Events & Activities

The Permaculture Design Certificate Teacher Training

June 14 - 18, Monday - Friday, 10am-6pm 

Attention PDC Grads:
In this 5-day intensive training and certification, you will learn to teach permaculture and run a permaculture design course at Hayes Valley Farm. This course will offer you the information, philosophy and delivery techniques of Permaculture Design Certificate course teaching. The course covers preparation of curriculum, slide-shows, and shares examples of courses taught around the world in different styles for different locations. You will be provided variations of PDC course notes you can use and/or adapt to your own teaching style. This course will help you gain the confidence to go out and begin teaching Permaculture courses - which can help you finance your Permaculture ambitions whilst simultaneously helping to hasten the uptake of Permaculture principles worldwide. Through this course you will also have opportunity to potentially become part of the PRI teachers' network, the Urban Permaculture Institute in San Francisco, as well as other affiliated permaculture organizations. You will also be mentored in how to become a registered teacher with Lisa and Bill Mollison's Permaculture Institute of Australia and/or the PRI AU- the only internationally recognized register of Permaculture teachers.

Instructors: Jay Rosenberg, David Stockhausen
Guest Speakers: David Cody, Kevin Bayuk and Geoff Lawton

Information about this course

The course structure is a mixture of lecture and student participation and activity.  Students should come prepared to take notes, share experiences, and provide feedback to teachers and class members. Comfortable clothing, a good notebook, pens and pencils are a must for this class.

Class Times:

Monday to Friday, 10am-6pm. The days will be broken up into 90 minute sessions with breaks in between. Class will begin on-time each day at 10am and finish at 6pm.

Class Location:

Hayes Valley Farm
450 Laguna Street (between Oak & Fell)
San Francisco, California
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Breaks & Lunches:

Breaks and Lunches will be catered each day with vegetarian meals available at request.  However, you may want to consider bringing snacks if you anticipate being hungry throughout the day. Please let us know if you have specific dietary needs and/or restrictions at the time of registration so we have ample time to meet your needs. We will do our best to address different dietary needs, but please be willing to be fleixible if you have complex dietary restrictions.

Pricing:

The fee for the course is $950 including tax and daily lunches. Payment is available through PayPal.

There are three work-trade positions available for this course:

• Course Administrator
• Course Notetaker
• Supporting Trainer

Additionally, we would like to offer two scholarship vouchers for this course through the Timebank. 

$200 - Deposit to register for the course

$950 - Register for the Permaculture Design Certificate Teacher Training

For further information about this course, work trade and scholarship opportunities, or registration inquiries, please contact our Course Administrator.