Full Online Permaculture Design Course for Artists and Creatives
“The most important application of permaculture design is looking at nature and using it as a template, as a guide, for us to create our sustainable cultures.”
Larry Santoyo,
Founder of the Permaculture Academy
I am most grateful to be working with Liz Postlethwaite again, after the introduction course to Permaculture for artists and creatives, to now be embarking on the Full Permaculture Design Course with the gift of a scholarship place.
The Full Online Permaculture Design Course is a unique 72 hour course which takes the classic Permaculture Design Course as a starting point, but has been specially developed to cater to artists and creatives in order to deepen our permaculture design skills within our practices. The aim is to bring a truly regenerative focus into our work and lives.
I’m just trying to get to grips with what Permaculture and Permaculture Design are, how they differ and how all of this is going to show up in my forthcoming projects and activities. I’m excited to get my head around everything.
The basic premise it that everyone and anyone can practice Permaculture Design. There is no need or reason to be specially trained. Permaculture Design comes down to how we choose to show up in the world, how we choose to treat the Earth, each other, our kin and communities, now and in the future. The underlining ethos of Permaculture Design is care. Earth Care, People Care and Future Care.
Over the next year, I’ll be learning more about Permaculture Design and putting it into practice as it’s no good otherwise. This course will be used to deepen my creative practice and bring a new ethical foundation to my practice so I’m much more mindful and better at supporting and protecting our ecosystems, people and nature together, interconnected, so our cultures shifts from one of destruction and over-exploitation to regenerative.
The course takes place from Saturday 22nd April 2023 to Wednesday 3rd April 2024 and includes 72 hours of live online sessions delivered as 2 x 3 hour sessions per month. These are supported by additional online resources, guest teachers, and virtual project visits.
You don’t do Permaculture, you use it in what you do.
Larry Santoyo,
Founder of The Permaculture Academy
Graduating to other spaces and study – 19 May 2024
It’s been a while since I’ve been in this space to share about my Permaculture Design journey. Things took a curved turn in the middle of this course of study, but things did work out for me to graduate in April 2024.
I created a design based around my visual journal practice which has seen me through so many difficult times. You can see my design here.
What I’d also like to say is that I continue my Permaculture Design studies as I embark on the Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design with Liz continuing to be my guiding tutor and assessor. During the course which takes a minute of 2 years I will be sharing the journey over on my sister site here. Please feel free to join me there also as I share my progress with project designs as well as work to decolonise the Permaculture Design space.
THINKING ABOUT PLAY – 23 August 2024
I’ve been pondering my Permaculture Diploma and thinking of my learning pathway. This is the plan that maps how you might what your Diploma design study to go. It’s like a roadmap to follow to get through the whole thing. But it is really difficult to create at the beginning of the process as really at this point you’re flying blind. From my point of view, I have no idea what I want to do or how to get there. To map out an extensive design plan at this stage is daunting as well as paralysing. So I made the decision early on not to create a learning pathway as my first design for the Diploma. But this decision hasn’t stopped me thinking about it.
As it stands, I wanted my first design to be around PLAY. Some kind of question like: How can play be the underlining principle of the Diploma? How can the practice of PLAY be integral to Permaculture Design? It is once I’ve started to explore what PLAY means to me and how I can bring more PLAY into my life that I realise that this is my learning pathway. How PLAY is going to be the path I take to move through my Diploma in order to remain open and light and full of wonder and curiosity. PLAY has to be at the centre of all that follows through my studies and designs because I am charting or cruising into the unknown and I don’t want my grip to be too tight as then I’m working from a place of fear rather than delight and fun. So thinking about PLAY / practicing PLAY in all that I {BE} and do is the plan moving forward. I just have to remember to keep documenting my adventures into play to I can create that final, first, some kind of Permaculture design from it!
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