This workshop will help you plan how to maximize your conference experience by applying a tool for lifelong learning. Learning throughout your life involves steady investments of attention, time and energy. In this session, you will acquire and work with a set of considerations that set guideposts for navigating intentional learning for as long as you want, beginning with this conference and continuing through the rest of your life. With these considerations and a tool specially designed for PV2, you’ll gain clarity about the choices that brought you to the conference, the choices you have while here, and choices you’ll have henceforth. David Eggleton, an artist and permaculture designer, and Steph Kent, a sign language interpreter and communication activist, will introduce a system of considerations that merge learning theory with the permaculture principles. We’ll then lead you through a customized worksheet to help you optimize your path through the many rich and exciting opportunities at PV2. Applying the considerations immediately to your conference plan will reinforce their value for the long run while enabling you to get the most from your PV2 experience. Learn more at permaculturevoices.com.

1. Learning,
the Permaculture Way
with
David Eggleton &
Stephanie Jo Kent

2. Here, Now
Why this workshop?
Care of People
(2nd Permaculture Ethic)

3. Self-Directed Learning
• 26 Considerations for a
“Meaningful Makeover”
• Application to this conference
(here/now)
• Generalize for back home use
(yourself, others there/then)
• Support here/now & Support
there/then

4. Handout
• No peeking ahead!
• Refinement : Extension
• “mixed methods” – lecture,
individual work, group work
• Share the air: turn-taking
• Respect: assume
confidentiality for private
information
• TWEET! #PERMAVOICES

5. The Considerations

6. EXTENSION REFINEMENT
REACH PUSH

7. Activity #1
• Pick a stranger to partner with
• 6 min total (@ 3 apiece)
• Why are you here? (reasons)
• What would you like to gain?
(choices)

8. Two Essential Skills
Action
Reflection

9. ACTION REFLECTION
EXTENSION REFINEMENT
REACH PUSH

10. Why are you here/now?
Some Specific Goals
• to confirm my business
idea is sound
• to better see and
understand how to get
customers & clients
• fill in gaps in my business
plan
General Goals
• network with like-
minded folk
• learn more about
permaculture (generally,
specifically)
• activism
• inspiration

11. Key Activities
Exploration
Participation

12. Key
Activities
ACTION REFLECTION
EXTENSION REFINEMENT
REACH PUSH

13. Most Promising Paradigms
Whole Person
Whole Place

14. Whole
Person
Key
Activities
Whole
Place
ACTION REFLECTION
EXTENSION REFINEMENT
REACH PUSH

15. There/Then (biographical past) &
(embodied present) Here/Now
WHOLE
PERSON
Body
Mind Heart
Spirit

16. There/Then (biographical past) &
(embodied present) Here/Now
WHOLE
PLACE
Producers
Consumers Decomposers
Flows

17. Whole
Person
Key
Activities
Whole
Place
ACTION REFLECTION
EXTENSION REFINEMENT
REACH PUSH

18. Worksheet: Wholeness gaps?
WHOLE
PLACE
WHOLE
PERSON

19. 4 Working Relationships
WHOLE
PLACE
interelemental interspecies

20. 4 Working Relationships
WHOLE
PERSON
interhuman intrapersonal

21. Working
Relation-
ships
Whole
Person
Key
Activities
Whole
Place
ACTION REFLECTION
EXTENSION REFINEMENT
REACH PUSH

22. Poll
Who’s here for the business emphasis?

23. from interest to commitment
Worksheet:
• Select workshops of
interest based on
Working
Relationship
• Rank them
• LEARN HOW NOW;
REFER TO OFTEN!

24. Key Activities
Discovery
Celebration

25. 26 Considerations for a
Meaningful Makeover
Working
Relation-
ships
Whole
Person
Key
Activities
Whole
Place
LIFE
AFFIRMING
LIFE
ENHANCING
ACTION REFLECTION
EXTENSION REFINEMENT
REACH
SUNNY SIDE SHADY SIDE
PUSH

26. SMALL GROUP SYNTHESIS
• SELECT A WORKING RELATIONSHIP
• What burning question(s) do you have about
it? (Relevant to your context)
• Share your questions and SYNTHESIZE an
overarching, motivating or core question to
try and answer TOGETHER this week.
• NOTETAKER!

27. Celebrate 1978
1971
A Perennial Agriculture
for Human Settlements

28. Keep in Touch!
• Tweet with us HERE/NOW #PERMAVOICES
@stephjoke
@deggleton
• Talk with us in person
• Email us (see handout)
• Like the Meaningful Makeovers
Community of Practice page on Facebook