checkout our website.