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Accessible masterclass

Making your Work Accessible to Everyone 

As educators, project leaders, designers and community activists, we want to make our work as accessible to our communities as possible. Developing an awareness of structural inequality and barriers to participation can help us to develop more inclusive courses, events, projects and design work.

Come with your questions and meet our expert panel as they discuss their different approaches to accessibility including Suzie Cahn, Chikara Shimasaki, Tammi Dallaston.

27th March 2024, 4.30pm- 6pm GMT

Designing an Educational Programme

Designing an Educational Programme 

Hear from leading Permaculture Educators Aranya, Rachel Philips from Apricot Centre and Laura Corefield from Shift Bristol as they share their learnings from developing engaging educational programmes, such as the various courses and programmes which feature permaculture. 

How do you design a successful programme? What is needed to support a great educational programme? What lessons have our Educators learnt along the way?

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Celebrating Your Impact

Celebrating Your Impact

People in our permaculture movement do amazing life changing work, Teachers, project leaders, community groups and charities are at the forefront of delivering permaculture and regenerative messages to individuals and communities across the country. This masterclass will focus on how they can celebrate their impact to get the recognition they deserve, support funding applications and share their stories in mainstream media to increase their impact.

Join Sammuel Yisrael from Sol Haven, James Atherton from Lush Spring Prize and Anne-Marie Mayer, to get thier expert perspectives on have to celebrate and demonstrate your impact.

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What does a Good Design Look Like?

What does a Good Design Look Like? 

Whether you are doing your diploma, teaching, or looking to get started with your first design, understanding what a good design looks like can make all the difference. Our expert design panel will explain the purpose of the design and use real-life designs to explain the design process and how to present your final design. 

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How to Demonstrate Practical Permaculture

How to Demonstrate Practical Permaculture

Seeing permaculture in action is one of the best ways to learn and facilitate significant lifestyle changes. Our expert panel will share their experience in demonstrating world-class permaculture, talk about the purpose and value of showcasing permaculture, it's role in mainstreaming permaculture and share the different successes and challenges they have faced along the way! If you are interested in starting a permaculture project or becoming a LAND centre, this one is for you!

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Professional Permaculture Pathways

Professional Permaculture Pathways

Have you always dreamed about working in permaculture but you are not sure where to start? Are you on your way but looking for tips to take the next step? Whether it is teaching, farming, design, or leading a community project, our expert panelists will talk about their journey to becoming a permaculture professional and answer questions about how you can take the next step. 

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Creating Educational and Project Resources

Creating Educational and Project Resources

The aim of this session is to showcase, learn from and review quality books, courses, project resources from our fantastic professional members. Some thoughts, but we would like you to lead on what is key to your work: how to best design materials for your proejct? what have you learnt about developing engaging resources efficiently for your learners, and how do you simultaneously use it to market yourself? 

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Engaging your community and creating partnerships that last

Engaging your Community and Creating Partnerships

Building partnerships and creating lasting community engagement are the cornerstone of embedding impactful change. But it is often a challenge to develop meaningful connections which lead to fruitful outcomes. This masterclass will draw on the experience of three stella individuals who have worked tirelessly to develop real partnerships and meaningful community engagement.

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Mainstreaming Permaculture

Mainstreaming Permaculture

Our Mainstreaming Permaculture taskforce will be sharing exciting new developments in their work and what they've learnt about reaching new audiences with nature-based design. This masterclass will focus on the inspiring examples of making permaculture more visible, easier to understand, and easier to incorporate into existing systems and new sectors such as media, arts, and school curriculum. 

Date TBC

Past Masterclasses

Consultancy masterclass

26 February 2024

Developing a Permaculture Consultancy 

Offering consultancy services to support others to create more regenerative projects, farms and gardens could be an opportunity to turn your permaculture design skills into a sustainable livelihood.

Our panel of permaculture consultants, Nim Robins, Liz Postlethwaite and James Chapman share their consultancy stories in this first of our 2024 series of permaculture masterclasses.