Permaculture Teacher Training 2010

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creative services by: 360 Degrees

Hosted By

Seattle Tilth

In Association With

Urban Permaculture Guild

Permaculture Research Institute

Facilitators, Instructors & Constants

Kat Steele

Benjamin Fahrer

Marisha Auerbach

& Special Guests

Course Inspiration

Permaculture is a holistic design system for creating and sustaining regenerative human settlement patterns for healthy living. This Permaculture Teacher's course is a revolutionary new way of teaching solution-based eco-social design concepts by integrating the principles of Permaculture into the teaching of Permaculture. Any teacher or practitioner in any field can apply these techniques and practices. This course will cover every aspect of being an effective educator and promoter of mutually beneficial relationships for a more sustainable and just future.

Modeled after teacher trainings conducted by Christopher Peck and Michael Kramer in Hawaii and Central California, this curriculum has evolved to include influences from senior Permaculture teachers such as Geoff Lawton, David Holmgren and Robina McCurdy to contemporaries in the field. This combination provides invaluable information of teaching and how to frame ecological concepts and ideas to people of all cultures.

Course Description

This Teacher's Training course is a revolutionary new way of teaching solution based eco-social design concepts by applying the principles of Permaculture to the teaching of Permaculture. This course will cover every aspect of being an effective educator, facilitator and promoter of mutually beneficial relationships for a more sustainable and just future. By taking the approach of whole person learning and using teaching combinations from educators from all over the world, this course provides invaluable information of facilitating and how to frame concepts and ideas to people from all walks of life and cultural context. This course also offers the basis of how to administer the core PDC as well as planning and preparing for variations of specialized permaculture focused workshops and practicum. Upon completion course attendees will receive a teaching certificate from the Permaculture Research Institute.

Highlights to Include:

•Teaching the core exercises of the permaculture curriculum - patterning, sector analysis, zonation, site assessment, design, case studies, permactulture ethics and principles.
•Innovative teaching techniques to help you organize and prepare curriculum quickly and effectively - including the art of teaching as a guild
•Diverse learning styles and how to teach various audiences skillfully
•Course planning, cultivating a team, marketing and evaluation based on Permaculture ideas
•Constructive critique of participant presentations
•Comprehensive manual and DVD of Permaculture resources and teaching materials
•Fun!

Permaculture Teacher Training Course
with Kat Steele & Benjamin Fahrer

Nov 12-19, 2010

Seattle, WA

Tuition

$775 for 7-day course, does not include room and board.

Meals and Housing

Meals and housing are not provided. Home stays and carpools are being generously coordinated by Susan Lipsky. To request assistance finding accommodations or to offer your home to students, please contact Susan at susan@lipsky.net. Students will have the option of bringing a brown bag lunch, purchasing meals at nearby restaurants, or may choose to coordinate potluck meals.

Registration

To register contact Carrie Niskanen

phone: 206-633-0451 x101

email: carrieniskanen@seattletilth.org

Download the registration form here and mail it in with your payment. Please see the registration form for more information on our cancellation policy specific to this course.

Testimonials

“Great course! Now I have some huge commitments & tools & inspiration & strength, to life - me - the world. I deepened what I had inside. Thanks!”

- Irene, Mexico City, Mexico

“Outstanding instructors, facilitators and teachers of this profound and complex course. Awesome team! I had one of the best weeks of my life!” - Ayernye, Santa Monica, CA

“The course was excellent! I feel really fortunate to have been here. Thanks to All! Blessings and Abundance!!” - Devin, Cotati, CA

Certification Applicability

Upon completion course attendees will receive a teaching certificate from the Permaculture Research Institute.

