(9/4/24) LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE
PERMACULTURE EDUCATION REIMAGINED
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ IS OUR TRADE MARKED APPROACH TO BRING PERMACULTURE EDUCATION TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE!
FIRST THING IS FIRST: WHAT IS PERMACULTURE?
Permaculture is a holistic-system design approach for creating and managing regenerative and sustainable human living and social spaces, as well as institutions, to have the diversity, stability and resilience of natural ecosystems. Permaculture design creates spaces and socio-economic interactions that meet evolving human needs, while also maintaining the continuous health of our life sustaining ecosystems. With permaculture we can design small gardens, 1 or more acres homesteads, large scale farms, school gardens, community centers, entire neighborhoods, and even more complex agro ecological productive systems - any of these spaces would contribute to a better and more resilient life for all involved and touched by its effects. The design approach is scalable and it can be applied to business, community, and other human arrangements. In fact a complete permaculture design of a space, usually includes a business, community or even personal or family life plan. Permaculture was first presented together by an Australian scientist and systems' thinker, Bill Mollison, who combined earth and agricultural sciences with indigenous wisdoms he gathered from around the world, and patterns observed in nature. Permaculture Design courses have been taught around the world since the 1980's and have evolved to become a blueprint for resiliently thriving on planet earth. We, the team from Sun And Bloom, have been teaching, consulting and living permaculture for over a decade and believe that it should be an education all citizens of the world have. We are here to make it happen.
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™
OUR NEW 2024 ONLINE PERMACULTURE DESIGN COURSE THAT IS UNIQUE IN THE REGENERATIVE EDUCATION AND TRAINING REALM. HERE IS HOW:
- You can choose your level of participation and upgrade anytime from Free to Donation Based, Full Content or Design Certification. All 20 main course presentations are 2 hours long and broadcasted Live.
- You can choose to design and launch your permaculture business, design your land, join another participant's project, just grow your wisdom, or expand your network and community, or all of the above.
- You can choose to get broad exposure in the community as a regenerative systems thinker and designer via our reach.
- You can choose to be paid for your creativity and hard work - best project designs will be voted by the course community for cash prizes!
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ SCHEDULE
The Live Webinar Presentation Sessions start on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024, and happen every Wednesday from 7pm to 9 pm Central Standard time till December 18th, 2024, with a short break before starting again on Wednesday, January 8th, 2025, till Wednesday, January 29th, 2025. Final Project Presentations will take place during the week of February 17th, 2025, every day, and the Certifications and Grand Prize Award will complete the course on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025. See the Detailed schedule with the course themes and topics in the 2nd picture of this product page.
LEVELS OF ENGAGEMENT
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LEVEL:
FREE
Goals:
- To give you an awareness and better understanding of Permaculture and Permaculture Design.
What you Get at the FREE LEVEL:
- 72 hours access to the 20, 2 hour, Live Webinar Sessions and public final presentations.
- Weekly reminders with links to the Live Webinar Sessions viewing locations on multiple platforms.
- Optional access to other free resources, live courses, webinars and related community communications.
- Opportunity to upgrade to a higher course level anytime before January 1st, 2025.
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LEVEL:
DONATION BASED (starts at $17) ($37 AFTER 9/4/24)
Goals:
- All from the Free Course Level + opportunities to reflect on and study further the topics presented in each Live Session.
What you get at the DONATION BASED LEVEL:
- Everything from the Free Course Level.
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to the Private Facebook Group for this Course (includes higher levels participants).
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to the Recordings of the 20 Live Webinar Sessions and public final presentations.
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to the PDF presentations of the 20 Live Webinar Sessions (20 PDFs).
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to 1 additional educational resource for each Live Webinar Session (20 resources).
- Opportunity to see all the presentations of the Certification Course Level participants and vote for the best.
- Access to resources that teach you how to raise funds to engage in the higher course levels.
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LEVEL:
FULL CONTENT ($197) ($247 AFTER 9/4/24)
Goals:
- All from the Donation Based Course Level + the resources for a deep dive study of Permaculture and Permaculture Design.
What you get at the FULL CONTENT LEVEL:
- Everything from the Donation Based Course Level.
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to one additional 1 hour Recorded Live Q&A for each Live Sessions (20 additional hours)
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to one additional 1 hour Recorded Design Group Mentorship every 2 weeks (10 additional hours)
- Unlimited LifeTime Access to a full course worth of resources for each topic covered, including multiple from each of the following categories: list of links, videos, audios, articles, free courses, research based guide and fact sheets, book chapters and full books - you will receive access to a new folder with these resources after each session!
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LEVEL:
DESIGN CERTIFICATION ($497) ($597 AFTER 9/4/2024) (SPOTS ARE LIMITED)
Goals:
- All from the Full Content Course Level + our professional and community support for you to complete a certification + the opportunity to win a cash prize for your project presentation!
