Applications are now being accepted
for the January 2005 Advanced
Permaculture Training Program as well as a new
year-long, one-Sunday-a-month
Permaculture Design Course.
An overview of the programs is described below and more detailed information
is available by following the links to their web site at www.permacultureinstitute.com.
New semester starts January 15, 2005
This year-long Advanced Permaculture Training offers a new model of ecological education and training that creates multi-disciplinary practitioners skilled in the art and science of regenerative design as well as construction practices.
The training integrates personal experience, practical skills and theory with the art and poetry of how to create living environments that provide for the needs and desires of the human body, mind & spirit.
Topics covered:
• Site Analysis & Planning - Learning How to Listen to the Land
• Permaculture Design
• Watershed & Forest Health
• Multi Disciplinary Sustainable Agriculture & Fertility Management
• Indigenous Land Stewardship
• Wilderness Skills - Tracking - Understanding the Language of the Forest
• Cultural Mentoring
• Construction Skills- Basic Plumbing, Electrical, Irrigation Systems
• Renewable Energy Systems
• Passive Solar Design
• Natural Building & Green Building
• Art in Ecology
• Compassionate Healing
• Herbology, Tinctures, Salves, Soap-making
• Project Management and Consulting
• Process and Methods of Scientific Research
• Facilitation Skills and Group Process Dynamics
• Sustainable Economic Development
• Nutrition
To cover all the topics listed above, students must be enrolled for all 3 trimesters (one year).
The program is based at the beautiful Institute of Noetic Sciences 200-acre campus and retreat center in Petaluma, California (www.noetics.org) and consists of two full days of training per week. Students have the option of residential or non-residential program, and residential students utilize the additional three days per week for self-directed project implementation.
Students will receive personalized instruction including field trips, offsite workshops, theory and hands-on experience. Our mentoring program provides counseling in developing a plan of study for RDI students, including placement in appropriate educational and internship programs worldwide.
College students attending accredited institution can participate in our trainings and receive credit from their institution. Credit is currently being offered through New College of California and Prescott College in Arizona. For more information contact info@permacultureinstitute.com.
For additional details and fee structure visit http://www.permacultureinstitute.com/rdi.html
This year-long program begins with a two-day weekend starting Jan. 22 & 23, 2005 and continues one Sunday each month until Dec. 18, 2005. Classes will be held the fourth Sunday of the month during January–April and on the the third Sunday of the month from May-December.
This workshop will be located at a newly developing 17-acre permaculture farm at the Commonweal Garden in Bolinas California; visit their website at http://www.commonweal.org.
Over the course of the year you will learn how to observe and use the same principles that make ecological systems self-sustaining and apply them to your designs for integrated homes and gardens, energy systems and water supplies, healthy communities, meaningful and fulfilling work, ecological economies and global political movements for change.
The program is designed to allow participants to join the program any month throughout the year by taking a one-day introduction to permaculture offered each month on the Saturday preceding the Sunday class. Classes will take place at a 17-acre farm on the ocean in Bolinas, California that already has a pond, windmill, seasonal stream, springs, ranch house, heritage orchard and rose collection and green house, and is nestled into its own quiet valley.
Early bird discount available if registration and full payment are received by Dec. 15th.
For additional
details and fee structure, visit:
http://www.permacultureinstitute.com/courses.html#4SEASONS.