PDC – Permaculture Design Certificate

Starhawk is a permaculture designer, teacher, and founder of Earth Activist Training, which teaches regenerative design with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing and activism. She is the author of thirteen books on earth based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, The Fifth Sacred Thing and City of Refuge. Together with director Donna Read Cooper, she has worked on five major documentaries, including the Goddess Trilogy for the National Film Board of Canada and Permaculture: The Growing Edge.

Starhawk directs and teaches Earth Activist Training and has been recognized by the Permaculture Institute of North America as a leading figure in the permaculture field and has been awarded PINA’s dual diplomas for excellence in education and permaculture site design.

Brandy Gallagher is a founder and developer of O.U.R. Ecovillage. Her life work has been focused around the development of the ‘Decolonizing of Sustainable Community.’ A designer and educator, she has worked with local and international community builders to create the 25 acres Sustainable Living Demonstration Site and Education Centre.

From ‘Comprehensive Development’ land use re-zoning to incorporating holistic new ownership structures, from governance to building codes, from wastewater to closed-loop systems approval – her commitment has been to ‘Lawful Permaculture’ within the Ecovillage and “re-village” movement.

Charles, a certified permaculture designer, comes to EAT through a love of the wild, faith that healthy communities can solve complex problems, and a belief that working with one’s hands is sacred work.

Over the past two decades he has stewarded many pieces of land throughout the United States. His approach simultaneously promotes both preservation of wild spaces and conservation of the domestic. His deep respect for and relationship with the divine in nature informs all he does, integrating spiritual practices with land management.

Mark is a national leader in the development of sustainable public places. In the last decade he has directed, facilitated, or inspired designs for more than three hundred new community-generated public places in Portland, Oregon alone.

Through his leadership in Communitecture, Inc., and it’s various affiliates such as the The City Repair Project, The Village Building Convergence, and the Planet Repair Institute, he has also been instrumental in the development of dozens of participatory organizations and urban permaculture design projects across the United States and Canada. Mark works with governmental leaders, community organizations, and educational institutions in many diverse communities.

Lux Gypsum is a community organizer, relational healer, and cultural visionary who believes that revolution happens at the level of relationship. With over 9 years of facilitation experience and dozens of trainings under their belt, Lux has cultivated a strong capacity to hold potent group containers for interpersonal skill-building and cultural transformation. Some of Lux’s politicized identities are white (Northern European ancestry), AFAB (Assigned Female at Birth), gender-expansive, and queer. Lux has an ongoing practice of anti-racism work and is committed to uprooting internalized supremacy culture. They are also becoming more deeply trauma-informed through receiving training in Somatic Experiencing, a well known body-based modality for healing trauma. In addition to holding regular community workshops and events, Lux also supports individuals, couples, and groups to embody the world they long for through their work as a Conflict Mediator, Relationship Coach, and Community Consultant. You can follow Lux’s work and offerings on Instagram @healing.rising and by signing up for their newsletter at www.healingrising.com.

Born and raised in Seattle Washington to a French Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jewish mother and Caribbean father, Aliko is a first generation, trans, Blaxk presenting, bilingual Jewish entrepreneur designer, event producer, speaker, coach, mentor and facilitator.

Aliko is the visionary behind several local businesses dedicated to fostering personal and emotional growth among entrepreneurs in the Seattle area and beyond. Through all of his businesses, events, expertise and hobbies, he is able to live out his dedication to carving out spaces for humanity through his work.

Learn more About Aliko’s businesses and work at www.alikoweste.com

Hiking with my Mom/T’siquama was always great conversation, laughter and she would show me how to read nature as it was taught to her. Each walk infused me with teachings of our way of life, history and natural law, this has sustained me through all life’s chapters. Those early teachings brought me eventually to plant medicine.

Through my studies in Herbal Medicine, Alchemy and Permaculture my deepest curiosity is how are we all connected and how can we support each other by bringing balance and coherence for ourselves, land and relations growing healthy roots. Our plant-kin are living teachers and direct indicator to our environment if we attune ourselves, walk gently and listen. In Nuu Chah Nulth teachings we must heal ourselves so we don’t make other’s (myothy) sick around us, applying this to all relations and environments, this is the intersection of my work with the teaching of Tiicmup- The balance point in which we must start everyday.

Over the years of advocating for children in Ministry Care it birthed a podcast project I am honoured to be a co-creator and co-host being released later in 2024. The Podcast serves as a toolkit for First Nation’s families currently navigating displaced loved ones and family members. The Podcast facilitates experts and places leadership internationally with neighbouring communities as First Nation’s take back sovereignty over Child Welfare through Bill-C 92. Links to show will be updated here when the project is released.

During this podcast project it defined my next contribution in bringing our youth to land through revillaging, land based learning and living. As a mother to two young Men I have spent my time prioritizing their connection to nature as my Mom did. Over the years my Sons have become self sufficient in harvesting, fishing and thanks to their father hunting. Last summer as teens they solely stocked our freezer and pantry on their own. It’s this self determination I wish to share as we return to the way we were through tending to the land. When it’s time to unplug my sons and I enjoy family time fishing, surfing, being in the elements with our three dogs or being home with our cat Fluffy cooking up a storm. If I squeeze time on my own I love to explore my passion of Falconry, processing my latest harvest, be in creation, or researching my next project.

I will keep working until we are home on the land of our traditional territory. Let’s do the work for the next generations.

Peace, love and liberation for all.