HMI Calendar of Events
Holistic Management Distance Learning
Register Anytime
Contact: hminfo@wholenewconcepts.com
Join our distance learning program and put Holistic Management® into practice immediately. You may register at anytime and enjoy learning at your own pace. We offer an Introduction to Holistic Management, Holistic Management Grazing Planning and Holistic Management Financial Planning. Courses include individual telephone sessions with your instructor, workbooks and other materials with follow up. Offered by Cindy Dvergsten, Holistic Management Certified Educator with over 15 years experience in teaching and practicing Holistic Management. For details visit www.wholenewconcepts.com or call 970-882-4222.
Peace County Holistic Management Gathering
April 3, 2008
Alberta, Canada
Contact: Peter Lundgard (780) 338-2934
The Peace County Holistic Management Gathering will feature speakers who will discuss making decisions to enhance your health, your food, and your soils. Presenters include Don Campbell, well-known Holistic Management Educator from Meadow Lake, SK speaking about the Holistic Management Decision-Making Model; Kathleen Carpentier, Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader from Castor, AB speaking about the health benefits of a traditional diet; and Peter Eggers, local farmer from La Glace, AB speaking about re-mineralizing soils. Don't miss this opportunity to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones, as well as learn new ways of improving your soil, food and health!
Holistic Management Financial Planning Class
April 10, 2008
Elm Mott, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer (325) 642-8628
Would you like to get a handle on your finances and time? Learn how to prioritize your expenses and time management so you live the life you want.
Holistic Management® Financial Planning is much more than budgeting. It helps you learn how to say NO to things or people who don't improve your quality of life and YES to a value-centered life. This course will help you take the stress out of financial planning as you learn techniques to prioritize expenses, increase income and profit, and keep on track. This course is for anyone who would like more time and money to improve their life, their community, and the land. No experience with Holistic Management necessary.
Dr. Ann Adams, Certified Educator from Holistic Management International, comes to us from Albuquerque to teach this advanced class that you have been asking for. Please register by April 1.
Holistic Management: What it can do for You
April 10, 2008
Elm Mott, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer (325) 642-8628
A four hour session led by Peggy Maddox, Certified Educator from HMI West Ranch in Ozona, Texas, will focus on Holistic Management and its benefits for you and your family. Participants will learn how Holistic Management deals with social, economic and environmental challenges simultaneously.
Listen, experience, and learn how to get control of your life and make decisions in a sustainable way. Please register by April 1.
Holistic Grazing Planning Principles: Unleashing California Native Perrenial Grasses and Forbs
May 1, 2008
Santa Rosa, California
Contact: California Native Grasslands Association (530) 759-8458
Whether you love cows or hate them, learn why and how livestock can either help protect and restore native species in California grasslands or destory them. Richard King, Holistic Management Certified Educator, will facilitate the workshop. A morning indoor session will explain the principles of Holistic Planned Grazing, and during an afternoon field trip you will see them in practice.
Holistic Management: Residential European Seminar
August 15-22, 2008
Granada, Spain
Contact: Aspen Edge aspen@holisticdecisions.com
Semilla Besada is offering a week's residential seminar in Holistic Management at the only learning site in Europe. Places are limited. Full details can be found at www.holisticdecisions.com
Biological Monitoring Intensive
October 25-26, 2008
Running High Ranch, Bowie, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer (325) 348-3014
This class will teach you how to guide the land to perform in motion toward you holisticgoal. Skills will include awareness of the general condition of the land, as revealed by the four ecosystem processes, and how applying different tools will affect these processes, an assessment of the soil surface and the life just below and above it, and if grazing livestock, an assessment of animal performance and the effect of their actions on the land. Space is limited to the first 30 people to register.
Ian Mitchell-Innes, a Holistic Management Certified Educator from South Africa, will serve as instructor of this 2-day intensive. He is no stranger to drought, ranching in drought-stricken South Africa, where in a good year rainfall is less than 20 inches.
Land Planning Intensive
October 27-28, 2008
Running High Ranch, Bowie, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer (325) 348-3014
This class will address designing infrastructure to support the activities you have planned for your land. To keep animals moving continually requires new thinking about how fencing, water points, roads and handling facilities are laid out. A holistic land plan represents the marriage of a holisticgoal and step-by-step practice--one step making the next step possible as the land plan is gradually implemented over time. Space is limited to the first 30 people to register.
Ian Mitchell-Innes, a Holistic Management Certified Educator from South Africa, will serve as instructor of this 2-day intensive. He is no stranger to drought, ranching in drought-stricken South Africa, where in a good year rainfall is less than 20 inches.
Mob Grazing Workshop
October 29, 2008
Deactur Civic Center, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer (325) 348-3014
Mob Grazing is the curret hot topic among progressive grass farmers looking for the path to profitable ranching operations. The cry to "increase annual forage production by up to 400%" reminds us of the early eighties when "double your stocking rate" drew forward thinking graziers to Allan Savory's talks on Holistic Resource Management. Now, many of those still on the leading edge realize they are farming grass as much as livestock, and that those higher stock densities are evolving to ultra high stock density as graziers discover the benefits of up to 500,000 pounds of cattle per acre!
Ian Mitchell-Innes, a Holistic Management Certified Educator from South Africa, will serve as instructor of this 1-day workshop. He is no stranger to drought, ranching in drought-stricken South Africa, where in a good year rainfall is less than 20 inches.
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