Permaculture Design Course
An internationally recognized, 72-hour training in the ethics, principles, methods, techniques, and practices of Permaculture Design + 24 extra teaching hours + 24 hours group/independent work, a 120 hour certificate course.
Date: July 20 to August 3, 2012
A New Paradigm in Sustainable Living
What is Permaculture?
Earth Wisdom Permaculture is a complete design system, based on principles of ecology and sustainability that can be used to create resilient, economically stable, and productive landscapes, home and communities. Permaculture designers make their imprint on Earth, culture and economy a positive one.
Earth Wisdom Permaculture blends a full Permaculture certification course with earth-based cosmology, teaching visionary and practical solutions for personal and social change.
This course gives primary attention to regenerative living systems design for a temperate climate and is taught by certified instructors who live and create within the temperate environment.
Unique to this course:
- Full 14 day immersion experience
- Established Forest Gardens (1983)
- Local Permaculture Educators with 30+ years experience
- Unique DVD Adobe Reader
- Forest Gardening e-book manual
- Nature & local plant identification
- Practical application of Deep Ecology & Living Systems theory
- Essence of Permaculture Manual
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A copy of Bill Mollison's "An Introduction To Permaculture" An Edited Transcript of a PDC
"What permaculturists are doing is (some of) the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what the details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options. We need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical groups that are doing that". ~Dr. David Susuki, Geneticist, Renowned Environmentalist and Broadcaster
About The Course
The Earth Wisdom Permaculture course provides you with the skills to meet the challenging cultural, environmental and energy-supply changes that face us. It teaches how to reconnect with the 'Original Instructions' revealed withiin nature so that we are empowered to create positive, active and practical solutions for personal, community and environment benefit.
This intensive on the land experience teaches you the principles and ethics of Permaculture, design techniques, natural building, rural and urban gardening and community design. It meets international standards as a foundation course for all permaculture practitioners and teachers.
There will be a balance between classroom time and hands-on experimental learning. This training is useful for people with varying levels of experience - from backyard gardeners to design professionals.
Participants become certified as a Permaculture Designer and receive a Permaculture Design Certificate recognized worldwide.
Discover how easy it is to implement sustainable solutions to your Life and Community!
"Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple"
~Bill Mollison (co-originator of the Permaculture concept)
Mission
Our mission is to offer an innovative program that empowers participants to think and act beyond the existing worldview. To cultivate pioneers and visionary leaders who want to bring their unique gifts to the world through the fields of Permaculture design.
Location
The Living Centre provides a rich learning environment in a beautiful rural setting in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1983, The Living Centre is a 50 acre educational Centre with wild meadows, forest-woodland, swimming pond, organic fruit orchards and a variety of forest gardens that incorporate native plants of Carolinian Canada. The land has always been organic. The spacious surroundings offer you a perfect setting for learning and growing.
The Centre is known for its unique circular medicine wheel herb garden, a variety of forest gardens and edible medicine trail through the beautiful Carolinian forest. The teaching lodge is surrounded by a 1000 sq. ft. Earthship passive solar greenhouse which provides organic produce for nine months of the year.
You will experience a lifestyle approach to education that supports respect for life, human dignity, freedom, ecological sustainability and peace.
The real teachers are the ones that have been around for millennia. They sprout from decay and levitational forces emergent in the forest. They run networks of intelligence underground in as many ways as possible and they trust in the cycles of life and death.
Who Would Benefit
Permaculture is an invaluable tool for homeowners, homesteaders, small farmers, urban and rural gardeners,
educators, landscapers, architects, bioregionalists, city planners, foresters, reclamation specialists, transition networks , neighbourhood organizers and anyone interested in sustainable living, and those interested in a career as an Earth Wisdom Permaculture Designer.
Do What You Love and Become the Change!
We are in a time on Earth when careers focused in building a culture of regeneration are rapidly replacing careers centred on productivity, consumerism, greed and war. Careers that are life-supporting, ecologically sustainable and support the human spirit will soon become the norm.
If you are enthusiastic about creating a new culture based on sustainability and respect for all life and want to learn how to implement and share this knowledge, 
the Earth Wisdom Permaculture Training is for you.
Never before has this kind of training been so needed!
Creating a Fulfilling Career
Upon completion of the program you will be eligible to offer the Earth Wisdom Permaculture in your community and eco-systems.
The Earth Wisdom Permaculture can be offered through private consultations, workshops, in schools and colleges, in holistic centres and in professional institutions, which incorporate innovative processes to improve the health and well-being of your community.
