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Permaculture is a process of becoming conscious by evolving our awareness about what is happening in the world as a consequence of our actions. Using this awareness we can refine our life and lifestyle, work and relationships, plans and applications. It is based on creating systems that are efficient, catch and store energy, produce functional energy in abundance, value renewable and recycling ethics, design from nature, and utilize edges to promote biodiversity, permaculture is working to stabilize and heal the toxification of our world. In a nutshell, permaculture promotes intentional education about sustainable, low impact, highly productive systems of design and development. Permaculture education focuses on long term awareness, sustainable development, generating abundant surplus, localizing production, generating symbiotic relationships, promoting biodiversity and enforcing resource conservation.
Exploring the real, long-term implications of our actions on all levels, permaculture seeks to cultivate an authentic awareness about how we can have healthy and abundant relationships with all things. With a focus on remediation, permaculture inspires discussion about how to revitalize the earth, remove toxins, safely dispose of dangerous chemicals, reduce waste, and preserve habitats for all the plants and animals of the planet. It has a deep focus on the role and functions of different elements and how they work together to create solutions for existing problems. In short, permaculture is a process of becoming conscious, and integrating that consciousness into our work in the world.
The core curriculum of permaculture is cross disciplinary, able to inform and evolve the development of any relationship, project, communication, structure, philosophy, or lifestyle.
In this light a permacultural convergence is being organized deep in the lush redwood forests of a northern California retreat center. Organized by Jenny Pell of the Wilder Institute, this 112 hour certified permaculture design course will also integrate classes on art, language, theater, movement and yoga. This two week, next generation permaculture and the arts retreat is happening at Frogwood, a spirited learning center supporting intentional culture and alternative education.
By evolving the way we design our role and place on the planet, this course will help us to refine the way we live and relate to ourselves, each other and our world. Integrating the idea of holistic living, permaculture stresses the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle through appled awareness and life long learning.
This design course is intended to create more than just a living classroom, it looks to imbed a refined template of experiential education into the context of conscious living on a number of different levels.
Permaculture classes and projects will explore the application of concepts like indigenous cultivation, traditions and practices, perennial polycultures, bioremediation, agroforestry, ecovillage design, whole systems theory and ecoliteracy. Daily yoga classes will compliment an exploration of body ecology that includes contact dance, authentic movement, and playback theater. Daily art classes will use painting and drawing, as well as sacred geometry and mandala building, to inform the process of designing gardens and other permaculture systems. A delicious diet of vegetarian and raw food meals helps to support integrative learning by providing clean, healthy energy to fuel the process.
The experiential curriculum supports individual learning paths in the context of collaborative group projects and caters to a polymedia of teaching techniques, styles, modes and mediums.
Permaculture education is a way to evolving your relationship to the natural world to enhance the way you are able to communicate and carry out relationships.
Delvin
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