permaculture

["Michael Kramer" <MKramer@hawaii.rr.com>]

I'm pleased to announce the next Permaculture Teacher Training.  Christopher 
Peck and I continue to be impressed with the level of students showing up 
with an interest in teaching. In the early '90s it seemed that most people 
were interested in teaching the Basic Permaculture Design Course. Today there 
is greater diversity: some wish to teach the course but many wish to adapt 
permaculture to school settings, engage in community and economic 
development, or do political organizing and alliance-building. There are also 
professionals and academics showing up who seek to integrate the permaculture 
framework into their disciplines.

What people seem to like about this course is that we focus on applying 
permaculture principles to the art of designing educational experiences 
applicable to multiple audiences and situations. The course is more about 
permacultural communication (Zone 0) than instruction on the most effective 
way to cover the characteristics of certain climactic zones. Our assumption 
is that the primary content of permaculture is to be explored on one's own 
through study and experience. As such, this course doesn't pretend to replace 
that, though the entire experience is filled with people teaching various 
content areas of permaculture.  But true to permaculture, the course is more 
about designing whole learning experiences than knowing facts, and perhaps 
this why the course has become popular. We have designed a scholarship fund 
to assist students in need, and we also reinvest surplus in the local 
permaculture guild that organizes each course.  The course is organized by 
its graduates, so if you wish to learn more about the experience from that 
perspective, I encourage you to contact Kat Steele (kat@steelemoon.com), who 
is organizing the California course this Summer, and Mary Lou Singleton 
(aural@swcp.com), who is organizing the September course in Santa Fe.  

Michael
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Michael Kramer
Natural Investment Services
P.O. Box 390595
Keauhou, HI 96739

www.NaturalInvesting.com
888-779-1500

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
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Heal the World by Teaching Permaculture:
Permaculture Teacher Training Course
July 30 -Aug 6, 2004
Ocean Song Farm & Wilderness Center (www.oceansong.org)  
located on 360 acres in the serene coastal hills of 
western Sonoma County above Bodega Bay, Ca 

$715.-$915. (sliding scale)
Camping, amazing organic meals, 
Permaculture Curriculum and materials included.

Download details and registration form here
http://urbanpermacultureguild.org/pcttOSInfosheetOS2004.html
Call Kat Steele to register at 510-547-7889

This course is taught by Michael Kramer and Christopher Peck, who have more 
than
25 years of combined permaculture teaching experience.

Special Guest Invited Presenters:
Penny Livingston-Stark of the Permaculture Institiute of Northern California, 
and
Brock Dolman of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center.
And Introducing a New Generation of Teachers:
Benjamin Farher, Indigo Donaldson, Katherine Steele and more....

A Sampling of Exciting Course Topics:
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Elements for Whole Person Learning, Learning Styles & Multiple Intelligences
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Diverse Teaching Methods & The Learning Pyramid
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Designing Effective Learning Experiences and the Art of Teaching as a Guild
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The Design Process, Teaching Permaculture Ethics and Principles
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Teaching Patterning, Sector Analysis, Zonation, and the Site & Client 
Assessment

Innovative Teachniques: Concept Mapping, New Mythologies, Case Studies and 
More!
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Cultivating a Team, Planning Courses, Marketing and Promotion
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You will have fun and really grow! 


The prerequisite for this course is a certified Basic Permaculture Design 
Course. 
Upon completion course attendees will be eligible for Permaculture Teacher 
Certification.

Please give to the scholarship fund! We have many requests to take this 
training from low income folks. 
All funds raised go directly to tuition for scholarship recipients.
You can donate online at http://www.urbanpermacultureguild.org/donate.html