Permaculture Teacher Training Online
September 23 - October 29 (2025)
Event Date:
23/09/2025
to
29/10/2025
Registration End Date:
Event Type:
Online
Effective Teaching for a Changing World
A Course Designed by Rosemary Morrow
This Permaculture Teacher Training (PTTO) is an international certified training designed by Rosemary Morrow, the globally renowned permaculture teacher. The course is offered online in English, 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 (PTTO) 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.
This international online training was designed by internationally renowned permaculture teacher Rosemary Morrow and is facilitated by Alfred Decker and a fantastic teaching team. It’s brought to you in collaboration with the Permaculture Association of Britain.
Whether you’re already teaching or dreaming of becoming a teacher, the PTTO equips you with the skills, confidence, and tools to inspire others with permaculture—both online and in person.
Why this training?
The PTTO 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: Master teaching 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
This is an intensive certification training, so each participant should be ready to dedicate at least 10 hours a week for the program, which will be a varied blend of online meetings, group work, teaching practice, presentations and self study.
Live sessions:
Tuesdays and Wednesdays at:
16:30–19:30 UK Time (GMT) / 17:30–20:30 Central European Time (CET); North America (Eastern Standard Time): 11:30 –14:30
Dates:
23 + 24 September; 30 September + 1 October ; 7 + 8 October; 14 + 15 October; 21 + 22 October; and 28 + 29 October.
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 PTTO, 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 PTTO Facilitation Team
Lead Facilitator
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.
Moderator & Facilitator
Jennifer McConachie
Jen is a permaculture facilitator and coach based in Norway. She is a certified educator with the Permaculture Association of Britain and holds certificates PDC, Work That Reconnects facilitator, Permaculture Diploma and took the PTT with Alfred in 2022. Her background was in music, until she discovered permaculture. She runs Earth Mentor Me for online and in person programs including Permaculture Design Certificate course (PDC), forest garden design, Work That Reconnects, teacher training and life coaching.
Guest Facilitators
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.
Habiba Youssef
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 at 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, Geoff Lawton, Daniel Halsey, Gerard Ducerf, and Elaine Ingham. Since taking a teacher training with Alfred Decker, he has taught 5 PDCs and other permaculture courses for refugees in Brussels. Yau is in the process of designing a PDC for refugees together with Alfred Decker, Rosemary Morrow 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.
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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.
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 Fee
- 12 x live 3 hour interactive online classes
- A teacher training certificate issued by the Permaculture Association of Britain
- A pack of digital teaching resources
- Course platform for self study including live class recordings, videos, text, and images
- Course community forum
- Weekly facilitation practice in class time
- A live call with Rosemary Morrow
- Access to the course materials after the end of the training
- Membership in the Permaculture Association of Britain
- A new generation of permaculture teachers and doers for you to join!
We offer a sliding scale for this course, 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.
This course includes a discounted one year membership in the Permaculture Association Britain (PAB).
If you are already a PAB member, you will be discounted the membership fee of £27.
Unsure if you are a member? Please log in HERE to check.
£500 Standard Price (£527 for non-PAB members)
This price reflects the real cost of running the course. Choose this price if you cannot pay the Abundance price.
£700 Abundance Price (£727 for non-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!
£300 (£327 for non-PAB members) Resilient Price
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.
PAB Membership is included for the fees for this course!
Payment plan:
You can choose to pay in two installments by paying £200 now and the rest before the course starts.
Bursary (Scholarship): If you are not able to cover this price or are a refugee, please fill in a scholarship application form HERE
This teacher training is certified through the Permaculture Association of Britain
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Frequently Asked Questions
What "tech" is required to participate?
This training is online and you will need stable internet and a computer, tablet or mobile phone with a functioning microphone and camera to be able to participate. The classes will be held on Zoom so you will need to make sure this is working for you before we start. We keep the tech as simple and inclusive as possible!
Is this course suitable if I’m not a native English speaker?
Yes! The participants will come from many different countries, some of which do not have English as a first language (fortunately for that! We love language diversity 🙂 ) .