Permaculture Teacher Training with Focus on Children
Family Friendly (Denmark)
July 16 - 24, 2027
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Event Dates:
16/07/2027
to
24/07/2027
Registration End Date:
16/07/2027
Event Type:
Hybrid
Event Location:
Vestjyllands Folk High School (Denmark)
Effective Teaching for a Changing World
A Course Designed by
Rosemary Morrow.
Organised & Facilitated by Alfred Decker & Lusi Alderslow.
While this course has a specific focus in how to facilitate permaculture education for children, the training is designed for anyone who wants to teach permaculture based on Rosemary’s participatory learning methods.
It is a family-friendly course, so please bring your kids!
Ready to inspire others with permaculture?
The Permaculture Teacher Training with Focus on Children (PTTC) an exciting opportunity for you to learn to teach permaculture creatively to people of all ages. Whether you are intending to teach in communities, in schools, in kindergartens/nurseries, in higher education or simply to your own children. We want you to be equipped with the skills you need to help children and adults learn permaculture in a fun and meaningful way. This intensive training will provide you with an invaluable toolkit to use throughout your life!
Why this training?
The PTTC empowers you to:
- Build teaching confidence and overcome fears of public speaking or facilitation
- Transform classrooms into dynamic, participatory learning spaces
- Gain hands-on experience for teaching with adults and children
- Design and deliver impactful courses that create real change in your students’ lives
- Join a global community of supportive, like-minded teachers
What makes this training unique?
Global: Learn alongside participants from around the world, building international connections. Our previous students have found future teaching collaborators on this training.
Practical and Hands-On: Get real teaching practice in a supportive environment.
Hybrid Skills: Learn how to teach in both virtual and in-person settings.
Supportive Community: Join a network of experienced trainers and fellow learners to exchange ideas and support.
Whether you want to run full PDCs or smaller courses and workshops, this training will help you connect with your audience and teach with confidence and passion.
This course is for...
PDC holders in any of the following fields: teachers of students of all ages, of architecture, landscape design, school/community gardeners, local government community development officers, ecology and other disciplines including geography, regenerative agriculture and agroforestry as well as permaculture design. If you’re looking to do any type of sustainability or permaculture education/communication, this is the course you’ve been waiting for!
- Design a short or a long course
- Develop clear course outcomes and ethics
- Adopt appropriate body behaviour and use nonviolent communication
- Manage the business side of teaching: budgeting, marketing, and course organisation
- Prepare learning resources and use teaching tools effectively for both virtual and in-person environments
- Organise classroom and learning environments
- Work with a broad range of people from different cultures and backgrounds
- Draw on strategies that promote thinking and integrate practical experience
- Deliver clear explanations and concepts
- Explain the structure and function of the Permaculture Design Course
- Build a resilient teaching mindset to inspire confidence in yourself and your students
- Work collaboratively in groups
- Practice teaching in a safe, supportive community of peers
We require all students to have completed a PDC (anywhere in the world) before the course starting date. If you are unable to do this before the training but really want to attend, please contact us.
Focus on Permaculture Education for Children
In addition to the core teacher training content, the PTTC has a specific focus on how to facilitate permaculture education for children.
Co-facilitator Lusi Alderslowe is the co-founder of Permaculture Children, which has in its aim “to empower educators around the world to share permaculture education and design with children. In permaculture education it is important to integrate creativity, practicals, discussions, songs, visual aids, spontaneity and other dynamic teaching methods. This is especially so with children. We want to excite and inspire people into learning without even realising they are learning! This training is for anyone involved in the education of children – school & nursery teachers, forest school leaders, nature kindergarten teachers, parents, grandparents, carers and other educators.”
When
Arrival – July 16, 2027 @ 17h CEST
Departure – July 24 @ 11h CEST
It may be possible to arrive and depart at other times depending on your travel schedule.
Where
Vestjyllands Højskole is a Danish folk high school in the tradition of independent schools offering non-formal adult education. Here, learning goes far beyond the classroom: At Vestjyllands Højskole, students become part of a lively community with open skies and space to explore life.
At Vestjyllands Højskole, sustainability is a living part of everyday life. Our meals are 90–100% organic, and we grow many of our vegetables in the school garden. We produce our own CO₂-neutral energy and integrate eco-friendly practices across all areas of school life.
Community
You will be part of an international community during this training. Previous participants testify to the value of learning and practicing in a supportive group; making global connections and even finding future teaching collaborators! Our community forum is located inside the course platform to make it easy to connect with your colleagues.
By joining the PTTC, you will also become a member of the Permaculture Association of Britain and gain access to their Permaculture Community Hub, which actively supports a worldwide movement.
