Meeting the Landscape - Module 2 of the Online Permaculture Design Course
- Online London United Kingdom (map)
This course is module 2 of the full Online Permaculture Design Course that we offer. It can also be taken in isolation as long as you have completed an Introduction to Permaculture Course (online or in-person).
The course covers many aspects of the essential permaculture skill of surveying our land, environment and the people we work with and for.
A brief history of agriculture and an overview of ecological principles and ecosystem function help us put the permaculture approach into context. This is followed by an outline and exploration of Yeoman’s scales of permanence serving as an approach and checklist to our comprehensive survey and as an entry to a pattern to detail approach to design.
We will learn the basics of creating maps and overlays for our projects which are essential for recording the information that we gather. Finally we explore the client interview and approaches to inclusive community consultations.
Dates and times are: Tuesday October 6th, Thursday October 8th and Thursday October 15th from 6.30 pm to 9 pm London, UK times.
The course is thought by Michel Thill plus a guest teacher.
If you cannot afford any of the price options, please contact us to explain why you would like an additional concessions.
Please click here to see our Cancellation & Refund Policy.
For this upcoming winter retreat ‘Rest & Collapse’, we will be exploring the embodied experience of rest as a natural stage in the continuous cycle of life and how it relates to its close relative, the often experienced collapse or break down. We give space to play with this juxtaposition of rest and collapse and discover the edges that keep us in a constant dance between rest and re-emergence, self care and engagement, our inner world and the outer worlds.
Learn the basics of Permaculture Design on this two-day Introduction to Permaculture and be ready to try it out in your garden, your workplace and your life.
6 weekends between April 27th and October 13th 2024 at Global Generation’s Story Garden in Central London.
The Permaculture Design Course is a 72-hour often life-changing experience, accredited by the UK Permaculture Association. Over the period of 6 weekends we will explore practical and creative solutions for building resilient communities and designing abundant eco-systems.
The Permaculture Design Course (PDC) is a 72-hour internationally recognised training engaging head, heart and hands of participants to discover the principles and techniques of permaculture. We will explore the patterns of our predominant consumerist culture and compare them to the sustainable and regenerative patterns of the natural world. We will not only apply those patterns and principles to the example of ecosystems and the land but also communities and and our own embodied selves.
For this upcoming summer retreat ‘Engage & Connect’, we will be exploring the nature of our engagement and our intrinsic embodied connection to life. Through our actions in the world we create relationships and affirm our ecological belonging. We will cultivate presence to ourselves and meet the land and people from there. The venue in Tuscany gives us the opportunity to bring the embodied principles and practices into engagement with the land and the local people through volunteering activities in the community.
For the autumn retreat ‘Gift & Gratitude’ we explore the generosity of the natural world and our ability to receive the gifts we are offered. Autumn is a time for harvest and integration of what was given to us and what is already available, whether those are physical gifts of the land or lessons we have learnt, friends we have made or projects we have embarked on over the course of the year. We will engage in practices that allow us to stop and appreciate the little and big things that give us life, support, resource and capacity to be more fully here.
The Permaculture Design Course (PDC) is a 72-hour internationally recognised training engaging head, heart and hands of participants to discover the principles and techniques of permaculture. We will explore the patterns of our predominant consumerist culture and compare them to the sustainable and regenerative patterns of the natural world. We will not only apply those patterns and principles to the example of ecosystems and the land but also communities and and our own embodied selves.
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