Are you struggling to find your niche? The Think Like a Tree design process evolved from the Design Web and is inspired by the wisdom of trees. You can use this approach to live your life with purpose, designing your own health and happiness using the wisdom of 42 natural principles drawn by observing trees.
Led by Sarah Spencer, the author of Think Like a Tree and co-facilitated by Milly Carmichael and Samantha Woods - all Diploma holders and Permaculture teachers who have used this process to design their own ways to resilience and well-being.
The course will be an adapted version of the Think like a Tree programme taking place via Zoom and with home study and outdoor sessions ‘off-line’. There will be breaks during sessions with tasks, so it won’t just be sitting at a computer.
The group size will remain small so you will gain from learning from others, and you’ll have access to a group to interact between sessions.

REGENERATIVE MATERIALS & BIOTECTURE DESIGN is the knowledge and skills required for the design and building of various structures by using the most accessible, affordable, ecological, local and healthy biodegradable materials.

How does the course work?

The course is a blended course including virtual synchronous sessions, team collaborations and discussions and life-term access to self-paced asynchronous study materials and sessions.

REGENERATIVE NEIGHBORHOODS & DE-URBAN DESIGN is a brand new design discipline that emphasises on the effects of the recent massive urbanisation in transforming our world from microbic scale to the global one. De-Urban Design re-imagines progressive changes in human settlements on neighbourhood and urban scale and envision future cities and neighbourhoods as ethical, equitable, and ecocentric living habitats.

How does the course work?

The course is a blended course including virtual synchronous sessions, team collaborations and discussions and life-term access to self-paced asynchronous study materials and sessions. The synchronous sessions will be held every Sunday 2:00-6:00 PM UK time.

REGENERATIVE NEIGHBORHOODS & DE-URBAN DESIGN is a brand new design discipline that emphasises on the effects of the recent massive urbanisation in transforming our world from microbic scale to the global one. De-Urban Design re-imagines progressive changes in human settlements on neighbourhood and urban scale and envision future cities and neighbourhoods as ethical, equitable, and ecocentric living habitats.

How does the course work?

The course is a blended course including virtual synchronous sessions, team collaborations and discussions and life-term access to self-paced asynchronous study materials and sessions. The synchronous sessions will be held every Sunday 2:00-6:00 PM UK time.

REGENERATIVE MATERIALS & BIOTECTURE DESIGN is the knowledge and skills required for the design and building of various structures by using the most accessible, affordable, ecological, local and healthy biodegradable materials.

How does the course work?

The course is a blended course including virtual synchronous sessions, team collaborations and discussions and life-term access to self-paced asynchronous study materials and sessions.

REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE & ECOLOGICAL DESIGN course of Ecodemia addresses regenerative and ecological design strategies to build human habitats on the household and community scale.

How does the course work?

The course is a blended course including virtual synchronous sessions, team collaborations and discussions, and life-term access to self-paced asynchronous study materials and sessions.

REGENERATIVE ARCHITECTURE & ECOLOGICAL DESIGN course of Ecodemia addresses regenerative and ecological design strategies to build human habitats on the household and community scale.

How does the course work?

The course is a blended course including virtual synchronous sessions, team collaborations and discussions, and life-term access to self-paced asynchronous study materials and sessions.

REGENERATIVE LANDSCAPES & PERMACULTURE DESIGN Permaculture design is the ethical design of human settlements and productive landscapes that have the diversity, resilience and flexibility of natural ecosystems and which can provide all tangible and intangible human needs in a regenerative and sustainable way and in harmony with nature. Based on observation of nature and holistic design, this course provides principles and methodologies of Permaculture design that can be applied in any climatic region of the world.

How the course works:

The course is a blended course including virtual synchronous sessions, team collaborations and discussions and life-term access to self-paced asynchronous study materials and sessions.

To bring about sustainable change in our food systems we need more small scale farms producing local healthy food, and we know that Permaculture Design methods can create these farms. However the limiting factor for many of these farms is generating enough money to support right livelihoods. With grant funding being almost non existent for these starter farms the best way, and the most sustainable way for these farms to thrive is for them to generate enough money for those working on them to support themselves and develop the farm or food business.

The Diploma Design Forum has been created to help Diploma Apprentices get momentum on their designs. (It's not strictly limited to apprentices, anyone post PDC is welcome to join if they want to stretch and refresh their design skills.)
It runs for 6 sessions and is a structured format to maximise feedback from the group.
The session consists of:
1 hour - design share then
1 hour (optional) offline - work on our own designs then
30 mins (optional) check-in regarding the previous hour study time / objectives for the week/month.
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