More Opportunities
Many have successfully incorporated the Earth Wisdom Teachings of Permaculture into their already existing careers. These include: one-to-one whole system design, regenerative education, ecological endeavors and all careers that are passionately committed to the noblest aspirations of humankind.
Become a part of the solution!
This team of instructors brings decades of experience in cold climate Permaculture and a passion that inspires!
Facilitators
Shantree Kacera, D.N., Ph.D. and Lorenna Kacera are founders and directors of The Living Centre and Living Arts Institute (est. 1983). Together they blend their over 35 years each, of experience to offer programs that support individuals in the practice of conscious living. Through Permaculture, Earth Wisdom Teachings, the Sevenfold Path of Peace, Ayurvedic Teachings, and a Live-Plant-Food-based lifestyle they support individuals in living healthier, more regenerative lives.
Lorenna and Shantree are internationally celebrated visionaries, authors, permaculture teachers, regenerative educators, nutritional researchers and world peace workers.
Shantree Kacera D.N., Ph.D. is Certified Permaculture Designer & Educator, an Ayurvedic Live-Food Nutritionist, Therapeutic & Shamanic Herbalist with a specialty in Forest Gardening with over with 35 years experience. Shantree's deep spiritual connection to the Earth has drawn him into the teachings of shamanic and earth wisdom practices as well as Carolinian Canada native plant preservation and studies. He is a passionate edible forest gardener, and well known for his unique circular medicinal-wheel garden and medicine trail with over 1,000 species of edible and medicine plants and trees through the 50-acre botanical sanctuary.Since the mid 1980's Shantree has been applying permaculture practices. Creating his own unique approach to how does Permaculture work in Canada. After 25 years he is now sharing his experiences with his students and apprentices who come to study Forest Gardening and Permaculture. Learn more>
Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera is a Certified Permaculture Educator with a specialty in evolutionary regeneration at the personal, ecological and spiritual levels. She is the founder of Shamanu: Earth Wisdom Teachings, practices that support an earth-based cosmology, teaching visionary and practical solutions for personal and social change. Her 30 years of training in the field of inner permaculture and deep ecology provides individuals with the skills to reconnect with the 'original instructions' revealed to us from nature. These skills empower the bringing forth of our full potential, so that we may bring active and practical solutions for personal, community and environmental benefit. Lorenna is the co-director with her sacred partner Shantree of Spirit of the Earth, The Living Centre.
Lorenna sees that our hope for the future is to adopt a new concept of human ecology; one in which we celebrate the gifts of imagination and creativity. She believes that it is our creativity and balance of the Feminine and Masculine values that support life that will guide us to the answers that change and empower our lives, our world and future generations. Learn more>
Natalie Krueger is a Permaculture designer, community organizer, earth steward, wholistic herbalist healer, wild plant forager and activist. Natalie is guided by ongoing exploration within the nature of indigenous traditions and awareness of regenerative practices. Through her commitment to ethical patterns of land use, she founded the not for profit organization Greenvoices. Greenvoices is a guild of ecological artisans that advocate for the unspoken voices of the wild through preservation, restoration, and land based culture building. They integrate creative responses to change by mimicking the wisdom of ecosystems and weaving vital rhythms to inspire healing for our collective future. Greenvoices is also cultivating relationships through permaculture education and consultation as well as engaging our community in nurturing nature's intelligence. Learn more>
Jessica Roder
Jessica Roder is the owner of Wild Craft Permaculture. She has been working with permaculture principles for several years at a variety of scales, from the home garden to the neighbourhood. She integrates her backgrounds in biology, education, and urban planning into her work. Jessie is an engaging teacher who instils passion and practical knowledge in her students and believes firmly in experiential learning. Jessie is on the steering committee of Transition London Ontario, and she loves riding her bicycle and howling, usually simultaneously. Learn more>
John Miller
John is an electrical engineer who has been following the alternative energy field since his university days. He has a strong background in industrial automation and electrical system. He is current studying renewable energy systems, from solar thermal to geothermal system. John completed a PDC and his interest extends to the world of “free energy” as well. What did Tesla know about tapping the energy of the ethers, or Myers in splitting water into hydrogen and running a car on it? John will share his knowledge and insight of the energy that we see as a corner stone to our future.
