So what does the new teaching and learning paradigm look like? What kind of learning experiences are transformative? What kind of institutions are equipping the leaders
of today and tomorrow? How we 'teach' for sustainbility literacy?
22–26 Febuary 2012
El Manzano, BioBio Chile
Price from CLP$ E3 104.000 |E2 156.000 | E1 208.000 includes all food and acomodation.
An international qualification and universal for co-creating a resilient
future by Regenerative Design ... this time at home, in El Manzano ...
in both English & Spanish.
4–19 Febrero 2012
El Manzano, BioBio Chile
Experience real world learning as part of a global network doing eco- social regeneration.
Price from USD $600 | CLP $300,000. Sliding Scale based on your income and capacity to pay. Price includes all food and accomodation ... twice the value for half the price.
To speak with a real person contact Carolina Heidke by email or phone +56-9-74322221. Carolina will assist you with the booking process.
Your learning pathway starts here today. Improve your professional
practice. Incubate your own world changing project. Start a career
pathway as a proffessional for transition, connect with a new
transdisciplinary global network working for genunie change.
Geoff asks the international community for help to promote permaculture projects in Cuba, Africa and India at the International Permaculture Conference.
"This is a direct appeal for funding from participants from developing countries doing great work in areas of great need. They deserve to attend the International Permaculture Convergence in Jordan this year September 2011.
We will help them showcase their wonderful work with the rest of the world and learn from the international participants that are attenidng. We need funding, if you can help please donate, we will make sure these people get to state their case of their good work that should be showcased to the world.
We thank you and they will thank you more...lets get some funding together for these people."
An international qualification and universal tool for the co-creation of resilient communities by Regenerative Design...this time we are doing it in the desert...in both English & Spanish.
29 Octubre - 10 Noviembre 2011
Grifen Hope, Javiera Carrion & the team from El Manzano co-facilitate this transformative journey with Macarena Suarez and the permaculture community in...
San Pedro Atacama
Experience real world learning, as part of a transdisciplinary global network working for eco-social regeneration.
Price from $ClP 354.000 - $565.000(Chilean Pesos). Sliding Scale based on your income and ability to pay. Price includes all food and accomodation.
To speak directly with the team please contactCarolina Heidke or
The Chileno Institute of Permaculture has been an experimental approach to the design of an Institute of Permaculture. From the beginning we set out to create a system based on the learning by error of the whole permaculture network worldwide.
The Chileno Permaculture experiment is not without roots. Chile has a long history, hidden by the Pinochet government and its shock doctrine, of cooperative efforts. The government of alliende was attempting to run the country as a cooperative of cooperatives in the 70's and with Stafford Beer onboard, was on the leading edge of comunications technology and participatory democracy.
As the permaculture community heads to Jordan, the Chileno example offers some hope of forms of organisation that can be both emergent and innovative, while ordered and formal.
Join us in September as we prepare for Cuba 2013 for deep insights into how to design for learning communities in the age of uncertainty.
Pucon (meaning "entrance of the cordillera") is an inspiring little community in the south of Chile with a total population of some 20,000, 13,000 of which are in the town itself. Pucon is Chiles latest Transition Town, not yet official, but certainly mulling, and now with a core group of leaders moving and shaking, is set to change the game in this part of the world.
The course itself is a first attempt by two permaculture design course graduates Jose Castro and Martin Araneda to establish themselves as teachers, to develop a local team,
El Manzano Permaculture does Regenerative Design. We create beautiful & resilient human settlements that restore ecology, strengthen community, and stimulate local economy. We can handle every aspect of landuse projects, from initial project creation to design, planning, implementation and ongoing maintenance.
Established in 2007 AppleTree Permaculture is a recognised market leader working at the forefront of innovative and sustainable land-use strategies, urban design, and landscape development in Chile.
We are a collaborative team of landscape designers, ecologists, rural planners,
20 km from Cabrero in the BíoBío Region of Chile is the first "transition town" in Latin America and the only one in Chile. It's called Villa El Manzano and is a tiny town that seeks to achieve ecological self reliance. Behind this project there are three brothers from Santiago who dream of changing the world.
El Manzano sets out to build a campus of the great reskilling, implementing a permaculture master plan, and a summer of bioconstruction. So ends a cycle of change, and another cycle begins.
Since 2009 we have been working on the plans to make El Manzano a world class centre for sustainable education that equips people with the values, knowledge and skills needed to make the transition from an unsustainable growth culture to resilient human communities. As we begin
to attract more and more visitors students and interns our facilities
are often found to be lacking, and not of a quality befitting a green campus.
The house of Miguel was almost finished this weekend, with a final layer of fine plaster going up. The windows are in, the doors are on their hinges, and Miguel almost the proud owner of a handmade house. Replete with frescoes on the wall, this little piece of art may be here in another century as a relic of our story, testament to the ethic of collaboration, of a local, national and international community coming together to help one man achieve his aspirations.
Spanish
Learning to See Anew
The first module of the 
Resilient Human Settlements by Design
20 km from Cabrero in the BíoBío Region of Chile is the first "transition town" in Latin America and the only one in Chile. It's called Villa El Manzano and is a tiny town that seeks to achieve ecological self reliance. Behind this project there are three brothers from Santiago who dream of changing the world.
The house of Miguel was almost finished this weekend, with a final layer of fine plaster going up. The windows are in, the doors are on their hinges, and Miguel almost the proud owner of a handmade house. Replete with frescoes on the wall, this little piece of art may be here in another century as a relic of our story, testament to the ethic of collaboration, of a local, national and international community coming together to help one man achieve his aspirations.
