As government guidelines allow, we would like to welcome visitors to our Ecovillage again. Some events will continue to be held online, however this month, we will offer site tours with limited numbers for our Open Day as well as Personal Tours by appointment. See details below.
Please consult this page or Facebook for updates, or feel free to reach out: 02 4328-1588 or info@nararaecovillage.com
Best wishes for staying healthy over the next while,
the Narara Ecovillage Community.
What will be covered in this workshop?
Proposal shaping with aplomb!
For a group to make collective decisions, they must first formulate a proposal.
- What are the keys to effective proposal shaping?
- How can a group take a collection of issues and opinions and form them into a useful, coherent proposal?
- How do you put together a good proposal, so it is likely to receive support and buy in from the group members?
Learn about, observe and participate in a proposal shaping process. Learn the steps and essential elements of effective proposal shaping so that the needs of all stakeholders are incorporated.
This two-hour workshop gives you the opportunity to learn and practice skills essential for fully understanding an issue and all its elements and then generating potential solutions that include everyone’s best thinking.
This course presents the skills that have been honed through decades of Sociocratic practice to make these processes work.
In this workshop you will learn:
- Why is proposal shaping important for good decision making?
- Who should create the proposal? How many people should be involved?
- How do you incorporate contradictory needs in a proposal?
- What are all the elements of a well formed proposal?
Presented by Rafaele Joudry and Scilla Sayer from the Sociocracy Resource Circle at Narara Ecovillage
About Sociocracy
Sociocracy provides simple but powerful tools that help people work together efficiently and effectively.
Cost – $30.00
NELN Members – $25.00
A Collective Know-How event
Presented by the Narara Ecovillage Sociocracy Resource Circle
We are still working on the details of this Open Day, but here is what was offered last month:
Open Day tours of Narara Ecovillage
1 pm:
- Ecovillage Overview
- Family-friendly Tour
- Collaborative Living & Sharing
2:30 pm:
- Permaculture & Growing
- Family-friendly Tour
- Natural Building
- Collaborative Living & Sharing – 2nd Tour
- Ecovillage Overview
Cost: $10 per Adult; Free for kids and NELN (Narara Eco Living Network) Members
The tours are about an hour long, for up to 20 people. The tours involve walking on semi-rural land and are best enjoyed with closed shoes. They can also involve visiting people’s private homes. So please leave your pets at home.
In the week before the Open Day, you will also get an online video presentation for an introduction of Narara Ecovillage and its unfolding story.
On the day, our fabulous Coffee Cart will be open from noon to 3pm, selling great drinks and healthy food.
If you have any questions about the Open Day please don’t hesitate to get in contact.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Join us for a night around the camp fire and bring a plate to share.
Bring a plate or bottle to share.
About Sociocracy
Sociocracy provides simple but powerful tools that help people work together efficiently and effectively.
What will be covered in this workshop?
Micro Facilitation Skills
Facilitating a group can be like riding six horses who all want to go in different directions. Balancing each individual’s ideas with the needs of the whole group can be a challenge. How do you bring them to order in a way that gets them all headed in the same direction?
The process of Sociocracy offers a number of tools and structures that help groups to work together. Perfecting the implementation of Sociocracy also requires skilled facilitation.
This workshop explores the detail of the many micro skills that make up successful facilitation, within a Sociocracy framework.
By practicing each micro skill one at a time, you will gain competence in real life implementation. We will do real time practice and feedback on each little skill so you can confidently add them to your repertoire.
Drill into each component of the five skills sets of:
- Structure and Morale
- Regulating Participation
- Focusing
- Consent Decision Making
- Emotional Climate
Suitable for both beginner and advanced facilitators.
Presented by Rafaele Joudry and Deb Mohr from the Sociocracy Resource Circle at Narara Ecovillage
Cost – $30.00
NELN Members – $25.00
A Collective Know-How event
Presented by the Narara Ecovillage Sociocracy Resource Circle
We are still working on the details of this Open Day, but here is what was offered last month:
Open Day tours of Narara Ecovillage
1 pm:
- Ecovillage Overview
- Family-friendly Tour
- Collaborative Living & Sharing
2:30 pm:
- Permaculture & Growing
- Family-friendly Tour
- Natural Building
- Collaborative Living & Sharing – 2nd Tour
- Ecovillage Overview
Cost: $10 per Adult; Free for kids and NELN (Narara Eco Living Network) Members
The tours are about an hour long, for up to 20 people. The tours involve walking on semi-rural land and are best enjoyed with closed shoes. They can also involve visiting people’s private homes. So please leave your pets at home.
