2010 Teaching Permaculture Creatively
Teaching Permaculture
Creatively
A Professional Permaculture Teacher Training
with
Dave Jacke,
Kay Cafasso, Chris Jackson,
Trent Rhode & Kim Almeida
including a three-day course in
Financial Permaculture!
September 16 - 27, 2010
The Farm, Summertown, TN
Sponsored by Gaia Southeast &
The Financial Permaculture Institute
• You took a permaculture design course.
• You gained some practical experience.
• You want to make a difference.
• You need a right livelihood.
Commit to creating solutions!
Share your ecological design experience and keep learning.
Embody the change you want to see in the world.
Let your dreams
bind your work
to your play . . .
. . . Teach
Permaculture!
Philosophy & Instructors
The world urgently needs permaculture.
Millions of people need ecological design information, ideas, skills, and empowering, paradigm-shifting experiences – whether they know it or not.
Permaculture starts inside each of us . . .
Permaculture builds positive connections in the most effective places and lets the ripples spread. We believe the best ways to propogate permaculture arise when we live permaculture and it lives in us.
. . . And radiates outward when our teaching media and methods embody it.
The design, patterning, and structure of our learning events teaches more strongly than teachers often acknowledge, because “the medium is the message” and “we teach what we are.”
We must therefore ask and answer the question:
How do we embody permaculture as we teach it?
Primary instructor Dave Jacke believes that events make the best teachers. Therefore, skilled educators design effective learning events. He has consciously applied permaculture principles to the 15 PDCs and innumerable workshops he has taught all over the country. Dave, an experienced designer and homesteader, creates lively, holistic, engaging and effective learning experiences and environments.
Our core staff includes teachers Kay Cafasso, Chris Jackson, Trent Rhode and Kim Almeida, all past graduates of this course. We look forward to co-creating a dynamic learning community with you, welcoming you to a thriving network of permaculture teachers, and working with you in the years to come!
Read more about the team on the Instructors page.
Structure & Content
We’ve built this course using permaculture principles and design processes.
We believe its structure teaches permaculture, in addition to its content. Content includes:
• pedagogies, principles, and processes
• assessing and meeting learners’ needs
• designing effective learning environments
• designing functionally-interconnected and
paradigm-shifting learning events.
• crafting and running 1-day workshops
• speaking in public
• group formation and tone setting
• marketing, logistics, budgets, and business
• mentoring and the roles of teachers
• sharing and receiving feedback
• teaching’s role in the pc movement and in our lives.
This course requires significant pre-course prep work. You will teach with us, and you will co-design and co-run up to a 1.5 hour public workshop during the Financial Permaculture Course!
The Financial Permaculture Course, included as part of the Teacher Training (Sept. 24-26), offers in-depth opportunities for learning how to integrate permaculture and financial systems design, with a special focus on building viable teaching businesses.
Costs
• A $25 nonrefundable application fee, applied to course cost if accepted.
• Cost for tuition, meals, lodging, including the 3-day Finanical Permaculture Course: $1,800-$2,100 sliding scale; $1,700 if registered before July 30.
• Full payment is required by September 1, 2010.
• Inquire for partial scholarships.
More About the Course
Contact
Jennifer or Sheila at The Financial Permaculture Institute: info@financialpermaculture.com • 888-878-2434 x 2 • 931.796.1808
Instructors
Dave Jacke has been a student of ecology and design since the 1970s, and has run his own ecological design firm—Dynamics Ecological Design—since 1984 (click here for a PDF of Dave's resume). Dave is an engaging and passionate teacher of ecological design and permaculture, and a meticulous designer. He has consulted on, designed, built, and planted landscapes, homes, farms, and communities in the many parts of the United States, as well as overseas, but mainly in the Northeast. Dave co-authored Edible Forest Gardens, a two-volume set about the ecology and design of home scale food forests in temperate climates. A cofounder of Land Trust at Gap Mountain in Jaffrey, NH, he homesteaded there for a number of years. He holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies from Simon's Rock College (1980) and a M.A. in Landscape Design from the Conway School of Landscape Design (1984).
