Various post IPC courses will be provided by international Permaculture practitioners during Dec. 9 – 12/13, 2024, depending individual course length. Courses will be listed here. Registration for these courses will still be open during the convergence, meaning you can pay the fee during the convergence. However we suggest you to register early to the benefit of arranging your schedule.
Course #1
Post-IPC Permaculture Teacher Training for Empowering Educators of Youth & Children
Description:
One size does not fit all when it comes to how we teach our youth and children. The methods for integrating permaculture into their learning experience are equally unique to their age and developmental phases, as well as their lived experience and educational setting.
Join Matt as he offers an informative and embodied learning experience for educators of youth and children, relevant from preschool through high school. Similar to how the permaculture design course incorporates a breadth of topics that reinforce the patterns of the natural world and methods of design, this training draws its strength from addressing a wide range of ages and settings.
Even though educators will often work with a specific age range, our philosophy is that there are valuable lessons in understanding and being able to teach to a multitude of ages and developmental phases and this kind of whole-system knowledge and experience will strengthen your understanding and effectiveness as a permaculture educator.
For example, some teachers of high school-aged youth might consider the approaches for working with kindergarten-aged children to be irrelevant, but this couldn’t be farther from the truth! We will draw invaluable insight from approaches designed for younger learners to enliven the educational experience of middle and high schoolers.
One of the key takeaways of this training is the re-discovery of the inner child in all of us. This is the part of us that was most playful and inquisitive, the part that saw the wonders of the world all around us. As our adult lives required a shifting towards greater responsibility, many of us were pressured to squelch the innate spark of our playful inner child. In rekindling this spark, we will enliven and enhance our roles as teachers and mentors.
Another takeaway will be the development of a Permaculture Activity or a Personal Action Plan. You will be provided guidance and time during the training to consider your own goals and objectives. Drawing from the playful and supportive dynamic of the training, this flexible-format output will help propel you in your own teaching and learning journey as a contributor to the growing field of permaculture education for youth & children.
Course Content:
Instructors will model learning sessions and activities for a range of ages, and provide useful methods and approaches for a range of educational settings ranging from forested farms and sprawling schoolyards to inner cities where access to greenspace is often a primary constraint.
Topics will include:
- The Role of Permaculture in Education
- The Theory and Practice of Embodying Permaculture
- Re-awakening our Inner Child
- Inspiration through Exploration
- Teaching to Multiple Intelligences and Alter-Abilities
- Permaculture-informed Class Management
- School Gardens as Permaculture Classrooms
- The Art of Questioning (and not needing to know all the answers!)
- Bringing Learning to the Land with a Farm School
- Creative Approaches to Developing Curriculum & Content
- Challenges & Opportunities of Densely Urban Permaculture Education
Course Activities include:
- Presentations
- Dialogue
- Activity modeling
- Sensory awareness games
- Group work and the development of a Permaculture Activity of Personal Action Plan.
About the Instructors:
*Matt Bibeau, MSEd
Matt is an international permaculture educator based out of Portland, Oregon, USA. He is a lover of nature and finds great joy in connecting youth to the wonders of the natural world. Permaculture helped Matt channel his passion and enthusiasm into garden-based and nature-based education.
Matt completed his PDC with Toby Hemenway in 2006 and Teacher Training with Jude Hobbs in 2008. He holds an undergraduate degree in environmental science and a Master’s Degree in Sustainability Education with a focus on applying permaculture to school gardens and urban educational farms. Matt has taught both college and community-based permaculture courses for adults, has worked in both the public and private school settings in the USA for ages ranging from preschool through high school, and travels to Japan annually to offer programs and training for a wide range of ages.
Matt’s employment background includes tenures with the City Repair Project (2005-2020), Mother Earth School (2009-2015), and the Institute of Permaculture Education for Children (2011-2019). He co-organized advanced permaculture training for youth educators from 2010-2019 and Urban Permaculture Design courses from 2014-2021.
Matt currently lives and works at Jean’s Urban Forest Farm, an educational farm that hosts a full-time grade school as well as seasonal workshops and courses for adults. He also runs a permaculture installation and consultation business, PDX Permaculture, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Oregon Sustainable Agriculture Land Trust and the Permaculture Institute of North America.
Watch an interview with Matt HERE. / Watch an overview of past training HERE.
REGISTER FOR Post-IPC Permaculture Teacher Training for Empowering Educators of Youth & Children
Post-IPC Course ＃2
Japanese Style Traditional and Contemporary Natural Plastering with Earth and Lime
Regsiter for Japanese Style Natural Plastering with Earth and Lime
Description:
Globalization has removed our connection to place. In industrial society, food is highly processed and shipped long distances to your table. You have no connection to the energy used to power and heat your homes. Building materials are industrially produced in factories far from your hands and the construction of your home is controlled by a bureaucratic elite. Reconnect to the earth and take the power back❣ Join Kyle as we build beautiful and resilient walls from local bamboo, straw, earth and lime. In addition to learning the fundamentals of earth and lime plastering, we will continue construction of the new classroom at Earth Passengers Permaculture Design, including plastering both interior and exterior walls with earth and lime. Our capstone work will be finishing exterior cob benches and walls with Shikkui lime plaster.
Let’s reconnect to the earth in Taitung, Taiwan.
Course Content:
- Day 1
Morning: Lecture, Split bamboo, Mix base coat plaster
Afternoon: Bamboo lattice, apply base coat plaster over bamboo lattice
- Day 2
Morning: Demonstration, mixing and practice application of brown coat earth plaster
Afternoon: Demonstration, mixing and practice application of the go-around coat
- Day 3
Morning: Mixing and applying brown coat earth plasters
Afternoon: Mixing and preparing finish plasters
- Day 4
Morning: Shikkui lime plaster finish application
Afternoon: Shikkui lime plaster finish application
Instructor:
Regsiter for Japanese Style Natural Plastering with Earth and Lime
Kyle Holzhueter, PhD.
Kyle works as a builder, researcher and educator specializing in natural building materials and sustainable systems such light rice husk lime insulation, natural plasters and energy efficiency. He is a graduate of the Kyoto Plastering Institute and the first westerner in Japan to pass the highest Japanese National Plastering Exam. He also has a PhD in Bioresource Sciences from Nihon University where he researched the hygrothermal environment of straw bale walls and building practices to control moisture. In 2017 Kyle founded Permaculture Center Kamimomi, a Permaculture demonstration and education site in Okayama, Japan.
More information: ipc15tw@earthpassengers.org
SEE YOU IN TAIWAN!
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