The Ananda Community of Lynnwood celebrates its 20th Year anniversary with an Open House on Saturday, June 16, 2012. All are welcome to tour and ask questions about this thriving intentional spiritual community. There will be displays of various Ananda projects, including the Ananda Meditation Temple in Bothell, East West Bookshop in Seattle, Living Wisdom School in Shoreline, and Living Wisely Thrift and Gift Store in Shoreline. Enjoy food and entertainment, and join in on one of the many tours of the community. 20 minute tours are offered from 4 to 6pm, and will include the temple, community room, some apartments, the chicken coop, the vegetable gardens and hoop house of Ananda’s CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). Following the tours from 4-6 pm will be a public Solstice Celebration at 6pm.

How would it change the teenage years of a girl to have mentors, who have walked the path before her, to guide her with love and wisdom into adolescence? The journey of self-discover builds confidence and clarity for emerging young women. Becoming a Young Woman offers a unique opportunity to celebrate and honor the changes of this time in a girl's life. Connecting her hand-to-hand with a long line of women before her, she is welcomed into the larger community with a fuller understanding of the inherent gifts of womanhood. This is the beginning of her claiming her power. This group of 10 middle school girls (ages 12 - 14) will explore what it means to step out of childhood and into young womanhood with the guidance and support of two fabulous female mentors. The group will spend a week at a moonlodge; engaging in a rite of passage experience to celebrate the conscious step into young womanhood. Read more on our website.

4-day Natural Building Workshop with COB Together July 5th-8th, 2012 with James Haim and Taylor Starr Introduction to Natural Building: In this 4 day workshop you will have the opportunity to get your hands (and feet) dirty mixing and building with cob, stuffing light-straw-clay, and making and applying earthen plasters. Tours, lectures and discussions will also cover: straw bale building, design basics, foundations, roofs, and more. Participants will walk away from this weekend with the techniques and principles needed to begin building! Creating Organic Buildings Together offers natural building workshops for people of all ages. Building with natural materials like cob, strawbale, paper crete, earthen plasters and floors, sustainably harvested wood, and reused materials allows you to create beautiful, efficient, inexpensive and livable spaces while walking lightly on the earth. This makes sense not only for the planet, but also for folks wanting to revitalize cooperative

The UBC Summer Institute in Sustainability Leadership is designed to bring together and empower those from a variety of sectors - including business, academic institutions and government - to take a leadership role in developing policy, creating plans, and managing sustainability projects. In this award-winning professional development program, you gain the perspectives, strategies and resources needed to accelerate the sustainability agenda within your organization. Inspiring speakers from industry, academic, government, and non-profit sectors share insights and best practices providing you with the strategies and resources needed to create and manage sustainability policies and projects. 2012 speakers include Dr Brian Nattrass, acclaimed author and sustainability advisor to government and leading corporations; Dr John Helliwell, internationally renowned scholar whose current research focuses on the economics of happiness and sustainability; and Dr Bill Rees, inventor of the

2012 Natural Building Apprenticeship with COB Together August 5th-25th: Hybrid Sauna Construction with James Haim During this three week apprenticeship program you will construct a sauna and, time permitting, a cob oven, from start to finish. As part of this program you will learn the basics of making a foundation, building four different wall systems with materials including cob, straw bale, light-straw-clay and cob-cordwood, and constructing a living roof. In addition you will learn earthen plastering techniques, tour a variety of beautiful natural buildings, spend time designing your own projects and enjoy the many recreational and cultural opportunities the Rogue Valley has to offer. Participants will camp on-site and be served three organic meals six days a week with one day off each week. Participants will finish their stay with a one-day rafting trip on the scenic Rogue River. In order to provide the highest quality teaching this apprenticeship is limited to four

Got Problem Kids? Here's your Problem Student Problem-Solver Conference. You name the problems and this workshop delivers hundreds of immediate, problem-stopping answers. You will leave with innovative, more effective strategies for bad behavior, poor motivation, work refusal, violence, conflict, bad attitudes, and more. College credit and clock hours available. Free sample interventions, and free monthly Problem Student Problem-Solver magazine available at our web site, http://www.youthchg.com, or via email (dwells@youthchg.com), or call toll-free to 1-800-545-5736. Work-study financial aid available for all classes. Call for details. Seattle, WA: May 3-4, 2012 Portland, OR: Oct. 11-12, 2012 Online, DVD, and on-site presentations available