Permaculture Teacher Training Online
October 25 – November 29 (2023)
Effective Teaching for a Changing World
A Course Designed by Rosemary Morrow
Welcome to this first collaboration between Rosemary Morrow, Alfred Decker and their fantastic teaching collective, and the Permaculture Association of Britain – come join us on an accessible and inspiring online teacher training!
The Permaculture Teacher Training (PTT) is an international training offered in English and designed by the internationally-renowned teacher Rosemary Morrow, in which the content and teaching of permaculture coincide harmoniously with the ethics. PTTs are organised by Rosemary’s Permaculture Teacher Training Collective, of which the lead trainer for this online course, Alfred Decker, is a collective member. The course is available to PDC holders from any country.
Schedule: Participants should set aside at least 10 hours a week for the program, which will be a varied blend of online meetings, group work, presentations and self study. There will be two fixed weekly teacher led sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 16:30 – 19:30 (UK time / GMT+1).
This intensive training will provide you with an invaluable toolkit to use in the classroom, as well as life in general. The PTT draws on Rosemary’s four decades of permaculture teaching experience. Whether you are already a teacher, or thinking of becoming one, the PTT makes teaching a transformative and fun exchange. Classrooms (indoor and outdoor) will never be the same again!
The PTT is designed for those who want to teach based on Rosemary’s participatory learning methods. The course will help participants to:
– Change the way they think about education
– Move towards a permaculture teaching career
– Empower others with life-changing skills
– Learn to pass on knowledge of permaculture theory and practice in ways that creates real change in their students and activates entire communities
– Make connections with an international community of permaculture teachers
– Understand other critical aspects of permaculture courses such as budgeting, certificates, promotion and marketing, working with host organisations, and more
As a student, you’ll get a few great benefits from being here:
- Access exclusive content. We’ve designed the PTT to inspire, instruct, and engage.
- Meet new people. Your fellow students are as motivated as you are to master what we’re exploring here in the PTT
- Get results. As you dive into the course content and meet the community here in the PTT, you’re on a path of mastery. While it’s not necessarily easy, the transformation made by the students is what counts!
Hear what Rosemary Morrow has to say about the course by clicking on the photo here!
The PTT Facilitation Team
Lead Facilitator
Alfred Decker
Moderator & Facilitator
Jennifer McConachie
Jennifer is a permaculture facilitator based in Norway. She took the PDC in 2015 and holds the Permaculture Teacher Training and Work That Reconnects facilitator certificates. Her background was in music, until she discovered permaculture. She has initiated countless community projects and worked with permaculture design in organizations, politics and for inner landscapes. She founded permaculture plattform Earth Mentor Me for online and in person programs in forest garden design, Permaculture Design Certificate course, Work That Reconnects and spiritual activism.
Guest Facilitators
Habiba Youssef Abdel Aal
Habiba holds a degree in Economics and Sustainable Development, and has worked in international development focusing on the regenerative and sustainable use of natural resources for income generating activities aimed for the reduction of poverty in rural areas. She is the co-founder of La Bolina, an Andalusia-based association working on land regeneration, capacity and awareness building and socio-economical integration of migrants and refugees. Habiba is an expert in agroecology market gardens.
Yau Fan
Yau is a permaculture designer and facilitator. He did his first PDC in 2017 and afterwards took courses with Lesley Martin, Hugo Oliveira, Mirka Faya Hlavacova, Patricia Pereira, Helder Valente, Geoff Lawton, Daniel Halsey, Gerard Ducerf, and Elaine Ingham. Since taking a teacher training with Alfred Decker, he has taught 2 PDC and other permaculture courses for refugees in Brussels. Yau is in the process of designing a PDC for refugees together with Alfred Decker, Rosemary Marrow and the Permaculture for Refugees working group.
Sonita Mbah
Sonita Mbah is a passionate food grower, facilitator and Applied Permaculture Designer – Certified by German Permakultur Akademie. She has led Permaculture courses in Cameroon, Germany and Kenya. For over 10 years, she was the Administrator of Better World Cameroon and co-initiator of Bafut Ecovillage, an off-grid learning center North West of Cameroon. As Executive Secretary of the Global Ecovillage Network Africa, she brings regenerative community and social enterprise development to several African communities. Sonita received the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award by the Women and Gender Constituency for empowering women on the earthen cook stove technology and the One World Award for her work with the Global Ecovillage Network.
Rosemary Morrow
Rosemary is known and loved worldwide as a permaculture teacher, practitioner, and activist. She has travelled the globe for four decades, often in countries shattered by war and disasters, sharing her passion for permaculture and social justice. Her belief is that access to useful knowledge is a basic human right.
Several years ago, Rosemary decided to focus on teacher training courses in order to have a “multiplier effect” believing that the bottleneck keeping permaculture from growing more rapidly is not a shortage of curriculum and experience, but rather a shortage of competent permaculture teachers. So she created this training to give people the skills and confidence needed to take the big step from being a practitioner to becoming a teacher.
Her pragmatic and effective approach working with and being lead by local people has created community-scale permaculture projects and outcomes across a broad range of environments from drylands in Ethiopia, to the wet tropics of Vietnam. The knowledge and experience she brings to creating abundance, food security and successful sustainable farming models is unparalleled in permaculture education today. She is the author of the Earth Restorer’s Guide to Permaculture, the Earth User’s Guide to Teaching Permaculture, The Family Seedsaving Book, and A Good Home Forever.
Course Fees and Registration Links
Members of the Permaculture Association of Britain:
Non-Members of the Permaculture Association of Britain:
Resilient price of £260 + discounted PAB membership of £25 = £285
Abundance price of £300 + discounted PAB membership of £24 = £324
To apply for a bursary place, send a message to courses@12pdesign.net