Sponsor Holistic Management in Ukraine

Your donation will help turn this Ukrainian research station into a Holistic Management Learning Site.

 We asked Bogdan, "Why is it important for you to take this course?"

Once I learned about holistic management from Allan Savory's book, Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision-making, I understood that this incredibly powerful and effective approach has the potential to make changes for the better where I live in Ukraine. I got inspired and wanted to use it to help both my projects as well as others. However, I understand that in order to start using Holistic management properly I need training. That’s why it is important for me to take the course.

What is your background?

I have various skills and experiences during my life. I studied ecology (Msc) and worked as a blacksmith and trained other people. I learned and practised permaculture design for many years, taught it and translated Bill Mollison’s book, Permaculture: A Designers' Manual, to Ukrainian and Russian. I focused on eco-sanitation and developed a closed loop wastewater treatment system which was successfully installed. For the last four years I have worked as a director of the Ecological Research Station near Kyiv (www.balyky.org) which is basically a scientific hub and experimental and demo plot for various sustainable  approaches.

What will you do when the course is completed that you can't do right now?

I hope to be able to use holistic management planning for organising the performance of our organisation, creating examples of holistic pasture management at our research and demonstration farm. I also hope to be able to teach this approach to others in Ukraine, and consult with farmers in order to spread the adoption of this approach. I wish to found the Ukranian hub for the Savory Network.

We made a video about our ecological research station recently with English subtitles.