Courses and Events
Design Your Natural Home
Two days from November 16 to 17, 2019
Designing your home is one of the most challenging and important steps you’ll ever take. With this course you’ll immerse yourself into OUR inspiring setting for 2 information packed days. This course will give you confidence to start your process.
Ready to start your natural home design? Join master natural builder, Elke Cole, for this 2-day intensive course to help you understand options, make choices, and start sketching!
Systems Thinking with Indigenous Lens
November 23rd, 2019 from 1:30pm to 5:30pm
We live in an increasingly complex world which requires solutions that tackle root causes of issues, not just their symptoms. Systems thinking is a tool for sense-making and working with complexity in various contexts that echoes the way of knowing familiar to many Indigenous cultures around the world.
This workshop merges Western and Indigenous ways of seeing and sense-making while exploring theories and concepts that are applicable across a wide array of areas. It will benefit anyone curious or working in the domain of social change and innovation, as well as community development, social planning, sustainability, food security, evaluation, advocacy, movement-building, education, public service and in many others.
Permaculture Teacher Training
March 14-21, 2020
Empower yourself to advocate for change through whole systems teaching and design. In this dynamic and interactive course, you will learn significant teaching techniques to communicate and apply Permaculture (Pc) principles and strategies to a wide variety of audiences and educational settings
This is an incredible opportunity to study with a master teacher, on how to teach permaculture. To be eligible to register for the course you will have taken the Permaculture Design Certificate Course, or have the instructor’s approval.
2020 Permaculture Design Certification & Earth Activist Training with Starhawk
June 26 to July 13, 2020
The Permaculture Design Course is an information packed 72-hour intensive course combining class theory with practical hands-on learning. Completion of the course earns participants a Permaculture Design Certificate – the foundation for further permaculture work and study and a prerequisite for the Diploma in Permaculture Design, offered through The Permaculture Institute in Australia. Participants will learn Permaculture design principles & techniques. The course includes lectures, discussions, hands-on, slideshows, field trips and design projects. We will examine the underlying assumptions of the current culture of consumerism and economic globalization and encourage exploration of ways to contribute to the emergence of a culture of sustainability, compassion and equity. The Permaculture Design Certificate course covers a broad range of subjects to provide a holistic overview of Permaculture systems and sustainable living.
2020 Little Permie Kids Camp
June 26 to July 13, 2020
OUR Little Permie Kids Camp – A Permaculture Camp for Kids! This camp is an educational immersion program for kids that runs alongside our Permaculture Design Certificate and Earth Activist Training. Jump in with our world renown permaculture teachers including Starhawk and Charles Williams, UBC teacher candidates on their practicum and a range of guest teachers through this program crossover catered especially for kids who want to learn permaculture amongst some of the best in the field.
This permaculture camp is an opportunity for even the youngest permaculturalists to join in on OUR famous adult courses.
Kids, join their adults and stay overnight at OUR village and discover the possibilities of what living and learning in the community can offer children, and how they can use these principles to live in harmony with the world they will inherit.
Ecovillage Design Education Program
July 17 to August 2, 2020
Learn permaculture from the experts by beginning with our Permaculture Design Certificate and how you can actually live and work in an ecovillage by being given leadership projects in our village after your course, applying your skills in a real life permaculture educational demonstration site.
OUR ECOVILLAGE’s Ecovillage and Ecological Design” (EDE) joins with the Global Ecovillage Network to also teach the “Training of Trainers” and “Sustainable Development Goals” as part of the United Nations priorities for sustainability. Join us to deepen our community frameworks to create healthier systems which foster models of resilience and regeneration for processes/people/places for living into a shared collective future!
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