Kay Cafasso -- Kay Cafasso is a certified permaculture design course instructor, a designer of ecological landscapes, and a natural builder. After documenting ecological design applications in homes and landscapes in arid, temperate and tropical climates worldwide, Kay founded Sowing Solutions, offering educational workshops & certification courses, as well as ecological design & consultation services for homeowners and land stewards. Kay also has many years of experience specializing in earth plasters and natural finishes for straw bale and other natural buildings. Kay practices what she teaches: thoughtful and holistic design of landscapes, agriculture, dwellings, and communities. She holds the following certificates and degrees:
B.S., Environmental Geosciences, Boston College
Permaculture Design Certification, Naropa University
Natural Building and Solar Home Design Certification, Solar Energy International
Permaculture Instruction Certification, Dynamics Ecological Design
Chris Jackson -- Chris Jackson lives in Plainfield, Vermont where he manages Maple Hill Community Farm. He is a founding member of the Winooski Valley Permaculture Collective and has taught Permaculture and related workshops since 2005 for Yestermorrow, University of Vermont, Sterling College and various community groups. He took the Teaching Permaculture Creatively course in 2007 and has been on the staff of the course since 2009.
Kim Almeida, a Permaculture Degree candidate, brings vibrancy and a light-hearted approach to the study of Edible Forest Gardening. Apprentice to “Edible Forest Gardening” author and pioneer Dave Jacke, Kim offers comprehensive workshops on this earth-centered and community-oriented gardening method.
Trent Rhode is a permaculture gardener, designer, teacher, and researcher living in Peterborough, Ontario. He has a background and education in communications and sustainable land use practices, and has been studying ecology and natural farming since 2004.
TPC Course Objectives
• Participants experience and develop the complete suite of skills needed to begin successfully teaching short permaculture workshops and other events on their own.
• Participants leave able to contribute significantly to teaching certified permaculture courses under the mentorship of an experienced permaculture teacher.
• Participants experience taking the seat of the teacher multiple times during the course in a variety of settings, both within the course and in a public venue. We all grasp the essence and significant details of what it means to create effective learning environments and effective learning events.
• Participants come prepared to collaboratively co-create the teacher training course and teach a one day public permaculture workshop (specific requests for how to prepare will be laid out after acceptance into the program).
• Participants collaborate to create a community of learning teachers and teaching learners:
- we cocreate a safe, supportive, fun, healthy, and whole learning environment;
- we support each other to take risks, share ourselves, grow deeply, move through edges and perceived restrictions, explore new ideas, and try new teaching styles and approaches;
- we share and constructively evaluate each others’ work;
- we cooperatively develop shared resources for the larger permaculture teaching community.
• Participants clarify, articulate, and evolve their beliefs about what a teacher is and what is their teaching philosophy. We all experience putting that philosophy into practice consciously. We all have the opportunity to deprogram beliefs that inhibit our effectiveness as teachers and learners.
• We experience all of the above through learning events and experiences that express, embody, and demonstrate the principles of permaculture design in action.
• We engage in co-creating the Financial Permaculture Course (FPC), sharing our knowledge and experience, learning from and with others, and observing and evaluating the FPC as a whole and each part of it individually.
• We have a total blast doing all of the above!
Application
To apply for the permaculture teacher training, please register and pay the $25 application fee (here), then download and fill in the application and email it back to us at info@financialpermaculture.com. We will review your application after you pay the application fee, and then schedule an interview with you to decide if the course aligns with your situation.
Download: Application for Sept. 2010 Teaching Permaculture Creatively
Download for accepted students: Logistics packet
Permaculture Design Courses
We ask that you take a Permaculture Design Course (PDC) before coming to the permaculture teacher training. Here are a few PDCs that we recommend, and you can find many more by searching the web.
Big Bend Ecovillage, California
Nashville, Tennessee
details coming soon...