Permaculture Teacher Training @ Permaculture Barcelona Hub
July 11 - 16, 2026
Event Date:
11/07/2026
to
16/07/2026
Registration End Date:
11/07/2026
Effective Teaching for a Changing World
A Course Designed by
Rosemary Morrow.
Organised & Facilitated by Alfred Decker.
This Permaculture Teacher Training is an international certified training designed by Rosemary Morrow, the globally renowned permaculture teacher. The course is offered in English in a hybrid format (five nights and four days in person, two online sessions), led by Alfred Decker and certified by the Permaculture Association of Britain.
Ready to inspire others with permaculture?
Are you ready to share your passion for permaculture but feel unsure how to teach it effectively?
The Permaculture Teacher Training Online (PTT) is here to help you confidently step into the role of a skilled, impactful teacher—online or in person.
If you hold a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) and are passionate about sharing permaculture knowledge, this course is your gateway to becoming a confident, skilled, and inspiring teacher.
Whether you’re already teaching or dreaming of becoming a teacher, the PTT equips you with the skills, confidence, and tools to inspire others with permaculture—both online and in person.
Why this training?
The PTT 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 online and in person
- 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 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
- 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
- Give engaging digital presentations
- 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.
With Rosemary Morrow’s four decades of teaching expertise, this course offers timeless wisdom and practical tools for teaching in today’s world.
When
Usually the in-person course is offered over seven – eight days. However, more and more people are asking for a hybrid format, so that is what Alfred created: five nights and four days in-person at his Permaculture Barcelona Hub, two online sessions (one before and one after).
In-person:
Arrival – July 11 @ 17h CEST
Departure – July 16 @ 11h CEST
Online:
Session 1 – July 1, 17:30h – 20:30h CEST
Session 2 – July 22, 17:30h – 20:30h CEST
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 PTT, 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 PTT 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.
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 five nights and four days in Barcelona, starting with an opening dinner and ending with a breakfast celebration
- Two 3 hour online sessions
- 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
- Course platform for self study including live class recordings, videos, text, and images
- Practical teaching experience
- Live calls with Rosemary Morrow & Starhawk
- Permanent access to the online materials after the end of the training
- A new generation of permaculture teachers and doers for you to join!
We offer a sliding scale for the PTT, and ask participants to offer what they can pay 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.
Choose the option that best fits your circumstances:
€601 Standard Price (€570 for PAB members)
This price reflects the real cost of running the course. Choose this price if you cannot pay the Abundance price.
€751 Abundance Price (€720 for PAB members)
Please choose this price if you are able to afford it. By doing so you are supporting opportunities for low income students and refugees to participate in the course. Thank you!
€451 Resilient Price (€420 for PAB members)
You are welcome to choose this price if you have a low income or are unemployed, receive public assistance, do not have access to funds, etc.
If you are able to offer more for this quality program, please go back and choose one of the other prices.
Note: Accommodation and local public transport costs are separate. After registration, we can advise you on local accommodation options. Expect to pay at least €46/night for a bed in a shared room in central Barcelona in summertime.
Payment plan
You can choose to pay in two installments by paying a €200 deposit now and pay the rest in cash upon arrival to the training.
Scholarships
We also have some pay-what-you-can scholarships for members of marginalised communities and people of color working in environmental and social justice movements. That is part of our way of supporting reparations and of bringing in more diversity to our permaculture movement. If you are a member of a marginalised community, BIPOC or a refugee/migrant and interested in one of these scholarships, please fill in a scholarship application form HERE.
Your participation directly supports the creation and growth of the Barcelona Permaculture Hub — a permanent space for courses, skill-sharing, networking, and regenerative design in a vibrant part of Barcelona.
Note about food: while we will try to cater to all diets, the Permaculture Barcelona Hub welcomes ethical omnivores and vegetarians, so the meals we share may not be appropriate for strict vegans.
Note about transport: we encourage participants to arrive to Barcelona by public transport whenever possible. There are fast trains from London, Paris and Berlin to Barcelona, as well as buses from anywhere in Europe. If it is not possible to arrive by public transport, we will encourage you to make a donation to a local permaculture-influenced regenerative tree planting project.
This teacher training is certified through the Permaculture Association of Britain
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