PERMACULTURE TEACHER TRAINING
9th to 19th November 2024, Darjeeling, India
Advocate for Change Through Teaching Whole Systems and
Passion Based Learning.
In this dynamic and interactive course, we share impactful
teaching techniques that promote effective communication and application of
Permaculture principles and strategies to a wide variety of audiences and
educational settings. Our goal is to encourage and inspire your unique
strengths and abilities by demonstrating diverse teaching modalities including
effective use of lecture, storytelling, class discussions, interactive
experiential activities, visual aids and hands-on skills.
As a class, we create a safe setting of active learning and build
confidence through preparing and co-teaching multiple presentations providing
essential and experiential practice opportunities. Participants engage in
social permaculture and build strong resource networks to support one another
via group projects.
Our time will itself be divided into Lectures, Photoshows,
Discussions, Demonstrations, Exercises, Hands-on, and a walkabout. There will
be a series of presentations, with guidance, that everyone will do, with at
least one opportunity for another. We start basic and simple, then build the
layers of learning from there. This is an engaged experience, with lots of
information shared. We keep the process relaxed while learning about learning
and growing from it.
While this course is focused on preparing one to help others learn
permaculture, it has value for everyone in the teaching professions. It will
help all levels of educators integrate regenerative topics and activities into
their existing curriculum, as well as help them create more regenerative
learning experiences.
Learning grows
Understanding, and is Empowering, Regenerative,
and a Foundational Element of Permaculture Solutions
Course Topics Include:
• Philosophy and Ethics of Being an
Instructor
• The Art of Teaching and
Facilitation
• Adult Learning Styles
• Building Curriculum and Lesson
Plans
• Presenting Styles
• Utilizing Media and Activities
• Co-Instructing
• Time Management
• Venue Logistics, Course Planning,
Marketing and Budgets
• Interns, Apprentices and Mentoring
• Evaluations and Feedback
• Tips from the Trade
• Tips for the Road
• Keeping Up the Spirit
• Self-care
• Right Livelihood
• Extensive Resources and More
This course is
committed to and focused upon each participant starting or continuing on this
educational and socially active path. As part of an ongoing work focus Rico is
committed to assisting those who want to learn how learning happens and those
wanting to engage in the facilitation of the learning experience. This course
will help everyone be more engaged in their learning process while having fun.
With the successful
completion of the required elements a Certificate from the Permaculture
Institute of North America will be awarded. (See MOU in Participant Packet)
Prerequisite:
Permaculture Design Course Certificate or instructor’s
approval.
Instructor:
Rico Zook: With a lifetime
in an educational atmosphere and work, Rico brings decades of experience to
this course. He has facilitated and taught with many different demographics in
widely different locations. Besides leading over 50 PDC’s he has led just as
many short introductory and specialized courses, plus, Farmer trainings on a
variety of topics via translation, as well as, Training the Trainers with NGOs.
Prior to coming to Permaculture he taught courses as diverse as cooking and
martial arts.
For the past 25+ years Rico has been a Permaculture designer,
consultant and educator working with private individuals, farmers, villagers
and local organizations in India, Cambodia, Spain, northern New Mexico, Europe
and other parts of the world. His work focuses on assisting all levels of our
global community to create culturally and environmentally appropriate life
systems that are resilient and regenerative.
Host:
Darjeeling
Ladenla Road Prerna (DLR Prerna)
Website: www.darjeelingprerna.com
FB: Darjeeling Prerna
IG: DLR Prerna
DLR Prerna is
a Darjeeling based NGO working in the Darjeeling Hills since 1996.
Vision
Statement
Darjeeling
Ladenla Road Prerna believes in a world that sees the need to live as one
family where the environment is preserved and protected, where conscious
efforts are made to remove unjust structures while striving to build a just and
humane society.
Mission
statement
Our mission
is to build sustainable human communities in the Darjeeling hills and the
adjoining areas by promoting people's participation, gender equality and living
in harmony with the environment.
Darjeeling
Prerna works towards having regenerative relationships with small farmers,
forest villagers, tea plantations workers, CBOs, CSOs, Educational Institutions
and NGOs in furthering the vision and mission of the organisation. We are a
Darjeeling based organisation and our interventions are grounded in the
specificities and long term lived experiences within the Darjeeling Himalaya.
Our relationships extend across Sikkim as part of the Darjeeling Sikkim
Himalaya. We bring these experiences to the larger discussion tables
negotiating invisible systems that needs supportive policy environments.
Darjeeling Prerna believes in a participatory, inclusive and environment
friendly approach to development and is the organisational philosophy of good
governance within and in all our interventions.
