Learn Team

by | Sep 1, 2022

Learn Team

The Learn team is attempting to create both free and paid educational permaculture resources that can be accessed by anybody.

The Learn team receives a small amount of funding from the Next Steps Project that is for LMS digital licenses, plugins, and web hosting.

They have also received funding from the Emergent Festival.

Find the Learn website here

Project Aims

The aim of the project is to create a pool of resources that align with permaculture values. This will provide value, it will give a platform for teachers and facilitators to offer their work,  and it will help to bring people into the CoLab space.

Funded with 2500 GBP through capacity+
Funded with 1500 GBP through next steps
STATUS : ongoing

Team

Aimee Fenech, Charlie Wilson, Daniel Atwell

Reporting Officer: Charlie Wilson

Area

Training and eLearning, Next Steps project, Capacity+ project

objectives

February 2023

We have already built a course that shows users how to navigate the LMS. This means that they can easily build their own online courses and host them on the Learn website.

Our focus now is on building out more resources. When we have a website with a number of resources, we believe that it will be easier to attract other teachers who want to add their own courses to the Learn website.

OUTCOME

 September 2023 Update

We have created an online course – Designing Work Spaces For All. It is now being reviewed and tested.

We have created the CoLab Podcast. One new episode will be released per month.

We are hosting a Transition Facilitators Training course from September- November 2023. Recordings will be available for those who cannot make it live. 

resources created

contact links

learn@perma.earth

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Minimum Viable Academy (CoLab Training)

by | Sep 1, 2022

Minimum Viable Academy (CoLab Training)

A training program to cover:

  • Governance training

  • Change & Evaluation training

  • Digital Collaboration training

  • Economic practice training

  • Facilitation training

Delivered by the MVA team in collaboration with other facilitators by the beginning of October 2022.

With particular attention to Permaculture CoLab’s needs as identified through the Permaculture Design work carried out in 2021, also by surveying the current active landscape and anticipating what is emergent in the ecosystem.

Please note that from 2024 the MVA Project also encompasses the Re-evaluation Counselling Scholarship Fund Project. 

Funded with 6, 854 GBP through capacity+
Funded with 27, 000 GBP through next steps
STATUS : ONGOING

Team

Aimee Fenech, Jyo Maan, Andrew Langford, Vida Ashmole

Reporting Officer: Jyo Maan

 

Area

Training and eLearning, Next Steps project, Capacity+ project

objectives 2022

1. Demonstration of different trainings and facilitation methods and tools

2. Practical applications for active members in the different circles and working groups to try out

3. Artifacts in various formats that can be used in a variety of ways eg eLearning courses, podcasts, social media teasers, eResource database

4. We will use training and courses created as offers to other networks including GRC, DAF and others from within the Digital Circle enterprise model (including income sharing)

5. We will share our findings from followups of the trainings within the colab, including outcome harvesting and outcome mapping designs

6. We will create spaces enabling cross community collaboration & networking

OUTCOMEs 2022

  • Permaculture CoLab Ecocycle Planning 4 hour workshop + artifacts delivered in 2 sessions

  • Hosting an Inclusive space – 3 part series workshops of 1.5 hours each + artifacts

  • Remote collaboration 101 1.5 hour webinar + artifacts + recording + personal consultation time for each circle / group for real life application if needed

  • Wise crowds for self-generative business practices – delivered in 2 sessions of 3 hours

  • Happy Money Story Fishbowl exp + artifacts + recording 3 sessions of 1 to 2 hours

objectives 2023

1. Understand the needs of the CoLab wider membership.

2. Set out the program in service of general CoLab needs before the end of April 2023.

3. Deliver the program by the End of the third quarter, October 2023, with associated artifacts and recordings.

OUTCOMEs 2023

Cross Network Collaboration Completed.

Conflict Transformaiton for Self-Organized Teams Completed.

