Build practical skills to manage your land, livestock and business more holistically with this eight-day Holistic Management course.

Delivered across four two-day sessions, the course covers holistic decision making, planned grazing, financial planning, ecological monitoring and land planning, with time between sessions to apply what you learn on your own property.

Funding may be available through Rural Aid for eligible applicants.

Session One

Holistic Management - our environment and the tools to manage our environment

• The evolution, background and key concepts of Holistic Management

• The impact of paradigms on environmental management - rest, trampling, severe grazing and overgrazing

• Ecosystem processes – water cycle, mineral cycle, solar energy flow and biodiversity

• Key insights - holism, brittleness, the predator / prey connection, managing the component of time

• The tools we use to manage our environment / use of livestock to create a positive impact

• Environmental diagnosis – a simple tool to identify the root cause of environmental problems

• Holistic Financial Planning – getting started

• Introduction to Steven Covey’s time management