Options for motivating talks, a few hours in length, on various themes such as:

• Introduction to Permaculture;

• Permacultivate your business, money is a misunderstood energy!; 

• Urban Permaculture, zero grass, and transition towns;

• Living in community; Ecovillages and intentional communities;

• Human Permaculture, the potential of the group, creativity that emerges from the right brain;

• Zone 00 - Permaculture begins with oneself;
• Optional: any subject that deals with the understanding of permaculture and its application as a whole.

For the complete list of talks, click here.

 

From one day to several days on a variety of subjects, always beginning with the fundamentals of permaculture.

We can combine an introduction to permaculture with practical work on site. For example, starting a self-fertilizing garden, a forest garden, construction of a solar oven, a solar dehydrator, a composting toilet, a mobile chicken coop, etc. But more importantly, we examine how to be observant and how to form a design plan in stages before taking action.

 
For a complete list of workshops, click here.

 

Permaculture Design Course



 

Standard 72 hour course, as it is taught around the world.

This course offers participants the chance to develop landscaping design skills that are adapted to the needs of the environment, and to accomplish this based on their own observations. Theory, workshops and design are featured in this intensive course.

Those who complete the course receive a certificate.

 For more details about this training, click here.

 

It is possible to engage my landscaping services, whether in the countryside, the suburbs, and even the city. We evaluate all the possibilities and consider the application of sustainable integrated systems.

This could include crops or gardens for food autonomy for a family, a group or a community. Together we evaluate the options according to the available resources, both material and financial.  Over time we develop an action plan that fits with your dreams, as well as the time and energy available.

 

For an evaluation, contact me - bernalon9@gmail.com

 

Two ways:

 

1) After having completed and received your certificate of participation for a PDC, you'll need to put into practice what you've learned, and do so through applying your « niche » that you discovered during the course. A PDC doesn't authorise you to teach; however you can give introductions and practice speaking about the application of permaculture. It's advised to form teams to more effectively introduce the topic of permaculture.

 

You'll receive help from all the teachers and permaculturalists around you to practice and develop your skills. After having been involved in a project of applied permaculture ethics and having demonstrated its viability, you can approach a recognized teacher to evaluate you and/or to train you for presenting your experiences with the goal of teaching. When this person determines that you are ready to share your knowledge, they will organise an evaluation with two other teachers or colleagues, and why not the public too. You'll give a presentation about your path and demonstrate your ability to pass on the knowledge relating to your experience.

 

Be aware! Your behavior and your lifestyle will be taken into consideration, which should not contradict the three ethics of permaculture. Subsequently you'll be encouraged to work together with other permaculturalists to spread permaculture and organize workshops in the field that you've specialized in, and also actively participate in the organization of PDC's.

 

Certified Training

 

2) More and more, high caliber teachers from around the world provide comprehensive 10 day courses to train teachers. If you are serious about your efforts to organize and increase the number of PDC courses, this is a good investment that is beneficial in the long term. During the training you will learn the teaching methods that the instructors have developed over the course of their careers.

 

Certified training given by Bernard Alonso

A dynamic movement is developing for teaching permaculture with creativity. Permaculture has existed for more than 35 years, and during this time the proof is in: we must rebuild the human ecosystem because it is dysfunctional. An over-development of the intellect, the left side of the human brain, has created the precarious situation in which we live. We need to change our style of teaching by adapting it to the new generations who no longer want to learn unless a place is left for creativity. The teacher must allow the knowledge to emerge that is inherent in each of us. (In French, the word for knowledge is connaissance, from the Latin con, meaning with, and naissance, meaning birth... so the meaning is born with).

 

During his courses, Bernard deepens the use of the right brain, the hemisphere where creativity emerges. Through simple activities, relaxing games and through de-programming learning reflexes, he helps students access their own creativity while undoing their old paradigms.

 

In addition, the human permaculture that is experienced throughout the course allows us to re-learn how to work in a group and how to put into practice effective teamwork during the design process so that each group member shares their full potential.

 

During the training, the participants develop the necessary skills to successfully start a career teaching workshops, organizing events and creating courses to properly convey the philosophy of permaculture.

 

The participants, recipients of a recognized PDC, will be called on to propagate permaculture and certify future students while representing the values conveyed by permaculture. They should be supported in this effort by a team and an experienced mentor.

 

In an effective learning environment, we develop:

 

• Presenting training sessions, workshops and courses in a concise, effective and creative manner.
• Presenting in a way that is accessible to various learning styles (visual, auditory, kinesthetic).
• How to foster the right brain by letting creativity arise from individual students and in groups.
• Using games and senses to encourage natural forms of knowledge and learning.
• The ability to educate without imposing it.
• Harmonizing various aspects of permaculture with the profound meaning that is arising from contemporary permaculture learning across the world.
• Methods and techniques for developing ease of expression in public as well as simple ways of presenting oneself.
• The goals of a PDC, its requirements, organization, publicity, its function as a tool for spreading a message, its continuance, evolution, financing, etc.
• The mastery of teamwork.
• « Transitioning », from yesterday to the future.
• The transfer of "human permaculture" and how, as a teacher, we should represent it.
• And much more...