CIVILITAS
Improving Society through
Practical Skills Development Workshops
Safe Use and Maintenance of Chainsaws for Absolute Beginners
Sunday October 5 - 10am - Women Only
Sunday October 5 - 2pm - Everyone Welcome
This course is for you if:
You are an absolute beginner chainsaw user - no experience necessary!
Aged 12+ (with parental guidance, where needed)
Someone who has lots of fallen trees they need to clean up around their property
Someone who wants to collect their own firewood or manage their own plantations
Someone who needs to collect firewood for friends and/or family members
Someone who has been shown how to start a chainsaw (or other 2-stroke equipment) a thousand times but still can’t do it yourself
Someone with common sense and a cautious approach to safe working practices
Fresh Financial Foundations
Workshop Series - ONLINE
Book one session for $19, or all four sessions for $67
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Friday Oct 10 6-8pm - Big Picture Budgeting
Friday Oct 24 6-8pm - Family Financial Goals
Friday Nov 7 6-8pm - Manage Your Home for More Money
Friday Nov 21 6-8pm - Money for Jam
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Each session can be a stand alone learning experience, or combine them for a powerful new perspective on ways to more effectively manage your money. Whatever your stage in life, it's never too late to learn better money habits. Downloadable workbooks included in the cost.
Fibre to Finished Object
Workshop Series
Book one session for $169, or all six sessions for $849 (save $165)
Each session runs from 10am - 3pm
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Saturday Oct 4 - Wet and Needle Felting
Saturday AND Sunday Oct 11 & 12 - Spinning Yarn (2 DAYS)
SUNDAY Oct 26 - Dyeing Yarn with Commercial Dyes
Saturday Nov 1 - Learn to Crochet
SUNDAY Nov 9 - Learn to Knit
Saturday Nov 15 - Circular Weaving
Ceilidh Meo
Training Facilitator
Ceilidh is a lifelong learner with a passion for sharing her "U for Useful" skills and knowledge with others to make the world a better place. She has a background in tertiary education administration, which strengthens her approach to structured course design and allows students to build their understanding and implementation in layers upon a strong foundation of learning. Ceilidh has also successfully run a small scale farm since 2007, so understands the achievements and challenges of managing a business and motivating employees. She firmly believes that the only silly question is the one you don't ask, and that everyone should learn from other people's mistakes, because life is too short to make them all yourself.
Our Services
are grouped into these areas of interest:
Food Growing, Preservation and Preparation
Household Management
Animal Care and Husbandry
Tools and Equipment
Arts and Crafts
Personal and Professional Development
Regularly timetabled workshops during Victorian school terms
Designed for adults and operating at various times of day/week from the CIVILITAS studio space, these workshops offer a range of long form courses designed to run over a number of weeks to progressively build skills development in the topic area.
Single Day Workshops
Depending on the topic(s) covered, these workshops usually run from two hours in length, to a full day immersion and are aimed at adult learners. Workshops may be during the day or evening, on week days or weekends.
Multiple Day Workshops
The creative energy of the Flow State can be maximised over an immersive two or three day retreat into the studio to explore our innate creativity and how that can best be applied to the situations and challenges that face us as individuals, groups and businesses. Usually run over a weekend, these can be arranged at the CIVILITAS studio, or off site at a designated venue as required.
Online Learning
While the CIVILITAS preference is to focus on hands on (kinaesthetic) learning as we feel that best meets the needs of many of the topics that we cover, some of our offerings can be undertaken via online learning in an interactive, facilitated workshop.
Personal Development
Personal development is important, but it's rarely urgent because life is what's busy happening while we make other plans. So if you have been struggling with achieving change in your life, CIVILITAS offers facilitated accountability groups and 1:1 sessions in a range of areas to help you focus on what you want to improve.
Professional Development
Add a little razzle dazzle to your next business PD day with a creative workshop from CIVILITAS. As well as learning a new skill, your employees will have an opportunity to experience the Flow State, where the brain hemispheres synchronise, group energy merges and the true magic of interdependence happens!
We also offer 1:1 accountability sessions for employees needing to develop their communication, leadership, goal setting and time management skills in relation to performance management concerns.
CIVILITAS is a Latin word that means "CIVILISATION"
Civilisation and society are human concepts, designed and kept in place by mutual unconscious agreement of the population.
However, for many people, society is no longer offering a safe and happy living experience as the cost of living rises, and wages don't keep pace, mental health challenges are increasing and environmental crises weigh heavily on hearts and minds.
Being a human concept, civilisation (and our smaller scale societies and communities) can be redesigned to better reflect the needs of the local population, but this often requires a level of trust and communication that is not always possible between individuals at first glance.
CIVILITAS workshops are designed to cultivate interdependence via intelligently leveraging information, tools and skills that allow trust building on the personal and professional level so that, together, we can successfully be the change we want to see in the world, on whatever scale we want to operate.
Ready to start your learning journey?
Workshops are usually provided through registered Neighbourhood and Community Houses in Victoria, as public events in the dedicated CIVILITAS workshop space or at your premises for personal or professional development learning opportunities; however some workshops are suitable to run via online learning.
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Contact Us
Address
144 Midland Hwy, Epsom VIC 3551, Australia
Operating Hours
Workshop calendar coming soon!