Financial Permaculture Institute

• 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!