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Date(s) - 22/12/2024 - 23/12/2024
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Where the content and teaching of permaculture coincide harmoniously with the ethics
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Permaculture Teacher Training with Focus on Refugees (PTT4R) is an international teachers training course offered in English, certified by the Permaculture Association of Britain, and organised by Permaculture for Refugees and 12P Permaculture Design. The course is available to PDC holders from any country.
The invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the upheaval in the Middle East over the last year, and the hundreds of thousands of refugees currently seeking asylum in the European Union has focused attention on the issue of mass migration. There is now a much greater opportunity to support displaced people by teaching and training refugees to teach and train each other. As Permaculture for Refugees (P4R) explains, “Our aim is to support refugees in transforming the places where they live —be these refugee camps or communities in receiving countries — into productive permaculture-designed communities, and ultimately to equip them for integration into society for the collective benefit of all.” P4R uses the term refugee “interchangeably with asylum seekers, forced migrants, internally displaced persons (IDPs) and stateless persons.”
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 teacher training draws on her decades of permaculture teaching experience. Whether you are already a teacher, or thinking of becoming one, the PTT4R 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 with refugees, the PTT4R 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
This will be the third time we have organised a PTT4R. The previous two editions included students and facilitators from more than two dozen countries around the world. The diversity, cultural richness and sense of solidarity that we all shared was truly inspirational. Click HERE and also HERE to watch videos describing this work.
Where
The training will take place at the Permacultura Llobregat project located at an ecovillage in Catalunya, Spain, that is 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. More info about the site HERE
When
Course Begins: Dinner on the night of Monday, November 4, 2024.
Course Ends: Certificate ceremony on the afternoon of Tuesday, November 12, 2024, followed by an 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 PTT4R Facilitation Team
This will be our third training together as a team!
Lead Facilitators Onsite
Alfred Decker
Habiba Youssef Abdel Aal
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 for the reduction of poverty in rural areas and projects related to agroecology and the empowerment of women in rural areas in North Africa (Morocco and Tunisia) and West Africa (Mauritania and Senegal). She holds a Permaculture Design Certificate and a Permaculture Teachers Training diploma. She is the co-founder of La Bolina, an Andalusia-based association working on land regeneration, capacity and awareness building on regeneration, sustainability. She is an expert in market gardens, short commercialisation channels, and agroecological techniques and strategies.
Yau Fan
Yau did his first PDC in 2017 and later studied with educators such as Lesley Martin, Hugo Oliveira, Mirka Faya Hlavacova, Patricia Pereira, Geoff Lawton, Daniel Halsey, Gérard Ducerf, Olivier Roberfroid, Bernard Claes, Alfred Decker, Samuel K. Cornier, and Dr. Elaine Ingham to name a few.
After doing his first teacher training with Alfred in 2019, Yau has taught and organised several PDCs as lead facilitator, as well as facilitating on other permaculture courses for refugees in Brussels and teacher trainings with a focus on refugees. Yau is now working at “la Maison Verte et Bleue”, an association to protect the Neerpede zone in Brussels through education, soil remediation, and community building. He is also managing a piece of land and experimenting with Ernst Gotch’s Syntropic Agroforestry, and working on his diploma with the Blue Mountains Permaculture Institute.
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. 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.
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. Several years ago, Rosemary decided to focus on teacher training courses in order to create a “multiplier effect” in spreading permaculture more widely. She created the Permaculture Teacher 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 lead 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 among other books.
Starhawk
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. 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. 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. Her website is http://starhawk.org.
Paulinho Muzaliwa Josaphat
Paulinho is a permaculture teacher certified by the Permaculture Education Institute; a Warm Data host certified and accredited by the Bateson International Institute; an Ambassador in SEEDS regenerative financial ecosystem; and founder of Unidos Social Innovation Center a refugee-led organisation that aims to empower refugees through inclusive entrepreneurial skills in order to enable them to create jobs and enhance their livelihoods.
His efforts have earned international recognition, including the Social Impact Award in 2022, the Permaculture Magazine Award in 2023, and the Ockenden International Prizes. Paulinho was also nominated for the Earthshot Prize and in 2024 received the prestigious Gene Dewey Refugee Award by the USA for UNHCR, honouring his exceptional leadership and dedication to helping forcibly displaced people.
Paulinho envisions transforming refugee camps into regenerative communities where refugees have access to clean water, abundant food, and quality education.
Leila Darwish
Leila Darwish (she/her) is a community organiser and disaster response and recovery worker with a deep commitment to supporting communities on the frontlines of climate change and disaster. Leila has worked in emergency management in the U.S. and Canada for various government agencies and disaster non-profits, responding to major storms, floods, hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and the COVID-19 pandemic. She is especially passionate about accessible and inclusive disaster response and recovery, mutual aid, climate resilience, food security, and post-disaster bioremediation and ecological restoration.
In addition to her disaster response and recovery work, Leila has taught bioremediation and oil spill response courses in communities across North America for over a decade. Leila is the author of Earth Repair: A Grassroots Guide to Healing Toxic and Damaged Landscapes (New Society Publishers: print, ebook, audiobook). Leila teaches Bioremediation & Earth Repair through Earth Activist Training.
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.
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 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 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)
Accommodation
You can choose to lodge in shared dormitory bedrooms or in a private bedroom. The cost of the dormitory is included in the price of the course, and a private bedroom costs 17€ per night extra (17€/night @ 9 nights = 153€ extra). If you have a medical need for a private bedroom and can’t afford the extra cost, please contact us.