EAT First - Social Permaculture
Permaculture Design Certificate Course, 2-week intensive residential:
May 3-17, 2008
Warner Springs, Southern CA, USA
at Manzanita Village
Instructors include Starhawk, author of The Fifth Sacred Thing and The Earth Path, Margo Adair and Bill Aal coauthors of Practical Meditation for Busy People, Working Inside Out and
co-directors of Tools for Change, Charles Williams, permaculture teacher and wilderness instructor, and wonderful guest teachers.
In this course with a special focus on social permaculture, participants will learn ways to collaborate and build just and enduring alliances across social divides, as well as skills to build personal, interpersonal and community resilience to sustain themselves through hard times.
This two-week residential intensive is a permaculture design certificate course and also offers a broad-brush overview of the regenerative design principles of permaculture. From inoculating mushrooms and digging swales to building with natural materials and sheet mulching the land, students have ample opportunity to experience these principles firsthand.
Throughout the course, students work in small groups to incorporate what they are learning into real-world permaculture design projects. The course culminates in the presentation of each group’s design project — which earns each student a Permaculture Design Certificate (required for any advanced course of study).
Curriculum includes:
Water harvesting, graywater, bioremediation, natural building, cob, plant guilds, alternative energy, sustainable forestry, plant propagation, soil fertility, compost and mulch, consensus, facilitation, alliance building, alternative economics, direct action, strategy, issues of power, privilege and creative collaboration, Applied Meditation combining work with intention, intuition and mindfulness, energy shifting and ritual creation.
