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We combine the teaching of our own permaculture design and personal optimization course with a series of in person calls to help you to design your dream project and live your best life.
I was lucky enough to be a teacher on numerous PDC’s and teach at other amazing farms like Atitlan Organics, Caoba Farms and Finca Por Venir. But when I began my career as a designer, I realized that even though many of my clients had taken PDCs, very few of them really understood how to go about designing their projects.
I think this is partly because many PDCs are first and foremost designed to be ‘mind blowing, life changing experiences’. Typically a PDC consists of taking a diverse group of people into an alternate reality.
Students live together for up to a month on a farm, surrounded by nature, continually stimulated and challenged. The core material is interspersed with hands-on practicals and tours of weird and wonderful examples of Permaculture projects.
At the end of the course students put what they have learned into practice by doing a design. Usually the design projects are imaginary. Students tend to go through the motions with their projects and then go home and forget all about it.
When they are finally ready to design a project for themselves, practical first steps like thorough site analysis and the use of the scale of permanence tend to get forgotten about.
Another reason for the failure of PDCs to really empower students to begin changing the world is the old adage, “those who can do, and those who can’t teach’. Many permaculture centers fail to make a living selling food, and so focus on teaching. People with successful farms and careers rarely teach.
As my own farm became more stable, and my career as a designer and project manager took off I moved away from teaching. But I never lost my love for it. Eventually I realized that in order to be a successful designer, I had to also empower my clients with the knowledge to carry out and maintain their projects.
Furthermore I began to realize that my other areas of interest in topics like – self actualisation,spirituality, psychology, mythology, business and development in 3rd world countries were just as valuable as my expertise in Permaculture.
This is what inspired me to create Evolve. It is a program designed to pass all that I have learned on my long and oftentimes painful journey (link to lessons learned) onto the next generation of dreamers united in their desire to change the world. The program works taking you through our EVOLVE program.
