Starting soon
NEW COURSE
STARTS 18th OCTOBER
With Morag Gamble
Join our new 6-week global online Permaculture Teacher Certificate
Have you ever considered becoming a permaculture teacher - to make a living, for your community, for your children, for the planet?
 
For almost 30 years, Morag has been teaching permaculture around the world and ABSOLUTELY loves it. She's excited to invite you to join her in this new global online course to become a teacher, or if you already teach, to brush up on your skills.
 
TEACH Permaculture is our new Permaculture Teacher Certificate program at the Permaculture Education Institute - a deep dive into the world of teaching permaculture.
 
This 8-week course will start on October 18th and you'll graduate on November 20th. Together we will explore a wide range of intensely practical skills, tools and knowledge that will help you to design and deliver amazing permaculture programs to fit your community, your skill set and create a living too.
 
We are offering this new program because we want so many more people to become confident permaculture teachers. We know the need for adaptable and skilled permaculture educators and leaders is rapidly growing around the world.
 
Course teacher
This course presents an opportunity to learn directly with Morag Gamble who love permaculture education, lives and breathes permaculture, and embody the permaculture ethics and principles throughout the programs she offers and projects she is involved with.
Morag Gamble
Morag is the founder of the Permaculture Education Institute and a global permaculture ambassador. She has had the pleasure of teaching permaculture educators on 6 continents, and over the past 3 decades, permaculture teaching has taken her to 22 countries. She designs all kinds of permaculture programs - for children, youth and adults in community and professional settings. She speaks regularly at events, teaches into universities and hosts school permaculture camps.
 

As she was learning to be a teacher, she co-founded Northey Street City Farm - a demonstration permaculture urban garden and in 1998 began living and teaching in a UN recognised ecovillage on Gubbi Gubbi country. This is her home and the Institute HQ - it's also the place where she create the permaculture youtube clips and blogs which have been viewed millions of times.

Morag is thrilled to have supported the emergence of the award-winning global Permayouth, and enabled access to free permaculture education to thousands of refugees through a registered education charity she runs. Every month too, she just loves hosting the global permaculture conversations through online education events, masterclass series and permaculture film club.

How the course works
Weekly live sessions on zoom
Every Monday from October 16th to November 13th from 4:00 PM to 6 PM AEST

Weekly tutorials on zoom
Every Wednesday from October 18th to November 15th from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM AEST 
 
Recordings of these sessions will be made available.

Lifetime access to self-paced course content
 
Permaculture Teacher Certificate - for people who attend 80% of sessions and complete the teaching project
 

PRE-REQUISITE
Registrants need to have completed a Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC).
TEACH Permaculture is a Permaculture Teacher Certificate - an advanced permaculture certificate, extending upon and enriching the learning from the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC).

[Please note, if you don't have a Permaculture Design Certificate and want to join our combined teaching and design course, click here. Our Permaculture Educators Program is open any day to begin.]

COST
The course cost is $1297 Australian Dollars (special foundation course price. In 2023, the price will be $1697). A payment plan is available: 4 x fortnightly payment of AUD$335.

HOW TO REGISTER
To join, just click the button and follow the prompts. Course materials open on Friday 13st October and our first session together is 17th October.

Course Outline
WEEK 1: INTRODUCING PERMACULTURE TEACHING

What is permaculture education?
Reasons for being a permaculture teacher.
Applying permaculture principles and ethics in permaculture education.
Identifying opportunities for permaculture teachers

WEEK 2: GROWING YOUR PERMACULTURE TEACHING ECOSYSTEM
Embodying earth care in permaculture education
Thinking like an ecosystem - ecoliteracy, systems thinking, non-violent communication
Growing your local permaculture education ecosystem

WEEK 3: DEVELOPING PERMACULTURE PROGRAMS
Setting goals for your permaculture education program
Identifying learner and local needs for the permaculture program
Designing a permaculture program from patterns to details
Developing relevant curriculum and adapting for local contexts
Creating lesson plans and activity guides

WEEK 4: TEACHING PERMACULTURE
Understanding learning and teaching methods
Diverse of modes of learner-centred education
Developing your natural & authentic style of permaculture teaching
How, when and why to use different teaching methods
Being a reflective practitioner

WEEK 5: THE PERMACULTURE TEACHER'S TOOLBOX
Filling your teaching toolbox with a range of strategies for teaching different topics
Understanding activity design to localise teaching relevance
Finding your stories
Troubleshooting
Logistics, budgetting and finding learners

WEEK 6: PEOPLE CARE IN PERMACULTURE TEACHING
People care through appropriate language and leadership
Creating a nourishing learning environment
Cultivating thriving learning communities
Learner care, team care and self care

WEEK 7: GLOBAL PERMACULTURE EDUCATION & FAIR SHARE
Teaching permaculture beyond your bioregion
Permaculture education with refugees
Permaculture as appropriate technology
Permaculture mentoring and crowd-funding
Global digital learning possibilities

WEEK 8: PERMACULTURE EDUCATION TEACH-IN
Sharing your permaculture education programs
Teaching practice
Reflective practices as a permaculture educator

Ask Morag
Do you still have questions about this program? Please make a time to talk with Morag directly. Click here.
Expression of Interest
Pre-requisite*
TEACH Permaculture is hosted by the Permaculture Education Institute
 
In TEACH Permaculture you will focus on how to lead wonderfully relevant permaculture programs for the people you want to work with, in the area where you are, and be better equipped to teach a Permaculture Design Course too.
Permaculture Education Institute
Crystal Waters Ecovillage, Australia
 
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the Country where we live and love, and pay our deep respect to elders past and present.