Intro to (yet another) Action Learning Pathway
A map of my learning intentions for the next while: what I intend to do and how I intend to do it. Why? to help me get more focused…[and] be strategic about organising my learning.
In the twelve years since completing my Permaculture Design Course in Brighton, I have made more designs on 'my life' than you can shake an A frame at. Life has a tendency of throwing the most remarkable challenges at a person - my action learning pathway is a necessary starting point to the achievement of my future goals, all the while honouring the hard lessons learnt, especially since leaving Brighton in 2006.
What do I intend to do for my future?
Aims:
Projects: (both those that have been implemented and those in progress)
I am quite wedded to my old MacBook, and in the spirit of wanting to disseminate, I will use this website to collate and publish everything I have in files, notebooks, emails, photos and sketches on the back of envelopes.
Timetabling and planning future events is an easier task, but being mindful of not getting caught up so much in the tools of checklisting, timetabling and planning tools that are as much a pull for me as a stationer's shop in September...
What do I intend to do for my future?
Aims:
- Live in a community environment, that is people care centred
- Develop postgraduate modules, relating permaculture to food security
- Teach Introduction to Permaculture Courses for young people
- Be financially secure (having enough money to pay fuel bills, food and growing costs, rent and animal care- without juggling and struggling)
- Support my children's educational pathways
Projects: (both those that have been implemented and those in progress)
- Brighton Permaculture Trust - development of a volunteering/ teaching/ practical network in Brighton
- Lower Pertwood Farm - designing a permaculture demonstration site for the Big Green Gathering and using the space as a monthly retreat/ learning and observation space/ social and teaching site.
- Dryad Housing Co-op - living and working in an urban housing co-op
- Edible Landscapes - designing and running a permaculture garden design and maintenance enterprise
- Ragman's Lane - running an organic farm within a conflicting management structure
- Glastonbury Festival Permaculture Gardens - designing a space that is used intensively for two weeks a year
- The £300 house - the design and build of a multifunctional roundhouse at Pilton Farm, home of the Glastonbury Festival
- The Jam Lady - teaching food preservation techniques and getting THAT book written
- Dynyn - when a housing co-op isn't a housing co-op
- Mental health - when a breakdown can be a positive experience
- Chickens and guinea pigs - 15 years of a guild of fertility
- Blaeneinion - observing the running of a 75 acre Welsh mountainside site and the importance of clear design
- Permaculture Cymru - helping the development of a pan Wales permaculture network
- George's Garden - a suburban 1/2 acre garden, designed for maximum yield and convenience
- Home and supportive education - supporting my eldest daughter's independent learning, assisting my other daughter's return to full time education, and supporting my son's bilingual education with an emphasis on his special needs
- Developing and teaching Intro to Permaculture courses for young people
- Set up a local permaculture group for support, learning and and offer experience and demonstration
I am quite wedded to my old MacBook, and in the spirit of wanting to disseminate, I will use this website to collate and publish everything I have in files, notebooks, emails, photos and sketches on the back of envelopes.
Timetabling and planning future events is an easier task, but being mindful of not getting caught up so much in the tools of checklisting, timetabling and planning tools that are as much a pull for me as a stationer's shop in September...