Mapping Permaculture Convergences – Robina McCurdy
Robina McCurdy is a professional community development facilitator, Permaculture educator, organic gardener, and a pioneer- resident of 40 year-old Tui Community & Trust in rural Aotearoa/New Zealand. She is also the founder of The Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa.
Globally, since 1992, she has facilitated community-building in 10 different countries. Her community facilitation work encompasses ‘midwifing’ new initiatives, squatter settlement re-development, long-term conflict resolution, the training of community leaders as ‘cultural change agents’, participatory planning of orphanages, mentoring of new ecovillages, social renewal of existing ecovillages, and strengthening the community culture within existing organizations.
During this time, she has produced a range of environmental education resources and participatory processes for decision-making and collective action, culminating in the publication of her community facilitation manual, ‘Grounding Vision, Empowering Culture’. She is currently working on her Food Sovereignty Facilitators Manual, due to be published in Spring this year.
CoLab Podcast with Robina McCurdy © 2026 is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
The creation of this podcast episode was made possible through funding received from the Emergent Festival.
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