permaculture

["L. Santoyo" <santoyo@earthflow.com>]

 >From Larry Santoyo

.........The "certification" is set up not only to maintain the highest
standards and continuity possible -but to help distinguish between
Permaculture "workshop" teachers and fully designated "Permaculture Design
Certificate Course Instructors" -those with demonstrated proficiency, as
well as experience, in every aspect of the Permaculture Design Course
Curriculum -(as prescribed in the text book: Permaculture: A Designers'
Manual by Bill Mollison).

The certificate requirements for "permaculture design course instructor" are
the same as for a certified "permaculture designer."

-After successfully completing the 72 hour Permaculture Designer Trainee
Course you need to work out a mentoring/ apprenticeship/workstudy program
-with a qualified permaculture designer/instructor -for the equivalent of
two years, full-time work as a designer or in this case as a design course
instructor... (we, of course, also highly recommend that you complete a
"teacher training program")

If you feel you have already completed and/or posses the requisite
experience -then I would encourage you to submit a resume of your work
experience along with a personal essay of your permaculture design course
teaching experience -then we can schedule further discussion and/or a
meeting for review of your work.

In the meantime, please request a letter of recommendation from your
instructors to be sent directly from them to me and/or Scott Pittman -(that
also verifies your work experience etc).

I will contact Scott Pittman, President of the Permaculture Institute and
let you know what fees might be involved and if there is anything else we
may need from you.

Please feel free to contact me, anytime, if you have any other questions.

Looking forward,


Larry

Larry Santoyo, Field Director
Permaculture Institute (USA)
c/o
793A Foothill Blvd. #130
San Luis Obispo, CA 93405


additional:
Scott Pittman, President
Permaculture Institute (USA)
PO Box 3702
Pojoaque NM, 87501




On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 8:35 AM, L. Santoyo <santoyo@earthflow.com> wrote:

>
> The full curriculum is covered in 72 hrs of lecture in Claudia's course
> -this should be enough time and will satisfy the agreement to adhere to the
> curriculum as prescribed by the Permaculure Designers Manual and required by
> The Permaculture Institute (USA).
>
> There are other courses that, as Claudia suggests, are designed to fit the
> pattern of the participants, that are "weekend series" formats and various
> permutations there of. As long as the teachers are experienced enough to
> handle the varied effects and adhere to the agreement -they should be able
> to create a pattern literate and appropriate environment for teaching.
>
> (earthflow design works will be adding a 16 hour "lab" portion to our
> curriculum requirements and offer a three-week design course in both
> three-week blocks and in three one week blocks.)
>
> Currently there is a widely advertised course on the web that tout a "9
> day certificate" program. Upon examination -they do, in fact, require a
> significant amount of prerequisite work and web based learning and have a
> highly accomplished teaching team -and are approved by the Permaculture
> Research Institute (australia).
>
> On a related note: The Permaculture Institute (USA) -(Bill Mollison and
> Scott Pittman, founders) has adopted these standards to not only ensure
> continuity but integrity of the course material.  The Institute has further
> defined and has created designation to the two-year diploma standards as
> described by Bill Mollison -to include *Permaculture Design Course
> Instructor Certification*... -see informal description below -feel free to
> contact me for and questions, comments or conserns.
>
> Larry
>
> L.Santoyo, Field Director & VP
> The Permaculture Institute
>
>
>
>
> <http://www.permaculture-exchange.org>
> >
> > On May 2, 2008, at 8:30 PM, rafter t. sass wrote:
> > > So...
> > >
> > > What do we do, as a community, when people are teaching a 9-day
> > > permaculture course, and billing it as Permaculture Design
> > > Certificate course?
> > >
> > > This is something we are facing in our region, the northeastern US,
> > > right now. Teachers are coming in from elsewhere in the US, which
> > > makes it trickier - no regional community pressure and accountability.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > rafter
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > rafter t. sass
> > > The Liberation Ecology Project
> > > liberationecology.org
> > > 518-567-7407
> > > skype: raughter
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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