Financial Permaculture Institute

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

• Instructors

• Course Objectives

• Application

Contact

Jennifer or Sheila at The Financial Permaculture Institute: info@financialpermaculture.com • 888-878-2434 x 2 • 931.796.1808