PREPARATION FOR THE GLOBAL TRANSITION

¡Attention! No more scholarships available. We have filled our quota. We still have seats available for this journey. If you pay before the 2 december pay only 70,000.

An international qualification and practical toolkit for creating a sustainable future by design. Grifen Hope and  Javiera Carrión will co-facilitate this journey of transformation with the team from Permaculture in the living university of Villa El Manzano.

And now, a new element to our courses, live conference with international guests and leaders in the permaculture, ecovillage and transition movements. Our friends Geoff Lawton (Permaculture Research Institute), David Holmgren (Co-creador de la Permacultura), Darren Doherty (Maestro de la Permacultura), Liora Adler (cofundador de Universidad Gaia), y Rob Hopkins (Transition Towns) will be joining us through live conference to share with us their thoughts and experience about the challenges and opportunities in the world of sustainability.

Our central objective is to train and equip a team of teachers  designers and regeneration actionists in Chile and around the world working together to cultivate practical action for local resilience.  A transdisciplinary team capable of creating (design and implement) lifeboats; demonstration sites to serve as models to help build sustainable human settlements in homes, schools, workplaces and communities.

The Permaculture Design Course has motivated and trained thousands of permaculture activists, designers and educators in the world ... ... a global network generating local and global impact.

"What we are doing...permaculturists. Is the most important activity that takes place on the planet" (David Suzuki).

"Permaculture is common sense, that is no longer common" (Joe Polaischer).

Be a leader in your community, equip yourself with the tools to redesign your lifestyle, your school, your work or community for a sustainable and healthy living. Develop a speech on sustainability that allows you to participate in the implementation of local and global solutions, be the change.

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DETAILS

When: Feb 13th to 28th 2010.

Where: El Manzano, Cabrero, Región del Bío-Bío, Chile.

Format: 9am-10pm, starting on February 2, with a free day optional field trip in the middle of the course. Students need to arrive on Thursday afternoon before the course begins.

Price: Adults $280,000 to $750,000. Sliding Scale of your income and opportunities.

Deposit: amount is required to reserve quota of $ 75,000, not refundable after April 1, 2010. The balance is due at least one week prior to the course start date.

Data to make a deposit:

Agricola y Forestal El Manzano Limitada
Rut: 79.755.000-0
Banco BCI
Cuenta Corriente nº 73202045.

Discounts available for couples. We have some Scholarships davailable for people with low resources. Price includes all food and accomodation. Niños $140.000 por niño. 

YOU CAN PAY FOR THIS COURSE USING FRANQUICIA TRIBUTARIA CÓDIGO SENCE. To get the code and more information contact Javiera javiera@ecoescuela.cl. If you are a resident of Chile and work for a business or school etc the Chilean Givernment will reimburse you the course cost. You can read the details here.

Contacto: Carolina Heidke

Telephono: +56-43-1972261 o +56-9-74322221

Dirección: Casilla 15, Cabrero, Region del Biobio, Chile

Web: www.ecoescuela.cl

Our Network: Ecoescuela

Facilitadore(s): Grifen Hope, Javiera Carrion, Jorge Carrión, Carolina Heidke and Jose Carrión.

Applications: Click here to download the Application Form. Please send your registration form as soon as possible, we have limited vacancies. Contact us soon! Send us information by mail as soon as possible to reserve your seat! To ensure your place will have to make a deposit as soon as possible. Deposit is non refundable after March 2 2010.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Course Themes

• Evidence of the global crisis, symptoms ecological, social and economic, climate change and peak oil.

• Ethics and principles of permaculture.

• Observation and reading the landscape.

• Principles and Applications of Ecological Design.

• Water and Landscape: strategies for capturing and storing water, aquaculture, water harvesting, treatment and management.
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• Geology and Soils: Understanding on formation and composition of the soil, management techniques, recovery and control erosion.

• Establishment of permaculture systems: orchards and greenhouses, fruit growing organic, integrated management of animals, tree planting, agroforestry, ecological management of pests and diseases.

• Climate and microclimate: adapting to the place, eg. Short-curtain design wind.

• Biology of Construction, design and location of houses and room facilities.

• Appropriate technology, renewable energy, etc..

• Recycling and waste management.

• Design and disaster prevention.

• Design for Community: legal structures, alternative economic systems, techniques of dialogue and decision making by consensus.

• Global Permaculture.

• Also: Yoga, Agnihotra, music, dance, laugh, videos, discussion, Lagunazo, campfires, pure good vibes ... and much work and group activities.

DESIGN CAPACITY

This is a design course, whose main objective is to develop effective design capabilities through the practical application of knowledge and tools. Students work on actual design problems in El Manzano, supporting and guiding the community to determine their own future. Students will have the opportunity to participate in the research, design and development of a community project to transform the school into a community center effective and transformative educational and mobilizing a community in transition towards a sustainable future. This is an opportunity to learn through participation in a real community design process.

"There is no power like that of a community discovering what matters to them" (Margaret Wheatley).

