Starting January 2027
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| Skills & Community for uncertain Times Not one crisis, but several — climate, conflict, technological disruption — layered, overlapping, unchosen. We cannot begin with answers or the right practices and theories. Nor do we pretend to have them. These times don't ask for answers. They ask for something else. |
| That's why we call it a Resilience Lab — and not a school, not a course, not a curriculum. Because what we're really asking is this: Join our Resilience-Lab How do we compost what falls apart — certainties, identities, eroded soils — and repeatedly turn it into fertile ground? Composting is more than a metaphor here. It is the permaculture practice. A Resilience Lab is a local capability system — not one expert with answers, but a group of people who have built practical, social, and emotional competence together, and trust themselves and each other enough to use it. Join us if you yearn for more than a certificate on the wall. What you'll find is a group that keeps learning, keeps exploring, truly inspires and supports each other in times like these, and carries what it has learned back into its own community — strengthening the networks and trust it takes to act when it matters. This is where it begins — a 100-hour Permaculture Design Course. Built for exactly this moment. Building the practical, social, and emotional competence to stay grounded, capable, and connected in the face of real uncertainty. |
We don't start cold. Before the intensive, we meet once or twice — to get to know each other, understand what the group needs, and design the program together.
Land & systems Soil, water, building, energy
— woven daily with personal and social design.
Five weeks where what began in Module 1 settles in
Late Jan – early Feb · Integration
Self-guided: apply what you mapped in Module 1 to your own place or daily life.
Early Feb · Online session, 2.5h
Small groups share how it's going. No new material — just a check-in.
Mid Feb ·
Project work Design project teams form and begin drafting, self-organised in small groups.
Late Feb · Online session, 2.5h
Project teams share a first draft before travelling to Module 2.
Community, economy, conflict work.
Closes with each group's own design project.
The Lab doesn't end. We stay in touch, we strengthen and connect with each other beyond the course itself, and we support the projects and people that grow out of what we've learned together.
What you do need: the willingness to invest yourself in five weeks of practice — two of them on-site in Slovenia, three between them, on your own and with the group.
- Practical
Skills for the land - Social Skills for Community
- Emotional Skills
We promise it will be inspiring, nourishing, and transformative.
What is not fixed: which of these topics we go deeper into — and which questions the group brings get more room. That is decided together with you, two weeks before each module.
We follow the needs of the time and the interests of the group. We make sure the curriculum is taught. Both at once.
- Tomislav GjerkesLEAD INSTRUCTOR
Holds the overall course structure and the land-based curriculum. Anchors the practical side of permaculture design.
He anchors the overall structure of the course and keeps its content alive and current. He embodies the hands-on, practical dimension of permaculture design.
He graduated in permaculture design in 2010 and has been working in the field ever since — not only designing, but also bringing most of his plans to life. What began with designing individual properties gradually evolved into building and tending social organisms and educational systems.
Today, his favorite work lies at the intersection of all three: creating learning environments in schools and kindergartens, and shaping didactic spaces for experiential learning and outdoor teaching.
He comes alive in moments of complexity — when scattered conditions and local resources call for structure, flow, and a clear path forward.
He is a certified Dragon Dreaming trainer and a Children in Permaculture trainer, as well as a founding member of the international group that developed permaculture pedagogy.
- Ulrike ReimannCO-FACILITATOR
Ulrike has accompanied countless projects and communities through moments of upheaval. Her work began in the post-war Balkans, where she first learned what it means to walk with people through what has fallen apart.
Today, her focus is the strong emotions and dynamics in teams and organizations — the work that, in her experience, makes the difference between a project that survives and one that doesn't.
She brings five practices into the Resilience Lab:
- Project development and impact experience design — shaping initiatives that hold their ground, and designing the experiences that make their impact visible
- Community building — strengthening the networks and trust a group needs to hold what comes
- Processwork — following what is trying to emerge, including the signals that are usually ignored
- Facilitation of tension and conflict — not as problems to be solved, but as information about what the group is working on
- Grief and loss work — creating space for what ends, what fails, and for what can grow from that
Ulrike is a certified trainer of Dragon Dreaming, a trainer in Nonviolent Communication, a Processwork Diplomate, and a certified trainer and published author in MyroAgogik — an ancient Greek set of practices for expressing and transforming grief.
Guest lecturers who have already confirmed their participation: GUEST LECTURERS
Ira Zorko, Certified Permaculture Teacher
Aljaž Plankl, Certified Permaculture Designer
Janez Božič, Certified Permaculture Teacher
Where: Vransko, Slovenia
When: Jan 20–24 + Mar 3–7 (2 × 5 days, on-site) Plus: online sessions before, between & after Participants: max. 20
Language: English
(other languages welcome, basic English needed)
Food & Stay: Shared cooking · Simple shared rooms
€900
Course Fee with Accommodation
Tuition and simple accommodation for Module 1 & 2,
online bridge, project work, certificate.
Food: shared kitty, managed by the group
€1,200
Course Fee with Accommodation
Tuition and simple accommodation for Module 1 & 2,
online bridge, project work, certificate.
Food: shared kitty, managed by the group
So we keep this human. Write to us directly.
Tell us:
· what brought you here
· whether you've done permaculture before (you don't need to have)
· what you're hoping to take back
· anything we should know about diet, finances, or timing
