Examples of an introduction course can be ound in the two entries below:
The Permaculture Educators' Course (Permaculture Teachers' Training) was held at Friland eco-village in Denmark by Andy Goldring.
We will start promptly at 10am on both days, please try to arrive around 9.30 so we have time to settle in before we start. Bring food to share for lunch, magazines, books or other materials of interest, and warm clothes as we will be going for a walk on Saturday.
Saturday
In this article I offer a “junior teacher's” perspective to selecting content and methods for a two day introductory course. I also asked Graham Bell, one of the most experienced permaculture teachers, his take on designing a full Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course.
See a separate article with timetable, core curriculum and Graham Bell's thoughts, here.
Here you can find linked a sample timetable (in PDF) of a 12-day Permaculture Design Course, as delivered by Graham Bell at The Red Shed - Garden College, in Scotland over 6 weekends.
Graham Bell also writes below about his ideas for a successful Permaculture course. He's been teaching permaculture over 25 years.
Tätä ohjelmarunkoa on käytetty viikonloppukursseillamme 2012 alkaen Helsingissä ja Turussa. Ohjelmassa painottuvat osallistavat harjoitukset, luentoja on vain muutama. Säästä riippumatta vedämme aina osan sessioista ulkona.
Joel Rosenberg ja Tanja Korvenmaa
A Winter School is described in the linked file that is run in 12 sessions of 4 hours (excluding travel) spread over 6 weeks. Design exercises in different contexts allow students to hone design skills and learn meta skills. The file is a course outline - a work in progress with some obvious items lacking such as student hand-outs and rubrics, to be updated as the course unfolds. Language: English File: Winter School Format - Design Course
The course aims at introducing the permaculture design concept so that each participant, at the end of the course, has a very good grasp of it and some very solid base to start to deepen their knowledge about permaculture, either by self-study or by attending a PDC.
