G'day Jodie,
what a Permaculture asset you'll be! You sound really well-skilled & experienced to add Permaculture quals to your collection.
We need more professionals from other environmental fields to bring in their knowledges to Permaculture, & take Permaculture design thinking back out in to other fields.
Which wild and woolly bit of SW NSW ?
I'm based back in Goulburn after picking up 2 degrees in social ecology at UWS Hawkesbury, & then 13 years in Canberra where I scored another 2 at the Uni of Canberra covering systems thinking, sustainability education, adult education & social change. while doing my research part-time, I was also lecturing & tutoring in a range of areas, mainly in environmental design, education, systems thinking & in a unit I co-wrote & co-convened "Sustainable Communities" ( essentially Permaculture design thinking from a community development & social change perspective).
As we have quite a few overlapping goals, please get in touch.
Nearly left out the good bit, that I've been doing Permaculture since the first book came out by Mollo & Holmgren in 78 & then did my PDC with Bill in 84, both significant life-changing events. It was realizing the need for Permaculture thinking to incorporated into government policy & the education system, then meeting Prof Richard Bawden (systems agriculture) at Hawkesbury, that sent me back to Uni full time in 92.
I particularly want to get back to teaching Intros & PDCs in the community amongst the other goals in my business plans.
Look forward to talking with you
Cheers
David
David Marsden-Ballard
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