Qualifications: Certified Qualifications:
- AET (Award in Education and Training) - Adult Education Teaching Certificate - 2015
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Diploma in Advanced Permaculture Design - 2015 ongoing
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Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) - 2014
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Design of Sustainable Business - 2003-04
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Business Process Modelling (lATS1 & ATS2) ARIS – 2001
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Business Process Simulation (Advanced) ARIS – 2001
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PRINCE2 Managers – 1997
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First Aid at Work - 1995
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ISO9000 Auditor - 1994
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MBTI (assessment use ATK) – 1993
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Food Safety Cert - 1992
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SDI Psychometrics diploma - 1992
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Activity Based Costing (Exec Course) – 1990
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Management Cost Accounting (Exec Course) – 1989
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Laboratory Technology C&G - 1969-71
Many short courses including:
- Introduction to Keeping Chickens - 2018
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Limits of Lean Agriculture – 2017
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Commercial Aquaponics Design & Business Planning #4 – 2016-17
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Small Farm Profitability – 2016
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Forest Garden Design - 2015
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Portrait Photography - 2014
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Aquaponics Theory & Practice #L4 - 2014
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Lean Canvas Business Modelling - 2014
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Passive Solar Greenhouse Design - 2013
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e-Ccommerce for New Business - 2013
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Hydroponics for Food Production - 2011
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Digital Photography - 2010
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Passive Solar Greenhouse Design - 2009
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Plant Propagation (RHS) - 2007
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Therapeutic Massage (Intro) - 2005/7
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Aromatherapy & Essential Oils (basics) - 2004
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Emergency First Aide - 2001
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Manufacturing Excellence (advanced ATK7) – 1992
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First Aid at Work - 1990
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Self-Sufficiency - 1976-77
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Skills, technical expertise and areas of interest: Skills, technical expertise:
- Aquaponics Design (I also run short courses on this)
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Facilitation and Project Management
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Edible Garden Design and implementation
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Creating sustainable and resilient livelihoods (I also run short courses on this).
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Mentoring start-up businesses
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Emergency First Aide
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Growing edible and useful perennial plants
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Vermicomposting
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Hedge-laying
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Scything
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Woodworking
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Archery
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Cider and Wine Making
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Blacksmithing
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Coracle Building
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Hunting and Trapping
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Basic Butchery
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Upcycling - how to reuse almost everything
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Building Construction & Maintenance
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Passive Solar Greenhouse Design
Areas of Interest:
- Uplands water management
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Permaculture and mental illness
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Mental Health First Aide
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Agroforestry
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Transition Towns
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Dyslexia
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Food Forest
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Producing and harvesting food naturally
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Woodland management
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No dig gardening
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Low maintenance and low cost gardening
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Areas of Permaculture Design Experience: Teaching Introduction to Permaculture courses incorporating an extra module on Aquaponics in Permaculture.
Designing an edible garden for our primary school.
Community resilience and sustainability via Transition.
Variety of Permaculture and enterprise development projects.
Reablement - getting patients out of institutionalised hospital care and back into their own homes.
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