The Holistic
Sustainability Semester (HSS) is coming this summer to Lost Valley Educational Center and Ecovillage just outside Eugene, Oregon. It includes a
PDC (
Permaculture Design Course) + EDE (Ecovilage Design Education) +
Intentional Community Immersion.
You can sign up for just the
PDC part (use the same form as the HSS), or you can take the full HSS.
The Holistic Sustainability Semester features internationally renowned teachers in five spheres of sustainability — Personal, Social, Ecological, Economic, and Worldview. We weave experiential learning, indigenous teachings, and deep nature immersion practices into the HSS. Immerse yourself in our Ecovillage and our 87-acre campus of oak savanna, camas meadow,
permaculture gardens, woodland streams, and regenerating forest.
Over each of the courses, students will integrate into the community, Meadowsong Ecovillage, and develop an understanding of the systems of dynamic governance and decision making (sociocracy) which form the basis of our community’s own self-governance. Students will learn communication skills in a safe and nurturing environment that allow for new growth, expression, and deeper relationships.
Working with the
land in our ongoing restoration projects, informed by indigenous practices and guidance, students will develop an understanding of how one can integrate into the ecosystem and the more-than-human world. Permaculture-based food production, preservation, animal husbandry and integration provide a basis for students’ future work in the world as rewilders, community builders, farmers, and changemakers.
For a discount on the course, the discount code is dandelion. $50 for the PDC, $200 for the HSS
website:
https://www.lostvalley.org/holistic-sustainability-semester-permaculture-eugene
