CIVILITAS
Improving Society through
Practical Skills Development Workshops
Magnet Making
ALL AGES WORKSHOP
$20 per adult (can bring up to 2 children under 12 for free!)
Saturday Nov 30, 2024 10am - 1pm
Fresh Financial Foundations
Workshop Series
Book one session for $99, or all four sessions for $349 (save $47)
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Saturday Dec 7, 2024 - Big Picture Budgeting
Sunday Jan 5, 2025 - Family Financial Goals
Sunday Feb 9, 2025 - Manage Your Home for More Money
Saturday Mar 22, 2025 - Money for Jam
Fibre to Finished Object
Workshop Series
Book one session for $169, or all six sessions for $849 (save $165)
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Saturday Dec 14, 2024 - Wet and Needle Felting
Saturday AND Sunday Jan 11 & 12, 2025 - Spinning Yarn (2 DAYS)
Saturday Feb 8, 2025 - Dyeing Yarn with Commercial Dyes
Saturday Feb 22, 2025 - Learn to Crochet
Sunday Mar 16, 2025 - Learn to Knit
Saturday Apr 12, 2025 - 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!