ABOUT THIS COURSE

Training Permaculture Teachers (TPT) is an international teachers training course offered in English and organised by Projecto Novas Descobertas. The course will be available to PDC holders from any country.

Join permaculture teachers Patricia Pereira and Hugo Oliveira for seven days of intensive training that will provide you with an invaluable toolkit to use in regenerative learning contexts. This course will include the invaluable contribution of Alfred Decker with online masterclasses, Q&A sessions and mentoring opportunities.

Together they will facilitate internationally renowned teacher Rosemary (Rowe) Morrow’s TPT course, which draws on her decades of permaculture teaching experience. Whether you are already a teacher, or thinking of becoming one, the TPT training makes teaching a transformative and fun exchange.
This course will focus on practical skills and opportunities to facilitate learning, providing real opportunities for teaching and learning. It also includes the possibility for a placement with our teams in next programs and courses.

TPT is designed for those who want to teach based on participatory learning methods. The course will help participants to:
– Review the way they think about education
– Move towards a permaculture teaching career
– Empower others with life-changing skills
– Learn to pass on knowledge of permaculture theory and practice in ways that creates real change in their students and activates entire communities
– Make connections with an international community of permaculture teachers

This course is for PDC holders in any of the following fields…
…teachers and students of architecture, landscape design, school/community gardeners, local government community development officers, ecology and other disciplines including geography, regenerative agriculture and agroforestry as well as permaculture design. If you’re looking to do any type of sustainability or permaculture education/communication, this is the course you’ve been waiting for.

YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

– Design short and long courses
– Develop clear course outcomes and ethics
– Adopt appropriate body behaviour and use nonviolent communication
– Prepare learning resources and use teaching aids effectively
– Organise classroom and learning environments
– Work with a broad range of people from different cultures and backgrounds
– Draw on strategies that promote thinking and integrate practical experience
– Deliver clear explanations and concepts
– Explain the structure and function of the Permaculture Design Course (PDC)
– Give engaging digital presentations
– Debrief, appraise, and apply other teaching techniques
– Work collaboratively in groups
– Practice teaching in a safe, supportive community of peers.

We require all participants to have completed a PDC anywhere in the world before the TPT begins.

ALSO INCLUDES

– A teacher training certificate issued by the Permaculture Association of Britain;
– A new generation of permaculture teachers and doers for you to join!;
– A pack of digital teaching resources;
– Participants who subscribe to Permaculture Magazine receive a 30% discount on Permanent Publications books and free postage and packing for the UK;
– Option to buy a printed copy of Rosemary’s TPT Manual at the cost of printing (free download her)

WHO IS ROSEMARY “ROWE” MORROW ?

Rosemary is known and loved worldwide as a permaculture teacher, practitioner, and activist. She has travelled the globe for four decades, often in countries shattered by war and disasters, sharing her passion for permaculture and social justice. Her belief is that access to useful knowledge is a basic human right.

Several years ago, Rosemary decided to focus on teacher training courses in order to have a “multiplier effect” believing that the bottleneck keeping permaculture from growing more rapidly is not a shortage of curriculum and experience, but rather a shortage of competent permaculture teachers. So she created this TPT course to give people the skills and confidence needed to take the big step from being a practitioner to becoming a teacher.

Her pragmatic and effective approach working with and being led by local people has created community-scale permaculture projects and outcomes across a broad range of environments from drylands in Ethiopia, to the wet tropics of Vietnam. She brings knowledge and experience to creating abundance, food security and successful sustainable farming models. She is the author of the Earth User’s Guide to Permaculture, the Earth User’s Guide to Teaching Permaculture, The Family Seedsaving Book, and A Good Home Forever.

WHY IS THIS COURSE AT PROJECTO NOVAS DESCOBERTAS ?

EXPERIENCE
Projecto Novas Descobertas is committed to EcoSocial Regeneration and Permaculture Ethics, it has been hosting international PDCs since 2008, Permaculture Teacher Trainings since 2011, youth leadership trainings since 1998, and yearly training of volunteers and interns.

NON-FORMAL EDUCATION
We offer an experience of more than 25 years in group building, facilitation and non-formal education. We work with people of all ages and backgrounds to raise awareness, build capacity and to research best practices for facilitating learning on Regeneration and sustainability. Our deepest focus is on youth, youth leaders and learning communities as key elements of the next generation.

REGENERATIVE FARMING
You will be immersed in an educational campus that includes almost daily school visits, workshops and internships. Plus we are based at Quinta do Vale da Lama, a Regenerative Organic Farm that manages around 40 hectares of land in Algave´s semi-arid climate.

ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION
We are aligned with the UN Decade for Ecosystem Restoration 2021/2030, in this sense we are devoting time and learning skills to act on our Bioregion.

WHAT IS THE COURSE FLOW AND DAILY ROUTINES ?

You can get a sense of this course flow and content on by reading the TPT Manual (free download here), a teaching guide written by Rosemary Morrow based on her experience offering these teaching trainings.

Most daily routines are part of our campus and learning community culture, including daily morning circles for group agreements and housekeeping, evening for skills sharing and celebration and farm volunteering opportunities.

Our learning sessions will mainly focus on content in the morning allowing afternoons for group work, course design and teaching skills practice. There will also be online masterclass, Q&A sessions and mentoring opportunities.