Permaculture Teacher Training

A five-and-a-half-day intensive workshop that will empower you to teach permaculture effectively.

This experiential course is designed to enable participants to teach permaculture using unique and proven methods that can be applied to any teaching environment. These methods have been honed by the tutors over decades of educational experience.

Robina McCurdy (Earthcare Education Aotearoa) and Finn Mackesy (Auckland Permaculture Workshop) are passionate about teaching pedagogy, permaculture education and curriculum development. They have worked together on a range of projects for over a decade and provide complementary teaching and facilitation styles and approaches to permaculture education.

Join us for a practical professional development training to gain more confidence in facilitating dynamic and transformational learning experiences, discovering/honing your unique teaching style, and to continue your journey in permaculture and positive-change education.

This workshop will embody permaculture ethics and principles, and focus equally on quality of delivery, facilitation skills and deep content knowledge. 

General topics:

• Building a learning community
• Ako & effective pedagogy
• Patterns of learning
• Teaching for information & transformation
• Goal setting for learning outcomes
• Orienting learning for specific audience/target group
• Curriculum and programme design
• Scene setting & logistic coordination
• Working as a teaching team
• Budgeting & marketing
• Mentorship
• Next Steps in your teaching journey

Consider this training as a professional development opportunity that will bring valuable skills to your organisation and could qualify for funding through your organisation.

Course fees include food. 

Accommodation is not included in the course fees but a limited amount of onsite accommodation options are available. Camping is $5/night and a shared room is $10/night. Let us know at the time of registration if you are interested in onsite accommodation. Alternatively, there are a range of local accommodation options that should suit participants' needs.

Public transport is available from New Plymouth to Inglewood. Also, we anticipate many participants travelling from the national Permaculture Hui directly to the course so carpooling options are likely.

Note: A PDC (Permaculture Design Certificate) is a prerequisite for this training. However, we are reserving three places for sustainability, community resilience and regenerative practitioners who are wanting to upskill as educators and facilitators utilising permaculture design methodology.

Testimonials

“It was a great course, I highly recommend it :)”  Leo Murray 

“This is more than Permaculture Teacher Training! It is adult education training which has reinforced many models and processes I have previously learned, working with adults by exploring the many ways people learn. I can highly recommend these tutors, their facilitation skills will enhance your journey and challenge your development to become great PC teachers. I especially liked the "curtains up/curtains down" approach to debrief the processes. Every WWOOFer and PDC student I work with benefits from my experience of this course and the resources received are top notch!

Clare Wimmer

“I gained a lot out of the course that I attended in 2016. Since then I have moved from being a shop manager into a business partner with 2 others to teach permaculture in Canterbury. It also created developments within other permaculture projects I'm involved.  I thoroughly enjoyed the course, the skills and knowledge received from Robina & Finn's passionate teaching is enormous, I wish I could attend again this year!”

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