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Whether a business is just beginning or having an annual review session, a programme with Aspen, at Semilla Besada, will provide new insights and move the business towards a new level of social responsibility.
They will be given an opportunity to learn how to build on good business sense and to demonstrating good planet sense, using a decision-making framework that will last them a lifetime.

Allan Savory
Founder Holistic Management International

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The benefits of Aspen’s training has been her ability to transfer the solid theory behind holistic decision-making into real life examples. The relevancy and tangibility of this makes for good learning. Because of this, and our existing management system and land management knowledge, I am very confident that Holistic Management will play a large part in our future.

Rhys Miller
New Zealand

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Prior to this training my life lacked focus and structure. This training has given me a lot of confidence, enthusiasm and direction with where to go and what I want to achieve in my life.

Sally Becket
New Zealand

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The Sustainable Stewardship seminar offers you an advanced and complete approach to creating a sustainable life, or landscape or livelihood, whatever you do and wherever you live.

Dem bones, dem bones

Remember that song ‘dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones’? How it went on to show how every bone was connected to the next one? We now know that the same could be said of our lives on this planet. Everything we do, has an impact on someone, or something, or the planet we live on. Sometimes it can feel like an overwhelming responsibility. The Sustainable Stewardship seminar helps address this ‘overwhelm’.

Supportive structure

Using a simple, structured approach, we learn how to reduce this ‘overwhelm’ to manageable proportions. We learn how we can arrange all those bones into a skeleton that works. And the wonderful thing about skeletons is that they give support, while providing movement and flexibility. So why is it important to have movement and flexibility? It helps us respond to change.

The challenge of change

Change is something that makes the world go around. Managing that change can be a challenge. We can sometimes feel that there is simply no let-up to arranging and re-arranging. The Sustainable Stewardship seminar provides a way in which we can respond to change, without feeling as though we are standing on shifting sands. So, we have structure and we have movement and flexibility. What has this got to do with sustainable stewardship?

Real sustenance

Sustainable stewardship ensures that our actions are as sustainable as they can possibly be: whether in our life, or our landscape, or our livelihood. To do this requires a structured way of deciding on those actions, and a responsive way of approaching change. The current response to our environmental crisis has produced a bewildering array of approaches. Unfortunately, most of them are symptomatic and few of them holistic. When we appreciate that every bone is connected to the next one, then we need to look at them as a whole skeleton, as well as individual bones. The way they behave individually affects the movement of the whole skeleton. This whole approach is the bedrock of the Sustainable Stewardship seminar.

Sustainable Stewardship Seminar Benefits

The holistic approach of this seminar provides an opportunity to create a structured and responsive approach to creating a sustainable life, or landscape, or livelihood. It enables us to manage ‘overwhelm’ in the face of our response to the environmental crisis. More specifically, it has the following features.

Residential Seminar Features

• Full board and accomodation in The Lodge.
• Six hours daily facilitation in understanding and practicing sustainable stewardship.
• The use of talks, practical exercises and group activities.
• A maximum number of four participants to ensure sustainability at Semilla Besada.
• Comprehensive handouts and access to Semilla Besada's reference video and book library.
• Consideration of the principles that underpin sustainable stewardship.
• Understanding the difference between principles and practices and the implications for both decision-making and design.
• Step-by-step training in understanding the ecosystem processes, and recognizing brittle and non-brittle landscapes.
• Understanding how your vision drives your life, and how to integrate that into sustainable stewardship.
• Consideration of the social, economic and environmental implications of our actions.
• Learning how you can test every action for sustainability.
• Step-by-step training in the skills that help us to organise, plan, monitor and control towards ongoing sustainability.
• Step-by-step training and practice in the relevant management protocols which enable you to organise, plan, monitor, control and diagnose problems.
• The opportunity to see how sustainable stewardship is put into practice at Semilla Besada.
• The following goods and services are included:
  • One hour follow up coaching.
  • One year's membership of the Semilla Besada on-line Library.
  • Subscription to the Semilla Besada Companions Newsletter.

As always, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

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Residential Seminar Dates

Sustainable Stewardship Seminars are of 14 days duration. They start at 4pm on Friday and finish at 4pm two weeks later.

To see the dates for the coming season please view the Calendar

If these dates don't work for you please contact us as it may be possible to schedule another course.

Your Financial Investment

1100 Euros to include full board and accommodation in a twin-bedded room at The Lodge.

As your satisfaction is our priority, we provide a full money-back guarantee.

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