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3. Patrick Hennebery says:

   May 2, 2012 at 3:36 pm

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   Patrick Hennebery: A Natural Builder
   By Brandy Gallagher

   In life, some of the greatest milestones are created by meeting heroes. In the natural building movement, we have the known North American grandfathers/fathers/mothers in our movement…. but we do not always hear the story of what they are up to when they step forward in their evolution from ‘founders’ to ‘mentors.’
   This is a story about one such man, Patrick Hennebery of Cobworks.
   Somewhere shy of twenty years ago, Pat entered the movement under the tutelage of Ianto Evans. Soon after, Pat brought Ianto to Canada (Mayne Island) for a workshop. Since then, a confluence of natural building has existed in the Southern Gulf and Vancouver Island area, fed in part by the wellspring created when Pat, Elke Cole and Tracy Calvert formed Cobworks.
   In 2000, the Cobworks team, myself and a range of up-and-coming natural builders, pulled together to create the first annual Canadian “Natural Building Colloquium.” We were off and running. Workshops began, information/education booths were stationed at every event imaginable, “All Cobbers Weekend Rendevous/End of Season Gathering” were held, and there was so much sharing of projects between us all. Sometime after this, Pat Hennebery partnered with Kit Maloney; Elke came over to O.U.R. ECOVILLAGE from Mayne Island and started the “Natural Building Internship,” and Pat, Tracy and Kit were off and running with Cobworks, building and teaching.
   Patrick Hennebery has touched the lives of so many of us, as a friend, a colleague, a creative conspirator, a teacher, a co-designer, a communitarian and an all around amazing human being. His love for the work and the peoples in the natural building movement has had a lasting impact (handprint) on each of us. The memories which have been created are part of the legacy of how Pat creates his world.
   Not everyone may know that this incredible man has moved from his role of full time ‘founding’ teacher/builder to ‘mentor’/builder these days. Recently the lives of Pat, Kit and their children, Ethan and Brody, changed dramatically after Pat was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. In true Pat style, this has not meant slowing down necessarily but certainly it has meant having to find new creative ways to pour out the expression of human love and inspiration that Pat crafts his world with.
   This has brought about a new conversation between Pat/Kit/Cobworks and O.U.R. ECOVILLAGE. New possibilities emerge with the expected sale of Fernhollow, where Pat and Kit have lived for so long… What about the dovetailing of a variety of people’s gifts in a new way? What about a deep honouring and acknowledgement of the founding energy of Pat Hennebury/Cobworks as an incredible teacher/builder history and his moving further into a ‘mentoring’ builder status?
   Many hands make light work and with three other natural builder and conventional builders beside Pat…..a team has been forming. Stack the deck even further and you can broaden your thinking to imagine Cob Cottage jumping in to the partnership through Pat’s affiliation with Ianto. The mentor, who mentored a mentor, who is now mentoring….
   Imagine all the best of the hands-on learning, creativity and Pat’s leadership and Cob Cottage’s added framework, coupled with O.U.R. ECOVILLAGE’s 25 acre Sustainable Living Demonstration Site and Education Center…..and you have this summer’s “Cob and Community in the Village.”
   A poetic natural building synthesis of Cobworks, Cob Cottage Company, and O.U.R. Natural Building schools.

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