What you get at the DESIGN CERTIFICATION LEVEL:
- Everything from the Full Content Course Level
- Chat Access to the 20 Live Webinar Sessions with 1 additional hour for Live Q&A after each session (20 additional hours) (recordings will also be made available to you)
- Chat Access to 10 additional 1 hour Live Design Group Mentorship every 2 weeks (10 additional hours) (recordings will also be made available for you)
- Access to a separate private Course Platform to pose questions at anytime during the course and get answers from the course instructors via an additional weekly 1 hour Live Q&A and anytime on the Course Platform by the Certification Course Level Community (20 additional hours + unlimited Design Certification Course Level Community support during the course)
- 30 minutes per month of additional 1-on-1 mentorship and consulting from the course instructors and other permaculture professionals from our network between September 2024 and February 2025 period to help you complete your project design and presentation (3 additional hours) (they do not compound, you must use the 30 minutes each month)
- Opportunity to present your project design publicly to our entire network or just the paying course participants community, and get it voted by the paying course participant community to win a cash prize. The cash prize is 10% of the total revenue gathered from the Design Certification Course Level participants' registration fee of $497. You can also opt out of participating in winning the cash prize. To get certified you will have to present your project to the paying Course Level community, including the Donation Based, Full Content and Design Certification levels, but can choose to also share it publicly - in case you are not able to do it during the week of presentations in February 2025, you will have to do it during one of the next round of Certification Presentations in 2026 or beyond. See other details below in the logistics, disclaimers and rules section.
LEVEL UP PERMACULTURE™ COURSE LOGISTICS, DISCLAIMERS, RULES:
- WHEN YOU REGISTER FOR THE COURSE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND AND AGREE TO ALL OF ITS LOGISTICS, DISCLAIMERS AND RULES!
- We invite you to make this course an opportunity to improve your life and the life of those you cared about, while also making the world a better world. We invite you to bring your best attitude, intentions and positive communication to this course - in fact we will share a lot of resources on what that can look like and its benefits. There are infinite possibilities for growth with the wisdom shared in the course content and with the course community.
- The Course will have a designated public Facebook Page open to all, where all the Live Webinar Sessions, other announcements and resources, as well as the final public project presentations will be shared - this is a space solely used for this purpose and no other - comments will be open and monitored for course related communication that is humane, courteous, respectful and positive (unfortunately, users with any other communication will be blocked from commenting) (additional details will be posted on the page)
- The Course paying participants will have access to a designated private Facebook Group, where all the recordings of the Live Webinar Sessions and PDF presentations will live as well as other course announcements, resources and conversations - this is a space solely used for this purpose and no other - comments will be open and monitored for course related communication that is humane, courteous, respectful and positive (unfortunately, users with any other communication will be blocked from commenting) (additional details will be posted on the group)
- Anyone can upgrade to the next level up anytime. All the past promised recordings and resources will be available to them after upgrading. However, if you upgrade to the Design Certificate any time after any of the Live Webinar Sessions, you will loose access to getting Live or priority Written answers to questions related to Live Webinar Sessions topics you missed, as well as the 1-on-1 mentorship.
- For Certification: you must complete a master conceptual design, accompanied by a rationale and details report, and perform a presentation in front of your peers or the public (you can choose to present only to your peers and not opt in for the voting). You will also have to provide feedback to at least one other project proposals or final project presentations. Please note that we are not looking for perfection, we do have a certification 100 points standard on what the design, report and presentation must contain, and that information will be available as early as October 1st 2024. You must achieve a minimum of 80 out of 100 points for the certification. Teams can also form and produce one project design, report and presentation and all can get certified - they all need to be registered to the Design Certificate Course Level.
- For the cash prize: you must do everything for the certification. You must announce your intention to go for the cash price as early as October 1st 2024 and as late as December 31st 2024. You also must use a specific free app for the design and one specific free app for the presentation, and you will need a google account to use them. If you already have a Permaculture Design Certification, you will have to share that with the paying course community when you announce your intention to run for the cash prize. Teams can also form from the Design Certification Course Level to enter to be voted for the cash prize, the cash prize will remain the same, 10% off the revenue gathered from the registration fee of the Design Certification Level Participants of $497 each, and team members will have to decide which individual will receive the prize to split it how the team sees fit. All Design Certification Course Level participants will know what the revenue gathered is by the number of participants in the private Course Platform. The voting community will be comprised of the Donation Based, Full Content and Design Certificate course community, will have 1 vote per participant and will vote for one project only on February 22nd, 2025 between 7 am and 2 pm CST. All votes will be live on the Facebook Group.
- Due to the course format, we do not offer refunds at any time, unless the unlikely event that course is cancelled.
JOIN THE LEARNING CONDUCIVE TO A RESILIENTLY THRIVING ON PLANET EARTH!