Permaculture Design Course – Postponed

Hi and thanks for your interest in advanced permaculture design.  Due to a number of factors, this November 2016 course has been postponed until 2017.  If you would like to be informed of the new dates, please register for our newsletter or check back in 2017. Thank you, Catherine

What you will learn

• A compelling approach to understanding the essential ingredients of sound design process.
• How to use the holistic decision making framework to help your clients tell you what they really want.
• Tuning into a site and recording the essentials needed for a sound design.
• Including clients inside the whole process so there is no hand-over at the end.
• How to literally work from patterns to details in an organic unfolding process.
  The idea of a pattern as a tension-reducing geometry and how this understanding massively increases the functionality of your designs.
• Implementing the design – how to manage or refer this effectively, for a great result.
• Permaculture Business – structures and management techniques that work for everyone (yes – including What to charge, and how to charge it.)
• Students can bring examples of their own permaculture design work for feedback and discussion.

This mentoring experience is designed for people who’ve already had basic permaculture exposure (PDCertificate).  

It will unfold in a relaxed, rural, small group setting with Dan Palmer, an experienced professional designer who is also a terrific human being and extraordinary teacher.

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Your teacher – Dan Palmer

Dan Palmer is founder of Making Permaculture Stronger, founder of the global Permablitz movement, director of Very Edible Gardens, and a house-bus living husband of one and father of two.

He has a BA and Masters Degree in Social Science, a PhD in Systems Thinking, and has been a full-time professional permaculture designer for over ten years.

His teachers and mentors include permaculture founders Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, as well as Darren Doherty and Rosemary Morrow, the last of whom he spent seven months teaching and implementing permaculture in Ethiopia and Uganda.

This workshop is for people who want to:

• Feel confident about doing permaculture design.
• Improve the depth and soundness of their designing.
• Design at a higher or professional level.
• Be able to easily answer the questions: “Is this a good client for me to design for?” “What are the most important things to address and in what order?” “How do I balance what the client wants, the land wants and I as the designer think is best?”
• Become aware of and avoid common traps, pitfalls, gaps and limitations with permaculture design as it is usually communicated.
• Enter the world of the amazing design paradigm of Christopher Alexander (as interpreted and adapted by Dan). Warning – there may be no turning back.

Dates

TBA 2017

Location

Tauranga, venue TBA

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Schedule, two options:

1.5 Days

Friday 25th 7-9pm, Saturday the 26th 9am-5pm followed by optional talk after dinner till bed time. $155

2.5 Days

Same as above including all day Sunday. (Friday 7 – 9pm- Saturday 9-5 plus evening talk and Sunday 27th 9am-4pm.) $295

Friday night The group will get introduced and collaboratively articulate what is wanted from the weekend.  Dan can teach a wide variety of design material and is happy to tweak the weekend to suit attendees.

Saturday It’s a full 8 hours of discussion, coaching, role play, engaging exercises indoors and out, designing solo or in small groups, punctuated with fabulous food, and connecting with other interesting people in your NZ permaculture community.

Sunday For those who can attend the entire weekend, we’ll spend the majority of the day at a nearby property where Dan is halfway through a professional design.  He’ll walk us through process you were introduced to on Saturday, then you’ll meet the clients, walk the land, see his drawings, discuss about why this choice, why that…..Real people, real land, real mentoring.

Numbers

We have spots for 10- 18 people who already hold a permaculture design certificate.

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Optional catering for this event.  Dan’s wife Amanda will head up the catering team offering organic food, fresh out of the garden and made with love.  Vegetarian and meat options will be available.  The weekend will be intensive so if choosing the catered option works for you, we suggest it.  You will still need to organise your own breakfast.  People with special diets or very tight budgets may prefer to self-cater their meals.

Investment

1.5 Day option: $155.
Optional catered meals: $50.

$50 covers one lunch (Sat), three teas ( Friday night thru Saturday 5pm) and one dinner with dessert (Saturday).

2.5 Day option:$295.
Optional catered meals: $65.

$65 covers two lunches (Sat and Sun), five teas (Friday night – Sunday 4pm) and one dinner with dessert (Saturday).

If you would like to attend but money is an issue, please get in touch and we’ll try to work something out.

Catherine 027 240 1305.

Accomodations

Motel and camping suggestions TBA.

We happy to put you in contact with a local participant for a place to stay and possible carpooling.

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Here’s what past participants had to say:

“Dan is a wonderful educator: amazingly honest, supremely generous and intensely knowledgeable. The course gave me a fantastic understanding of how to be a professional designer. We covered the practicalities of each part of the design process really well. I can more clearly visualise myself as a designer now, and it was such a blurry vision before.”

“The workshop was exactly what I needed to get myself over some humps I had been stuck behind, both in my design process as well as in my life more generally. I felt afterwards that I knew how to find my next steps forward, which was a major breakthrough!”

“A fantastic and motivating workshop which considers all aspects of professional permaculture design. Dan’s teaching style is fluid, fast (when it needs to be), and inclusive. Highly recommended for budding designers.”