Permaculture Teacher Training
This event has been postponed until further notice.

About the Course
This Certificate Course is offered by the Cascadia Permaculture Institute and is now certified by the Permaculture Institute of North America.
Advanced Permaculture Courses in Teaching:
Jude has taught this course almost thirty times and it is never the same way twice. As proactive educators, we are constantly adjusting the way a workshop or course is presented… creating innovative experiences that address varied learning styles while moving from theory to practice.
Who is this course for?
- Community activists, designers, homesteaders and anyone who wishes to share the knowledge of systems thinking and integrated self-reliant living strategies
- Professional teachers who wish to expand and fine-tune their Permaculture knowledge
- Permaculture Design Course Graduates
What will you learn?
- The awareness of how adults learn
- To assess your personal assets
- Tools to teach what you know
What you can expect from this course?
- Skill-building with a focus on goals you wish to accomplish
- Enhancing your abilities toward critical thinking
- Asking important questions: What are your intentions and goals as an educator? How teaching serves you and others?
- Understanding how goal setting generates learning outcomes which evolve to content
- Keeping participants engaged through changing the conventional paradigm of teaching
- Community building: this includes transformational learning, the co-creativity model and more teaching strategies
- Creating the awareness of teaching about design and the relevancy of practical design application
Learning Interactions
- Applying documentation through note taking & journaling.
- Building a vocabulary of learning modalities, such as; shifting from passive to active learning, visual, auditory, kinesthetic learning, the eight intelligences, transformational learning, and using resources from researchers who have articulated how people best learn.
- Recognizing your learning styles and how this impacts your ways of teaching.
- Observing how people best learn through their experiences with teaching styles.
- Practicing the Art of Facilitation: From deep listening to timeliness to working with challenges in the educational setting.
What are the course activities?
- Presenting three teaching modules as a way to practice and build self-confidence.
- Offer and receive supportive respectful critiques of these presentations, enhancing the opportunity to Adapt and Advance your skills with timing and delivery.
- Encouraging you to identify your unique personal teaching style(s), what is your ‘shtick’?
- Teach Pc Creatively by ‘edutainment’ (education and entertainment)
- Presenting a final group project to the public: An Introduction to Permaculture: A Workshop on
- Ecological Design (or whatever the class chooses as a workshop title)

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CANCELLATION POLICY
a) Accommodations
- For cancellation with more than 5 days notice, guests will be fully refunded unless if during courses & events and then same as b) below.
- For cancellations with less than 5 days notice, the first night will be charged at 100% and the remaining nights at 50%.
b) Courses, Events and all other Services
- For cancellation with more than 30 days notice, guest will be fully refunded.
- For cancellations with more than 21 days notice, guest will be 50% refunded.
- For cancellations with less than 21 days notice, guest will be charged full amount.
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