"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change things build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

- Buckminster Fuller

The Shire is a protected ecological learning community, leadership training ground and venue for the common good. The Shire is an exploration into the best of human potential and an example of how self-reliant living could be.

The Shire is 165 acres of forest, meadow, swamp, streams and lake. It is beautiful, diverse and sacred.

Practices

The Shire

• offers residential and non-residential programmes supporting Leaders in their spheres of influence both locally and internationally
• practices and teaches sustainable agriculture, forestry, building, land management and traditional crafts
• creates opportunities for local emerging leaders to practice self-reliance and develop entrepreneurship skills
• supports local initiatives for community growth and development
• is a venue for local and international organisations and individuals wishing working for the common good

? How can folk step into the field of the Shire and leave ready to lead themselves and others into the future?

? What are the capacities and skills leaders hold their integrity while the world around constantly entices them to compromise?

? In this incredible fast paced, diverse and chaotic time how can leaders make clear and wise decisions for the common good?

? What environment do we need to come close to our humanness and make decisions from our dignity and basic goodness?

? How can we nurture a space of magic and awakenings?

• How can the Shire be a training ground for core leadership capacities?
• How could learning to build green enable someone to become a greater and wiser person in all areas of their life?
• How could the study of permaculture awaken a person to the inherent interconnectedness of all things?
• What would it mean for us to create with fearless consciousness, a place which dared to make a difference?
• How can we make good decisions as individuals and a community?

www.oftheshire.org

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