Professionals' Intensive Course 2026

This course is a private, invitation-only event. Places are strictly limited and tickets are pre-allocated. Please contact info@mullooninstitute.org if you do not have an inivtation but are interested in this event.

Mulloon Institute’s Professionals’ Intensive course!

Mulloon Institute is a not-for-profit research education and advocacy organisation working with communities to restore and rehydrate Australian landscapes.

This event is part of the Mulloon Institute’s Water Stewardship Program, a bold initiative supported by WaterNSW and The Ian Potter Foundation. The program empowers communities in the Sydney Drinking Water Catchment to restore local water cycles, improve water quality, and build resilience to climate change through nature-based solutions.

Course overview:

The 4-day Professionals’ Intensive course builds advanced skills for application in a professional and larger scale context. It will bring together natural resource professionals and advanced land managers from organisations and communities.

This course aims to foster professional connections and build advanced skills in water-focused, whole-of-system, landscape restoration strategies. The course integrates a range of skillsets (see session list below), including landscape observation, technical, project-management, mapping and modelling. It is also designed to enable participants to support communities of practice in their region.

This will be a dynamic four days spent at the Mulloon Institute ‘Home Farm’ and on tour of other properties led by Senior Landscape Planners Erin Healy and Jack Smart. It will incorporate:

• Landscape Rehydration strategies targeted to both property-scale and sub-catchment/catchment-scale action on the ground

• Site visits to Natural Infrastructure/Farm Management projects that exemplify approaches we anticipate will be implemented by land managers

• Advanced in-field observation, assessment, design/planning and project management skills-building activities most relevant to the project.

• Review of relevant regulatory constraints for Landscape Rehydration projects.

• Weather-dependent: On-ground natural infrastructure construction activity.

Accommodation is not included in the course fees however limited share accomodation is available at Mulloon Home Farm.  More information on costs and bookings soon.

The Professionals’ Intensive will contain sessions on the following topics:

1. Assessing the health of hydrological landscapes (moving from property to sub-catchment and catchment scale) and assessing the suitability of landscapes for Landscape Rehydration initiatives based on multiple criteria.

2.  'Landscape Rehydration Toolbox' - natural infrastructure solutions in conjunction with land management strategies that optimise water cycling.

3.  Skills in planning and designing landscape rehydration projects, including a sequence of structures - digital and field skills, calculations. 

4.  Project Management/Construction.

5.  Risks and Regulations.

6.  Ongoing monitoring and management tools.