Update: How have the Educational Structures in Ireland changed in 2012-2014?

The article is written by Monika Frank, and it is based on the interview of Davie Philip, CULTIVATE Ireland, May 2014.
Ireland has no national organisation of PC education and only two diploma holders. The partner of the EPT was CULTIVATE Ireland, a NGO based at an ecovillage and learning centre.

What have we learned or gained together so far?

Session lenght 90 min.
Learning outcomes

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

The Partnership's kick-off meeting was held in August 2012 in Escherode near Kassel in Germany. Helder Valente shares a video of impressions of that first meeting.

Day four was more restful, but the schedule endlessly busy with meetings on the future of the partnership, collaborating with others, and feeding back on the days gone by, interspersed with 'contemplation in motion' (shown right) and witnessing many people hit by a 'zombie virus'. For the body, activities included collecting firewood in the forest, swimming in the natural pool, morning Yoga and of course, the essential celebration. 

Day three was packed with another round of micro-sessions and inputting materials to The Compost ('Collection of Materials about Permaculture in Order to Support Teachers'), a site visit to Ecollavors Seed Saving project, an Open Space and of course, lovely foraged food and meals prepared by a Barcelona collective! The day's micro-teaching sessions included:

Day two is flying by and has been packed with micro-teaching sessions, writing, collating and inputting materials to the website, progress with using VSM (the Viable Systems Model), a lecture on Systems Thinking and more. We're beginning to capture the micro-sessions in text, images and videos, as resources in our Teacher's Manual. The sessions included:

Impressions of the first EPT meeting in Eschenrode, Germany. Photographs courtesy of Cathrine Dolleris.