Update 25/4/25: This course is now fully booked. Thank you everyone for your interest!
Our flexible, 8 day course in Transformative holistic teaching methods for aspiring or practising Permaculture Teachers is back this year!
We are keenly aware of the demand and the need for sharing Permaculture in communities across the country and beyond. We're running this course again with the aim of nurturing some new Permaculture teachers into this growing niche!
The course is aimed at those wishing to teach Permaculture and is also applicable to anyone who wants to expand their informal adult and community education teaching/facilitation toolkit.
It is suitable for complete beginners looking to start teaching and also more experienced teachers looking to expand or reinvigorate their practise.
This course is Inspired by permaculture and using whole systems thinking, coupled with action and reflection learning.
It is integrated into our PDC therefore providing opportunities to study a wide tutor team with a diversity of teaching styles, techniques and methods. It is also a sneaky way to repeat a good chunk of your own PDC possibly with different tutors ….(serving multiple functions!)
You will have the benefit of personal guidance from lead tutors Hannah and Suzie, opportunities to plan, practise and receive feedback on your teaching, and ask anything that you ever wanted to know about teaching Permaculture in all kinds of contexts!
You can expect this course to be lively, interactive, learner led, community based, innovative, a little bit challenging and fun!
Participants must have already completed a PDC to apply for this course.
If you have not yet completed a PDC, it is possible to register for both this and the 2025 PDC if you wish, a discount is offered for people who register for both courses.
Our approach to this course
The course is an exciting opportunity to start your teaching/facilitation journey or develop your skills in a ‘live’ setting, through the following approaches: observation, reflection, practise, supportive guidance, and mentorship from experienced teachers.
Each learner will develop their own unique style of teaching. This course offers a dynamic space to do that using the approach we have honed taking our diverse past learning and applying it over the last (combined) 16 years on the Permaculture Design Certificate Courses offered at Carraig Dúlra and in Roscommon. Our PDC’s have people care and a deep understanding of diverse learner needs at its core. Our style nurtures and uses our innate ecological intelligence and brings nature’s design into play to enhance our teaching and facilitation. This approach takes into account both individual learning journeys and a collaborative group culture using active and reflective learning and a designed immersive learning environment. This allows for high levels of peer to peer collaboration between educators, and learners alike. We also explore how to create informal immersive learning environments, and includes lots of games and fun or ‘edutainment’ (education and entertainment),
What you’ll do on the course:
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See and learn from the diverse teaching and learning styles of our PDC tutor team.
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Experience the ‘behind the scene’s of a PDC, join planning and review meetings
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Design sessions, solo and with a co-tutor
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Practise presenting and facilitating in a variety of settings,
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Give and receive feedback
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Evaluate different settings,
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Reflect on and evaluate your practise, explore intentions, goals, and emerging style as an educator and design your pathways forward
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Listen deeply
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Fear- busting
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Avail of one to one mentoring with experienced tutors
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Access opportunities for further ‘shadow teaching’ and mentorship
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Visit Carraig Dulra, Earthcare farm and a number of other Permaculture sites
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Challenge and empower yourself, build self-confidence and have fun!
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As a follow up challenge, you could attend the 2025 All Ireland Permaculture Gathering and teach a workshop there!
Course fee
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Full fee €850
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TSG may be accessible for those in receipt of a social welfare payment, see PDC details for info.
Dates
To complete this course you must attend
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The August weekend of the PDC plus the friday beforehand. DATE TBC
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5 other PDC course days and 1 online PDC session of your choice
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Participate in 3 x 1 hour live online sessions with Lead tutors Suzie and Hannah
As there will be a a maximum of 8 participants on this course the online session dates and times are TBC and can be arranged to suit the group.
