Build a Cob Community Roundhouse in Naivasha, Kenya in February/March 2025!

I am so excited that CruzinCobGlobal will be back on the vibrant and diverse continent of Africa after an 8-year hiatus. We led several multicultural Cob workshops in Senegal and Morocco between 2015 & 2016, building bungalows and ovens, and half a dozen full-builds between 2016 and 2022 in Cabo Verde, the African islands off the coast of Senegal. Now we have a long-awaited opportunity to be hosted in the East African Rift Valley of Naivasha, Kenya, by local community leader and change agent Nyakio Kaniu-Lake. Nyakio and her team of volunteers at Agatha Amani House Farm are all women sheltered with their children from domestic violent households, who hail mostly from rural and inner city areas. They stay for a year and learn life and personal skills while living in a powerful communal therapeutic setting with trained facilitators. We are wanting to create a workshop consisting of students coming from outside of Kenya, from all over Kenya, and of course from the immediate local community. We will be creating a GoFundMe fundraiser to support low-income and no-income highly motivated Kenyan applicants to attend with an appropriately-reduced tuition, and welcome all donations by students, organizations and other funding sources to make this happen. The gifts received by students of our transformational workshops are long-term and life-changing on all levels: personal, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. They open Hearts and Souls to believe in the reality of living an abundant and successful life lived true to one’s personal calling.

THE PROJECT

We will be building a 14m2/150ft2 round Cob Community Sacred Space for the residents and mentors of the Agatha Amani House Farm to meet as a community for Council Circles, Healing Work, classes, trainings, meditation, ceremonies and other personal activities . The reciprocal roof we build in all of our workshops symbolizes an interdependent community in which all are equal at their essence.  It is the strongest roof there is due to its interlocking spiral structure, which reflects the individuals sitting together below and the strength of their interconnection. It represents the horizontal social structure favored in indigenous and traditional societies.

Students in this Advanced Cobber Certification training will, as always, learn all the steps to building a complete Cob Building from scratch in the following order:

Week 1: digging the trench and building a stone foundation and building the first floor layers

Weeks 2 & 3:  building a circular monolithic cob wall with all its detailed insertions with sculpting

Week 4:  plastering the inside and outside of the wall & building the primary rafter structure

Week 5:  completing the wood roof structure, green roof, the top of the wall & the 2nd floor coat

 

Pescadero, California workshop July/August 2024

 

We especially invite non-White and multiracial students to come learn the art and technique of cob building with CCG in Kenya, in the Motherland of Humanity.  We want a workshop that feels comfortable for non-white students, and in which there is a healthy balance of races and cultures. CCG has taught in many countries of the world and our mission is to create access to everyone interested, especially the local people so we can create international cob building families.  We aim to create intercultural and interhuman bonding experiences through our Cob building workshops to heal the world one Cobber and one Cob house at a time.  So please listen to your Soul Calling and the excitement of your Heart when thinking of joining us in Kenya or anywhere else we are teaching, and come and embark on a life-changing adventure in 2025. And be part of creating a New World…

For more information and to register, please visit the website:

Kenya Complete Cob Roundhouse for Agatha Amani House Farm (Naivasha)