This page contains an articulate list of my current skills and where I wish to develop including priority level in my life and general next steps (downloadable document). It includes learning that I wish to engage within in terms of content: books to read, articles to write, movies to watch, workshops to teach and attend.  Skills from the 5 P's are included from my resume.

Skill Flex Spreadsheet including some Next Steps

Professional, political and patrix skills

Healer -- Hands on Healing/Massage Therapy, Nutrition,  Flower Essences, Herbalism, Crystal Healing, Gardening (Healer of the Earth/Soil)

Hands on Healer -- Oil Massage, Thai Massage, Shiatsu, Cranio Sacral, Reiki, Lomi Lomi, Abhyanga (Ayurvedic Massage), Chavutti Thirrumal (Ayurvedic Massage with feet), Process Acupressure, Chakra Balancing, Zero Balancing, Trigger Point, Feldenkrais,

Chef -- living foods, gluten free, vegan, classical French cooking, ethnic cuisine

Permaculture Design & Permaculture Technique Implementation

WORKSHOPS

TO TEACH

Esalen : Land of Milk & Honey : An Introduction to Farmstead Arts (4/21/13 - 4/26/13)
Esalen assist Kat Steele -- Eco-conscious Transformational Leadership for Our Local and Global Future (5/26/13 - 5/31/13)

TO DESIGN
Baja -- Permaculture Series (2014) or 1 Day workshop (2013)
Malibu Canyon Sustainable Learning Center -- Sprouting Life Retreat  
Tassajara -- Zen & Permaculture
Tassajara -- The Art of Listening: Giving and Receiving Massage


TO ATTEND
Herbalism East West School of Herbology Spring Seminar
Paul Stamets Mushrooms
School of Spagyric & Alchemical Arts
Chi gung/ Feng shui

BOOKS TO READ

Holmgren -- Principles and Pathways
Green -- The Herbal Medicine Maker's Handbook
Tierra -- Planetary Herbology
Pearce -- When the Rivers Run Dry
Murphy -- By Nature's Design
Bubel -- The Seed Starters Handbook
Stamets -- Mycellium Running
Elpel -- Botany in a Day
Lawless -- The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Essential Oils
Mollison -- Permaculture: A Designer's Manual
Jacobsen -- Fruitless Fall
Wong -- Feng Shui: The Ancient Wisdom of Harmonious Living for Modern Times

BOOKS TO WRITE

Cookbook
Autobiography
Troilus & Cressida

Documentaries to Watch

Project skills

Permaculture Design  -- Strategic Planning, Systemic Thinking, Project Management, Ecoliteracy, Capacity to reframe adversity as opportunity, Values renewable sources, Ecological design, Reading Landscape/Spirit of Place, Creative Thinking

 Permaculture Techniques -- Tree Maintenance, Solar Energy, Seed Saving, Fermentation, Irrigation (Water Strategies), Beekeeping, Herbalism, Gardening

Cooking

Personal and peer skills

Communication -- Non Violent Communication, Gestalt

Artist -- Writer, photographer, Story Teller

 

Certifications, accreditations and awards

Sivananda Yoga Teacher Certification
November 2008
Permaculture Design Course Certificate
April - May 2010
Permaculture Design Course Certificate
August 28 - October 23rd 2011
Permaculture Teacher's Training Course
December 2 - 9, 2011
Permaculture Teacher's Training Course
November 25 - December 2
NABCEP Photovoltaic Exam
November 2012

Articles to Write

Life & Death – Sprouting and Fermenting Nutrition  -- Cleansing
Alternative Economics -- Natural Capitalism (Paul Hawken article/ David Holmgren Principle 2 Catch & Store Energy)
How to Receive a Massage
The Miracle of Chocolate
Living  Foods
The Food of the Bees  -- honey and all pollinated food
Zone 0 -- Personal Ecology
Peak oil
Top bar hive managements
Archetypes :Enneagram, Five Elements, Five Phases, Doshas, Zodiac, Jungian, Tarot, Meyers Briggs
Scale
Non violent communication
Sacred Geometry & Flower of Life
Patterns: The Tau of Phi
Plant Propogation
Plant Sexuality
The Mysteries of the Moon: Witnessing Cycles
The Hamlet Dilemma
Stress and Disease
Timeline of Humanity
King Minos
Group Facilitation and Consensus
Feng Shui and Landscape Design

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