Ethical Business Practices using Permaculture Principles is scheduled for Oct 11, 2023.

objectives 2024

1. Deliver a training programe for the CoLab which is self-elective.

2. Create associated artifacts and recordings from training to enable CoLab members to take the training on an adhoc basis.

3. Promote the existing OMBRA course open for CoLab members.

4. Fill the allocated scholarship slots for the RC trio of courses according to standard rates. Re-evaluation counseling / liberation from oppression, using RC tools for co-creation/conflict navigation scholarship slots 20; 10 for Reclaiming discharge – openings limited.

 

Outcomes 2024

September Update:

Colab Training Programme is hosting the Journey of Colab-Oration on Monday Sept 23, 2024 3pm – 4:30pm UTC and Wednesday Sept 25, 2024 3pm – 4:30pm UTC, a storytelling and story sharing space for the old and the new navigators of the ecosystem we love, our International Permaculture Colab. We realize that it is not a one way for all, therefore we are creating this space for the old and the new to come together and share, mentor, guide by learning from our stories made here in the Colab. We would like as many stories be voiced on this space.

This Quarter, the Reevaluation & Counseling (RC) Cohort project has made significant progress by adopting and expanding the one-on-one teaching method introduced in the Q2 2024 report. This approach provides greater flexibility for both learners and teachers while promoting consistent mutual practice sessions. Additionally, it allows us to connect new learners within the Colab environment to established RC communities, both geographically and through the pre-Colab Gaia U network.

Currently, three to four learners are actively participating, ensuring at least three reciprocal teaching and session exchanges weekly. These sessions total six teacher-led events per week, with one learner also engaging with advanced RC practitioners and communities in Sacramento and the Foothills, further enhancing their experience. Peer learning and session-swapping between participants is becoming a regular practice, which strengthens the cohort’s skill development.

 

December Update:

Three sessions were delivered this year successfully and the recordings were published within Colab. The sessions are Creating & Maintaining a Sociocratic Ecosystem, Active & Responsible Participation in Open Governance and A Journey in CoLab Oration, the recording of which is published on Colab’s youtube channel at https://youtu.be/vQ3sBcEAAng?si=fvPjlK8ECdUS_X0X

If you feel inspired to further this conversation relevant to your environment and teams, please contact us at learn@perma.earth

An article outlining OMBRA training, what it entails and how to participate was published. More information about this can be found here: https://gaiauniversity.org/rc-pathway/

There was an intention for CoLab Members attending 1-on-1 mentorship  with Andrew to give them the experiential and theoretical skills, around 4 people took up this opportunity. Towards the end of the year there was a change of objective to produce an article about what Re-Evaluation Counseling is and how it is being offered.

The team is intending recenter its objectives around maximising impact through the CoLab training program for Y3.

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Online Learning Platform and Educator Commons Collaboration

by | Jun 26, 2022

Online Learning Platform

Educator Commons Collaboration

The Educators Membership and Permaculture Association are co-developing an online learning platform and commons to enable the delivery of remote and blended permaculture and other modules and courses.

The online learning platform will be developed to a state where it is possible for CoLab and its allied networks to create their own online courses. This platform can be used later for upskilling and onboarding into CoLab itself for example.

Funded with 1680 GBP through capacity+
Status : completed

Team

Ewan Findley

Area

Training and eLearning, Capacity+ project

objectives

Use this learning to make a template for CoLab and it’s wider network to create courses and engage CoLab in the best use of resources to develop a course.
Promote the CoLab through the Online Learning project course and communications (MOG’s, educators slack, newsletters, commons meetings etc), so to engage more people with CoLab

DESIRED OUTCOME

Help them identify the best technologies and processes to support which will be the basis of our learning:
– The move to open source platform
– Align the tech with Open badges
– Blended Transformative learning
– Reach a wider audience
– Develop their current work on accessibility, inclusion and equity
– Reaching further with their international educators membership for the commons

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