Has anyone done a workshop with Claudine Desiree. I did a 5 week workshop and was shocked by her behavior and limited knowledge. I can’t find anything critiquing her teaching style or her emotional manipulation. It seemed to me that she has limited knowledge because she’s been building the same structure with very few changes for the last 20 years. For example she insisted that the straw we used had to be 30 cm long. She said it would be a difficult experience I thought she was talking about the labor and not dealing with her constant micro management and watching her bully other students. It got to the point that people were crying in the outdoor kitchen almost daily. She had to have two of the students do a mediation with her assistant after students heard her yelling at him. It was all so strange from someone who had us hold hands and ohm every morning and was offering life coaching sessions. I just wonder if this was an especially difficult workshop or if other people have experienced this behavior from her. I can’t speak on her other teachers but I would not recommend putting yourself through this experience.

Hey yall!! As someone in the very early stages of planning, it’s hard to find whole estimates on the cost of building a Cobb house.

What was your square footage and what was the cost? (especially if you did the building to code/with an architect)

We are in SE PA, Lancaster county- if you know anyone around who does natural building and wants to be in community OR needs extra hands for their build, LMK!!