Permaculture Teacher Training

This course covers:
People Care
Creating a welcoming and inclusive learning environment, course agreements, safe space.
Energizer and icebreaking activities
Morning circles
Learning goals and learning outcomes
Teaching permaculture principles
Guidelines for teaching assistants
Well being buddy system
Journaling for intrapersonal growth, and documentation for improving your courses
Increasing learning retention through redundancy
Effective facilitation and meetings
Aranya Farm tour and effective field tour skills
Course facilitation skills
Pedagogy: the art and science of teaching
Student led learning
Coyote mentoring
Whole person learning
Democratic Education
Learning Experiences vs. teaching
Teaching to the multiple intelligences
Sensory learning
Ways of facilitating creative and participatory learning experiences
Teaching adult learners
Critical thinking and the art of questioning
Presentation skills
Teaching Permaculture in village settings
Review Activities
Permaculture ethics and principles in teaching
Active listening and effective feedback
Curriculum and Lesson Planning
PDC Core Curriculum
How to organize a course
Networking
Final teaching presentations
Reintegration and closing circle

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Rain Water Harvesting Earthworks

Curriculum includes:
Overview of water harvesting and the global water crisis
Climate change and water
Types of water harvesting earthworks
How to make and use surveying tools for rain water harvesting
8 principles of water harvesting
Competency in using an A frame, bunyip water level and dumpy level for appropriate placement of rain water harvesting earthworks.
Field visits to a cooperative women’s project using water harvesting and permaculture planting methods Landforms and hydrating the landscape evenly
Terraces, road ways, paths and homesites
Vegetative solutions and soil fertility relationship to water
Planting and mulching
Climate and site assessment
High rainfall events and permaculture disaster planning
Percolation tank siting and construction planning
Gully plug and check dam field visit
Client interviewing
Site inventories
Expanding nature awareness
Water harvesting calculations
Planned overflows
Marking contours
One acre farm design
Planning access for ploughing
Directing a JCP machine excavating our planned earthworks
Hand digging earthworks
Post digging clean up
Erosion control methods
Planting methods
Urban rain water harvesting
Social permaculture
Village water issues
Writing a management plan

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Mapping to Scale and Landscape Graphics

This is an essential skill for permaculture design planning and permaculture design consultancy as a professional business.  It allows you to do full planning of all elements in their relative locations on paper.
This course covers:
Mapping by triangulation using a tape measure.
Mapping by triangulation through the angles of a dumpy level.
How to correctly document measurements so mistakes are not made.
How to create a proper sketch map.
Essential components of a map and how to draw them.
Aranya Farm’s design and tour.
Tour of village farmers implementing permaculture design.
How to complete whole process of all mapping documents, base map, rain water harvesting overlay and final design map. And creating them in a beautiful format for a final presentation, as well as your portfolio.
Finding degree of slope using a bunyip water level.
Landscape graphics and coloring methods.
Complex mapping methods.
Increasing observation skills.
One acre farm design for the Indian drylands.
Permaculture trees for the Indian drylands.

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Permaculture Solutions for Drought Mitigation and Climate Change

This course includes:
An introduction to Aranya Agricultural Alternatives project modeling how permaculture creates resiliency to drought and climate change, and their work with 36 villages in Andrha Pradesh.
Farmer interaction gauging the impact of the project.
Agriculture’s relationship to climate change
Agroecology and agrodiversity
Advantages of perennial and polycultural agricultural systems.
Water and climate change
Microclimates
Lecture on Watersheds and Foundational patterns of Water Flow by Oregon State professor Andrew Millison
Field sessions learning to use survey tools for rain water harvesting – A frame, bunyip water level and dumpy level.
Field session practicing finding contour lines for rain water harvesting trenches.
Field session on reading the land for appropriate placement of farm ponds.

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Permaculture Design Process and Consultancy Skills

This course covers:
Using permaculture principles for design process
Building your career through portfolio creation and social engagement
Learning from Aranya Farm’s design
Experiences and issues in consultancy
Professional consultation methods – theory and practice
Reading the landscape
Pre and on Site Assessment – theory and practice
Site Inventory – theory and practice
Client intake and interview – theory and actual creation
Working in village settings
Site assessment practicum
Professional design process and client interactions
Consultation report – theory and actual creation
Design proposal process
Design contracts
Change order template
Project estimation and budget
Permaculture connections
Fundamentals of Design Process
Concept Plans – theory and actual creation
Nature connection and expanding observation skills
Botany awareness
Practicum in sketch mapping and site analysis
Design Analysis and design program
Functional diagrams – theory and actual creation
Preliminary concept design
Revision Drafts
Master Planning
Planting strategy and irrigation planning
Zones and Sectors
Pattern planning
Water planning
Erosion control
Soil fertility
Biodiversity
Project Management
Documentation
Project Install contract
Invoicing
Final presentation of your master plan for a village farm.

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School Permaculture Design
and Teaching Activities

This course covers:
The ways children learn -Sensory learning, multiple intelligences, learning pyramid
How to teach using creative methods.
Outlines for permaculture school programming
Curriculum connected agricultural and ecological teaching activities
Permaculture connections for children.
Permaculture design approach for schools in a participatory method with school staff and school children.
Practice in teaching school children at multiple age levels and engaging staff in the joy of teaching with new methods
Working with Bodhi school and creating deeper interconnection with Aranya Agricultural Alternatives.
This course will include a lot of practical time and integrating the feedback on how sessions went with the school.

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