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Visions

Topics include:

• Divining & enhancing the feng shui of landscape
  
• Energy analysis by pendulum dowsing
  
• Applying dowsing to improving plant growth, including soil testing and the application of crushed paramagnetic rock, stone arrangements and crystals.
  
• Permaculture design using organic and geomantic principles, for harmonious, sustainable and productive environments.
  
• ‘Tower of Power’ building for enhanced plant growth, a paramagnetic antenna originally inspired by the Irish Round Tower.
  

Special stone pendulums, Alanna’s DVD films and books will be available on the weekend.

The Sustainable Home - An introduction to the processes involved in creating healthy and ecologically sustainable dwellings. Discover 'living architecture' and building biology. Creating a viable plan. Because The House is central to realising one's ambitions to live sustainably, the creation of an appropriate design is vital to the success of this. This will emerge from one's own 'identity' ­ the life one has to live. It is the process of merging such 'inner' qualities with those of the 'outer' world which forms the 'living' architecture. This contributes to and compliments a 'sustainable' culture founded on the bedrock of a deep commitment to life itself.

Topics include:

• Being your own architect.
  
• Getting your ideas on paper and into 3D models
  
• Sustainable and healthy building materials and construction techniques
• Planning and regulations
• Site selection and analysis
• Plumbing, drainage and heating
• Self building, small buildings and mortgage free lifestyles
• Integration of food production and working at home
• and lots more!

Ourganics Evolving Systems constitutes five acres of water meadow close to the coast in rural West Dorset. It is a working permaculture project set up by Pat Bowcock in 1999 with its own detailed design that participants will have the opportunity to interact with. It is a venue that has already been used for apprentice design work on previous design courses, and that also regularly hosts tours by local schools & groups. Pat started Ourganics because she wanted to run her own business that was sustainable and debt-free unlike so many that run in constant debt. She wanted to show that permaculture principles could go hand in hand with being Soil Association-registered to create a land-based, self-financing and viable business which would provide affordable organic vegetables, herbs, salads, fruit and flowers for the local community, with produce going out direct from the field as well as via farmers' markets, box schemes, farm shops etc. Ourganics has the extra label "evolving systems" because like anything organic, the project is continually evolving, responding and changing.

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