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Nurture Your Mind, Empower Your Actions

Whether you're diving into Eco-landscaping or Ecopsychology, or integrating Permaculture or Re-wilding into your daily life, or learning the tools to drive lasting change, this is where passion meets action. Whether you want to consciously design life through the use of Adapt Design tools or wish to be inspired at one of our workshops or presentations, Garden Juju Collective is your sanctuary for Designing, Growing, and Healing.

Led by life-long educators and practitioners Dr Charlie Brennan & Bridget O’Brien, Garden Juju Collective’s range of Learning Opportunities are inspiring, powerful and practical.

Each workshop is designed around a central theme, approach or challenge. We blend practical skills with visionary ideas and innovative practices. Through a mix of hands-on exercises, field trips, and reflective practices, participants engage with the material in an interactive way. Formats range from interactive workshops to lectures and retreats. At the end of each session, participants create personal action plans that empower them to take the next steps toward transforming their dreams and intentions into reality.

 

What can you expect from our Online and In-Person Workshops and Events?

  • To be challenged and supported through a range of learning opportunities.
  • To learn from facilitators with extensive practical experience as well as many years of research, teaching, and facilitation.
  • Intimate, active, and innovative experiences for reflective, practical and transformative learning.
  • The multi-disciplinary and adaptive weaving of approaches, fields of study and practices.
  • Individual action plans for real world change, beyond simplistic answers.
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Download FREE Guides

Visit our Shop page to access free tools and tricks to get you started combining theory and hands-on practical skill sets, as well as critical reflection:

  • Design & Adapt Like You Mean It
  • Getting into Permaculture
  • Making Healthy Sanctuary Places
  • Making Indoor Plants ‘Pop’
  • Radical Redesign
  • Utilising the Magic of Mulch
Free Tips & Tricks

What's On

Be inspired and connect with a community of changemakers at our in-person workshops and events - join the collective!

Putting Permaculture into Local & Global Action: Northern Beaches

Join Dr Charlie Brennan for an inspiring exploration of regenerative permaculture practices in action as he returns to his roots with Permaculture Northern Beaches at Narrabeen Surf Club in Sydney, Australia for this interactive workshop.

WCCD Native Plant Expo & Marketplace

​The Native Plant Expo & Marketplace (NPEM) offers one convenient location to shop for Michigan native plants from several Michigan native plant growers, learn how to establish and maintain native landscapes and connect with companies specializing in planning native landscapes for residents in Washtenaw County and the surrounding areas.

Learn More & Register

Al-Hadiqa Heritage Garden Opening Day at the Arab American National Museum

Kick off summer by celebrating the opening of Al-Hadiqa: The Mymonie Elhage Jabara Heritage Garden! Free and open to the public, there will be an Artisan Market with handmade items by local artists and makers, special Eid and summer crafts, English-Arabic storytime, refreshments in the garden and more!

Learn More & RSVP

More Events at Gateway Farm

Garden Juju Collective runs a variety of programs and co-hosts events with Gateway Farm in Plymouth, MI, USA.

The 2026 Gateway Farm offerings include: farm-to-table dinners, a tea party, two sessions of ‘Camp Gateway,’ Children Story Times with the author, up-skilling classes, farm tours, market days, volunteer days, thought-provoking weekend intensives, and more.
We cannot wait to continue learning and growing with you!

Sign up for events through the Gateway Farm website and check back often for more information about this year’s other offerings!

Gateway Farm Events Calendar

 

More 2026 Events to be announced soon.

Courses & Workshops

Adapt & Design Facilitation Course

Delve deeper into the creative design and redesign process with this online course, so you can learn to guide fellow changemakers using the Adapt Design Deck.

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Permaculture Design Course

A PDC is one of the best investments in your future for building resilience, sustainability, connection, regeneration, adaptation, creativity and homesteading.

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Ecopsychology, Place & Self

Is there such a thing as Ecopsychology? Our connections to place are often shaped by childhood, culture, and history. Join us to explore, remember, and connect.

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Social Permaculture

Learn how to apply Permaculture to transform your life - bringing the focus to people, communities, values, and social change.