ACCREDITATION

Theoretical-practical and intensive course based on the original 72-hour curriculum created by Bill Mollison and adapted to local realities integrating methods and materials of many permaculture educators from around the world in this unique and exclusive event. Grifen is a registered teacher by Tagari. 

"Our biggest fear is not inadequate. Our greatest fear is that we are powerful without limits "(Nelson Mandela).

Students who complete the course can design, advise and teach Permaculture anywhere in the world. Graduates will be supported and guided to develop an action plan for lifelong learning and action as part of a global network of activists, educators and design professionals. Students will be awarded a Certificate of Permaculture Design recognized; Instituto de Permacultura Chile, Permaculture Institute, Permaculture in New Zealand, y el Permaculture Research Institute. Students have the opportunity to do a Diploma in Applied Permaculture Design with the Chilean Institute of Permaculture or Nodo Espiral, or a Master's or Doctorate degree with Gaia University.

No prior experience required.

The course will be fully bilingual translation between English and Spanish.

Discover strategies for sustainable systems and a wide range of situations, climates and locations.

TUTORES

Grifen Hope: is a permaculture teacher and designer from New Zealand. Born and raised in an alternative community, he has great faith in people and their common sense, simple solutions that restore hope for the future. Active citizen and maker of hand, he is completanente committed to making a difference in this life, train other leaders and activists to the important work of the coming decades. He studied urban design and planning and natural resource center manager Taranaki Environment since 2004, developing a holistic community perspective on education for sustainability. Faucets have a wide experience in natural resource management, and has designed and implemented several systems intensive food production in New Zealand. Educator experiencing youth and adults, has facilitated many seminars, workshops and courses on the theory and practice of sustainable living, including courses in Permaculture Design Certificate along with some of the most experienced educators in the world in permaculture design (Joe Polaischer, Geoff Lawton, Darren Doherty, Robina McCurdy and many more). In these dark times, Faucets maintains the fundamental belief that all change, including large and powerful changes in a simple conversation begin ... the way we co-create our world.

Javiera Carrion: daughter of Peruvian father and Chilean mother, primary education course at the German School in Santiago, Chile to complete the teachings mean in the German School of Guadalajara, Mexico. is a young woman who lives and works in the field of his family, making a difference every day through humble acts of responsibility. Having traveled the world in search of wisdom, has found his place of origin, the seed of sustainability, in the common sense of his own people. Abandoning his career Winemaker Agronomist, has embarked on a journey of a lifetime to create global change beginning at home. Guided by her ethics, Javiera has begun redesigning her home for sustainable living, a step by step process of choosing and creating the conditions necessary to provide wealth to their family life and community. Agroecological heart, has a deep understanding of the tools and techniques necessary to create self-sufficiency, to transform into productive lands and territories and sustainable. Javiera have essential knowledge of the principles and pathways to sustainability, achieved through advanced course attendance Permaculture with David Holmgren (co-originator of permaculture) in the Rainbow Valley Farm in New Zealand, and two intensive weeks of coordination, translation and tour guide David Holmgren by Chile. His motivation now is to create the Chilean Institute of Permaculture, and establish a national education system on sustainability based on the experience of all and for all. It is dedicated to inspire and mobilize a national team and a network dedicated to creating a sustainable future ... a small act done with great love.

FOOD AND LODGING

All food and accommodation are included in course price. Organic fruit and vegetables.

We have a wide range of accommodation options including camping, dormitory with mattresses and a small house in the town ... ... in order of arrival distribution or need.

Locals who have their own home will receive a discounted price. You are welcome to find your own accomodation.

CHILDREN

Families and Children Welcome! We recognize that children can be distracting during the course but rescued the importance and value of adult-child interaction during a design course. That's why the Chilean Institute of Permaculture has developed a program for children Permaculture will be held simultaneously in El Manzano for children of parents who take the course design. For more information please contact us.

"The Permaculture Complete Course for children (CCPeNi) comprises most of the objectives that arise in a PDC for adults. Children of any age can choose this form of learning in action. Theory is delivered and put into practice immediately. These concepts are used wisely to ensure the enjoyment of entertaining education about the environment and intelligent design of living spaces.

From this work plan are expected specific outcomes, such as the balance in the use of the resources that are extracted from the existing natural resources around us and recycle them. Learn about overconsumption and its effects on society, on the need for biodiversity, and also raise awareness, build and use clean energy. Learn to sustain and maintain ecological environments through learning life live and play.

Learning and activities are governed mainly by the three Ethics of Permaculture:
• Care of the earth.
• Care of people.
• Sharing resources.

Some activities are: making bread, a vegetable garden, natural farming, everything about organic farming, composting, vermiculture, crop seeds, observation of our environment, recycling, the design of our home etc ... All together with games, dances , art and fun as the kids like. "

TRANSPORT

Please coordinate your transportation to and from San Pedro with us. The best option is to organize and share a car from your own community to the course. There are buses that arrive at Cabrero or Intersection with Route 5 where we go for. Please contact us for coordination, only did a day trip to Cabrero.