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Title of Course: ‘Green Dreams Do Come True – Ten Ways to Bring them to Life.’
Tutor: Charlotte Squire
Dates and times: Once a fortnight beginning Saturday January 8th, 2011 (1pm – 3pm) ending May 7th 2011.

Venue: Victory Community Centre, Nelson

Number of participants (minimum & maximum): 12 – 20 people

Description: This is a ten session, fortnightly course for people who are serious about turning their green dreams into an exciting reality (and perhaps even building a career around them).

Course participants will work together within an inspired, highly supportive and positive culture to gain clarity about their unique strengths and decide upon the perfect green dream to realise. Students will: set achievable green goals and time frames; learn tools for steadily and happily working towards those goals; learn how to keep the vision and passion for these dreams alive; attract the support of dream mentor figures; identify the perfect people to collaborate with and entice them to do so; learn positive, effective communication strategies; and publicly promote their projects so that they’re taken seriously by the world.

It is hoped that by the end of this course participants will have turned their green dreams into reality (or have made significant and satisfying progress towards them).

Each session will involve: check-ins, a presentation from Charlotte, questions and answers, goal setting and reviewing, networking, and home work will be set. Students will be encouraged to keep a journal of their progress. Participants will buddy up with fellow course members.

Break down of the course:

Course One: Identifying your unique strengths, why they’re vitally important and how to harness them for the planet. Case study: Sarah Turner (Green Designer);

Course Two: How to enjoying the process – it’s ok to feel good as you create an exciting environmental future. Case study: Emily Harris (Initiating Roof Top Gardens in Auckland’s CBD);

Course Three: The immense power of focus – why your focus matters, and how to focus on what you want, rather than what you’re worried about. Case study: Rebecca Reider (Environmental Activist);

Course four: Two useful tools to help you manifest environmental success stories. Case study: Suzi Franks (Organic and self-sufficient Gardener);

Course five: Life Balance – why it’s important for green dreamers, how to get some perspective about it, and creating personally sustainable habits. Case study: Rebecca Reider (Highly regarded green author of ‘Dreaming the Biosphere’ and academic, studied at Yale);

Couse six: Techniques to help you keep the faith in your dreams. Case study; Annabel McAcleer (Editor of Good Magazine);

Couse seven: How to find and attract your soul-mentor. Case study: Serena Star-Leonard (Online Marketing and business coach);

Course eight: Collaborate – find people with complementary strengths to do joyfully do stuff you that you tend to avoid. Case study: Gaibrielle Syben (Online virtual assistant);

Course nine: Communication – and how to calmly initiate profound environmental change because you’re doing a such great job of it. Case study: Dr. Sean Weaver (ex-Lecturer at Victoria University, highly sought after environmental consultant, co-established Ekodo);

Course ten: Connect – how to share your dreams with communities who will help make them a happy reality. (Presentations to your communities). Case study: John Knox (Cycling Australia to raise awareness about taking positive action to prevent climate change).

Please bring: A pen and new exercise book
Cost: $400 (Visa is accepted via paypal, and Charlotte is happy to work out a payment plan).

Tutor’s background: Charlotte Squire is the Editor, founder and a writer for Happyzine (www.happyzine.co.nz), an online media platform for positive social and environmental change which is contributed by a team of over thirty people. Happyzine is currently hosting Wild Energy – an international green energy design competition. For the past year the Happyzine team have been supporting lawyer turned organic gardener Emily Harris to reach her green dream of establishing roof-top gardens in the Auckland CBD. Charlotte is in the process of launching her first ebook world-wide: ‘Ten Ways to Chillax and Have Fun as You Live Your Green Dreams.’ She has been a published free-lance writer for around ten years with a focus on positive green news.  Charlotte has a BA in Social Policy and Politics and believes in the power of positive-media to create exciting political, social and environmental change.

Each course participant will receive a copy of Charlotte’s new ebook ‘Ten Ways to Chillax and Have Fun as You Life Your Green Dreams’

Email your questions and interest to: [email protected]

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