HMI Calendar of Events
Holistic Management® Distance Learning
Register Anytime
Contact: hminfo@wholenewconcepts.com
Join our distance learning program and put Holistic Management® into practice immediately. You may register at anytime and enjoy learning at your own pace. We offer an Introduction to Holistic Management, Holistic Management Grazing Planning and Holistic Management Financial Planning. Courses include individual telephone sessions with your instructor, workbooks and other materials with follow up. Offered by Cindy Dvergsten, Holistic Management Certified Educator with over 15 years experience in teaching and practicing Holistic Management. For details visit www.wholenewconcepts.com or call 970-882-4222.
Biological Monitorning Intensive
October 25-26, 2008
Running High Ranch, Bowie, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer (325) 348-3014
This class will teach you how to guide the land to perform in motion toward you holisticgoal. Skills will include awareness of the general condition of the land, as revealed by the four ecosystem processes, and how applying different tools will affect these processes, an assessment of the soil surface and the life just below and above it, and if grazing livestock, an assessment of animal performance and the effect of their actions on the land. Space is limited to the first 30 people to register.
Ian Mitchell-Innes, a Holistic Management Certified Educator from South Africa, will serve as instructor of this 2-day intensive. He is no stranger to drought, ranching in drought-stricken South Africa, where in a good year rainfall is less than 20 inches.
Land Planning Intensive
October 27-28, 2008
Running High Ranch, Bowie, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer (325) 348-3014
This class will address designing infrastructure to support the activities you have planned for your land. To keep animals moving continually requires new thinking about how fencing, water points, roads and handling facilities are laid out. A holistic land plan represents the marriage of a holisticgoal and step-by-step practice--one step making the next step possible as the land plan is gradually implemented over time. Space is limited to the first 30 people to register.
Ian Mitchell-Innes, a Holistic Management Certified Educator from South Africa, will serve as instructor of this 2-day intensive. He is no stranger to drought, ranching in drought-stricken South Africa, where in a good year rainfall is less than 20 inches.
Mob Grazing Workshop
October 29, 2008
Decatur Civic Center, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer (325) 348-3014
Mob Grazing is the curret hot topic among progressive grass farmers looking for the path to profitable ranching operations. The cry to "increase annual forage production by up to 400%" reminds us of the early eighties when "double your stocking rate" drew forward thinking graziers to Allan Savory's talks on Holistic Resource Management. Now, many of those still on the leading edge realize they are farming grass as much as livestock, and that those higher stock densities are evolving to ultra high stock density as graziers discover the benefits of up to 500,000 pounds of cattle per acre!
Ian Mitchell-Innes, a Holistic Management Certified Educator from South Africa, will serve as instructor of this 1-day workshop. He is no stranger to drought, ranching in drought-stricken South Africa, where in a good year rainfall is less than 20 inches.
Healthy Land: Sustainable Future
November 4-7, 2008
Sonora, Mexico
Contact: rancho_inmaculada@yahoo.com
La Inmaculada de los Aguirre, in coordination with Holistic Management International, is pleased to announce its Holistic Management® Education and Training Program, to be hosted at Rancho La Inmaculada, in Pitiquito, Sonora, Mexico.
The first course of this comprehensive training program, to be hosted November 4-7, will teach the concepts and proceses to plan and create healthy land and a sustainable future.
Introduction to Holistic Management
November 10-11, 2008
Summerville, Oregon
Contact: Donna Torrez hmi@holisticmanagement.org
Holistic Management Certified Educators Tony and Andrea Malmberg facilitate a two-day Introduction to Holistic Management . Learn how you can create healthy land and healthy profits, using the Holistic Management Framework for Decision Making.
Holistic Financial Planning
November 12-13, 2008
Summerville, Oregon
Contact: Donna Torrez hmi@holisticmanagement.org
Holistic Management Certified Educators Tony and Andrea Malmberg facilitate a two-day introduction to Holistic Management Financial Planning. Learn how you can create profit while improving the health of the land and your quality of life.
Holistic Grazing Planning
November 14-15, 2008
Summerville, Oregon
Contact: Donna Torrez hmi@holisticmanagement.org
This two-day program, taught by Holistic Management Certified Educator Tony Malmberg, is an introduction to Holistic Management Grazing Planning. Learn how you can improve land and animal health through better grazing planning, Many of our alumni have doubled their stocking rate and some have quadrupled it!
Holistic Land Health Monitoring
November 14-15, 2008
Summerville, Oregon
Contact: Donna Torrez hmi@holisticmanagement.org
Learn all aspects of Holistic Biological monitoring from Holistic Management Certified Educator Andrea Malmberg. Instruction will include learning simple techniques that will reduce your stress--you will easily see if your land management is improving the health of the land, and how you can quantify land improvement.
