About: Permaculture For Systemic Change Course
Course Introduction
Humanity faces a mosaic of interrelated challenges and opportunities. The 21st century is marked by increasingly rapid, systemic, complex, and exponential change on a global scale. Our human systems are in great part designed for the world of yesterday, rather than that of the future. Furthermore, we face a bottleneck of decreasing resources and increasing needs, and we now live on a scale at which our choices and actions impact to the direction of the evolution of the whole planet. Before us is the possibility of fostering a healthy, happy, and contributive human presence on Earth and the intentional design of systems and process that work for the whole of our biosphere.
Through the Permaculture For Systemic Change course we will engage in experiential practice and open source inquiry at the intersection of Permaculture design, collaborative leadership, and strategic sustainability/evolution with the purpose of developing our capacities to design and lead toward a sustainable, regenerative, and thriving future for all.
With this goal in focus, through this course we will explore such questions as:
These questions, while perhaps sounding lofty, are in fact rooted in pragmatism and grounded in the perspective that in order for humanity to live in integrity with nature and our biosphere, there is a practical need before us to transition our ways of living toward a sustainable future.
Course Description
Permaculture is a design methodology for creating sustainable human environments from the home garden to the large acre farm, and from landscape planning to sustainable human settlements, organizations, and society. Permaculture uses an ethically-based whole-systems design approach, incorporating concepts, principles, and methods derived from natural ecosystems as well as from cultural and indigenous systems. Although rooted in horticulture and agriculture, Permaculture design is interdisciplinary, touching on a wide range of subjects including regional planning, ecology, animal husbandry, appropriate technology, architecture, and international development. Through classroom lectures, field trips, hands-on activities, experiential learning exercises, group discussions, readings, and student design projects and presentations, this course will cover topics including: Permaculture theory and practice, leadership capacity building for collective impact, and strategic sustainability toward systemic change.
Course Objectives
The purpose of this course is to provide students with:
1. Introduce a variety of tools and concepts that can be put into practice when designing and cultivating sustainable systems, purposeful human ecology, and systemic leadership
2. Develop leadership capacities as designers, facilitators, and maverick artist change makers
3. Practice collaborative leadership and participatory learning
4. Engage in open source inquiry, experimentation, and prototyping
Schedule
For a schedule by week please see the above harvest menu.
Humanity faces a mosaic of interrelated challenges and opportunities. The 21st century is marked by increasingly rapid, systemic, complex, and exponential change on a global scale. Our human systems are in great part designed for the world of yesterday, rather than that of the future. Furthermore, we face a bottleneck of decreasing resources and increasing needs, and we now live on a scale at which our choices and actions impact to the direction of the evolution of the whole planet. Before us is the possibility of fostering a healthy, happy, and contributive human presence on Earth and the intentional design of systems and process that work for the whole of our biosphere.
Through the Permaculture For Systemic Change course we will engage in experiential practice and open source inquiry at the intersection of Permaculture design, collaborative leadership, and strategic sustainability/evolution with the purpose of developing our capacities to design and lead toward a sustainable, regenerative, and thriving future for all.
With this goal in focus, through this course we will explore such questions as:
- What is sustainability really?
- What is my role in creating a sustainable future?
- How can we design human systems that work for the whole of the biosphere?
- What capacities are needed when leading toward systemic change?
- How can I/we create a compelling vision of the future to work toward?
- How can we work collaboratively toward a common vision?
- How can Permaculture be utilized when designing toward systemic change?
- What methods, strategies, and capacities can be utilized when transitioning
- society toward a sustainable, regenerative, and thriving future?
These questions, while perhaps sounding lofty, are in fact rooted in pragmatism and grounded in the perspective that in order for humanity to live in integrity with nature and our biosphere, there is a practical need before us to transition our ways of living toward a sustainable future.
Course Description
Permaculture is a design methodology for creating sustainable human environments from the home garden to the large acre farm, and from landscape planning to sustainable human settlements, organizations, and society. Permaculture uses an ethically-based whole-systems design approach, incorporating concepts, principles, and methods derived from natural ecosystems as well as from cultural and indigenous systems. Although rooted in horticulture and agriculture, Permaculture design is interdisciplinary, touching on a wide range of subjects including regional planning, ecology, animal husbandry, appropriate technology, architecture, and international development. Through classroom lectures, field trips, hands-on activities, experiential learning exercises, group discussions, readings, and student design projects and presentations, this course will cover topics including: Permaculture theory and practice, leadership capacity building for collective impact, and strategic sustainability toward systemic change.
Course Objectives
The purpose of this course is to provide students with:
1. Introduce a variety of tools and concepts that can be put into practice when designing and cultivating sustainable systems, purposeful human ecology, and systemic leadership
2. Develop leadership capacities as designers, facilitators, and maverick artist change makers
3. Practice collaborative leadership and participatory learning
4. Engage in open source inquiry, experimentation, and prototyping
Schedule
For a schedule by week please see the above harvest menu.
This site was co-authored and co-created by the 2017, 2016 & 2015 Permaculture For Systemic change classes with Joshua Cubista course designer, coordinator, facilitator, and site curator. Feel fee to get in touch to explore opportunities to collaborate and co-create.