LA’AKEA PERMACULTURE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
Watch our Video on our permaculture classes!
Permaculture Certification Trainings: These are 7 to 10 day residential events which provide the participants with a certification in Permaculture. They are led by outside teachers who offer a complete intensive training course.
JOIN OUR HOLISTIC PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE IN MARCH!
3rd Aloha ‘Aina Holistic Permaculture Design Course
MARCH 3-19, 2011
Big Island, Hawaii
Including
PERMACULTURE & ECOVILLAGE CURRICULUM
HANDS-ON ACTION-LEARNING
SOCIAL PERMACULTURE
COMMUNITY & DYNAMIC GOVERNANCE
ANIMAL SYSTEMS & FOOD FOREST GARDENING
NATURE AWARENESS & INDIGENOUS WISDOM APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY
EMBODIMENT PRACTICES
INTEGRATIVE ECO-SOCIAL DESIGN
INNER ECOLOGY
INVISIBLE STRUCTURES
SONG, CEREMONY, RITES OF PASSAGE
& MUCH MORE
Course Inspiration
“Aloha ‘Aina” is Hawaiian for “love of the land”, or “to love, respect, and nurture the land.” As human beings now facing a time of great environmental and social transformation, we believe that it is through this spirit of reconnecting to ourselves, to our communities, and to the Earth with a spirit of love and care that we will renew and restore a healthy balance of human beings living in harmony with each other and their natural environment. We are inspired and grateful to be offering this holistic permaculture design intensive to the greater Island Community to further empower and synergize our efforts of personal, ecological, and social regeneration.
Course Description
The Aloha ‘Aina Holistic Permaculture Design Course will include the standard 72-hour permaculture design curriculum based upon the original Mollison and Holmgren ideas and design philosophies published in The Permaculture Designer’s Manual, as well as be a nourishing retreat and hands-on immersion experience of sustainable living ecovillage design. In addition to the standard permaculture design certification curriculum, we recognize permaculture as an expanding, holistic design philosophy encompassing many fields. Accordingly, this permaculture design course will include and integrate additional content and activities such as nature awareness, indigenous wisdom, embodiment practices, inner work, group process, ecovillage design, hands-on, and more. With a focus on tending the inner, outer, and community landscapes… course participants will work with each other and local community residents on tangible design project scenarios to implement positive transformation within themselves and in the local community.
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Our on site staff members offer these classes at various times as a part of our Permaculture Internships:
Permaculture classes:
A basic introduction to permaculture principles and practice, with examples of how we are using them on our land. Learn about zones and guilds, and how all elements in a design have multiple uses.
Edible Landscaping classes:
Learn how to plant beautiful gardens that are also edible! We like to walk along our paths and find lots of berries, flowers and leaves to nibble.
Tropical Herbal Medicines:
Learn about the various useful medicinal plants in our tropical rainforest area, such as tumeric, ginger, anatto, banana sap, coconut, and many others.
Tours of Nearby Farms:
There are many other great farms and permaculture sites nearby, and we go for tours and workdays at carefully selected sites.
Social Permaculture Classes
Community Living Skills
Our goal of creating and maintaining sustainable living systems requires, co creating, and working together to utilize everyone’s talents. In this process many of us receive the gift of looking at our shadow sides which cause conflict in ourselves and with others. Feelings such as greed, envy, pride, anger, deceit and fear can arise.
These classes focus on understanding ourselves, taking responsibility for our feelings and communicating openly with truth. We will utilize Marshal Rosenberg’s Non violent communication method.
Peer Counseling Classes:
How can we best help our children, friends and family to stay emotionally healthy in this complex confusing world? How can we keep our cool while they are melting down and having emotional, irrational moments, and be really effective in helping them through it?
The classes provide a thorough basic introduction to these skills. It will give you understandings and tools to more effectively support the dear ones in your life, in the moments they most need your help. We focus especially on those skills which are simple, inexpensive and natural, including effective listening, counseling and self healing. For ongoing personal growth work, this is a great, life changing resource.