Mat Redsell
An energy expert who has been experimenting with sustainable living design that is cost effective and designed for the every day person. He brings knowledge to the areas of solar electric systems, windmill construction, hot water systems, biodiesel, recycling, composting toilets, heating systems and more. He is a 'warehouse' of information and knowledge and believes strongly in 'learning by doing'. Learn more>
Chris & Wil Dancey
For the past twenty-five years, Chris and Wil Dancey have been accumulating knowledge about the many materials and methods that are used to build healthy, sustainable, natural buildings. As owner builders, they have built with local materials including industrial hemp, lime, clay, wood and stone. Their home is a round log timber frame with hemp and lime infill for insulation. They have constructed a living roof and a heating system that includes a masonry heater and radiant floors.
During their presentation, they will take you on a virtual tour of building projects from around the world that have had a minimal impact on the environment, while providing truly beautiful structures for play, work and living. There will be many examples of natural building in Canada and discussion about using local materials will be included.
Chris & Wil Dancey, Natural Homes
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Course Topics Include:
The course will include hands-on projects, lectures, discussions, slide shows, field trips and design projects.
We will draw on observation skills, indigenous wisdom, modern science and the wisdom and teachings of each of the Elements – Air, Fire, Water, Earth and Ether.
EARTH
- Nature Awareness Techniques
- Creating Edible Food Forests
- Foraging and Plant Identification
- Building Organic Soil
- Enhancing Nutrient Flow - Bioremediation: healing soil and water with beneficial bacteria, compost teas, fungi and plants
- Building Design using Local, Natural and Recycled Materials
AIR
- Permaculture Elements and Design Science
- Pattern Thinking in Design and Strategy
- Microclimate Creation
- Appropriate Technologies that support these changing times
- Alternative Energy Systems - from small to large
- Ecosystem Dynamics & Social Strategies
FIRE
- Cold Climate Energy Conservation
- Four Season Permaculture
- Food Harvest, Storage and Wild Fermentation
- Bioregionalism and Relocalization
- Humans' role as Nature-in-Action
- Eco-Communities and the Transition Culture
WATER
- Water Ecology and Preservation
- Roof Water Harvesting
- Community Economics: Local Trading Systems
- Waste Water Systems
ETHER/SPIRIT
- Ethics of Ecological Design
- Theory and Permaculture Principles
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- Earth Wisdom Teachings
- Evolutionary Leadership
- Deep Ecology and Living Systems
Week 1 - Permaculture Foundations
Week One is a time to fully integrate the principles and practices of permaculture with wholistic nature awareness and development of regenerative systems. There will be a focus on gardening practices, personal empowerment and interpersonal community building through an in-depth exploration of the five elements.
Week 2 - Permaculture Practicum
Week Two takes you deeper into the technology and heart of Permaculture with a focus on natural building design, forest gardening and design projects to implement what you have learned.
The Earth Wisdom Permaculture course produces community leaders, with strong foundational nature connection, observation, and ecological design skills. Participants will come away able to apply a tool box of skills to create regenerative eco-systems that supports oneself, one's community and the earth. Students will have the opportunity to connect to a global network of Permaculture, regenerative design, and nature awareness contacts and projects. Graduates receive a certificate in Permaculture design, the foundation of further learning and teaching in this field. .
"By learning you will teach; by teaching you will understand."~Latin Proverb
Recommended Reading for the Course
* Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability (Holmgren Design Services, 2009)
* Permaculture: A Designers Manual(Bill Mollison, Tagari Publications)
* Introduction to Permaculture: (Bill Mollison, Tagari Publications)
* Forest Gardening: Cultivating an Edible Landscape (Robert A. De J. Hart)
* Edible Forest Gardens: Volume One: Vision & Theory (Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeir)
* Edible Forest Gardens: Volume Two: Design & Practice (Dave Jacke with Eric Toensmeir)
* Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (Toby Hemenway, Chelsea Green, 2009)
* Creating a Forest Garden (Martin Crawford, Green Books)
* How to Make a Forest Garden (Patrick Whitefield, Permanent Publications)
* Permaculture DVD Reader ~ Compiled by Lorenna & Shantree Kacera & Our Permaculture Teaching Team
Earth Wisdom Permaculture Sample Schedule
This Schedule is subject to change
DAILY SCHEDULE -
7:30 - 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 Clean-up
9:00 - 9:30 Nature Awareness practice
9:30 - 11:00 Session
11:00 - 11:30 Integration time
11:30 - 12:30 Session
12:30 - 1:00 Wild Edible Plant Foraging practice
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:30 Clean-up
2:30 - 5:30 Session
5:30 – 6:00 Integration time
6:00 - 7:00 Dinner
7:00 - 7:30 Clean-up
7:30 - 9:30 Evening Session
The following schedule will give you an idea of the flow of the course based on past trainings. This schedule is subject to change for 2012. A few evenings a week there will be special evening presentations to support your permaculture education. These are not listed below.
