The Permaculture Association (Britain) [PAB] Area Reference Guild for the South East is Pippa Johns (Regional Reference Person), Don McLean and Jan Mulreany, the first layer of support in the region.
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When you register with PAB
to start on the Diploma path, you become a Diploma Apprentice. PAB notifies Pippa and she will contact you, to let you know what to do next.
This could be meeting with one of the Area Reference Guild for your first Action Learning Tutorial (ALT), to help get you started on designing your Action Learning Pathway.
You will have read on the PAB website all about the Action Learning process, and this is the foundation of the Diploma of Applied Permaculture Design. It is a self-managed journey to apply the Design Cycle to your life: any aspect, all aspects maybe!
In the past many people have found it hard to sustain their Diploma study over the minimum two years on their own, and that's why BPT is supporting its local Apprentices in a more structured way at the moment. Like all Projects, it is a Designed Solution to a problem; in time it might be redesigned!
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And so we will also invite you to a DipDay. This is a halfday of celebration and work where as many of the local area's Diploma Apprentices as can come, get together every two months. They meet as a large group to share lunch, and talk about what they've been doing, what their projects are about, how it's going, what their next step is, in action learning guilds (ALG). They might listen to presentations from someone who is further on their pathway to their Diploma, or participate in a 'refresher' session about a bit of theory or design practice with a Design tutor; they could plan a group project, or give feedback to an Apprentice rehearsing for their Accreditation. Twice a year we run an introduction to the process for people who want to start their Diploma. This is usually a morning session, followed by the shared lunch and afternoon ALGs, where you will work with the current Apprentices. DipDays are convened & led by a group of Diploma Apprentices, who do it as one of their Projects, showing the Diploma's Complementary Criteria of Symmetry and Community Building. Each year or two, another group will take it on - the PC Principle of succession, stacking in time. |
News: the next DipDay is xx month 2006. Email Daniel for details
Books and web resources
Links to other courses for specialised & technical training
Example presentations and portfolios
Access your year group: seedling, sapling and fruitbearing trees!
To know more about how to do the Diploma, including costs, go to the Permaculture Association website.