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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:
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.
Join our Resilience-Lab
Schedule
January 2027. online
The preparation
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.
20–24 Jan 2027 Vransko
Module 1 . Podgrad . Slovenia·

Land & systems Soil, water, building, energy
— woven daily with personal and social design.
Feb 2027 - online & with Peers
Our online bridge ·
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.
3-7 Mar 2027 Vransko
Module 2 . Podgrad . Slovenia·

Community, economy, conflict work.
Closes with each group's own design project.
From March onward

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.
This course is for people who feel the cracks — in the soil, in the news, in themselves — and want to do something with what they already know, what they've lived, what they've learned.

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.
Resilience is not a single skill
It is three kinds of competence, working together: what you can do with soil, water, and your hands — what holds a group when no one is in charge — and what keeps you steady when outcomes are uncertain. Land skills alone don't hold a community together. Good intentions without practical skill don't rebuild anything. We work on all three.
  • Practical
    Skills for the land
  • Social Skills for Community
  • Emotional Skills
We're still shaping the details — the exact content, the daily rhythm, the structure of each day.
What we can already say: there will be time for learning, time for practice, time for input, and time to think, to feel, and to be with each other.

We promise it will be inspiring, nourishing, and transformative.
Curriculum Note
The complete, accredited 72-hour curriculum is fixed. It covers what a Permaculture Design Course is required to teach: soil and water design, natural building, group process, conflict work, and sustainable project design.

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.

Team
Who holds the space.
  • Tomislav Gjerkes
    LEAD INSTRUCTOR
    Holds the overall course structure and the land-based curriculum. Anchors the practical side of permaculture design.
  • Ulrike Reimann
    CO-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.

EARLY BIRD
€1,500
Course Fee with Accommodation

Both modules included
Tuition and simple accommodation for Module 1 & 2,
online bridge, project work, certificate.
Food: shared kitty, managed by the group
Registration after October 30th

€1,500
Course Fee with Accommodation
Both modules included
Tuition and simple accommodation for Module 1 & 2,
online bridge, project work, certificate.
Food: shared kitty, managed by the group
Impressions of our Venue
A place to learn, to work, to pause — and to spend meaningful together, in the middle of what the land has to teach.
To be part
There's no form here. The cohort is small (20 places).

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

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