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Food Forests for Success

Vital for building a sustainable and regenerative human future - learn tools and steps needed to create thriving perennial food systems.

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Water: The Practical & The Magical

Explore the magic of our connection with water and deepen your relationship with this life-giving element for a more sustainable future.

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Testimonials

"This workshop was powerful. I wasn't expecting this. Suddenly whole layers of relationships with the world have been revealed. I knew they were there before but kind of didn't see them. This will take me a while to process."

Deana

Workshop Participant, QLD, AUS

 

"This is so inspiring and empowering. I’ve played Adapt many times before and use it regularly. This course goes further - into all the facets of framing questions, facilitation, creative process, tricks and tools, movements and mediations, and much more.”

Jess Campbell

Workshop Participant, AUS

 

"This workshop was grounded in challenges of the reality of growing food forests. It’s not as easy as I thought. I’ve come away with some great tips & tricks to try out. Thank you!”

Workshop Participant, AUS

 

"This workshop challenged me to think about systems issues and the way in which I and my community can make positive change toward land stewardship and regenerative, healthy ecosystems and societies. The instructors have been a wealth of knowledge, and clearly know what they are doing. It was a joy!"

Workshop Participant, AUS

 

"The group leader for this workshop created an unmatched environment for learning and storytelling. The way they are able to connect land, mind, body and spirit is a practice I will be carrying now and through my life. Thank you!"

Workshop Participant, UK

 

"I have always dreamed of making food forests and permaculture systems. I’m confident to move ahead now with mentoring from Bridget & Charlie. I will definitely sign up for more workshops when I can.”

James

Workshop Participant, UK

 

"There are not enough words to fully capture the validation, connection, nostalgic emotions and beautiful conversations that were shared at the Gateway Farm/Garden Juju Ecopsychology Convergence weekend. Charlie, Bridget and their team sure know how to host a group of people and make them feel welcome, cared for and honored. I absolutely loved spending the day at the farm, with plenty of spaciousness and time to connect deeply with myself, fellow participants and the sanctuary that they've created. I walked away with a deeper appreciation, understanding, and further wonder for nature and the natural world that I already appreciated so much."

Margaux Forster

Marketing & Brand Relationship Coordinator

Reset Brain and Body

Plymouth, MI, USA

 

"This has given me tools and language for the grief and loss I have long felt about the destruction of our living world. In a way it's validating. I came away from the presentation with good ideas about some small actions I can take next."

Workshop Participant, USA

 

"I had no idea how truly enriching and encompassing this workshop would be - how deep it would go into exploring the self, our values and core needs. I thought permaculture was mostly rooted in sustainable, regenerative food systems, but it was really expansive to learn how these values can be applied to every aspect of our lives."

Shelby

Workshop Participant, USA

 

"I would describe this workshop as enriching and soulful, going beyond the academic knowledge and providing a deep relational experience that can be applied to all aspects of life.”

Workshop Participant, USA

 

"A great experience of directed and facilitated projects that allowed for personal development and gain!”

Workshop Participant, USA

 

"I've played the 'Adapt' game with Charlie and watched good friends go through the process. It's powerful and inspiring stuff. If you have a project or need to refocus on what you're doing, I'd thoroughly recommend this."

"Adapt or die!"

Stewart Boyle

One Planet Media

Red Van, Lewes, UK & Portugal

 

"Adapt is so applicable and innovative, that any group of people can use the game to amplify ideas into action."

Hilary Nichols

 

"Since taking a PDC in 2020, the whole lens with which I view the world has changed. I feel a greater capacity for viewing the harms taking place in the world and more tools for healing and caring for the local systems I am a part of. I wish everyone could take a PDC (or 2 or 3) in their lifetime!"

Kamryn

Garden Juju Collective Team Member

 

"The course had such good information about facilitation in general as well as, of course, how to get the best from the Adapt game. I came away confident in my facilitation ability and with all sorts of ideas. I have no doubt I'm going to weave Adapt into my life and to the lives of people around me."

Jackson Touchberry

2022 Course Participant

 

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