Permaculture Design Course: Summer Residential Immersive

(Postponed Until Summer 2010)

Our partner Dancing Green offers the whole Permaculture design course curriculum as an immersion in educational experiences of integration, collaboration, consensus, and self-empowerment within the context of Permaculture land-use design. The 17-day residential immersive allows you two levels of enhanced focus: (1) the routines of daily life are set aside, freeing & enhancing your attention, & (2) the process is predominately collaborative. Whether in micro- or macro-clusters, you will be living collaboratively and immersed in skill building as we consciously design the site at hand for the good of the whole.

Course facilitator Dawn Shiner lives simply by choice and has guided Permaculture design presentations, workshops and courses at private residences, environmental centers, universities and colleges since 1987. She is the founder of Dancing Green, Inc. and also serves as a Regional Organizer for Gaia University. Dawn holds an MS in Integrative EcoSocial Design with a focus on Permaculture Education from Gaia University. She will be assisted by a team of guest speakers and project leaders. For more information about other course offerings see www.sustainableagriculture.org or call Dawn at 540-745-5994.

Dancing Green, in a forever-evolving process, developed the kinesthetic 17-day course to get beyond the limiting linear approaches precluding wholistic education. Adding the hands-on components took our courses into integrated action-learning for greater empowerment as systems designers. We have since added a good measure of self-facilitation skills to increase collaborative harmony and run the immersion courses as collaborative consensus community. As an organism we individuate and collaborate. We integrate into place through kitchen and life's daily chores while we expand everyone's design parameters to revere the gifts of sun, water, earth and air.

17-days of integrated design immersed in action-learning, assessing self and land: surveying, mapping, analysing, designing, implementing, evaluating feedback and re-designing as needed. Designing ourselves into nature's patterns, we offer educational experiences of integration, collaboration, consensus, and self-empowerment within the context of Permaculture land-use design.

Living intentional community for 17 days, all individuals cooperative as large and small design clusters. All chores are shared and meals are vegetarian. Days are structured with input, observation, brainstorming, research, mapping and designing. Guest presentations by experienced, local residents and field trips to working sites permeate the course offering integrated approaches to land, animals and structures. Those successfully completing the course collaboratively present their design work and design report to the client and interested public.

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