BOS Advanced Permaculture Design Certificate Course (Weekend Format)

Are you interested in becoming a permaculture designer as part of the way you make your living in the world? Do you need ~design experience~ so that you can move toward teaching permaculture design? Are you interested in becoming part of a Permaculture "Community of Practice?" Are you ready to take your permaculture credentials to the next level, build your portfolio and gain confidence with your design skills?

For this course we are pleased to partner with our host site, Hawthorn Youth and Community Center in Roxbury, MA (a neighborhood of Boston for those coming in from out of town). Hawthorne Youth and Community Center is a grassroots, non-profit that has been responsive to community needs for over forty years. Read more about HYCC here! (http://www.hyc.center/new-page-2/)

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Consider joining us this coming fall and winter for The Resilience's Hub's highly-regarded Advanced Permaculture Design Certificate Course. Over the course of two long weekends (one in November and one in February), three electives, independent/mentored design work and a Presentation Day (in March 2017) you will deepen and broaden your design skills, your design business skills and - if desired - your teaching skills.

Space is limited. RSVP with $250 deposit to hold your spot.

Each student will independently complete a full professional design project, from start to finish, during this course and present to the group and "client" in March. Students can choose any residential or small business site for their design project as long as it is not owned by the student or family members. This course will result in a comprehensive hand-drawn design package (including overlays and detail drawings) and an accompanying design report with full design narrative, phasing, plant lists and supporting data.

Course Dates: November 18, 19 & 20 || February 10, 11 & 12 || Presentations March 11 & 12 and Graduation on evening of May 5, 2017.

Class days run from 9am to 5pm each day, plus there will be some films/guest speakers on the Friday & Saturday evenings of long weekends. Three additional one-day "electives" will be attended by each student as well (see below) between February and June (most will be held on Thursdays or Fridays). Local homestays can be arranged for those traveling to this course.

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This course will be comprised of the following components:

1. The Advanced PDC "Core"

The Core program is formulated to deepen and broaden your technical design skills from initial client intake and site assessment right up to and including presentation of drawings and design ideas to the client and your classmates. The design skills you may have only just begun to use during your regular PDC will be extended to the professional level.

• During class time: Lecture, images, video, guest speakers, design exercises, small group work, final design presentations.

• Self-directed work outside of class: Readings, video, research, design exercises and work on your own "real client" design project.* Students should plan on a couple of hours per week of self-directed work between course weekends.

• With instructor mentoring (both inside and outside class time): Design pre-work with your real "design client," site research and data collection, assessment and analysis, draft design review, final design creation, final report creation.

• With a peer cohort of 4-6 other advanced design students you will have dedicated design and coaching time and will be supported to meet together in a cohort to share ideas and give each other advice, in addition to the mentoring you'll receive from class instructors.

Core material to include: Advanced pattern literacy & pattern language work, mapping and drawing skills, advanced survey techniques, comprehensive assessment & analysis, building science for climate adaptation and volatility, hands-on solar site assessment, social & financial permaculture design techniques (to support the success of your spatial designs) and more.

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2. The Advanced PDC "Electives" APDC students will be asked to register for at least three of the following full-day "electives" between February and June. These will typically be offered on Thursdays or Fridays in Boston. Choose electives that most support the permaculture pathway that you want to follow. Full details to follow. Each elective will be approximately $35 to $50 depending on cost to produce.

• Nuts & Bolts of a Permaculture Business

• Interfacing with the Professional Design Community

• Multi-stakeholder/Participatory Design Techniques

• Facilitation Skills Through a Permaculture Lens

• Hand-Drawing Skills Intensive 101 and 201 Levels

• Growing Your Business by Giving Talks and Workshops

• Growing Your Business with Referrals

• other electives may be developed between now and November.

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Pre-requisites: The requirement for enrolling in the Advanced Permaculture Design Course is the successful completion of a Permaculture Design Certificate Course including the creation of a completed design. (Unfortunately, we cannot make any exceptions to this policy; copy of certificate will be required and, if not locally obtained, we may request a copy of a design you participating in creating). Contact LisaF if you need advice on PDCs happening nearby if you need to complete your certificate before taking the Advanced Course.

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Lead Facilitators: Lisa Fernandes and Jesse Watson + Special Guests

Course Fee: Early registration (if fully paid by August 15) $1099 ($1199 thereafter). Deposit is $250 to hold your spot (either by debit/credit/PayPal (https://www.paypal.me/RESILIENCEHUB) or by sending a check to The Resilience Hub, 224 Anderson Street, Portland ME 04101. Payment plans can be arranged. Some past students have subsidized their course fee with a "donation" from their design client for the course project.

Pedagogical Note:

The Resilience Hub runs participatory learning events. Our instructors view themselves as conveners and facilitators of your learning experience, one in which the wisdom of all participants is valued. We believe, based on our experience, that the "social permaculture" of HOW we learn is just as important as WHAT we learn.

• For your design project, each student will be asked to select a client/piece of land that is convenient to get to (for client meetings, site analysis, etc.), has some interesting challenges relative to the client goals, is NOT owned by you or an immediate family member, is NOT a multi-stakeholder project (i.e. a community project with many stakeholders affected by the design and/or would have a role in decision-making). This last parameter is because facilitating and managing multi-stakeholder projects is vastly more complex and, unless that is a skillset you already have, it can derail the educational goal of gaining professional proficiency with the technical aspects of design and client relationship management. So for this project we would ask you to choose a residential client or a "simple" multi-stakeholder client (i.e. a business with one or two owners). Your client will end up receiving a substantial design product (with a "market value" of $3500 to $4500) at the end of this course and you will have a solid start to your own portfolio. We suggest choosing a client who truly wants a permaculture design created for their space.