Permaculture Teacher Training @ Holma folkhögskola (Sweden)

Name: Permaculture Teacher Training @ Sweden
Start: 2025-10-19 13:21:18
End: 2025-11-09 13:21:18

If you have questions about the course, venue or registration, contact us HERE

Event Date:

19/10/2025

09/11/2025

Registration End Date:

Event Location:

Höör, Sweden

Event Type:

In Person

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

Join us for an internationally-certified Permaculture Teacher Training, aimed at Permaculture practitioners and teachers all over Europe. All teaching is in English.

Do you want to take your next steps by becoming a certified Permaculture teacher? And are you passionate about Permaculture and in helping to move the world into a more sustainable and regenerative pattern? Do you want to share your knowledge of Permaculture with others and help create a more sustainable future?

Then this Permaculture teachers training course is your next step! The course is designed for people who already have a PDC-certificate and who want to develop the skills and confidence to teach Permaculture effectively to others.

You will also have the opportunity to learn from experienced facilitators and to connect with other passionate Permaculture practitioners from different countries and settings.

Permaculture is a holistic approach to design and management that can help us to address some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, soil depletion, water scarcity, food insecurity and loss of community.
By teaching Permaculture to others, you can help to create a more sustainable and resilient future. You can take your first steps in making Permaculture into a living.
Who can apply to join?
Permaculture is both a design approach and a global movement. In this course we are looking for a diversity of learning. Anyone with a verifiable PDC-certificate can apply to join. Everyone who applies needs to provide a short motivational letter, describing your Permaculture background, how you use Permaculture today in your life, and what you intend to do with the learnings of this course.
How many people can join? And who gets a spot?
The course can host a maximum of 21 learners. Continuous admission. If more people apply to join, we will accept those who we see are most eager to help carry the Permaculture approach forward in their daily lives. Everyone will get a notice on September 16th at the latest.

Language

The PTT is an internationally recognized training offered in English, so you need to be able to understand and speak English well. Teachers present also speak Swedish, Danish, Spanish, French and Catalan.

Why this training?

Build teaching confidence and overcome fears of public speaking or facilitation
Transform classrooms into dynamic, participatory learning spaces
Gain hands-on, practical teaching experience
Design and deliver impactful courses that create real change in your students’ lives
Join a global community of supportive, like-minded teachers

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.

Where

Holma folkhögskola hosts, and is responsible for the training. The training is a joint collaboration between Holma folkhögskola and the Nordic Permaculture Academy.

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 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.

When

Begins:

We start online on Zoom on October 19th, 2025 with start-up information and preparatory tasks.  Then we meet in person October 27th – November 2nd, 2025 at Holma folkhögskola, in Höör, Sweden. 

Ends:

We end the training on Zoom, November 9th, 2025 with feedback and evaluations.

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!

The PTT Facilitation Team

Cathrine Dolleris

Cathrine Dolleris is a co-facilitator at this training. She’s a Permaculture Diplomat and Assessment Tutor in the British diploma system, since 2014, and she has been teaching numerous PDC’s and teacher trainings since then. Cathrine has done more than 10 years of service in the Danish Permaculture Association as a board member with fundraising and education as her main tasks. Cathrine is also the owner of GeoLiv og LAND center “Kattekærhus” in Orø, Denmark. She is together with Andreas Jonsson one of the co-founders of the Nordic Permaculture Academy.

Andreas Jonsson

Andreas Jonsson is a co-facilitator at this training. Andreas has a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design since 2018, and he has been hosting and teaching many different PDC’s. Andreas has been the elected leader of Holma school for 5 years, and he also facilitates different Permaculture courses at the farming cooperative Rotad Permakultur. He is also an internationally certified trainer and consultant in Sociocracy, working daily in facilitating learning and joining the collaborative community forces of Permaculture and Sociocracy. Andreas is together with Cathrine Dolleris one of the co-founders of the Nordic Permaculture Academy, where they mentor and guide Permaculture learners from all over northern Europe.

Alfred Decker

Alfred Decker is the course head facilitator. Alfred is a permaculture designer, a certified educator with the Permaculture Association of Britain, and one of Europe’s leading permaculture educators. Since his first PDC in 1998 in California, Alfred has been involved with social movements and projects throughout Europe and the Americas. He is the founder of the 12 Principles Permaculture Design consultancy and Permacultura Barcelona; and is a co-founder of the Spanish Permaculture Academy (Academia de Permacultura Íbera). Alfred has a Diploma in Permaculture Education & Community Development from 2013 through the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute (Australia). He is also a member of the Mission Circle of the Nordic Permaculture Academy.

Fees & Application

We have worked hard to keep all costs to a minimum. The fee is 7700 SEK (~700 EUR), and that goes to costs for food and sleeping arrangements at Holma. Everyone who is accepted to the training, pays the same fee.

Please REGISTER HERE by filling in all the questions. We need you to answer them all in order to receive funding that will reduce the price of the training.

Accommodation

Sleeping arrangements are simple but comfortable. Holma will provide mattresses and pillows in different rooms. Some rooms will be shared. Everyone brings their own sleeping bags, bed linen and a towel. Shared showers are available and a sauna.

Food

Vegetarian / vegan food will be provided and all learners will help with some cooking chores. This is done to keep costs low.