Advanced Permaculture Principles & Planning Tools

Targeted at PDC holders looking to deepen their understanding of permaculture and improve their conceptual skills and tool kit for design and action.  Places are limited to 30 to ensure time for group work and presentations

Background information and guidelines

This four day course has a long linage based on material David has been teaching on PDC’s for many years and more recently in Advanced 2,3 and 4 day courses run in Europe and North America (2005) and NZ and Latin America (2007) . After nearly 20 of these courses overseas, the first Australian one was at Apollo Bay in October 2007 organised by Fern Rainbow. The course is designed to deepen understanding of permaculture by practitioners, designers, activists and teachers.

Some of the leading permaculture teachers and activists overseas have been organisers and participants in these courses leading to a revitalisation and deepening of existing permaculture activism. Rob Hopkins, the activist behind the Transition Towns process in the UK is a prominent example. Several experienced permaculture teachers who have been personally inspired by the book have found this course gives them the confidence to integrate the material into their own teaching of permaculture. While a PDC and prior reading of  Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability are highly desirable for participants to successfully gain from and contribute to the course, in individual cases, exceptions could be made where the participant has either;

1.  a PDC and has read the essence of permaculture (downloadable from www.holmgren.com.au Writings page) or

2.  a solid professional and personal background in sustainability and has attended the Future Scenarios workshop or

3.  a solid professional and personal background in sustainability and has read Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability.

The core of these courses is the presentation and workshoping in groups the format of design principles from Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability. Additional presentations and group work focus on Reading Landscape, Landscape Mapping, Energy Descent Scenarios and Community Mapping. A detailed program will be sent out to booked participants

Cost

$480, $400 for limited number of concession places with preference to local participants. Deposit with booking $100. Includes meals but not accommodation

Accomodation options include basic home stay, share house, youth hostel or local guest houses.

Venue

Hepburn Kindergarten within walking distance of Melliodora permaculture demonstration site, course accomodation, shops  and Mineral Springs Reserve.

Enquires and bookings

Email Su Dennett or Maureen Corbett

Or phone on 03 53483636

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