FRIDAY
- Arrival, check-in
- Welcome, introductions & meeting each other
- Overview
1. SATURDAY - AIR (new beginning, theory and principles)
- Introduction to the Elements
- Purpose & intention
- Kinship team formations
- Orientation to the Living Centre
- Site Tour
- Principles of Permaculture - Slide show & lecture
- Culture, ethics & values
- Wild plant foraging & plant identification
2. SUNDAY - AIR
- Nature awareness practice
- Permaculture elements & design science
- Pattern language in design & strategy
- Living Systems theory
- Design concepts & schemes
- Designing the human habitat
- Zone & sector analysis
- Permaculture around the world
- Wild plant foraging & plant identification
- Reflection & integration
3. MONDAY - EARTH
- Nature Awareness practice
- Creating Edible Food Forests
- Building Organic Soil - enhancing nutrient flow
- Bio-mediation: beneficial bacteria, compost teas, fungi & plants
- Composting, vermaculture
- Sheet mulching,
- Wild plant foraging & plant identification
- Nutrition & sustainability
- Food harvest & storage & wild fermentation
- Experiential/hands-on project
- Reflection & integration
4. TUESDAY - EARTH
- Nature Awareness practice
- Climate & landform
- Ecological design for home-scale & larger systems
- Forest Gardening experiential/hands-on project
- Creating polyculture
- Seed saving
- Wildlife in our design
- Plant foraging & identification
- Reflection & integration
5. WEDNESDAY - WATER
- Nature Awareness practice
- Water Ecology & Preservation
- Water Harvesting
- Dryland - wetland strategies
- Greywater systems, water purification
- Water waste systems
- Wild plant foraging & plant identification
- Reflection & integration
6. THURSDAY – FIRE
- Nature Awareness Practice
- Field Trip which includes:
- Alternative energy systems
- Passive solar design
- Bio-fuel
- Wind power
- Building design using local, natural & recycled materials
- Reflection & integration
7. FRIDAY – AIR & FIRE
- Nature Awareness Practice
- Finances & Economics -Ethical investments and Fair Trade,
- Community economics: local trading systems (csa's, networks, co-ops...)
- Corporate globalization vs localization (navigating the coming chaos)
- Eco-system integration 
- How do these systems integrate into a whole house, community, worldview
- Transition Culture (visioning)
- Wild Plant Foraging & Plant Identification
- Reflection & integration
8. SATURDAY - EARTH & WATER
- Nature Awareness practice
- Alternative building & energy systems in permaculture systems
- Land & nature stewardship Following natural cycles /planning
- Land tenure & community governance
- Natural Shelter Building
- Wild plant foraging & plant identification
- Reflection & integration
9. SUNDAY - DAY OFF
- Sleep in
- Go for a swim, walk, bike, or hand out in the hammocks
10. MONDAY – ETHER
- Nature Awareness practice
- Earth Wisdom Teachings & Deep Ecology
- Human role as Nature in action
- Transition Initiatives
- Evolutionary Leadership
- Culture & Education, creativity & the arts
- Spirit of place, indigenous cultural revival
- Wild plant foraging & plant identification
- Reflection & integration
11. TUESDAY
- Nature Awareness practices
- Community governance
- Consensus decision making
- Design team formation & tasks
- Hands-on natural building project
- Eco-villages & co-houses
- Wild plant foraging & plant identification
- Reflection & integration
12. WEDNESDAY
- Nature Awareness Practices
- Eco-villages & co-houses
- Urban Permaculture
- Check-in & catch up, questions & answers
- Group design project time
- Wild plant foraging & plant identification
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- Reflection & integration
13. THURSDAY
- Group design project time
- Design Project presentation
14. FRIDAY
- Feedback
- Synthesis of the course
- Bringing this into the world
- Closing ceremony
Earth Wisdom Permaculture Q & A
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Does Earth Wisdom give a permaculture certificate? What does certification mean? How could I use it?