Introduction to Holistic Management
November 17-18, 2008
Center, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Holistic Management Certified Educator Terry Gompert facilitates a two-day Introduction to Holistic Management . Learn how you can create healthy land and healthy profits, using the Holistic Management Framework for Decision Making.
Holisticgoal Training
November 19, 2008
Center, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Certified Educator Terry Gompert walks through the steps to create your own personal Holisticgoal and models how to test decisions toward it. Learn how to make decisions that account for the quality of life and ranch profitability you desire!
Holistic Management Financial Planning
November 20-21, 2008
Center, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Holistic Management Certified Educator Terry Gompert facilitates a two-day introduction to Holistic Management Financial Planning. Learn how you can create profit while improving the health of the land and your quality of life.
South African Grazing
November 25-26, 2008
Creighton, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
An introduction to South African Grazing technique with Ian Mitchell-Innes. Ian owns and holistically manages a relatively large ranch in Elandslaagte, South Africa. He is one of the outstanding practitioners of Holistic Management in the world, having been commended by Allan Savory as "the world's most experienced mob grazier." Learn from him about how Holistic Management has changed his ranch and family (November 25) and the principles of ultra high stock density grazing (November 26).
Strategy vs. System: Grazing for Desired Outcomes
December 2-4, 2008
Fort Collins, Colorado
Contact: Tim Steffens, (719) 523-6251, ext. 3
The Colorado Section of the Society for Range Management will host its 2008 Annual meeting, Strategy vs. System: Grazing for Desired Outcomes, this December in Fort Collins, Colorado. The program agenda will include sessions addressing Plant / Animal Interaction on Landscapes; Animal Selectivity-Implications for Management and Research Design; Managing Grazing for Desired Ecological Outcomes; and Intensive Grazing Management: A Key to Profits. To register and pay by credit card online, click here.
Introduction to Holistic Management
January 5-6, 2009
Bloomfield, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Learn about Holistic Management decision-making, write your own holisticgoal, and gain an introduction to testing decisions against your goal.
Holistic Management Financial Planning
January 7-8, 2009
Bloomfield, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
An introduction to the Financial Planning process with Certified Educator Terry Gompert.
Healthy Pasture, Healthy Animals
January 23, 2009
Monterey, California
Contact: info@eco-farm.org
With all the talk in recent years about whether and how much pasture to require for organic animals, we have somewhat lost sight of how to get the maximum value for pasture by using controlled grazing techniques and other strategies to improve the health of pastures. Join a Ward Burroughs of Full Circle Dairy, who is a Central Valley organic dairyman; coastal grassfed beef producer Joe Morris of Morris Grassfed Beef; and Rob Rutherford, a Holistic Management instructor who runs the 130 ewe Cal-Poly sheep unit; to get the details on how pasturing animals can nourish the land, recycle nutrients, reduce erosion and create healthier animals. For more information on the 2009 Ecological Farming Conference, please click here.
Introduction to Holistic Management
February 2-4, 2009
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Contact: Kirk Gadzia 505-867-4685
In this course, Certified Educator Kirk Gadzia explains how to use the Holistic Management® model to achieve your goals, how to understand and manage when the ecosystem is stressed, and introduces the tools available to influence your financial, land and people resources. The course gives you the specific techniques you need to help you significantly improve your ability to make better decisions in your business.
Holistic Management Financial Planning
February 3-5, 2009
Brussels, South Africa
Contact: Dick Richardson dickson@wam.co.za
Certified Educator Dick Richardson will demonstrate how to achieve a triple bottom line financially, environmentally and socially; increase production; reduce operating expenses; and plan a true profit and achieve genuine prosperity.
Advanced Holistic Management Training
February 5-7, 2009
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Contact: Kirk Gadzia 505-867-4685
In this course, Certified Educator Kirk Gadzia builds on the material introduced in the Introduction class (prior attendance at the intro class is required for enrollment in this session). Over three days, participants work through case studies detailing financial, grazing and land planning; work on developing plans for their own enterprises; and reinforce the concepts taught in the introduction class.
Creating a Sustainable Future for Agriculture in the Pacific Northwest
February 10-12, 2009
Richland, Washington
Contact: Doug Warnock 509-525-3389 or dwarnock@charter.net
Managing Change Northwest (MCN) invites you to its conference, “Creating a Sustainable Future for Agriculture in the Pacific Northwest,” in February 2009.
MCN is a team of certified Holistic Management educators in Washington State who serve the Pacific Northwest, helping people on their journey toward resource sustainability.
