Course:Introduction to permaculture
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Please note that this is a more in-depth lesson plan created by the facilitator(s) of the class so that you may better prepare for it, and may be subject to change the closer we get to the class date.
What is permaculture?
Date: January 7th, 2009
Preparatory Readings (optional and will be emailed out to students the week before the course):
- Mollison, Bill. Permaculture: A Designer's Manual, 1988, pages 1-4
- Holmgren, David Permaculture Principles
Summary
- What is Permaculture? Permanent + Culture, Permanent + Agriculture
- What is its rich indigenous history, and how did it culminate in the coining of the term and Mollison and Holmgren's work?
- What are its principles and why apply them?
- What are some examples of inspiring Permaculture projects?
Notebooks made from reused paper will be offered by-donation ($2-3 suggested) to students to fundraise for the course.
Course Plan
- 1-Creating intentional space : to mark the beginning of our session together (for example everyone make a noise/sound/chant for about 30 seconds that expresses how you are feeling right now) (1 minute)
- 2-Introducing the MPG, when, how and why it started, who's part of it, what we've done up to now briefly (Heather and Kyra)
-Explaining briefly our vision for the "course" and the methods we will be flowing with...safe space, respect, consensus decision making, facilitators not teachers, there will be a heart keeper and time keeper for every session (choose the heart and time keeper then?)
-Mentioning it's our first time organizing such a course and we are open to all types of feedback and you can come see us individually, and we will hand out anonymous evaluation forms periodically, if something doesn't work for you let us know ! (10 minutes)
- 3-Go around: everyone in the class will say their name and what permaculture is for them. Facilitators will take notes from students comments on the white board and will add if anything is missing. Added to so that we see all the multi-facetedness presented in David Jacke's definition which is a summary and expansion of Mollison's definition and principles from the Designer's Manual (30 minutes)
- 4- History of permaculture (Stef and Kyra) (5 minutes)
- 5- Exploring David Holmgren's 12 principles & Ethics (Eleuthera, Kyra,Steve, Heather,Marion) (30 minutes)
- 6-Open up a dialogue with the class why permaculture is important, what is the evidence of the need to act? and fill in to complement the ideas given then talk about inspiring examples of permaculture practices that deal with thes issues (Steve, Marion & Heather) (20 minutes)
- 7-Announce readings and homework
- 8-Question period (10-15 minutes)
- 9- Closing intentional space (1 minute)
- Notebooks made from reused paper will be offered by-donation to students to fundraise for the course.
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