Starting January 2027
for uncertain Times
We start with polycrisis — climate, conflict, technological change, all at once, unchosen, reinforcing each other.
This course is built upon exactly what we are facing right now.
A 100-hour Permaculture Design Course that builds competence — practical, social, emotional — to stay capable in the face of real uncertainty.
Composting is not a metaphor here. It is the permaculture practice actually taught in the course — including in the five weeks between the two in-person modules.
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.
That is the actual goal of this course.
Not a certificate on the wall, but a group that keeps learning, keeps exploring, and carries what it knows back into its own community — strengthening the networks and trust it takes to act when it matters.
Land & systems Soil, water, building, energy — woven daily with personal and social design.
Feb 2027 - online |
Late Jan – early Feb · Integration A short compost journal, 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.
3–7 Mar 2027 |
Closes with each group's own design project.
To the soil. To the water shortage. To the conflict in the group.
We respond to all of them at once. And to the feeling many of us know: that single answers no longer hold, that old knowledge no longer carries us, that the tools we learned are too small for what is coming.
That is the starting point of this course.
We don't assume you already know how permaculture works. You need no prior experience.
What you need: the willingness to commit to five weeks of practice — two of them on-site in Slovenia, three between them, on your own and with the group.
Land skills alone don't hold a community together, and good intentions without practical skill don't rebuild anything.
Skills for the land
A changing climate
Reading what's already shifting on your land — wind, sun, water — and designing with it, not against it.
Waste as resource
Turning what a place throws away into its next fertility. Composting systems you can actually run.
Decay as foundation
Building with materials that weather, rot, and return — wood, straw, lime, earth — instead of sealing them off.
Wherever there's space
Small plots, urban edges, neglected corners. The methods scale down to a balcony and up to a hillside.
Skills for community
What we pass on
Most of what we know only travels through relationship. The course is designed so that what you learn here doesn't stay on a handout — it moves through you, into the people and places you'll work with next.
Making a living from the practice Economics that don't hollow out the work: livelihoods built on land skills, teaching, facilitation, local trade.
Community without idealising it
Working with real people in real conflict — not the version of community that only exists on paper.
Tension as material
Naming disagreement early, working with it instead of smoothing it over, so the group can actually decide things.
Skills for staying present
Sitting with not knowing
Staying with a question longer than is comfortable, instead of grabbing the first answer that quiets the room.
Holding difficulty without shutting down Being in the room with grief, anger, fear — yours and others' — without leaving, fixing, or collapsing.
Noticing what the body knows
Slowing down enough to read your own signals, and the signals of the people and the land around you.
Repair after rupture
What to do after a hard conversation, a failed project, a breach of trust. The small acts that make staying possible.
The full syllabus is fixed. What is not fixed: which topics we go deeper into, and which questions get more room. That is decided together with the group two weeks before each module.
That way we spend the time on what actually matters to the people in the room.
- Tomislav GjerkesLEAD INSTRUCTORHolds the overall course structure and the land-based curriculum. Anchors the practical side of permaculture design.
- Ulrike ReimannCO-FACILITATORHolds the group process and the social/emotional strand. Together with Tomislav, makes the cohort a working system, not just a class.
Tuition for Module 1 & 2,
online bridge, project work, certificate.
Food: shared kitty, managed by the group
So we keep this human. Write to Tomislav or Ulrike directly.
A FEW PARAGRAPHS IS ENOUGH.
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
