Where the content and teaching of permaculture coincide harmoniously with the ethics.

Questions about the training, venue, or registration? info@12pdesign.net

Permaculture Teacher Training with Focus on Children (PTTC) is an international teachers training course offered in English and organised by 12P Permaculture Design. The course is available to PDC holders from any country.

Join us for an intensive training that will provide you with an invaluable toolkit to use in the classroom, as well as life in general. The internationally-renowned teacher Rosemary (Rowe) Morrow’s training draws on her decades of permaculture teaching experience. Whether you are already a teacher, or thinking of becoming one, the PTTC makes teaching a transformative and fun exchange. Classrooms (indoor and outdoor) will never be the same again!

While this course has a specific focus in how to facilitate permaculture education for children, the PTTC is designed for anyone who wants to teach permaculture 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 

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.” 

Where

The training will take place at the Permacultura Llobregat project located at an ecovillage in Catalunya, Spain.

This ecovillage is a community and a “cooperativa integral” – a cooperative developed to cover the housing, work, and food needs of its members. Located in an old textile factory an hour inland from Barcelona, the site is a village, inspired by the garden city movement, originally built for the workers and now being regenerated as a community. The site offers ample event and workshop spaces, 3 ha. of agricultural fields, and the enormous old factory itself. It is located alongside the second largest river in Catalunya, surrounded by forests and fields, and has a bus stop just outside the property that provides fast public transport to the city. The Permacultura Llobregat project will develop permaculture and regenerative agriculture here, and your participation will help us to grow.

When: 12 – 19 April 2025

Training Begins: Dinner on the night of Saturday, April 12, 2025

Training Ends: Certificate ceremony on the afternoon of Saturday, April 19, 2025, followed by optional dinner, party and “No Talent Show”. Participants are welcome (and encouraged!) to stay the night and there will be a breakfast the next morning as well.

The PTTC Facilitation Team

Lead Facilitators Onsite

Alfred Decker

Facilitator

Alfred Decker 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.
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Lusi Alderslowe

Facilitator

A permaculture design teacher, a certified educator with the Permaculture Association, a senior tutor for the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design, a Forest School Leader and an author, Lusi has been studying and teaching permaculture since her first PDC in 2005.
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Guest Facilitators Online

Rosemary Morrow

Facilitator

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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Starhawk

Facilitator

Starhawk (she/her) is the co-founder and executive director of Earth Activist Training. One of the foremost voices in Earth-based spirituality, Starhawk is an author, activist, and permaculture teacher and designer.
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This course is for…

PDC holders in any of the following fields: teachers and students 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!

You will learn how to:

• Design a short or a long course
• Develop clear course outcomes and ethics
• Adopt appropriate body behaviour and use nonviolent communication
• Prepare learning resources and use teaching aids effectively
• 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
• Give engaging digital presentations
• Debrief, appraise, and apply other teaching techniques
• Work collaboratively in groups
• Practice teaching in a safe, supportive community of peers

We require all students to have completed a Permaculture Design Course anywhere in the world before the course starting date.

Fees

We normally offer a sliding scale for this course, and ask participants to offer what they can pay. The scale is between €800-€1400 for this professional, certified training. Those who can afford to pay more on the higher end of the scale will help those who can only pay less. The sliding scale recognises the differences in economic reality depending on what country a participant comes from, as well as their individual circumstances, so this is a practical way that people with more resources can act in solidarity. We don’t offer reduced-fee work exchange options because this is an intense course, and we want every participant to be able to get the most out of it and not have to sacrifice learning because they can’t pay a certain amount.

If you want to propose a different price based on your economic situation, please share with us what you want to contribute and why you need support by applying HERE.

Your fees include:

• Three healthy meals a day plus snacks, tea, and coffee (all of which are mostly organic and local whenever possible) 
• A teacher training certificate issued by the Permaculture Association of Britain
• A pack of digital teaching resources
• A new generation of permaculture teachers and doers for you to join!
• Participants who subscribe to Permaculture Magazine receive a 30% discount on Permanent Publications books and free postage and packing for the UK 
• Option to buy a printed copy of Rosemary’s PTT Manual at the cost of printing (free download here)

Your fees DO NOT include:

The food and accommodation price for children under 14 is 180€.
Another parent or carer coming to do childcare. They are welcome, and we offer them a 30% discount on the food and accommodation, which comes to €252.

Accommodation

You can choose to lodge in shared dormitory bedrooms or in a private bedroom. The cost of 8 nights in the dormitory is included in the price of the course, and a private bedroom costs 20€ extra per night (20€/night @ 8 nights = 160€ extra). If you have a medical need for a private bedroom and can’t afford the extra cost, please contact us. 

Refund Policy

The deposit is non-returnable. The rest of the course fee is returnable up to two weeks in advance of the start date. After March 29, 2025 the full course fee is non-returnable. Course fees must be paid in full by March 29th. If this is not possible, please contact course organisers to discuss.

Hope to see you during the Easter vacation of 2025!