Augustine Contemplative Path (Wednesday evenings)
Saturday Breakfast (Next - August 7th 2010)
ALARA World Congress (Sept 6-9)
Community Development Conversations
Community Links with Cambodia Trivia night
Course: The principles of Kanyini 5 day intensive course with Bob Randall
(Postponed for 2010 - Expressions of interest for 2011)
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Augustine Contemplative Path
EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY The contemplative path program at Augustine (Habitat) offers you an opportunity to participate in an on going practice group. Contemplation is an ancient meditation practice which stresses the need to develop a direct intuitive awareness of our own ground, the great empty ground (unity) of all life. Core Program Practice group Every Wednesday 6-7.15pm. 1st & 2nd Wednesdays 7.15 following contemplation coffee/tea & discussion around contemplative themes. Saturday Contemplation These are held four times over the year. Saturday 9.30-4pm: ‘Being a transformative presence into the world’-Contemplative practice/Contemplative Psychology’ with Paul Sanders & Peter Ross. The day draws upon the contemplative mystical tradition and contemporary psychology. No need to book. Suggested donation $20 BYO lunch . |
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Watercolor Painting one day workshops (flyer) (by demand) By using a variety of approaches such as relaxation, poetry and music, the participant is gently guided to get in touch with their creative spontaneity and to translate this onto paper. These classes are for all levels! Classes are relaxed and informal yet aim to provide a basic knowledge of watercolour. About the tutor: Eleni Rivers, MFA is a professional artist, teacher and community arts worker. Cost per day 11am – 4pm, $120 enquiries tel. 9416 9584 or email studio@elenirivers.com |
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ALARA World Congress - Participatory Action Research and Action Learning: Appreciating our Pasts, Comprehending on Presents, Prefiguring our Futures' (registration info, flyer)
Sept 6-9 2010 (pre-congress skills-sharing (Sept 4 & 5)
Borderlands will host the Action Learning Action Research Association (ALARA) World Congress 2010 in Melbourne Australia. Presented by ALARA and The Institute of Development Studies in partnership with Borderlands Cooperative and oases Graduate School. For more information: ALARA, OASES, Institute of Development Studies
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Saturday Breakfasts: Conversations for Critical Times (return to top of page)
Next breakfast
Saturday August 7 2010
Dean Merlino
(download flyer)Art in the Community: Practice and Research
In this talk, Dean Merlino will discuss contemporary Community Cultural Development practices. He will explore recent trends and changing styles in the delivery of arts in the community, charting social and aesthetic developments. He will also examine the rise of Community Cultural Development as a body of knowledge and its impact as a form of research.
First Saturday of every month
9am for breakfast, program commences approximately 9:40 am
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL: 9819 3502
$25 waged/ $15 concession
2 Minona Street Hawthorn
Dates and times may change so please be sure to book.
Phone +61 3 9819 3502 or email us
Future Breakfast Seminars (return to top of page)
| 4 Sept 2010 |
TBC
Alara focus
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| 2 Oct 2010 |
Xris Reirdon (oases participant)
Drama and social activism
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| 6 Nov 2010 |
Chris Rowntree (Arts coordinator CTM)
Marvellous Medievil Women
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| 4 Dec 2010 |
oases participants
Participants share of their experience in the
oases graduate program
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Community Development conversations
(in conjunction with the New
Community Quarterly, the International Association of Community
Development and the oases Graduate School)
Wednesday 21st July - 5:30 -
7:30 p.m (flyer
here)
We’ll have a ‘double bill’ for the
evening…
Peter Westoby - Dialogical Community Development - restoring community Peter will introduce participants to the ‘heart/hand/head’ (and feet) praxis which went into the construction of the dialogical approach. He will elucidate how CD praxis in Queensland has historically distinguished itself from the more ‘common’ ways of ‘doing’ and ‘thinking’ CD elsewhere in Australia, away from a narrow and self-defeating focus on ‘top down - bottom up’ paradigms (however important these also are in emancipatory, participatory, consciousness-raising processes…)
Cathy McCormack - Poverty
Truth Commission in Scotland
Cathy has been a long time activist around poverty, community and ecology and is on a reference committee for the IACD for our Scottish projects. She’ll tell us briefly about her work and involvements and what inspires her to ‘go on going on’ with her activist work and will be a further few days in Melbourne, ready to have further talks with people and groups.
Wednesday 21st July - 5:30 - 7:30
p.m.(& join us for dinner after wards)
at AVI (Australian Volunteers
International
88 Kerr Street, Fitzroy (close to
the corner with Brunswick Street).
More information? Call Borderlands/NCQ
at 9819 3239 or write to ncq@borderlands.org.au or borders@borderlands.org.au
A gold coin (or whatever you can
afford) would be appreciated to cover costs.
Saturday 4th September – 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Budd Hall: Community-University partnerships and the ‘Knowledge Commons’. Delivering one of the keynotes at the September ALARA World Congress in Melbourne and working at the University of Victoria in BC, Canada, in CD and International CD, Budd agreed to arrive a few days early and share his ideas about Community-University Research Partnerships and Engagement. He will also share his thoughts about his work on the development of a “Knowledge Commons”, based on his long-standing experiences in Participatory Action Research in Africa and Canada. Wednesday 17th November - 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Sue Kenny: Disasters and Emergencies: a role for Community Development? Sue – well-known local academic, author and researcher from Deakin University – has been involved in the recovery efforts in Aceh after the tsunami and has witnessed a variety of more or less adequate response, both those involving communities and those which did not. The recent bushfires in Victoria have equally seen rather different ways in which communities have responded and – unfortunately – have been ignored in the recovery. Sue will explore possible roles for Community Development in the context of local and state efforts at recovery.
Fund-raising Trivia evening
led by comedienne, Em O'Loughlin
Saturday 24 July - at
Borderlands (flyer
here)
Warmly encouraged to be there and enjoy… and support!
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Course: The principles of Kanyini At Uluru, 2010 postponed, taking expressions of interest for 2011)
information flyer, course description for 2010
Bob Randall is a very special person a Tjilpi Elder of the Yankunytjatjara People of Central Australia and a registered traditional owner of Uluru. Bob has a strong vision which is the teaching and sharing of Aboriginal Culture, knowledge and spirituality. Bob gives us crucial insight into how this spiritual tradition is lived out in the lives of Aboriginal People and in their relationships with each other and with the land. Bob wishes to extend an invitation to attend a five day Intensive Course to walk along side him as he teaches the principles of Kanyini (connectedness) with others.
Information Night: TBA, The Augustine Centre, 2 Minona St, Hawthorn
Where : ULURU
When: 2011
