The Sustainability Institute presents short courses at the Lynedoch Eco Village.  Lynedoch allows participants to engage directly in the challenges of sustainability through actual practice.

Two short course approaches

Customised Approach

We work with your organisation,  (public sector, NPO’s, educational or corporate) to craft short sustainability oriented courses to meet your specific needs. These courses are generally one or two day introductions to sustainability. Focusing on facilitating the emergence of understandings rather than recipe-like “how to guides”, this approach is solutions-oriented and takes into account the linkages required for integrated innovations.

Costs for these courses are contingent on the course programme, duration and other activities associated with the course.

Current clients engaging with the Sustainability Institute and following this approach are the Development Bank of Southern Africa, Spier Holdings (Pty ) Ltd, various clients (through course offered in partnership with the Stellenbosch University Business School) and specific municipalities, to name a few.

Living and Learning Residential Courses

The second option consists of 12 day extended Living and Learning Residential Courses, offered full time at the Sustainability Institute.

These residential courses will be designed to engage in the challenges facing society today, doing this through the lens of sustainability. Two different thematic courses are planned for late in the 2009 year. The dates are currently being confirmed but the courses will take place between August and November.

The first is Ecology, Community and Spirit. This course considers ecology and design and how, through a more ecologically and longer term view of needs, alternative solutions can be imagined and crafted to create a more sustainable society. This course will focus on building  greater resilience through social and ecological justice.

The second has the intention of  communing with nature, shifting consciousness and considers re-connecting with nature, and how this may generate ways of being that impact earth living, beyond words. The course will seek out ways to reintroduce nature into our daily activities and will attempt to explore how this reconnection may shift consciousness. The initial component of this course will be to explore specific thinking in terms of ecological ethics, leadership and consciousness and thereafter,  consider our food and choices that are made in this regard. The question of this course is to ask if by developing ways in which we can reconnect with nature, can nature show pathways to just, ecological and conscious living?  

Cost

Living and Learning Residential Course Costs: R 9 500.00 per person (sharing). This cost includes all course material, daily meals and shared accommodation in the Lynedoch Guesthouse.