PERMACULTURE DESIGN CERTIFICATE
This program is offered in the Winter/Spring semester only.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Gather with likeminded people to learn about how nature designs itself and how we can become sustainable designers ourselves. Learn how to map and design our land and our lives, plan for emergencies, grow organic food in all four seasons and work to build a more regenerative future.
The course will empower participants as permaculture designers, consultants and beginner teachers. Graduates will be able to use the word permaculture legally in their practice, business or project. This eco-training certificate is a practical path for greening your life, resume and portfolio. Working toward certification is not a requirement. Students may attend the course without completing the material required to attain the certificates. It’s a fun way to journey with likeminded people in an experiential, outdoor adventure in education.
Taught by a dynamic facilitator, this class caters to anyone wanting to learn regenerative design in a creative way while engaging with working systems. It is a flexible course with an ideal evening and weekend class schedule for workers, entrepreneurs, students or those with dynamic routines. Catering to the busyness of modern life, if you miss a class, you can jump in on the same module in a different class at no extra tuition costs (through the instructors) and there is no time limit to complete the certification. One on One make up classes are also available at a nominal fee.
Course Topics include design methods, patterns in nature, soils and composting, water, trees, animals, design for cool/tropical/arid climates, social permaculture, native food and medicine plants of the Coastal First Peoples, and much more. There are worksheets, gaming tools, as well as exciting living sites as our classroom. Optional hands-on activities throughout the course include: design charrettes, earthworks demonstration, integrative games, compost building, soil testing, plant & tree identification, medicine making and homesteading. This course is the only of its kind with an exciting teaching tool kit that transforms lectures into games and travels to many different permaculture farms, gardens and forest locations while sharing in a uniquely creative learning adventure. Join this adventure in learning as it journeys to farms, forests, gardens and eco-locations (Some field trip locations include Yarrow Ecovillage, A Rocha, UBC Farm, Sharing Farm and more). Apply your learnings to the focus project for the program which is to start a map and design for where you live or an area of your choice.
Successful completion of this course offers graduates their choice of legitimate and formal certificate through Permaculture Institute USA (www.permaculture.org).
For more information about this program, email the instructor at kym@gigglingchitree.com.
Introduction to Permaculture – Webinar
Join Kym Chi on March 18th from 6:30pm-9pm PST for a journey into Permaculture to discover how it can empower people with solution based approaches, to create and live a more regenerative life while caring for people and the planet! Together we will learn more about Permaculture and its benefits by:
– Exploring the Permaculture framework.
– Reviewing the foundational concepts.
– Observing and interacting with the world around you.
– Discovering how it can be applied to create abundant land, lives and communities.
– Creating an emerging design that applies to your life using what you learnt in the class.
– This webinar will include discussions, break out groups and a Q&A to support the integration of information shared.
Participants are encouraged to consider an area of their life or a project that they can focus on during the class in order to apply learnings to their own life.
Join in for the live event to get the most out of the webinar! If you cannot make it, a replay will be available within 24 hours of the live class that can be watched at your convenience.
Email kym@gigglingchitree.com for more info or to register for the webinar.
PREREQUISITES
Students should meet all the following prerequisites before registering:
- Proficiency in English
GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS
Students who are not working toward certification do not have to complete any certification requirements or tests.
Students working toward certification will be assessed on the following requirements:
- Individual map and design for an area of your choice
- Questions/written work
- Course journal
- 100% attendance is required – Students who miss classes can (1) make arrangements with the instructors to make up missed classes with other groups at no extra cost or (2) take private instruction to make up missed classes with the instructors at additional cost.
FUTURE EMPLOYMENT
Having a Permaculture Design Certificate from a recognized training institute will empower participants as permaculture designers, consultants and beginner teachers able to use the word permaculture legally in their practice, business or project. This sustainability education eco-training certificate is a practical path for greening your life, resume and portfolio. You will have a green edge when applying for jobs, grants or school programs. Completion of this course offers graduates their choice of legitimate and formal certificates through Permaculture Institute (USA), Permaculture Association (UK) or Permaculture Research Institute (AU).
The certification granted upon completion of the course will empower participants as permaculture designers, consultants and beginner teachers and to be able to use the word permaculture legally in their practice, business or project. This sustainability education eco-training certificate is a practical path for greening your life, resume and portfolio.
PROGRAM CURRICULUM
See the attached file for the course schedule and curriculum.
INSTRUCTOR BIOS
Kym Chi is a dedicated advocate of earth stewardship, people care and regenerative action for future resilience. Her main efforts are as a creative facilitator, artist, healer, medicine woman and community builder. To date, Kym has received 3 certificates in Permaculture Design, completed multiple teacher trainings, taken a variety of advanced trainings and completed a Diploma in Permaculture Education. With a love of learning, she continues to take courses that grow her understanding of the natural world. Through her stewardship of a deepened connection with the environment, Kym wishes to inspire creative self-expression and value centred living to enrich and create healthy, abundant habitats and communities. With a focus on Social Permaculture, Kym mentors others on their life path and focusses on ways to support organizations and communities to become more resilient. She lives on the West Coast of Canada where she teaches and mentors in Permaculture and runs a holistic healing practice and acts as the Executive Director of One Straw Society helping to create a thriving local food system on the lower Sunshine Coast.
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