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Dear Friends of Cultivate,

We're delighted to send you news of upcoming courses and workshops at our new centre at St Andrew Street, Dublin 2. The new centre will be open soon. Also included is news from our community partners and friends.

Green Building Course: The Energy Efficient Home with Patrick Waterfield

Basic Domestic Energy Auditing

Introduction to Low Cost Design and Construction

Self Discovery Worshop with Catalina Mari Cardona, Spanish Shaman

Mandala Painting Workshops

OOOOBY Store

Looking for a House to Rent?

Cultivate is Moving!

Green Building Course: The Energy Efficient Home with Patrick Waterfield

Wednesdays from 7th October to 11th November | 7.00 - 9.00pm

€180 (10% reduction Cultivate and ÉASCA members) | To book call: 01-6745773

This course uses Patrick's popular book, The Energy Efficient Home, as the core reading. By the end of this series participants will have the confidence and knowledge to make the big decisions in managing a new build or renovation. Dr Patrick Waterfield is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Energy Institute. He is the author of 14 conference and journal papers and numerous periodical/magazine articles.

Basic Domestic Energy Auditing

Sunday 18 October 09 | 10am - 5pm | €120 discount for Cultivate & ÉASCA Members

Cultivate Centre | Bookings: 01 674 5773

This comprehensive one day energy-auditing workshop with Andy Wilson will enable course participants to carry out their own energy audits up to the standard used in the Building Regulation Technical Guidance Document 'L'. The workshop will cover a wide range of conventional and alternative building materials, and will examine the energy relationship between the different components of a building.

Introduction to Low Cost Design and Construction

Want to build a home for €20,000? Or even less?

Sunday 8th November 2009 | 10am - 5pm

€95 | 10% discount for Cultivate & ÉASCA Members | Cultivate Centre | Bookings: 01 674 5773

This one day theoretical workshop with Andy Wilson will look at simple house design and construction, with the emphasis on very low cost construction using natural and recycled materials. The starting point is the premise that a home should be affordable, pleasant to live in, and should have the lowest possible environmental impact. This course is particularly aimed at young people who want to build an ultra-low cost mortgage-free home in a rural area.

Self Discovery Worshop with Catalina Mari Cardona, Spanish Shaman

A Two Day Worshop Exploring your Inner Self

Have you a reached a stage in your life where you are ready to move further?

Do you feel something has to change but don't know how?

We invite you to meet Caty. Her teachings are simple, clear and will focus on raising Self-Awareness, overcoming Pride and the Ego and reaching a balance in one's life. Her tools include intuition, sensation and sensitivity to overcome the boundaries to our personal, emotional and spiritual growth.

This unique weekend seminar is being run for the first time in Ireland. The time will be shaped and conducted by Caty and the participants depending on each individual's life experience, their own energy and the collective spirit emerging from the group.

Caty is a wise and perceptive Spanish shaman who has organised workshops and retreats in Spain, Italy, France, Belgium and Switzerland over the last 10 years. Her teaching and her knowledge are based on the ancient shamanic tradition. She has gained her awareness and wisdom through years of traveling and living in ancient communities with spiritual leaders and shamans.

Mandala Painting Workshops

In Sanskrit, the ancient sacred language of India, Mandala means circle. Mandala is traditionally a geometric projection of the world, it belongs to a symbolic universe representing two aspects of life, the material and the divine, spiritual dimension.

Nowadays, Mandala can be used and lived as an artistic expression that can guide us in the search for our Being. It helps us to reconnect ourselves with our inner centre, to take central aspects of our lives back, to bring us to the here and now, to create space for consciousness and new, positive understanding. That's why it is an amazing meditative technique, that works through the symmetric repetition of forms and colours, creating space and silence within. Geometry becomes the ground for creativity to blossom, a starting point from where everyone can discover to 'be able' and be amazed.

To attend it is NOT necessary to know how to draw/paint or to have any artistic skills.

To book and for more info: Francesca | francesca@cultivate.ie | www.mandalaom.com | ph. 085 1302999

Mandala Painting Workshop with colouring pencils

26 September & 3 October | 10am - 5pm

Mandala Painting Course with water colours, over 3 Saturdays

Venue: Dublin City Centre (TBC)

OOOOBY Store

New store has opened in Glenealy Landscape Centre, Glenealy, Co Wicklow!

Local produce, food growing, ecological products, crafts and fairtrade.

Carraig Dúlra organic farm is pleased to announce the opening of Ireland's first OOOOBY (Out Of Our Own Back Yard). The non-profit store's aim is to support the local full food circle from growing to buying to preparing food, through encouraging the creation of a community network. Come meet the producers, share & exchange skills & information in a friendly relaxed atmosphere.

Open from 9-5 on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, and from 11-2 on Saturdays.

Check it out online at http://www.dulra.org/ooooby

Looking for a House to Rent?

A Cultivate member has a house to rent in Crumlin for €1000 per month. He has endeavoured to follow green principles as much as possible when carrying out work to the house and would like to attract like minded individuals to rent it.

There is a good size back garden (30 x 20ft), a side entrance with storage, raised beds, compost bin, recycling bins, fruit bushes and trees (and gardening tools).

If you are interested say that you heard about it through Cultivate and you will get priority.

Follow this link to see the porperty on Daft: www.daft.ie/2783632