TRainings / Curricula

I have had a privilege of designing and co-authoring longer intersectoral/international trainings, course curricula and training programmes on farms across four thematic axes: agroecology, seed-saving, permaculture education & ecological gardening. The trainings were funded by various grants, and each was supported by or consulted with senior mentors/trainers from permaculture & agroecology networks.

CONCEPT/DESIGN: 14-day farm-based training in Ecological Gardening Design & Cultivation, EUL Agroecology School. The mission of the course is increasing society‘s capacity for socio-ecological transition and practical mitigation of climate change through vocational enskillment of a generation of food-growing gardeners, expansion of agroecological and permaculture practitioner networks, territories and garden education activities, and strengthening of food security and food sovereignty for all.
FUNDING: BAG – BRIDGING GENERATIONS IN AGROECOLOGY (ERASMUS+) / VELUX FOUNDATION
PEDAGOGICAL CONSULTATION: Consultation: Reto Ingold (VBDL); Isabelle Hagel ( InterAfocg)

CONCEPT/CO-DESIGN: 2 DAYS – Design, Participant Engagement & Facilitation of International Forum of Permaculture Educators in Poland (26 partic.) The public programme of the Forum will be divided into three topical blocks, build around values: COMMUNITY, SENSIBILITY, IMAGINATION which we deemed crucial in thinking about education and permaculture. The project involved a pre-conference workshop and peer knowledge-sharing among participating educators, with each contributing a Good Practice Abstract to the collective Permaculture Educators’ Toolkit
FUNDING: CULTURE OF SOLIDARITY GRANT
PEDAGOGICAL CONSULTATION: Alfred Decker, Rosemary Morrow, Tomas Remiarz

CONCEPT/CO-DESIGN: Organisation & facilitation of Agro-Perma-Lab SEEDS. An online training series of 10 modules for educators, social activists and community leaders in agroecology and permaculture from the Food Sovereignty Network in Poland. The training aimed at raising competences in the following areas:

1) strategies for creating Community Homes (Banks) and Seed Networks;
2) technical, economical and political aspects of managing seed production;
3) organising and facilitating knowledge exchange and community education in seed-saving.
FUNDING: COMMUNITY SEED BANKS ACADEMY
PEDAGOGICAL CONSULTATION: Andrea Ferrante (Schola Campesina), Polish Seed-Savers

Visionary & organiser of 10-day Agroecology and Global Governance of Agriculture capacity-building training for food community leaders and food-growing educators. The project aimed to strengthen Food Sovereignty movement, create dialogue and lasting solidarity relationships between critical organisational actors, especially farmers and urban growers bringing together small scale food producers’ organisations from different sectors (organic, traditional-peasant, family, permaculture farming) and from different generations to empower them to influence the political spaces and mechanisms in food and
agriculture governance.
FUNDING: LUSH PERMACULTURE & AGROECOLOGY FUND
PEDAGOGICAL CONSULTATION: Andrea Ferrante, Schola Campesina