Description
DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED – PLEASE MESSAGE US TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST IN THIS COURSE
- Permaculture ethics & design principles
- Food growing, forest gardens, and natural systems
- Community building and right livelihoods
- Ecological building and systems thinking
This course offers positive design for your life, your community, and your world by empowering the genius inside all of us! Running from spring to autumn 2027 at OrganicLea’s 12-acre Hawkwood community growing site on the edge of Epping Forest, we will come together over six weekends for a regenerative learning experience, enabling individuals, organisations, and communities to create empowering solutions to the real-world challenges we are all facing. Adapted from the Permaculture Association (Britain)’s PDC core curriculum core curriculum, this is a person-centred, fun, lively, and inclusive course that explores permaculture ethics, principles, and design skills, utilising concepts including forest gardening, systems thinking, holistic design, community empowerment, skill-sharing, right livelihoods, and much more.
The format is participatory and dynamic using diverse visual, audio and kinesthetic learning methods such as individual and group work, games, problem solving, discussion, observation, practical activities, lectures and slideshows. This course is hosted and organised in partnership with OrganicLea at Hawkwood Nursery; a 12 acre Certified Vegan Organic community food project run by a core workers cooperative, which is located on the edge of East and North London in Chingford amongst Epping Forest. This is a unique opportunity to learn about Permaculture with instructor Graham Burnett, author of The Vegan Book of Permaculture and experienced Permaculture Designer. The course and the content are Vegan-friendly. Course participants will be awarded the Permaculture Association (Britain)’s internationally recognised Certificate in Permaculture Design (NB, to be awarded the certificate you must attend a minimum of 70% of the course and complete a group design presentation at the end of the course).
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Location: OrganicLea, 115 Hawkwood Crescent, Chingford, London, E4 7UH
The majority of the course will be held in the new purpose-built outdoor wooden classroom (pictured above), a truly magical learning space designed and constructed by Adrian Leaman of Wholewoods roundwood timber framing building specialists.
Led By: The course will be taught by Graham Burnett (Dip. Perm Des) and some great guest teachers.
Dates: Six weekends during 2027 to be announced
Times: 10am – 4.30pm
Cost: Full cost £590 for 12 days. Note that we are able to offer a strictly LIMITED number of subsidised/bursary places for people on lower incomes. We also offer a higher rate payment option in order to help support a subsidised place for those less able to pay. Concessionary places are limited so please only request one if you really need it. We would also ask you to read our article ‘Can’t Afford A Course?’ https://spiralseed.co.uk/cant-afford-a-course/ for other creative ideas for raising your fees such as crowdfunding, available grants, etc before applying for a subsidised place.
DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED – PLEASE MESSAGE US TO EXPRESS YOUR INTEREST IN THIS COURSE
Your place on the course will be reserved upon receipt of a £95 deposit and secured upon receipt of full payment. If you have further queries relating to the course, please check our Frequently Asked Questions to see if they are answered there, if they are not then contact us and we will get back to you.
What folk have said about previous courses by Spiralseed
“I can totally recommend this. I’ve done 2 courses under Graham’s tutelage and have thoroughly enjoyed each one. The second changed my life (for the better) and gave me the courage to ditch a a job that was wearing me down, in favour of self-employment that has left me happier than ever before as an adult. The Introduction to Permaculture course I did opened my eyes and broadened my outlook. Worth it for that alone, but when you add in a weekend of fun with like-minded people – priceless!”
“Graham’s teaching style is open, non-ego, relaxed, positive and BRILLIANT – A natural educator, thank you!”
“If anyone is considering this course I would really recommend it”
“The course was terrific and was paced in such a way as to ensure maximum benefit”
“A wonderful weekend”
“I’ve done a lot of training courses and Graham is by far one of the best trainers I’ve had”
“I believe that we all left richer for the experience and, speaking for myself, happier and more hopeful. I am now just looking for an excuse to return, because the whole experience was just too good to have only once”
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