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Next Orientation Workshop Feb 22-26 2012

Transformative Action Learning

The Diploma pathways are a light, flexible and low cost way to gather and practice the skill-flexes of world co-creation and manifest outrageously successful sustainability projects.

An Education Revolution? Now you can create your own!

Join an extraordinary learning community of people waking up, saying "enough is enough", and asserting our power to create a world where all life can flourish.

Our unique Diploma system offers:

• Flexible & individually tailored learning in your own life projects.
• Project support to catalyse innovation in regenerative development.
• One on one mentors & coaching for professional guidance.
• Peer to peer evaluation documenting outcomes and sharing the results.
• The competencies required of a sustainability professional in the 21C.
• Connect to a learning community for resources & networking.
• Accreditation of experience & projects with Gaia University.
  

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Please contact Javiera Carrion by email or telephone +56-9-74322221. Javiera will help you through the application process.

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What is the Diploma of Regenerative Design?
How does it work?
What will you learn?
Where will you go?
Who is this experience for?
Why in El Manzano & ERES?
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The Diploma Pathway

Experience Real World Learning

Our new diploma pathways enable both new learners & experienced professionals to develop the skills of world creation by learning where they learn best ... in action, in the real world.

“Competence only comes from the mastery of practice”

Regenerative Design Science

The Diploma is intended for those who wish to prepare themselves as designers of sustainable systems, and for those who work as facilitators and consultants in the design of resilient human settlements, catalysing transition initiatives across all sectors.

Learning Community as Eco-Social Regeneration

As part of a learning community of leading thinkers, activists and practitioners we provide a unique blend of project work, small group learning, and peer to peer evaluation.

With this focus on interactive, experiential and participatory learning, our diploma pathways offer the practical skills, applied knowledge, grounded values and strategic thinking required to face the ecological, economic and social challenges of the 21st Century.

Pathways

The diploma route is a flexible way to develop the skills you need and find the support to bring your ideas into reality. Now we offer various options.

Two year Dip in Applied Permaculture | Regenerative Design.

• 3 courses, 10 workshops, 12 report packets and mentoring services

One year Dip in Transition.

• 2 courses, 5 workshops, 6 report packets and mentoring services.

Please Note: All of the workshop can be taken as one off Transformative Learning Events. Also mentor support, evaluation of project work, portfolio space, can be accessed as individual services.

For more information about these services speak directly with Javiera Carrion.

Methodology

Drawing out from within

We believe in a radical and systemic approach to learning and teaching that develops the whole person through worldview, intellect, emotion, ethics and practice.

Our diploma program involves students in active practice of regenerative design in real life situations. This methodology, called "transformative action learning" allows associates to learn professional skills by working in their own living projects.

Associates design and discover their own pathway through a potent mix of:

(1) self-directed project work,

(2) small-group learning experiences and

(3) mentor support & peer to peer evaluation.

Self-Directed Project Work

Through self-directed project work you will document your thinking and design practice with stories, text, photos, videos, etc. Not only do you concentrate on doing, but how you learn through the process, how your thinking is changing and the knowledge and skills you are gaining.

This information is compiled into an Output Packet that shows the final design, the design process, and a self-assessment of your work. These packages are published online in our e-learning environment, where you can network, collaborate and learn from and contribute to the whole learning community.

During the 2 years you will create 12 Output Packets that demonstrate your design process. The dates for Output Packet completion in 2012 are:

PR 1A | 6 abril 2012
PR 1B | 20 mayo 2012
PR 2 | 3 julio 2012
PR 3 | 17 agosto 2012
PR 4 | 30 septiembre 2012
PR 5 | 13 noviembre 2012
PR 6 | 28 diciembre 2012

The proposed workshops for 2012 include;

Mentor Support & Peer Evaluation

Your project and specialist mentors will support you to improve your work, your projects and quality of reporting. During the process of Report Packet creation you will meet with your mentors to define your needs and strategies to meet them. Your mentor will receive and evaluate your work and provide feedback for you to improve your practice. This peer to peer evaluation is the core of our approach to evaluation and collaborative learning in teams in action.

Programme Elements 2012-13

In the table below are outlined the required and optional elements for one and two year pathways.

We define these competencies as Sustainability Literacy and its application in Regenerative Design. It involves a broad set of generic skills that today’s professional and teams need in order to catalyse systemic change and be effective in the 21st Century.

These competencies include:

• Grounded economic awareness – the ability to drive sustainability improvements in the workplace · the business case for sustainability · life cycle costing · basic business knowledge · transforming business · more adequate local economic models · financial viability · innovation & rethinking business
• Effective communication skills – the ability to expose discourses that undermine sustainability and resist them · facilitation & training groups · how to influence change inside and outside the organisation · new media literacy · marketing strategies.
• Finding like-minded people for cooperative efforts – organisational skills · leadership · project management · problem solving · adaptability · transdisciplinary teams · consensus building · inspiring and motivating others · design leadership · team building· effective collaboration · establishing and managing priorities · project management
• Transformative Action Learning
• Working with Systems – the ability to recognize inter-connections within and between systems · manage complex sustainability problems · Gaia theory & Ecoliteracy · systems thinking.
• Strategic and futures thinking – the ability to create positive visions for the future · futures thinking · strategic thinking and planning.
• Emerging worldviews
• Design communication & leadership
• Critical & creative thinking
• Emotional & physical wellbeing
• Personal sufficiency & sustainable living