Current focal
areas:
1. Community
conservation
We work with
communities living next to forests especially protected areas in Darjeeling and
Sikkim focussing on sustainable agro-ecology, and managing mountain human
wildlife conflict and advocating for mountain human wildlife conflict policies.
Agro-biodiversity conservation is an integral part of the intervention.
2. Climate
resilient communities
We work with
small farmers in Darjeeling and Sikkim evolving and promoting climate smart
agriculture and agro-forestry. Promotion of diversity of local food cultures is
a critical aspect of our climate resilience intervention and nutrition
sensitive agro-ecology.
3. Community
Health
We work with
tea plantation workers, small farmers and educational institutions especially
in rural Darjeeling.
a. Water
and Sanitation: Knowledge, institution and infrastructure strengthening to
access clean and safe water for all. We are piloting bio-digesters;
evapo-transpiration systems, grey water management systems as well as springshed
recharge as part of our work. We promote sustainable menstrual health and
hygiene.
b. School
Health:
i. Preventive
health education inclusion in curriculum, screening and referrals in partnership
with rural primary schools.
ii. TeaLeaF:
Teacher leading frontline addressing mental health and promoting mental wellbeing
of rural children.
4. Zero Waste
We promote
zero waste principles and practices as a member of Zero Waste Himalaya. We
facilitate direct interventions in Darjeeling and Sikkim with local
self-governance institutions, community-based institutions, government
institutions and educational institutions. We share need for a change in
narrative of waste to not producing waste, no-burn, demanding systemic and
design changes across the Indian Himalayan Region through the Integrated
Mountain Initiative. Zero Waste discussions include changing food choices and
the need to go local and unpackaged.
5. Knowledge
Contextualised
sustainability knowledge and practise within the Darjeeling and Sikkim Himalaya
that is evolved in partnership with small farmers, forest villagers, plantation
workers and educational institutions.
Permaculture: DLR
Prerna’s philosophy and practice has evolved with permaculture principles and
ethics and is woven in our invisible and visible interventions. We have
beenoffering the Permaculture Design Courses in the Darjeeling Hills with Rico
Zook as the trainer since 2005. Shorter term courses for farmers, community
leaders and teachers are being facilitated by the DLR Prerna team in the local
language.
6. Platforms,
Networks and Partnerships
We believe
that our effectiveness, reach and impacts are made manifold through Platforms,
Networks and Partnerships. Our intervention experiences are transferred to
policy landscapes as well as bring solidarity across the Indian Himalayan
Region through the Integrated Mountain Initiative a platform of elected,
bureaucrats and civil societies advocating for mountain sensitive policies. Our
waste interventions are taken forward under the Zero Waste Himalaya, a pan
Himalayan platform of individuals and organisations promoting principles of
zero waste.
Training venue “Mineral
Springs, Dabaipani, Darjeeling”
Mineral
Springs, Dabaipani is an internationally certified organic and
fair-trade labeled collective of 456 small farmers since 2002. The farmers have
come under the Mineral Spring Sanjukta Vikas Sanstha since 1996. The collective
has been marketing small farmers' organic tea in the international
market. The tea is grown as part of a polyculture crop, within thousands
of acres of Forest Garden and food systems
The
participants will have home stay accommodations facilities
with the members of Mineral Spring Sanjukta Vikas Sanstha.
Permaculture Teachers Training Course fees, inclusive of training material, food and lodge:
International
Candidates Rs. 36,000.00
Indian
Nationals residing Rs. 30,000.00
Full Fee deposit
is required to secure your spot in this course. Registration without deposit
will only hold a spot in the course until we are filled. If you have not
deposited the fee by this time your spot will be given to someone who does make
the deposit.
International
Candidates please contact Darjeeling Prerna for details.
CANCELLATION
POLICY
This course
is offered at the lowest possible pricing to make it accessible to as many
people as possible. As such a late cancellation can have a significant impact
on our budget. For this reason, we have the following cancellation policy.
6
weeks or more notice: full refund minus 5% processing fee
4 to 6 weeks
notice: refund minus 25%
2 to 4
weeks notice: refund minus 50%
2
weeks or less notice: refund minus 75%
NB: **** DLR
Prerna and Rico reserves the right to admit candidates to the course.
For further
details:
Darjeeling Ladenla Road (DLR) Prerna,
17/B Cooch Behar Road,
Opposite White Yak Hotel,
Darjeeling 734 101,
West Bengal, India.
Phone Number: +91 9800869959, +91 9932024812
Email: darjeelingprerna@gmail.com , saileshkharel@gmail.com , rairoshan@gmail.com
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