In the week before the Open Day, you will also get an online video presentation for an introduction of Narara Ecovillage and its unfolding story.
On the day, our fabulous Coffee Cart will be open from noon to 3pm, selling great drinks and healthy food.
If you have any questions about the Open Day please don’t hesitate to get in contact.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Meet outside the Visitors Centre.
Not recommended for children under 12.
Bring your binoculars.
Visit our beautiful site and learn about our purpose and plans for Narara Ecovillage.
Over 3 hours enjoy a perfect introduction to Narara Ecovillage through:
- walking tours of the site,
- a presentation, often by our founder, Lyndall Parris, and
- opportunities to meet members and to ask questions.
Our fabulous Coffee Cart will be open from 9:30 to 3pm, selling great drinks and healthy food.
Come prepared for all weather and walking on a rural property. Kids are always welcome. However please leave your pets at home.
On Open Days where other events are scheduled, these events may involve separate registration and costs.
Whether you come just for the Open Day or extend it with another activity on offer at Narara Ecovillage on that day, we look forward to greeting you on your first visit or to welcome you again and again – and again!
Cost to attend: Individual $10, Family $20, Free for NELN (Narara Eco Living Network) members.
If you are unable to attend this Open Day we offer a monthly Open Day program – either morning or afternoon. Most dates are on Saturday with a sprinkle of Sundays.
6:30 pm for 7 pm start.
By donation to the coffee cart.
Meet outside the Visitors Centre.
John Shiel has visited ecovillages around the world and will describe how these communities formed, and how some were successful in developing their sustainability. He will show how establishing a sustainable community in an urban area contributes to the village’s success and can lead to lower overall ecological impact.
He will discuss the importance of:
- Connected Communities living locally
- Local currency
- Local food growing
- Houses and infrastructure that:
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- Power themselves
- Have low or negative embodied energy
- Low energy transport
- Zero Waste
John Shiel is a member of Narara Ecovillage Co-operative and the Principal of EnviroSustain, Built Environment Sustainability Consultants. He is a member of Beyond Zero Emissions and is the Immediate Past Chairman of Permaculture Hunter. Formerly, John was a power station civil engineer and an IT consultant with a multi-national. His has an engineering PhD in retrofitting houses for climate change.
Visit our beautiful site and learn about our purpose and plans for Narara Ecovillage.
Over 3 hours enjoy a perfect introduction to Narara Ecovillage through:
- walking tours of the site,
- a presentation, often by our founder, Lyndall Parris, and
- opportunities to meet members and to ask questions.
Our fabulous Coffee Cart will be open from 9:30 to 3pm, selling great drinks and healthy food.
Come prepared for all weather and walking on a rural property. Kids are always welcome. However please leave your pets at home.
On Open Days where other events are scheduled, these events may involve separate registration and costs.
Whether you come just for the Open Day or extend it with another activity on offer at Narara Ecovillage on that day, we look forward to greeting you on your first visit or to welcome you again and again – and again!
Cost to attend: Individual $10, Family $20, Free for NELN (Narara Eco Living Network) members.
If you are unable to attend this Open Day we offer a monthly Open Day program – either morning or afternoon. Most dates are on Saturday with a sprinkle of Sundays.
Join John and Lincoln at our beautiful ecovillage to experience the joy of bees.
$20 per family / person and includes a jar of honey.
Meet outside the Visitors Centre.
Visit our beautiful site and learn about our purpose and plans for Narara Ecovillage.
Over 3 hours enjoy a perfect introduction to Narara Ecovillage through:
- walking tours of the site,
- a presentation, often by our founder, Lyndall Parris, and
- opportunities to meet members and to ask questions.
Our fabulous Coffee Cart will be open from 9:30 to 3pm, selling great drinks and healthy food.
Come prepared for all weather and walking on a rural property. Kids are always welcome. However please leave your pets at home.
On Open Days where other events are scheduled, these events may involve separate registration and costs.
Whether you come just for the Open Day or extend it with another activity on offer at Narara Ecovillage on that day, we look forward to greeting you on your first visit or to welcome you again and again – and again!
Cost to attend: Individual $10, Family $20, Free for NELN (Narara Eco Living Network) members.
If you are unable to attend this Open Day we offer a monthly Open Day program – either morning or afternoon. Most dates are on Saturday with a sprinkle of Sundays.