The PTTC Facilitation Team
Lead Facilitator (In-person)
Alfred Decker
Alfred Decker (he/him) is an award-winning permaculture designer; the Education Coordinator of Permaculture For Refugees; a certified educator with the Permaculture Association of Britain; a leading voice in Social Permaculture; and one of Europe’s innovative permaculture educators. His journey into ecological design began in 1998 when he completed his first Permaculture Design Course in California. Since then, Alfred has been involved with social movements and projects across many borders.
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He is the founder of the 12P Permaculture Design consultancy, Permacultura Barcelona and the Forest Gardens project at Can Masdeu ; is a co-founder of the Spanish Permaculture Academy (Academia de Permacultura Íbera); and was a member of the European Permaculture Teachers Partnership and the Permaculture Council of Europe. Alfred holds a post graduate diploma in sustainable architecture and renewable energy (Centre for Alternative Technology).
After taking a PTT course with Rosemary Morrow in 2011, he undertook a two year mentorship and later co-facilitated six courses as her assistant, ultimately earning a Diploma in Permaculture Education & Community Development in 2013 through the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute (Australia). Committed to furthering the PTT course that Rosemary developed in over four decades of teaching experience around the world, Alfred facilitated over 20 PTT courses as lead facilitator and co-edited all three versions of the PTT manual. Rosemary has asked him to organise the PTT trainings in Europe, and he has developed an online version of the course on the Permaculture Association of Britain’s online educational platform.
In 2024 Alfred joined the Global Council of Permaculture For Refugees. He is passionate about how permaculture can be useful to refugees and migrants, and how permaculture education can be designed for them as learners…and how they in turn can best share their valuable knowledge and experience with others.
In early 2026, Alfred founded the Permaculture Barcelona Hub, where the training will be based.
Lusi Alderslowe
Lusi Alderslowe is a permaculture educator of adults and children: an author of the Children in Permaculture Manual, a Permaculture Design Course teacher, an outdoor maths specialist, co-founder of Children in Permaculture, Children in Permaculture qualified trainer of teachers, a senior tutor for the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design, a Forest School Leader, a Branching Out Leader, a LAND/ScotLAND tutor, a Trainer of Teachers, and LGBTQ+. My business is a freelance social enterprise based on the permaculture ethics of earth care, people care and fair share.
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Children in Permaculture Manual: https://eco-logicbooks.com/products/children-in-permaculture
Taking Maths Outdoors with your Child: https://owlscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/DGOWL-Maths-online-version.pdf
Taking Literacy Outdoors with your Child: https://owlscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/DGOWL-Lit-online-version.pdf
What I do:
- Teach permaculture-related training and courses including Introduction to Permaculture, Introduction to Engaging Children in Permaculture, Permaculture Design Certificates, Children in Permaculture Practitioners Courses, Permaculture Teacher Training and bespoke courses (e.g. family permaculture.
- Facilitate Practical Workshops e.g. build a herb spiral, design your own garden,
- Tutor for the Diploma in Applied Permaculture design, as a senior tutor.
- Coordinate and facilitate events and projects which promote permaculture with adults and/or children, including nature connection.
- Create resources for sharing permaculture and encouraging nature connection.
- Engage children and adults in opportunities to learn from nature including through Forest Schools, Branching Out (nature connection for mental health of adults), outdoor learning (e.g. maths, literacy and/or health and wellbeing).
Guest Facilitators (Online)
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.
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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 led 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.
Starhawk
One of the foremost voices in Earth-based spirituality, Starhawk is an author, activist, and permaculture teacher and designer. Her 13 books include such beloved reads as The Spiral Dance, The Earth Path, and The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk drew from 30 years of living collectively to write The Empowerment Manual, which is the basis for her social permaculture course, Empowering Collaborative Groups.
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Starhawk has been recognized by the Permaculture Institute of North America (PINA) as a leading figure in permaculture and has been awarded dual diplomas for excellence in education and permaculture site design. As a teacher of magical activism and permaculture education, Starhawk’s life work takes her across the globe. She currently lives part-time in San Francisco in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in Cazadero, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens and writes.
Prices & Registration
Included in Your Fees
- Delicious food during eight nights and seven days, starting with an opening dinner and ending with a breakfast
- A teacher training certificate issued by the Permaculture Association of Britain (PAB)
- One-year PAB membership. If you are already a PAB member, you will be discounted the membership fee of €31.
- A pack of digital teaching resources
- Option to buy a printed copy of the PTT Manual at the cost of printing
- Permanent access to the online materials and platform after training, Includes live class recordings, videos, text, and images
- Practical teaching experience
- Live calls with Rosemary Morrow & Starhawk
- A new generation of permaculture teachers and doers for you to join!
This teacher training is certified through the Permaculture Association of Britain
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