Resilience Lab – a 72-hour Permaculture Design Course for people who feel the cracks: in the soil, in the news, in themselves.
Most PDCs teach you to design land. This one also teaches you to design what holds a group together when things get hard. We work with three kinds of resilience:
Practical: soil, water, building, reading the land, design methods
Social: making decisions together, working with conflict instead of around it
Emotional: staying steady in uncertainty, making room for grief and change
In small groups you work on a real design project. Parts of the curriculum are shaped together with the group, and we stay in touch beyond March.
Dates
Module 1 (on site): 20–24 January 2027
Online bridge: February 2027
Module 2 (on site): 3–7 March 2027
Application deadline: 30 November 2026
Location: Podgrad near Vransko, Slovenia
Group size: max. 20 participants
Price
Early bird: €900 (until 30 October 2026)
Regular: €1,200
Includes teaching, simple accommodation, online bridge sessions, project work and certificate
Food: shared kitchen with a group budget
Teachers
Tomislav Gjerkes – lead teacher, practising and teaching permaculture since 2010
Ulrike Reimann – co-facilitator; 20 years of work with groups in project development, community building, conflict work and grief processes
Guest teachers: Ira Zorko, Aljaž Plankl, Janez Božič
More information: https://emotionskultur.com/resiliencelab
