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["permaculture.biz" <darren@permaculture.biz>]

Title: Re: [permaculture] Income from Permaculture

Thanks Robyn,

 

You must have read my mind in respect to this important thread being lost to “semantic pedantics”.

 

I concur with your thoughts – having not been involved with the gatherings and being a bit reclusive at times I’ve been out of the loop. I knew however that you have been a driver behind the formation of a professional association from words on the street over time. Haven’t got time this morning but I will come back to this.

 

Cheers,

 

Yours and Growing,

 

Darren J. Doherty

Applied Diploma of Permaculture Design, (Education, Site Design, System Establishment & Implementation) Permaculture Institute (1995)

Permaculture Design Certificate, Permaculture Institute (1993, 1995, 2001)

Whole Farm Planning Certificate (Train the Trainer), University of Melbourne (1995)

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-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of ERDA Institute
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 7:58 AM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Income from Permaculture

 

on 23/7/03 11:40 PM, permaculture.biz at darren@permaculture.biz wrote:

Is professional certification of permaculture practitioners something that PIL or others are looking at doing ­ it would appear a natural step ­ or is this the stuff of bureaucratization ­ something that is historically counter to the paradigms of permaculture.

The need for a professional association was one of the big topics of discussion at the last 3 pc gatherings here. Accreditation, I think is a first important step towards this. This is partly due to the nature of how accredited vocational training is developed, delivered, monitored and reviewed here in Australia. Training must be 'industry driven', that is the relevant industry associated with a particular vocation or trade is required to detirmine the industries training needs and review it.  We need to formalise a professional body to contribute to these processes.
Discussions at the Gatherings proposed that PIL establish this as it is at present almost a quasie 'professional' association, with full (ordinary) membership available only to people who have completed a PDC. The suggestion was that PIL members who are derive all or part of their income from permaculture and closely related services would be eligible - including the many permaculturists who integrate pc with their primary profession (planning, architecture, landscape design/architecture, engineering, environmental design etc) This body would provide a pool (or register) of experienced competent people to refer work and projects to and perform other functions besides input into future APT reviews.

There's a lot more I could write but time is short and other priorities call....
Good to see this thread emerging. (Just hope it doesn't get lost in semantic pedantics)
... and you might like to check this out:

APT is now listed on the National
Training Information System. Go to www.ntis.gov.au. Click
'Courses/qualifications' - Enter name 'Permaculture' and there it is!

Robyn