A: Yes, the Earth Wisdom Permaculture courses issue a valid permaculture design certificate on completion. It's proof that you've taken a minimum of the standard 72-hour permaculture course from recognized teachers. This doesn't mean you're now an expert. It does mean that you have the foundation to begin a lifetime of study and work. Like any other certificate, it can be used in resume building, job and school applications, nonprofit grant writing, and so on. If you're requesting college credit, your school registrar may want to see it.
Q: What does it mean to have a Permaculture Design Certificate?
A Permaculture Design Certificate signifies that one has completed a 72-hour design course in the principles and practices of Permaculture. It means the holder of the certificate is the holder of a profound toolbox of solutions and visions. Many people think they understand permaculture as a gardening system or that it is only about agriculture. Someone who has attended a training course and has received a certificate understands the full scope of what permaculture design has to offer. It also means they have an understanding of the systemic and integrated quality that good "sustainable" or "regenerative" design reflects. It doesn't mean the person has all skills necessary to implement these solutions. They carry with them what is possible.
Q: How do I become a permaculture designer?
Participants who have completed a Permaculture Design Certification course (PDC) can promote themselves as a certified permaculturist and can use the word permaculture in their work. The curriculum is a minimum of 72-hours and should follow the Permaculture Designers Manual. The permaculture courses that we offer are usually closer to 100 hours so we can cover other pertinent topics and do hands-on activities.
We recommend that a permaculture graduate spend at least two years applying what they learn in the permaculture course before they work professionally, especially if they did not have much prior experience.
Some people have already been doing a lot of this work and feel confident that they can serve the permaculture community by doing quality work, and they can put out the sign as soon as they graduate.
Q: What are the criteria for teaching a permaculture certification course?
The criterion for teaching a Permaculture Design Certification course (PDC) is that you need to have a permaculture design certificate yourself. (as described above).
We urge and highly recommend that you apprentice with an experienced teacher to maintain a consistency of quality education. There are also a number of Permaculture Teacher Training courses being offered. These are not "required" in order to teach a PDC, but most teachers have done this and thus we have maintained that consistency. We want to support the cultivation of new teachers and also want to keep the consistent quality of the PDC.
Q: Why does an Earth Wisdom Permaculture course cost so much? Shouldn't it be free, so we can all help save the planet?
A: This is where idealism meets reality. There's no getting around the fact that producing something of this size and scope takes money. But true to our idealism, Earth Wisdom Permaculture offers many work-trade scholarships for each program.
Our costs include facility and accommodation; organic food; class materials; teacher's, organizer's, and chief's fees; equipment rental; transportation; insurance; advertising; administrative costs, and so on. Any income over expenses goes back into the scholarship fund and helps to run the centre.
Q: Are there age limits? Teenagers, elders?
A: The regular Earth Wisdom Permaculture courses are a program designed for adults. The youngest participant has been 18 year old motivated and focused young people. Such older teens are welcome. This is not the place for troubled, aimless kids, though. If under 21, a parent/guardian must give written permission and sign our liability waiver. Most Earth Wisdom Permaculture participants are in their 20's to 50's, and usually there's a wonderful small group of 60's and older. You need to be reasonably healthy, but many people have some physical limitations; remember you can always opt out of activities like digging and planting a tree. (Let the youngsters show off with the shovels.)
Q: What about the weather?
A: We've found that our trainings, courses and apprenticeships are surprisingly popular. The weather here in London is in the Carolinian Canada zone and is milder than most of the country, but it can still be cool and damp depending upon the year. We like to offer our programs in the beginning of our greening time of year. Outdoor and hands-on sections may be shifted in response to weather. If you bring sufficient warm clothing and rain gear, you should be quite comfortable.
Q: What about Food?
Meals: Our meals are made fresh with organic produce in season as much as possible. Much of the food is grown on property and numerous wild edible foods will be foraged for daily. We offer a diverse range of delicious and nutritious raw food cuisine dishes. We do not use any animal product, dairy food or eggs at our centre.
While we can accommodate some changes to support food allergies etc. if you have special dietary needs a fridge is available and we request that you provide for your specific food needs.
Part of the Permaculture experience is getting involved with the activities at all levels, this also means participating in the care of some kitchen chores and the upkeep of common areas.
Q: When will future Earth Wisdom Permaculture Courses be scheduled? Are there regular, annual dates?
A: Generally we offer the 2-week Permaculture Training once a year in the summer and a Four-Season Permaculture which begins in March and spans over 5 weekends through the four seasons. Some of our scheduling depends upon the needs and calendars of our teaching team. This means that the dates are not exactly the same. If you are signed up for our e-newsletter we will keep you informed of upcoming trainings.
