Upcoming Living Ecology Courses

November 2019 through January 2020

 

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Permaculture Design Course (12 days)

November 9-21, 2019

See Aranya Agricultural Alternatives website description.
www.permacultureindia.org/aranya-events/
and http://permacultureindia.org/permaculture-design-course/

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Permaculture Teacher Training (6 days)

November 23-28, 2019

Come and join us for this certificate course studying and practicing the art and science of effective teaching, through a wholistic permaculture perspective.

 The Curriculum includes:

The Art and Science of Teaching

Teaching to Various Learning Styles and  the Multiple Intelligences

Facilitating Experiential, Creative and Participatory Learning Experiences.

Course Facilitation and Presentation Skills

Giving Good Feedback

Using the Permaculture Principles to Guide Your Teaching

How to Organize a Course – Logistics, Venue, Budgets, Marketing

People Care – Creating Safe Space for Effective Learning

Curriculum Planning

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

Teamwork – Hosts, Co teachers, Guest Presenters, Teaching Assistants and Students.  Facilitating meetings and group decision making. 

Teaching in Culturally Diverse Settings

Teaching Permaculture at the Grassroots Village Level

Personal and Professional Development

Network Building

Lots of practice time to gain skills in masterful teaching!

Prerequisite:  Permaculture Design Certificate Course

Cost:

12 000 INR for Indians or participants from economically disadvantaged countries plus 18% GST.

19 200 INR plus 18% GST for all others.

 

Schedule Information and Registration

http://livingecology.org/course-descriptions/courseschedule/

 

 

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Rain Water Harvesting Course (6 days)

December 1-6, 2019

In this course, you will learn about rain water harvesting earthworks and put that knowledge into practice with villagers on their farms in the rural Indian drylands. Topics covered will include, the context of rain water harvesting today, climatic factors, site assessment, understanding landforms, tools such as A frame, bunyip water level, dumpy level, a wide variety of water harvesting earthwork structures, how to find contour lines in the field, vegetative strategies, and working with poor rural villagers.

Students will apply these rain water harvesting skills on local villager’s farms, helping them drought proof their land, and help you get the hands on experience needed to feel confident to do this kind of work on your own. Living Ecology has been working for 3 years with Aranya Agricultural Alternatives, the hosts of the International Permaculture Convergence 2017, teaching students permaculture consultancy skills and working with farmers to transform their barren lands, or GMO mono-cropped farms, into functional diverse permaculture models for the surrounding areas to be inspired by and learn from.

Cost:

12 000 INR for Indians or participants from economically disadvantaged countries plus 18% GST.

19 000 INR plus 18% GST for all others.

Schedule Information and Registration

http://livingecology.org/course-descriptions/courseschedule/

 

Permaculture Solutions for Drought Mitigation and Climate Change  (2 days)

December 14-15, 2019

Aranya Agricultural Alternatives has worked with thousands of farmers, bringing permaculture as an alternative to water extractive cash crops, GMOs and unfertile deforested agricultural lands.  Aranya currently received large funding from the World Bank to show how permaculture can provide solutions for farmers in Andrha Pradesh who are suffering greatly from drought and climate change. 
This session will be a focused training for Aranya employees, local villagers and permaculture students in rain water harvesting survey skills for siting contour trenches and farm ponds. We will cover soil fertility and vegetative techniques for increasing farm land’s water retention in the drylands.  
The course will include classroom sessions and field time and  a lecture on Watersheds and Foundational patterns of Water Flow by Oregon State professor Andrew Millison.
This is the only session that will not be hosted at Aranya Farm as it will be held in the Aranya’s project area in Andrha Pradesh.

Cost:

4 000 INR for Indians or participants from economically disadvantaged countries plus 18% GST.

6400 INR plus 18% GST for all others.

 

Schedule Information and Registration

http://livingecology.org/course-descriptions/courseschedule/

 

 

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Advanced Permaculture Design Skills: 
Mapping to Scale and Landscape Graphics (5 days)

December 7-11, 2019

During this course, you will learn the permaculture consultancy skills of how to create a map to scale through triangulation with both a measuring tape and a dumpy level. You will learn how to create a base map, a rainwater harvesting overlay, and a concept design map with colored landscape design graphics for permaculture design planning and client presentations. You will create these maps from surveying local villager’s farms that Living Ecology has been working with doing rain water harvesting earthworks and permaculture design consultations. You will come away with a beautiful map presenting permaculture concepts in a clear, visual way.

Cost:

10 000 INR for Indians or participants from economically disadvantaged countries plus 18% GST.

16 000 INR plus 18% GST for all others.

Schedule Information and Registration

http://livingecology.org/course-descriptions/courseschedule/

 

 

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Permaculture Design Process and Consultancy Skills
(5 days)

December 20-24, 2019

So, what next after you complete a PDC?  Full of information and ready to put it into action, or maybe you already have…  Permaculture is a design science. Creating a farm or village plan that effectively provides solutions to issues, and operates effectively as a cultivated ecosystem, requires the knowledge of how to decide the best placement for each of the component of the system. 
This course will delve into how to go about that design process; through theory,  and hands on examples and practice.  Group work will deepen the learning, as participants will engage in the thought process of design along with other permaculture enthusiasts. 
A completed PDC is a prerequisite for this course. 

Good permaculture design process requires the professional skills used in consultancy, whether for yourself or a client.   This course will cover the steps, process and documents you will use for permaculture consultancy as a professional business.

We will study the permaculture principles, ethics, zones and sectors in an in depth way, and how they are used in design decision making.  You will learn a professional consultation approach; how to read the landscape, and detailed site assessment and analysis methods.
We will cover and practice professional design process which includes client design proposals, design contracts, project budget estimations, change orders, concept plans, revision drafts and master planning.
We will also cover planting strategies, water planning, erosion control, soil fertility and biodiversity. Then we will learn the essential skills of project management and installation. 
This course will jumpstart your permaculture career to a whole new level!  Join us.

Prerequisite:  Permaculture Design Certificate Course

Cost:

10 000 INR for Indians or participants from economically disadvantaged countries plus 18% GST.

16 000 INR plus 18% GST for all others.

Schedule Information and Registration

http://livingecology.org/course-descriptions/courseschedule/

 

 

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School Permaculture Design and Teaching Activities (4 days)

January 24-27, 2019

This course will be taught in typical Living Ecology programming style, a blend of classroom learning  and hands on learning and implementation, benefiting Bodhi school, which is asking for Aranya Agricultural Alternatives programming support.

Cross curricular program design and creative permaculture teaching activities will be the focus.

Prerequisite:  Permaculture Design Certificate Course

Cost:

8000 INR for Indians or participants from economically disadvantaged countries plus 18% GST.

12 800 INR plus 18% GST for all others.

Schedule Information and Registration

http://livingecology.org/course-descriptions/courseschedule/

 

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All courses will be taught with Aranya Agricultural Alternatives,
an incredible non profit organization based
in Hyderadbad, Telangana, India. 
Aranya has 30 years of extensive experience
with small farmers and permaculture
and has a 20 year old dryland permaculture farm
and teaching center.