Introduction to Holistic Management
March 4-5, 2009
Abilene, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer 325-348-3014 or jeanie@hmitexas.org
Holistic Management Certified Educator Terry Gompert facilitates a two-day Introduction to Holistic Management . Learn how you can create healthy land and healthy profits, using the Holistic Management Framework for Decision Making.
Holistic Management Financial Planning
March 8-9, 2009
Abilene, Texas
Contact: Jeanie Dreinhofer 325-348-3014 or jeanie@hmitexas.org
Holistic Management Certified Educator Terry Gompert facilitates a two-day introduction to Holistic Management Financial Planning. Learn how you can create profit while improving the health of the land and your quality of life.
Introduction to Holistic Management:Enhancing Human Capacity
March 24-26, 2009
Brussels, South Africa
Contact: Dick Richardson dickson@wam.co.za
Certified Educator Dick Richardson will explain the way to make better management decisions and respond to change through reduced risk with good decision making and sound planning; find direction and balance everyday with quality of life; and have a positive impact on the environment and increase biodiversity for sustainability.
Veld (Pasture) Management
May 4-7, 2009
Brussels, South Africa
Contact: Dick Richardson dickson@wam.co.za
Certified Educator Dick Richardson will teach students how to produce more veld of better quality with high animal performance, reduce drought risk, and improve the effectiveness of rainfall.
Holistic Grazing Planning
July 6-7, 2009
Wawota, Saskatchewan
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
This two-day program, taught by Holistic Management Certified Educator Terry GOmpert, is an introduction to Holistic Management Grazing Planning. Learn how you can improve land and animal health through better grazing planning, Many of our alumni have doubled their stocking rate and some have quadrupled it!
Holistic Management Biological Monitoring
July 8-9, 2009
Wawota, Saskatchewan
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Learn all aspects of Holistic Biological monitoring from Holistic Management Certified Educator Terry Gompert. Instruction will include learning simple techniques that will reduce your stress--you will easily see if your land management is improving the health of the land, and how you can quantify land improvement.
Mob Grazing Seminar
July 10, 2009
Wawota, Saskatchewan
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Certified Educator Terry Gompert will address Mob Grazing--the curret hot topic among progressive grass farmers looking for the path to profitable ranching operations. Many of those still on the leading edge of grassfed operations realize they are farming grass as much as livestock, and that those higher stock densities are evolving to ultra high stock density as graziers discover the benefits of up to 500,000 pounds of cattle per acre!
Dennis Ranch Tour
July 11, 2009
Wawota, Saskatchewan
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Certified Educator Terry Gompert will share his knowledge of the land, on the land. The tour will include a review of the ranch facilities and pasture walk. Terry and ranch owner Neil Dennis will share their understanding of the land health, pointing out indicators and offering observations.
Holisticgoal Training
July 13, 2009
Wawota, Saskatchewan
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Certified Educator Terry Gompert walks through the steps to create your own personal Holisticgoal and models how to test decisions toward it. Learn how to make decisions that account for the quality of life and ranch profitability you desire!
Holistic Grazing Planning
August 17-18, 2009
Newport, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
This two-day program, taught by Holistic Management Certified Educator Terry GOmpert, is an introduction to Holistic Management Grazing Planning. Learn how you can improve land and animal health through better grazing planning, Many of our alumni have doubled their stocking rate and some have quadrupled it!
Holistic Management Biological Monitoring
August 19-20, 2009
Newport, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Learn all aspects of Holistic Biological monitoring from Holistic Management Certified Educator Terry Gompert. Instruction will include learning simple techniques that will reduce your stress--you will easily see if your land management is improving the health of the land, and how you can quantify land improvement.
Mob Grazing Seminar
August 21, 2009
Newport, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Certified Educator Terry Gompert will address Mob Grazing--the curret hot topic among progressive grass farmers looking for the path to profitable ranching operations. Many of those still on the leading edge of grassfed operations realize they are farming grass as much as livestock, and that those higher stock densities are evolving to ultra high stock density as graziers discover the benefits of up to 500,000 pounds of cattle per acre!
Peterson Ranch Tour
August 22, 2009
Newport, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Certified Educator Terry Gompert will share his knowledge of the land, on the land. The tour will include a review of the ranch facilities and pasture walk. Terry and ranch owner Chad Peterson will share their understanding of the land health, pointing out indicators and offering observations.
Holisticgoal Training
August 24, 2009
Newport, Nebraska
Contact: Knox County Extension knox-county@unl.edu
Certified Educator Terry Gompert walks through the steps to create your own personal Holisticgoal and models how to test decisions toward it. Learn how to make decisions that account for the quality of life and ranch profitability you desire!
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