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Eco-Citizenship Workshop

A unique three-night / three-day workshop from 8.00 pm on Thursday 17th November to 4.00 pm on Sunday 20th November 2011. Facilitated by Dr. Peter Cock and Sean O'Sullivan and hosted by the Moora Moora Cooperative Community, Healesville.

In this intensive workshop we want to work together to explore the reasons for and
the processes for deepening our partnership with our planet, Earth/Gaia. How can we deepen our consciousness and empower our actions so that we become life-serving members of our species? We will consider:

• What is eco-citizenship and what are the aspirations of eco-citizens?

• What are our rights and responsibilities as earth citizens and what does being a member of communities mean?

• What kind of societies and lifestyles fit with such aspirations, rights and responsibilities?

• Is there a role for spirituality in ecological citizenship?

The workshop will conclude with an exploration of the politics and
aesthetics of social and political action.

Dr Peter Cock is a member and co-founder of the Moora Moora
Cooperative Community; is on the Council of the Sustainable Living
Foundation, and teaches in the OASES Graduate Program for
Integral and Transformative Learning. He taught Sociology and
Environmental Science at Monash University for 30 years in
eco-psychology, eco-policy and action, and conserver society.

Sean O'Sullivan is lecturer at Swinburne University and has
been a member of the Moora Moora Cooperative Community
for more than 20 years. He is interested in resilient and
participatory human communities; birthrights, the recovery
of the natural commons, and the reintegration of human
lifestyles into natural systems.

To explore the issues of practical eco citizenship we will:

• Use brainstorms, role-play and contemplation.

• Actively and compassionately work with the gaps
between our intentions and practice and explore
the role of emotions such as hope, fear, despair
and guilt in shaping motivations.

• Think, feel and act together to examine connections
between partnership with the earth, with each other
and our inner work.

This workshop will deepen your ecological citizenship,
contribute to the regeneration of hope and facilitate
transformative action. It will heighten awareness of the
need for collective and personal action for structural
changes that build an eco-culture.

Administrivia

Where: Moora Moora Cooperative Community, Moora Road, Healesville, VIC.

When: From 8.00pm Thursday 17th to 4.00pm Sunday 20th of November 2011.

Workshop Fee: $770 / $450 (including GST).

Numbers are limited, so book early.

To get more information and to register, download a copy of our flyer (in the PDF format) by clicking here ... or contact
Peter at peter@mooramoora.org.au or 0422 426 144,
or Sean at fraxoft98@hotmail.com or 0417 335 726.

At the Moora Moora Cooperative Community

The core experiential component of this workshop involves a long weekend at Moora Moora, which is a residential,
cooperative community of about 70 people working to live in ecologically sustainable ways where humans live alongside
wild species in relative harmony. We will be centered in the Moora Moora community building with residential, meeting
and dining facilities, next to large areas of natural forest and farmland. Participants will have the option of either sleeping
in bunkrooms or of bringing their own tent to camp in the grounds. Catering will be provided by the group - details to
follow registration.

Peter Cock about community

The following is a transcript of an interview with Dr. Peter Cock by the Age journalist Michael Short as part of the regular series known as The Zone. The interview was first published in the Age on 25th February 2011.

"MICHAEL SHORT: Dr Peter Cock, welcome to The Zone. We met after one of my children a few years ago visited the village you were instrumental in establishing decades ago, Moora Moora near Healesville. We’ll come back to Moora Moora later. My son Tom was inspired to see what you do and his enthusiasm spread to me and so I went to see what you’ve done and I saw that it works.

You’re here to argue that were we to, in effect, embrace the community self-determination that is a key part of Moora Moora, life would improve for people. That’s a big claim and a very important one. You also argue that technology has developed to the point where it can help this revitalisation of citizenship. Can you explain those ideas, please?

PETER COCK: We are social beings. We come out of a tribal village heritage. That’s part of who we are and that’s what grows us. It’s also oppressed us. I think we’ve gone to the other extreme of individualism – that deprives us of the support and meaning that comes from being in a community.

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