Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC)
Topics covered: https://www.permaculture.org.uk/sites/default/files/page/document/pdc_core_curriculum_v1.6.pdf
https://www.permaculture.org.uk/education/permaculture-design-certificate-pdc
Max 20 participants: Course time: 13:00-19:00, Lunch 12:00-13:00
Dates: September: 16-17-18-23-24-25-30 October: 1-2-7-8-9-14-15-16
(total 90 hours)
Price: 250 - 450 euros according to your possibility
Free for trans-migrants, refugees and people with no papers.
Languages: English, French, Nederlands, Arabic
Contact: +32483045186
What is a PDC?
A PDC is a 72-hour Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC) as taught by the founders of Permaculture – Bill Mollison and David Holmgren.
The full Permaculture Design Course (PDC) is a 72- hour intensive program. This course involves study modules supported by practical exercises, photos, fieldwork, and videos. Upon successful completion of the Permaculture Design Certificate (PDC) course, graduates receive the official, internationally-recognized Permaculture Design Certificate.
Many people think Permaculture are techniques for gardening and agriculture. However, Permaculture is much broader. it is a philosophy for a systemic approach which aims to minimize work and energy by maximizing production to create resilient and regenerative ecosystems. It's design methods is applicable to all systems which desire is to become more resilient and respectful to the environment.
YAU FAN
Permaculture Designer & Facilitator, Herbalist, Sound Engineer and Bioacoustics.
Yau is a permaculture designer and facilitator. He is currently working as a designer for Food Forest Abundance, and has worked for United Designers and participated in projects all over the world.
He has collaborated and worked in designs in Hawaii, Senegal, Malaysia, France, Portugal, USA, Jordania, Holland and Belgium.
He did his first PDC in 2017 and took courses with Lesley Martin, Hugo Oliveira, Mirka Faya Hlavacova, Patricia Pereira, Helder Valente, Geoff Lawton, Daniel Halsey, Gerard Ducerf, Oliver Roberfroid and Elaine Ingham to name a few.
He has a diploma in botany and entomology (natagora), as well as herbalism (efp).
Yau is also a sound engineer and bioacsoustician, after working for ten years in the music industry, he has founded the openlab for bioacoustics in order to raise awareness on species diversity loss and ways to solve it through acoustics.
Since taking a teacher training with Alfred Decker, he has taught and organised several PDC and permaculture courses for refugees in Brussels.
Yau is in the process of designing a PDC for refugees together with Alfred Decker, Rosemary Morrow and the Permaculture for Refugees working group.
ALICE CARBONNELLE
Permaculture Designer, Facilitator, Physiotherapist & Herbalist
Alice has studied physiotherapy and has a master in environmental science. She has an ease to make science accessible to everybody and her pedagogical work focuses in new ways of teaching with the use of critical spirit, lots of creativity and especially empathy.
After traveling in different parts of the world, Alice became very concerned by the social inequalities and the environmental crisis. She then went on studying Permaculture.
She has done two PDC's and a teacher training with Yau in Brussels and another one with Russell Manning in Columbia.
Marta Muñoz Marti
Permaculture Designer, Facilitator, Human rights defender
I have been always passionate about human rights, and I chose to study and work in this field because they are common to all and are the basis for respectful and fair coexistence. In search of new horizons, I have discovered permaculture last year. I followed the PDC course in Brussels and it changed my understanding of the world. Not only did it allow me to link and better understand my basic knowledge of ecology but it also taught me a new philosophy of life that is much more coherent and natural. I would just love to help other people feel the same way, because as long as there is education, there is hope for change.
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