First Community Powerdown Course

The Community Powerdown Course
Training for leadership, livelihoods and local resilience

"Bursting with insightful analysis and creative solutions to the twin challenge of climate change and peak oil, The Powerdown Course is an inspirational pointer to life beyond fossil fuels. Essential learning – a flash of light in the darkness."
Rob Hopkins founder of the Transition Movement

Community Powerdown is a 10 week learning programme, developed by Cultivate, to help empower people to positively respond to the global challenges we face today. The programme supports a strategic shift towards global citizenship, ecological thinking and sustainability focused at a community level. Central to this is the concept of resilience - the capability of communities to hold together, adapt and maintain their ability to function in response to change.

The objective of the course is to nurture community leadership in sustainability. We describe this as a conscious engagement in individual and collective actions that nurture and sustain the economic, environmental and social well-being of our communities. This means engaging and taking responsibility by tackling and understanding complex local and global issues that impact the lives of people today and in the future, and working side-by-side with others who are seeking to make a difference. A “leader” in this new context can be described as-‘anyone who consciously chooses to engage in collaborative, transformative change aimed toward the goal of a sustainable future’.

Themes explored on the course include:
•    The Challenges Ahead – Climate, Energy and Sustainability
•    The Power Of Community – Social Capital, Resilience and the Local Economy
•    Deconstructing Dinner - Food Miles, Trade and Food Systems
•    Shelter - Future Proofing Our Homes and Buildings
•    Where Do We Go From Here? – Communication & Livelihoods

The course facilitators are Sustain West Cork founder members
Caz Jeffreys & Matt Mills  who are offering this first programme at a heavily reduced cost of €100.
Price includes a DVD ROM Toolkit of resources including all 10 episodes of Cultivate’s new TV Show

This first programme will run at An Sanctoir in Ballydehob starting on 21st April for further information contact Caz on 028 25978 or matt 087 7990607

Email info@sustainwestcork.com   www.sustainwestcork.com