testimonial

Thank you so much for Envision 2021. I consider it one of the best events I have participated in for many years, so much that I want to share it with my children (one is a business manager, the other an engineer and the younger a radiologist) the fundamental principles of holistic life that I got from your speech.

Javan’s Envisioning 2021 workshop provided a wonderful framework for gaining deeper insight into the past year, then turning that knowledge into a values-centric vision for the coming year.

I came away with a good framework and a good start on reviewing 2020 and envisioning 2021. I have been working with the material since the workshop and am finding that it works well as a sort of deeper spiraling process, where I can go back through my notes and go even deeper with each pass.

Highly recommended!

Thank you ever so much for giving me the opportunity to be part of this Visioning workshop. That was simply brilliant!

I really enjoyed that process and it gave me such a positive boost to dive deeper into doing a more detailed reflection and forecasting for myself this upcoming week.

I have felt so stuck this year. It has been a most humbling year for me that has felt so full of fits and starts. This process of yours helped me see beyond what has felt like a lot of failure and negativity to also see the important learning and lessons for how to move forward. So thank you ever so much for that.

Even though I was in a space online with 50 people that I have never met, you somehow managed to create such a safe and intimate space for us. That speaks such positive volumes of you as a person and teacher.

Again thank you – from the bottom of my heart. I am not good at asking for and reaching out for help, but I know I need some help to figure out how to move forward and to get unstuck. This was a mighty positive step in the right direction.

Looking back over the year in the Envision 2021 workshop with Javan gave me a better perspective of what I need to implement moving forward to be able to better track and monitor my life’s progression. The tools and reflection questions Javan offers create a very supportive and loving space to do so in a nonjudgmental, but observational,  way. “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” Alexander Den Heijer. Working with Javan is helping me to shape, build and create the most healthy, supportive terrain of my dreams!

Envision 2021 inspired me to really dig into the past year of my life and consider who and what influenced my day to day. The workshop asked me to reflect on what my future self needs and desires, and what positive momentum I’d like to carry forward into 2021, and what influences I’d rather leave behind, or not engage in. Javan was a kind, gentle and constructive facilitator. I appreciated the communal aspect of the workshop and having the chance to feel the energies of other people all around the world. It’s true that so little of our day to day allows for, or encourages the act of reflection, and the workshop reminded me that I have the power to enact this ritual of reflection for myself. “If you don’t design your own life, someone else will design it for you.” The workshop helped me feel a little braver in thinking forward to 2021 and dreaming, envisioning, and sculpting the values that I’d like to see represented in my day to day life. It was an overwhelmingly positive experience.

I love loved taking this course and am so excited to see where this knowledge takes me in the future. You have been a wonderful instructor.

“I discovered the permaculture world fairy recently (where have you been all my life?) when I was searching for focus at a time when I felt quite uncertain about the trajectory our planet is on. I took the OSU Intro to Permaculture Course and suddenly a new realm of possibilities opened up to me. I wanted to explore more, learn more, understand more, so I signed up for the next OSU PDC course. During every week of this course there have been so many ‘A-HA’ moments and areas of study that needed to be perused further. I loved the course material: the instructional videos, the supplemental material and the podcasts. Every assignment was a journey of discovery. I’m new to my property, but I already feel such an intimate connection and deeper understanding of it. The support and feedback I received was wonderful. As I said to Javan one week, “It’s amazing that 5 minutes of feedback can result in so many take-aways for me … Thanks so much for the valuable feedback.” And it was true, after just 5 minutes of video feedback, my mind started going into overdrive and the possibilities seemed endless. My mind is still all fired up, racing off on tangents wondering if I can fit more rain catchment overflow in here, or another wicking bed in there. I learned even more listening to the feedback videos for other students’ assignments. Amazing course and fabulous experience. Thanks for everything JKB!

After finding incredible value in creating my own context with Javan I became increasingly eager to help others with this work, and the next step was obviously to understand it better for myself.

The Practicum program allowed me to take my understanding of context and values-based decision-making deeper, with each process allowing me to unlock another level. It came at a time when I was making increasingly complex decisions for myself, my family, and the nascent intentional community that we are a part of. Sometimes all three of those Wholes interlocked, creating a fascinating complexity – but one that would have been overwhelming without having a process in which to hold and ground it.

Having Javan mentor me through this phase and provide feedback was invaluable, helping me to ‘thread the needle’ with the big interlocking decisions.

By the end of the program I felt ready to start assisting those around me in a really meaningful way, but also realised how managing complexity well is one of the biggest challenges we face in the world today – and that it holds the key to meaningful, positive change going forward.