Q: I'd like transportation info, please.
A: Details and directions are on our website. Some general guidelines:
Some participants coming from far away have arranged an extra travel day on either end, stayed overnight in the city, and next day came to the centre. People considering a train or bus have similar time lags.
Driving: If you have a car, we appreciate your offering a ride to others. If you don't have a car, we will help coordinate carpools for each residential course.
Q: Can I arrive at the Centre site a day early? Stay a day late?
A: The prime permaculture answer to almost any question is: It depends! Work-exchange participants often fulfill their work requirements in this way, and others are welcome to join. For other courses - it depends on the site, the timing, and other factors.
Q: How about communications? Can I call home, friends, and clients? Is there a place to check email?
A: Yes. The centre wireless Internet access is available if you have your own laptop, although it may be limited. You can always bring your own mobile phone, although it may not work from remote locales. Of course you can receive emergency calls and messages through the facility or The Living Centre's office.
Q: May I record the lectures and sessions?
A: For personal, private use, yes.
Q: Can I bring my cat? My dog? My kids? My partner? My friends?
A: Here are our guidelines on guests, whether of four- or two-footed variety.
Pets: Please leave all pets at home or with a good friend.
Kids: All Earth Wisdom Permaculture courses are for adults. There is no childcare at Earth Wisdom Permaculture courses. In the future, we hope to offer more family-friendly courses but that is dependent on funding—as well as enough people interested in these options.
Adults: We don't allow drop-ins or visitors into regular class time, unless you make arrangements beforehand with the teachers. Our course at times offers evening sessions that are open to the local community, and your guests are welcome to join in. Please inquire.
Q: Can I bring my own tent and camp outside? Is it cheaper?
A: It depends! Check the specifics for the course you're interested in.
Q: I can't make this session, but would like to be informed of future Permaculture courses.
A: Send us an email and ask to be put on the e-newsletter to be notified. (This list is never used for any other purpose, and your e-address is kept private.)
Q: How far is the nearest town?
You can get to London central in approximately 25 minutes. However there are shopping areas within 10 – 15 minutes from the Centre.
Q: How long are the days?
The days are very full and diverse to keep them interesting and keep you on your toes. We begin at 8:30am. Approximately half of the days will include an evening session, with one day off.
Q: Are there interesting things to see in the area?
London is a lovely city with many parks, a river running through it and two lakes that are easily accessible. Port Stanley (20 minutes away) is the closest beach for good swimming.
Q: Do you have recreational activities on the property?
The Living Centre has a 25 acres beautiful woodlot that you are welcomed to hike through. We also have an Olympic pool size swimming pond that is fed by two natural springs. A great hang-out place. We do have a couple of bikes that are available for use. And of course, there are the hammocks where you can rest comfortably under the cherry trees.
Q: What do you expect from me as a permaculture participant?
We expect you to attend all daytime classes. Some evening classes are optional. Engage fully according to your capacity during the learn-by-doing sessions; participate whole-heartedly; honor the uniqueness of the program; commit to be here and have a positive, loving attitude. That's IT!
Dates:
July 20 to August 3rd. 2012
Begins Friday at 4pm to Friday noon.
Investment:
$1400
Partial Scholarships are Available
Please let us know if you are needing financial assistance. We want everyone who has a keen desire to take this course be here. Look forward to having you here with us.
Price includes 14 day immersion into permaculture, handouts, and a comprehensive DVD Adobe Reader with course material and more
Price does not include tax, meals and accommodations and travel to and from The Living Centre.
Early-bird specials:
When paid in full before June 21 - $1300
Work exchange of up to $300 available. Work exchange can occur before, after and during the training. You do not lose any teaching hours during the exchange. Please inquire.
- Partner/Spouse Discount - Partners who take the course together get the second tuition at an additional $100 off
- Student Discount – Full-time students get an additional $100 off
- Family Discount - Two adults who would like to take this course with a son or daughter between age 16 - 19 receive a 50% discount off their child's tuition ($700)
Go to this link for meal prices and accommodation options: Meals & Accommodations.
Deposits:
$700 Canadian
Payment can also be made by Visa or certified cheque. Please make cheques payable and send to:
The Living Centre
5871 Bells Rd., London, ON., Canada, N6P 1P3
Please call or email to speak with a program specialist for further information and to register: 519-652-9109 and 519-652-0230, info@thelivingcentre.com
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