Permaculture Courses

An Advanced Certification Course:
Permaculture Teacher Training

with Jude Hobbs and Tom Ward

June 22- 27, 2005

Prerequisite: Permaculture Design Course Certificate
or experience in permaculture

Phlox Paniculata

Empower yourself to promote sustainable living and design!

In this dynamic, interactive and fun course learn powerful teaching techniques to communicate whole systems education and Permaculture principles. Jude and Tom create innovative experiences that address varied adult learning styles and utilize your unique strengths and talents. Lecture, discussions, module building and team presentations provide the essential learning experiences for this course.

Course Tuition: $600 (includes course materials, camping, and three organic meals a day)

Prerequisite: Permaculture Design Course Certificate or experience in permaculture

Location: Wolf Gulch Farm, Jacksonville, Oregon. Classes will take place in a straw bale retreat center.

For more information or to register, contact:
Maud Macrory at tompowell7@aol.com or (541) 899-9668

Course Topics Include:

• Philosophy and Ethics of Instruction
• Teaching Systems, Principles and Patterns
• Planning, Marketing, and Economics
• Adult Learning Styles
• Organizing Curriculum, Modules and Resources
• Integrating Gender Balance
• Teaching Space Logistics
• Team Teaching
• Presentations and Facilitators Roles
• Time Management
• Exercises and Media Aids
• Interns and Apprentices
• Evaluations and Feedback
• Tricks of the Trade
• Keeping Up The Spirit

Jude and Tom tend to be linear thinkers-so this course will be packed with specifics about the above information…..

Jude Hobbs is a horticulturist, permaculture designer, and instructor. She has presented workshops and courses throughout the West for 15 years, developing curricula that encompass diverse learning styles. Since 1982, Jude's landscape design business has provided environmental design solutions for urban and rural. She has written A Guide to Multi-Functional Hedgerows for Oregon State University Extension Service, and tends a forest garden in Eugene, Oregon.

Tom Ward is an enthno-botoanist, eco-forester and PC designer. He
has extensive multi-cultural experience in the USA and overseas.
He is the author of Greenward Ho: An ecological approach to Sustainable Health. Tom has developed curricula for PC courses at Laney College and D-Q University in California. He has taught PC Design Courses for 17 years and is based in Ashland, Oregon building ecotopian culture for 26 years.

Certification:
Course graduates will receive a Teacher Training Certificate from the Cascadia Permaculture Institute.