Teacher's Manual

Playback theatre (PT) is a tool to share personal stories that are performed by PT actors. Audience and stage are at the same level and the link between them is the conductor/facilitator who creates a safe/welcoming atmosphere and invites people to share their stories. Main goal of PT is building community but is can be used also with other aims (therapeutical, problem solving, arising conciousness about a particular issue and so forth).

The sum total of surplus energy produced by, stored, conserved, reused or converted by  the design. Energy is in surplus once the system itself has available all its needs for growth, reproduction & maintenance (and thus the extra is available for export, use or trade).

by Andy Goldring

In this exercise, which can be used in a PDC, students try to identify and evaluate their involvement in and impact on food cycles. After evaluating the impacts, students are asked to implement an action plan to reduce the food consumption and sourcing from sustainable sources. The full description of the exercise can be dowloaded here.. 

by Aranya

The following pattern is a guide to what you might cover during your design. Either follow this through as described, or use it as a basis for your own ideas.

by Aranya

The ideal that we always aim towards in permaculture is the concept of ‘harvesting as maintenance’. In reality, if we utilise low-maintenance systems to create a design that requires less energy over time to maintain, while providing increasing yields, we’ve done pretty well.

by Aranya

So now you have created your map, you need to provide your client with an implementation plan. There are several factors that can affect the recommendations you make, including costs, so lets look at them one at a time.

by Aranya

This is the stage where we finally put all our ideas down on paper for then client. No design is ever going to be perfect, so don’t be afraid to make some decisions – you’ll always learn from them later, even if they don’t work out as well as you’d hoped.

Pedagogy |noun

The method and practice of teaching.

The science and art of education. Its aims range from the full development of the human being to skills acquisition.

By the end of the session the students will be able to:

• Get familiarized with permaculture principles
• Find permaculture principles everywhere
• Give examples of how permaculture principles can be applied in any design

Duration: 30 min 

Once the group is built, you can invite them to some relaxing activity such as massage. 

This one includes some dancing also, so you will need some music and a comfortable place where the students can lie down.