Summary: <a href="https://www.permiekids.com"></a> I recently attended the Institute of Permaculture Education for Children (IPEC) advanced educator course course. <a href="https://www.permiekids.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Starting-a-Fire-Kelly.jpg"></a>The <a href="http://www.permaculture.us.com/" target="_blank"> IPEC</a> advanced course is designed for parents, teachers and mentors of children ranging in age from early childhood to high school who desire to delve more deeply into implicit and explicit permaculture design techniques that can be applied programmatically in formal and informal educational settings. In the course we navigated a design of educational reform using avenues such as Theater of the Oppressed, Core Routines for Deep Nature Connection and Traditional Skill Building in order to build PC into your curriculum and school community. <a href="https://www.permiekids.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Kelly-Fire-v2.jpg"></a>This course has been designed to unpack social and logistical memes that have disconnected education from real life. By applying permaculture design methods both implicitly and explicitly, we were invited to dislodge limitations and liberate ourselves as educators. This course was primarily interactive and invites participants into traditional skill-building and active contemplation of how relationships inform one's capacity for learning. <a href="https://www.permiekids.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Starting-a-Fire-Lela-v2.jpg"></a> <a href="https://www.permiekids.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Clay-Oven-Fire.jpg"></a> If you want to know more and be notified when new podcasts and learning opportunities are available please join our email list using the form below. Inspiration grows! If you enjoy this podcast and think to yourself, “Yeah, I’d be interested in buying Jen a cup of coffee while hanging out talking about issues like this,” consider <a href="https://www.permiekids.com/membership/" target="_blank">joining our community</a>. For about the price of a cup of coffee, you can become a member. Together we can change our consciousness about what it means to learn, educate, and be educated. It is then that we can co-create a new story together with our children that can transform the future. If this topic is of interest, join the <a href="https://www.permiekids.com/community-collaboration/" target="_blank">Edge Alliances</a> that are taking place on place-based nature exploration with young children. Join us for our Edge Alliances any time... it's never too late. By the way, joining the Edge Alliances is one of the benefits included in Guild Membership. You have knowledge, skills, and experiences right now that are of value. If you have gifts and passions that you want to share through a <a href="https://www.permiekids.com/alternative-payment-policy-form/" target="_blank">work-share-learn</a> exchange, that is not only welcomed but encouraged. Together, we can network and support each other in our individual and community journeys. Become part of a community that seeks to use our greatest resource – education – to nourish life. In this show I cover: * Institute of Permaculture Education for Children (IPEC) advanced permaculture educator course * <a href="https://www.permiekids.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Nest.jpg"></a>Welcoming and structure * Embedded educational metaphors in the course * Whole group reflections * Songs * Examples of course discussions on wilderness skills like tracking * Grief and gratitude References and Additional Resources <a href="http://www.permaculture.us.com/" target="_blank"> IPEC</a> <a href="https://www.permiekids.com/product/changing-consciousness/" target="_blank">Changing Consciousness Electronic Campfires</a> The electronic campfires are for those working with tweens and young teenagers. This experience is part of the benefits provided for no cost for PERMIE KIDs Guild Members.