Contact

For more information and ro register contact Carrie Niskanen

phone: 206-633-0451 x101

email: carrieniskanen@seattletilth.org

Instructors & Facilitators

Kat Steele

Kat Steele is a permaculture activist, designer, educator and founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, CA. She facilitates workshops on ecological design, sustainability and permaculture as well as publicly speaks about eco-social design, city repair and the power of placemaking. Trained in Ecovillage Design with the Findhorn Foundation of Scotland, Natural Building with Kleiwerks International, and Permaculture Design with the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, she also holds an MA in Creative Arts from San Francisco State University. She presently serves on the board of a Bay Area nonprofit organization devoted to peace, justice and sustainablity, the NorCal Chapter of Architects, Designers, Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR). In 2006 she became one of a 1,000 Climate Project trainees empowered to present a version of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth slide presentation. Kat recently moved to Big Sur, CA to lead sustainability initiatives at the Esalen Institute. She is devoted to localization and community resiliency, believing it to be a key strategy towards sustainability and "thriveability.”

Lead Instructor

Benjamin Fahrer

Benjamin Fahrer is an internationally recognized Permaculture designer, educator, and progressive environmental activist. He has been working with a diversity of frontline organizations and non-profits throughout Northern California teaching and promoting ecological design and responsible land stewardship for the last 10 years. A community organizer and progressive organic farmer, he works intimately with front-line organizations, nonprofits, institutes and communities throughout California ands the Pacific Northwest. Benjamin is a registered teacher with Permaculture Research Institute and is currently helping set up and connect Bio-Regional Educational Centers throughout the western United States.

Lead Instructor

Marisha Auerbach

Marisha Auerbach has been practicing, studying, and teaching permaculture in the Pacific Northwest for the past decade. She is involved with many communities around Cascadia including Lost Valley, Tryon Life Community Farm, and City Repair. As an itinerant permaculture designer, Marisha calls the greater Olympia area home, especially the Wild Thyme Farm, a 150 acre permaculture demonstration farm and FSC certified forest in the northern Willapa Hills. Marisha encourages sustainable futures through sharing knowledge with others on a variety of topics including: permaculture, polyculture gardening, seed saving, flower and gem essences, local economics, community building, ethnobotany, herbalism, edible landscape design, and organic gardening among others. She is enthusiastic about creating perennial forage systems and building local community. Marisha’s interest in local economics and creating useful items using her resources has manifested as several projects: past work on local community marketplaces in Olympia, Queen Bee Flower and Gem Essences, Herb'n Wisdom for permaculture consulting and herbal products, and Growing Greetings which produces plantable greeting cards and other products. Marisha has a small plant nursery which focuses on edible flowers and other gourmet specialty food items. Marisha graduated from the Evergreen State College in 1998 where she focused on ethnobotany, ecological agriculture, and sustainability studies. She continues to interact with students from the Evergreen State College by offering internships.

Guest Instructor

Jenny Pell

Former tree planter, helicopter pilot, carpenter, and yurt builder, Jenny manages many of the Permaculture Now! projects. Based out of Seattle, WA Jenny works in Washington State, Central America, Hawaii, and Europe organizing design courses, recruiting students, managing business details, and fundraising for scholarships, curriculum development, and our nursery projects. Her slideshows and presentations inform, inspire, and motivate people to make changes that help move us towards a sustainable future.

Guest Instructor

Mark Lakeman

Mark Lakeman is a founder and sustainer of numerous world-changing initiatives and organizations, including The City Repair Project and many of it’s inventions including Intersection Repair and the Village Building Convergence, Communitecture Incorporated, Dignity Village, and the new Planet Repair Institute. Each of these entities is an aggressive and collaborative, multi-disciplinary creative culture, working in partnership with numerous others. All of this work engages and inspires place-based communities to creatively transform the social and environmental infrastructure of the public commons and private realms where people live. Often featuring permaculture or natural building techniques, each local initiative builds relational networks and engenders systemic transformation while leaving gorgeous footprints on the path to a better world.

Mark is also the designer of numerous beloved architecture & planning projects in Portland, including The ReBuilding Center of Our United Villages as well as many innovative village-based communities.

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