Training & Workshops

Booking info:

Booking is by Paypal – please use the links below. However, we may have concessionary places and group discounts available – drop us an email to see if these apply.

If you’re booking for more than three people, please check in with us first to make sure we have space before using the paypal links below.

Please note there is an extra €10 charge if we need to be put on an institution’s payment system due to the extra time involved.

For workshops which are as yet unscheduled, please contact us to register interest in any particular one.

For all workshop enquiries please email Elinor at wetlandsystems@proton.me.

Nature-Based Solutions for Wastewater Treatment: Lahinch Co Clare, 9:30am-5pm, €175

Reed beds, constructed wetlands, willow filters, zero discharge willow systems and source separation technologies.

These seminars are designed for architects, engineers, site assessors, planners and system installers who wish to gain a greater understanding of natural and low carbon sewage treatment systems as part of the wider site and landscape design. We will explore the fundamentals of system design, construction and planting; enabling participants to use these as part of EPA Code of Practice (2021) approved designs, as well as covering innovative design options for challenging sites (which are not necessarily Code approved approaches, but can be effective at addressing existing pollution issues).

Farming for Waters EIP Measures: Lahinch Co Clare, 9:30am-5pm, €175

This workshop will explore a suite of Farming for Waters EIP measures and outline the design, construction, planting and aftercare needed for each. The main areas of focus will include Willow Filter Beds; Small Scale Wetland Ponds and Bunded Drains, with other EIP Measures also explored. This workshop is suitable for farmers or land owners wishing to build and EIP water measure, farm advisors, or anybody wishing to learn more about waterway protection in the rural environment.

Water on the Land: Lahinch Co Clare, 9:30am-5pm, €175

Farm-scale and urban solutions for water management, repair and rewilding.
This workshop looks briefly at the role of conventional land and water management in creating many of the problems that we see around flooding, climate breakdown and the biodiversity crisis; then focuses on the solutions for turning these problems around. The beauty of land and water management solutions is that they are local by definition, and often within our direct power to create change. This courseisoffers a solutions oriented and practical landscape design approach; building a toolkit of practical measures that can be adapted for any farm, urban area, or full stream or river catchment.

The workshops are designed to be of assistance to the farming community, community groups, tidy towns groups, farm advisors, local authorities, urban planners and others with an interest in keeping water clean, nature based flood prevention, climate resilience and biodiversity habitat repair, rewilding and enhancement.

Eco-visioning – Seeing the Future and Loving it: Lahinch, 2-4pm, €25

EcoVisioning is a dreaming space designed to facilitate participants in envisioning the best imaginable future and inviting that future into being, to move towards what author and philosopher Charles Eisenstein calls ‘the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible‘.

Five things you can do for the environment, online, 2-3 hrs, €25

Do you wish there was a clear pathway towards creating effective change in the world? This online workshop provides an overview of five things we can all do to help the environment. Whether you’re work is with climate, water, wildlife or your own locality, the five things can be used as a guide towards creating change on multiple levels. Come with a project in mind and we will have an opportunity to discuss a suite of approaches to creating change in your own area.

Being the Beaver: online 2-3hrs, €25

This workshop explores the role of beavers in shaping landscapes, improving waterways, cleaning up rivers and streams, preventing flooding and other benefits. We will look at suggestions that beavers may well have been native to Ireland in the past, and examine how beavers could be part of Ireland’s future. We will also explore how we can play the role of the beaver in the landscape, in our own farms and communities, by holding water, slowing the flow and filtering it en route to nearby waterways.

We also offer individualised half- and full-day landscape design workshops to groups on the following topics as well as those above:

Permaculture approaches to design of low impact, effective sewage and grey water treatment; landscape based flood control and water filtration; edible landscaping and community orchard creation.

Rewilding and the many ways in which we can enhance habitats in Ireland, large and small. We explore the key elements of landscape scale rewilding, giving land back to wildlife and bringing the wildlife back into the land: core, carnivores and corridors; looking at every scale from the work of Rewilding Europe to supporting pollinators in a window-box.

Climate solutions, carbon sequestration, local climate and ecological resilience tools and an exploration of landscape management on climate systems, allowing for local scale solutions to local scale issues while also improving the wider world and ecosystems.

Rewilding your local waterway – taking a site-specific approach to local streams and rivers. If you are part of a local community group who would like to take a deep look at your own local waterway(s) we can provide some site-specific training and guidance on how to proceed.