PDC DHARMA MOUNTAIN(spiritual ecology & deep nature immersion)
Course facilitators: Jan Martin Bang & Jennifer McConachie
Course held in English
Dates: The course will be held over two weeks with a break in the middle.
Week 1: Tuesday 9th may (evening) – Tuesday 16th may 12.00
Week 2: Monday 26th June (evening) – Sunday 2nd July 12.00
The Permaculture Design Certificate is the internationally recognised 72 hour Permaculture design certificate course (PDC). This course will cover regenerative design with an additional focus on spiritual ecology, empowerment, regenerative leadership, change from within & deep nature immersion. Yoga & meditation included. Permaculture offers design tools for regenerating all areas of life from landscapes to communities.
You will receive a certificate that is valid worldwide and will be a strength if you want to: dive deeper into ecological thinking; plan your own home, garden, school garden, smallholding or farm; create a regenerative lifestyle or business, participate in or design an ecovillage; integrate permaculture into teaching, voluntary groups or activism, work with networks such as WWOOF, Camphill or Workaway or a supplement to other relevant education.
You will learn how to design systems for humans that imitate natural ecosystems, with a minimum energy and resources that creates resilience, abundance and social justice. Permaculture has solutions not just for food production and landscapes, but also designs for our social systems, communities, governance and policies for these times of great change.
Price:
Standard pris: 17,500,- When you choose this price you contribute to supporting a place for a lower income participant. Thankyou!
Student/Honnør/lower income: 14,500,-
Early bird before 31 December: 14,500,-
Payment plans available.
Price includes: full meals & course materials.
Scholarship /Low income rate: We want to make the course as inclusive as possible and may be able to offer a reduced rate for low income participants. Please apply to before 31. desember. Limited offer.
In addition you pay for accomodation (tent or room/loft in cabin or private)
Book on registration.
Price per night
Tent: 125,-
Shared room or sleeping loft : 355,-
Single room: 615,-
Registration: Contact:
More info & registration here!
About the location: Dharma Mountain is a beautiful place to connect with nature and inner peace. The setting in nature is wonderful surrounded by the forest, lake, river and mountains. There are several good examples of permaculture design including a keyhole garden, herb and vegetable spirals, hugelbed, and a beautiful pond with flowforms by the entrance. Participants in the PDC are part of developing Dharma Mountain as a LAND centre. You will also find a meditation room, yoga mats and cushions and a sauna.
Course program includes:
Permaculture design tools, principles, ethics & process
Deep observation and nature connection
Maps, how to read landscapes. Site design
Social permaculture, Regenerative leadership & organisations, activism
Active Hope & ecological grief. The Work That Reconnects
Ecosystems and living ecological cycles. Landscape, geology, flora and fauna.
Soil, mulching and compost, Plants, companion planting, seeds
Large scale Permaculture, Holistic Management
Water in the landscape. Swales. Hugelbeds
Food forest design & growing mushrooms outdoors
Renewable energy, Waste-water purification, compost toilets.
House design and building techniques
Water, energy, and heating. Social and spiritual conditions
Economics, capital resources, money systems & creating a regenerative economy
Conflict resolution, non-violent communication, sociocracy, decision making
Ecovillages, empowered groups, cultural emergence, facilitation tools
Individual Permaculture Design project & group work
…and more!
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The course is a mix of theoretical and practical – we get outside every day for hands on practical work in the gardens and participants will be part of developing the forest garden at Dharma Mountain!
The course is taught interactively and is designed to be a safe inclusive space to experience community living and regenerative groups.
About the teachers:
Jan Martin Bang. (Course Tutor)
I was born in Norway and grew up in England where I was active in the Cooperative and Trade Union Movements in the 70’s. I moved to Israel in 1984 and was a kibbutz member for 16 years. Since 1993 I worked on environmental projects within the Kibbutz Movement. This took me on extensive travels within the region, teaching Permaculture courses and visiting ecovillage type projects in Egypt, Turkey, Cyprus and Palestine. I moved to Solborg Camphill Village in Norway in 2000 with my family, and worked on educational projects with the mentally challenged, and with administration of the Camphill Charitable Trust in Norway. I also edited the Norwegian language magazine, “Landsbyliv” (Village Life) focussing on anthroposophical care work. I have worked with the Global Ecovillage Network since it was founded at Findhorn in 1995. In 2006 I gained my Diploma in Permaculture from the Nordic Permaculture Institute for my work in education and community building. I have been active in the Norwegian Permaculture movement since 2001, as a member of the Board, and as Chair. I have written several books about community and environment some of which will be for sale during the course. In the last few years, I have taught the PDC in Norway, Scotland, Latvia, Iceland, Svalbard, and Israel. I have contributed to the development of Permaculture Associations in Norway, Israel, Latvia, and Iceland.
Jennifer McConachie
Jen is a passionate permaculturist who loves to facilitate teachings in forest garden design, regenerative design for leadership and organisations, earth connection practices and The Work that Reconnects. She runs her own permaculture business “Earth Mentor Me” as an educator, mentor and forest garden designer. She took the PDC with Jan Bang in 2015 and is now completing the permaculture diploma in education. She holds the permaculture teacher training certificate and is currently taking the 6 month education program as a facilitator of the Work that Reconnects. She has a background as a composer and DJ before she awakened to activism, founded the Norwegian non-profit «Fruktdugnad and initiated countless community projects. She has worked as information secretary at the Norwegian Permaculture Association for 3 years, where she integrated permaculture tools for a regenerative organisation. She weaves permaculture in her roles as a mother, business owner, elected council official and in her own mini food forest. She is passionate about facilitating emergence and helping people create abundant inner and outer landscapes!